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A federal Green party candidate in Vancouver-Kingsway is standing behind a controversial editorial he wrote more than four years ago in which he describes the falling of the World Trade Center twin towers as "beautiful.".... "When I saw the first tower cascade down into that enormous plume of dust and paper, there was a little voice inside me that said, 'Yeah!' When the second tower came down the same way, that little voice said, 'Beautiful!' When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken...

WASHINGTON -- White House Advisor Karl Rove was the target of a protest on the American University campus Tuesday night, NBC 4 reported. Rove was on the campus to talk to the College Republicans, but when he got outside more than a dozen students began throwing things at him and at his car, an American University spokesperson said. The students then got on the ground and laid down in front of his car as a protest. The students said security officials picked them up and carried them away so Rove could leave. Police said they have dealt with a lot...

A new book climbing the New York Times Bestseller List warns Americans of a minority of religious fanatics who are hijacking a great religion and working to destroy the United States Constitution and set up a theocracy in America. Nonbelievers will be discriminated against or even summarily killed. Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Muhammad Atta? No, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Tim LaHaye. ...

"A U.S. based environmental magazine that both former Vice President Al Gore and PBS newsman Bill Moyers, for his October 11th global warming edition of “Moyers on America” titled “Is God Green?” have deemed respectable enough to grant one-on-one interviews to promote their projects, is now advocating Nuremberg-style war crimes trials for skeptics of human caused catastrophic global warming."

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced their alliance against the United States and Britain. The two leaders denounced British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush as “evil.” “We will co-operate to put an end to US and British dominance in the world,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. “With Iran to the north of the U.S. and British invaders of Iraq and Zimbabwe to the south, we have the enemy encircled.” Mugabe said Iran should be hailed for helping arm the insurgency fighting for the independence of Iraq from the foreign oppressors. “Iran and...

A sampling of the comments at Huffington Post about Saddam’s death sentence. (Hat tip: Right Brain.) Behold, the Democrats’ base. Saddam is a far better man than George W. Bush ever thought about being. By: shrike on November 05, 2006 at 07:58am[...] wow are bush, cheney, rumsfield and rice next?seems to me the killed about as many innocent iraqis as saddam did, and about as many innocent , trusting troops as civilians we lost on 9/11 By: stamper on November 05, 2006 at 07:35am[...] Now how about going after George Bush. By: waxxx on November 05, 2006 at 07:36am[...] The...

A Kansas church group that planned to demonstrate at the funerals of five Amish girls killed in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse has dropped the picket plans, a reversal that came hours after Pennsylvania's governor offered the Amish police protection. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church issued a statement today saying a representative will appear on a nationally syndicated radio talk show hosted by Mike Gallagher instead of picketing the funerals. Gallagher's website indicated the group was offered an hour of airtime tomorrow in exchange for dropping the planned demonstration. In preparation for the demonstration, Governor Ed Rendell said...

The Senate Armed Services Committee defied President Bush on Thursday, with four Republicans joining Democrats in approving a plan for the trial and interrogation of terrorism suspects that the White House has rejected as unacceptable. The Republican rebellion was led by Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, the committee chairman, with backing from Senators John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Susan Collins of Maine. The White House had said their legislation would leave the United States no option but to shut down a C.I.A. program to interrogate high-level terrorism suspects. The vote came on a frantic...

It's been a long summer. The workload has increased as the hairline decreased. There is a change in the weather this week that seems to mark the start of autumn. Time to push aside the paperwork, the reports, the bills, and the everyday world of life. Time to start something nutty... Friday Silliness Begins Now Silly Songs: I Love My Lips

For several days, your Radio Equalizer has been intrigued by a conversation that took place between Bill O'Reilly and syndicated radio talker Laura Ingraham on July 18th's O'Reilly Factor. When asked whether so- called "smear websites" serve to intimidate the opposition by bullying them right off the 'net, Ingraham took issue with O'Reilly, maintaining that a strong backbone is needed to enter the political fray. Today, however, a redesigned hate site truly seems to bolster O'Reilly's case. More on that in a moment.

Americans and others in the West cannot comprehend why anyone would blow themselves up to kill, as often as not, other Muslims. Even if you were convinced that 72 virgins awaited you in paradise, committing suicide for the purpose of murder is so foreign to the Western mind that it remains, for most, outside the realm of any discussion. Clearly, though, the West has witnessed and been victimized by a religion and culture for which this is a perfectly acceptable way to wage war and Islam is all about war, the conquering and reduction of an enemy to submission. The...

