The Discovery Channel is well known for their exploration of both the past and the future through the use of modern science to discover the mysteries of civilizations long since gone, and what might happen to our own civilization in the future. Mars Rising takes a long hard look at the trials of making a [...]

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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. — But seriously Rahul,  what is the “point in talking” when you are not making sense A measure of how much in the [...]

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In September, Cambodian justice twitched the tip of its little piggy and finally indicted Nuon Chea, former Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea– aka the Khmer Rouge. Nuon Chea is charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes in breach of the Geneva Conventions. Between 1975 and 1979, under the leadership of Pol [...]

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Here it is the middle of the week already and here are today’s updates for Days of Our Lives, As The World Turns, and The Young and The Restless. Days of Our Lives Phillip tells Belle, he is going to do whatever it takes to get his son back. He wants to break into the [...]

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News Item: Man circles globe under own power Most of us would consider a road trip to be a day long or weekend jaunt.  Others may decide to be like the Griswold’s and load the Family Truckster for an vacation in Wally World.  Then there’s this guy named Jason Lewis.  Lewis stepped into a tiny [...]

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Some films try too hard to be funny, some try too hard to be “action-packed” and some try too hard to deliver a message. Welcome to Paradise, a Dove Foundation Family recommended film, isn’t a comedy or an action flick, so guess what it’s trying too hard to do? Director Brent Huff does his best [...]

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Yesterday five Democratic presidential candidates announced that they would not be participating in Michigan’s January 15, 2008 primary. Today, the Obama, Biden, and Kucinich campaigns talked about their decision.

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A Press Release from Churchill’s Parrot  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE       Contact: churchillsparrot@gmail.com October 10, 2007- London, England.  A ground-breaking study funded by the Churchill’s Parrot Foundation released findings today indicating that America’s Democratic Party actually died sometime between the assassination of JFK and the end of the Johnson Administration. “What we have now in the DNC [...]

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The Camino is actually a collection of pilgrimage routes that stretch for more than 500 miles across the north of Spain, from the borders of France in the north-east to Santiago in the far north-west.  Pilgrims have been making their way along routes that have their beginnings at points from all over Europe to worship at the shrine [...]

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Here is an update to the ongoing saga of Vladuz versus eBay. Apparently, Vladuz, or someone claiming to be him, accessed eBay’s servers and suspended some eBay accounts. Ina Steiner reports on the AuctionBytes blog: eBay confirmed that a known fraudster had limited access to a very small number of eBay accounts on the eBay.com [...]

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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. — The PTI reports Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh will be held in two phases on December 11 and 16 and [...]

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Nina
by Liz DeJesus
Blu Phi’er Publishing, October 2007
168 pages; $12.99
ISBN : 0977203492

I was instantly attracted to the beautifully-drawn cover of Liz DeJesus’ Nina. It promised a fantasy just the other side of reality, and this is exactly where DeJesus strove to take the reader. This is the tale of Nina, a never-born but oft-imagined daughter come to life.

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This is what Karma is all about. Nancy Pelosi and her liberal cabal shamelessly stoked the passions of the crazy anti-war hippie crowd in order to win the majority in Congress. Now that they’re in the majority they must suffer the consequences. The Democratic “base” is now the most irrational and irritating people our country [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Now that Tony Blair and his hard line stance against terrorism has been removed because his stance sparked Muslim anger, the now UK pledges to work more closely with local communities to fight terrorism. God forbid that we should take a hard line stance on those that want to kill [...]

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The current issue of The Economist magazine has as its front cover illustration and inside cover story, “The Comeback Kids,” referring to the possibility of both Hillary and Bill Clinton occupying the White House together for the next eight years. Hillary, at last count, was some 18 points ahead of her nearest rival for the [...]

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Clive Cussler has sold some 100 million books worldwide, many of them featuring his Bond-like protagonist Dirk Pitt, who, like Cussler himself, collects vintage and antique cars and is a member of NUMA [The National Underwater Marine Agency]. Unlike Pitt however Custler does not go in much for hunting down arch-villains around the globe but [...]

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We read: “Inciting homophobic hatred will become illegal, the justice secretary, Jack Straw, announced last night, following a campaign by gay rights groups. The introduction of an offence of rallying hatred against gays and lesbians follows similar measures to tackle religious hate crime, which were passed earlier this year after lengthy rows over freedom of [...]

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A fisherman in Bavaria claims to have seen a two-meter long crocodile approach him while he was fishing from the shore of a small lake near the town of Amberg. Standing up at the sight, the fisherman startled the creature which then turned and quickly swam away, violently splashing the waters behind it with its [...]

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Considering the astonishingly high rate of misstatements and factual errors tumbling from Fred Thompson’s lips since he declared his candidacy a scant month ago, all eyes were on him during yesterday’s Republican debate sponsored by CNBC, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal and the Michigan Republican Party, held at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Voters and pundits [...]

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Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, and Joe Biden have pulled out of the Michigan primary. Michigan’s original primary date was February 9th, but they decided to hold their primary on January 15th instead. The candidates are angry about this because that would make Michigan’s primary occur before Iowa and New Hampshire’s. Yes, it’s unfair [...]

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