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Customs Declaration

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:53:09 GMT

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A distinguished young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the Priest beside her, "Father, may I ask a favour?"

"Of course child. What may I do for you?"

"Well, I bought an expensive woman's electronic hair dryer for my Mother's birthday that is unopened and well over the Customs limits, and I'm afraid they'll confiscate it. Is there any way you could carry it through customs for me? Under your robes perhaps?"

"I would love to help you, dear, but I must warn you: I will not lie."

"With your honest face, Father, no one will question you."

When they got to Customs, she let the priest go ahead of her.

The official asked, "Father, do you have anything to declare?"

"From the top of my head down to my waist, I have nothing to declare."

The official thought this answer strange, so asked, "And what do you have to declare from your waist to the floor?"

"I have a marvellous instrument designed to be used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused."

with laughter, the official said, "Go ahead, Father. Next!

Photos that Changed the World

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:49:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Are our petty problems so important?

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Photos that Changed the World

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Palestinian father shields son

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Little Rock desegregation

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The Boston Fire

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Child Draws Home

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Oklahoma City bombing

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Niagara falls frozen

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Starving boy and missionary

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Segregated water fountains

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Flower Power

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Napalm Girl

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Face off - Oka Crisis

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Flag raising on Iwo Jima

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Man walks on the Moon

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The Falling Man

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Execution of a Viet Cong

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The lynching of young blacks

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Tiananmen Square protests

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Dying Soldier Hangs to Priest

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First Black Student

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Burial of an unknown child

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The First X-ray

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How Life Begins

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Loch Ness Monster

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Mouse with Human Ear

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Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper

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Anne Frank

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Stopping Time

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Patterson Bigfoot

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Ruby shoots Oswald

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Hector Pieterson

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Solomos Solomou

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Death of a loyalist soldier

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Migrant Mother

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Omaha Beach

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Conrad Schumann

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Last Jew of Vinnitsa

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Assassination of Asanuma

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Che Guevara

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Reichstag flag

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The Kiss at Times Square

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The First Photograph

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JFK Assassination

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I Have A Dream

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Kent State Shootings

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Biafra

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Earthrise

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9/11 Attacks

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Now, The Bad News

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:33:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well, what can I say? I married young, and it's lasted all these years. Then again "my guy" and I were responsible enough to use birth control before marriage and until we were able to afford any children. Of course Palin will help out daughter with the affording part, so it's all good baby. I remember listening to the priest before we got married giving us the big talk about the "rhythm" method; and I was thinking I can't wait to get my rhythm on later baby and I bet he can't either!

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He would be the gentleman, she would be the lady, and with the backing of a strong family they would do what was expected of them. That would, of course, be consistent with the views of Ms. Palin, a mother of five children (including one with Down syndrome) who opposes abortion.

But it is teenage marriage today, not teenage pregnancy, that is the rarity. And, statistics show, teenage marriages tend not to endure.

The Bristol Palin drama, something of an after-school-special story running parallel to the saga of Sarah Palin’s nomination as the Republican candidate for vice president, has a lot of sociologists and psychologists talking about youth and the state of marriage.

Studies show that today teenage marriages are two to three times more likely to end in divorce than are marriages between people 25 years of age and older.

Pakistan: Christians living in constant fear and peril

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:03:34 GMT

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Father Emmanuel Asi, secretary of the Catholic Bible Commission of Pakistan and parish priest of a large parish in Lahore, has told the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that Christians in Pakistan are living "in constant fear and peril".

He cited the example of a 13 year old Christian girl who only recently had been kidnapped and raped by a Muslim man. Such incidents were a regular occurrence, he said. In order to avoid punishment for this crime, the man involved would simply assert that the woman was now a Muslim. He would "marry� her, but then send her away again after a short time. No one could do anything to stop this, since the victims were put under such great pressure by their "husbands" and threatened with death, so that they themselves would confirm in court, in the presence of their parents, that they had converted to Islam. In this way a Muslim man could abduct and rape any woman with impunity, he said.

Father Emmanuel Asi

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Gay priest Dr Jeffrey John could become a bishop in Wales

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:10:25 GMT

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The gay clergyman whose abortive appointment as Bishop of Reading came close to splitting the Church of England could soon become Britain’s first openly gay diocesan bishop.

