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Fruitcakes catapulted into the air ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Some people are fond of throwing caution to the wind but in a number of U.S. towns, residents send old fruitcakes into the air. Long a favorite subject of ridicule, holiday fruitcakes of all shapes and sizes turn into cannon fodder each winter in Colorado, Minnesota and Wisconsin, The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press reports. A Pepin, Wis. blacksmith built a special catapult four years ago to rocket good, bad and dried-out fruitcakes at a toy elf named "Dippy." Tom Latane says he has learned that cakes weighing...

GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!" Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that threatens the future of civilization on earth." Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves...

Physics prof calls 9/11 conspiracist 'fruitcake' 'Since he can't evaluate the evidence presented, he shouldn't have an opinion' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 6, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com A University of Wisconsin professor who works with 9-11 conspiracist Kevin Barrett says he's a "fruitcake" who is too biased in favor of Islam to teach a class on the subject. Barrett, a Muslim convert, was recently cleared by the college to teach a course this fall titled, "Islam: Religion and Culture." Like many Muslims, he contends the 9-11 attacks were an "inside job" carried out by Bush administration officials and...

Day 1996 photo that they believe indicates Karr was in Atlanta when the 6-year-old girl was killed in Colorado. Gary Harris, an attorney for Karr's father, Wexford Karr, said Tuesday that the photo is of John Mark Karr's three children, along with a newborn nephew. While John Mark Karr is not actually in the photo, family members "have no recollection of him missing a Christmas until the last five years," Harris said. "They know that if his children were there, he would have been there," the attorney said. "They would have remembered it if they all had shown up and...

(3) And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads, and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. (3a) "And there appeared another wonder in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon,..." Red is the ancient color of evil. Red and black in combination symbolizes far greater evil. The red dragon is both Satan/The Serpent, and the body politic spiritual construct of the known world in the fifteenth century. It is both theological and secular, but primarily it is a cabal bent on world domination. Again, we are dealing with non-linear time....

Most of my friends hate Superman. He's too powerful, they say. Too indestructible. Too fast and too strong for his own good. Superman is just too damn super. The problem a lot of people have with Superman is the same problem we have with the modern definition of heroes. Nowadays we overuse the term. This past May, News Statesman magazine ranked Bill Gates as number eight in an article detailing 50 "Heroes of our time," right above the Dalai Lama. I hate to break this to everyone, but Bill Gates is not a hero. In 2000 a man worth nearly...

Some Democrats, breaking ranks from their leadership, today said the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi in Iraq was a stunt to divert attention from an unpopular and hopeless war. "This is just to cover Bush's [rear] so he doesn't have to answer" for Iraqi civilians being killed by the U.S. military and his own sagging poll numbers, said Rep. Pete Stark, California Democrat. "Iraq is still a mess -- get out."

/begin my translationan Unemployed Man Rioted in a Rhino Pen  A man in 30's went into a rhino pen and rioted for three and a half hours. There were two white rhinos in the pen, but zoo keepers deftly got them into a shed, causing no injuries.Gwachon Police Dept. said on June 4 that, on the previous day around 4:40pm, Mr. Lee(age:36) suddenly went into a white rhino pen at the Zoo of Seoul Grand Park, Gwachon City. Over three meter wide trench was dug separating the pen and spectators, but he went all the down to the bottom of...

THE assassination of Tony Blair by a suicide bomber would be morally justified as revenge for the War in Iraq, according to George Galloway. The Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow said that such an attack would be “morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq — as Mr Blair did”. He was speaking during an interview for GQ magazine with Piers Morgan, the former Daily Mirror Editor. Morgan asked: “Would the assasination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber, if there were no other casualties, be justified as revenge for the war...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A California lawmaker said he fears Tom Cruise as father figure could be setting a dangerous precedent. Democratic Assemblyman Ted Lieu is proposing a state ban on the sale of ultrasound machines to anyone but licensed medical professionals. Lieu said there's no medical reason for an untrained person to use an ultrasound machine, and he worries because doctors say putting the technology in the wrong hands could harm a fetus. Cruise said he bought an ultrasound machine so he could see images of his then-unborn child with Katie Holmes. "If someone sees Tom Cruise buy one, they...

