We all have seen those bumper stickers telling us tailgater’s that the beaming couples in their 35’ Allegro Coach are busy spending their children’s’ inheritance. We’ve been bombarded by television, radio, and print media ads extolling the need to save money We’ve been nagged and scolded, yes, scolded by talking heads on weighty TV shows [...]

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Katie Holmes will not be reprising her role as Rachel Dawes in the sequel to ‘Batman Begins’, titled ‘The Dark Knight’. Holmes’ publicist said that “scheduling conflicts” were the reason why the actress would not be reprising her role. She added that Holmes was busy negotiating for another project, when she was approached for the [...]

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The brand spankin’ new 007 film ‘Casino Royale’ is premiering in China today.    ‘Bond’ star Daniel Craig and girlfriend producer Satsuki Mitchell have been out and about on the streets of Beijing, to attend the premiere.     Craig excited about being in China says: “It’s been an ambition of mine to get here, and [...]

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I have posted several times about how I generally encourage my students to use their Chinese names instead of ones they have invented ( They would be perfect for gay porn stars, but…CHINGLISH) or have had foisted on them like poor old Dick Dong from Beijing. Yesterday, I had all the students teach me their [...]

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Despite all the bloggers touting the usefulness of the internet to report disasters, there have been few news stories about the disruption of the Asian internet last December, when an earthquake hit off the coast of Taiwan and cut the communication cables. This caused problems in both internet and telephone traffic in the Asian/Pacific area. [...]

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The WHO (the UN’s World Health Organization) has now declared a health emergency for Africa because of the increase in Drug resistant TBPartly due to HIV and increased urban development, cases of TB has quadrupled in Africa since 1990. Half a million people in Africa, and two million people in the world die of TB [...]

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Once upon a short time ago, Mortgage Lenders Network USA (MLN) seemed an inexorable subprime force. Described as a top tier lender by its own execs, MLN was a major player in its home state of Connecticut. Not that the Nutmeg State was the only place MLN hung its hat. MLN is incorporated in Delaware, [...]

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Former Spice Girl Emma Bunton has announced that she is pregnant.   31-year-old Emma Bunton is expecting her very first bundle of joy, with long-time boyfriend and ex-damage singer Jade Jones, 27. The pair have been dating for 8 years and are absolutely thrilled with the news.   “We are so happy, it’s unbelievable news! [...]

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A US fire fighter has undergone plastic surgery in India to look like ‘Die Hard’ star Bruce Willis. John Joseph Conway, 43, reigning from Chicago, checked himself into Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, with a picture of his hero, Willis, in his hand. “I am a fire-fighter. I need to look the part. [...]

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There is an entertaining Press Release doing the rounds. It is from Booble.com. For those of you not familiar with Booble (myself included), Booble is a search engine. The press release states that Booble has been rejected for a TV ad spot during the Super Bowl. With one minute Ad’s going for $2.5 million, one [...]

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —    Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that nuclear weapons became a “strategic compulsion” for India, “born out of the failure to [...]

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Marcheline Bertrand, both actress and loving mother to the very talented Angelina Jolie, has passed away after a tradgic battle with cancer. Marcheline was aged 56. Mrs Bertrand’s death was announced by Angelina on Sunday. She had been fighting Cancer for almost 8 years, before it took her on Saturday afternoon, at Cedars-Sinai medical centre [...]

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So, here is a question: Why is CBS using propaganda film originally posted on an al Qaeda website and claiming it is merely “CBS obtained” with no mention of the actual source for Lara Logan’s report on The “Battle of Haifa Street”? The anti-Iraq website called Iraqslogger posted a story about how CBS reporter Lara [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Ridiculous right? Can you see Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Martin Bormann holding a conference in New York to plan the next phase of the Nazi plan to take over the world and the FBI doing nothing to stop it – or the mains stream media even reporting [...]

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The quirky cast of the hit family comedy film ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ have left the building, smiling, after winning the best ensemble cast award at the 13th annual Screen Actors Guild awards in Los Angeles. After recieving this honour of an award, ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ is now a very high contender for the Oscar for [...]

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… of Answers in Genesis’ weekly e-mail exemplifies the innate anti-intellectualism of Christian fundamentalism. I say “innate” not because fundamentalism is senseless, though it is, but because fundamentalism teaches that man’s mind is inherently valueless. Taking-up that business of Adam naming all the animals, and the objection that it must have been a big, time-consuming [...]

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… died 44-years ago today, at age 88. The occasion of Frost’s death was headline news worldwide, and even noted by then-President Kennedy, at whose inauguration Frost recited his poem The Gift Outright. Times have changed, no? Is there today a living poet whose name is known to every American? And whose verse is comprehensible? [...]

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Police authorities were clearly surprised at the small number of protesters who attended an anti-Bush rally held in Berlin yesterday. A mere 700 concerned Germans took part in the demonstration held against the controversial, hard-line president. Tens of thousands of demonstrators had been expected to descend upon Berlin Sunday to show their discontent with the [...]

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Right before Christmas, the Consumers Union spearheaded a campaign calling for credit card reforms. It now appears as if some of the issues they surfaced are being looked into by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. And Consumers Union isn’t alone – a lot of other consumer groups are pretty much calling [...]

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