Any child writing to the chap in red is guaranteed a personal reply and a small gift via a new dedicated Santa service, Posten spokeswoman Eva Appelgren told AFP on Saturday.

Special red postboxes have been installed in the main cities of Stockholm, Malmo, Goteborg and Umeaa to make sure children's pleas are whisked straight to the Christmas authorities.

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton has reportedly onfessed that she believed in Santa Claus until she was 17 years ld.

The Simple Life star, who recently broke off her engagement with reek shipping heir Paris Latsis claiming she was too young to et married, has revealed that she always treasured the Christmas olidays, until somebody shattered her childhood illusions, by elling her there is no such thing as 'Santa Clause'.

"A mean person told me it wasn't true," Femalefirst quoted her, s saying.

However, seven years down the line, since her 17th birthday, the 4-year-old still celebrates 'Christmas', and this year she hopes to receive a Bentley convertible and a pair of 150,000 dollars diamond earrings from Father Christmas. (ANI)

"O ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros romeno declarou hoje que a Roménia "não tem tempo a perder com investigações" sobre alegações de que terá autorizado prisões secretas da CIA, classificando-as como "pura especulação". "Por que haveria um inquérito se não existe nenhuma prova sobre isso. Quem tiver tempo a perder para investigar esse assunto será bem-vindo à Roménia", declarou Razvan Ungureanu."

N' O Carvalhadas

The king called for a "relentless war on all the Takfiri schools, which embrace extremism, backwardness, isolation and darkness and are fed on the ignorance and naivety of simple people."

He said fatwas, or religious edicts, issued by such groups constitute a "threat on the society and its interests."

The Takfiri doctrine is mostly based on a virulent practice of rejectionism. The idea is that anything having to do with modernity is a threat to Islam. This practice is manifested in the rejection of modern science, modern education, and certain modern technologies if they are contrary to Islamic traditions. Although terrorist groups may in practice use modern weapons, they resent the fact that they were created by infidels and therefore suggest that their use is only to cause the infidel?s demise. The formation of anti-US and anti-Western sentiment is rooted in this principle. The deliberate targeting of anything oriented with the US and/or the West is an expression of this principle and is implemented through a violent practice of jihad.

Amer: Basmallah, conheces os Judeus?

Basmallah: Sim.

Amer: Gostas deles?

Basmallah: Não.

Amer: Porque não gostas deles?

Basmallah: Porque.

Amer: Porque são o quê?

Basmallah: São macacos e porcos.

Amer: Porque são macacos e porcos. Quem disse isso?

Basmallah: O nosso Deus.

Amer: Onde disse isso?

Basmallah: No Corão.

Amer: Está certo. Basmallah, o que fizeram os judeus?

Basmallah: A Pepsi.

Nos nossos países a religião é a única fonte de educação. (...) São os ensinamentos islâmicos que corrompem o terrorista e destroem a humanidade nele. Não foi o terrorista que distorceu os ensinamentos islâmicos como alguns ignorantes afirmam. Quando recitas a uma criança pequena os versos: "Eles serão mortos ou crucificados, ou terão as suas mãos e pés amputados", independentemente da interpretação deste verso (...) deste o primeiro passo para criar um terrorista.

On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto that caught the attention of mainstream newspapers and magazines, Paul Hellyer, Canada?s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime Minister Lester Pearson, publicly stated: "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."

Mr. Hellyer went on to say, "I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something."

Hellyer revealed, "The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalled. The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop."

Hellyer warned, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, "The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."

CM - Não atravessamos uma onda de pessimismo relativamente à incapacidade de renovação da política?

MS - Não. O que tem havido é uma grande campanha contra a política e os partidos. Uma campanha com raiz de direita, que tem dado frutos. Os políticos têm má fama, toda a gente diz que as responsabilidades são dos políticos. Ninguém se lembra das responsabilidades dos jornalistas, dos juízes, dos técnicos, dos economistas... Todos temos responsabilidades. Numa democracia todos somos o Estado. Quem elege os governantes não são os portugueses?

CM - Toda a Direita está contra o sistema partidário?

MS - Grande parte. Eu não diria que é contra o sistema partidário, mas que advoga a descredibilização dos partidos, até porque é uma posição cómoda. Como os partidos são responsáveis, julgam os que dizem isso que deixam de ter responsabilidade própria. Desresponsabiliza-se tudo.

(...)

