Hundreds demonstrated in Pakistan on Thursday, chanting "Death to Denmark" and burning Danish and French flags.

But one Jordanian paper has reprinted the cartoons, with an editorial urging Muslims worldwide to "be reasonable".

Palestinian gunmen briefly surrounded EU offices in Gaza to demand an apology over the cartoons.

bush STFU speech: "America is addicted to oil" [...] "break this addiction." [...] "more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025."

Asked why the president used the words "the Middle East" when he didn't really mean them, one administration official said Bush wanted to dramatize the issue in a way that "every American sitting out there listening to the speech understands." The official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he feared that his remarks might get him in trouble.

(AP) LOS ANGELES The civilian overseers of the Los Angeles police department ruled Tuesday that an officer acted policy last year when he fatally shot a boy, 13, who rammed a patrol car after a short chase.

The way a justice votes on a stay request does not necessarily signal how the justice will rule on the merits of a death penalty case. The court earlier this week granted a similar stay of execution to another death row inmate from Florida.

House Republicans are taking a mulligan on the first ballot for Majority Leader. The first count showed more votes cast than Republicans present at the Conference meeting.

Police initially said Brown was a suspected gang member, but a spokeswoman said that investigators couldn't immediately confirm a gang affiliation. Friends and neighbors said the teen had recently begun skipping school and spending time with gang members after his father's death last year. They insisted, however, that he wasn't in a gang. "It's a bad crowd he was starting to hang with but he wasn't a gang member yet -- and I say yet," said Kevin Mitchell, a gang prevention specialist who knew Brown and himself a former gang member. "He was headed that way soon," he said. "God called him before the gang bangers called him."

Smart Card Technology to be Used to Store Fingerprint Biometrics WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced several parameters for a nationwide private sector Registered Traveler (RT) program, including the biometrics to be used for identification purposes and the redress process for individuals who are denied access to the program. The Registered Traveler program is envisioned as a means to accelerate the screening process at participating airports for passengers who voluntarily choose to enroll in the program. ... In order to give industry the opportunity to begin offering Registered Traveler programs later this year, TSA is directing RT program providers to collect 10 fingerprint images from each applicant. This biometric information will be used to verify participant identity at RT checkpoints. These biometrics, which are in widespread use today, provide exceptionally high levels of accuracy. With 10 fingerprints on the participant's smart card, the likelihood that identity can be accurately confirmed is improved. To store biometric data for identity confirmation, RT programs will utilize Smart Card technology that conforms to current Federal Technical Implementation Guidance (see http://smart.gov), and biometrics will be stored consistent with biometric standards established by the American National Standards Institute/InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (ANSI/INCITS). All Registered Traveler data will be handled in compliance with the Federal Privacy Act.

Many private companies are vying to provide this service, including Expedia® Corporate Travel in partnership with Saflink, Microsoft, Johnson Controls and ID Tech Partners. As the plan develops, we'll keep you posted on options for business travelers.

[long preamble] ... As such, it would seem that we are all safer with a Republican president and the lefties in full uproar

"[Chavez] is a person who was elected legally, just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally and then consolidated power," he said.

Will we all be expected to sign up for this new identity card?

In Japan, there is a word, giri, that means "mutual obligation". Giri can exist between journalists and politicians, between subordinates and seniors in a company, between different households in a community, between bank regulators and banks. Quite simply, if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. If I do something for you, then you owe me something in the future. The well-known Dutch Japan analyst, Karel van Wolferen, once wrote that giri was akin to "hostage-taking".

with some bloggers slowly being drawn into the trap of becoming mouthpieces for Congressmen and Senators

What the Internet doesn't need is some form of control, etc., because the value of it is that is a wide open, let the reader beware place.

The officers' car came to a stop just behind the Camry, which now contained only the driver. Officer Garcia was the passenger in the police car, and as he stepped from the car the Camry began backing toward him. Believing that the Camry's driver was attempting to run him down, Garcia opened fire, firing ten rounds.

particularly a thiirteen year old who's maybe driven a car once or twice in his life?

Who trys to "run down" somebody by backing a car into them;

Yea, Hindraker is a prime example, isn't he?

With the United States beginning its February presidency of the Security Council, John R. Bolton, the American ambassador, reported the failure of his first effort from the chair, to get the 15 Council members to begin meetings promptly at 10 a.m. "Starting on time is a form of discipline," he said. "I brought the gavel down at 10. I was the only one in the room, though."