EXCLUSIVE More Home Office lunacy Broadmoor ... the grim home of Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe     By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON Political Editor COPS are desperately hunting FIVE HUNDRED foreign prisoners set free from mental hospitals, it was sensationally revealed yesterday. The shock figure — on TOP of the 1,019 who have been released from jails without being booted out of Britain — sparked uproar last night.Dangermen who have gone free are believed to include murderers, rapists and child-sex perverts.   Bleak ... Rampton, where baby killer Beverley Allitt is heldPicture: REUTERS   They had been held at maximum-security hospitals such...

Vienna - A row erupted on Thursday over plans by animal protectionists to symbolically "crucify" three activists with animal masks in a Good Friday protest outside Vienna's St Stephan's Cathedral. The militant pro-animal group PETA said the activists would be suspended from crosses with crowns of thorns on their heads. The slogan of the protest action would be "We suffer and die for your sins of nourishment." PETA said its aim was to catch the attention of consumers who ignored the suffering of animals. Head of Vienna's central 1st district, conservative People's Party (VP) politician Ursula Stenzel, condemned the plan....

Sometimes it is hard to avoid the crap that's put on television these days. Now, a team of psychics will travel to John Lennon related places, including to India where they will talk to a spirit reader that believes he can contact Lennon from the great beyond for an iN DEMAND Pay-Per-View special. If that's not enough to make your eyes roll, the plan is to not only have this Indian spirit reader contact him, but somehow get John Lennon's spirit to write a new song. The new song will then be composed by a producer in Los Angeles. Infra-red...

Do You Suffer From Bush Derangement Syndrome? Created by Erik Axelson If you think you might have Bush Derangement Syndrome, or BDS, just take this simple self-administered test: 1. Do you interject non sequiters about President Bush, Vice President Cheney or Karl Rove into ordinary conversations without warning? 2. Is the Kerry-Edwards sticker still affixed to your car? 3. Did you replace a faded Kerry-Edwards sticker or an Al Gore/2000 sticker with a new one? 4. Did you vote twice in the 2004 election, once from your primary residence and once from your country home? 5. In the past 60...

An anti-war group that belongs to the umbrella organization United for Peace and Justice (UPJ) has announced that it intends to topple the Bush administration during a March 15 Washington, D.C. protest. In a message headlined "Storm the White House" that appears on the UPJ Web site, the group Political Cooperative is urging its members: "TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE BY STORM, Stop Genocide, Torture and Occupation." The message goes on to explain: "We will not allow the Slave Holders that Still Prevail in this Country to Rule us any longer . . . The Administration is Criminal and if they...

A SAUDI-owned pan-Arab newspaper printed a full page apology from Jyllands-Posten, the Danish daily that first published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed unleashing a wave of fury from Muslims worldwide. "These drawings apparently hurt millions of Muslims around the world, so we now offer our apology and deep regret for what happened because it is far from the paper's intention," said the statement titled "Apology" in big bold letters addressed to Muslim citizens and printed in Asharq al-Awasat. It was signed by the paper's editor-in-chief Carsten Juste and was also posted in Arabic on Jyllands-Posten's website under a link titled "A...

I am an independent journalist who just got a good laugh over the latest "courageous stance" adopted by your student senate. Growing up in Oregon, I was always puzzled by why the lovely neighboring state of Washington seemed so heavily influenced by what I thought was a lunatic fringe. On the one hand William Gates and his baby boy Bill had produced two obscene monopolies, Boeing and Microsoft, and on the other your assorted elected officials seemed more at home in 1960s Communist Albania than the Wobblies "One Big Union" of sainted memory in the Northwest. Now I know what...

12:27 P.M. EST MR. MCCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone. Let me begin with one update on the schedule today. The President will today -- or today is submitting his 2006 Economic Report to the Congress. The Council of Economic Advisors will be hosting a press briefing here shortly, at 1:30 p.m. today. Our economy is strong and growing stronger. The U.S. right now is experiencing a very healthy job market, with nearly 4.8 million jobs created since the summer of 2003. And for 2006, the Council of Economic Advisors projects a steady growth rate, in the range of 3.4 percent, which...

THE 12 cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published by a Danish newspaper which have caused outrage in the Muslim world are to be used as a teaching aid in schools, an educational publisher said in an interview published today. They may also be displayed in a museum. "What is happening at the moment has so great a significance that you cannot brush them under the carpet," Peter Mollerup, head of the academic section of the Danish publisher Gyldendal, told the newspaper Politiken. "It is essential that future generations know about these drawings," he said. He said it was not Gyldendal's...