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[♥♥~Confessions Of A Drama Queen On Coke~♥♥] "Confessions Of A Drama Queen on Coke's 101": She threw me out a second story window and i rolled down the roof of the covered front porch and landed in my mom's rose bushes.  Evil child.  She threw a book at me and cut my cheek, lol, she hit me over the head with her Adidas bag and cut my noggin....*yikes*.   I bit her once and you would have thought that the world friggen ended....sheesh.

[Live from Baghdad] The Plight of Iraqi Christians By Dr. Nimrod Raph...: The one that had “Seinfeld,” last summer, 2, the second channel of the Saudi MBC, had on a movie - I can’t remember, what - but I wasn’t interested in it. I went through the on-screen channel guide, and decided, with nothing of interest, on any of the English-language channels - or, I should say, the ones with American, or English-language, programming -- to try “Libya.” There, on the screen, was”¦"the man." He was wearing one of his”¦mini-fezes - a black one - and white robes, at which he’d occasionally tug, above his left shoulder. He’s a good-looking man.

[The Unofficial Yahoo! WeblogWhat are you doin? I'm just Yahoon!"Mein Kempf" (My struggle), A "Jihad" (holy war) against iniquit] The Plight of Iraqi Christians...: Most Christian children attend Christian schools, where the teaching of a foreign language, primarily English, is a high priority in the curriculum. It is therefore understandable that the multinational forces have tapped the Christian community for office and translation work. However, the Christians are concerned that a prolonged occupation of Iraq by the multinational forces under the command of the United States will only heighten the accusations that they are collaborating with an occupation "originating from a Christian country." (6)

[Nothingandall] On this day in History - Mar. 11: 1975 - Presumível tentativa de golpe de Estado de oficiais afectos ao general Spínola. A derrota deste grupo vai radicalizar a acção política do MFA, levando à política de nacionalizações e da reforma agrária, à institucionalização do MFA e à criação do Conselho da Revolução.

[Collective Sigh] The road to the Axis of Evil Like many manifestat...: Naturally, our invasion forces will be greeted with champagne, flowers, and open arms. It will be a cinch to round up the (few) dead-enders, as we speak the same language, mostly, and won’t need translators (gay or otherwise).

[Becksposhnosh.blogspot.com] Becks & Posh: 06/01/2005 - 06/30/2005: Regular readers know that I am often fighting my own little self-made war to try and convince the rest of the world that English food isn't all bad. Despite recent news that the French are invading England in an attempt to buy up all the British vineyards, my own recent, but less than exhaustive research has revealed that although the Champagne region doesn't have to worry too much about the competition from Blighty just yet, it might have a little trouble from somewhere else.

[Sistergoldenhair.com] weblog of an american in paris: One of the more "hotly" contested ads showed a young woman removing her skirt, revealing her "string". Turning towards the camera she asks "Je suis un Vierge, et vous?" (I'm a virgin, and you?) The word Vierge is also the world for the astrological sign Virgo, so the manufacturers insist this is a really fun, play on words. Enter the Advertisement Verification Bureau, the French government advertising watchdog agency (I never knew they had one but somehow I'm not surprised) who have carefully examined all of the ads and probably the product, drank some champagne, held their meeting, listened to the femminist groups, and declared that they believe the anti-strings are going to far in calling it "porno chic" While they can curb what is shown on the tele, their recommendations to the print media have no force so it's c'est la vie all over again.

[Bradblog.com] THE BRAD BLOG: "Galloway's Senate Testimony Scrubbed from Official ...: That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

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