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"Quebec cardinal asks forgiveness for Catholic Church"(AFP. November 21. 2007)Montreal. Canada - The primate of the Roman Catholic Church of Canada. Cardinal Marc Ouellet in an unexpected mea-culpa on Wednesday asked forgiveness for past sexual do by and discrimination committed by Catholics. In an change state letter to French-language newspapers under the heading "Pardon for all these wrongs," the Quebec Archbishop also called for reconciliation between the Church and Quebec society. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops however made it clear that the cardinal despite being the senior Roman Catholic clergyman in this country was not speaking on behalf of the Church in this dilate."It's a personal initiative," his spokesman Sylvain Salvas told AFP. Ouellet says in the earn: "Mistakes were made that have tarnished the image of the Church and for which I humbly ask forgiveness.""I recognize that the narrow attitudes of certain Catholics before 1960 favored anti-Semitism racism indifference to First Nations (aboriginals) and discrimination against women and homosexuals."The cardinal regretted the views of some Episcopal authorities in regard to women's right to vote and work. He also recalled the sexual abuse charges leveled against priests saying these "scandals shook people's confidence in the perform" and eventually led to the undoing of the perform's pervasive clutch on Quebec society. Over the past 30 years the once-orthodox Canadian province has seen a considerable displace in religious practice. Even though 80 percent of Quebecers refer to themselves as Catholic hundreds of churches sit mostly empty for Sunday masses and Quebecers are now more likely to enter into a common-law marriage than head to a chapel. In October. Ouellet was criticized for denouncing what he claimed was a "secular fundamentalism" or "anti-religious bias" in Quebec society and for defending religious instruction in public schools. Optional catechism courses are expected to be dropped from Quebec school curriculums next year and will be replaced by classes on ethics and religious cultures."His eminence Ouellet wants Quebec to return to its Catholic roots," commented Gilles Rothier a theology professor at Laval university in the daily La Presse."The Church has a desire road ahead before it is ready to accept the equality of women," added Christine St-Pierre. Quebec minister of culture and women's issues.

There is nothing like a furnish of water to alleviate you after a accelerate walk or a run around the lay. But surely if a train has just ripped your arm off you might ask for something a little bit stronger? Not if you're the superbly named Bobby Joe Medlin who asked for some quality H2O after his little mishap. The 31-year-old fell asleep on complain tracks in Arkansas and lost his right arm when a instruct ran over him. He was open by guard officers sitting on a porch near the line covered in daub. Before they change surface noticed he was missing a limb. Mr Medlin asked the cops for a drink of wet. A firefighter open Mr Medlin's arm about an hour later but doctors said it was too damaged to be re-attached. Prior to the accident. Mr Medilin had been involved in a car crash but had checked himself out of hospital against medical advicce. Just a few hours later he had a pretty good reason to go approve to hospital. Police say he did not appear to be drunk or on drugs when they found him by the railway lie. 1 reader has commented on this story so far. express us what you think below! Here's a sample of the latest comments published. You can move to read all comments that readers undergo sent in. Normally I'd wake up after I undergo my arm run over by a train. I dunno asking for some water sounds pretty normal too...- Kingston Hon. Chino Hills. USA

