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SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) - People switched off lights across the world on Saturday, dimming buildings, hotels, restaurants and bars to show concern at global warming. Up to 30 million people were expected to switch off their lights for 60 minutes by the time "Earth Hour" -- which started at 8 p.m. in Suva in Fiji and Christchurch in New Zealand -- completed its cycle westwards.More than 380 towns and cities and 3,500 businesses in 35 countries signed up for the campaign that is only in its second year after it began in 2007 in Sydney alone."Earth Hour shows that everyday people...

SAN FRANCISCO, Actor Sean Penn and Peace Activist Cindy Sheehan will headline "Iraq: 5 Years Too Many", an event marking the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Also featured will be Reverend Gregory Stewart, Senior Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church; Matt Gonzalez, former President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors; and Justin Raimondo, Editorial Director of Antiwar.com. The program will begin at 5pm on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street (near Geary) in San Francisco. After the speakers finish, attendees will march to the War Memorial Auditorium on Van Ness...

If there were ever a chance for women to be recognized as something other than female, these three self-declared feminists have managed to do everything in their power to set the women's movement back to the caveman era. As Clinton turns her head to her husband's pecadilloes in order to further her career, as Pelosi wields the Speaker's gavel like a rolling pin with which to crush uncooperative hardheads while drowning in her scarfs and jewelry, as Boxer rails on the female Secretary Of State for not having kids and therefore being unable to relate to the loss of a...

Inept Democrats face failure with poor start in Congress It’s a bad start, and the risk is that the Democrats are going to throw away their big chance. This week has brought comedy to their efforts, as the new Democrat head of a congressional committee on intelligence proved unable to tell Sunni from Shia, incorrectly maintained that al-Qaeda belonged to the second persuasion, and stumbled into paralysed silence when asked the same question about the Shia group Hezbollah. The bigger problem is the lack of Democrat strategy exposed by the past five weeks since the congressional elections — and above...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Poor Jim Carrey. His movies have raked in nearly $2 billion at box offices, but now a leading entertainment magazine says the comedian's asking price of $25 million a film has become "a bit of a gamble." ADVERTISEMENT In its issue out this week, Entertainment Weekly rates top stars on whether they are worth the money. Among those whose asking prices have become too high are Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell and Eddie Murphy, the magazine said. It added that after years of ever-rising star salaries, the prices for top talent are now coming down because...

Former Vice President Al Gore called Monday for an independent investigation of President Bush's domestic spying program, contending the president "repeatedly and insistently" broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without court approval. Speaking on Martin Luther King Jr.'s national holiday, the man who lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush was interrupted repeatedly by applause as he called the anti-terrorism program "a threat to the very structure of our government." Gore charged that the administration acted without congressional authority and made a "direct assault" on a special federal court that authorizes requests to eavesdrop on Americans. One judge on...

Democratic Leaders Urge Speaker to Hold Hearings on President's Authorization of National Security Agency's Activities 12/18/2005 4:49:00 PM To: National Desk, Congressional Correspondent Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616. both of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi ; Web: http://democraticleader.house.gov WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi; House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer; Congressman John Conyers, Ranking Member on the Judiciary Committee; Congressman Henry Waxman, Ranking Member on the Government Reform Committee; and Congresswoman Jane Harman, Ranking Member on the Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Speaker Hastert last night urging him to join Democrats in establishing...

Woman, 8 Children Inside As Gunmen Burst Into Home UPDATED: 5:58 pm EDT October 5, 2005 ASHVILLE, Ohio -- Three men were taken into custody early Wednesday after they allegedly broke into a home and held a woman at gunpoint. A woman and eight children were inside the Ashville Pike home when the heavily armed men barged in, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported. A 17-year-old girl walked downstairs and discovered a man she didn't know talking to her sister-in-law. She thought something was wrong and called the sheriff's department, Bowersock reported. "One of the children in the house called us...

September 9, 2005 -- IN her "Letter from New York," published in The Washington Post, Tina Brown yesterday determined there was a "scent of insurrection" in the air here in the Big Apple in the wake of Hurricane Katrina — a spirit of revolution she seems to have discerned primarily at a screening of a 9/11 documentary at the swanky Bryant Park Hotel. "The needless torment of New Orleans has reignited the dormant passions of the election," quoth our Tina, who has taken it upon herself to bring the Word from this city's elite to the political elite in Washington....

Anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son Casey was killed in Iraq, is calling for Bush's "impeachment," and for Israel to get out of Palestine! "You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism," Sheehan declares. Sheehan, who is asking for a second meeting with President Bush, says defiantly: "My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny...you give my son back and I'll pay my taxes. Come after me (for back taxes) and we'll...

The politicization of Terri Schiavo prompted the American Medical Association on Tuesday to adopt policy opposing any legislation that presumes patients would want life-sustaining treatment unless it is clear that they would not. Tuesday's action at the annual meeting of the nation's largest doctors group also reaffirms existing AMA policy that says it is ethical in some cases to discontinue life-sustaining treatment if it is in the patient's best interests.

