RIYADH: Clerics in Saudi Arabia have warned Arab media against publishing "forbidden" horoscopes, which are hugely popular despite a clerical ban.
This is astrology, which is forbidden and is considered as a form of magic...
"This is astrology, which is forbidden and is considered as a form of magic," a committee of senior Saudi clerics said in a statement published on state news agency SPA late on Saturday.
Saudi-owned newspapers based in London such as Asharq al-Awsat and al-Hayat have started publishing horoscopes in recent years and fortune tellers appear on Saudi-owned television stations based outside the kingdom.
"The committee reminds Muslims and journalists in particular that it is their obligation to take advice from God, His Prophet and the clergy," it said, adding that all schools of Islamic law forbid such practices. "Believing that a certain star can be the cause of happiness or misfortune is a superstition from the pre-Islamic age," the prominent clerics said. Saudi-owned newspapers based in London such as Asharq al-Awsat and al-Hayat have started publishing horoscopes in recent years and fortune tellers appear on Saudi-owned television stations based outside the kingdom.
"Many Saudis don't know their birth date on the Christian calendar so they don't care about horoscopes, but the new generation is obsessed by them," the editor of a popular Saudi daily told Reuters. He did not want to be identified. "It's blatantly un-Islamic, we won't do it," he added.
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Meanwhile, here in Hated Fascist = Well-Meaning but Errorful Limited Communist, Clintonian America = Amerika, why it was only this AM that we have Babe-perts on TV criticizing GOP-Right/Conservatives as untrustworthy extremists -radicals for believing in God + the "fairy tales/mythologies" of organized religion. SIMPLE "SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE" FROM 11970's HAS NOW BECOME, ONCE AGAIN, "GOD, ETAL. IS A FAKE" AND SIMILAR in 2006.
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Get that, Church-goers Confession-goers and Bible/Faith-readers of America = Amerika, YOU ARE NOW THE [MINORITY][PRO-VIOLENCE]RADICALS, ANARCHISTS, CRIMINALS, TERRORISTS, + THUGS, ETC. OF AMERICA.
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A crack has been detected in the Islamic wall of gloom and doom.
If you were born on this date, you will begin questioning the existence of Alla
bama.
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Hey yo...And that's called the SOLAR calendar. You know. Like basic scientific fact. Nuthin' Christian about it. Even the Mayans were aware that the soalr year had 365 days.
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Hey yo...And that's called the SOLAR calendar. You know. Like basic scientific fact. Nuthin' Christian about it. Even the Mayans were aware that the soalr year had 365 days.
Candidates in Missouri's hotly contested Senate race clashed Sunday over the congressional page sex scandal and the war in Iraq, with the Democratic challenger saying House Speaker Dennis Hastert should quit. Missouri state auditor Claire McCaskill said Hastert, R-Ill., and other GOP leaders failed to properly investigate when they first learned of former Rep. Mark Foley's e-mails to congressional pages.
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I think I heard this on the radio this morning. Not sure why I was getting it. But I listened to about 5 minutes of it. She sounded green behind the ears and did not speak well at all. He was smooth.
She stuck to the liberal party platform: Blame Republicans and say Dems can do it better without ever saying how.
Her solution to Iraq. Tell the terrorists we'd be out in 2 years and in the mean time, train the Iraqi people to do it themselves. I guess she didn't get the memo that they were being trained already - or maybe she thought her potential voters would be too stupid to know that. She then gave an example of how we'd have to be out of there before Thanksgiving or this war will have lasted longer than WWII. He didn't get a chance to respond to that while I was listening but, lol! I guess when you are going after the ignorant voters, you can make any statement you want and not have to worry about those pesky facts.
DES MOINES, Iowa --Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry lashed out Sunday against a group that bashed him during his last run at the White House. Kerry, who made a weekend appearance in northwest Iowa, said
He is concerned that Swift Vote Veterans for Truth is again resorting to "the politics of fear and smear."
he is concerned that Swift Vote Veterans for Truth is again resorting to "the politics of fear and smear."
The group, financed by Texas conservatives, ran commercials questioning his record of being a decorated Vietnam veteran -- the centerpiece of his presidential campaign in 2004. "We're not going to give them an ounce of daylight," said Kerry, who is considering another run at the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
The senator said his response to the commercials was not strong enough. "We thought the fact that the truth was out there was enough," he said. "Clearly it wasn't."
Those same conservatives have formed another group this year -- Economic Freedom Fund -- and are attacking Democrats across the country. Part of the campaign includes $500,000 to bash Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, who is seeking re-election in the 3rd District in central Iowa. Boswell is being challenged by state Republican Senate President Jeff Lamberti of Ankeny in a race that has included significant cash from both parties.
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We're not going to give them an ounce of daylight," said Kerry
That's why it's been months since Kerry promised to release his service records.
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Many of you won't believe this, but I was known as 'Rambo' when I was in service to my beloved country. I would attack the enemy with a BAR in each hand.
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Right on SPOD! The day I can lay my eyes on his official records is the day I will believe his BS. So far he tells me 2+2=5 and I simply don't believe it.