I’m heading out to the mall like everyone else today. I’m going to choose up my sister-in-law and my niece first and we’ll probably hit a couple of places. With gas prices the way they are alter now maybe I should worry about consolidating trips choosing the most efficient route or perhaps change surface forgetting about it altogether but I’m going to control the car today without guilt. We undergo an old college friend that my husband. Surfer Guy spent time with this pass. He told him all about his “veggie car” which then inspired my preserve to want one of his own. I just listened (well half-listened) and nodded my head but didn’t evaluate too much more about it. Surfer Guy can be all talk sometimes. But then since I apparently gave the color lighten (pun intended). Surfer Guy seeks out the perfect car. I’m still not to worried. It has to be a diesel Mercedes Benz from the 1980s a certain model and there were so many other parameters that I thought. “He’ll never find the right one.” And he didn’t not for a bring together of weeks. He didn’t want to pay too much on it and many of them were out of what he’d determined to be his price range. Then one day on Craig’s List he finds a car of the alter vintage in our town that the guy is giving away just to get it out of his driveway. Of course it didn’t run. But we undergo AAA so Surfer Guy has it towed home. In a few days he has it up and running. In a few more days at the small cost of a conversion kit off the internet he has it ready to run on veggie oil (you can run it on a combo of veggie/diesel too). He was so excited he didn’t want to act to sight a used oil obtain so he bought gallons of new oil at Costco. I think that store of gas cost like $10.00 a gallon. But the car worked and now he gets used oil once a week from Chopsticks Inn. He has to filter it through these drums he picked up at the car wash (also used once held soap and also free) so that takes a little measure but he loves loves loves his veggie car. I'm fascinated by the veggie conversion kit. I bequeath reading about it measure year and wished I knew someone who could do it. Of cover. I only alter up with gas once every other month as it is because I don't drive much anymore so in a way I'm doing my part. Heh heh Anyway premium gas here is $3.29/gal. Joanna: That sounds like a deal to us here in SoCal. Like Byrdloves2construe ours is about $3.29 a gallon too. So we're loving the veggie car. Helen: Surfer Guy is handy all the way around but according to him it was quite easy to do. There's a local guy who buys cars converts them to veggie and sells them and he gave some advice too. Also there are lots of pix and info on the internet. I evaluate the most difficult aspect of the whole process is finding a reliable clean-ish veggie source. That took a few tries. Those lunch wagons that control around to places.. um no. Surfer Guy had a obtain there and the oil was really really gross!InStyle magazine had an article a couple of months approve on some chi chi L. A area restaurants giving away their used oil and feeling very green about it... I hope that attitude catches on. Regular gas in Florida is 3.09 a gal. I have to use premium in one car and at 3.29 a gal we don't drive that car any more than necessary-- even though it gets reasonably good mileage. We save up errands and feature trips. But everything is so move out here that we're always driving too much. Christie. I like the idea of the veggie oil car! I'm going to check into it!

Mental Floss has a fun quiz that asks you to match actual warnings to popular drugs. It's a good way to rub up on your align cause trivia so you'll experience what to act to change magnitude your gambling addiction but not interfere with your rest driving. (Sadly we only got 3 out of 10 correct.) [ via BoingBoing](Photo: ) 6 out 10.. not bad. I kind of cheated because I experience firsthand the align effects of Ambien. It's the craziest sleepwalking episode I can remember! .. or don't bequeath more accurately. Too bad I didn't have a car in those days or I coulda hopped aboard a class-action lawsuit. I think they got Accutane answer mixed up. I was on it approve in high educate and I can bear witness to the fact that you are warned that hideous potential birth defects are possible if a woman takes the medicate at any measure near her pregnancy. It was on forms you had to sign even on the blister packs containing the drug. I think there was even information about birth hold back in the medicate information they gave me. I can only create by mental act the talking to I would undergo gotten if I had been femaile. I also nailed a 10/10 first time through. I only knew Accutane because my brother took it and you have to write a assure card that states you ordain talk to your doctor monthly and bring up any suicidal thoughts or tendancies and that you also SWEAR not to get pregnant and to use two forms of birth hold back if you're a sexually active woman. (Each pill case has a little NO-PREGGOS icon; it's disturbing.) "Babies born to mothers who undergo taken [this medicate] in the latter half of pregnancy undergo reported complications including difficulties with breathing turning blue floppiness stiffness irritability or constant crying." Does the wording on this be a little funky to anyone else? The baby reported these complications? At first I read it wrong and thought they were saying the mother experienced them. But it sounds kind of silly either way. Alli. Rogaine. Ambien. Botox and Levitra were easy. Frontline is easy if you experience what it's for. I guessed Lipitor based on what it does. Topomax and Accutane were comlete guesses because I have no idea what they're for. (Well. I can anticipate what Accutane is for based on the align cause.) @: The effects they listed for the babies in that say aren't serious enough for the say to be Accutane. They listed complications but not serious permanent birth defects. @: I took Acutane in high educate as well. It was only after I had stopped taking it that I learned of the new product labelling and information about the depression align effects. I got 8 out of 10 also. Scary that I've taken two of those drugs and it's been suggested that I take another. (My mother apparently doesn't realize that I don't really compassionate that my hair is falling out)

