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TURKEY'S public television TRT, controlled by the Islamist-rooted government, has barred the popular Walt Disney cartoon Winnie the Pooh from air because it has a piglet as one of its main heroes, the Turkish press reported today. Several other cartoons featuring pigs also failed to win the green light from TRT management, according to the left-wing Cumhuriyet daily. The station initially considered scissoring the scenes showing Piglet, but abandoned the idea because the small pink-skinned character, one of Winnie the Pooh's closest friends, appeared too often, Cumhuriyet and the mass-circulation Sabah newspaper said. TRT officials were not immediately available for...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Antoinette from Canada was the star at the Moscow Olympics, outshining competitors from as far afield as China and South Africa. She showed her skills at the third annual piglet Olympics in running, football and swimming and will be the competitor to beat in Sunday's final. Twelve piglets are in competition - pink, black, spotted -- curly-tailed: six Russian and six foreign. They were introduced with national flags and appropriate music before Tatiana Kolchanova, director-general of the union of domestic animal businesses formally declared the third annual games open. The first contest involved races along closed paths,...

During his second hour today, Medved was discussing the Danish cartoons with a columnist. A caller toward the end of the hour, said that his daughter was told not to bring her Piglet lunchbox to school because it might offend Muslims. I had heard about this Piglet ban in Britain but didn't think it had reached our shores yet (if this man's account is true). Didn't catch where he was from--maybe some other listener did. If this account is true and it were my son/daughter I would send them back to school with the offending lunch box filled with a...

Last month, the Dudley City Council approved a completely idiotic policy banning their employees from displaying anything with a pig on it in their work environment. This was done in an effort to avoid offending Muslim employees. (See “Winnie the Pooh and Piglet Banned in the Name of Religious Tolerance” ) Well it looks like uncommon sense may eventually rule the day in Dudley. Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

In order to avoid offending Muslim co-workers, those who work in Dudley Council, West Midlands are prohibited from displaying toy pigs; including the popular Winnie the Pooh and Piglet dolls. At least they are also banning muslim extremists... Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

Toy pigs must go at council Oct 1, 2005 (photo mine -YD) Novelty pig calendars and toys have been banned by bosses at Dudley Council in case Muslim staff are offended. Workers in the council's benefits department have been told to remove or cover up all pig products including toys, porcelain, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. It comes after a Muslim worker said they were offended by pig-shaped stress relievers delivered to the authority. Muslims are forbidden from eating pork in the Koran and staff were asked to remove the items. The...

NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they offend Muslim staff. Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. Bosses acted after a Muslim complained about pig-shaped stress relievers delivered to the council in the run-up to the Islamic festival of Ramadan. Muslims are barred from eating pork in the Koran and consider pigs unclean. Councillor Mahbubur Rahman, a practising Muslim, backed the ban....

California has a long road ahead in fixing its $15 billion budget deficit. However, it can start by eliminating $12.9 billion in wasteful spending, says Citizens Against Government Waste. CAGW’s recently released California Piglet Book details numerous examples of how California’s bureaucrats have wasted millions of taxpayer dollars. Among the examples: The Los Angeles Unified School District is now the subject of a federal grand jury investigation over its $74.5 million purchase of a downtown high-rise building for its administrative headquarters; the charge alleges that it overpaid for the building to bail out investors. City officials in San Francisco preside...

Monday, June 27, 2005; Posted: 8:02 a.m. EDT (12:02 RELATED • Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger, dies YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Obituaries (Entertainment) Bob Newhart or Create Your Own Manage Alerts | What Is This? NEW YORK (AP) -- John Fiedler, a stage actor who won fame as the voice of Piglet in Walt Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh films, died Saturday, The New York Times reported in Monday editions. He was 80. Fiedler served in the Navy during World War II before beginning a stage career in New York. He performed in supporting roles alongside Sidney Poitier on Broadway, John Wayne in Hollywood...

SACRAMENTO — Watchdog groups Tuesday threatened to place on the ballot a measure to downsize state government if the Legislature does not adopt recommendations from Gov. Schwarze-negger's 2,600-page California Performance Review report. Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation, said the report — a sweeping plan to revamp state government — might fare better with an up-or-down vote at the polls than with legislators. "It would pass in a heartbeat," Coupal said. The comments came as the Jarvis group and the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens Against Government Waste released the 2004 California Piglet Book showcasing billions of dollars of...