The US Navy relieved a destroyer commander and a Master Chief and removed eight sailors from the USS Stout after misbehavior by the crew in Mediterranean port calls that included drunk and disorderly conduct.
The U.S. 6th Fleet said Cmdr. Nathan Borchers was relieved from the USS Stout on Tuesday. The Navy said it had lost confidence in Borchers' ability to address what it called a pattern of unprofessional behavior by his crew that included fraternization, orders violations and disregard for naval standards.
The ships blog noted that they had recently visited Palermo in Italy, Haifa in Israel, the Greek island of Crete and Faslane, Scotland.
In January, the Navy relieved the commander of the carrier USS Enterprise after outrage was expressed and videos that had been made some years before.
Last month, the command master chief of the USS Ashland was relieved from duty because of an investigation that he had inappropriately touched another sailor.
The Navy said an investigation into allegations of crew misconduct on the USS Stout found there was a substandard command climate on board.
The Navy also removed Master Chief Susan Bruce-Ross, the highest ranking enlisted sailor aboard the ship. N.B.: The Ashland was a primary test bed for female sailors, and the CMC was relieved for grabbing one of the girls, though you have to dig very deep to find any mention of gender. Ashland has the reputation of a "maternity ship" as well, as from the start, pregnancies were common. The USN officially discourages mention of such things.
[Arab News] Charlie Sheen says he wants a raise to come back to the CBS show "Two and a Half Men." The troubled star appeared on dueling morning show interviews Monday to continue an attack on CBS and producers of his hit sitcom for shutting down the show because of his off-set behavior. Both ABC's "Good Morning America" and NBC's "Today" show featured him in their first half hours.
NBC interviewer Jeff Rossen appeared startled when Sheen said he wanted to be paid $3 million an episode to return to the show. He's reportedly paid $1.8 million an episode now, one of the highest-paid actors on television. "You want a raise?" Rossen asked. Replied Sheen: "Yeah, look what they put me through."
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Producer Lorre can pay up or shut up. The show is CBS's biggest hit and wouldn't be the same without Sheen, drunken addicted whoremonger that he is. My hero! Sheen could retire in comfort right now if he wanted to. If Lorre and CBS don't want to make a crapload of money from a hit show with a proven track record, it's not Charlie's fault. He's sobered up for the time being, as they required. Now the ball is in their court. If they don't want him to work, he might as well get back to getting high and screwing delectable porn stars.
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ever notice how funny and entertaining Charlie is when he's not reading funny and entertaining words written by someone else? Me neither. Dead pool 2011.
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Nah. Guys like him live forever.
The only thing that will really screw up his life is if he kills somebody else. Which is a pretty good possibility...
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His best bet would be to start an indy film studio, to crank out half a dozen movies, both with him in them, and him behind the camera. Low budget, but heavy emphasis on good writing and acting.
He could get good actors shunned by Hollywood, some because of age or other reasons, and some top notch up and comers.
Distribution through Lion's Gate, which is the big indy distributor, and even though each picture would probably cost less than $10m, his margins would be astronomical.
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You make drunken, drug-addicted whoremonger sound like something bad.
As the releases from the old FBI files indicate, qualifies him to run for multi-terms as Senator for Massachusetts. Charlie still has yet to rent an entire brothel. So there's room to grow.
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The show was pretty much a documentary of his life so he didn't have to act very much. Lorre should counter an offer on $500K a show and a public apology. Trust me he will run out of money and then the hookers/porn stars will run out too.
Charlie Sheen's estranged wife Brooke Mueller obtained a restraining order to keep the actor away from her and their sons because she was afraid of violent comments the actor had made in recent days, including threats that he would stab her in the eye with a pen knife.
According to a sworn declaration filed in the case, Mueller said Sheen told her in a phone call Sunday night, "I will cut your head off, put it in a box and send it to your mom!"
In addition to threatening to stab her in the eye with a pen knife, Mueller claims Sheen spit on her feet and punched her on the arm during a recent trip to the Bahamas. She also claims he knocked her unconscious in October 2009 after shoving her to the ground and causing her to hit her head on a couch.
Good to know there was more than his general repugnance that kept me from watching his show.
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"#5 ever notice how funny and entertaining Charlie is when he's not reading funny and entertaining words written by someone else? Me neither. Dead pool 2011."
Actually, I have seen him many times in "real life" and I must say that he is funnier than sh-t every single time. the humor flows from this guy.
