Love is in the air as February rolls around By Honey Gillard Valentines Day, a holiday of love and intimacy, a day to let the fire in your hear flame once again. Most people would claim that this worldwide holiday is either a day to snuggle up with that special someone & let your hearts [...]

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In Washington, the talk is all about Iraq as Viet Nam, right down to the aging hippies and over the hill Hollywood stars reliving their glory days of rebellion. The irony is that none of the aging protesters have bothered to check on what’s actually going on in Viet Nam these days. As OurManInHanoi Blog [...]

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Two days of heavy rains have caused flooding in parts of Jakarta, Indonesia, causing 100 000 people to evacuate to higher ground. Reports from the area show the government struggling to get food and water supplies to those evacuated. Although flooding has occurred before in the area, it has been made worse with increase in [...]

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the state of Texas has just mandated that their seventh grade girls get the shot for human papilloma virus. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it will cost a bundle. HPV, or human papilloma virus, is a virus that causes warts. Now, you can get warts all over your body, but some [...]

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Dell seems to be in corrective state after the company lost its No. 1 position in the industry to rival Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) last year. The positioning is on basis of recent reports from IDC and Gartner Inc. CEO Michael Dell said that the company is quashing bonuses for 2006 and reducing the number of managers to [...]

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By Honey Gillard Singer Alanis Morissette and actor Ryan Reynolds have officially ended their engagement. The two have been dating for four years and engaged for 2. Reynolds, 32, and Morissette, 30, split earlier in June 2006 but were spotted back together within a few week – holding hands, kissing; looking very much betrothed. Dvora [...]

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By Honey Gillard The soulful and highly acclaimed R&B singer/pianist Alicia Keys has become a lesbian hitman – for her movie cameo in ‘Smoking aces’. We’re all so used to seeing her looking calm, collected and beautiful behind her piano, but now she’s set to show a new side of Alicia – Alicia the Actress. [...]

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By David Schussler Global warming fears are being whipped to a new frenzy that is distracting us from real and imminent dangers from terrorist threats. Watch out for the political bait and switch that is about to occur in the political arena. World wide headlines are now touting an end of the world scenario perpetrated [...]

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Detroit legend Joe Hunter — Funk Brothers keyboardist and bandleader — has been found dead in his Detroit apartment. Although the cause of death is not yet known, it is assumed to be related to his diabetes. The Funk Brothers were the house backing band for Motown Records, playing on approximately four-fifths of all Motown [...]

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News Item: Body position affects memory Our brains remember more than we thought they did.  In fact, they remember just about everything.  Things we seem to have forgotten, can come back in an instant, with just a bit of a nudge from the outside world.  We’re all familiar with one of our senses triggering a [...]

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To combat Detroit’s image as a violent, unsavory post-industrial husk with low population density, the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau is starting a new tourism push (with the full blessing of Detroit Renaissance, no less.) That campaign is centered on: D That is, exporting the hip nomenclature of referring to Motown as simply “the [...]

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Tom Smith was kind enough to spend some time discussing his latest book The Crescent City Lynchings. This is a factual account of New Orleans in the 1890’s, a city where violence and corruption were the way of life. Forget the Wild West, the Wild South is much more entertaining! When did you start this project, [...]

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ISBN: 0-7391-1671-1 Lexington Books 159 pages, Soft Cover Dr Keren holds a Canada Research Chair in Communications, Culture, and Civil Society at the University of Calgary. His soon to be released book explores the murky world of Blogging. It is an interesting book, and one piece of advice that I would like to pass on [...]

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We really need to get past our fetish over race. Yes, we are all different in many ways and, yes, we can all include ourselves in one group or another no matter who or what we are. If I choose, I can label myself part of the Italian-American group, or the Roman Catholic group (lapsed), [...]

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The butterfly has fluttered its wings, and we wait for the consequences.   Chaos Theory says what appear to be the most inconsequential events can produce totally disproportionate and entirely unpredictable consequences.  Change a single input to a system, however slightly, and we can only wait to see how that system can be transformed.  A [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Media Workers Against the War has compiled the following set of rules, which they believe should hang on toilet doors throughout media land. Now pay attention all you Muslim hating, Islam bashing, Islamophobic bigots!! Here are the rules. Rule 1. We have to examine and question Islam so we can [...]

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The natives are all up in arms about ExxonMobil and co. again. You know, flying off the handle with rage and all that. It’s kind of like when you sneak up behind them and say the word “Bush”. These cynical bastards (ExxonMobil, not the natives) are actually offering $10,000 to “buy scientists” who can refute the [...]

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The American Government should first do a survey on how many “Americans” would actually be willing to do the HARD WORK that many “illegal” members of their population are willing to do and I am sure the feedback would be negative!  By increasing the fees to apply for Green Card or Citizenship, the US Gov’t [...]

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UK GUILTY OF SENDING ‘CHILD SOLDIERS’ TO IRAQ BRITAIN broke a United Nations treaty banning the use of child soldiers by sending underage troops – including 17-year-old girls – to Iraq, it has been revealed. Full story: http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=180532007 …………………… One of the uglier phenomena of the Iraq war has been the insistent recruiting (apparently in [...]

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England is fast becoming but simple a plot of land floating in the sea instead of a nation of culture guided by a rich legal tradition. It is a tale of warning for the USA, the moral of which is don’t allow minorities to set up a parallel culture or you will cease to be [...]

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The Government does not have enough resources allocated for immigration and border enforcement. These two organizations have to be self sufficient by raising funds. The INS achieve this by raising fees, ICE on the other hand can impose huge penalties on employers who employ illegal immigrants. They can fine banks which are providing loans to [...]

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An Increase in suspicious dead and live exotic animal dumping across the USA appears directly related to the legislation banning private ownership of exotic and wild animals “False reports of big cats on the loose, or suspicious dumping of animals coinciding with introduction of exotic animal related legislation makes me wonder if there is more [...]

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First, the Himilayan Quiz: Test Your Knowledge 1. What’s the highest mountain in the world? 2. What are three of the names for Tibet’s highest mountain? 3. How do you pronounce the English name of Tibet’s highest mountain? 4. True or false: George Bush says that the tallest mountain isn’t shrinking, the Chinese (see (Yao [...]

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A grim search is underway tonight in French Settlement, Louisiana for 13-year-old Kaitlin Marie Aydell. Kaitlin disappeared from the small community that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans on Thursday, February 1. She apparently vanished just after getting off her school bus. Around 3 a.m. Friday, the Livingston Parish (La) sheriff’s department arrested Mark [...]

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