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		<title>Osama bin Laden&#8217;s Diary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 09:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below, Hewdge publishes selected extracts of 9-11 mastermind, Osama bin Laden&#8217;s diary, taken during a raid at his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 1st, 2011. May 13, 2004 Sick of cave….Allah be praised, the house in Abbottabad is almost &#8230; <a href="http://www.hewdge.com/2011/05/2342/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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      count="false" href="http://www.hewdge.com/2011/05/2342/" size="standard"></g:plusone></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Below, Hewdge publishes selected extracts of 9-11 mastermind, Osama bin Laden&#8217;s diary, taken during a raid at his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 1st, 2011.</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2353" title="osama-rich-and-charitable" src="http://www.hewdge.com/wp-content/uploads/osama-rich-and-charitable1.gif" alt="osama-rich-and-charitable" width="500" height="470" /></span>May 13, 2004</strong><br />
Sick of cave….Allah be praised, the house in Abbottabad is almost ready! Wives and kids excited. Must get a garbage disposal installed, hose connected in guest bathroom…oh, and destroy US train system. Allahu Akbar!</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>June 17, 2005</strong><br />
New wife arrives from Yemen…Jeez, finally! Insha’Allah she will get on well with the other two, but of course, a little competition never harms…..speaking of which, Al Zarqawi is getting right up my nose. Have decided to dye my beard. Image is everything. God is Great!</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Sept 11, 2006</strong><br />
Things going well, Nushkur Allah!  9-11 anniversary today… always a warm fuzzy feeling. Celebrated by cooking a goat dinner for a hundred Pakistani close couriers. Watched the video. Wives made popcorn. A good day. God is Great!</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Dec 3, 2008</strong><br />
Depressed. Wives and kids bickering, plus no mention of me in the news…What&#8217;s it all about Osama? Need to plan something spectacular, but what? Strange but true, a man with nearly my name is now president of the Great Satan. Is Allah trying to tell me something?  Where is Baby Bush? I miss him…</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Jan 12, 2010</strong><br />
Can’t sleep …millions of kids running amuk. Boiler not working.  Luckily, Ninendo 3 arrived today via courier. Love the 3D effect. This has given me some great ideas…God, too, is Great!</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>March 21, 2011</strong><br />
One of the kids (was it Mohamad?) broke my headphones. This is not good. Super Street Fighter requires the utmost concentration…</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>March 31, 2011</strong><br />
Hair-dye arrived today and it was the WRONG son-of-a-dog colour. Courier will have to die. Am re-evaluating life. Have reached level 5 in Super Street Fighter 1V, but is it enough? Should I have done more? What would Mohamad do?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>May 1, 2011</strong><br />
Praise Allah, my new Bose QuietComfort 3, Noise-Canceling Headphones arrived this evening, which means that, after prayers and cocoa, I can finally concentrate on getting my Super Street Fighter score up to 3,600. Planning a super fun All-Nighter thanks to newly-harvested pot plants and USAID Hershey Bars. Allahu Akbar! God is Great!</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">more:</span></span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383429/Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-Marijuana-grew-near-luxury-compound-Abbottabad.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" target="_blank"> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1383429/Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-Marijuana-grew-near-luxury-compound-Abbottabad.html?ito=feeds-newsxml</a></p>
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		<title>Death Of Guru Sai Baba Creates Financial Vacuum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The death of a charismatic Indian guru, Sathya Sai Baba, who built up a worldwide following of up to 50 million people, has triggered an unholy scramble for control of his £5.5 billion empire. (click here to read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8471134/Sathya-Sai-Babas-death-triggers-fight-for-his-5.5-billion-empire.ht &#8230; <a href="http://www.hewdge.com/2011/04/2307/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p><strong>Below, well known Indian guru, Swami Ramdev Yadav, pays tribute to the enigmatic Sathya Sai Baba with an open letter to Hewdge.</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>Namaste</em></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>It is with very regret and heaviness at heart that I am relating the deathly news of Sathya Sai Baba &#8211; a holiest guru and a manly man who was a beloved to many worshiping and sometimes celebrity peoples.<br />