746, is this sarcasm or does your sense of humor have a reeeaaaaallllllly low threshold?
Last time I looked sh-t isn't very funny.
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I'm no shrink but from watching the guy in TV interviews I think his problems go beyond booze, drugs and whores. If he's bipolar manic-depressive he's gonna be in a world of hurt when he reaches the other end of the cycle. Lorre could find his star someday in a garage full of carbon monoxide.
[Maghrebia] Interim Tunisian President Foued Mebazaa on Sunday (February 27th) appointed Beji Caid Essebsi to replace Mohamed Ghannouchi as prime minister, TAP reported.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... five people died Saturday during festivities on Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, TAP reported on Sunday (February 27th). According to the interior ministry, a group of young people armed with knives and stones tried to break into ministry headquarters. Sixteen security officers were also injured. An official investigation is under way.
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Youth supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, ... President of Ivory Coast since 2000. Gbagbo lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and Laurent has refused to leave despite the international community's hemming, hawing, and broad hints... Cote d'Ivoire's embattled leader, rampaged through the business district of the capital Abidjan, pillaging shops owned by foreigners.
Tuesday's violence followed a call on Friday by Ble Goude, the head of Gbagbo's youth wing, to resist what he called an insurgency seeking to depose Gbabgo and install rival Alassane Ouattara.
Ouattara is widely regarded as the winner of a November 28 poll, according to UN-certified results and the international community.
Gbagbo's Young Patriots have long been accused of xenophobic violence, including attacks against the country's
French community in 2004, on its large Burkinabe and Malian communities, as well as northern Ivorians with cultural ties to them.
Anti-foreigner sentiment is at the core of the troubles that have troubled Cote d'Ivoire for years and has worsened as most nations recognise Ouattara's win.
Ouattara himself was twice barred from running in previous polls because his father is from Burkina Faso.
Anti-foreigner sentiment
"I don't understand what happened. The youths arrived ... and starting destroying the things in my shop. They looted
everything and now I have nothing left," Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ese shopkeeper Ismael Bah told a Rootersnews hound.
"What did I do? I'm not involved in politics," he added.
Xenophobia often flares up at troubled times in the country. In 2002, after a failed coup attempt against Gbagbo by northern soldiers, thousands of Burkinabes and Malians went into hiding because of attacks by youth gangs or police.
Youths loyal to Gbagbo also kidnapped two Ukranian mechanics working for the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society mission on Monday, but released them later in the afternoon, a UN front man told Rooters.
The Young Patriots had set up roadblocks, were searching vehicles for suspected "rebels," and prevented the movements of UN staff, as violence surged between gunnies from rival camps this week.
Gbagbo is furious with the UN mission for recognising Ouattara's victory over him.
He has accused the international body of backing rebels trying to oust him - a charge UN officials denounce as a lie meant to discredit them.
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[Arab News] Soddy Arabia reiterated Monday that it would do everything possible to stabilize the international oil market by increasing supply in consultation with producers inside and outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
The Council of Ministers made the statement after a weekly meeting, which was chaired by King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. It reviewed the developments in Libya and its impact on the country's oil production and world market supply.
"While hoping stability and prosperity for Libya and its people, the council hopes that the present emergency situation would disappear in order for Libya to resume production shortly with the same level as before," the Cabinet meeting said.
Earlier Monday, Saudi Aramco CEO Khalid Al-Falih told news hounds that all demands for extra oil following the Libyan production disruption have been met. He said he could not give exact figures because it was "a moving picture."
"All incremental needs requested by our customers have been met," Al-Falih said on the sidelines of a conference in Alkhobar. "All incremental needs, and some, have been addressed immediately and you can verify it with customers."
Soddy Arabia supplies data retroactively to the Joint Oil Data Initiative, which showed December output reached nearly 8.4 million bpd, while exports fell as its stocks accumulated. Some of the stocks can be used to meet rising domestic need, including burning fuel oil for power generation. They can also meet any global supply shortfall.
News of increased Soddy Arabian production has helped lower oil prices, which last week hit a two-and-a-half-year high of nearly $120 a barrel.
Libya's eastern port of Tobruk reopened Monday and one tanker bound for China was being loaded, officials said. Rajab Sahnoun, an official with the Arabian Gulf Oil Co., said the tanker with a capacity of 1 million barrels of crude was being loaded at the Marsa Al-Harigh (Tobruk) port, while another Italy-bound tanker was waiting and expected to load in the coming days.
