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[Triple Zero]

That sounds more like a slander issue than a rights issue. They make a big deal over here too about what we can/can't have on signs to avoid complications such as these.

I don't care if its slander, because its true.

it's not slander if it's true, right?

[Cain]

That sounds more like a slander issue than a rights issue. They make a big deal over here too about what we can/can't have on signs to avoid complications such as these.

I don't care if its slander, because its true.

it's not slander if it's true, right?

Unless the court decides its true.

For more see: every court case involving Jeffry Archer

[Suu]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1%2C000-cars.html

[e]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1%2C000-cars.html

Sadly, I think I've seen this before on a website.

[NWC]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1%2C000-cars.html

does he just stick it in the exhaust pipe?

[Cain]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1%2C000-cars.html

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ALLOW CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS!  MEN WITH MEN.  WOMEN WITH WOMEN!  MEN WITH CARS!  WOMEN WITH DOPLHINS!  DOGS WITH CATS!  PRIME MINISTERS WITH FOREIGN HEADS OF STATE!  WHERE WILL THIS MADNESS END? 

[/Torygraph editorial]

[Suu]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1%2C000-cars.html

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ALLOW CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS!  MEN WITH MEN.  WOMEN WITH WOMEN!  MEN WITH CARS!  WOMEN WITH DOPLHINS!  DOGS WITH CATS!  PRIME MINISTERS WITH FOREIGN HEADS OF STATE!  WHERE WILL THIS MADNESS END? 

[/Torygraph editorial]

[AFK]

Man who was hanged 86 years ago, pardoned by Austrailian governor.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24835639/

SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian governor gave a posthumous pardon Tuesday to a man hanged 86 years ago for the rape and murder of a young girl, after new research discredited the evidence used for his conviction.

Colin Campbell Ross, who was hanged in 1922 at the age of 28, was pardoned Tuesday by Victoria state Gov. David de Kretser.

Descendants of Ross and the 12-year-old victim, Alma Tirtschke, petitioned for the pardon.

Prosecutors alleged that Ross, who ran a wine saloon in Melbourne, gave Tirschke alcohol before raping and strangling her on New Year's Eve 1921. The only physical evidence connecting him to the crime were hairs on a blanket; prosecutors said the hairs were Tirtschke's.

While witnesses gave alibis for Ross, he was convicted and hanged four months later, protesting his innocence.

The pardon petition built on research by Kevin Morgan, who wrote a book about the case called "Gun Alley (Murder, Lies and the Failure of Justice)." Morgan arranged for forensic tests on the original hair samples and showed that the ones on Ross' blanket did not match Tirtschke's. He also gave new character evidence about the prosecution's main witness.

Better late than never?

[Cain]

Man who was hanged 86 years ago, pardoned by Austrailian governor.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24835639/

SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian governor gave a posthumous pardon Tuesday to a man hanged 86 years ago for the rape and murder of a young girl, after new research discredited the evidence used for his conviction.

Colin Campbell Ross, who was hanged in 1922 at the age of 28, was pardoned Tuesday by Victoria state Gov. David de Kretser.

Descendants of Ross and the 12-year-old victim, Alma Tirtschke, petitioned for the pardon.

Better late than never?

Wait, his 12 year old victim also petitioned for the pardon?  Despite being dead?

[AFK]

Heh, I didn't catch that awkward phrasing. 

[AFK]

Anyone got a plunger?  Some Ass-tronaut on the Space Station clogged the toilet:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24841375/

[Triple Zero]

Heh, I didn't catch that awkward phrasing. 

even then, how could she have descendants?

[AFK]

ZOMG!! ZOMBIE FETAL AUSSIES!!!!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Heh, I didn't catch that awkward phrasing. 

even then, how could she have descendants?

That was the question on my mind, as well.

[Thurnez Isa]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080530/world/vatican_women_priests_1

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has again coming down firmly against the notion of women priests.

A decree clearly stating the church's opposition to women priests has been published in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano under a headline that calls the ordination of women a "crime."

The decree, published Thursday, was signed by William Cardinal Levada, the American head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

It says that anyone involved in trying ordain a woman and any woman who attempts to receive ordination is automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.

A top Vatican official said in a statement Friday that the church decided to act after what it described as "so-called ordinations" in various parts of the world.

Msgr. Angelo Amato of the doctrinal office says the Vatican wants to provide bishops with a clear response on the issue.

The church has always banned the ordination of women, stating that the priesthood is reserved for males. The new decree is explicit in its reference to women.

In March, the archbishop of St. Louis excommunicated three women - two Americans and a South African - for participating in a woman's ordination. They were part of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement, which began in 2002.

Pope Benedict led the doctrinal office before becoming pontiff in 2005. Like his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, he has consistently rebuffed calls to change traditional church teachings on divorce, abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage and the requirement that priests be male and celibate.

Rev. Thomas Reese, a U.S.-based Jesuit theologian, said he believed the decree was an attempt by the Vatican to emphasize the rule.

"This is another opportunity to send the signal that it's a no-no," he said.

In Friday's statement, Amato said the Vatican felt "in good company" with the Orthodox and ancient eastern churches that maintain an all-male clergy, saying that Protestant churches have been the ones to break tradition.

Amato said the church does not feel authorized to change the will of Christ, who chose only men as his Apostles.

Catholics who are excommunicated cannot receive the sacraments. Amato said the penalty can be lifted if those so punished are sincerely repentant.

moi opinion
well you join a chuch you might as well follow the rules and the tradition
but "a crime?"