Yet, at this very current moment, the news is being so full of dastardly stories of Sai Baba that I am not believing my own very eyes and ears!<br />
Rapscallion reporters are delighting to spread untruthfulness about Sai Baba and in particularly, his dalliances with many lovely boys. But this I am knowing absolutely: <strong>no such naughtiness was occurring in his ashram!</strong> This is shamefully gossip! Sai Baba was humble, and truthfully a holy man who was not just for thinking of riches. No, it is the OPPOSITE!!  Sai Baba on very much occasions was giving money and gold to others. In fact, his own billions in a Swiss banks was having no meaning to this very saint!</em></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>Since his present incarnation is no longer, I am freely to offer Sai Baba’s devotees my expertise of much financial techniques. Especially, I am full of happiness to take over Sai Baba&#8217;s gigantic empire. Like this humble of man, riches have no meaning for me also when I am flying by my private jet to the Swiss.</em></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>Namaste</em><br />
Swami Ramdev</span></span></p>
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		<title>Easter Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me be your Easter Egg Let me be your Easter Egg Roll me over &#8211; watch me beg Wrap me, race me, tap me, chase me Use your paintbrush to deface me Let me be your Easter gift Your &#8230; <a href="http://www.hewdge.com/2010/04/easter-dream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me be your Easter Egg</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Roll me over &#8211; watch me beg<br />
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Wrap me, race me, tap me, chase me</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Use your paintbrush to deface me</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me be your Easter gift</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Your springtime chocoholic lift</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Put me in a cardboard case</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hide me in a secret place</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me be your Easter thrill</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">A giant chocolate-coated pill</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Boil me, oil me, crucify me</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Resurrect me – colour-dye me</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Make me chocolate filled with cream</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I wanna be your Easter theme</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Melt me, eat me, smear me, lay me</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Decorate and Fabergé me</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Make me wholly chocolate cream</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I wanna be your Easter dream….</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Helga Hewston, 2009</span></span></p>
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		<title>Vatican Hit By Gay Sex Scandal &#8211; Madame Gris-Gris Channels Pope John Paul 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting Pope Benedict XVI greets cardinals in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican. Photograph: Max Rossi/AFP/Getty Images The Vatican has been rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.hewdge.com/2010/03/vatican-hit-by-gay-sex-scandal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Vatican chorister sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for papal gentleman-in-waiting</span></span></div>
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<div><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pope Benedict XVI greets cardinals in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican. Photograph: Max Rossi/AFP/Getty Images</span></strong></div>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The <a title="More from guardian.co.uk on Vatican" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/vatican">Vatican</a> has been rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict&#8217;s household after a chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, was caught by police on a wiretap allegedly negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Vatican chorister, over the specific physical details of men he wanted brought to him. Transcripts in the possession of the Guardian suggest that numerous men may have been procured for Balducci, at least one of whom was studying for the priesthood.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The explosive claims about Balducci&#8217;s private life have caused grave embarrassment to the Vatican, which has yet to publicly comment on the affair. While <a title="More from guardian.co.uk on Catholicism" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/catholicism">Catholicism</a> does not condemn homosexuality outright, its teaching is that homosexual acts &#8220;are intrinsically disordered&#8221;.</span></span></p>