Shukri Ghanem, the head of the state-run National Oil Co. and Libya's de facto oil minister, said that production had been cut by around 50 percent, and argued it was "safe" for foreign oil workers to return after a mass exodus sparked by Muammar Qadaffy's increasingly violent campaign to retain control of the country.
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[Arab News] The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) in Jazan is trying to convince a man to allow his 30-year-old daughter to marry.
Ahmad Al-Bahkali, director of the Jazan branch of the NSHR, said the father has no valid reason to stop his daughter from getting married.
He added that the father's abuse and torture had even forced her to attempt suicide.
The woman set herself on fire and suffered serious burns after the father turned two suitors away.
Al-Bahkali said the NSHR will have to pursue the matter through the courts if the father refuses to cooperate.
He added that several philanthropists have offered to meet the woman's wedding expenses to persuade the father to consent to her getting married.
The father has, however, rejected all such offers.
Al-Bahkali said the NSHR considers the attitude of such parents to be akin to human trafficking. He added that Shariah courts have the authority to transfer a man's guardianship to another person or to the court itself if the man denies the daughter's legal right to get married.
The NSHR's Jazan branch is currently dealing with 10 similar cases filed by women whose parents refuse them permission to marry.
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[Tolo News] German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned on Tuesday after admitting to have copied part of a doctorate thesis.
"I was always ready to fight but I've reached the limit of my powers," Rooters quote Guttenberg, 39, as saying in a news briefing at the Defence Ministry in Berlin.
"I informed the chancellor in a very friendly conversation that I'm resigning from political offices and requested to be relieved. It's the most painful step of my life," Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said.
German Defence Minister had been accused of copying parts of his doctorate thesis without correct attribution and the German media had also nicknamed him Zu Copyberg and Zu Googleberg.
Guttenberg has admitted flaw in his dissertation, but has denied having plagiarised.
Guttenberg was the most popular member of Chancellor Merkel's cabinet and his loss is believed to be a severe blow to her party.
He last visited German troops in Afghanistan in mid February.
It is not clear whether the big shift in German defence leadership would lead to any change in German military involvement in Afghanistan.
Germany is one of the biggest troop contributing countries to the Nato-led mission in Afghanistan, and has nearly 5,000 troops mainly stationed in northern parts of the country.
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Guttenberg Bible?
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Friend of Biden??
Speaking of which, whatever happed to ole slo Joe?
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Speaking of which, whatever happed to ole slo Joe? Posted by: Alan Cramer
Joe is history. He'll be retiring any day now.... spend more time with his family. The Hildebeast will be moving into the numma-2 slot soon.
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[Straits Times] SURROGACY is forbidden under Islam, a religious authority in Malaysia said on Tuesday after reports that the practice is becoming more popular in the Mohammedan-majority nation.
'If another woman is introduced into the situation, then it means the real mother of the child can be questioned,' said Mat Jais Kamos from the Islamic affairs department in Malaysia's biggest state, Selangor.
'This creates confusion in Islamic law especially when it comes to inheritance, as it will be hard to determine the individual's bloodline and thus the person's rights to any inheritance,' he told AFP.
Mr Mat Jais said a fatwa banning surrogacy was issued by the National Council of Islamic Religious Affairs in 2008. The decision had not been widely reported until now.
'It categorically states that such a form of pregnancy is unacceptable under Islamic law,' Mr Mat Jais said, adding that IVF is permissible as long as the sperm and egg belong to a married couple.
'In Islam, it is not permissible for the sperm of the male of a married couple to be implanted into the egg of another woman,' he said. 'That is considered a violation because the man is not married to this other woman and yet she is the bearer of his child out of wedlock.' The Straits Times newspaper reported on the weekend that surrogacy is on the rise in Malaysia, but that there were a lack of rules to govern the practice.
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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals.
The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. The decision upheld an appeals court ruling that threw out a $5 million judgment to the father of a dead Marine who sued church members after they picketed his sons funeral.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the court. Justice Samuel Alito dissented.
"What Westboro said, in the whole context of how and where it chose to say it, is entitled to special protection under the First Amendment," Roberts wrote, "and that protection cannot be overcome by a jury finding that the picketing was outrageous."
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So it's now O.K. to protest in the Whitehouse or during a State of the Union speech before Congress? And one can express their religious beliefs openly anytime, anyplace and these will be protected? One can protest at the SCOTUS deliberations? Yeah, I didn't think so.
