NEW YORK (AP) — Two men had recently bought a house together in San Francisco, and the neighbors were annoyed. The men were entertaining “a very suspicious mixture of people,” the neighbors wrote, asking: “How can we improve the neighborhood?”
“Yo ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:48AM
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Protesters from Ukraine-based rights group FEMEN staged a topless demonstration against the Vatican’s increasingly hostile stance on gay rights this weekend.
The four women, whose torsos were inked with messages like “In Gay We Trust” and “Shut Up ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:43AM
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A story about Manti Te’o‘s girlfriend dying of leukemia, which the Notre Dame All-American credited with inspiring him as he led the Fighting Irish to the BCS title game, turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 8:40AM
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January 17, 2013---Woods, 37, has enlisted Elin’s brother to help win her back, a source close to the golf superstar, told Jose Lambiet’s Gossip Extra. The former No. 1 golfer in the world, who lives in Jupiter Island, has been begging older brother ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 4:27PM
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January 16, 2013 ---2 Live Crew alum Luther Campbell has jumped into the debate over Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.” In an op-ed for the Miami New Times, the former rapper weighs in on Spike Lee, who has publicly taken issue with Tarantino’s ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 4:20PM
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How I'd love to not think about Lance Armstrong. Again. Ever. But I live in Austin. And have lived here since Willie was singing at the Armadillo World Headquarters and George W. Bush was skipping out on National Guard service. We have a bikeway her ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 8:59AM
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18 Lessons Kids Learn from Your Relationship
You can spend countless hours lecturing your offspring on the benefits of being kind, gracious and forgiving people, but the reality is they get most of their how-to information by watching the way their ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 8:32AM
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by Bethany Monk
She was young. She was in college. And like many other women, she believed the lie. It was 1981. After finding out she was pregnant, Carrie Gordon Earll, now a senior policy analyst at CitizenLink, decided to have an abortion. The l ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 2:39AM
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Just kidding! I edited the title so "My Peep" would be drawn to the blog. Did it work? Here's a sampling of work perks based on level of employment. Availability will also depend on your field. (Hint: don't be afraid to ask for stuff in the tier ab ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 2:17AM
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Epiphany and the Magi: Names of the 3 Wise Men In the conventional version of the Christmas story, the wise men or magi:•Gaspar, •Melchior and •Balthasar started the gift-giving custom of Christmas by bringing gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the Ch ...
Posted Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 1:35AM
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Janus
No, he wasn't particularly hypocritical. He simply looked behind at the year before and forward to the new year. Janus is an ancient Roman, composite, obscure god who is associated with doorways, beginnings, and transitions. A usually tw ...
Posted Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 1:07AM
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Precious Perry shares a few things in common with the fictional protagonist in the 2009 film “Precious.” Both young women grew up in Harlem with troubled single mothers. Both left home in their teens. And both had their lives changed by social worke ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 10:28PM
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In a world of fiercely guarded corporate names and logos, it should be easy to understand this feast. The letters IHS are an abbreviation of Jesous, the Greek name for Jesus. Although St. Paul might claim credit for promoting devotion to the Holy Na ...
Posted Sunday, January 13th 2013 at 12:40AM
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BREAKING - "Lance ... to admit doping," by USA Today's Brent Schrotenboer: "Armstrong plans to make an admission about doping in an interview with Oprah Winfrey ... to tape Monday at his home in Austin ... In the interview, which is scheduled to air ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 9:33PM
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INAUGURAMA - "Obama's 2nd inauguration smaller, yet still grand," by AP's Nedra Pickler : "Estimates of turnout are 600,000 to 800,000, compared with the 1.8 million in the record crowd on the National Mall four years ago ... While organizers said Ob ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 9:27PM
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Friday, January 11, 2013
At Barack Obama’s second public inauguration ceremony Jan. 21, a laywoman will offer the invocation, apparently for the first time. We’ve got nothing against clergy, for obvious reasons, but we like this idea. A lot ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 2:20AM
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HRN Services Inc. is looking for committed, professional travelers to help fill needs at several Las Vegas facilities. Come spend the winter with us and enjoy the warm, Las Vegas weather. Leav ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 2:06AM
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An Evangelical pastor scheduled to give the benediction at President Obama’s second inaugural ceremony next week withdrew from participating in the event Thursday after uproar over a sermon he gave about homosexuality.
The Rev. Louie Giglio, a pas ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 1:54AM
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I'm was browsing through blogs that I missed and saw this one!!!!
I must say, Mr. West I guess that's why the President spoke out when Travon Martin was murdered is cause he don't care bout Black kids, Huh????
What a stupid statement. The tr ...
Posted Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 1:37AM
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Abraham Galloway was a mixed-race, 19th century slave and brick mason. Born in Smithville, North Carolina, his father was a white man named John Wesley Galloway, who was the son of a wealthy Brunswick County planter. His mother was a 17-year-old slav ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 4:07PM
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Add Grammy-winning R&B singer Fantasia to the growing list of musical acts heading to New Orleans Super Bowl weekend. Sherri Shepherd, host of ABC’s “The View,” and Grammy-winning gospel musician Kirk Franklin, are hosting the Sup ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 4:02PM
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Erica and Tina Campbell, the award-winning gospel duo known best to fans as Mary Mary, had a successful run with their self-titled reality show on WEtv last year. So of course they’re back with season two on Thursday night at 9 p.m. This episode find ...
Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 3:53PM
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Stressing “kindness creates kindness, generosity creates generosity and love creates love”, a 51-year-old California...
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Posted Thursday, January 10th 2013 at 3:33PM
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