BOSTON - An activist group hoping to pressure the Roman Catholic church into dropping its long-standing prohibition barring women from the priesthood says it ordained three women on Sunday.

"Catholics who attempt to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the women who attempt to receive a sacred order, are by their own actions separating themselves from the church," the archdiocese said.

One world leader after another is pointing out that there is a strong resemblance between the Bush Administration and Hitler's administration. Yet, the working class in the U.S. either doesn’t know enough about these two administrations to understand the similarities or, like the Germany people who supported Hitler, they don't care.

SYDNEY, Australia AP — Pope Benedict XVI said he was "deeply sorry' for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Catholic clergy, delivering a strongly-worded apology Saturday that described their acts as evil and a grave betrayal of trust. End

Yes, yes we know how sorry you and all the good Cardinals are for not only condoning these ungodly acts, but participating in them by transferring these predators from one area to another to prey upon yet another group of children. Well, old man, even though it's evident that you don't believe a damn word you preach, if there is a hell, you will go there right along with these demons you and your Protestant counterparts have turned loose on the world. So be our guest and just keep spreading your damn Pope poop, you unholy leech.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Five militants freed in a prisoner swap with Israel prayed and laid wreaths at the grave of a slain Hezbollah commander Thursday, vowing to fight Israel as supporters showered them with rice.

"We swear by God ... to continue on your same path and not to retreat until we achieve the same stature that God bestowed on you," said Samir Kantar, who had been the longest-held Lebanese prisoner in Israel. End

I have never spoken a kind word about the Israelis in my life, but it's simply impossible to deal with these hate-consumed Arabs. True, the U.S., British, and Israelis have committed barbaric acts against Muslims. But Muslims, what day in the future can we expect to come together with you, and like the Catholics and Protestants in Ireland say, "Enough!"

When I write about Christians I often think, "I shouldn't say this. I have at least one or two people like my friend LuisFTS who are Christians."

But history is on my side. Take the Pope. For over three decades he did nothing about the Church protecting God only knows how many sex offenders and child predators. Only after the Church had to pay out millions, has it owned up to its nasty deeds. No one can tell me different because I was one of those children. But not in two life times will I take money that was given to the Church by people worse off financially than I've ever been. This is not the Pope's money that he and his buddies are handing out. It's money given by poor people to do God's work, not Satan's.

Okay, so I'm one of those guys who people call a rebel, alarmist, theorist, and no good SOB. Doesn't anyone but this country boy find it strange that the FBI, Scotland Yard, and every damn rent-a-cop in the world will join forces to catch a guy who steals a damn painting, but do everything possible not to find a guy who leveled the World Trade Center? Not to mention has steadily been blowing up, and encouraging others to blow up, people and buildings around the world for seven long years?

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks tumbled Friday as investors focused on troubles at mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and watched oil prices climb further into record territory. The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 170 points and neared the 11,000 mark for the first time in two years. End

When I first started working for the sociopaths and mercenaries in Washington, D.C. I had to keep reminding myself it was real, not some nightmare. There I was, sitting in a room in our nation's capitol listening to people who were employed to serve and protect talking about their employers and fellow countrymen like farmers discussing animals at a livestock auction. Not once in thirty-five years did I hear anyone say in private that what we were doing or planning was best for America, let alone the world. It was always what was best for the administration, the agency, the House or the Senate. If the masses should happen to benefit from the plan, so much the better; but that was never a goal or even a sub-goal. This is what it's all about…

Iraq may agree…

Iraq says may agree to timetable for U.S. withdrawal.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised the prospect on Monday of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as part of negotiations over a new security agreement with Washington.

It was the first time the U.S.-backed Shi'ite-led government has floated the idea of a timetable for the removal of American forces from Iraq. The Bush administration has always opposed such a move, saying it would give militant groups an advantage. End

SYDNEY (AFP) - Heat waves, less rain and increased drought are the likely prospect for Australia, according to a new report on climate change which the agriculture minister said read like a "disaster novel".

It said that exceptionally hot years, which once occurred every 20 to 25 years, were more likely to hit every one or two years. And the hotter weather could begin as soon as 2010. End

Let the ice cap melt; it only reflects the heat from the sun, protecting earth from becoming just so much desert. The great grandchildren of the morons who elected and reelected George Exxon Bush and Dick Halliburton Cheney can survive, at least for a while, by killing off each other for a drink of water.