Stunned Ally Ashwell was left with quite a hangover from a friend's hen night - a baby she didn't know she was having.
After touring the pubs and clubs of rowdy Blackpool dressed as a bumble-bee the 30-year-old's night was brought to a jaw-dropping end when she went into premature labour in her hotel bedroom.
While the rest of the hens continued to party she delivered her baby alone in the bathroom, before paramedics arrived and rushed the tiny newborn, named Owen, to hospital.
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He was an idea man, an inventor, a hops "guru" who never stopped exploring alternative uses for the bitter herb that flavors beer.
Hops chemist Francis Lloyd Rigby, a pioneer in the hop industry, died Saturday at his Yakima home. He was 89.
"The contributions he made to this industry were very instrumental to the way we do things now," said Ann George, administrator of the Washington Hop Commission in Moxee. "He developed some of the things that are really the basics of what we do."
Rigby's career at Yakima's John I. Haas Inc. spanned 30 years. He started there in 1966, helping oversee the construction of the company's hop-extraction plant. Later, he developed commercial processes to turn hop extract into refined hop products that increased the efficiency of hops in beer.
Rigby, who went by Lloyd, his middle name, ultimately became the technical director at Haas. He traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia, visiting breweries, and worked as an independent researcher in the hop industry long after his retirement in 1996 at age 77.
In fact, he was working as recently as a month ago, researching new uses for hops right up until nearly the end of his life, said Jim Stoffer, a retired executive vice president for Haas.
"He was definitely a pioneer in hops processing and new uses for hops," Stoffer said. "He was always inventing something to further hops."
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Most beer styles call for two additions of hops, one at the beginning of the boil (for bittering) and another at the very end (for flavor and aroma).
His developments for high-alpha hops were very much a boon to homebrewers. These varieties permit the use of far less hops for bittering beer, allowing the homebrewer to get away with a smaller hop bill and more latitude in use of flavoring hops.
Further advances in hybrids which owe their existence to this guy's work are resulting in better multi-use hops that have high alpha content and at the same time have excellent flavoring and aroma characteristics, something that was vanishingly rare in any variety until a short time ago.
The American hops industry is far advanced relative to other hop growing nations, most of which are content to grow varieties which have been around for centuries (Australia and NZ are exceptions).
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I shall have a beer in his honor. Seems only right.
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I've got this theory that beer kept European civilization alive, just as tea kept Chinese civilization alive.
Putrid drinking water would have have wiped out or massively decreased both, otherwise.
Anyhow, Vale cobber, RIP
In the photo caption to a picture of a PETA "Meat is MURDER!" protest featuring two celophane-wrapped performance artists:
When officers inquired about the well-being of intern Shawn Herbold (bottom) and volunteer Thomas Olsen, a sweat-soaked Herbold replied that she was in pain and feeling nauseated from the heat after being wrapped in cellophane for 30 minutes, and also asked how much longer she needed to stay there. Byrne let her know it wouldn't be much longer and left her under the hot afternoon sun for 30 minutes more while debating with the officers. PETA would never treat a cow that way, but I guess it's OK for an intern. Many organizations that focus on extremes could take note that leading through example makes more impact than demonstrating with hypocrisy.
Photo at the link.
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National Enquirer "Hillary, I've got another name or two for the enemies list."
As Senator Hillary Clinton attempted to make history to become the Democratic nom for President, ex-prez hubby Bill was repeating history -- as a serial cheater!
In a world exclusive cover story this week, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER exclusively reports that Bill's cheating spree occurred after his super-rich mistress broke off their affair. Okay, help me out here. If Bill was getting jiggy with a "super-rich mistress," did that not already constitute "cheatin'" as the term is commonly used? Or is this one of those "that all depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" kind of things?
Devastated over being dumped, and incapable of staying faithful, Bill cheated non-stop on Hillary while she campaigned and the details are in this week's print edition of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.
Now, for the first time, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER exclusively reveals the identity of Bills secret mistress. She is 48-year-old Julie Tauber McMahon, the daughter of Michigan millionaire Joel Tauber, a top Democratic Party contributor during Clintons presidency and a personal friend of the Clinton family.
McMahon lives in Chappaqua, New York. the very same town where the Clintons bought a home after leaving the White House. Their houses are just five miles apart - just far and fast enough for some bedside commuting!
Details of their years-long affair and why Julie dumped Bill appear ONLY IN THIS WEEK'S NATIONAL ENQUIRER!