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP)-Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake-he set it aside, only to rediscover it more than 40 years later in his mother's attic. Nesta couldn't resist taking a peak at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper."I was amazed that it hadn't changed at all," he said.

WAUKESHA, Wis. Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake _ he set it aside, only to rediscover it more than 40 years later in his mother's attic. Nesta couldn't resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper. "I was amazed that it hadn't changed at all," he said. Nesta's two aunts sent him the fruitcake in November 1962 while he was stationed in Alaska with the Army. "I opened it up and didn't know what to do with it," Nesta said. "I sure wasn't going to eat it,...

An October Surprise? by Patrick J. Buchanan President Bush says Iranians are behind the more lethal IEDs, the roadside bombs killing our troops in Iraq. Rumsfeld warns the Iranian Revolutionary Guard may now be in Iraq. Cheney says Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. McCain says, “the military option is on the table.” And Israel is getting impatient. Writes Yaakov Katz in the March 10 Jerusalem Post, “The United States has until now not done enough to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a senior Defense Ministry official has told the Jerusalem Post ...” Katz quotes...

Full text of Democratic radio address: "Good morning. I am Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts. "This week Senate Democrats won an important victory toward comprehensive immigration reform that honors the contributions of immigrants and provides real security for America. "The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bi-partisan immigration bill that: 1) provides a path toward citizenship for undocumented immigrants, 2) re-unites families, and 3) strengthens border security. "Democrats made sure that the Dream Act was included, so that young people who have spent most of their lives in the United States, who believe in our country, who have stayed out of...

Belafonte: Bush kept him from King rites Legendary entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte on Tuesday explained his absence from Coretta Scott King's funeral. Belafonte told reporters before a speech at Case Western Reserve University that President Bush influenced the King family to disinvite him from the funeral in suburban Atlanta on Feb. 7. Belafonte, known to be a friend of Martin Luther King Jr., said he was told about the decision the day before the funeral, at which he had been scheduled to speak. The King children made the final decision, Belafonte said, but they were "fiercely intimidated...

MIDI - YOU'RE SO VAIN She walked in to the chamber like she was thinking she owned the place Her shirt strategically hidden underneath...this fruitcake is a disgrace She had one eye that was bloodshot like she had been nailed with mace And the Code Pinkos thought she was their hero, she was their hero But she's insane...to most of us it's not too surprising Cindy's insane...to most of us it's not too surprising...is it, is it? She really lost it a few years ago...her brave son had lost his life She caused her husband to pull out all...

Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush administration's harshest critics, compared the Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo on Saturday and attacked the president as a liar. "We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended," Belafonte said in a speech to the annual meeting of the Arts Presenters Members Conference. "You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel," said Belafonte. Belafonte's remarks on Saturday — part of a 45-minute speech on the role of the...

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has canceled three visits to Colorado after emotions over her protest outside President Bush's ranch boiled over at a church and college campus. A Glenwood Springs church voted Thursday not to allow Sheehan to give a speech scheduled for later this month after some members threatened to leave the church if she came. Church member Mo Barz said he thinks it is inappropriate for the church to host a political speaker. "I was definitely against having her," he said. "I felt all along the church should rescind any agreement they had to have her be there."...

CRAWFORD, Texas -- Iraq war protester Cindy Sheehan said Friday she plans to expand her focus to Congress, starting with House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Bush ally and fellow Texan. Sheehan has been camped outside the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch this month, seeking a meeting with him to discuss the U.S. presence in Iraq, where her son was killed in 2004. She plans to begin a bus tour on Thursday to the White House to campaign for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 06, 2005 Dr. Dean's misdirected outrage National Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean frequently blames the world's ailments on President Bush in particular and conservative Republicans in general, at times with such fervor that even fellow Democrats express their misgivings about his rash rhetoric. The former Vermont governor, a physician, delivered a blatant misdiagnosis last week in blaming "right wing" jurists for a controversial June Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain. Expressing outrage over that decision, which stretched government's reach in "taking" private property to unprecedented lengths, Gov. Dean told the College Democrats of America convention in Washington: "The...