<p>For the full sordid story, click here: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/04/vatican-gay-sex-scandal</a></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Madame Gris-Gris, Clairvoyant and ‘Ghost-Whisperer’ to the Stars, speaks out against the latest Vatican sex scandal through the spirit of the Catholic Church’s most beloved and revered Pope and Wannabee Saint, John Paul 11.</span></em></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="color: #800080;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">I, Madame Gris-Gris, will now channel ‘iz ‘oliness John Paul Deux…..but be patient, mes amis….ze spirits take zeir time…..ooh, attend! eet iz commencing…..ee iz coming….oooh&#8230;.</span></em></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="color: #800080;"><em><span style="font-size: medium;">“Mes enfants, zis is is an ‘appening terrible &#8211; un incident encroyable! Muzza Church, she eez in pain like our Lord Jesus on ze cross! Vraiment, c’est le straw dernier!!<br />
Iz eet not suffit zat I ‘ave flagellated moi-meme everee day while in ze Vatican? And maintenant, do I ‘ave to utilizer ze ‘Belt’ encore un fois? ‘Ow much can a spirit take? From ze grave, I reach out to tell you zat zings must retournez to ‘ow zey were before zis scandal ‘appened. Back zen, all we ‘ad to deal wiz was the petits cases d’abuses and ze priests ‘oo ‘ave ze marriage in ze secret.  Zees were ze days!  Amateurs!!”</span></em></span></span></div>
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		<title>Snubbed &#8216;Prince&#8217; Causes Gays To Mass En Masse: David Beckham &#8216;Orrified&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A priest&#8217;s refusal to grant communion to a gay man has led to uproar in the Catholic south of the Netherlands. A multitude of gay men now look set to descend on Sunday mass in the city of Den Bosch. &#8230; <a href="http://www.hewdge.com/2010/03/2016/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A priest&#8217;s refusal to grant communion to a gay man has led to uproar in the Catholic south of the Netherlands. A multitude of gay men now look set to descend on Sunday mass in the city of Den Bosch.</span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Prince Gijs is no ordinary royal. His reign only lasted three days and his    realm extended no further than the borders of the small town of Reusel.    Gijs, known in everyday life as <a href="http://vimeo.com/9189965">Gijs    Vermeulen</a>, a 24-year old bartender, was his hometown’s Prince of the    Carnival. Every year, towns in the Netherland’s Catholic south elect their    own buffoonish royalty, an honour generally bestowed on the more festive    members of the community. Prince Gijs might have been a wise and benevolent leader – but he is also a homosexual one. That alone was enough for his local church to refuse this atypical nobleman holy communion. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Read the full story:</span></span><a href="http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2493108.ece/Snubbed,_homosexuals_head_to_mass_en_masse" target="_blank"> http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2493108.ece/Snubbed,_homosexuals_head_to_mass_en_masse</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">David Beckham</span>, football legend, underwear model and family man, is a regular columnist for Hewdge:</strong></span></span><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<p><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am trulee ‘ORRIFIED wiv this storee! I always fawt that ‘olland was progressif, yeah? It’s got awl them ‘ash coffee shops wiv weed an’ evreefink on the menu, an’ it ain’t got no slums or nuffink…</span></span></em></p>
<p><em>&#8216;At last them gays ‘ave found ‘eaven on ‘earf,&#8217; I said to meself. So when I read about them caff-lic preests wot  dee-nyed ‘olee co-moo-nyun to them nancy-boys, I was well pissed off, an’ no mistake!</em></p>
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<p><em>W</em><em>e awl got our fawts, ain’t we, but them caff-lic preests (or ‘Dirty Beasts’ in me best cockney) are wot I like to cawl ‘olier than thou’.</em></p>
<p><em>I fink awl ‘em dutch trannies in full gear should mince on down to that church in stiletto ‘eels an’ show them &#8216;Dirty Beasts&#8217;  wot a real bloke in a dress looks like.</em></p>
<p><em>Me wife Victoria, an’ me free kids, ‘ave always ‘ad a fing for the under-dog.   Jus’ cos this Prince bloke is a pillow-biter, that don’t mean ‘ee ain’t a good geezer, right?</em></p>
<p><em>I am wun ‘undred percent be’ind them batty-boys, an’ I ain’t too ‘appy wiv them god-bovvering preests, wot ‘ave got more frocks than me dear old auntie Lil.   <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>D. Beckham</strong></span><br />
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		<title>Jesus Was Gay, Says Elton John</title>