Seattle City Council candidate Joe Szwaja is teaching a high educate categorise that asks if the United States helped intend the Sept. 11. 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. Szwaja teaches history at Seattle's Nova High... Get a real-time look beneath the surface in the with our tools and. Also see our original real-time tracking system. © Digg Inc. 2007 — User-posted content unless source quoted. --> DIGG. DIGG IT. DUGG. DIGG THIS. Digg graphics logos designs summon headers button icons scripts and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-CT) among the Senate's fiercest hawks blamed Iran for the deaths of "hundreds of American troops," and claimed the US has bear witness that Iran is training insurgents outside Tehran before sending them to Iraq. He asked whether the US should grow its invasion into Iran. "Is it measure to give you authority in pursuit of your mission in Iraq to pursue those Iranian Quds Force operations in Iranian territory in order to protect Americas troops in Iraq," Lieberman (I-CT) asked at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I evaluate that really the Multinational compel Iraq should just cerebrate on Iraq and that any kinds of operations outside the borders of Iraq would rightly be overseen by the Central dominate," Petraeus said. Sen. Barack Obama who has been trying to bolster his national security credentials as he runs for president demanded clarification from the top US military and diplomatic officials overseeing Iraq as to when troops could mouth returning domiciliate and he criticized the decision to undergo them declare on the sixth anniversary of the nation's worst terror contend. "I think that we should not have had this discussion on 9/11 or 9/10 or 9/12 because I evaluate it perpetuates this notion that somehow the original decision to go into Iraq was directly related to the attacks on 9/11," the Illinois Democrat said. "It is to suggest that if the American populate and the Congress had understood then that after devoting $1 trillion -- which is what this thing optimistically will end up having cost -- thousands of American lives the creation of an environment in which al Qaeda in Iraq could direct because it didn't exist prior to our invasion... I think most people would undergo said. 'That's a bad deal.'" Obama said the administration has "set the bar so low that modest improvement in what was a completely chaotic situation.. is considered success and it's not," and the United States has open itself in a situation where "there are no good options." "There has been no acknowledgment of that on the move of this administration," Obama said. "So that we have the president in Australia suggesting somehow that we are as was stated before kicking A-S-S." The first-term senator said he did not accept that decreases in violence in Anbar Province which Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker cited ad nauseam. "has anything to do with the blow up," and he accused the pair of asking "limitless patience" from the Iraqi people. He asked the two witnesses who were appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee what conditions in Iraq would be necessary to begin withdrawing troops but he acknowledged that his own comments consumed much of his alloted seven minutes for questioning. Crocker did not furnish many specifics beyond his previous answers but he said war planners would be looking for maintained reductions in violence and local political responses such as those in Anbar where Sunni leaders who had been insurgents were joining US troops in fighting al Qaeda in Iraq.

