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Fox News Guest Claims 'It’s Time To Have A Muslims Check-Point Line In American Airports' (found in feminist)

Anti-terror police in Britain have made an angry request to their US counterparts asking them to stop leaking details of this month's suspected bomb plot (found in ljdemocrats)

U.S. Rice Supply Contaminated (thanks, rialian)

It's News, Right? | All JonBenet, All The Time

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[Poll #800838]

found in feminist

Sunday school teacher dumped for being female

Notes:

-- This was not a Catholic institution.

-- The woman had taught there for over 50 years.

-- The basis for this church decision was based on a passage in I Timothy, the book in question already under suspicion of being non-Pauline (that is, not authored by Paul).

-- The guy who fired her also sits on his local City Council.

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I'll be watching the Spike Lee documentary on Katrina in just a bit. After that, I'll post the answers to the current affairs poll.

In the meantime:

Placebo's power goes beyond the mind: Scientists tap into fake pill's effects to help real pains

Astronomers Offer Proof of 'Dark Matter'

poll answers

"An average of more than 110 Iraqis were killed each day in July, according to the figures. The total number of civilian deaths that month, 3,438, is a 9 percent increase over the tally in June and nearly double the toll in January."

"John Mark Karr, the suspect in the killing of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, has arrived in the United States after a 15-hour flight from Thailand on which he sipped champagne and dined on fried king prawns and roast duck." (See also The Man Who Says He Did It for details about the inconsistencies of his confession.)

Snakes on a Plane "took in just $15.2 million at the box office in its opening days. [...] The film was still the No. 1 draw at the box office over the weekend when including $1.4 million from the Thursday-night screenings. [...] Snakes on a Plane [was] a relatively low-budget movie at $32 million[.]" (And, personally, I think Dude, Where's My Car? was--dare I say it?--more cohesive.)