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Many of you won't believe this, but I was known as 'Rambo' when I was in service to my beloved country.
Um, John, they weren't saying "Rambo". They were saying "Dumbo".
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Do your jaws require exercise ? Why are you still flapping them ? You have been reduced to irrelevance like your buddy Jimmah. You had your shot. You blew it. Enough.
STAMFORD, Conn. --New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Republicans' handling of the Iraq war and the federal budget while stumping Sunday for fellow Democrat Diane Farrell, who is trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays.
"We need her in Washington," Clinton said. "We need her common sense and independence."
Clinton appeared at a fundraiser in a private home for Farrell, a former first selectman of Westport. Farrell lost to Shays by 4 percentage points two years ago and trails by the same amount in a recent poll.
Clinton, who is running for re-election and is the leading Democratic presidential prospect for 2008, praised Farrell for her fiscal leadership in Westport. She said Farrell would ask tough questions of the Bush administration on the Iraq war, economic policies and what she called the squeeze on the middle class. "We need her in Washington," Clinton said during a news conference outside the fundraiser. "We need her common sense and independence."
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BOSTON --Sen. Edward M. Kennedy accused Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey of engaging in "gutter politics" in her campaign against Democrat Deval Patrick, declaring Saturday, "Make no mistake about it, this is swiftboating." The Massachusetts Democrat, appearing with his party's gubernatorial nominee in Hyannis, did not specify the reason for his criticism. But it came at the end of a week during which
Healey criticized Patrick for supporting the parole of a convicted rapist, and during which she began airing a television commercial criticizing Patrick for helping a cop killer get his death sentence reduced to life imprisonment.
Healey criticized Patrick for supporting the parole of a convicted rapist, and during which she began airing a television commercial criticizing Patrick for helping a cop killer get his death sentence reduced to life imprisonment.
"I've been in this business a long time, and I've seen this movie before," said a text of Kennedy's remarks. "When you can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, when you don't have a positive vision to offer, then you become desperate and resort to the politics of fear and smear.
That's a game plan straight out of the Karl Rove playbook, and, in her desperation, Kerry Healey is following it to a tee.
That's a game plan straight out of the Karl Rove playbook, and, in her desperation, Kerry Healey is following it to a tee. Frankly, that kind of gutter politics is not worthy of the lieutenant governor and will be rejected by the people of Massachusetts."
The senator, who himself is up for re-election this fall, added, "Make no mistake about it, this is swiftboating," he said, referring to ads attacking the military record of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., during the 2004 presidential campaign. The ads were run by a group called "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth."
Make no mistake about it, this is swiftboating.
The Healey campaign dismissed the criticism. "All week Deval Patrick has repeatedly lied to the voters and the media about his role in the Ben LaGuer case. Rather than answering the questions, he's now trying to hide behind Ted Kennedy," said Tim O'Brien, the lieutenant governor's campaign manager. Healey, the Republican nominee, has criticized Patrick for supporting parole for Benjamin LaGuer, saying it reveals a deference to criminals instead of victims. Laguer was convicted of tying up and raping his 59-year-old neighbor. Healey also said letters and contributions revealing a deeper relationship with LaGuer than Patrick initially acknowledged raised questions about the Democrat's honesty.
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for all of the talk of how they are going to sweep so many seats, the Dems candidates seem almost desperate to me.
To support Bill Nelson's reelection bid, you don't have to be a Democrat seeking political revenge for 2000. You just have to be a Floridian who wants a competent, sensible, productive United States senator, not the embarrassment that Katherine Harris would be for the state.
On the first point, it's hard to find any state politician with a wider background. Sen. Nelson spent six years in the state House and 12 years in the U.S. House. He spent six years as the state's insurance commissioner before his election to the Senate six years ago.
On the second point, Sen. Nelson has voted with his party on many big issues - against President Bush's tax cuts, against the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, and against the Part D Medicare prescription drug benefit - but is able to work with Republicans when it benefits Florida.
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RIYADH: Clerics in Saudi Arabia have warned Arab media against publishing "forbidden" horoscopes, which are hugely popular despite a clerical ban. 
Candidates in Missouri's hotly contested Senate race clashed Sunday over the congressional page sex scandal and the war in Iraq, with the Democratic challenger saying House Speaker Dennis Hastert should quit. Missouri state auditor Claire McCaskill said Hastert, R-Ill., and other GOP leaders failed to properly investigate when they first learned of former Rep. 
DES MOINES, Iowa --Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry lashed out Sunday against a group that bashed him during his last run at the White House. Kerry, who made a weekend appearance in northwest Iowa, said 
STAMFORD, Conn. --New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Republicans' handling of the Iraq war and the federal budget while stumping Sunday for fellow Democrat 
BOSTON --Sen. Edward M. Kennedy accused Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey of engaging in "gutter politics" in her campaign against Democrat Deval Patrick, declaring Saturday, "Make no mistake about it, this is swiftboating." The Massachusetts Democrat, appearing with his party's gubernatorial nominee in Hyannis, did not specify the reason for his criticism. But it came at the end of a week during which 
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