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After the wreath-laying, Obama walked up the stairs into the memorial building, and heard (what appeared to be HIS voice) "JEESUS!". I had to play it back a few times and was appalled. Anyone else make that observation?

More than 50 members of Sacramento's interfaith community - including Catholics, Jews, Sikhs, Quakers, Muslims and Druids - will meet at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of 9/11, for a "blessing of peace on the Quran."

Official wants Da Vinci movie bannedWed May 10, 8:51 AM ET MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine government should ban the controversial movie "The Da Vinci Code," a senior official in the mainly Catholic country said Wednesday, describing the religious thriller as blasphemous. The film, based on the best-selling fiction novel of the same title, is due to open in Manila's cinemas next week. "I think we should do everything not to allow it to be shown," said Eduardo Ermita, executive secretary to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, expressing his personal opinion as a "devout Catholic." He told journalists the state's censors...

NEW YORK - Kanye West, with a crown of thorns atop his head, poses as Jesus Christ on the cover of the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone. The outspoken rapper defends his brash attitude inside the magazine's pages, on newsstands Friday. He is also pictured posing as Muhammad Ali. "In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts," he says. "You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?" West also says his hit song "Gold Digger" was the best song last year and that...

If there is a hell, and most likely Zell Miller believes in such a thing, than Democratic Senator Zell Miller is going to burn in it.Spin hotly on the giant griddle. For something close to eternity. Oh yes, siree. He is going to burn in hell. And the chances of hell existing have just skyrocketed, because if God exists then he's no kind of God unless he quickly fashions a hell for Democrat Zell Miller to burn in.And even if the universe exists without a God, it is far from beyond the inarticulate power of this vast mass of galaxies...

<p>My, my, isn't that a pretty knockoff of a bucolic Thomas Kinkade scene hanging at the Fetterly Gallery in Vallejo? Smoke curls from a charming New England cottage, a brick footbridge is reflected in a shimmering stream, and heavenly light filters through the trees.</p>