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Rudolph the Homicidal Reindeer HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — A reindeer injured an elderly couple in the wilds of Finnish Lapland, in a rare attack that caused injuries needing hospital treatment, officials said Monday. A male reindeer suddenly appeared from a forest and attacked a man who was hiking Sunday with his partner near Kittila, about 620 miles north of Helsinki. The buck butted the man to the ground and kicked him before turning on the woman who was talking to her son on a mobile phone, Kittila fire chief Jorma Ojala said. The son alerted rescue workers who arrived in...

Actor Don Adams Dies at 82 Monday, September 26, 2005 LOS ANGELES — Don Adams (search), the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond (search) movies, "Get Smart," has died. He was 82. Adams died of a lung infection late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (search), his friend and former agent Bruce Tufeld said Monday, adding the actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health since.

LONDON — Prime Minister Tony Blair (search) on Friday announced new deportation measures against people who foster hatred and advocate violence following last month's transportation attacks that killed 52 people and four suspected suicide bombers. Clerics who preach hate and Web sites or book shops that sponsor violence would be targeted. Foreign nationals could be deported under the new measures. Blair said his government was prepared to amend human rights legislation if necessary if legal challenges arose from the new deportation measures. Britain's ability to deport foreign nationals has been hampered by human rights legislation. As a signatory to the...

Praise for the President Jane Fonda (search) has called President Bush a "radical ideologue" — but that opinion didn't stop her from praising the first family in an interview this week. Fonda told the New York Post that First Lady Laura Bush's controversial comedy routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was "really funny. Her approval rating is way up, as it should be." And when the interviewer criticized the president's performance at a recent news conference, Fonda came to his defense saying, "I thought he was very impressive." And, she added, "I don't know him, but I have always...

An incumbent President from the heartland faces a strong, experienced challenger from the Northeast. The challenger is strong in part because the incumbent seems weak -- inarticulate and gaffe-prone. But not too weak: Insiders make jokes about him, but he seems to connect with ordinary voters outside the Boston-New York-Washington, D.C. corridor. (Within that corridor he is plainly unpopular, and the Northeastern media overwhelmingly oppose his reelection.) When he came to office, the incumbent had only modest experience. No one had thought of him as a major player in American government during the decade before he moved to the White...

Anyone Catch the third part of the Bush inteview on the factor, O'Reilly finally got rid of Colmes and brought in Tony Snow as the counterside of Mary Ann Marsh. Tony got to talk about the complete interview. Marsh tried to get in the last word but O'Reilly cut her off.

Found this is my sister's English Text Book from the 1970's. I think this speaks volumes on the justness of our war on terror today. The Permanent Delegate by Yuri Suhl My name is Jew. I come from the land of skeleteon. They beat me in Berlin, tortured me in Warsaw, shot me Lublin And I am still here -- the ash of my bones a glowing monument, a fiery headstone. I am the scorched hair of a virgin's bright curls smoothed and patted by anxious hands I am a maddened mother's futile tears soothing in vain a hundred anguished...

I went to vote today in the California Recall, but when I tried to vote for #31 Arnold Schwarzneggar for Govenor upon reviewing my ballot I found that it was a hanging chad so I tried to punch again several more times still the same thing, just a hanging chad. I showed it to the poll worker who goes that's a hanging chad and he fixed the ballot for me. If you haven't voted yet make sure you take a good look at your ballot before turning it in.

<p>LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gray Davis (search) asked the California Supreme Court on Monday to delay his Oct. 7 recall election until March and list his name on the ballot among the candidates seeking to replace him.</p> <p>Voters will make two decisions in the recall election: whether to remove Davis, and whom to choose as his successor if he is recalled. Under California election law, the subject of the recall cannot be on the list of replacement candidates.</p>

Challenging the Qur’an A German scholar contends that the Islamic text has been mistranscribed and promises raisins, not virgins By Stefan Theil NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL July 28 issue — In a note of encouragement to his fellow hijackers, September 11 ringleader Muhammad Atta cheered their impending “marriage in Paradise” to the 72 wide-eyed virgins the Qur’an promises to the departed faithful. Palestinian newspapers have been known to describe the death of a suicide bomber as a “wedding to the black-eyed in eternal Paradise.” But if a German expert on Middle Eastern languages is correct, these hopes of sexual reward in the...

