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CBC head quits after defecation, bestiality remarks
OTTAWA -- The chairman of the publicly funded Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has resigned after remarks about bestiality and ruminations about defecation, Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda said on Tuesday.
Guy Fournier created an uproar in Canada's Lebanese community and in the media when he claimed that Lebanon allowed men to have sexual relations with female animals, but reserved the death penalty for those who did so with male animals.
In comments made in May, and replayed in a CBC weekend interview, he talked at length about the joys of bowel movements.
"He has increasingly lost the confidence of Canada's new government," Oda told the House of Commons. "I inform this House that I have received the voluntary resignation of Mr. Fournier effective today."
Reuters ** CBC head quits after defecation, bestiality remarks
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Comedian: "I Miss Bill Clinton"
The Republican committee working to retain GOP control of the House has $36 million in the bank going into the final stretch of the congressional campaign.
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It seems that between the executive producer of the CBS “Evening News” denying that Maher was asked not to speak about religion, and Miller’s comments, Mr. Real Time has a bit of egg on his face.
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Perhaps I should just let this post from dailyKos.com speak for itself:
Bush can’t protect you from Hurricanes? Are you serious? You know he’s not King Canute. Heck even King Canute couldn’t stop the ocean’s tide from rising. This is hysterical; Bush cannot protect you from a hurricane. Uhhh Maccabee, a hurricane is a natural phenomenon, as far as I can know, only God could do much about that. Bill Clinton didn’t protect the Atlantic Coast from Hurricane Floyd, heck I bet even Dennis “Spinach” Kucinich couldn’t do that.
Wait…Wait…this just in. Karl Rove was just named as a co-conspirator along with ABC Republican Crop Dusting for spraying E. coli bacteria on the domestic spinach supply so that America can now lay claim to the famously abundant spinach crops in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is a plot executed by the Big Multi-national Spinach Corporations. Rumor has it that Dick Cheney was President of Haliburton’s Spinach Division.
And to think, those Evangelical kids are getting accused of worshipping Bush when it's the loony left that thinks he has the power to steer hurricanes and spread e coli.
I wish to bring to your attention the following events:
World Trade Center Bombing - February 26, 1993
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WASHINGTON -- The national Democratic Party has spent millions on raising money, consultants and building state parties, entering the weeks before Election Day with only about one-fifth as much as the Republicans for races that could decide control of Congress.
Between Jan. 1, 2005 and July 31 of this year, the party spent about $90.2 million, about a third of that on fundraising expenses, ranging from more than $8 million in direct mail to $10,500 for an event for donors at the five-star Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
Republican Party Chairman Ken Mehlman has developed a highly touted voter outreach operation that party operatives say he will blend with targeted television advertising. It is an operation that helped with a Republican victory in a special congressional election in California and with securing Sen. Lincoln Chafee's Republican primary win in Rhode Island.
To be sure, Republicans have long been able to raise more money than Democrats. Dean, a prolific fundraiser, has been successful at bringing in more money by Democratic standards. But his decision to spend more on states has angered Washington-based party operatives who want to place the party's focus on winning control of Congress and set the stage to regain the White House in 2008.
One Democratic strategist, speaking on condition of anonymity so as not to inflame tensions with Dean, pointed out that the chairman has raised and spent a significant amount of money, arguing that winning this year is crucial to the party winning in 2008.
Dean defenders said the party's two campaign committees -- the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee -- are focused exclusively on the upcoming race, while Dean needs to have a longer view that builds the party for the future.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill, the DCCC chairman who has quarreled with Dean over DNC spending, last week obtained a $2.4 million pledge from the DNC's get-out-the-vote money to specifically mobilize voters in 40 competitive House seats. Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat and chairman of the senatorial campaign committee, is still negotiating with the DNC for a sum to help Senate candidates.
Still, some Democratic strategists say their candidates have indeed benefited from Dean's decision to send much of the party's money to the states. Others say the party's decision to overhaul outdated voters files has provided an invaluable service.
"Our campaign would have had to spent our manpower and our resources if we had to build it from scratch," said Michael Malaise, the campaign manager for Nick Lampson, the Democrat seeking to fill the seat formerly held by House Republican Leader Tom DeLay.
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MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. -- A powerful southern New Jersey politician was paid for a no-work job at a scandal-ridden state university while helping the school garner millions of dollars in new state funding, according to a report released Monday.
According to the report, Bryant helped deliver a total of $12.8 million over the three years - up from $2.8 million per year before the school created a job for him.
Protests target Hungary state TV
Protests have been held outside parliament since Sunday, calling for Mr Gyurcsany to resign.
In a speech sprinkled with obscenities, Mr Gyurcsany says: "We lied in the morning, we lied in the evening."
The main opposition party, Fidesz, has said it will boycott parliament for a day on Tuesday to protest against the "lies" of the Socialist-led government.
Mr Gyurcsany's remarks were recorded on a tape at a closed meeting in late May, weeks after the government became the first in post-communist Hungary to win re-election.
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Couple Accused of Kidnapping Daughter 
SALEM, N.H. -- A 
"Her parents chased her out into the yard, grabbed and tied her hands and feet together," Salem Police Officer Sean Marino wrote in a court affidavit. "Katelyn states that her father then carried her to their car and they headed toward 
Investigators said rope, 
The Kampfs were upset that their daughter was pregnant by a man who is now in jail, police said, and before leaving Maine on Friday they had an argument at the parents' home.
"Katelyn stated to me that upon her parents finding out that she was pregnant, they told her she had no choice but to get an abortion," Marino wrote in his court affidavit.
Katelyn Kampf escaped from her parents in Salem after persuading them to untie her so she could use a Kmart bathroom. After her father went into the men's room, she used a cell phone to call for help, then ran to a nearby Staples store, where police found "a hysterical female hiding in the back of the store," according to the affidavit.
Authorities in Maine said the parents apparently thought that, in light of their daughter's stage of pregnancy and the different abortion laws in each state, the abortion should be performed in New York. Fili said she did not know how many weeks pregnant she was.