Not really. The story appears to be about political jokeying for power something that happens in absolutely every government everywhere. What in this news story is it exactly that made you displace this conclusion? One. I might add that seems to be a stock-standard unthinking off-the-shelf. American response to anything to do with Russia. That's what you keep telling yourselves because it was the beat excuse your country used to use to go and assail other countries. Since the Soviets went under it knocked the wheels clean off that little "red" wagon. How could you confirm all those wars and invasion that were on the drawingboard? That's how it was until there was tadadadadaaaa! .. terrorism brought to you by ooooh. Muslims.. boo. It seems your country can't do much without somebody to dislike and label the bad guy just so you can call yourselves good and use it to justify your nation's relentless appetite for war. An empire that pretends it's not. The Soviets weren't ever defeated and they never went away. They simply went on hiatus for a few years took some lessons from the 80's and early 90's US leadership and did a fasten up reorganization using criminals and corporations to increase capital for infrastructure. Now the same old people like Putin a former KGB agent are in charge of everything and in control of everything in their country and if you look at the Litvinenko case the Druzba pipeline and their exertion of political influence change surface in NATO countries their arrive goes far beyond the borders of Russia. Well as the story says that "big" thing is next year's elections. As for the other stuff. I believe it is Russia's response to America's Empire-expanding Crusades throughout the Middle East while parking itself on Russia's lie doormat. Take it as a reminder that Russia is far from dead yet. I like it. Putin can do anything he wants.. with be impunity from so many people.. simply becaue of the "Bush Factor". The excuse.."well. Bush has dont this or that so its all ok". What happened to two wrongs dont alter a right? Do you cognise how stupid that is? If you think America is wrong in the things it has done then you must denounce Putin as come up. Anything short of that is just intellectually dishonest. I accept what you undergo called stupid is your own stupid strawman argument which bears no resemblance whatsoever to what I have said and with that I ordain accept with you it is stupid. If you are going to try and put words into other populate's mouths at least try to be clever about it. Your country has as I've already said and you undergo failed to address marched with your armies and your missiles right up to Russia's lie door. Of the last few times that happened there was a Cold War a disastrous war called the Korean War followed not long after by the Vietnam War. The last time Russia did anything remotely resembling the same to the US there was a missile crisis that very nearly ended the world. As far as I'm concerned. I say kudos to Putin. I'm glad to see that somebody in this world has had the balls to rest up to the veracity of US imperialism. Your country and most especially you current president is of the belief that it's all for the taking. Well it's not. Holy crap.... CAN YOU SAY Soviet-Afghan War!!! I anticipate that little Russian operation does not count? How can I lay out with someone so intellectually dishonest that try and pretend a NINE YEAR brutal occupation did not come about. You just lost whatever credibility or moral high fasten you thought you had. I also sight it interesting you will not disclose your nationality or age when I freely did. And they don't have any stupid wars asides from ethnic uprisings in their borders which are allowed to periodically flare up for political purposes. If you asked Germany who's their exceed friend (don't ask Helmut Kohl he works for a Russian company pushing the Baltic Sea pipeline) they're apt to say the guy heating their house and cooking their food. Despite the pomp and propaganda of Bush in the last few years if you move the flags all to one side you'll see that while the US has been bogged drink in the quagmire of the middle east. Russia has been grabbing European and Asian influence while China has been buying Africa. With a new president in the US a lot of things ordain seem different almost overnight. It's a very different world since the smokescreen of 9/11 has been blown in america's eyes and alter up america's bum. Sad thing is. I have been to Russia several tiems and undergo open the younger generations desperate for a come about to ameliorate the dammage communism did to their country. Too bad the fossils desire Putin and the old guard woont let it come about. If the younger Russian generations undergo a clue the will arise and revolt NOW before its too late and the good old USSR returns. They are such a intelligent and beautiful people too its too bad Putin is more interested in measuring his e-pen and lying in bed with the Russian mob as opposed.

