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Shephard Smith is something of a contrarian at FOX News. Over the past few months, he has often poked fun at Glenn Beck, criticized the use of torture on terror suspects, and this week, cited the Department of Homeland Security's report that singled out right wing hate groups when reporting on the Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting.

Nagin Returns To New Orleans Due To GustavWritten by: BayouBuzz Staff NEW ORLEANS, LA (August 27, 2008) - New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who was a key speaker this morning for the Oregon, Washington and Minnesota delegations at the Democratic National Convention, has decided to return to New Orleans immediately to closely monitor Hurricane Gustav. Gustav, which has hit the southwest coast of Haiti and is threatening Cuba, appears to be on a likely course toward the U.S. Gulf region. The area, which will mark its third anniversary of the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on August 29,...

WASHINGTON – House leaders are doing well financially during this economic slump. Their lucrative investments and, in many cases, well-compensated spouses supplement their House salaries. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., one of the wealthiest members of Congress, and her real estate-magnate husband Paul Pelosi spent between $1 million and $5 million to buy the home they'd been living in on San Francisco's Broadway. They also own a vineyard in St. Helena, Calif., worth between $5 million and $25 million and a town house in Norden, Calif., valued between $1 million and $5 million, according to annual financial disclosures released Monday. The...

That cat is determined to figure it out.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has until the end of the month to decide on legislation aimed at further conserving water. SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will soon decide if he wants to save millions of gallons of water annually by using even lower-flush home and public toilets, and a new military favorite that's reminiscent of portable potties — waterless, no-flush urinals in public buildings. Legislation — which involved an 11th-hour deal between labor and manufacturers to clear the way for nonwater urinals — slipped around the public spotlight during lawmakers' end-of-session rush. Even so, the measure praised as "making California a...

Maryland Begins Taxing Residents for Flushing Monday, December 12, 2005 LA PLATA, Md. The arrival of bills for the state's new "flush tax" is taking some property owners by surprise in Charles County. "I have cauliflower ear," said County Treasurer Jerome Peuler. "I think we've probably received thousands of phone calls because people are not used to getting a bill that looks like a tax bill out of cycle." The new Maryland "flush tax," a $30 fee that generates money for the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Restoration Fund, will be collected for the first time this year. It was...

Quran has little value to people who are not Muslims Saturday, June 18, 2005 Is Mahmoud El-Yousseph the selfappointed spokesman for all Muslims in central Ohio? It seems that every time a sensitive issue arises that in any way involves Islam, he is the first to fire off a letter to The Dispatch. In his letter to the editor of May 26, El-Yousseph engaged in some distortions that render his basic premise (that the Quran is valuable to all humankind) meaningless. The Quran is not valuable to all humankind. It is not valuable at all to non-Muslims. To non-Muslims, who...

It is not quite accurate to compare the Qur'an to the Bible. The traditional Christian position is that the Bible reveals Jesus, who is held to be the eternal, uncreated Word of God, whereas in Islam it is Muhammad who reveals the eternal, uncreated Word of God—i.e. the Qur'an. Thus, the Bible corresponds to Muhammad and Jesus to the Qur'an. One offense of Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses was its seeming denigration of the Qur'an: it was the equivalent for Christians of blaspheming Jesus. Regarding this sign, Muslims believe it is as though someone placed a sign outside a...

Seventeen people have been killed and hundreds wounded in riots by Muslims since Newsweek published its story about an American interrogator flushing a Koran down the toilet at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. And yet the media establishment seems preoccupied only with the fact that Newsweek, in publishing a false story, has done a very bad thing. And that the Bush Administration must do something to soothe Muslim feelings. There is no excusing Newsweek’s irresponsibility in this. But this is not really a story about media bias or carelessness at all. There is a much larger story that is...

SECAUCUS -- I smell something - and it ain’t a copy of the Qu’ran sopping wet from being stuck in a toilet in Guantanamo Bay. It’s the ink drying on Scott McClellan’s resignation, and in an only partly imperfect world, it would be drifting out over Washington, and imminently. ...Snip... But Monday afternoon, while offering himself up to the networks for a series of rare, almost unprecedented sit-down interviews on the White House lawn, Press Secretary McClellan said, in effect, that General Myers, and the head of the after-action report following the disturbances in Jalalabad, Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, were...

WASHINGTON - While arguments over the authenticity of purported Vietnam-era memos consumed the presidential race Friday, new poll results held little but bad news for Sen. John Kerry. advertisement The memo battle was the culmination of a week’s worth of disappointment for adversaries of President Bush: Forensics experts say that documents CBS News used in a story contending Bush disobeyed an order from his Air National Guard commander in 1972 are suspicious and may be fakes. Democrats had hoped the documents would damage Bush's re-election hopes. On Thursday, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, one of Kerry's outspoken supporters, had said, "The...

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Just read that a rally was scheduled for Del Mar Park in Aurora at 3. Well that one has been cancelled and relocated to the west steps of the Capitol Building in Denver at 2 p.m.

We need a bumper sticker made with the words : FLUSH THE JOHNS Please put some examples below.

Print this bad boy out and put it on billboards, your cube, your car...where ever!

IBM flushes restroom patent By Troy Wolverton Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 11, 2002, 2:28 PM PT IBM has quietly eliminated a patent it received on a method for determining who gets to use the bathroom next. The computing giant received a patent for a "system and method for providing reservations for restroom use" in December. But the company later decided to renounce all of its patent claims after a petition was made against it, according to documents released this week by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. IBM spokesman Chris Andrews acknowledged that the company withdrew the patent. "We...