Two days after announcing she would not resign as chairman of the local Democratic Party or from her state Senate seat, Kathryn Bowers said Thursday evening she is quitting as party chairman. Bowers, who said nothing Thursday about her Senate seat, is one of seven lawmakers and political operatives indicted in a federal undercover corruption probe last week. "My attorney has advised me not to address those issues. But I will say to you that I am not guilty of those allegations," Bowers said to applause from a group of 40 Democrats meeting in Midtown. "Regardless of what my personal...

Thought you people would enjoy the mention :P Google.com is celebrating "NEA Teacher's Day" today. Thought the mention of NEA would get some fires burning this morning. LOL Put mouse over their Google Icon or click on it. Nothing against teachers just NEA.

Britney Spears has thanked Madonna introducing her to the Kabbalah faith. The pop babe wrote in an open letter posted on her website, BritneySpears.com, that the 'Material Girl' singer helped pull her back from the brink of self-destruction after enlightening her about the mystical Jewish religion. She wrote: "Madonna first introduced Kabbalah to me at a time in my life when it was much needed. It has helped me get rid of a lot of negative influences that were guiding me down the wrong path." The blonde babe also credits the sect for helping her get her life back on...

So what are the DUmmie plans for Inauguration Day? Many of them will be calling the Suicide Hotline Number: 1-800-BUSH-WON. But what of the others? As we can see in this DUmmie THREAD titled, “What are your plans for Inauguration Day?” some of them play to lie in bed all day and cry but others are planning ILLEGAL activities such as tossing eggs and bananas at the President or at Freepers (which the DUmmies call anyone who is a Bush supporter). Fortunately, I happen to know that the DUmmie FUnnies are read by many government officials so the DUmmies...

WASHINGTON -- No buttons, signs or unusual dress will distinguish the protesters from the thousands who will line the inaugural parade route next month, but at a set time, they say they will demonstrate against President Bush -- by turning their backs on the chief executive. Coupled with the widely expected pomp and pageantry of a presidential inauguration are demonstrations by protesters angered by Bush's policies, in particular the war in Iraq. Getting ready for Jan. 20, 2005, various groups are using Web sites, e-mails, fliers and word of mouth to urge thousands of demonstrators to gather in the nation's...

Bush won; no more wishful thinking I am tired of hearing from many on the Democrat side who say, "Except for 136,000 votes in Ohio, Kerry would be our next president." Indeed, if Kerry had gotten 136,484 more votes in Ohio, he would have received the state's 20 electoral votes and won 272 to Bush's 266. Yet if that analysis is valid, we can also say that if President Bush had received 128,870 more votes in Pennsylvania, he would have increased his electoral margin by 21 and won by 307 to 231. In addition to this, if Bush had got...

  Inter-Galactic Edition |  COMRADE SERVICES           Kerry slams Bush over missing Alien Explosives 'One of the great blunders of this administration' PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (AP) -- Sen. John Kerry is blaming President Bush for the disappearance of tons of Alien explosives from a Roswell, NM stockpile."And now we know that our country and our troops are less safe because this president failed to do the basics," Kerry said at a campaign appearance in Dover, New Hampshire, on Monday."This is one of the great blunders of Homeland Security, one of the great blunders of this administration. And the incredible incompetence...

Click on the source, fast forward 20 seconds (it's blank at the start, don't panic) and enjoy. Highlights: Pink ties reporter:"Can you see Kerry in the White House?" answer: "NO!" "She (THK) is not a lady." discouraged dems on the street

Liberals must stand up for their own ideals to win By Michael Lerner It's easy to denounce Sen. John Kerry's inconsistencies and waffling about the war. Certainly his statement that he would still have voted in favor of an intervention, even knowing what he knows now, has made it impossible for him to consistently represent the perspective of the American majority who think the war was a mistake. Yet the problem goes deeper -- to the heart of the opportunism which continues to befuddle America's liberal forces. The central problem with liberals is that they are "liberal" about their liberalism...

Okay here's a concept...imagine you're listening to the new Liberal Radio Network that's supposed to go to air in the Spring. What do calls sound like? What do the hosts say? How do they say it? Use your imagination: Go wild! Post your impressions on what YOU think the new network that has libs all a-twitter will sound like....

This is huge. It means that Scott's boat was NEVER LAUNCHED.

      Frist in 2008       "Babes and Whales" is the title of a feature in the September issue of Washingtonian magazine, in which Capitol Hill staffers pick the best and worst of Congress - leaders, followers, dimwits, hotheads and more.       A few of our favorites on the Senate side (viewpoints expressed by Capitol Hill aides do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this columnist, his editors, this newspaper or its readers) include:       Showhorse: Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican       No Rocket Scientist: Sen. Patty Murray, Washington Democrat       No Altar Boy: Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, New Jersey Democrat...