Archive for June, 2005
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Oh-Oh
Jacksonville, FL Police Dept. A man goes to a party and has too much to drink. His friends plead with him to let them take him home. He says no — he only lives a mile away. About five blocks from the party, the police pull him over for weaving and ask him to get […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Caught On Tape: Moose Wanders Into Hospital
POSTED: 7:51 am PDT June 29, 2005 UPDATED: 7:55 am PDT June 29, 2005 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Doctors and nurses at an Alaskan emergency room recently had a surprise patient — a moose. Security cameras caught the animal walking in and out of the Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage. In the video, a doctor and […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Secret U.S. Prisons Rumor Probed
VIENNA, Austria, June 29 U.N. human rights experts have begun an investigation into U.S. detention facilities for terrorist suspects and allegations that there are secret prisons, one of the project leaders said Wednesday. Manfred Nowak, the U.N.’s special expert on terrorism, said some undeclared holding areas could include U.S. Navy ships cruising extraterritorial waters. He […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Supersize her: Baby nearly 14 lbs.
Associated Press Published June 29, 2005 MILWAUKEE — Doctors are not quite sure why, but Robin Buzzell keeps having big babies. Now she’s delivered the biggest one yet, a daughter dubbed the “Big Enchilada,” and weighing in at 13 pounds, 12 ounces. Delaney Jessica Buzzell headed home Tuesday after being delivered by Caesarean section Thursday, […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Muslim groups urge mosque rights for women
1 hour, 57 minutes ago Leading Islamic groups in North America are telling their followers that it’s time to make mosques more open to women, to return to an equality that marked the origins of the faith. “There are confirmed reports that many mosques relegate women to small, dingy, secluded, airless and segregated quarters with […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
CIA abduction in Italy shows U.S. bungling-experts
37 minutes ago CIA agents charged with kidnapping a Muslim cleric in Milan appear to have bungled their way into an international incident by ignoring the most basic rules of the spy trade, experts say. Far from the suave discretion of James Bond, experts say the operatives who snatched radical Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Iraqis give mixed response to Bush vow to stay on
By Omar Anwar 51 minutes ago President Bush’s vow to Americans to stick with the war in Iraq despite mounting losses won a mixed reception in Baghdad, where Iraqis expressed both resentment and gratitude on Wednesday. In a half-hour address to U.S. troops, televised nationwide ahead of the July 4 Independence Day holiday, Bush tied […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
The Ten Myths About the Ten Commandments
Think you’ve got the Ten Commandments story down cold? Think again. I. The Ten Commandments have commonly been displayed in public places throughout U.S. history. Many of the public Ten Commandments displays can be traced all the way back to…50 years ago. That’s when Cecil B. DeMille, seeking to promote his 1956 “Ten Commandments” film, […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Protests at Memphis ‘Ex-Gay Camp’
United Press International Memphis, Jun 28, 2005 (United Press International via COMTEX) — A camp that says it deals with homosexual conversion is under investigation by Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services for alleged child abuse. The Memphis camp is called Love in Action, and has been the site of daily protests since a blog entry […]
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
A priority for US churches: Africa’s poor
from the June 29, 2005 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0629/p12s01-lire.html By Jane Lampman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor They don’t always see eye to eye. But US religious leaders across the theological and political spectrums have found a common cause: ending global poverty and hunger, particularly in Africa. Their rallying point is the G-8 […]