CM - Acha que, mesmo numa fase mais adiantada, ele (Cavaco Silva) não vai

MS - Não acho nada, não sou o estratega dele. Constato o que se passa. Eu fui ao Brasil e fartei-me de dar entrevistas. Dei à Globo, à Bandeirantes... E ele recusou todos os convites. Quer aparecer o menos possível, para não escorregar. Dá uma sensação de debilidade evidente.

CM- Isso devia ser penalizado nos votos?

MS - Acho que sim. Estou convencido de que vou ganhar as eleições por isso mesmo.

As formigas e o Gafanhoto

Durante todo o Verão as formigas fartaram-se de trabalhar e preparam-se para o Inverno, enquanto que o Gafanhoto foi a todos os concertos dos Rage Against the Machine e jogou Everquest. O Gafanhoto riu-se das formigas por estas trabalharem muito. Depois chegou o Inverno. As formigas tinham muita comida e um abrigo, enquanto que o Gafanhoto não tinha nada. Por isso o governo usou o dinheiro dos impostos das formigas e construiu para o Gafanhoto uma casa, deu-lhe comida e pagou cursos universitários que o Gafanhoto nem se deu ao trabalho de frequentar. Quando as formigas queixaram-se, todas as pessoas concordaram que elas eram apenas umas palermas ricaças e gananciosas por terem mais dinheiro que o Gafanhoto. A Moral da história: Tirar o dinheiro de pessoas que muito trabalharam e dá-lo a preguiçosos é pura compaixão.

John Hawkins: If Jimmy Carter had somehow defeated Ronald Reagan in 1980, do you think the Soviet Union would still exist today?

Ann Coulter: Yes. On the bright side, Jimmy Carter would have gotten his Nobel Peace prize a lot sooner.

John Hawkins: Despite the fact that Communism has been a blight on the world that eclipsed even Nazism, why do you think so many people on the left even today see no problem marching at a rally organized by Communists or supporting Communist regimes like Castro's Cuba?

Ann Coulter: Communism is like vegetarianism in that it's actually not very healthy for most people but leftists continue to defend it because it seems like the thing to do.

John Hawkins: In your opinion, if someone like Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush had been in the White House instead of Johnson, would we have won in Vietnam?

Ann Coulter: Probably. More importantly, liberals wouldn't be able to call every military action in defense of the nation since then: "the next Vietnam". Fonte.

ABC News has acquired voice mail messages from Michael Jackson in which the pop star blames a Jewish conspiracy for his financial woes.

"They suck ... they're like leeches ... I'm so tired of it," Jackson told former adviser Dieter Wiesner in one of the messages. "The Jews do it on purpose."

The message recorded by Jackson two years ago aired Tuesday on Good Morning America, The New York Daily News reported Wednesday.

This is not the first brush with anti-Semitism for Jackson who, a decade ago, sang Jew me/Sue me/Everybody do me/Kick me/Kike me on the song They Don't Care About Us.

It was during the penultimate scene that Griffiths, 58, addressed the woman directly from the stage.

He said: "Could the person whose mobile phone it is please leave?

"The 750 people here would be fully justified in suing you for ruining their afternoon."

É assim que o Tribunal Constitucional está à beira de declarar inconstitucional, com força obrigatória geral, a disposiçâo do Código Penal que, a seu ver, "discrimina ilegitimamente" a pedofilia homossexual. Ou seja, os juízes entendem, por exemplo, que é exactamente igual um miúdo ser abusado ou violado por uma mulher ou por um homem. Sem curar de saber qual das situações poderá causar maior abalo e mais danos permanentes ou futuros à vítima, eles consideram que o essencial é preservar o direito à orientação sexual do abusador.
Espanta-me que não ocorra a estes guardiões da Constituição nenhuma consideração relativa ao direito à orientação sexual da vítima: e se o miúdo abusado não tem, nem nunca vier a manifestar ao longo da vida, qualquer propensão homossexual? Mesmo assim deve curvar-se ao intocável direito de orientação sexual do abusador? Desculpem-me que o diga com toda a franqueza, mas a aplicação cega deste princípio parece-me tão repelente que a única conclusão lógica que eu consigo extrair é que as vítimas do caso Casa Pia, por exemplo, vão acabar por ter sido duplamente abusadas: pelos criminosos e pela Constituição. Miguel Sousa Tavares

the anger of immigrant Muslims reflects their lack of opportunities and their dead-end prospects.

Instead of gearing itself to job creation and upward mobility ? as the American system does ? the French economy, society, labor regulations, tax laws and social structure are all designed to provide a high-quality life to the traditional, white population without allowing the growth and expansion so necessary for the swelling ranks of immigrants.

