Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 31st, 2005
Lest We Forget
Dagmar Mikko and son Matthew Mikko-Fortier walk past some of the 2,000 candelaria at a memorial to soldiers lost in the Iraq war Oct. 30 on the Delaney Park Strip. The memorial was conceived by Jennifer Davis, whose husband is serving in Iraq. She said she wanted “to give a visual representation of what 2,000 […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
Conservative Anglicans warn liberal churches in West
By Edmund Blair | October 31, 2005
CAIRO (Reuters) - Traditionalist Anglican clerics warned the U.S. and Canadian churches on Monday that their liberal actions over gay rights were tearing apart the 450-year-old church and told them to change their ways urgently.
In some of the strongest language they have used so far in an […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
United Methodist Council Defrocks Lesbian Minister
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The highest court within the United Methodist Church defrocked a lesbian minister Monday for violating the denomination’s ban on “self-avowed, practicing homosexual” clergy.
The nine-member Judicial Council — seven of whom heard the case Friday in Houston — issued a ruling from its offices in Nashville.
A church panel ruled in December that the […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
The News Here Is …
… this was published BEFORE President Bush made his announcement!
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
Oh, Swell!
Thousands of evacuees face eviction
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAYMon Oct 31, 6:26 AM ET
Two months after Hurricane Katrina displaced more than 1 million people, problems with federal housing aid threaten to spawn a new wave of homelessness.
In Texas, thousands of evacuees who found shelter in apartments face eviction threats because rents are going unpaid.
In Louisiana, […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
Lest We Forget
Seven US troops killed in Iraq
By Alastair Macdonald 51 minutes ago
Seven U.S. troops were killed by bombs near Baghdad, the military said on Monday, making October the bloodiest month for Americans in Iraq since January.
In the far west, where U.S. marines have been fighting for months to stem a flow of foreign Arab fighters and […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2005
This Made Me Laugh
… though I’ll probably burn in Hell.