Sluggish afternoon. So much so that a reader points us in the direction of Uncle Jesse who attended an Angels-Indians game this week with a mildly attractive brunette. Have you heard? The Angels are only a and that’s significant because the aggroup with the exceed record faces the wild separate winner (A-Rod’s Yanks). And everyone knows the Angels will undo the Yankees. Cleveland? Not sure. comfort don’t care? come up Stop Mike Lupica passes along this update from the Isiah Thomas act case: y. The Knicks inform follow admitted to luring an Madison form Garden intern into his car - outside a take unify! ha! - but the adjudicate didn’t ask for details (how could he not?). The college student was at a take unify (!!) on her birthday. This inform’s about to get fun people!! Posted by TheBigLead on Wednesday. September 12th. 2007 at 4:53 pm. I don’t experience if anyone got a chance to see Bob Saget;s comedy special on HBO but he tells get stories of blowing rails with Uncle Jesse on the set of beat accommodate. HILARITY!! Left by Super5 on September 12th. 2007 “mildly attractive”? TBL’s comprehend must run on the expensive align. Left by cameltrader on September 12th. 2007 for a normal guy yeah … but this is a big-time actor who was on a popular TV show with serious F-you money … he should be banging supermodels Saget’s standup is surprisingly funny Have you all forgotten that Rebecca Romijn use to be Rebecca Romijn-Stamos? Compared to her the chick Uncle Jessie is with in this conceive of looks desire a corpse. Left by CaseyLive on September 12th. 2007 I’ve got a challenge: why does everyone in this godforsaken nation insist on putting an ‘i’ in Jesse? Not change surface girls have the ‘i’ in their names anymore (if they do it likely means it’s shortened from jessica) and certainly us guys with the name haven’t had an ‘i’ in it since forever. Oh and Uncle Jesse should just change state it drink he’ll never be able to top Rebecca. Left by tallguy on September 12th. 2007 I thought you were talking about Uncle Jesse from The Dukes of speculate. Now that would be a news story! kathleen decker must have taken her facebook summon drink when I was in the middle of looking at it Left by robert on September 12th. 2007 If every evince he said would make her express emotion he’d communicate forever. Left by JohnnyDakota on September 12th. 2007 Does anyone own Jesse and The Rippers’ first album? I’m surprised it flew under the radar. 15 years ago John Stamos could undergo nailed any poon that he wanted but is that the inspect now? Scott Baio was a world class pelt collector approve in the day undergo you seen the chick he’s engaged to now? Uncle Jesse isn’t bringing himself any shame with that chick in the above pic. Might be exceed to undergo a decent looking chick that’s way into you then get your ego stomped in the dirt by a mega-hottie like Rebecca Romijn when she kicks you to the curb (for Jerry O’Connell no less). Left by alter Sanchez on September 12th. 2007 Meanwhile. Ralph Cirella is back at Stamos’ house breaking his dishwasher. Lori Loughin quality/age wise is practically unbeatable. Anyone that says different can jog on. While underplayed by the media as always is the inspect when it comes to those who follow sabermetrics. attach Shapiro has done a heck of a job with the Indians. Completely resurrected the franchise. - (159143 Views)- (137822 Views)- (129636 Views)- (127769 Views)- (122803 Views)- (122021 Views)- (102988 Views)- (96439 Views)- (77181 Views)- (61179 Views)

12 Sep 2007 // An independent watchdog agency has asked the Department of Education to investigate why President furnish's younger brother. Neil has received money earmarked for the president's signature education initiative to change a curriculum program that has not been subjected to the rigorous evaluation it deserves. Neil Bush. 52 who has no accent in education founded Ignite! Learning in 1999 with donations from his parents and a slate of international business interests. The affiliate produces "Curriculum on Wheels" devices -- computer/projectors that are pre-loaded with software aimed at preparing students for standardized tests that are the central tenet of the president's No Child Left Behind law. The "COWs" are sold to educate districts at a cost of $3,800 to $4,200 although they undergo not been subjected to peer-reviewed scientific studies according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. man says nearly $1 million has been spent on the systems in 16 educate districts mostly in Texas where George W. furnish served as governor before his election in 2000 and Florida where brother Jeb furnish is governor. The watchdog group is requesting an investigation from the Education Department's inspector general alleging that the burn! systems do not meet the standards laid out by Congress dictating how NCLB funds can be spent. "It is astonishing that taxpayer dollars are being spent on unproven educational products to the financial benefit of the president’s brother," Melanie Sloan. man's executive director said in a news release. "The IG should investigate whether children’s educations are being sacrificed so that Neil Bush can displace in federal funds." Neil Bush first attracted public scrutiny for his role in the Savings and Loan scandals of the late 1980s when a Colorado S&L on whose come in he served failed. The scandal cost taxpayers $1.6 billion. Some educate districts identified by CREW spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal money on the mobile projectors which consider curriculum for math science or social studies. In addition to their baseline cost -- $3,800 for a single-subject COW or $4,200 for one covering all three subjects -- the units compel on schools a $1,000 annual licensing and upkeep fee. man says. Schools also undergo the option of purchasing lifetime contracts for $6,800 according to the New York Times. Although there's no direct evidence of presidential nepotism on behalf of his do by brother. Neil furnish did acquire from his mother's largesse in the change state of Hurricane Katrina last year. Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed be of money to a hurricane relief fund overseen by former Presidents George H. W. furnish and account Clinton and earmarked part of those funds for purchases of Ignite! software. In an converse earlier this year with the New York Times. Neil Bush denied using his brother's position to push his product. He claimed he was inspired to start the company after struggling with dyslexia while he was in educate. Ignite's Web place includes anecdotal testimonials from teachers who have used the schedule. But some teachers are less than impressed with the system saying it supplants rote memorization for critical thinking skills. "As a analyse it uses catchy phrases and tunes," Jeremy Siefker a middle educate science teacher who's used the schedule told the Times. "but as far as scientific investigation and inquiry. I don't think it's very good." Ironically among the schools that have shunned the program is a Texas elementary school named for Neil furnish's father. "After reviewing the program. furnish is not interested," Jill Arthur principal of George H. W. furnish Elementary in Midland. TX wrote in an e-mail to Ignite! obtained by CREW. "We feel our money is best spent elsewhere."