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Is it true that the National Enquirer is going to buy out the New York Times?
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nah, the National Enquirer has higher editorial standards and is usually more accurate... remember the OJ Trial, they 'scooped' the MSM on a daily basis
A man who has shown a video of what he claims is an alien visitor to earth to bolster his case for greater public scrutiny of UFOs is to take his campaign to the Democratic Party convention in August, where Barack Obama will formally win the presidential nomination. "He's an 'enlightened being,' after all. He'll get it."
Mr Peckman, a website entrepreneur, is campaigning in support of a ballot initiative that would let the people of Denver vote in November on a plan to establish a city-wide extra-terrestrial affairs commission. "Calling occupants of interplanetary craft . . . the Greater Denver Convention and Visitors Bureau wants you!"
Under his proposal, which he says would cost $75,000 (£38,000) a year, the new body would ensure that government offices, police and firefighters are trained to deal with extra-terrestrial visitors. It would also release details of UFO sightings which it judged to be credible. "Hey, look, it's Dennis Kucinich!!!"
His plans have met widespread amusement and scepticism, (Ah, that classic British gift for understatement.)
but have also generated a wave of support from those who believe that man is not the only intelligent life in the universe. And now for the really amusing part . . .
Mr Peckman, who is 54 and lives with his parents, told The Telegraph that he has had such an enthusiastic response that he is now confident he can secure the 4,000 signatures of support that are needed to get his proposal on the ballot paper in November's election.
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Yeah, trick is to play it skillfully, keep the mystery, avoid overexposure, make it count, like the Jersey Devil, for instance - butt-ugly, yet he gets real street credibility.
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Or the Hodag! The guy doesn't even exist, yet he's got statues made of him and he's a local celebrity! How can you beat that!? Real cryptids should take note.
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I think y'all are being too hard on Mr. Peckman. Chances are he's quite sincere but, due to his limited social experience, has mistaken adult women for extraterrestrial visitors.
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Well, I for one do believe the so-called FLORIDA SKUNK APE = SOUTHERN SWAMP APE is very real, being a witness to same. Its either a de facto SASQUATCH-BIGFOOT, or some University or USDOD lab has been conducting super-steroid chem experiments on chimpanzees down South resulting in NEAR APE/CHIMP-ZILLAS.
OTOH > SOUTHERN REDNECK WID DECADES OF "BAD BODY HAIR" = LES HAIR TERRIBLE'???
One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported Monday. Bill Henriksen, the manager of the McMurdo base station, said nearly 16,500 condoms were delivered last month and would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of having to buy them.
The base only has a skeleton staff through the long winter. "Since everybody knows everyone, it becomes a little bit uncomfortable," Henriksen told the Southland Times newspaper.
Apparently they know each other pretty well.
Brings new meaning to the phrase "Long, hard winter"
At about 130 condoms for each staffer, I predict an exhausting winter ...
About 125 scientists and staff are stationed at McMurdo base, the largest community in Antarctica, during the winter months when there is constant darkness. The first sunrise will occur on August 20 and McMurdo's population will start to increase again in September when supply flights resume, peaking at more than 1,000 during the summer period.
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"Damn! It's so frigging cold... what the fuck I'll do to get some warmth?"
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it would seem "stiff" would the rule, and not the "exception"?
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PENGUIN SEX TAPE? SEAL? WALRUS?
Gut nuthin.
16,500 divided by SIX MONTHS or 365 Days =???? gross sex frequency divided by....YOU JUST KNOW THE "SKELETON STAFF" IS GONNA HAVE A BONER DEBATE ON DIBBING UP THE NUMBER/RATE OF COLD-TUS.
Reminds me of BLOOM COUNTY's XMAS skit on the PATCO strike.:
ELVES to SANTA :D *** NG IT, WE DEMAND THE NORTH POLE HIRE A BROAD RANGE OF GENDER SPECTRUM...
For five gruelling months in 2006 and 2007, Carol Kanga suffered through treatment for a life-threatening case of throat cancer linked to an unlikely source: a sexually transmitted viral infection.
Unable to swallow food or water during chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Kanga was fed through a stomach tube. Her one respite came on Thanksgiving, when she savoured a single spoonful of weak broth.
"The radiation basically burns the skin off the outside and inside of your throat," said Kanga, 52. "It's like there's a fire inside your neck."
