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Palin Brushing Up On Foreign Policy At Epcot

ORLANDO, FL—Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin sought to silence those who have criticized her lack of foreign affairs experience Tuesday by announcing plans for a weeklong, 10-nation tour of Walt Disney World’s Epcot. According to Palin, the trip—her first past Frontierland—will include speaking engagements at Norway’s famous Viking ride, sausages at Germany’s Kaufhaus, and, time permitting, a fact-finding mission to Future World.

The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It is named after the nearby town of Falkirk in central Scotland. The difference in the levels of the two canals at the wheel is 24 metres (79 ft), roughly equivalent to the height of an eight storey building. The structure is located near the Rough Castle Fort and the closest village is Tamfourhill.

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O’FALLON, MO. — The spotlight shone on the Rev. Mike Schreiner on Sunday as he preached about who goes to heaven and how earthly relationships will translate in the hereafter.

Off to Schreiner’s right, the steady glow of dozens of cell phones lit up the section where the teens of Morning Star Church sat listening to the sermon, thumbs furiously working little keyboards.

High above the 700-seat sanctuary, Amie Haskins, 27, the director of worship, sat in the church’s control booth receiving their text messages on the church’s cell phone. She screened out some (most were about whether pets would be in heaven — a point she knew Schreiner would be addressing later in the sermon), and typed others into a computer that was connected to Schreiner’s laptop next to him. During Schreiner’s 30-minute sermon, Haskins received 35 questions.

Schreiner answered just three of them, but the church’s embrace of texting — this was the third week of its experiment — has already improved the dialogue, according to Schreiner, and energized many of Morning Star’s younger members.

“I love it,” said 14-year-old Kailey Elfstrum, who had her text all ready to go even before Schreiner’s sermon began. “You get to ask the pastor anything you want while he’s talking.”

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“Our lawmakers would do better to focus on policies that promote education and achievement to counteract poverty and the bigotry of low expectations, ” Hughes said in a statement Thursday.

Hughes spoke out in response to a proposal by state Rep. John Labruzzo, a Republican from suburban Metairie, to combat poverty by offering poor women and men $1,000 to undergo reproductive sterilization and vasectomies. In addition, the lawmaker said he is considering whether to propose tax incentives for college-educated people to have more children.

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For instance, you can get rid of the gray:

Turn gray hair dark again without an expensive trip to the salon or the use of chemical hair dyes. Make your own natural dye using brewed tea and herbs: Steep 3 tea bags in 1 cup boiling water. Add 1 tablespoon each of rosemary and sage (either fresh or dried) and let it stand overnight before straining. To use, shampoo as usual, and then pour or spray the mixture on your hair, making sure to saturate it thoroughly. Take care not to stain clothes. Blot with a towel and do not rinse. It may take several treatments to achieve desired results.

22 more uses here

A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and an evangelical professor of religion discuss what Mormonism is, what it isn’t, and what it means to be Christian.

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Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2008, marks BBW’s 27th anniversary (September 27 through October 4).

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Last meals delivery service provides clients with a replica of the ‘last meal’ consumed by someone executed in teh United States.  The cost of the service is $20, that standard budget allocated by the state for the meal.  At this time, delivery is limited to teh downtown Toronto area.

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• If I were Mark Cuban rich, I would sooooooo have an ICEE machine in my house.
• Oh, how I miss Tim Russert right now.
• I am now dumber for watching Knight Rider the other night.  I didn’t intent to watch it, it just happen to be the next show on after whatever we were watching.  I don’t mind the campy acting, that’s to be expected, but when the car actually starts to transform in a completely unrealistic way, I can’t believe what they are trying to sell me.  At least the original show kept the realm of realism into play.
• The first 15 minutes of that show was soooo absurd.  Somehow KITT, guy, and girl make this escape and some sort of heat seeking missile hits KITT, and not only does KITT survive but the missile had some sort of special chemical engulfed KITT in flames and continued to burn and heat up the inside no matter how fast KITT was driving down the road.  In order to stay alive, guy and girl had to strip down to keep their bodies cool until KITT would go into some kind of vacuum chamber to suck out all the oxygen to extinguish the flames.  It was like the writers were just trying to find an excuse to show some skin . . . not that I’m totally complaining about that.
• However, that girl in the lead role could be the best looking thing on television.  Feel free to Google her, Deanna Russo is her name.
• I noticed a lot of background noise during Bush’s address to the nation the other night, as if someone in the background was moving stuff.
• I didn’t realize that the Commission of Presidential Debates has only been around since 1987.
• Finally . . . Survivor is in HD.
• Ray Boltz has updated his website.
• Sarah Palin swimsuit competition video if you are interested.
• I noticed that the comics on Yahoo! Comics that I read (Luann is my favorite) are now in color.  I prefer the black and white.
• I watched the University of Texas and Arkansas game Saturday, and during the game you see commercials from each university.  UT sure is lucky to have an alum like Walter Cronkite to do the voice over.
• Cronkite turns 92 this November.
• His voice also introduces Katie Couric for the CBS Evening News.
• I’m so thankful that I’m not a North Korean, I mean, have you seen their video arcades?
• Frog eats bird
• Gwyneth Paltrow has launched her own lifestyle website: Goop.com.
• I’ve noticed how all documentaries now a days turn certain objects in still pictures 3-D’ish.
• I don’t like reading websites using RSS feeders.  I understand why many do, but I simply prefer checking out the websites themselves.
• After watching the Amazing Race, I now know three people named Starr, but I haven’t met any of them.
• The Cowboys lost, which means this will be a long work week.
• Looking at the box score, Dallas running back only rushed 8 times.  Actually, all those rushes came from Marion Barber.  Felix Jones didn’t get one carry, what’s up with that?
• I think I’m going to the State Fair this weekend with my best friends.  I only have been once, but didn’t get to check out any cool stuff like the car show because of a concert.
• I’ve been on a Michael Buble kick as of late, which lead me to this thought . . . if he and Norah Jones had a child I bet that kid would be on heck of a crooner.