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Cindy Sheehan Arrested After U.N. March By PAUL BURKHARDT, Associated Press Writer 2 hours ago Cindy Sheehan, who became a peace activist after her ... NEW YORK - Cindy Sheehan, who drew international attention when she camped outside President Bush's ranch to protest the Iraq war, was arrested Monday along with three other women during a demonstration demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. The march to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations by about a dozen U.S. and Iraqi anti-war activists followed a news conference at U.N. headquarters, where Iraqi women described daily killings and ambulance bombings as part of the escalating violence that keeps women in their homes. Women Say No to War, which helped organize the march, claimed Sheehan was physically assaulted by security officers during the arrests. Photos show officers dragging Sheehan, with her shirt yanked up. Police said the four women were arrested for criminal trespassing and resisting arrest. The women were trying to deliver a petition to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations with more than 60,000 signatures urging the "withdrawal of all troops and all foreign fighters from Iraq." When they arrived at the mission, they found the doors locked. Ann Wright, a former U.S. Army colonel and U.S. diplomat, said in a statement issued by the group that the U.S. Mission refused to send someone to meet with the women "whose lives and families have been shattered by this destructive and immoral war." The protesters refused to leave without delivering the petition, she said. At one point, witnesses said they sat down in front of the doors and interlocked their legs. Richard Grenell, the spokesman for the U.S. Mission, said in response to Sheehan's arrest: "We invited her in to discuss her concerns with a U.S. Mission employee. She chose not to come in but to lay down in front of the building and block the entrance. It was clearly designed to be a media stunt, not aimed at rational discussion," Grenell said. At the news conference, Sheehan said when her 24-year-old son _ a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq _ died in April 2004, "the morgues were filled with innocent men, women and children." Entessa Mohammed, a pharmacist who works at a hospital in Baghdad, became tearful when recalling the deaths and injuries she said she has witnessed daily. She estimated that 1,600 Iraqis are killed in Baghdad every month, with a greater number injured. "Thanks for the liberation from Saddam" Hussein, Mohammed said, addressing the Bush administration, "now please go out." U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice planned to meet with delegations of Iraqi and Afghan women in Washington on Wednesday, which is International Women's Day, to honor their achievements in politics. The Women Say No to War activists, who plan to be in Washington on Wednesday to meet with members of Congress, said they were denied requests to meet with Rice or other "relevant" State Department officials.Quote I don't care if someone is against the war that is being fought in so many places that we don't have enough fingers and toes to count them on... She is an afront to many of us who served and continue to serve, and yet still gets away with using others names without permission, and represents herself as a speaker for all of them. If you don't have permission to speak for a dead person DON'T!!!

Yanni Arrested in Alleged Domestic Dispute By Associated Press 2 hours ago An undated photo provided by the Palm Beach Sheriff's ... MANALAPAN, Fla. - The musician Yanni was arrested at his home after an alleged domestic dispute with his girlfriend, authorities said. Yanni, whose legal name is John Yanni Christopher, was arrested early Friday and faces a domestic battery charge, according to a police report. The Greek-born singer-pianist denied the allegations. Yanni asked his girlfriend, Silvia Barthes, to leave his beachfront home in Manalapan on Thursday night, the police report said. Barthes, 33, told police she attempted to pack her clothing but the 51-year-old musician threw it on the ground. She told officers he then grabbed her arms and shook her, throwing her on the bed, and jumped on top of her, according to the report. Yanni told police Barthes kicked him, and he believed he injured his finger during the incident, the report said. No one answered a call to a telephone listing for a John Christopher in Manalapan late Monday. But the musician said in a statement he was innocent. "These allegations are cruel, false, without merit and baseless," said the statement released by his manager, Danny O'Donovan. "At a more appropriate time and place, I hope and pray I will have an opportunity to address my fans and colleagues all over the world." Quote In a related story Yanni has been receiveing treatment for severe PMS

how about a jump student who proceeds to fuck her jumpmasters and then every willing guy and girl on the DZ, and only winds up begging for more and her activities include even licking up any cum spilled on the sheets?.... all filmed with skycams of course!!! Hi Susan!!! I miss you! she won't mind me using her name...she likes the free advertisement!!!! It's good to have friends!!!

Just leave a cam running in our trailer @ SDC! Hi Gene!!!

Morrisey isn't from mars he just sings that way!!!

I smell a spreadsheet somewhere

hey who appointed you boss?...oh yeah it was you!...hehehehe Hi boss man!!!! Once a client asked me if I was worried about being fired...I said yes I fired myself 4 times in the last week!

how can anyone not love their music? great social commentary and an excellent sound right now I am listening to "how soon is now?" I never get tired of their unique style and lyrics

another idea I have is having a mass jump on the target objective...all large and scary looking guys...weapons optional... maybe a tandem with the passenger using the paintball gun as you make a nice pass?

