In a show of gross negligence and arrogance on the part of the Pune Police and Airtel, a software engineer in Bangalore has been kept in custody for 50 days in the Yerawada jail. According to the report, the software engineer was arrested in Bangalore from his residence under the allegation that he was responsible [...]

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If the arctic is warming and the antarctic is not, it’s hardly GLOBAL warming is it? The IPCC report on the subject has now apparently passed political vetting and a summary of it is below. The article notes the difference between the two poles but does not really try to explain it. But the difference [...]

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Who would want this guy’s job?  Pervez Musharraf.  Talking about being between a rock and a hard place.  Trying so very hard to figure out just what the U.S. really wants from him.  Just this past March VP Cheney was dispatched along with a CIA deputy director to  “pay a call” on Musharraf.   The visit [...]

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In an apparent scam that packs a double whammy, the IRS is being impersonated in a spoofed e-mail requesting donations for the recent Southern California fires. From the IRS press release: The Internal Revenue Service today warned taxpayers to be on the lookout for a new e-mail scam that appears to be a solicitation from [...]

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HBO has created quite a name for themselves, both with in house produced movies, and also increasingly with documentaries. HBO tackles issues that are too hot for the mainstream media to handle, and that makes for some good viewing. I managed to get a sneak peek at this documentary that will be airing on November [...]

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Ron Paul Interview with Solidad O’Brien on Anderson Cooper’s 360 Was He Treated Fairly?  Ron Paul. Was he treated fairly in this interview? Love him or hate him, you have to admit that the guy often isn’t treated objectively by the media. It should be troubling, even for the legions of anti-Paulistinians. It’ll only be [...]

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The first feature film to be shot in Yemen, A New Day in Old Sana’a is a slightly uneven tale about a young groom who, after seeing a woman who he thinks is his fiance dancing in the street one morning, falls madly in love with her, only to discover that it is a different woman entirely. [...]

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For a band so well-known for their hilarious antics and incredibly energetic live performances, it’s surprising to learn that Barenaked Ladies have never released a live performance DVD… until now that is. With the release of Talk to the Hand: Live in Michigan, Barenaked Ladies are bringing their distinctively clever pop sensibilities to their legions of eager fans. [...]

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In 1945, a children’s book about anthropomorphic steam engines was published. “The Three Railway Engines,” created by Edmund Ward sparked the beginning of the now infamous Thomas & Friends, though Thomas himself wasn’t created until the following year, when Ward published “Thomas the Tank Engine.” From that point on, Ward published a new adventure on the [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Tired of all those fatwas spewed from proclaimed and self-proclaimed imams? Are you even fatwa-worthy? After all, there’s no central authority in Islam. Are you confused by dueling fatwas? Any self-deluded Muslim can step up to the microphone and declare a fatwa on – well, anyone or anything he pleases. [...]

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The Wolf’s Torment by S. G. Cardin I am fan of gothic horror novels, having written a few tales myself in the genre, but I do have a low tolerance for derivative novels that add nothing new to the genre. This is not one of those. Despite the fact the author has never been to [...]

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 Barney?  Jerry Springer?  XFL Football? Everybody has a favorite show they love to hate. We put 10 of them in a list for you. If you think we left one off the list that really stunk up the place, leave a comment at the end of this. We’ll be another list together and we’ll consider [...]

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I am sure that this will be another big hit with the dance crowd. However I was less than enthusiastic about it. It has a robotic feel both in the music and the vocals. While not really gruesome, and it is certainly preferable to a root canal, it did not appeal to me. Endless loops [...]

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At a meeting at the State Department in Washington late last month, hundreds of angry diplomats protested a government plan to force them to accept assignments in Iraq. Previously, assignments in Iraq had been on a voluntary basis, but because of the present risks involved there, as many as 50 vacancies currently exist. The State [...]

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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review recently published a story about Citgo gas stations in Pittsburgh finding a dip in gasoline sales. The piece sympathetically portrays Hugo Chavez, the America hating dictator of Venezuela, as a victim attacked by mean American boycotters even as they then claim at the end of the story that it isn’t boycotters, but [...]

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Counter March to Al Sharpton Planned The Nationalist Movement will march at Jena to protest both the Jena Six and Martin Luther King. The planned march has already sparked reaction and is sure to spark even more as news of it spreads. Al Sharpton plans to lead another march the same day to draw attention [...]

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If THIS isn’t the wolf guarding the hen house, what is? After all, expecting the government — known for voter fraud since Aaron Burr strode the halls of Congress — to make sure a union election is run fairly shows how really bad it has gotten for the unions! Still, that said, the government are [...]

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On a whim, my wife and I decided to try out Bookers. I had eaten there a couple of times before, but always at lunchtime. I had always found the food quite good and the service excellent. Bookers after dark is not such a fun place to get to, it lives in one of the [...]

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Dog the Bounty Hunter’s Son Sold Tabloids Info Before Tucker Appears to Have Violated State Laws on Taping Dog  The Dog story keeps getting more bizarre. Gloss Lip and TMZ report that Duane “Dog” Chapman’s son, Tucker, had sold information about his father to the tabloids before the tape incident. It’s also been reported that [...]

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News Item: Pilots asleep on airport approach Profit is the bottom line in any kind of business, and scheduling workers to boost productivity is common practice.  If an employee on the line can load 10% more boxes by putting in 5% more time, businesses will find a way to squeeze that 5% in.  Not every [...]

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Buddy Loaned Thompson Plane + Buddy Had Been Busted for Drugs = Scandal? Nearly 30 years ago someone sold some marijuana. The same person over the next several years gets into various scrapes involving drugs. Fast forward to 2007 and that person loans a buddy, who happens to be a presidential candidate his jet to [...]

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Surveys show that 52% of Americans pray every day, 57% of Catholics pray every day, 41% of those who aren’t sure of life after death pray every day, and 15% of people who aren’t sure there is a God pray every day. He said, with a grin, that people pray “to whom it may concern” [...]

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 Dealer Planned to Tape and Televise Bust for $$$ So OJ did get set up after all. Information released from the FBI report on the Las Vegas bust involving OJ trying to retrieve stolen memorabilia revealed that the FBI was aware of the former NFL player’s lans three weeks prior to their occurring. How did [...]

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 The Latest Dog the Bounty Hunter News: Al Sharpton Responds to Dog  Bounty Hunter to Return to TV? Dog the Bounty Hunter has gotten his response to a request to “meet with black leaders”. The leader is Al Sharpton. The response is a mixed bag. Sharpton, who is familiar with the subject of hate crimes, [...]

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I know you likely are asking ‘What the hell is a Chumby’? It is a box not much bigger than an alarm clock, but it looks like much more fun than your regular point of pain at 7am in the morning! With a price tag of $180 one would expect something slightly better than the [...]

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I was always in favor of gun control, at least until I was a missionary in Africa, when we noticed the criminal gangs/freedom fighters (the groups, as is usual in the third world, overlapped) started attacking missionaries, in cars, in missions, and in hospitals. They tended to hit places with nuns, because the veils were [...]

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