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“Two dozen people marched from the provincial legislature to City Hall in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada’s first Heterosexual Family Pride parade June 18, reported the National Post.

Two hundred thousand people turned out for the gay-pride parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 17, making it the largest gay-pride march anywhere in the Third World.

Half a million people turned out for Berlin’s Christopher Street Day gay-pride parade June 23, despite rain and chilly weather.

Half a million people turned out for Paris’ gay-pride parade June 23, including openly gay Mayor Bertrand Delanoe.

Mmmhmmm. It’s easy to see from the above statistics, all taken from GayWired.com, that heterosexuality is now out of style also. Damn. I am gonna miss it.”

Report: Afghans arrest 5 U.S. scouts an associate of Osama bin Laden claimed Afghan security forces near the border with Iran had arrested five members of American special forces who were carrying maps of sites related to bin Laden?s group. The defense minister of the country?s ruling Taliban denied the report, however.

Clerics reluctant to bless a war on Afghanistan “It’s hard to find any legitimate Islamic clerics who have signed on to Osama bin Laden’s declaration of “holy war” against the United States.

At the same time, many Christian leaders are showing similiar reluctance to put their “just war” blessing on a possible U.S. military attack against Afghanistan.”

Jackson says Taliban may meet with him. The Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday that he might try to meet with the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in an effort to persuade them to hand over Osama bin Laden and his associates in the al Qaeda terrorist network.

In Hijacker’s Bags, a Call to Planning, Prayer and Death. One of the key organizers of the attacks left behind a five-page handwritten document that provides technical and spiritual directions for the terrorists: “Everybody hates death, fears death. But only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death.”

ABCNEWS.com : An Inside Look at al Qaeda This defector from Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda organization, identified only as “Max,” gave ABCNEWS an inside description of life in bin Laden’s terrorist training camps.

CBS News | UK: Bin Laden Alive, Well, Plotting | Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:00:06 EDT Osama bin Laden may be planning attacks in the next few weeks if he can mobilize resources, according to senior British government officials.

Pakistans’ Talks With Taliban Fail ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan tried and failed today to persuade Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban rulers to surrender Osama bin Laden and avert a possible U.S.-led military strike against their war-battered country.

Special forces hunt bin Laden U.S. commandos search caves, bunkers in Afghanistan. PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Elite troops from U.S. special operations forces have been inside Afghanistan the past 2 weeks looking for Osama bin Laden, but they’re having difficulty locating him and are asking other nations for additional intelligence help, senior U.S. and Pakistani officials have confirmed privately.

Afghans Ask Bin Laden to Leave – Afghan authorities have delivered a message to Osama bin Laden advising him of a decision by the country’s clerics recommending that he leave Afghanistan voluntarily, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan said Thursday.

Apparently they do know where he is… or someone connected to them knows

White House Reprimands Maher WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House press secretary scolded the host of “Politically Incorrect” Wednesday for calling some past U.S. military actions cowardly.

The host, Bill Maher, said on his show last week: “We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly,” Bill Maher said on the show last week.

Then, referring to terrorists who hijacked four jetliners and crashed them Sept. 11, Maher said: “Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly.”

“It’s a terrible thing to say, and it’s unfortunate,” Fleischer said. “There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.”

Oh, no never, never, never… it’s not even set aside in the constitution? The right to freedom of speech? and freedom of the press? Just a minute… wasn’t it true that Americans indeed died horrible deaths so that Mr. Maher can speak his mind openly and freely? Or, was that only in case of “terrorist” acts? Wherein all consitiutional rights are suspended and subject to heavy modification? Well, if so… fuck you Fleischer, fuck you Asscraft, fuck you Cheney, Powell (god rest his soul) and especially you Mr. Bush…

BBC News | FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT | Tension and courtesy in Islamabad Banner urged America: “Think – why are you so hated around the world?”