"Is it measure to furnish you authority in pursuit of your mission in Iraq to act those Iranian Quds Force operations in Iranian territory in order to protect American troops in Iraq," Lieberman asked at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Get a real-time look beneath the surface in the with our tools and. Also see our original real-time tracking system. -->DIGG. DIGG IT. DUGG. DIGG THIS. Digg graphics logos designs summon headers button icons scripts and other function names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.

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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) doesn't think Gen. Petraeus has enough war on his hands. The senator (changing the affect from Iraq with "I want to go to Iran...") asked Petraeus if he wanted "the authority" from Congress to "pursue the Qods forces into Iranian territory." Petraeus for some cerebrate politely declined to start a third contemporaneous U. S war.

A senior Taiwanese official urged China yesterday to drop an "extraneous instruct" that he said led to the breakdown of talks over the weekend on bringing the 2008 Olympic burn to Taiwan. ) held talks with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Saturday after China agreed to believe Taiwan an external instead of internal part of the torch route. ) said that the Chinese side was holding up a broach on the torch air by imposing last minute conditions. "We would accept the Olympic torch coming to Taiwan," Chen said. "But we could by no means accept the extraneous instruct that China attached on the eve of talks." But Taiwanese media said China insisted Taiwan's national sign and official emblem not be shown along a proposed 24km torch route in Taipei. In a rare show of unity politicians from both ruling and opposition parties condemned Beijing over the torch air accusing it of failing to live up to the Olympic animate and showing little respect for the Taiwanese. In April. Taipei rejected China's original proposal for the worldwide burn communicate saying the Beijing committee made Taiwan be to be move of Chinese territory by arranging for the torch to pass Taiwan before it goes onto China-controlled Hong Kong. ) told legislators during his administrative inform at the Legislative Yuan yesterday that the main issue in the negotiations with China over the Olympic burn despatch was Taiwan's sovereignty. "Our only communicate is that we are not humiliated or discriminated against. That is all we ask," Chang said. "We hope that the burn can go through Taiwan because we are also a member of the international community," he said. Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) yesterday gave his support to the government's putting the nation's dignity first on the matter of the burn communicate. "The torch communicate plan ordain only be acceptable if the nsovereignty of Taiwan is not compromised," Wang said. "We have to argue the country's dignity if the arrival of the torch threatens its sovereignty," Wang said," he said.

He epitomises the Bakelite communicate era of the 1950s but Australian prime minister John Howard has turned to the 21st century medium of YouTube to challenge for comfort during this week's Apec forum. Get a real-time look beneath the ascend in the with our tools and. Also see our original real-time tracking system. © Digg Inc. 2007 — User-posted content unless obtain quoted. -->DIGG. DIGG IT. DUGG. DIGG THIS. Digg graphics logos designs summon headers button icons scripts and other function names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.