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slappy4428 · Jul 17, 2008

I would watch Deborah Gibson read the phone book.. I get lost in her eyes...

Songbird · Jul 17, 2008

She's quality!

Songbird · Jul 17, 2008

Stephen Colbert to have spider named after him

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) _ Stephen Colbert has a big decision to make: Which spider species should bear his name?

The Daily Reflector of Greenville reported Thursday that East Carolina University associate professor Jason Bond has agreed to name a species after Colbert, host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report."

Bond is a biologist who specializes in spiders and millipedes. He and students study both new and known species and provide names for the new ones.

Colbert developed spider envy after learning Bond had given the name of Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi — for rocker Neil Young — to a trapdoor spider. The 44-year-old comedian demanded that a spider be named after him.

"Where's my spider?" he said. "I have lots of animals named after me: turtles, eagles, Ontario Junior League hockey mascots. The world demands an eight-legged tribute to Stephen Colbert and I do not mean another barbershop quartet."

Colbert interviewed Bond by phone for his June 24 show.

"So tell me about my spider," Colbert said. "Does it shoot poison darts? Does it lay eggs in your ears?"

Bond told Colbert he could choose one of 27 trapdoor spiders, which lurk under the ground, waiting until they sense something walking by to grab it.

Now that Colbert is back from a two-week vacation, he must choose a species to carry the name "Aptostichus stephencolberti." Because Colbert doesn't pronounce the "t'' in his last name, it will be silent in the spider's name as well.

"Because names are important, it is quite an honor. ... I wouldn't name a species after him if I didn't think it was appropriate," Bond said

Appgrad05 · Jul 17, 2008

American League
Detroit at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.
National League
N.Y. Mets at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.
San Diego at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Colorado, 9:05 p.m.
WNBA
Minnesota at Houston, Noon
Washington at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
MLS
Kansas City at Columbus, 8 p.m.

goalmouth · Jul 17, 2008

Jesse Helms, R-Spider family

zebracoy · Jul 17, 2008

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Do not vote for more than two players per team.

Songbird · Jul 17, 2008

TRENTON — Dear “John,” your days of buying cheap sex from drug-adled skanks off the dirty streets are growing shorter.

kokane_muthashed · Jul 17, 2008

You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you.

Songbird · Jul 17, 2008

I liked this ed-page column we're running ...

By DIANA WEST
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
“Explain the minaret ban,” I ask.
I am sitting in a house overlooking the Swiss Alps. Across the table, Oskar Freysinger sits prepared to address my query over some espresso, speaking as a local leader of the Swiss People’s Party.
Or perhaps I should say — a local leader of the “extremist,” “bigoted” and “xenophobic” Swiss People’s Party. That’s how this largest political party in tiny Switzerland is routinely discussed, or, rather, dismissed by elites.
Why? Because the Swiss People’s Party is, with noticeable success, fighting to bring massive immigration, including Islamic immigration, under control in Switzerland before this neutral, independent, non-European Union country loses its uniquely Swiss character. That’s hardly unimaginable given that 21 percent of Swiss residents are foreign. Men like Freysinger are a dire threat to the multicultural world order.
The Swiss People’s Party has amassed more than the requisite 100,000 signatures on a petition to trigger a national referendum on whether Switzerland should ban minarets, the towers that soar high enough over mosques to transform the skyline of European cathedral towns. Out of 90 mosques in Switzerland, however, only two have minarets.
Freysinger, 48, with his long, dark pony tail and summer sandals, confounds the alpine stereotype. A high school teacher of German literature, he is fluent in German and French as well as Italian and English.
Discussing the “long progression” of Islam into Swiss life — Muslims are now 4.3 percent of Switzerland’s mainly Christian population of 7.5 million — he explains that what concerns him is not the Islamic religion but Islamic law, Sharia.
As to the referendum drive, he says that while there is religious freedom in Switzerland for new mosques, this same freedom does not extend to minarets. He sees minarets as political more than religious symbols. “Minarets are not necessary for the practice” of Islam, he says.
Indeed, historically, the minaret has often served as a sign of Islamic political power. In our own era, it may be seen to symbolize the introduction of Islamic law into formerly non-Islamic societies.
“And so,” adds Freysinger, “we attack this symbol of conquering Islam and we say: ‘You are welcome in our country, but there is one law, and one constitution for every person in this country. And there is no special law for an Islamic girl, or an Islamic man.”
Given the premodern inequities of Sharia, the notion of one enlightened law and constitution for all should be a simple, desirable state of Western affairs. But no. As the West tilts to accommodate aspects of
Islasmic law, ranging from sexual segregation to polygamous marriage to censorship regarding criticism of Islam itself, Freysinger’s point of view becomes, to appeasers, increasingly controversial and dangerous. He elicits catcalls and worse from the media and political establishments. To oppose the extreme tenets of Sharia is to risk being labeled an extremist yourself.
One litmus test to many politicians on the European Right is to question their views on Israel. How do their views align with those of “fascists” or “neo-Nazis”?
And so I ask Freysinger where Israel fits into his worldview.
“Our party has always defended Israel because we are well aware that if Israel disappears, we lose a vanguard,” he says. “They are fighting now our fight, in fact. And as long as the Muslims are concentrated on Israel, it is not so hard for us. But as soon as Israel will have disappeared, well, they will come to get the other part.”
I think by “the other part” he means the rest of the West.
In this outlook, Freysinger is by no means alone on the European Right. Members of such parties — for example, Belgium’s Vlaams Belang, the Danish People’s Party and Holland’s Freedom Party — have explained to me that they find common cause with Israel in its struggle against both Islamization and jihad.
— Diana West (dianawest@verizon.net) is a columnist for The Washington Times.
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CentralIllinoisan · Jul 17, 2008

Defending champion Sherri Steinhauer of Madison, Wis., reacts as she just misses a putt for birdie on the fourth green during the first round of the LPGA State Farm Classic in Springfield.

shotglass · Jul 17, 2008

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Norman’s good life
just getting better

Jay Sherman · Jul 18, 2008

wow, my boss just told me that i get to cover training camp

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