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Ah, gee. that sucks! Something else to worry about in our old age.
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The virus,
scientists have proved only in the last two years, is human papillomavirus, or HPV - the same virus that's behind most cases of cervical cancer.
whew!
It's a good thing I only slept around with chaste wimmins and girls...
KHARTOUM - A Sudanese airliner burst into flames after landing in Khartoum overnight in bad weather, killing at least 29 of the 217 people on board, officials said on Wednesday. Khartoum airport's head of medical services, Major-General Mohamed Osman Mahjoub, said authorities had so far established there were 123 survivors but 66 people were unaccounted for. The plane's emergency chutes enabled the survivors to escape.
Twenty-eight bodies had been taken to a nearby mortuary, said Mahjoub, adding that some of the 66 people unaccounted for might have survived and left the airport during the confusion after the plane fire broke out on Tuesday night. The nationalities of the dead were not immediately known.
The Sudan Airways plane, identified by Sudanese television only as an Airbus without any model details, was carrying 203 passengers and 14 crew on a flight from Jordan's capital Amman.
Sudan's Minister of State for Transport, Mabrouk Mubarak Salim, said there was an explosion in the airliner's right wing engine area. So far we don't have precise information but we think the weather is a main reason for what happened, he said. A dust storm and heavy rain had hit the airport on Tuesday, officials said.
One passenger said the plane had tried to land at Khartoum airport but then the captain told us we couldn't land because of bad weather. He said the plane then flew to the Red Sea city of Port Sudan before returning to Khartoum an hour later. When (the pilot) tried to land there was a crash, the passenger told Sudan Television.
Another survivor, Al Haj Bashir, said the landing in Khartoum was not normal and that there was an explosion in the right wing two or three minutes after the plane landed.
At its height the fire appeared to be consuming the fuselage and cockpit area. The emergency crews eventually managed to extinguish the blaze. Television pictures showed emergency escape chutes at the side of the blazing aircraft and ambulances on the tarmac.
Whether (the fire was due to) a technical reason we don't know yet, airport director Yusuf Ibrahim told Sudanese TV. The plane was coming from Amman and Syria ... It landed safely at Khartoum airport and they talked to the control tower which told them where to taxi. At this moment an explosion happened, he said.
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At least 100 passengers are killed as a Sudan Airway aircraft explodes after landing at Khartoum airport, Sudanese TV reports. The aircraft, which was carrying 267 passengers and 14 crew, burst into flames after it veered off the runway. The airplane was flying from Amman, Jordan. According to TV, some managed to escape the blaze. Bad weather conditions caused the plane to crash land, split into two and catch fire, said the head of Sudanese police, Mohammad Najib. "We believe that most of the passengers were able to make it out and escape with their lives,'' he added.
However, Youssef Ibrahim, director of the Khartoum airport, told Sudanese TV that the plane had 'landed safely' in Khartoum airport and that the pilot talked to control tower and got directions for his landing runway. "At this moment, one of the (plane's) engines exploded and the plane caught fire,'' Ibrahim said, according to AP. "It's a technical reason,'' he added, denying reports that bad weather caused the crash.
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FRANCE'S First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy sings of 30 lovers and hard drugs on a new album that she insists was not inspired by her whirlwind romance and marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy
French newspaper Le Figaro said the distinctive melodies and bold lyrics on Ms Bruni's album, As If Nothing Had Happened, were a new departure from plain folk and make the former model's first album since she wed Mr Sarkozy a musical success.
Le Figaro critic Bertrand Dicale said in his review today that the album - which is due out on July 21 - shows Ms Bruni coming of age as a songstress and embracing more recognisably French styles and the flamboyance of the 1960s.
Something for Brittany Spears to aspire to ...
"I am a child despite my 40 years and 30 lovers,'' Ms Bruni sings in the song A Child, according to Mr Dicale who said it was one of the best on the album.
In another song entitled You are my Drug, Ms Bruni sings: "You are my drug. More lethal than heroin from Afghanistan and more dangerous than Colombian cocaine.''
It is Ms Bruni's third album since turning from top model to professional musician, and her first since she married Mr Sarkozy in February. Ms Bruni has repeatedly said she wrote the songs before meeting Mr Sarkozy, so listeners should not look to the lyrics for clues about her feelings for the French president.
The recently divorced Mr Sarkozy, 53, and Ms Bruni, 40, began dating in November, revealed their relationship in December in a worldwide blaze of publicity, and tied the knot on February 2.