Shopkeepers are protected against low-cost competition and farmers are sheltered behind a wall of agricultural subsidies that are the bane of the European Union that foots the bill.

And almost everybody in France gets a check every month. The amounts vary, but even millionaires get a handout from the government. There is no resentment against welfare or the dole in the salons of Paris because everybody gets it. Middle-class entitlements are the order of the day.

But this seeming utopia costs money. Taxes in France absorb a bit less than half of the national income (compared with about one-third in the United States). And the rigidity of labor laws make it very hard to dismiss a worker, assuring that few jobs will be created.

Ask any Islamic taxi driver in New York and he will tell you his children are going to college and will regale you with his high hopes for the future. This sense of optimism and improvement kindles a national pride which tends to offset the pull of the separatist Islamic culture and nullifies much of its anti-Western connotation.

the stagnation of the French economy ? and the rigidity of its society ? leaves them a congealed mass at the bottom of the economic ladder, concentrated in poor suburbs, shunted out of sight and out of the way.

China's first liquid condom went on sale today after the country's health and drugs administration formally gave the hi-tech prophylactic the thumbs-up, the China Daily reports.

Dubbed the Nanometer-silver Cryptomorphic Condom (NCC), it's designed for female rather than male usage. The condom-in-a-can is essentially an antiseptic foam spray that the manufacturer claims forms a physical membrane inside the vagina, protecting it from infection, acting as a barrier to pregnancy and providing a lubricating effect.
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It's not known who makes the NCC, but Beijing-based Chinese-Canadian condom maker Blue Cross Biomedical has been touting something along these lines for a while now. It maintains its spray-in condom "can effectively kill gynaecological disease pathogens such as staphylococcus aureus, Candida, coliform bacillus, and can prevent sexually transmitted diseases.

A new British reality show is taking a group of unwitting civilians and trying to convince them they've been launched into space, according to This Is London.

Nine unsuspecting Britons will be fooled into thinking they are going to be blasted into space as tourists after some serious training from the Space Tourism Agency of Russia.

Hamas urged al-Qaeda to limit itself to striking against the US in Iraq and to avoid killing Arabs and Muslims.

"Such condemned bombings will be at the expense of Iraqi and Palestinian causes," said Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri.

Mr Costello said anyone who was alienated by Australia's form of government, judicial system and civil rights and wanted something else "might be better advised to find the 'something else' somewhere else".

"There are Islamic states around the world that practise sharia law and if that's your object you may well be much more at home in such a country than trying to turn Australia into one of those countries, because it's not going to happen," he said.

(1) Why are you so quiet?

(2) Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?

(3) Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free country?

(4) Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Muslims in the name of Islam?

(5) Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other religions?

Many black Australians live in poverty and are permanently unemployed. There are claims that the benefit payments they receive have stripped them of any motivation to work and can lead to serious health and social problems. The Aborigines call it sit-down money. This money is often frittered away on a destructive mix of alcohol and gambling.

As the people of China grow in prosperity, their demands for political freedom will grow as well," Bush said.

He also called for lifting state controls on religion in China, including the right to "print Bibles and other sacred texts without fear of punishment".

Last week, China sentenced Protestant minister Cai Zhuohua to three years in jail for privately publishing the Bible and other religious publications. He was convicted of running an illegal business.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The CIA is so impressed by Dr. Phil's interrogation techniques they're interested in hiring him as a consultant. They've yet to interrogate the man himself, as they are still gathering information.

"Watch his show," said a top CIA official. "He seems so homey and touchy-feely until it gets down to the nittygritty. His lectures to his guests are ball-breakers, and he always ends with, 'so what's it gonna be?' and they give it up. Instantly."

A former Dubai resident was outraged after she spotted a tiger looking out of a 4X4 while on holiday in the city.

She said: ?This picture shows how in this part of the world, people with too much money have no care for the environment or mother nature or an animal?s natural home.

The two men and women had met at a Milwaukee bus station June 16 and decided to go camping at the park with some other people.

When Rush made a sexual advance toward one of the women, she told him that they were in a lesbian relationship and did not like men in a romantic way, according to sheriff's reports.

Langballe and Rush told the women they were skinheads of the Nazi Nation and did not like homosexuals, authorities said. The men then took the women's clothing from a car and burned it while the women fled.

When the women came back later to return some items of Langballe and Rush, an altercation ensued. One woman sustained minor injuries to her face, arms and legs, according to reports, and Rush pulled out a knife and threatened to kill them.

As the women fled again, the men ripped a backpack away from one of the women.