“These are not extreme, wild, unrepresentative examples – the hostility spans the classes. A banker said to me: “The attack on New York was repaying America in the same coin.” He thinks the Americans are astonishingly and dangerously solipsistic -apparently unable to comprehend grief unless it is their own.

“Remember the Iran airbus?” he asked me – deliberately shot down over the gulf by the USS Vincennes despite the ship’s radar showing conclusively that it was not a fighter plane on a hostile course. “Did the Americans weep for those 200 dead?” he asked. “Tears of the same colour whoever is weeping? Grief makes the same pain.’”

The fire this time. “5 million dead in Vietnam. The US invasion of Panama. The US overthrow of the democratically elected government of Chile in 1973 and the consequent murders by Pinochet. Between 600,000 and 1 million dead in Cambodia from secret US carpet bombing between 1969 and 1973. US arms and support for the Indonesian invasion of East Timor – 200,000 dead, one third of the entire population. The likely death toll in New York will pale in comparison to the death toll every two months in Iraq due to US led sanctions and the deliberate destruction of their electrical grid and their water treatment and supply infrastructure. To name but a few…”

Extreme birth deformities – the children of Iraq. “I have recently received large numbers of photographs of horrendous birth deformities that are being experienced in Iraq. I have not, quite frankly, ever seen anything like them. I urge you to copy this page / these pictures and circulate them as widely as possible.”

God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule “Look, I don’t know, maybe I haven’t made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again,” said the Lord, His divine face betraying visible emotion during a press conference near the site of the fallen Twin Towers. “Somehow, people keep coming up with the idea that I want them to kill their neighbor. Well, I don’t. And to be honest, I’m really getting sick and tired of it. Get it straight. Not only do I not want anybody to kill anyone, but I specifically commanded you not to, in really simple terms that anybody ought to be able to understand.”

The Onion is back…

Ex-officer changes tune — and gender — before wife’s trial for fraud Former Florida City Capt. Scott Cote swore under oath last year that his wife Janet, a Miami-Dade County police dispatcher, got hurt on the job and had a legitimate disability claim. But since then, Scott has had a change of heart — and gender.

Amid a messy divorce, he admitted lying. He now tells prosecutors that Janet staged her accident. Scott, however, is now Stacey Cote. Sex change.

Floridians do the darnest things!

Nations brace for Afghan refugees as the try to bail out of the country by the thousands. Hey, here’s an idea. Lets start diverting some of our “blood and budweiser” donation collection campaigns from NYC to Iran and Pakistan… They don’t need any more mouths to feed. They can hardly feed their own.

Attorney General John Ashcroft warns of “clear and present danger” of additional terrorist attacks that could include trucks carrying hazardous chemicals…. he asks for broader discression for the FBI to “root out possible terrorists” – holy shit. Am I the only person that is scared of one faith-based set of initiatives chasing another?

Things are heating up in Afghanistan as U.S. Kabul embassy is torched. “Witnesses in Kabul said that thousands of angry Afghans denouncing any attack over the Taliban’s failure to hand over Saudi-born Muslim militant Osama bin Laden (news – web sites) had sacked and set fire to U.S. embassy, which was abandoned in 1989.

“Death to Bush,” the protesters, mostly government officials and students, shouted. “We will support Islam and bin Laden.” The protesters burned an effigy of Bush, ripped apart a U.S. flag and hurled stones at the gates and offices of the embassy before setting it alight.”

Starbucks dropped the ball in New York

Patriotism abounds – Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg online reports a wave of individuals wanting patriotic tattoos. “Nobody can buy a flag now (because they are selling out), but they can get something that’s forever. Now they can’t forget,” said Brent Cox, manager of a tattoo studio called Dynamite Dermagraphics in Crystal River. “This is the only thing that people can’t take away from you. You can’t lose it. It’s not going to break. You take it to your grave.”

Taliban Says U.S. Should Leave Gulf

Snopes.com has put together a page of Rumors of War. That is to say this war which is not quite yet a war but, soon will be.

U.S. Forces Arrive Near Afghanistan