"The two Holocaust survivors suing the US government and the Bush family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim both materially benefited from Auschwitz slave labour during the second world war, Kurt Julius Goldstein, 87, and Peter Gingold, 85, began a class action in America in 2001, but the case was thrown out by Judge Rosemary Collier on the grounds that the government cannot be held liable under the principle of "state sovereignty"."
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read moreSen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), piling on to Democratic complaints about President Bush's speech in Israel today:
"This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement."
read moreFunniest five minutes of Chris Matthews ever....this tool makes a total fool of himself, must see!!!
Worlds fattest man, Manuel Uribe is trying to break another weight related world record, losing the most weight.
WXYZ-TV's Peggy Agar shouted a question to the Democratic presidential candidate during his appearance at a Chrysler LLC plant in this auto-making suburb of Detroit. Agar asked Obama what is he "going to do to help American autoworkers."
"Hold on one second, sweetie," Obama replied. "We'll do a press (availability), thanks." He did not reply to Agar's question.
The penis museum in Husavik has hundreds of dicks from every animal but one, Us. Open from May to September, is housed in a plain brown building with.....you guessed it a large penis shaped sign over the door. Dicks range from a hamster at 2mm through a sperm whale at 1.7 meters (5.58feet). Donations are accepted sooo.....
A light will shine down from somewhere.
read moreJohn McCain says its going to be a wonderful world in 2013, when his first term is over. Winnng the Iraq War? Fuhgedaboudit, that's just the tip of the chocolate sundae this guy's got whipped up for us. It's like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, only without rocking horse people eating marshmallow pies. It's a fantasy, of course, but when all you've got is lemonade . . .
read moreYou may loll in false security, infidel, but we never rest.
And we operate in Canada because they, er, ah, well because they are infidels, and we are commanded to destroy the infidel. You don't understand and think we have forgotten our duty. Bah. It isn't just be nice and we won't respond. What ever made you think we were reactive rather than proactive? Pig. Dog.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigators uncovered a hard drive containing "material dealing with bomb making, ricin, techniques of assassination, chemicals, poisons, silencers, etc.," court records say.
Also found were "some sort of military operational plan to infiltrate Burma and establish an al-Qaeda base ... techniques to invade prisons, contract for immoral acts; administrative letters from (Osama bin Laden)," according to an August 2005 RCMP memo.
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted a Missouri woman on Thursday over an alleged role in a MySpace online hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.
"An Ohio-based group of Democratic Hillary Clinton supporters say they'll work actively against Sen. Barack Obama if he becomes the nominee, arguing that Clinton has been the subject of "intense sexism" by party leaders and the media."
read moreSAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court ruled today that same-sex couples should be permitted to marry, rejecting state marriage laws as discriminatory.
On Wednesday, officials disclosed that 26 giant, live beetles were packed in a box sent from Taiwan to the Mohnton Post Office.
Dr. Christopher Sacchi, a professor of biology at Kutztown University who specializes in plant and insect interaction, said the introduction of such foreign species is a serious cause for concern.
He said scientists around the world spend countless hours trying to calculate the risk of exposing exotic species to native habitats.
Hagee, who leads the evangelical group Christians United for Israel, is a proponent of U.S. aid and support for Israel, and he is a major ally of Israeli conservatives who reject any "land for peace" formula in dealing with the Palestinians. But Hagee is viewed with distrust by some Jews and Israelis because his brand of Christian Zionism closely links support for Israel to the end of the world and the conversion of the Jews to Christianity.
Hagee's predictions are very clear. Armageddon, the final battle, could begin, he wrote in his 2007 book "Jerusalem Countdown," "before this book gets published."
Hurd reported to the school district that a student, who was Somali and a Muslim, had threatened to kill his dog. Hurd said that students at Tech had taunted his dog before, but he apparently wasn't concerned by the taunting. However, he felt that he needed to leave the school after the threat was made against Emmitt and he was told about it. Hurd, who wants to teach special education, was to complete 50 hours of student training at the school; however, the last 10 hours of his training were waived, and he will finish his hours ouside the high school setting.
