— 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. —  The CNN-IBN’s latest pet theme for media manufactured activism is the Liberhan Commission’s findings on the Babri Masjid demolition. Neither has the [...]

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In his new film, George Clooney plays a man who is at the end of his ropes so goes along with the schemes of a huge multinational corporation that harms people in their quest for making money. In real life, George Clooney is a man who makes lots of money, but takes money to promote [...]

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My husband was watching the memorial service to Princess Diana last night on CNN. One of his secret vices is reading about celebrities, probably as an escape from his medical practice caring for emergencies in an isolated dreary coal mining town. Myths are important, and despite the cynicism of some of the press, the myth [...]

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A critique of research by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski That old Leftist, John B. Judis, has an article in The New Republic that summarizes a stream of psychological research into fear of death that goes by the name of “worldview defense”. The idea is that if you are reminded of your own [...]

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Well for some unexplained reason Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless was not aired here in Calgary today. I suppose it could be because of the holiday weekend. So I can’t give an update about them today but here are todays updates for As The World Turns and Passions. As The [...]

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I was disappointed to read that Hollywood director Brian De Palma’s latest work is a propaganda piece, highlighting the atrocities that a handful of U.S. soldiers committed in the Iraqi town of Mahmudiyah. It’s ironic that someone like De Palma who is best known for directing ‘Scarface’ and ‘The Untouchables’ would be an anti-war liberal, [...]

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We had more or less had it with Giuliani when 9/11 hit.  At that point he had done everything wrong.  His emergency headquarters had been located in the main target site which had been hit in 1993, so that they were out of action from the get go.  Giuliani made much noise about his super [...]

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The words come from Don McLean’s fabulous song ‘American Pie’, and he was talking about the death of Buddy Holly. It is a different day that I am talking about. In the late 70’s a huge change occurred in the British music scene. Some musicians relocated to North America, while others stayed on weathered the [...]

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Sparen bis der Artzt kommt, the German obsession with saving money has apparently reached yet another all-time record. Die Geizkragen (the tightwads). On average, every German has saved about 94,000 euros, well over 100,000 bucks. That’s about 9 trillion friggin’ dollars for crying out loud (a German Billion is an American trillion, by the way [...]

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You think it takes a long, long time for a death sentence to be carried out? Try suing the MSM for libel and collecting. Richard Jewell, the part-time security guard who discovered a lethal bomb at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and helped hundreds of spectators flee from harm’s way minutes [...]

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Today on The Lunch, Rob and Will play 10-in-3 with a host of unlikely characters, including a senator from Idaho and a dictator from Cuba. Also in the show, Edwards and an unwelcome guest, Thompson decides to decide, and Wyoming flexes its two electoral votes. Watch now! 

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The fine Farsi-speaking folks in Iran have recruited the IRS in a phishing scam. Not. Phishing is a bastard child of the Internet: email scamming to get enough personal information to steal that person’s identity and/or loot that person’s bank account and credit line. A new variant just landed with a slimy plop in my [...]

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Yesterday’s announcement by Fred Thompson’s non-campaign that he will formally announce next week was upstaged by a call from Mitt Romney’s campaign for supporters to create their own Romney campaign video. While Fred will be announcing through a webcast, some web-savvy political analysts like Patrick Ruffini think Romney caught the other GOP candidates (and non-candidates) [...]

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If you get an e-mail from the Better Business Bureau stating that a complaint has been made against you – it might be a good idea to just delete it. Websense is reporting: Websense® Security Labsâ„¢ has received reports of a new email spam variant similar to an attack launched early this year. The spoofed [...]

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Having spent most of his life summering at his father’s luxury seaside summer home in Kennebunkport, ME, Bush II must have learned, as any sailor does, that one must tack with the changing winds if one does not want to flop one’s boat over. “Stay the course” — particularly in Iraq — strikes me as [...]

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A national debate has emerged in India about the security of the country through the lack of Cyber Security in the Government sector. A security practitioner from Sweden has published the e-mail passwords of several Indian embassies in a blog (http://derangedsecurity.com). Several journalists in India have already tested and found that these passwords are still working and several [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog So…We’re attacked by self-identifying Muslims who follow the dictates of Islam and the end result is more acceptance of the religion? I wonder what this turkey is smoking in his hookah. LAHORE: 9/11 has brought Americans closer to Islam, since the Americans started studying Islam after the bloody attacks and [...]

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In Sidney, Montana the owner of the local McDonald’s fast food joint cannot get workers to staff his restaurant. This sounds like a bad thing, and for owner John Francis, it is, but, this loss of workers is because of the good economic news and low unemployment rates that is occurring throughout the Western United [...]

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The Waters of Andros by Madsen Pirie Hot on the heals of his first two novels; comes his third that is set on the planet of Andros. Andros is a water-centric planet with few land resources and an economy that is dependent on the sea. The planet affords its natives with a fairly fast recovery [...]

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As you might have known from reading this blog; I am not a big fan of Diana at all. In fact I was sick to death of the bloody whinging Princess before she died. Unlike many other people my reaction to her death was: “oh f*** no, the tabloids and celeb culture have their first [...]

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Personally, I am tired of the broken record that uses Viet Nam as an example. One side insists that one cannot fight insurgents and the other side insists that the only alternative to American power is a murderous civil war Actually, both sides ignores history. You see, several other major communist insurgencies in South East [...]

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I had (wrongly) imagined that the summer replacement for Lou Dobbs would lay off his blatantly racist assault on Latinos, veiled in the imagery of criminals who sneak into America to rob us with their chicanery (emergency room medicine) and murder us in our sleep.  This sleaze is morally criminal in its own right.  Even [...]

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As the mammals replaced the dinosaurs, so the next dominant species may be?  Presumably spiders won’t need oil to get around. Got Arachnophobia? Here’s Your Worst Nightmare By GRETEL C. KOVACH The discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir. [...]

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http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/lgcolor/ircolor.htm Those who talk of bombing Iran (the nutty President of France to Cheney) had best take a close look at the map of Iran and surrounding countries (website above) — particularly the Strait of Hormuz which passes close to Iran and through which ships bringing out oil from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, etc. and [...]

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