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Okay, sounds like the revivalist meeting in front of the mosque is on. Or, maybe just an anti-Mohamhead rally in the same location, they're all down with that, right?
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Roberts described the court's holding as narrow, and in a separate opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer suggested in other circumstances, governments would not be "powerless to provide private individuals with necessary protection."
In the US, as it turns out, free speech also protects evil people.
And, it protects those of us who protest the evil.
I wouldn't have it any other way. Any law that could be used to shut down Phelps could be used to shut down Rantburg.
Isn't that right, Mr. Holder?
No, we'll deal with Phelps the way the bikers have done. Don't let Phelps near a military funeral. When his gang say stupid things, drown 'em out with hymns and patriotic music. If they get a bullhorn, we get a larger bullhorn.
You want free speech? You got it. So do I. And I'm louder. Trust me on that one.
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8-1 is pretty cut and dried.
What Breyer said scares me though. Are they gonna pick and choose what speech is protected by the First Amendment?
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I agree with the decision, even though Phelps just needs to be run over with a steam roller.
This is good as it will also give protection to the Tea Party protesters. Note that the ruling also mentioned how the Phelps goons obeyed every regulation and followed the police instructions. So does the tea party. Bring cameras and video when you protest to show the tea party being good and the progressive purple shirts as the thugs they are.
Dispicable as they are, I would be more concerned as general theory of a government which arrests those who criticize its government's military, or can pick and choose who is and who is not privilaged to protest, coming from someone who has had to deal with the festerburrow phucks since childhood.
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The SCOTUS is on thin ice, here. 48 of the States have said that what Phelps does is unconscionable. For the SCOTUS to say that it knows better is a snub to the very idea of State governments as collectively superior to the federal government.
To do so over the first amendment is particularly appalling, as there have been an enormous number of modifiers to the first amendment by the courts. Prohibitions of what is not protected speech.
Most fundamentally, the first amendment protects political speech. What Phelps does is not political speech. Nor is it directed at political persons or organizations, but at innocent private persons, with the dual purpose of inflicting distress and causing a response that can then be litigated to Phelps profit.
It is comparable to a group of Klansmen holding a rally and cross burning next to a black community, with intent to sue them if they respond to the attack. Free speech is not an issue.
That Phelps and his people obey local laws while doing so is utterly unimportant. Klansmen rarely violate no-burning ordinances either, as they seldom exist where they would burn their crosses.
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I agree, moose, though pole dancers are protected by the first amendment.
There was a malicious tort here. Their speech seeks to inflict pain. The have a right to say what they wish and that should not be infringed. But they also have a responsibility to bear the consequences.
Their comments are fighting words. They need to bear responsibility for their incitement.
If we can have laws about hate speech, it's hard to see how these guys don't fit under the umbrella.
Finally, this seems to verge on barratry. They are lawyers, not ministers. They should be disbbarred.
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Finally, this seems to verge on barratry. They are lawyers, not ministers. They should be disbbarred.
Somebody else will have to sue them on that basis. The thing is, they aren't selling their legal skills to anyone outside the family, so being disbarred won't really affect them. They'll just represent themselves in court without being lawyers.
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Every legal thing that can be done to make these people's lives miserable as they made the Snyder family and many others should be done. These are not decent people.
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Then get Holder off his ass and get them declared a hate group, or GLAD. Charge them with stalking as that kid from Kansas was charged for counter-protesting (poorly, but he got the book thrown at him). Municipals have laws preventing tobacco/alcohol within x distance of schools/churches do the same with protests and parades. Noise ordanance violations.
Thing is they are a Jaberwocky for the liberals and fill that role of boogyman - see there, thats what the hateful god lovers are! And if you wonder why after all these years of GLAD type orgs taking people down for suspician of homophobia why have these sheep fuckers not been addressed? Theory is they are quite connected. They had fizzled out until 2003 then made a comeback showing up for soldier funerals...and were given a pass. Until then they picketed plays, art exibits, museums, entertainers such as Bill Mahar, and my artsy friends knew where he was at all times until 2003 for some reason. They are very good at recording and prosecuting counter-protesters who lose their cool.
The issue here is whether there is a Federal Law preventing them ability to assemble and speak. Yes, they are able to do that. Nazis, Klans, Panthers, AZTLANs, GLAD, Jersey Shore, they all are also allowed their parades and such though their messages are offensive to quite a number of people outside that group so long as they follow certain rules of conduct. The laws are there they just need to be used - example that fat hippy sleeping barefoot in WI Capital could have been fined and escorted out for being barefoot in a public building.