I earlier had stated my opinions and my solutions...they would work if implemented...hehehe for those of you who didn't read it try using a paintball gun running with a muzzle velocity @ 500f/ps with oleoresin capsacium balls.... they will never forget that maybe god works in mysterious and quite personal ways

I believe it would be me that gets banned if it were up to the posters who disagree with some of my more provacative talking points...but the Mods run this...hehehehe

And yet you guys wonder why the women on the forums don't post more racy pictures. can you say that again?....only real slow and sexy this time?

ummmm John?...the pistol was the cops pistol!

I am not saying anyone on here needs to agree with anyone...that would be boring as hell... But I do think we need to refrain from implying someone has a terrorist mindset. I may, or may not have more experience with Muslims, Arabs, the Middle East, and Terrorism than anyone else here... but i do know that unfair treatment will drive someone in that direction. If even I can see through that maybe you guys can too

well even if you do understand german you would still come to the same conclusion... SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG WITH THAT BOY WTF is the entire point of that?

Done, now lets see the obligatory home town porn you have of her!

Oh don't apologize to me it's Jeffrey that was implied to be a loon.... besides a loon is a protected species!!!! federal law you know!!!

As for Darius, in this thread he sounds like a typical Israeli hater, who wants to “wipe out Israel from the map”, (digging out 3-year-old articles to “substantiate” his point), hence talking emotions rather then facts. Darius, please don’t drive a car in the crowed of people to protest US government treatment of Muslims (like Mohammad Taheri of UNC). R Nice that you say that about someone you may not even know...Darius is not like that, maybe if you spoke to him you would realize that, maybe you should keep your mouth shut instead of informing everyone that you are foolish and make people think that you are possibly a racist.

Gee, then lets get rid of all that old information that civilization has been using for hundreds of years.... you know enyclopedias, dictionaries, knowledge, etc. I mean that's just soooo elementary school

Was There a 'Brokeback' Backlash? By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer 4 hours ago NEW YORK - We chatted about it, joked about it, argued about it, spoofed it. "Brokeback Mountain" was everywhere in our popular culture _ yet it lost the big Oscar it was supposed to win. Was there a "Brokeback Backlash," or was "Crash" just the worthy contender that came on strong in the final Best Picture stretch? There were as many theories being offered up Monday as there are "Brokeback" parodies on the Internet. One theory was that, despite the hoopla, the endless late-night monologues and the clever imitations, people (Academy voters, that is) didn't really love the soulful saga of two gay cowboys _ and perhaps even felt uncomfortable with its themes. "Sometimes people pretend to like movies more than they actually do," said Richard Walter, who heads the screenwriting program at UCLA's film school. "But this film wasn't really THAT good. What it tried to do was great, sensational. But what it actually accomplished wasn't so great. You can't really buy the love story." Film critic Kenneth Turan, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said the problem wasn't with the film's quality. Rather, he said, "you could not take the pulse of the industry without realizing that this film made people distinctly uncomfortable." "In the privacy of the voting booth ... people are free to act out the unspoken fears and unconscious prejudices that they would never breathe to another soul, or likely, acknowledge to themselves. And at least this year, that acting out doomed `Brokeback Mountain.'" Gay activists did not necessarily agree. "I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national gay rights group. He noted that "Brokeback" and "Crash" both dealt with "tough issues like indifference and intolerance." "I was certainly disappointed," Solmonese said. "But I would trade that Oscar for all the positive conversations that this movie spurred between parents and their gay children, or between employees and their gay co-workers. That impact transcends any accolades." Some people focused on the demographics of the typical Academy voter: older, and city-dwelling. Author and "Brokeback" co-screenwriter Larry McMurtry thought that was key to his film's loss. "Members of the Academy are mostly urban people," McMurtry, who won the adapted screenplay prize with Diana Ossana, said backstage at Sunday night's ceremony. "We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made." McMurtry could have added that not only are Academy voters urban, they also are from Los Angeles _ the city that is the heart of "Crash," a racial drama depicting the intertwining experiences of an array of characters over 36 hours. The film, featuring a huge and accomplished cast ("Raise your hand if you're NOT in `Crash,'" host Jon Stewart quipped to the crowd), also won for original screenplay and film editing. "Brokeback" director Ang Lee, who won the directing prize, said he hadn't a clue why the film didn't take the best-picture award. "They didn't vote for it," he said. "I don't know. You asked me one question, and I don't know the answer." But his brother had an opinion. Lee Kang, speaking in Tapei, Taiwan, suggested American bias was involved. "When the locals are voting, they will have this, whether you call it nationalism or something else," he said. "Crash" writer/director Paul Haggis, for his part, said he hadn't "for a second" believed the whispers, which grew louder as Oscar night approached, that "Crash" had the momentum to overtake "Brokeback." "I didn't believe any of that nonsense," he said. "In fact, we were so shocked. I mean, we're still trying to figure out if we got this." "Crash" came out to mixed reviews in May, considered much too early for a film to stay in voters' minds. But Lionsgate Films reminded voters and critics of the movie's potency by flooding them with copies of the DVD late in 2005. In winning over the heavily favored "Brokeback," the film evoked major upsets of the past, most recently the 1999 triumph of "Shakespeare in Love" over "Saving Private Ryan." Another famous underdog champ was "Chariots of Fire," which in 1982 beat both Warren Beatty's historical epic, "Reds," and the family story "On Golden Pond." One disturbing difference for the Academy: a lot more viewers tuned in to see those upsets. An estimated 38.8 million people watched Sunday's telecast on ABC _ down 8 percent from last year and the second-worst showing in nearly two decades, according to Nielsen Media Research. Except for the 2003 count of 33 million viewers _ when "Chicago" took the best-picture award _ viewership hadn't dipped below 40 million since 1987. So what is to be learned from Sunday night's upset result? Not much, says Walter, the film professor. You just really never know what Academy voters are going to do. "It's just a crapshoot," Walter said. "You go to Vegas and you put your money on number 17. "There is NO lesson to be learned from all this. It doesn't mean a thing."

