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Call to Action - Comprehensive Advocacy Program May 19, 2005 Federation Leaders and Members: We need all Federation Leaders and Members to participate in the Call to Action. Get involved and please get others involved. We need your help. - Dianne Thompson, NFRW President ACTION ITEMS: Senator Durbin, on the United States Senate Floor, in a recent statement regarding Guantanamo Bay, equated the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces to "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime-Pol Pot or others-that had no concerns for human beings." Please read the letter from members of the United States...

RANTS AND RAVES 45 - Responses to Pro-Life Criticism of Veganism The following criticism of combining Vegetarianism/Veganism with a Pro-Life stance appeared on an email list I am today: >>Vegetarianism and abortion, I find that incredibly ridiculous! I just can't get this comment out of my head. It is so ridiculous...........so ridiculous that some women don't eat meat because they don't want to harm or kill an animal, yet they will willfully, and by choice, harm and kill their unborn baby. I find this incredibly ridiculous. This is my response to the above post: As a pro-choice vegan, I...

 Superstitions about Dreams and Meanings of Dreams WHEN you had the dream:   Dreams at night are a devil's delight Dreams in the morning, heed the angels' warning. WHAT the dream was about: ACORN Dreaming of acorns predicts pleasant things & that much gain is to be expected.   For a woman to dream of eating acorns denotes that she will rise to a position of ease & pleasure. To dream of shaking acorns from a tree means that you will rapidly attain your wishes in business or love. AIRPORT In a dream the sight of a busy airport represents...

The latest embarrassment to the political press began harmlessly enough when Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean met privately Thursday morning, as they do every month. Afterwards, the pair emerged for a photo op. But because of some recent incendiary comments by Dean -- some of which Reid had distanced himself from -- the appearance attracted a throng. "About 60 reporters and cameramen attempted to shove their way into an office equipped to handle about 20," writes Washington Post reporter Mark Leibovich. "The madness began at 10:30 a.m. when the media horde was invited...

Court TV has announced that a verdict is in for the Drunk Pilot Trial.

The two suspects arrested in connection with the disappearance have just been charged with murder, homicide and kidnapping leading to homicide.

Per Fox News: The Supreme Court has ruled Medical Marijuana as illegal.

This is one of the most watched events on the planet. Pick your candidate.Miss Universe 2005 contestants (L-R) Cheryl Tay of Singapore, Cindy Fabre of France, Laura Elizondo of Mexico, Claudia Henkel of South Africa, Debby Dewaele of Belgium and Irma Dimas of El Salvador model their swim wear during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the pageant in Bangkok, May 30, 2005. The Miss Universe 2005 pageant will take place in Bangkok on May 31, 2005.

pad Sunless Tanning Top Picks Dear Dr. Dave and Dr. Dee, I used to sunbathe every summer, but I’m getting older and more wrinkles at age 37, so I’ve decided to try a sunless tanning lotion. Do these sunless tans really work and how long will the “tan” stay? Are some products better than others? If I do decide to sunbathe, will the fake tan help protect me from the sun? Signed, Sun Scared Dear Sun Scared, As the sun is the number one cause of aging and skin cancer, it’s a good idea to cut down on the sunbathing....

WFOR-CBS 4 investigative reporter Michele Gillen is a defendant in a lawsuit. Plaintiff: Alexander Eugenio Moskovits, an ex-con from Miami Beach who says he lived with Gillen when he got out of prison, and donated sperm -- after their break-up -- so she could have a baby. Moskovits, 41, alleges fraud and emotional distress. Gillen, 50, "never intended to become pregnant" -- but used his sperm sample to "keep him in her life," he claims. Moskovits did eight years -- for cocaine trafficking while at the University of Pennsylvania. Released in January '97, he began dating Gillen that summer, and...

COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho — The person of interest in a criminal investigation of a triple homicide and a related search for two young children in northern Idaho has apparently vanished, a Kootenai County (search) sheriff's officer said Wednesday. Robert Roy Lutner (search), 33, "seems to have just disappeared," Capt. Ben Wolfinger told reporters. At 6-feet-2 and 240 pounds, Lutner's "a big guy to hide," Wolfinger said. The Hayden man, believed to have been known by the family, was last seen Sunday near the home of Brenda Kay Groene, 40, and her three youngest children in Coeur d'Alene (search). Groene, her...