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<div><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pop Star Elton thinks Jesus was gay</span></span></strong></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a magazine interview, he said: &#8220;I think Jesus was a compassionate,    super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">&#8220;On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us    to be loving and forgiving.&#8221;</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 62-year-old also confessed that fame has now lost its shine for him.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read the full story here: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7268600/Jesus-was-gay-says-Elton-John.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7268600/Jesus-was-gay-says-Elton-John.html</a></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Celebrities, a Cardinal and a Guru weigh in on Elton&#8217;s &#8216;Jesus was gay&#8217; statement</span></em></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Cardinal Ernesto Ciccolotta  &#8211; Head of PR, Vatican City</span></strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Signor Elton<br />
As you are uno magnifico artista, I will overlook the fact that you are a ‘po &#8216;omosessuale’. But, why Elton? WHY do you say these terrible gay things about our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ?<br />
I suppose you think we Cardinals are all gay too? Ha, how ridiculous! My cute Brazilian housekeeper Alfredo, is laughing at this while he is ironing my frock…</span></span></em></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">David Beckham – Footballer and Metrosexual Underwear Model</span></strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oy, Elton mate!<br />
Wot’s all this about yoo callin’ Jesus a nancy-boy? That ain’t funny mate! Yoo ain’t got no respect, cos, in your fick ‘ead evree bloke wot wears a long dress is a shirt-lifter!<br />
Sum peeple fink that I’m a poofta too, jus’ cos I wear a wraparound skirt, but that don’t mean nuffink! Elton, me mate, I like yer moosic, but don’ mess wiv me messiah!</span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></strong><strong>Swami Baba Ramdev</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em>Namaste</em><em> &#8211; I am disagreeing most very profoundly with you, Sahib John. I, and my followers are believing that wholeheartedly Jesus was being a holy man and that is clearly at all the Christian peoples. I am being full with suspicions that maybe Sahib John, you are  practicing the female avoiding abhorrent positions and this is indeed unholy and licentiousness! Your truly practicing of the praanayaama breathing yoga lifestyles will indeed be restoring your kundalini shakti. Also diets can be helping you in the so-doing.</em> Namaste</span></span></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Elton<br />
C’mon, are you really saying Jesus was GAY? You Brits are so precious! If we Scientologists, heard that some little ponce-pianist was calling our glorious leader, L. Ron Hubbard a faggot, we’d jump off our sofas and kick-ass! Hey, man, are you on aspirin or caffeine or some other equally dangerous mind-fuck??</span></span></em></p>
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		<title>Yoga Valentine Message From Swami Ramdev</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guru Baba Ramdev, our favourite Hindu Swami, who believes that Pranayama Yoga is the natural cure for all physical and mental ailments, offers free advice to the world on St Valentine’s Day. Namaste dear cupid fellows and nice ladies! We &#8230; <a href="http://www.hewdge.com/2010/02/1946/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Namaste dear cupid fellows and nice ladies! We are over joyful on this very day of the naked god-child shooting arrows through our 4th chakra. Everywhere you are seeing red and also we can say that the practice of &#8216;praanaayaama&#8217; and &#8216;pratyaahaara&#8217; yoga and diet is existing for providing health benefits for all peoples who are being in love.</span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, it is truly that I am curing acne, that dastardly scourge of AIDS and even more than above – through breathing and yoga &#8211; I am curing most scallywag men who are being intimate in the manly way. Yes, yoga is relieving these naughty practices with much beneficials.</span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On this Valentine holy day, I am not taking Rupees to addition my Swiss balance. No, it’s the other hand! I am giving life lessons for higher spiritual purpose. Love on this very day is being a huge uplift if you are practicing through the Vedic science of yoga. Therefore, I am pleading you to be getting your assanas over to my Ayurvedic Centre and being in love to all nice peoples. This is making romancing truly!<br />
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<p><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Namaste,</span></span></em></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Swami Baba Ramdev<br />
