Clergyman apologises over call to tattoo gay people

An Anglican clergyman who advocated that homosexuals be tattooed with labels calling them sodomites has apologized for his remarks. Such language is extreemly unusual in the Church of England."A Church of England clergyman who wrote that gay men should be forced to have...

EU force to fight Somali pirates

The EU is going to undertake a policing measure to fight the pirates off the coast of Somalia. So far operations by combined EU policing forces have been limited mostly just to the Balkans, but lately, under the EU presidency of France under Nicolas Sarkozy, they have become...

Journey to unlock 'out of body' mysteries

"Journey to unlock 'out of body' mysteries Penny Sartori's research led to a book on near death experiences In September, medical teams at 25...

Paper-clip trader back in action

Two years ago, Kyle MacDonald traded a small red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen, swaped the fish-shaped pen for a doornob, and kept on trading until he had a house in a small Saskatchewan town. He kept a blog ...

Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction

"Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction photo credit: laffy4k New York Times called the possibility of an AIG liquidation “as close to an extinction-level event as the financial markets have seen since the Great Depression.” We keep hearing that the current...

NTSB Seeks Order Banning Use of Cell Phones by Train Operators

"September 16, 2008- Ever since the news that teenage train enthusiasts were text messaging the train engineer at the time of the train crash in Chatsworth, the NTSB has sought an order banning the use of cell phones...

Bosses hiring diet police to stop office workers piling on the pounds

I wonder if NowPublic will start hiring these Weight Watchers and have mandatory weekly weigh-ins. Looking around the office now, we definitely do not need one of these and it would be a total waste of money. It...

Stump the Palin

"GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (CNN) -- Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin took questions with her running mate Wednesday night, offering at one point to play "stump the candidate" with a mostly friendly...

UK police to map all citizen's car journeys and save data for five years

Th UK is already the world's most spied on by state and private CCTV cameras. Now the UK police are using the technology to map all citizens' car journeys and keep the data on record for five years. This is...

Army Times asks if McCain flip flopped or fibbed.

"McCain on FCS: Flip-flop or fib? By Bradley Peniston - Staff writer Posted : Saturday Sep 13, 2008 6:58:20 EDT Has Sen. John McCain renounced his longtime antagonism toward the Army’s Future Combat Systems?On Sept. 8, the Republican presidential candidate told a...

No pressure on Hughes to splash out on stars in January

Can Man City show their rival that they are now more solid under Mark Hughes?"Mark Hughes has been assured by Manchester City’s new owners that they will not put him under pressure to fill his squad with Galacticos when the transfer window opens in January.With the Abu...

Obama and the Palin Effect - a Mirror on the US Psyche

"Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes...

Kilkenny on Palin - The e-mail heard round the world (Is it Real?)

I wanted to take a minute (before the article) to post that this comes from a website that debunks alot of the information out there from BOTH parties -and gets to the heart of who's telling the tuth, who is stretching it a little (grey area), and who is flat out wrong.Since...

Gambhir not upset by ICC snub

"Even after scoring the second highest ODI runs in 2008, Gautam Gambhir is not disappointed at not being nominated for the annual ICC Awards as he says the pride of representing the nation is ultimate to him. “I don’t think about creating records or winning awards. What I...

Palin's use of song "Barracuda" upsets Heart

Ann and Nancy Wilson of the 70's rock band "Heart" are reportedly up-in-arms over Sarah Palin's use of their hit song Barracuda at the Republican National Convention. ""The Republican campaign did not ask for...

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