Dr Jeffrey John, the Dean of St Albans, who two years ago celebrated a civil partnership ceremony with another priest, is to be nominated as Bishop of Bangor in North Wales.

The election comes at a difficult time for Dr Williams, who got through the recent Lambeth Conference in Canterbury without schism.

Days afterwards The Times published correspondence between the Archbishop and Dr Deborah Pitt, a psychiatrist, in which he said that active gay sexual relationships could be comparable with marriage.

RuneScape news: 26 August 2008 - All Fired Up - Part 2

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:39:01 GMT

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Summary

Where to start the All Fired Up quest:

Talk to King Roald in the Varrock Palace throne room.

Requirements to complete the All Fired Up quest:

Level 43 Firemaking
Priest in Peril

Access to:

A new way to train Firemaking
Some flaming-brilliant Firemaking rewards

In other news...

The level 86 Plank Make spell now has the option to skip the warning message when converting logs to planks. At this level, we feel that most players are aware that it costs money; so, after one cast, you can opt to turn the message off.

Various dyes have had their Grand Exchange price ranges adjusted to allow for a built-in 'delivery' cost. This compensates those players who have taken the time to gather dyes in larger quantities.

A new option has been added to allow the collection of Grand Exchange purchases in note form. Don't worry: you can still choose to take the objects directly, but for larger quantities this option should be cert-ifiably handy!

gift from GOD

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:11:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: i believe him

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Pot-growing priest says crop is a gift from God

A CATHOLIC priest is being watched by police around the clock after they uncovered a field of cannabis he claims is a gift from God.

Father Cyril Papudov, of Petrich, Bulgaria, has been arrested seven times but police have never caught him actually cultivating the crop.

He claims the cannabis seeded by itself and is part of God's gift of nature and nothing to do with him.

A police insider said: "There has been a great deal of suspicion over the years about what is going on with these plants.

"He is a man of the cloth and so a lot of people don't want to think badly of him but frankly if someone has a huge crop of cannabis in their back garden it's highly unlikely they are just sitting there admiring its horticultural properties."

Police are now planning a 24-hour surveillance operation.

The police insider added: "Although the man involved is a member of the clergy we feel this surveillance is necessary.

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DBQ 6

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:11:58 GMT

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Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to strike through breath and sight. And so they died. None could be found to bury the dead for money or friendship. Members of a household brought their dead to a ditch as best they could, without priest, without divine offices.

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At the DNC Convention, Sixties Radicals Are Going to "Save the World", Again!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:18:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: for America will be best achieved through policies of generosity and caring toward the rest of the world.” All America has to do is dedicate “1%-2% of the GDP each year for the next 20 years toward once and for all eliminating domestic and global poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, inadequate health care, and repairing the environment of the planet.”

Once and for all? And to think no one had figured out sooner that we could merely legislate the human condition out of existence. Of course, collecting the money is only half the battle. Once we confiscate the necessary funds, according to the NSP’s helpful 32-page booklet on the Global Marshall Plan, all we have to do is “create an international, unbiased, nongovernmental agency for receiving the funds . . . and distributing them in a way that is environmentally sensitive, respectful of native cultures, safeguarded against corruption [...]

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True to form, the event began with bad folk music followed by a prayer. Not just any prayer, but a prayer by John Dear. According to his official bio, the Roman Catholic priest has been arrested 75 times “because he so fervently believes in peace.”

“Take a deep breath and breathe in that holy spirit of peace . . .

Help us end poverty and starvation and relieveable [sic] disease and end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and Palestine and all of our wars and abolish the death penalty and torture and all our nuclear weapons. And help us enact a Global Marshall Plan to feed the world’s poor and justice and peace to all our sisters and brothers.”

While the “spiritual progressives” gathered here in Denver for DNC convention are every bit as spacey their name suggests, their “Global Marshall Plan” is for real. The Global Marshall Plan — a.k.a. House Resolution 1078 — has 20 Democratic co-sponsors in Congress.

According to Rep. Keith Ellison, “House Resolution 1078 recognizes that lasting security

Tags: dnc, global poverty, global marshall plan, h.r.1078, 1%-2% of the u.s. gdp, 20 years, rep. keith ellison, 20 democratic co-sponsors in congress

nun's in a beauty contest!!??

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:12:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: didn't think our church was this hard up!

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Italian priest to organize 'beauty contest' for nuns: 'Miss Sister 2008'

ROME - An Italian priest says he has decided to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns.

