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  • Archive for March, 2006

    Prostitutes in Germany Get Retrained As Nurses, Tele-Marketers

    Friday, March 31st, 2006

    They make it sound so legitimate. Via Reuters:
    German prostitutes are signing up for a career change, training to become nurses to tend to the country’s aging population or working phones as tele-marketers.
    Thirty prostitutes have enlisted in a church-funded project in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia and more are on a waiting list, project coordinator Gisela [...]

    Communists and Dead Babies

    Thursday, March 30th, 2006

    Can you image the international stink if George Bush or some American leader made these comments?
    Silvio Berlusconi [Italian PM] said Wednesday his remarks that Chinese Communists used to spread dead babies as fertilizer were an overplayed, yet poorly timed comment.
    Poorly timed? Probably. Unless, of course, it’s true… I always knew there was something wrong with [...]

    Muslim Divorces Wife By Accident While Sleeping (This Is Not A Joke)

    Thursday, March 30th, 2006

    Apparently, in Islam, a man can divorce his wife simply by saying the word “Talaq” three times. The divorce is effective immediately. No need for courts, judges, lawyers, or the woman’s consent. Just say “talaq, talaq, talaq” and you are no longer married. Well, a man uttered the words “talaq, talaq, talaq” in his sleep [...]

    ACLU to Appeal Pro-Life License Plates in Tennessee: Why They’ll Lose

    Thursday, March 30th, 2006

    Via USAToday:
    Despite a federal appeals court ruling this month that lets Tennessee put “Choose Life” on license plates, it isn’t clear when -? or even if -? the tags will ever hit the road.
    The American Civil Liberties Union is likely to appeal to the full panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals or [...]

    James Woods is Awesome

    Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

    This is, by far, the coolest thing ever said by a celerbity. From FrontPage magazine, James Wood did this interview with Salon back in 2003:

    So you don’t think the right-wing conservative label that people have put on you is accurate?
    No, of course not. I’m not right-wing and I’m not left-wing. But you know, in Hollywood, [...]

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    Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

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    Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ Silent Scientology Birth Signs

    Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

    Tom Cruise is carrying these signs into his house and posting them everywhere to “remind himself” that NO ONE is allowed to make ANY noise during Katie’s Scientology birth. Even Katie, as she is forcing a 10 pound baby through a pin hole, is not allowed to make a peep. You might be in a [...]

    France: "We Have Nothing to Fear But Work Itself"

    Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

    I already posted on the French riots, so I won’t go into all that, again (Eurabia Has Arrived in France). However, one of yesterday’s articles from the AP had a few things worth noting:

    The nationwide strike -? the first time that unions had ordered walkouts in solidarity with students spearheading the protests -? slowed train, [...]

    Sean Penn Does Crazy Voodoo on Ann Coulter’s "Funny Places"

    Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

    Via ContactMusic.com (hat tip Ace of Spades HQ):
    SEAN PENN has a plastic doll of conservative US columnist ANN COULTER that he likes to abuse when angry. The Oscar-winner actor has hated Coulter ever since she blacklisted his director father LEO PENN in her book TREASON. And he takes out his frustrations with Coulter, who is [...]

    The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Immigration Bill

    Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

    Amid the protesting and the rhetoric, Congress finally got down to business on illegal immigration. Some highlights/lowlights of the new proposal by the Senate Judiciary Committee, via the AP.
    Number 1:

    Immigrant supporters claimed their first major victory since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks after a bipartisan group of senators approved legislation that would give millions of [...]

    Sign Dedicated to Green Beret Killed in Afghanistan Vandalized

    Monday, March 27th, 2006

    The family of a Green Beret who died in Afghanistan was outraged to learn that a sign dedicated to their son had been defaced with anti-war propaganda. From Military.com:
    CHESHIRE, Mass. - The family of a Green Beret who was one of the nation’s first casualties in the war on terror in Afghanistan was outraged after [...]

    Hostettler Proposes Anti-ACLU Bill

    Monday, March 27th, 2006

    From BP News:

    Indiana’s John Hostettler is trying for the fifth consecutive Congress to prevent the American Civil Liberties Union from receiving government funds when it succeeds at legal challenges to public expressions of religion.
    This year, the Republican representative has more hope than before thanks to the American Legion. The country’s largest veterans organization, with about [...]

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