The right wing blogosphere is in a sardonic mood about the democratic child health bill. Apparantly the “poor child” who talked about how a health program was needed to pay for his care after a car accident wasn’t from a poor family,  but from a family who owned a $400 thousand dollar house in an [...]

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Growing up in a Roman Catholic, inner-city parish of Saint Gabriel really left little room to think of expressing one’s Catholic identity on a regular basis. For the most part, we didn’t even know there was anything other than Catholicism out there as a means of religious expressionism. Of course, once in a while we [...]

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Well today starts another week in the Soap World. Here are today’s updates for Days of Our Lives, As The World Turns and The Young and The Restless. Days of Our Lives Chelsea is trying to talk Max into letting them auction him off but so far he is saying no. Stephanie interrupts the crowd [...]

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In my quest to develop a slightly stronger stomach – like my mother, who as a biology lab assistant could eat a sandwich from one hand while doing a dissection with the other – I have occasionally attempted to raise my gross-out threshold by watching one or anther of the CSI shows over dinner. Not [...]

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Walk into any bookstore and I will bet my last dollar that there is a whole shelf of books aimed at teaching the reader the fundamentals of becoming a millionaire in 10 easy steps! It all sounds fine, and it makes for a fun read, but generally speaking it is just a bunch of junk [...]

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A room full of students involved in the North Dakota DECA, a high school business club in Fargo, North Dakota spent their weekend playing twister in an attempt to set the world record for the largest Twister game board. The event involved 450 high school students playing Twister on 180 mats on Sunday night during a Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) conference held over [...]

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“You’ll laugh so much your sides will ache, your heart will go pitter-pat, watching Felix the Wonderful Cat!” While the theme song may be a bit of an exaggeration, those who remember watching the color episodes of Felix the Cat in their heyday will rejoice at the opportunity to catch him at his rascally antics [...]

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This week marks the 70th anniversary of the day when President Roosevelt proclaimed October 12th as “Colombus Day” in the United States. In 1971, President Nixon declared the second Monday of October a national holiday to celebrate the event. However, the first recorded celebration of the European discovery of America took place on October 12, 1792 [...]

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  A mother with good intentions but a controversial decision is seeking to have the womb of her disabled daughter removed to prevent the 15-year-old girl from suffering from the side effects of menstruation. The two live in Billericay, England, and the mother, Alison Thorpe, is talking to British doctors to see if they are legally [...]

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Last week, a family in Marysville, Ohio welcomed their third child into a family. This birth would be unextraordinary for the general public except for the fact that the baby girl was born on October 2. This is the same date that her two older brothers were born on. Kayla Cotton was born to parents [...]

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Major League Baseball has settled into its playoff series’, creating tense times for Yankees manager Joe Torre. After losing to the Cleveland Indians in the first two games of their first-round playoff series, it was publically announced that Torre’s job was on the line if the Yankees did not win this series. As if in response [...]

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With 100 film composer credits to his name, including the upcoming epic fantasy film The Golden Compass, French composer Alexandre Desplat has quietly taken on Ang Lee’s erotic thriller Lust, Caution with all the strength and passion of the seasoned professional he has proven himself to be. Each piece moves slowly and deliberately, expertly expressing the two key words [...]

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Directed by Mike Cerrone (co-writer of the Jim Carrey vehicle Me, Myself & Irene) comes the new moderately humorous, often disappointing, race-comedy Homie Spumoni. As a first-time director Cerrone has penned a new comedy based around the idea that (chuckle-chuckle) a young black man thinks he’s (gasp) Italian! That is until his real parents show up to claim him as their [...]

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Higher Biblical criticism mainly flourished from the late 19th into the mid 20th century. Frankly, since then potential biblical scholars have tended to go into other types of service — medicine, law, teaching, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_criticism What it firmly established was that the Biblical texts were the equivalent of fruitcakes embedded with all sorts of [...]

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Riding a successful showing at the 2007 Grammys where he took home a Song of the Year Grammy with the Dixie Chicks for the unabashedly brazen  tune “Not Ready to Make Nice” (he also co-wrote five more songs on their Album of the Year-winning Taking the Long Way), singer/songwriter Dan Wilson is ready to make [...]

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This week’s Rasmussen Reports Democratic presidential primary poll update finds that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has rebounded a little and managed to cut frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton’s lead down to 16 points. Clinton now leads Obama 42%-26%.

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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. — Karat reads the riot act to Pranab Mukherjee and Sonia Gandhi. IAEA talks in jeopardy as Al Baradei arrives. The 30-minute meeting [...]

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If you are a fan of The Who, you will want to mark November 6th on your calendar. Universal Studios Home Entertainment is releasing not one, but two full length DVD features on this iconic group that has helped shape rock music for over four decades. Tommy and Quadrephenia were, and still are, breathtaking in [...]

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In a recent interview, Cardinal Avery Dulles alluded to what he considered the greatest difficulty the Catholic Church will face in the 21st century…that is the growing trend towards the lack of Catholic identity within our own Catholic Church. Perhaps the reason for this malaise is the fact that over the past four decades Catholic [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog About a week or so ago, I wrote a post entitled Islamism and Turkey – The First Shoe Drops? In that post I wrote that ever since a party with deep Islamic roots has won a landslide victory in Turkey’s elections we’ve wondered if the Islamists would try to re-establish [...]

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I happened to catch a re-run of a C-SPAN bookstore session with Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer last night, co-authors of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, and it sent me back in memory to a grim encounter that took place some years ago in a CUNY faculty seminar when someone raised the subject [...]

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Last month in my post, The Fate of Zimbabwe – Does Violence Loom? I wrote about Zimbabwe people being without food.  Back then, a London Times headline ran “Violence Looms as Zimbabwe runs out of food – except for the elite.  I thought not, because unlike Burma, the Zimbabwean people are hungry and virtually leaderless [...]

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You won’t get a million dollar guarantee and Tom Fragala’s social security number if you decide to use myTruston identity theft prevention/recovery services. You also aren’t going to get the paid endorsements for his product by Fred Thompson, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, or Howard Stern. Tom, who is the CEO/Founder of MyTruston doesn’t believe in [...]

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That headline reads right, sad to say. A new bill that has already passed both houses of Congress and is headed for Bush’s desk forgives the student loans of Federal employees of 10 years service. H.R.2669 gives already undeserving public employees yet another wonderful benefit that is denied to the average, working American. Thanks to [...]

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Since I run Ubuntu after a worm ate my Windows and Microsoft wouldn’t let me reinstall my OS without a disc, I’m probably safe, but for the rest of you guys, the growing threat is Stormworm. It’s a worm/Trojan that enters your computer via an innocent looking email, and then sits there…only some computers will [...]

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Here is a clear case, which shows that just about anyone can have their financial identity compromised. In this case, the victim is none other than the mayor of New York City, Michael R. Bloomberg. This story is getting a lot of coverage, but no one is saying (if they know) how Mayor Bloomberg’s financial [...]

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  The Indian Air force which was established on 8th October 1932 and  is celebrating the Air force day today. The developments in technology in Aviation Engineering and Weaponry have brought about significant changes in the warfare technology since the day the Air force was born. These challenges are being met with necessary technology import [...]

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