Rev. Antonio Rungi, a theologian and schoolteacher from the Naples area, says he wants to fight the stereotype that nuns are all old and dour.

The "Miss Sister 2008" contest will start in September on a blog run by Rungi. Visitors to the site will have a month to "vote for the nun they consider a model."

Nuns will fill out a profile, including information about their life and vocation, and provide the website with a photograph.

But Rungi says web surfers can forget it if they think they'll be finding any bikini-clad nuns.

"We are not going to parade nuns in bathing suits," Rungi said by telephone from his town of Mondragone. "But being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun. External beauty is gift from God, and we mustn't hide it."

The contest drew criticism from the association of Catholic teachers.

The Sexiest Mother Teresa You've Ever Seen

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:59:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Who might guess this, that Megan Fox ready and set to play her new role as sexed-up Mother Teresa in a movie called "Making Of A Saint".

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It seems Megan Fox is really busy acting on different movies. First she was preparing for her new role for the movie "Jennifers Body" and now she is set to play Mother Teresa in a movie called "Making Of A Saint".

The movie follows the incredible story of Agnes, a beautiful young Macedonian woman growing up in a world torn apart by war. After receiving a message from God, Agnes travels to a remote nunnery to learn the ways of the Lord but, once there, her passions are aroused by a handsome young priest. These new feelings challenge her faith and threaten to destroy everything that she holds dear.

This internal struggle leads Agnes to face the most difficult decision of her life. Will she give in to the urges consuming her or will she forsake all others to serve her God? The decision she makes would change the world forever.

Seems like an interesting movie to buy a ticket. But is this sexy woman a good actress or it's just because she is so damn hot? We'll see it soon.

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NUNS AWSERING THE CALL TO STRUT THEIR STUFF !

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:27:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No body going to church ,well that's all about to change, when you get your nuns in a sexy habit of them on the catwalk ,on the catwalk ,here's to proselytizing nuns on the catwalk !

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No nuns on catwalk, priest stops "beauty contest"

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian priest who had planned an online "pageant" for nuns has suspended the project, saying he was misinterpreted and had no intention of putting sisters on a beauty catwalk.

"My superiors were not happy. The local bishop was not happy, but they did not understand me either," Father Antonio Rungi told Reuters by telephone from his convent in southern Italy Tuesday.

When Same-Sex Marriage Was a Christian Rite

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:01:30 GMT

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A Kiev art museum contains a curious icon from St. Catherine's Monastery on Mt. Sinai in Israel. It shows two robed Christian saints. Between them is a traditional Roman ‘pronubus’ (a best man), overseeing a wedding. The pronubus is Christ. The married couple are both men.

These church rites had all the symbols of a heterosexual marriage: the whole community gathered in a church, a blessing of the couple before the altar was conducted with their right hands joined, holy vows were exchanged, a priest officiatied in the taking of the Eucharist and a wedding feast for the guests was celebrated afterwards. These elements all appear in contemporary illustrations of the holy union of the Byzantine Warrior-Emperor, Basil the First (867-886 CE) and his companion John.

Records of Christian same sex unions have been discovered in such diverse archives as those in the Vatican, in St. Petersburg, in Paris, in Istanbul and in the Sinai, covering a thousand-years from the 8th to the 18th century.

nun beauty pagent. really.

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:57:45 GMT

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Oh My God Women have always been marginalized in the Catholic church, and one priest, Rev. Antonio Rungi, is finally publicly recognizing that. So what is his plan for heightening the profile and importance for nuns? He'll be holding an online beauty contest to let people know that not all nuns are "old and dour." The "Miss Sister" contest will begin this September and people will be able to "vote [online] for the nun they consider a model." Rungi goes on to say that "being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun. External beauty is gift from God, and we mustn't hide it." Except 13 years of Catholic schooling have taught some of us that ridding oneself of vanity is a requirement for becoming a nun. It's one of the reasons (besides the whole no sex thing) that made convents seem so sucky. Anyway, thanks Catholicism, for breaking down stereotypes in the only way you know how. [MSNBC]

Beauty Contest for Nuns!

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:28:40 GMT

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Italian priest organizes beauty contest for nuns

The "Miss Sister 2008" contest will start in September on a blog run by the Rev. Antonio Rungi and will give nuns from around the world a chance to showcase their work and their image.

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