MADRID - A group of real estate developers and property owners in La Manga del Mar Menor - a spit of sandy, low-lying coastal land and Murcia's premier beach resort - are threatening to take Greenpeace to court over its graphic predictions of what global warming may do to the area, which they say have caused house prices to plummet.
The lawsuit, which the plaintiffs plan to present unless Greenpeace agrees to an out of court settlement of almost EUR 30 million in damages, comes more than six months after La Manga featured prominently in a photo book published by the environmental organisation that was intended to shock Spain into action on climate change.
Along with photos of a dried up Ebro River in Zaragoza and a desert in an area of Valencia now filled with lemon and orange groves, the book, Photoclima, shows digitally modified photos of La Manga submerged in water with only the tops of hotels, apartment blocks and palm trees emerging from the blue Mediterranean.
Greenpeace says the book is a graphic portrayal of the conclusions of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which has predicted that global warming will cause sea levels to rise around the world over the coming decades. "We want to create alarm and a call to action," Juan López de Uralde, Greenpeace's director in Spain, said when the book was published.
The photographs certainly caused alarm in La Manga. According to José Ángel Abad, a lawyer who has taken up the case of the area's aggrieved developers and home owners, prices have plunged by "50 percent" in recent months - a dramatic fall even in light of the end of a nationwide house price boom.
"Greenpeace manipulated the expected rise in sea levels of half a metre to cause alarm. It has sunk the real estate market: no one is buying and everyone has put their apartments up for sale," Abad claims. He says his clients are seeking EUR 27 million in damages to cover the decrease in the value of their properties.
However, Greenpeace has no intention of settling out of court, arguing that the La Manga property owners are trying to "blackmail" it into footing the bill for their speculation in the real estate market. "They're trying to blame Greenpeace and its campaign for the problems they have encountered in a market saturated thanks to real estate speculation," Uralde said this week. "We are not going to be intimidated."
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The apology came after he said during an interview to promote his new film The Victorian Sex Explorer in which he plays the renowned explorer Sir Richard Burton: "In Burton's day they were itching to get into the fray.
"Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now!
"The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits," he said in the interview published in The Sunday Telegraph.
"Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!
"The whole point of being in the Army is going to war and getting yourself blown up. That and p---ing on prisoners. Yet we all get shocked by Abu Ghraib."
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I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play -
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play.
I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide -
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.
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back in Roman times prostitutes, actors and other low trades were not allowed to attend high ceremonies of states that the rest of the plebs could go to...
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According to Wikipedia, he wouldn't get into too many Roman shindigs...
...but he dropped out of school aged 15 and ran away to London to become an actor. In order to support himself, he worked as a male prostitute, or "rent boy", for drugs and money as he later admitted to US magazine in 1997
Breaking: Jim Johnson steps down as chief VP vetter for Obama
posted at 2:50 pm on June 11, 2008 by Allahpundit
Fittingly, no one thought to inform John Kerry that his departure was imminent so Waffles ended up going to bat for the guy and insisting the whole thing was no big deal shortly before Johnson himself decided that it was, in fact, a big deal.
Details forthcoming. In the meantime, no perfunctory statement from Obama about how this isnt the Jim Johnson I knew?
He's smart enough to fix this right away. The Chicago way is 1) never let the sun set on a lie, 2) when ya gotta dump someone, do it quick, and 3) never, ever get near someone infected with the Federal cooties.
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Fittingly, no one thought to inform John Kerry that his departure was imminent so Waffles ended up going to bat for the guy and insisting the whole thing was no big deal shortly before Johnson himself decided that it was, in fact, a big deal.
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I'ma tellin ya. This guy would be a perfect fit for Obama's current public relations image.
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How is these idiots don't know they are tainted or that someone will find out. You'd think he'd go up to Obama and say, no, no thanks. They'll spot this and this and this and I'll be embarrassed and you'll be embarrassed and then you'll throw me under the buss. Just pick someone else right now.
Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) activists from Islamia College Civil Lines beat members of the Student Action Committee (SAC) in front of Nasser Bagh on Tuesday. After the incident a number of SAC members blocked Lower Mall for half an hour and shouted anti-IJT slogans.
