Less than a week after my last post on this subject “The fate of Zimbabwe, was Mugabe rotten from the start?”, I see that the LA Times, no less, have published an excellent essay on the same subject entitled “Mugabe: a tyrant from the start”. Of course they’re right, but I sure wish that this [...]

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One of the sadder stories coming out of Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor didn’t get much press in the US: The story of a lucrative blood collection program in Arkansas jails that resulted in tainted blood and plasma that killed people. After all, Monica was so much more interesting than trying to prove the [...]

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Heh. Hollywood movies  are California’s second largest source of pollution… Between the generators used to light movie scenes to the explosives used for special effects, a UCLA study showed that the movie industry was the second largest polluter in California. But don’t be alarmed: Some studios are looking for ways to become carbon neutral: using [...]

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With the release of the soundtrack for the feature comedy The Ten a little over a month ago, it seems like that most prolific of musicians, Craig Wedren, is again thrusting himself into the mainstream, or at least a very large stream that connects with the main stream.  After fronting the illustrious punk-pop band Shudder to Think for over [...]

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Even in the Philippines we are following the bizarre story of that fighting lady who died in police custody. If the news is to be believed, her family are VIP’s, so expect a major lawsuit. But this story has a hint that there might have been major health problems or major psychiatric problems, making one [...]

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An article about Charlie Sheen’s divorce, which I’ll follow with a few comments:End daughters’ overnights with Sheen, ex asks LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Denise Richards has asked a court to stop allowing ex-husband Charlie Sheen to have overnight stays with their two young daughters. Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards married in 2003. The couple [...]

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Here are today’s updates starting a new week. Days of Our Lives Roman has a bomb tied around him with Andre standing behind him with a gun preventing Sami and EJ from removing the bomb. EJ tells Andre that the vendetta is over by orders of Stefano and he asks if he is ready to [...]

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Background: I’ve previously covered the “Elian Gonzalez II” case in Miami–a battle over a 4-year-old Cuban immigrant girl which pits her Cuban father, Rafael Izquierdo (pictured), against wealthy Cuban-American foster parents Joe Cubas, a well-known sports agent, and his wife, Maria. Just as Elian’s father Juan Gonzalez faced numerous unfair hurdles to get his son [...]

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“Evan Almighty” is a slight and fairly inoffensive sitcom of a movie that milks its preposterous premise to the fullest extant possible, with Steve Carroll as fastidious TV newsman-turned-junior-congressman Evan Baxter. Current comedy-flave Carroll can be funny just walking through a room, and Morgan Freeman is appropriately magisterial as God, who takes Congressman Baxter at [...]

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President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen toured over the devastated Jabal al-Tair Island aboard a helicopter. The island is 70 miles into the Red Sea, which was hit by strong volcanic activities including eruptions since Sunday evening that killed 3 Yemeni soldiers . President Saleh checked the process of rescue and evacuation of soldiers who were camped in [...]

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With 400 days until Election ’08, Rob and Will report on Newt’s political abstinence, Rudy’s moderate handicap, the power of McCain’s straight talk, a Desperate (Housewives) tour for change, and much more. Watch now!

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In this week’s Rasmussen Reports Democratic poll update Sen. Hillary Clinton regained her twenty point lead over Sen. Barack Obama, 42%-22%. This is a three point increase in support for Clinton, and a three point decline for Obama. While the national picture looks strong for Clinton, things aren’t quite as clear in Iowa.

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Pumpkin seeds are a little like viagra. They’re loaded with zinc which kicks starts the libido. I found that nutritional nugget in Tosca Reno’s book, “The Eat-Clean Diet.”Pumpkin seeds are just one of “12 Superfoods” Reno discusses toward the end of her book – after she’s finished explaining the basics of how to Eat-Clean and [...]

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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. — Must read article by Shashi Tharoor in the TOI The French have exactly what our country needs and we are constitutionally incapable [...]

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It doesn’t really add up, does it? On the one hand you have German shoppers literally kicking, gouging and shoving their way into “consumer temples” like they did at Media Markt during Berlin’s Alexa shopping center grand opening recently (windows busting, tons of cops, 15 injuries, the whole nine yards), and then on the other [...]

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(Banana Republic photo courtesy of Paul Rene at Flickr) Gotta love the latest data breach at the Gap. First of all, it involves laptops stolen — then it is disclosed that the information, which includes everything needed to complete a full identity assumption — wasn’t even encrypted. Stolen laptops compromising a lot of people’s information [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Contemporary History 101 Term Paper UCLA: Spring Semester 2020 Instructor: Jeffery Smith It was called the American Hiroshima. Within 24 hours of eight American cities suffering the effects of radiation and blast damage in June of 2010, Islamic terrorists claimed responsibility. Immediately middle-east and far-east Muslim news outlets praised the [...]

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In the September 25th issue of the online magazine Salon, neurologist Robert Burton expresses concerns about an article that appeared in the Archives of Neurology. The Archives article questioned the received wisdom about patients diagnosed to be in a so-called persistent vegetative state (PVS). To the amazement of researchers, the brain of a woman, the [...]

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HODEIDAH, (Yemen)- A source in the Yemeni Naval Forces in Hodeidah said that three people were found dead and one survivor was found out of the eight reported missing earlier after a volcanic explosion that rocked the tiny Yemeni island on the Red Sea – Jabal al-Tair on late Sunday. Abdul-Bari Shamsan told Yemeni News agency that the [...]

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Hollywood loves to abuse young girls and routinely depicts underage and taboo breaking sexual encounters, not to mention its perennial depiction of extreme violence, so it is amazing that every year we are treated to Hollywood types decrying that the film industry is “afraid to take chances” in film. The so-called artists of Hollywood imagine [...]

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Here in the Philippines, there is a “love/hate” relationship with the USA…Personally people love Americans and many like our family have lots of family members living there. But the US has to be very polite when they visit, for any hint that they are trying to boss the Philippine people around brings a sharp backlash, [...]

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