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		<title>Beatles&#8217; Drummer Ringo: &#8216;I have found God&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ringo Starr, the Beatles’ drummer, has admitted he has “found God” after taking what he described as a winding life of enlightenment. The reformed rock legend, who turns 70 in July, admitted he had lost his way when he was &#8230; <a href="http://www.hewdge.com/2010/02/beatles-drummer-ringo-i-have-found-god/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<h2><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ringo Starr, the Beatles’ drummer, has admitted he has “found God” after    taking what he described as a winding life of enlightenment.</span></span></h2>
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<div style="width: 460px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The reformed rock legend, who turns 70 in July, admitted he had lost his way    when he was younger, first as a Beatle then later after the group broke up.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He experimented with LSD and marijuana when he was a Beatle in the 1960s, then    later in the 1970s suffered alcohol and cocaine problems.</span></span></div>
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<div style="width: 460px;">Starr pictured with other Beatles at his wedding to Barbara Bach, a former Bond girl. Photo: TERRY O&#8217;NEILL/ NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY</div>
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<p><!-- BEFORE ACI --><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In an interview with the <strong><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-ringo-starr26-2010jan26,0,4633678.story">Los    Angeles Times</a></strong>, Starr, who is now a teetotal and has quit his    60-a-day cigarette habit, said that religion was one of the most important    aspects in his life. <strong>Read the full story here: </strong></span></span><span style="color: #000080;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/7142630/The-Beatles-drummer-Ringo-Starr-admits-I-have-found-God.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/7142630/The-Beatles-drummer-Ringo-Starr-admits-I-have-found-God.html</a></span> <span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Cardinal Gustavo Porchi Writes a &#8216;Welcome to God&#8217; Open Letter to Ringo</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></strong></span></span><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Dear Signore Starr,</span> </span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You have found God! Sono felice!! I am so happy because it is NEVER too late… Even though you have led a lascivious and drug-sodden life thus far, praise be that you have come into HIS fold to receive HIS blessings!</span></span></em> <em> </em></p>
<p><em>As one of Rome’s Cardinals (and best boyhood friend to Italian Prime Minister, Sylvio Berlusconi), I would be honored to be your spiritual mentor. It is always a pleasure to receive even the most debauched of confessions and in return, bestow peace and forgiveness upon the true penitent.</em></p>
<p><em>In fact, before he returned to his heavenly home, our most beloved Papa, John Paul (may he be granted an early Sainthood!) confessed to me that he was rather too fond of  &#8216;the belt&#8217;.</em> <em> </em></p>
<p><em>This innocent and touching revelation has only recently come to public light, but it has been shocking, SHOCKING, the way the Holy Father&#8217;s pious acts of daily (and nightly) devotion<em> to</em></em><em> &#8216;La Dea&#8217; as he fondly used to call God&#8217;s leather instrument, </em><em>has been distorted by the press!</em> <em> </em></p>
<p><em>Why, Signore Starr, I will be the first to admit that I feel MUCH nearer to God’s true mercy after a jolly good flagellation. I feel that you, being a drummer, will be a ‘natural’. </em></p>
<p><em>God bless you and keep you</em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Cardinal Gustavo Porchi</span></strong></span></span></p>
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		<title>Controversial Billboard of Joseph &amp; Mary In Bed: God &#8216;A Hard Act To Follow&#8217;</title>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Read the full story here:</span></span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/17/joseph-mary-billboard-god-is-a-hard-act-to-follow_n_395343.html" target="_blank"> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/17/joseph-mary-billboard-god-is-a-hard-act-to-follow_n_395343.html</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A billboard at a New Zealand church depicting a downcast Joseph lying beside Mary in bed and the heading &#8220;God is a hard act to follow&#8221; provoked more than the intended reconsideration of the meaning of Christmas.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The sign was defaced by a paint-wielding vandal just hours after it was erected Thursday outside the St. Matthew-in-the-City Anglican church in Auckland, and triggered passionate and sometimes angry debate on talk radio and the Internet.