Pwnt! Well, another of the “good reasons” we went to war with Iraq has proved a myth– along with all the others, like WMD and Saddam’s nuclear ambitions. I wonder if Bush and Cheney still hold these “truths” self-evident? Morons!

In a report released today (wow another Friday release, go figure) by the Senate, Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, contradicting assertions President Bush and Dick Cheney had used to build support for the war in Iraq.

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LONDON (Reuters) - They chase each other at high speed wielding axes and hammers. But the famous cartoon duo of Tom and Jerry are in trouble in Britain for smoking on screen.

A channel airing the cartoons has agreed to cut scenes that glamorise smoking after British media regulator Ofcom received a complaint from a viewer who took offence at two episodes.

In the first, “Texas Tom”, the hapless cat Tom tries to impress a feline female by rolling a cigarette, lighting it and smoking it with one hand. In the second, “Tennis Chumps”, Tom’s opponent in a match smokes a large cigar.

In a bulletin posted online, Ofcom noted “concerns that smoking on television may normalise smoking”, and said that the Turner company, licensee for Boomerang which aired the cartoons, had agreed to edit some smoking scenes out of “Tom and Jerry”.

“The licensee has … proposed editing any scenes or references in the series where smoking appeared to be condoned, acceptable, glamorised or where it might encourage imitation”, Ofcom said, adding that “Texas Tom” was one such example.

But it would not cut all smoking scenes, it added.

Ofcom said it recognized smoking was more generally accepted when cartoons were produced in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, but noted that the threshold for including such scenes when the audience is predominately young should be high.

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A proposed constitutional amendment to allow Congress to prohibit desecration of the flag has fallen a single vote short of approval by the Senate.

The 66 to 34 vote Tuesday on the amendment was one vote short of the 67 required to send the amendment to the states for potential ratification as the 28th Amendment. The decision was the closest proponents of the initiative have come in four Senate votes since the Supreme Court first ruled in 1989 that flag burning was a protected form of free speech.

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So I’m watching Fox News Channel tonight, and I see the well used “breaking news” logo. Five-hundred WMDs found in Iraq. Ok, sounds intriguing. I’d like to learn more.

I turn on Hannity & Colmes and I see Hannity creaming in his pants. Wow, I think to myself, this must be good news for the republicans. Then I see Sen. Rick Santorum (R) with some other guy, extolling the significance of this “great” WMD find, holding some sort of document. Then I think to myself, why is this jerk running around with classified info, and why isn’t the president telling me this? I start to get mistrustful of the old Fair & Balanced network.

My suspicions came to fruition. This is pure bullshit.

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, also known as shit-head, has been killed by a U.S. air strike. This may be a good day after all!

Precision Air Strike

Along with this beautiful kill, his spiritual leader, Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman was also with him (how nice), and is also DEAD! This guy is the scum of the Earth. This guy is lower than ant piss. This guy deserves to be tortured, but I’ll settle for a smart bomb dropped on his head. Even his sister said he got what he deserved!

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Having recently watched the Pentagon’s official video release of the camera that supposedly captured the 9/11 attack, I concluded that my suspicions about a cover-up of sorts were correct. What I saw in that video, along with pictures taken that day, some only several minutes after the attack, were not a very compelling argument for the government’s story.

I decided to put together a photo gallery of all the close-up shots I could find, along with official pictures released by the government. I found about 20 or so very high quality pictures. I also have 12 hours of footage I recorded off TV on 9/11/01, and I watched that as well.

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After waking up and checking the news at Yahoo! and reading about another Iraq mosque bloodbath, I’ve come to a conclusion– bulldoze all mosques in Iraq, then around the world.

Sitting back and thinking, I’ve also come to the realization that Islam is stupid. Christianity is stupid. Catholicism is stupid. Judaism is stupid. Buddhism is stupid. Scientology is even stupider. And George W Bush is probably the king of stupid. If I missed a religion, don’t worry, you too are stupid!

Religion and republicans are the blight of this world, and a religious republican is the cause of all that is stupid going on today in the world. But Tom Cruise helps; cause not only is he stupid, he’s silly.

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Bryant Gumbel hung himself out to dry when he recently made comments about this year’s Winter Olympics, and the astonishingly apparent fact that everyone there is white.

Here is the complete text which contain the comments:

Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t care about them and won’t watch them. Because they’re so trying. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won. So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness, for God’s sake, let the games begin.

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With some on the left turning the church funeral service for Coretta Scott King into a Bush-bashing, anti-war fest, you would have thought you were watching the Democratic National Convention.

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

It’s one thing to disagree with Bush. I do. But you don’t bring your agenda to a funeral, I don’t care how much Coretta Scott King was against the Bush policies. The service is to remember the deceased, not rag on the living, namely Bush and his administration.

I thought it was petty, childish, and I would have liked to see Bush make a comment or two to the people in attendance that they didn’t want to hear. If they’re going after you, you can get a jab or two in there as well.

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Just when I start sticking up for Hamas and the Palestinian people, they go ahead and do something stupid. Fine, make me look stupid.

“Whoever defames our prophet should be executed,” said Ismail Hassan, a tailor who marched in the pouring rain with hundreds of other Muslims in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up,” the protesters chanted.

All this hub-bub is over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, first published in a Danish newspaper in September, one of which depicted the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb.

Some European newspapers reprinted the caricatures this week, prompting protests Friday in Britain, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Palestinian areas. In Sudan, some even urged al-Qaida terrorists to target Denmark.

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