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Immediately after the President's speech on Iraq, ABC radio went to its damage control and counterattack segment(under the guise of analysis). First up was a foreign policy 'expert', which they loudly trumpeted as working for the Reagan, Bush, and (suddenly mumbled) Clinton administrations, implying that he was oh so impartial. He immediately began to attack Bush's credibility, focusing on how there was no connection between Al Queada and Iraq. Said Bush wants badly to imply such a connection, while being careful not to actual state any proof, since "clearly there is absolutely no connection between Iraq and Al Quaeda." I...

'Gates of Hell' threat sparks Israeli alert By David Blair in Jerusalem (Filed: 08/09/2003) Israel and the Palestinians were braced last night for a spiral of bloodshed after Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, called the Hamas leadership "marked men" and the Islamic extremist group said the Holy Land was entering the "gates of Hell". Israeli troops sealed off the West Bank and Gaza to try to prevent suicide attacks as pressure grew on Mr Sharon to deport Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader. Last night, at least 11 people were injured after Israeli helicopters fired two missiles at the home of...

General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and Friend of Bill's (FOB) is considering a run for President of these United States. In an AP report of 29 June, former-President William Jefferson Clinton stated that Wesley Clark would make a fine president, if he ran. After all, what are friends for? There is also a grassroots campaign effort to "draft Wesley Clark" for president which states, "We believe America needs a new president. One who can be a voice for common sense and moderation in these dangerous, uncertain times. One with the unquestionable leadership and foreign policy credentials...

"I was in Hell." In 2000, Bishops of Singapore and Uganda consecrated two men as bishops of the "Anglican Mission in America". Knowing that they had set them selves up in opposition to folks like my Home Parish (St Gregory of Nyssa Church in San Francisco) and knowing that I, a sexually active gay man who wanted to be an Episcopal priest, was on their list of "enemies", I prayed for them: St Gregory's church was big on praying for enemies, you should have seen us on 9/11. One Sunday, I stood vested as a deacon in the morning liturgy...

Ottawa — Prime Minister Jean Chrétien risks burning in hell if he makes same-sex marriage legal in Canada, a Roman Catholic bishop from Alberta warned yesterday. "He doesn't understand what it means to be a good Catholic," Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary said in an interview. "He's putting at risk his eternal salvation. I pray for the Prime Minister because I think his eternal salvation is in jeopardy. He is making a morally grave error and he's not being accountable to God." Bishop Henry was commenting on the Liberal government's proposed same-sex marriage legislation on the eve of the Vatican...

MIDI - CAMP GRENADA Bye bye, Qusai…bye bye Udai…we have finally…kicked your boot-tay Let's hope others…learn the lesson…with the great US of A do not be messin' When Slick Willy…was in power…you would never…have to cower Those good old days…you ran wild…little girls worried that they'd be defiled You were both sick…heartless bastards…for your nation…a disaster Had Gore stolen…the election…there would not have been the need to seek protection Bush had warned you…. to be leaving…your poor daddy…has been grieving No more sports cars…no more raping…from the morgue it's really hard to be escaping Is it hot where you're...

<p>PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Police say they've solved the 1987 murder of a young girl who was raped and brutally killed in her own bedroom. Sources tell CNN longtime suspect Raymond Sheehan confessed in a statement to killing 10-year-old Heather Coffin.</p>

This is not Baghdad after the war! This is not London after WWII! This is not Homestead, Florida, after hurricane Andrew! This is not a city devastated by an earthquake! This is Havana, Cuba, after 44 years of Castro-fascism! And this is not the worst part! In addition to seeing their country destroyed, the Cuban people have had to endure 44 years without the most elemental human rights! Without free elections! Without freedom of expression! Without religious freedom! Without freedom of the press! Without freedom to travel in and out of the country! AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, 200,000 DEATHS...

When You Run Out of Ideas... by Doc Farmer I've been racking my brain for the past hour, trying to come up with ideas for my next column. I know I'll have to create something funny, pithy, humorous, and witty because that's what my editor wants. And from what I've been able to gather, that seems to be what the readers want as well. Man, the pressure! It's hard to come up with new stuff all the time, so those of you who think that writing is an easy gig can think again. Sometimes it's really simple--something interesting (or annoying)...