JC you have to try my Venison Burgers I mix it with half ground beef (murray gray angus) or some pork fat ground with the venison when it is made...then topped with nice amish blue cheese crumbles and toasted onions...on a sourdough roll.... oh and don't forget never use anything but seasalt garlic and fresh ground blackpepper! I like to top it with Mrs. bensons tomatoes from my garden and fresh baby greens from my garden as well they need a drooling emote don't you think?

wanna see picture of Enzo again? hehehe

Lesbian Becomes College Homecoming King By Associated Press 4 hours ago FREDERICK, Md. - Hood College is reviewing its homecoming rules after a lesbian was crowned king, a college official says. But Jennifer Jones, the 21-year-old senior who beat out three men for the honor, says her victory last month was a plus for the private liberal-arts college. "It is cool that Hood allows people to be themselves," Jones, of Newark, Del., told The Frederick News-Post. "If people didn't want me to be king, they wouldn't have nominated me and voted for me." Waves of discontent are still rippling through the 2,100-student campus in western Maryland more than two weeks after Jones was crowned at the Feb. 18 homecoming dance, the News-Post reported Monday. "She is not a man," said Singleton Newman, a 22-year-old senior who was among the queen candidates. "It is a gender issue, and she is a woman." Santo Provenzano, 21, who competed for king, said Jones' selection made the event seem like a joke. "It discourages guys from wanting to take part in the future," he said. Donald Miller, Hood's student activities director, said all homecoming events will be reviewed and possibly changed. "We will look at what students want Hood's homecoming to be," he said. Jones, who is openly homosexual, received 64 of 169 votes cast, the News-Post reported. She is known on campus as a multi-sports athlete, member of the Student Government Association's executive board and president of Tolerance Education Acceptance, a support group for homosexual and bisexual students. It was only the second annual homecoming at Hood, which didn't allow male students to live on campus until 2003. In 1912, the school's board of trustees changed its name to honor a wealthy benefactor. The institution became fully coeducational in 2002. Jones tried to run last year for homecoming prince but the student committee wouldn't let her on the ballot, even though she had gathered the required number of signatures on nominating petitions. "We were trying to be inclusive of the male population and felt that because of this, we shouldn't allow a woman to run for the position," said Cheryl Banks, a committee member last year and this year's homecoming queen. Miller said a rule change this year abolished the petitions and required that candidates be nominated by student ballots. Jones said she didn't even know she was nominated until she saw her name on the final ballots that were distributed Feb. 13. Those ballots had been reviewed the night before by only half of the homecoming committee members at a hurriedly scheduled meeting, the News-Post reported. Sophomore Jovanni Mahonez, who chaired this year's committee, said that before the ballots were distributed, she told both Miller and Olivia White, dean of students, that Jones was a king candidate. Miller said the meeting was "more of an FYI than for her asking our permission."Quote WOW

Eugene quit gagging Renee and pull your pants up!!! or get a leash for that thing!!!

Actually Jeffrey is not a loon...he has his points of interest and is willing to explain himself fully... I wish others were capable of the same