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Please vote for the anti-Islamist and pro-America blog Little Green Footballs for best blog. They're down by about 2000 because the Kossacks launched a script to cheat. LGF was shoulders and head above for much of the voting. It's important to win at least this award. I also suggest that as long as you are there, you vote for other patriotic websites. Especially those with a good chance of winning. Also, FR is in the running for best community, although we probably don't have a chance of winning at this point. However, voting is still a good idea.

FReep this poll. The furor surrounding the release of the Da Vinci Code movie prompts us to ask: Do you believe in the divinity of Christ? Yes No

Do you agree with Charlie Sheen that the U.S. government covered up the real events of the 9/11 attacks? Yes 82% 16065 votes No 18% 3469 votes Total: 19534 votes

A newspaper cartoon targeting religion has once again sprung into the spotlight -- this time in a two-frame jab at Christianity in the University of Saskatchewan student newspaper, the Sheaf. The newspaper is issuing a mea culpa after a cartoon depicting Jesus performing a sex act on a capitalist pig was published in Thursday's edition of the Sheaf. "The comic was actually laid out and went to print as a result of an editorial oversight and a mistake," production manager Liam Richards said Monday. "It was not our intention to have a (public) reaction to it." The cartoon ran a...

Well...go on. FReep! What's your opinion of Pat Robertson? Mostly negative 75% Mostly positive 14% Neutral 10% Total Votes are over 160k atm.

Alright, here's the deal. I'm going to have to lead a small university seminar on the public perception of the Vietnam war for one of my history classes. However, I would like to force the participants to see this from a fair perspective (both a bird's eye view and from the ground), rather than the superficial pop-cultural view of Vietnam that most are likely to have (we are university undergraduates after all). Specifically, given how often Vietnam Vets get ignored or passed over, I want the participants to understand the perspective of the grunts, sailors and airmen who participated. So...

Do you believe the Iraqis are better off today than they were before the war began? 15.00 % Yes. It's a much better place today. 37.50 % Slightly better. But the number of casualties is an unacceptable price. 33.75 % No! It's worse than before. 13.75 % Uncertain.

... The anger directed at Cindy Sheehan is not unprovoked, but it is misdirected. She is a woman consumed by her quest, and that is tragic, and nothing else. Rage should be directed at the grief pimps who exploit this woman’s pain for all it’s worth; those who view her as more ratings, or another arrow in their quiver to send against the President. It should be directed at those members of DailyKos, perhaps the largest left-wing blog, who believe that her son should not be referred to by name, that "theatre professionals at the Sheenan vigil… should arrange things...

TAIZE, France — Brother Roger, the 90-year-old founder of an ecumenical religious community dedicated to peace and reconciliation, was knifed to death by a woman at an evening prayer service attended by 2,500 people, authorities said. The slaying was deplored Wednesday by the pope and the head of the Anglican Church, who called the slain monk "one of the best-loved Christian leaders of our time."

Do you agree with the appointment of Michaella Jean as Canada's next Governor General?

As I said, I am looking for statistics on how Generation X and Y votes, whom it supports and critical political issues for them. If you know of any, please post them here.

To look at it right now, no sane person would think much of Hans Island, a glorified pile of rocks in the Canadian arctic. It’s a tiny, blasted and forsaken island a mere 1.3 km in area, desperately far from any civilization. But, the important thing for Canadians to remember is that Hans Island is our tiny, blasted and forsaken island. And it must stay that way, if we expect any of our international claims of sovereignty over the, now only allegedly, Canadian north to be recognized. Because, the truth is, Hans Island is far more than just a tiny,...

I need help finding some viable/reliable statistics on support for Alberta separatism (or any kind of Canadian separatism aside from Quebec). Besides the 1/4 figure presented by Ralph Klein to reader's digest.

The Tube has been plunged into chaos and several stations evacuated after minor blasts on three trains and a bus. Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair said three Tube lines were suspended but it was time London returned to normal. The minor explosions - just two weeks after blasts killed 56 - involved detonators only, a BBC reporter said. There was only one injury. Police sources say a number of fugitives are being sought. Two people were arrested in Whitehall. Eyewitnesses heard bangs and saw abandoned rucksacks at the sites of the incidents at Warren Street, Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and...

YUMA, Ariz. - Construction crews are expected to begin building a reinforced concrete barrier along sections of the U.S.-Mexico border next month. The barrier is designed to stop immigrant smugglers, drug traffickers and other illegal traffic from driving across the border. The barrier will eventually cover 123 miles from San Luis to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument south of Ajo. "Not only will it enhance our ability to gain greater control of the border, but it is a proactive effort to protect the environment, habitat and (protect) against the ravages of narcotics and alien smuggling vehicles," said Joe Brigman, a...

[The Enumclaw case, for those of you who don't know, refers to a man who died from having sex with a horse; an investigation by the sheriff's office found a farm which was a haven for bestiality perverts] The Enumclaw case highlights two increasingly important ideological debates. The first, and seemingly the more minor of the two (for the time being) is within the animal rights movement, and centers around whether animals should be treated as identical to humans. On the one side, stands PETA and Peter Singer, a founder of the animal rights movement. On the other stands the...

Toronto-- Only Hollywood would try to make a hero of a terrorist in the triple terrorist Osama bin Laden-connected Khadr family. Waiting to be cast as the quintessential bad boy turned good, Abdurahman Khadr is the tin star in a family of anti-American steel, and tin can be easily bent. The June 5 edition of Variety reports that a movie deal is in the making about the 21-year-old lapsed terrorist’s life. As a 13-year-old terrorist-in-training, Khadr stood face to face with his idol Osama bin Laden in 1996. But somewhere along the road back to his family in Toronto after...

Toronto-- The April 20 "temporary" leave of absence from his post as top United Nations envoy to North Korea became a permanent one for Canadian tycoon Maurice Strong yesterday. UN spokesman Marie Okabe said in response to a reporter’s question that Strong’s contract expired last week "and has not been renewed". The admission came amid questions about Strong’s connection to a well-publicized suspect in the ongoing UN oil-for-food scandal. (See: 'The Maustro' admits connection to `Koreagate Man') In the politically correct, neutered lexicon of the UN, Strong, chief architect of the Kyoto Protocol, "has not been renewed". To the outside...

Vic Germany thought registering a federal trademark for San Francisco's iconic Dykes on Bikes organization would be no problem. After all, the nonprofit lesbian motorcycle group has become internationally known for riding in the lead position at San Francisco's pride parade every year for nearly three decades. Instead, the group has spent a humiliating two years slogging through the swampland of trademark law, with no end in sight, said Germany, president of the San Francisco Women's Motorcycle Contingent, a.k.a. Dykes on Bikes. Twice, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected the Dykes' application, on the grounds that "dyke" is...

SEATTLE -- King County sheriff's detectives are investigating possible animal cruelty at a farm near Enumclaw that apparently has attracted "a significant number of people" to have sex with animals, a sheriff's spokesman said Thursday. The investigation was launched this month after authorities discovered the July 2 death of a man who suffered internal bleeding after engaging in anal sex with a horse at the farm, Sgt. John Urquhart said. Authorities are not releasing the man's identity because the King County medical examiner has ruled his death accidental. The victim was in his 40s, Urquhart said. Investigators have interviewed several...