According to sources, the SAC had set up a protest camp in front of Nasser Bagh for the restoration of the judiciary in which SAC members from throughout the city were participating. Haroon, an SAC member told Daily Times that more than 30 IJT activists from Islamia College Civil Lines, arrived wielding sticks and started beating members. He said the activists included Islamia College Civil Lines IJT Nazim Irfan Idress, Hostel Nazim Shair Gul, Mohsin Kahloun, Shaukat, Mujtaba, Hafiz Anees, Abu Bukar and Zargham. SAC members Rai Shajr, Atif Ranjha, Ahmed Salimi, Abdullah Khan, Samad Khuram were seriously injured and sent to hospital. IJT activists said that they were in control of the area and would not allow any movement within, Ahsan Chaudry, an SAC member, said.
He added that IJT activists had been involved in such incidents against SAC members before and condemned the hooliganism of IJT. Some elements have tried to damage our reputation. Our members nominated by the SAC were not present on the occasion. The IJT is not involved in this incident, Lahore IJT Nazim Abdul Basit said.
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A quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.
In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO's department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa. I wonder if his name was considered a job qualification.
Dr De Cock, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career leading the battle against the disease, said understanding of the threat posed by the virus had changed. Whereas once it was seen as a risk to populations everywhere, it was now recognised that, outside sub-Saharan Africa, it was confined to high-risk groups including men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, and sex workers and their clients. A commonsense conclusion reached by many less educated people years ago. Another example where wisdom is inversely proportional to education.
Dr De Cock said: "It is very unlikely there will be a heterosexual epidemic in other countries. Ten years ago a lot of people were saying there would be a generalised epidemic in Asia China was the big worry with its huge population. That doesn't look likely. But we have to be careful. As an epidemiologist it is better to describe what we can measure. There could be small outbreaks in some areas." But it's a lot better for grant funding to describe disasters we can barely imagine. Now that de Cock has milked the system for a quarter century, he is ready to retire to his chateaux on the Riviera.
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"A quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared never existed to begin with."
Edited for accuracy.
Unlike the MSM's "editors."
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Well, just following demographic studies it has been quite obvious that if you are a while circumcised male over 40 with no history of drug abuse, sex with men, or frequenting street walkers (call girls are generally safe, the drug ho street walkers are where the risk is) and have never been to Africa or had a blood transfusion then your statistical probability of being HIV+ is approaching zero.
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Being 'uptight and white' [behavior, not necessarily the color of one's skin,] seems to be a prophylactic to the disease. Just as people figured out a hundred years ago not to drink water that others piss into in order to avoid the scourge of Cholera, altering human behavior or maintain certain 'Puritanical' ones apparently has benefits.
And remember kiddies, Time, Newsweek, et al were pushing and screaming hetero pan-epidemic back in the mid-80s just like their latest pet crisis, human induced global warming today. One of the consequences is that AIDS medical research grew to match cancer research in funding even though ten times as many people were dying due to affliction of cancers.
A school district near Houston may tighten its policies on religious assemblies after an Islamic presentation angered many parents. Nearly 900 seventh- and eighth-graders at Friendswood Junior High last month attended an assembly on Islamic culture. The Council on American-Islamic Relations put on the presentation. Parents weren't notified beforehand, which was a violation of school policy. Since then, some parents, talk radio hosts and Christian clergy have criticized the presentation.
The school board is scheduled to vote next month on a policy change that would only allow teachers to address religious topics in the future. The Islamic assembly came after a Muslim student was stuffed into a trash can at school.
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The Islamic assembly came after a Muslim student was stuffed into a trash can at school.
I saw plenty of kids stuffed in trash cans in junior high. Don't remember having any religious assemblies after it happened though. Probably because...there was no friggin reason for it maybe?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
In a world exclusive cover story this week, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER exclusively reports that Bill's cheating spree occurred after his super-rich mistress broke off their affair.
A man who has shown a video of what he claims is an alien visitor to earth to bolster his case for greater public scrutiny of UFOs is to take his campaign to the Democratic Party convention in August, where Barack Obama will formally win the presidential nomination.
Breaking: Jim Johnson steps down as chief VP vetter for Obama
A school district near Houston may tighten its policies on religious assemblies after an Islamic presentation angered many parents. Nearly 900 seventh- and eighth-graders at Friendswood Junior High last month attended an assembly on Islamic culture. The Council on American-Islamic Relations put on the presentation. Parents weren't notified beforehand, which was a violation of school policy. Since then, some parents, talk radio hosts and Christian clergy have criticized the presentation.
