Archive for July 29th, 2007
Posted on July 29th, 2007
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Earlier this month, I blogged about the Certegy data breach, where a not very HONEST employee got caught selling information to an unidentified data-broker. Certegy was quick to assure the public that none of this information would be used to commit fraud because it was being used by “legitimate marketing firms.” Now the number of [...]
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Intro You know, I distinctly remember this cartoon being so wonderful when I was a kid. Guess we all gotta grow up sometime. The Story In this animated version of the hit video game that debuted in the fall of 1990, the Super Mario Bros. have successfully vanquished King Bowser into a banishment zone and [...]
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The recent spat between Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over whether or not the president should meet with nations like Iran, Syria, and N. Korea reflects a divide in the public about how much diplomatic engagement the United States should use when dealing with rogue nations.
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Gambia’s Speaker of Parliament Implicated in Governor Kalu’s Graft Sacandal!! …Kalu built three storey building worth of D6Million for Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay Governor Kalu also owns “International Trust Insurance Company (ITIC) Gambia- State House sources hinted! ….”This was the phone number I used to call Capt.Bunja Darboe at the Observer: 4496879″ said a well placed [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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Lt.Colonel Fofana Absconds!!! Army Spokesman says Fofana deserted the Force following the completion of his overseas military course!! By Justice Sam and Landing Badjie, Our Banjul Bureau Chief Leaks from the Army main Command in Banjul say Lt. Colonel Commander Sarjo Fofana might have possibly absconded, following the completion of his overseas military course. Fofana [...]
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By Justice Sam and Landing Badjie our Banjul Bureau Chief At least dozens people have been detained by the Gambian police for merely defying President Yahya Jammeh’s “clean the nation” call. A major scuffle ensued at the Welligara Market, Kombo North on Saturday, when armed police and paramilitary officers tried to use force to disperse [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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Breaking News:Exiled Gambian soldier receives D900000-00 Check from Central Bank! Exiled Gambian soldier Musa Drammeh, who is based in Swiss today, emailed one of his Bank Checks he received from the Central Bank of The Gambia to the Freedom Newspaper. Drammeh says he wanted to prove to the Editors of this leading paper that he [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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First, let me acknowledge that the title of this blog was inspired by an insightful piece July 27 in The Washington Post by Charles Krauthammer. Titled “Strike Two,” Krauthammer’s column examines Barack Obama’s response in the South Carolina “You Tube” debate in which Obama said he would meet with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, [...]
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Contador wins Tour de France World’s most famous cycling race was marred by several doping scandals               By  Amin George Forji    Whenever we think of a cycling race in any corner of the world, one of the first things that immediately come to mind is inevitably the Tour de France. In place since [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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My guitar wants to kill your mama. No, just kidding. That’s just an old Frank Zappa song. And now Berlin is honoring him by naming a street in Marzahn-Hellersdorf after him. They are going to call it: Frank Zappa Straße. Not necessarily for that song, but still. And whoever said that brown shoes don’t make [...]
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In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday Newt Gingrich talked about why he thinks the Democrats are so eager to pull the troops out of Iraq.
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Aerial News Gathering: Is It Worth It? Reading about the fiery mid-air collision involving two Arizona news choppers in which four people died brings back a lot of memories. As investigators try to sort out whether competition for the best shot of a police chase in progress contributed to the fatal crash that took the [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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Ann Brown and her book Farm Grandma and the Dancing Pitchfork exemplify self-publishing success. Cracking the world of writing for children is a difficult task; self-publishing is no easy alternative. Ann Brown has quite obviously spent a lot of time not merely on the writing end of her project, but in the planning and executing of a well-thought business and marketing plan – a crucial element of self-publishing. (Michael Ernest Sweet)
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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Yup folks, the Saw legacy is alive and well, and the fourth episode is set to open on October 26th. We are still waiting for the trailer, but I have managed to obtain the teaser poster. Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead but not forgotten. Saw IV is going to be a shocker. Staring Tobin Bell [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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I’ve written a lot about how the buying and selling of personal information enables a lot of identity theft to occur. This multi-billion dollar industry assures our most personal information is available to ANYONE, who wants to buy it, and stored in a lot of places that might, or might not be very secure. With [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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From The Gathering Storm Blog We know that the Muslim Brotherhood, responsible for the re-establishment of fundamentalist Islam and the spread of its ideological arm called Islamism, was founded in the early part of the last century. But when and where was the ideology of Islamism introduced in Europe? According to Olivier Guitta, it was, [...]
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The AP did a fine job for Cuba’s ministry of propaganda the other day by highlighting the 8 Americans who broke U.S. law and traveled to Cuba to attend a medical school, free of charge to the students. Castro offered this free medical training as a propaganda tool to create good PR for his oppressive [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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I mentioned in my report on where Fred Thompson stands on the abortion issue that his was a Federalist’s interpretation of what role the Federal government has and what it should and shouldn’t take upon itself to do with it. I pointed out that Fred Thompson correctly understands that the Federal government has no role [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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We Republicans and Conservatives (not always one in the same thing, necessarily… hello Linc “leftie” Chaffey) have been eyeing the Senate with disgust for many years, now. But we finally have a Senator who knows what to do with power. Mitch McConnell has rode in from the Blue Grass state — um, that would be [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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News Item: NASA to probe alchohol use There is a policy within the Space Agency that prohibits drinking alchohol within a 12 hour time frame before a flight. Officials are now investigating reports that on a couple of occassions some astronauts may have bent that rule by bending their elbows a bit more than they [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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Jack Birge’s memoir, “Murder Without Death,†chronicles the writer’s struggle to maintain his freedom after he challenges authority. It is imperative for the reader to trust the narrator’s point of view during this “every man†versus “the man†story. The story starts off with a conviction being read and a trip to jail for Birge [...]
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Back in 1989, Robert John Bardo made headlines when he shot dead rising actress Rebecca Schaeffer inside the door of her apartment. Now, he is making headlines as the victim after being stabbed 11 times by a fellow inmate. The incident took place in the prison yard at Mule Creek State Prison in Amador County, [...]
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Information technologist Slavisa Pesci is looking to join Dan Brown as the master of controversy by announcing that he has discovered yet another hidden image in Leonardo’s famous painting the “Last Supper.†He says that superimposing the painting with its mirror image shows a picture that has an added figure who looks like a Templar [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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Tragedy struck two news channels recently when two helicopters collided in Phoenix while covering a police chase. All four people on board the two aircrafts were killed including KTVK-TV’s photojournalist Jim Cox and pilot Scott Bowerback along with KNXV-TV’s photographer Rick Krolax and pilot Craig Smith. The crash is going to be investigating and question [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2007
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In order to provide an opportunity to its students to systematically study the Cyber Laws in other countries, Cyber Law College, the premier Cyber Law Education entity in India has started the International Cyber Law Study Center (ICLRC). The objective of the center is to be the focal point for make a comparative study of [...]
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