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Church vicar Archdeacon Glynn Cardy said the billboard was intended to challenge stereotypes about the way Jesus was conceived and get people talking about the Christmas story.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#8220;This billboard is trying to lampoon and ridicule the very literal idea that God is a male and somehow this male God impregnated Mary,&#8221; said Cardy, who described his church as having very liberal ideas about Christianity.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Comments from Cardinal Gustavo Porchi, boyhood friend of </span></strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Italian president Sylvio Berlusconi</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This is an outrageous attempt by liberal intolerants to trash something as holy and as sacred as the conception of Christ. Why, my dearest and oldest friend, President Sylvio Berlusconi, who, only last week, was lying alone and prostrate in a hospital bed, would never, NEVER have allowed such a blasphemous billboard in Italy! </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To even suggest the act of sex with the Holy Mother is unthinkable and this so-called vicar will surely roast in hell-fire (and be devoured by the devil’s minions) for his sins. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Also, I can&#8217;t help but notice that the billboard ‘Mary’ looks rather like a young New Zealand friend of mine – Suzy- who will be mortified to learn that her likeness has inspired this kind of filth. She and I spent many happy nights discussing theology and I think she learned a lot about Holy Communion (as she liked to call it) from her stay with me. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Actually, her parting words were, &#8220;Gus, you’re a hard act to follow….”</span><br />
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		<title>Pacific Island Tribe Apologises For Eating British Missionaries</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helga Hewston, roving reporter for Hewdge, writes in from the tiny Pacific island of Erromango, now part of Vanuatu, where recently, the descendants of a British missionary have received a personal apology from the islanders, for having killed and eaten &#8230; <a href="http://www.hewdge.com/2009/12/1780/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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      count="false" href="http://www.hewdge.com/2009/12/1780/" size="standard"></g:plusone></div><p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1786" title="tribeG1708_468x361" src="http://www.hewdge.com/wp-content/uploads/tribeG1708_468x3612-300x231.jpg" alt="tribeG1708_468x361" width="300" height="231" />Helga Hewston, roving reporter for Hewdge, writes in from the tiny Pacific island of Erromango, now part of Vanuatu, where recently, the descendants of a British missionary have received a personal apology from the islanders, for having killed and eaten their ancestor, John Williams, as well as fellow missionary, John Harris. Read the full story here: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/vanuatu/6756656/Tribe-apologises-for-eating-British-missionary.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/vanuatu/6756656/Tribe-apologises-for-eating-British-missionary.html</a></p>
<p>Recalls islander Vassie Parilongi, now a part-time dinner lady in Melbourne’s Ear, Nose &amp; Throat hospital canteen: <em></em></p>
<p><em>The story of the two British missionaries, Williams and Harris was recounted to me as a bed-time story when I was growing up. My mother used to tell me that both men were surly, rotund creatures, who took hours to tenderize. In fact, we have a nursery rhyme she used to sing to me which, roughly translated, goes something like this:</em></p>
<p><em>Two fat men </em></p>
<p><em>Two big fires </em></p>
<p><em>Too much time To tenderize</em></p>
<p><em>Missionary man </em></p>
<p><em>Go home to your gods </em></p>
<p><em>Chicken is better </em></p>
<p><em>Pass the salt</em></p>
<p>The Erromango islanders, who once had a nasty habit of eating their visitors, still have their own special family recipes handed down from generation to generation. But nowadays, instead of eating people, they are strict vegans and eschew any form of animal products. Why the change? Until recently, the islanders believed their past actions had brought a curse to the tribe.</p>
<p>“We were happy to have the curse lifted”, the village elders stated. Asked what the curse was, they all looked at each other and started crying. The island, now a tropical paradise for tourists, was once famous for its young people developing a mysterious and unsightly skin condition, a white stripe around the neck called a &#8216;godimanimarki&#8217; or ‘Missionary Collar’, upon reaching puberty.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>GG Qlarq<br />
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