May 16, 2005 -- TAOS, N.M. — Jennifer Wilbanks wasn't just running away from her wedding, she was running toward something — an old paramour with whom she had a steamy sexual relationship. The bolting bride set her sights on New Mexico sometime during her three-day cross-country sprint from the altar because it's the home of a short-lived fling, several sources told The Post. But if Wilbanks harbored hope of reigniting an old passion, she would have been sorely disappointed. "I would have turned her ass in, no question," former flame Todd Kendrick told The Post. "And then," he joked,...

1. "As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied." Oscar Wilde. 2. "I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde." Dolly Parton. 3. "One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either." Charlotte Rampling. 4. "When women kiss it always reminds me of prize fighters shaking hands." HL Mencken. 5....

Geraldo Rivera appears to be trawling for a new job. The war reporter and news-show host, who reportedly took a $3 million pay cut in 2001 to join Fox News Channel, is quoted in the recent edition of the Atlantic Monthly saying: "It's hard to be a show of record when you're on weekends." His show, "At Large with Geraldo Rivera," airs on FNC Saturday and Sunday nights. His four-year deal with the nation's most-watched news network expires in November. And Rivera wonders aloud if sticking with Fox is right for him. "The problem with Fox and me is they're...

CHICAGO (AP) — Fugitive reputed mob boss Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo will surrender if he gets a separate trial on charges that he and other organized crime figures plotted at least 18 unsolved murders, according to a letter made public by his attorney. The letter was sent to attorney Rick Halprin and addressed to U.S. District Judge James Zagel. Halprin said the handwritten, four-page note appears to have been signed by his client. He called federal authorities Tuesday morning after an aide in his office opened the letter, which was postmarked in Chicago on Monday. "I recognize the signature,"...

I can't post the article due to copyright complaints. Link is here Kwame lives it up

Love him or hate him, credit uber-aggressive TV reporter Steve Wilson with performing a minor miracle: He's brought Detroit and Warren together. In hatred. Of Wilson. Weeks after Warren officials stonewalled the pit-bullish, scoop-loving, over-the-top reporter by answering each of his litany of questions with a nonresponsive and unfounded mantra, Detroit pastors demanded Monday that WXYZ-TV fire Wilson. Whereas Warren officials accused Wilson of mischaracterizing a trip to Costa Rica, more than two dozen pastors said their ire peaked when they heard that the muckraker had, in their words, harassed Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on a Friday flight home from...

True Liberalism By Robert A. Sirico ROME -- We have already heard a thousand times or more that the new Pope is a conservative. As counterintuitive as this may sound, I believe that insofar as the new papacy has implications for economics and politics, it is in the direction of a humane and unifying liberalism. I speak not of liberalism as we know it now, which is bound up with state management and democratic relativism, but liberalism of an older variety that placed it hopes in society, faith, and freedom. Bear with me. When it was announced that Cardinal Joseph...

Andrea Mackris, the former associate producer for Fox News Channel who made headlines by suing talking head Bill O'Reilly for sexual harassment, recently purchased an Upper West Side condo for $809,500, according to deed-transfer records. Ms. Mackris, an alumna of Columbia University's journalism school, had worked as a producer on The O'Reilly Factor before leaving for CNN in January 2004. However, in July of that year, she returned to Fox, reportedly at a $93,000-a-year salary. Hours before Ms. Mackris filed her $60 million suit, Mr. O'Reilly sued for extortion. In the week that followed, the lurid details of the case...

The Kentucky Division of Emergency Management has issued an AMBER Alert for 16-year-old Janet Batanzos Quijano. The teenager was last seen around 8:00am in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. Police say the girl may have been abducted. Quijano is described as a white female, 4'11", 85 lbs, black hair and black eyes. She was wearing a red sweater with green squares and blue jeans. She has a scar on her right cheek. Police say Quijano may be with five Hispanic men driving a red minivan or SUV and may have been taken while waiting for a school bus Wednesday morning. If you have...