Maybe you’ve cruised past the church marquee in the middle of a sweltering summer afternoon that read: YOU THINK IT’S HOT HERE? For some reason, making light of such a heavy topic just doesn’t seem right to me — though of course I know what they’re trying to accomplish. Hell. It’s not a popular subject these days. No one wants to talk about it, much less go there. I have a friend who actually wrote a full-blown, hardback book on hell. Needless to say, it wasn’t a bestseller! Part of me wants to forget I ever heard the word. I...

St. Hillary of Hell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 16, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Hillary says she has written another book. She's on a book tour. But as usual for this ghastly revenant of American politics, that isn't true. She no more wrote "Living History" than did you or I, although I have no doubt that she edited it very, very closely. After all, without careful precautions, it was always possible that one or two elements of the truth might inadvertently slip out. But this column is not a fiction review, so I'll ignore the book. What interests me...

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea (news - web sites) threatened on Monday to build nuclear weapons as a deterrent to what it calls a "hostile" U.S. policy — the communist government's first public declaration of its nuclear ambitions. AP Photo   The statement marked a sharpening of the North's tone in its standoff with Washington. U.S. officials say the North Koreans told them privately that the country already has nuclear bombs and plans to build more — but until now Pyongyang had not openly stated its intention to develop an arsenal. "If the U.S. keeps threatening the DPRK with...

Sister Faustina's Vision of Hell"I, Sister Faustina Kowalska, by the order of God, have visited the Abysses of Hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence...the devils were full of hatred for me, but they had to obey me at the command of God, What I have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw. But I noticed one thing: That most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell." (Diary 741) The Apostle of Divine MercySt. Maria Faustina Kowalskaof the Congregation of the Sisters...

The worst of the worst The temptation is strong -- so, so strong -- to shove heaping platefuls of crow in front of the loudest anti-war caterwaulers and force them to eat their own misguided words. There are so many who richly deserve the treatment: MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who railed that invading Iraq would be "worse than Vietnam;" Hull Selectwoman Regina Burke, who refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and then accused President Bush of wearing the American flag "as a toga;" Senator and presidential wannabe John Kerry, for demanding "regime change" in Washington; former NBC reporter Peter...

or THE TORMENTS OF THE WICKED IN HELL, NO OCCASION OF GRIEF TO THE SAINTS IN HEAVEN. REVELATION 18:20 By: Jonathan Edwards Rejoice over her thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. Introduction IN this chapter we have a very particular account of the fall of Babylon, or the antichristian church, and of the vengeance of God executed upon her. Here it is proclaimed that Babylon the great is fallen, and become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful...

<p>NEW YORK — With a compelling, real-life war story on TV at home, many of those seeking relief at the movies are opting for comedies and thrillers over dramas — and some who are angry at anti-war celebrities are just staying home.</p>

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Residents were fleeing suburbs near Baghdad airport into the city center on Friday, running from what one called a "night of hell" as U.S. forces moved in. "Some people I stopped said that all day since dawn people had been streaming out of the airport area," said Reuters correspondent Samia Nakhoul in the city center, where residents were staying indoors. "There was banging all night. It was a night of hell. We saw that they have entered Baghdad, there were planes all night dropping bombs and there was shelling all night," said one woman, trembling after...

QUESTION: Gehenna is not hell, is it? It was a valley where outcasts, thieves and infected people were thrown when they died. The Bible refers to "Gehenna" as the place of death and pain. The word "hell", as you so often use, where eternal pain and fire awaits is actually "Gehenna." If you have read a bible written before 1400, you will notice a very important thing: "HELL" is missing. Instead it says "Gehenna." There is no fire breathing eternal pain demon hell!! In fact YOU are commiting a sin here. Telling people, or lying to people about hell, when...

ROME (Reuters) - The mother-in-law from hell is the butt of jokes and comedies the world over. In Italy, she is officially a cause for divorce. The country's highest appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling that granted a woman from Vasto in southern Italy divorce on the grounds of "excessive and inappropriate interference of the husband's parents in the private life of the couple." "My husband was his mother's slave. He would hang on her every word while she criticized everything about me, my make-up, my diet, the way I was bringing up my daughter," the woman told the...

It’s always near. We never go long without hearing or thinking about it. It’s as central to the human condition as breathing or anxiety or love. We mere creatures sometimes assume we’ve accomplished a great deal. We’ve ostensibly made so many strides in so many areas in a relatively short span of time. Yet on the subject of what is death is about, we have no more certain knowledge than our ancestors did millennia ago. Recent tragedies at just two nightclubs claimed almost 120 lives. At one club they were black young people, at the other white. All gone much...