But I will tell you, as someone at age 8 who saw stick figures getting corn-holed, the Phucks are gentlemanly compared to what happened to that WI State Congressman. So Eric, time to dust off that ol' Columbia Law Degree and have that discussion about hatred, you know since everyone wants to re-live the 60's and you are all about the 60's the other day. Whatta say ol' chap?
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Now THAT would be poetic justice er retribution. :)
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This type of thing is so hurtful, its like school bullying multiplied tenfold or more, don't be suprised when someone in the deceased's family goes crazy and starts shooting people involved with Westboro. Could I even blame them? No.
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[Arab News] A coalition of interfaith and civil rights groups will hold a noon news conference in Nashville, Tenn. on Tuesday (March 1), to urge politicians to drop an anti-Islam bill drafted by the head of an anti-Mohammedan hate group and introduced recently in that state's legislature.
The participants will include faith leaders and representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Interfaith Alliance, and the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC).
"This clearly unconstitutional and un-American legislation would make it illegal to be a Mohammedan in the state of Tennessee," said CAIR Staff Attorney Gadeir Abbas, who will take part in Tuesday's news conference. "Consideration of this legislation, which completely disregards equality before the law, would send the unfortunate message that Tennessee is an intolerant state."
He called the legislation a "gross violation of both the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment."
Abbas said identical bills (House Bill 1353/Senate Bill 1028) introduced earlier this month in the Tennessee House and Senate would criminalize "Shariah organizations," which in the language of the proposed legislation includes two or more individuals who support any "rule, precept, instruction, or edict arising directly from the extant rulings of any of the authoritative schools of Islamic jurisprudence." "What this bill ominously calls 'Shariah' is nothing more than the religious traditions that all Mohammedans use to guide the practice of their faith," said Abbas.
The Tennessean newspaper notes that the legislation "had been drafted by David Yerushalmi," head of the anti-Islam hate group Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE).
On its now password-protected website, SANE offered a policy proposal that would make "adherence to Islam" punishable by 20 years in prison, called for the immediate deportation of all non-citizen Mohammedans and urged Congress to declare war on the "Mohammedan Nation," which SANE defined as "all Mohammedans."
SANE's mission statement included white supremacist language such as: "America was the handiwork of faithful Christians, mostly men, and almost entirely white." Another online SANE article stated: "There is a reason the founding fathers did not give women or black slaves the right to vote."
Yerushalmi is also staff attorney for Frank Gaffney, president of the Washington-based Center for Security Policy. Gaffney was a key witness for the plaintiffs in a controversial lawsuit against a mosque being built in Tennessee.
Last year, CAIR's Oklahoma chapter was successful in blocking certification of an anti-Shariah amendment to that state's constitution. Other anti-Shariah bills have been introduced or passed in more than a dozen states. The language of many of those bills is modeled on David Yerushalmi's draft anti-Islam legislation.
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As much as they are trying to suggest that this is an ignorant, cracker bill, the truth is that it is very specific, and oriented towards named organizations and sects of Islam that avowedly insist on violence and terrorism.
Whoever wrote this, *knows* Islam inside and out, which is why they are attacking this bill so hard. It sounds like it was written by the Tennessee version of Geert Wilders.
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We do have a Republican governor and legislature. The power has shifted away from the Democrats. The bill has a better chance of passing than ever. The opposition t the bill knows very well what's in this bill and the threat it poses to them and their agenda! We have a former county attorney general in an adjacent county who wrote a letter to the editor a couple of weeks back about the threat of Sharia law. The letter indicated that he understood very well the threat of Sharia law.
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I highly recomend the passage of this bill. And then after the people vote out another round of Democrats, a bill is passed that outlaws the Democratic, anti-American, haters of the US Constitution, DNC party.
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[Arab News] Charlie Sheen says he wants a raise to come back to the CBS show "Two and a Half Men." The troubled star appeared on dueling morning show interviews Monday to continue an attack on CBS and producers of his hit sitcom for shutting down the show because of his off-set behavior. Both ABC's "Good Morning America" and NBC's "Today" show featured him in their first half hours.
Laurent Gbagbo,
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[Tolo News] German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned on Tuesday after admitting to have copied part of a doctorate thesis. 
[Arab News] A coalition of interfaith and civil rights groups will hold a noon news conference in Nashville, Tenn. on Tuesday (March 1), to urge 