Jurist Objects to Odor In Court After Defendent Raises a Stink SAN DIEGO--The "Bad Hair Bandit" turned into the "Bad Air Bandit" after he cleared a courtroom Thursday. That was just one of the jokes lawyers made as they waited outside the felony arraignment courtroom in downtown San Diego for deodorant sprays to cleanse the air of pungent traces of what Charles B. Fowler Jr. left behind. One lawyer suggested calling hazardrous materials speciaists. Another said the incident could provide the impetus for training courtroom deputies to diaper defendants. Fowler got his original nickname from law enforcement who noticed his...

<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. — James Brown (search) had plenty of reason to feel good on Tuesday as South Carolina officials pardoned the soul legend for his past crimes in that state.</p> <p>Brown, who served a two-and-a-half-year prison term after a 1988 arrest on drug and assualt charges, and was convicted of a drug-related offense in 1998, was granted a pardon by the state Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.</p>

[05/05/03] - I'm An Information Minister, Get Me Out Of Here! Now, we all know that the battle for Baghdad is still raging, but all these infidel invaders around me are making it difficult for me to go about my everyday business as the esteemed Information Minister of the exalted Information Ministry. The war is going exactly to plan but those cunning but otherwise brainless Coalition troops are refusing me leave to perform my business just because I do not appear on some stupid pack of playing cards issued by that Superpower of Al Capone. Well if those troops, who...

[04/26/03] - 'Severely Arrogant Rumsfeld Speeches' (SARS) Spread Around World The World Health Organization today put the world on alert following the spread of poisonously arrogant words around the world causing choking and vomiting, and in severe cases death. The alert was issued following another Severely Arrogant Rumsfeld Speech (SARS) in which the main architect of the clandestine plan to reshape the Middle East, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued another warning of global arrogance. With heroic Iraqi troops still fighting the invaders around the homeland of our beloved leader Saddam Hussein, Mr Rumsfeld was already taking the imperialist victory...

Russia Informs Iraq on Coalition's Military Plan NewsMax.com Wires Tuesday, April 1, 2003 WASHINGTON – Russian military advisers have told Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his government that the main Allied drive on Baghdad will not take place until mid-April and will then come around the west of the city, Russian journalists and analysts with strong links to Russian military intelligence now say. Strikingly, the Russian analysts, whose work appears on the iraqwar.ru Web site, believe that U.S. and Allied forces are still overwhelmingly likely to win the war and that they are performing in a highly impressive manner. The...

Bush Orders Iraq To Disarm Before Start Of War WASHINGTON, DC—Maintaining his hardline stance against Saddam Hussein, President Bush ordered Iraq to fully dismantle its military before the U.S. begins its invasion next week. "U.S. intelligence confirms that, even as we speak, Saddam is preparing tanks and guns and other weapons of deadly force for use in our upcoming war against him," Bush said Sunday during his weekly radio address. "This madman has every intention of firing back at our troops when we attack his country." Bush warned the Iraqi dictator to "lay down [his] weapons and enter battle unarmed,...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO — John Walker Lindh, the American imprisoned for taking up arms for the Taliban in Afghanistan, was attacked by a fellow inmate and slightly bruised, his lawyer said Thursday.</p> <p>Law enforcement authorities confirmed the 21-year-old Lindh was attacked but would not disclose a possible motive.</p>

Friday, Dec. 20, 2002 Anyone Who Questions Sen. Murray Is 'Right-Wing Hater' Left-wing Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is not as wimpy as Republicans are when they're caught saying something naughty. She and her handlers are defending her praise of Osama bin Laden's supposed good deeds. "Having a challenging and thoughtful discussion about Americas [sic] future reflects the best values of a free democracy [sic]; to sensationalize and distort in an attempt to divide is not," she said in statement today. Murray's spokesman, Todd Webster, fumed, "This is being turned into a circus by the right-wing media outlets and fed by...

Atheist Takes New Swing at God in Government AP Michael Newdow Friday, August 30, 2002 WASHINGTON — The California atheist who challenged the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is now going after taxpayer-funded chaplains in Congress. "If they want a pep talk, then go get a football coach ... but stop getting chaplains and religious folks to come in. It's forbidden," Michael Newdow, a Sacramento-based lawyer and physician, said in an interview Friday. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court here this week, Newdow said House and Senate chaplain positions compromise a constitutional ban on government-sponsored...