Wilma ties Atlantic hurricane season record
• News LinkMIAMI, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season tied a 72-year-old record for busiest ever with the formation of Tropical Storm Wilma on Monday.
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ChiSox Snap Jinx
• News LinkWell, that other Chicago baseball team, the one without a cult following, the one with a notorious pedigree, the one whose park is brand new and doesn't have ivy on its outfield walls, the one no one knows about outside the south side of the Wind
Terrorist laws to lock up objectors
• News LinkSupporting the insurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan or any country where Australian troops are deployed could carry a penalty of seven years' jail under the Prime Minister's new terrorism laws.
Double whammy: Prices up, wages lagging
• News LinkNot since 1980 has inflation risen so quickly in one month.
Study turns pot wisdom on head
• News LinkWhile other studies have shown that periodic use of marijuana can cause memory loss and impair learning and a host of other health problems down the road, new research suggests the drug could have some benefits when administered regularly in a highly
Karl Rove NeoCondom
• News LinkThe Ruckus Society is pleased to introduce the Karl Rove NeoCondom. This first edition prophylactic is embossed with the face of our President’s Chief Political Strategist (i.e. “Bush’s Brain”) and reads “Some Things Should Never Leak.”
Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged
• News LinkWASHINGTON Oct 14, 2005 — It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi cons
US Setting up new Spying Agency - (So Scary it's almost funny)
• News LinkThe US has announced the creation of a new intelligence agency led by the CIA to co-ordinate all American overseas spying activities.
Leave exorcism to the experts, warns Church
• News LinkA far cry from sorcerers, satanists and other practitioners whom he dismisses as "charlatans," Italian exorcist Andrea Gemma fights the devil only with the strength of his prayers and advises Catholics: 'Don't do this at home".
Bush approval dips below 40 percent
• News LinkFor the first time in the poll, Bush’s approval rating has sunk below 40 percent, while the percentage believing the country is heading in the right direction has dipped below 30 percent
Bush military bird flu role slammed
• News LinkWASHINGTON (CNN) -- A call by President George W. Bush for Congress to give him the power to use the military in law enforcement roles in the event of a bird flu pandemic has been criticized as akin to introducing martial law.
Power of Moscow??? - Around the World, "There are those that just wish to be left alone,...
• News Link"The events in Nalchik demonstrated with new, shocking force the fragility of what the authorities ... have been calling 'peace'," Izvestia newspaper said in an editorial. "We have to admit: there is a war going on in the Cauca
Inflation is HERE!
• News LinkThe Labor Department also reported that the widely followed consumer price index for all urban consumers, rose 1.2 percent last month and 4.7 percent in the 12 months that ended in September. That was the biggest monthly rise since March, 1980, and t
Rove Arrives for Grand Jury Appearance
• News LinkKarl Rove walked into the federal courthouse Friday for a fourth grand jury appearance in the CIA leak probe, following public disclosure of his conversations with two reporters about the identity of a covert officer at the spy agency.
The New James "Blonde"
• News LinkBritish actor Daniel Craig was introduced Friday as the new James Bond. Five actors have played the suave superspy in the previous 20 official Bond films.
"One Nation Under God"
• News LinkIf you are tired of secularists telling you that The Lord has no place in our government and our public institutions, then show them that you disagree.
Militants attack police, government buildings in Russian city; over 80 killed
• News LinkThe insurgent strategy of simultaneous attacks on facilities in Nalchik, a city of 235,000, was similar to a rebel siege last year in another Caucasus republic, Ingushetia, in what appears to be an attempt to target areas outside Chechnya and keep Mo
National Security Watch: Disquieted whistle-blowers
• News LinkCHINCOTEAGUE, Va. – The first annual National Security Whistleblowers Conference, held on this tiny resort island, has to be one of the more unusual gatherings of intelligence veterans in recent years. The nearly 20 current or former officials from t
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Priest abuse complaints were ignored
• News LinkIn many cases, there was little mention of child molestation. Instead, euphemisms such as "boundary violations" were used to describe the conduct.
Bill O'Reilly jumping Ship?
• News Link46 seconds of O'Reilly getting ready to dump Bush Administration... here it comes :)
Will Judith Miller Probe Go 'Public'?
• News LinkCalame also declined to comment on why the paper had printed so few letters to the editor on Miller, or why no columnists (besides Frank Rich) have written about her lately. "I can't speak for the editorial page at all," he said. "
Clinton, Bush and the Polls Impeachment, Now and Then
• News LinkAccording to a poll by the Zogby organization, just released by the group Afterdowningstreet.org, 50 percent of the American public now would like to see the House impeach Bush if it were found that he had lied about the reasons for going to war in I
Comcast, Google said in talks over AOL
• News LinkUnder the deal, the three companies would form a new entity through which they would jointly own the Web portal, according to the person, who requested anonymity Wednesday because release of the information was not authorized.
Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers
• News LinkThe people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes.
Bones prove the existence of 'hobbits'
• News LinkThe discovery of the remains confirms that the miniature people, who grew to about 3 feet, were a truly ancient species and not merely pygmies or modern humans with diseased skulls.
Calling 007: Want to be the next Bond? They're looking
• News LinkShooting of the 21st Bond film, "Casino Royale", is due to begin in January, and British media and Bond fan sites have for months been reporting leaks and gossip about who will be the next Bond.
Apple's profit tops $1 billion Long-awaited video iPod version may be announced
• News LinkAdding intrigue to the situation, the Cupertino company is expected to make a big announcement in San Jose today, which many are speculating may be the long-awaited video version of its popular iPod music player.
Syrian Interior Minister Commits Suicide (Wah???)
• News LinkIt is was noted that Kenan committed suicide with just days remaining before the announcement of a United Nations report on the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The UN report is expected to be released by October 25.
Chinese Crew Blasts Off for Space Mission
• News LinkThe mission, reportedly due to last up to five days, is an efforts by the communist government to declare its status as a rising world power with technological triumphs to match its rapid economic growth. It is only the third country to launch a huma
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