September 9 Israeli Attack on Syria Unveiled Dazzling New Capabilities Aviation Week & Space article Pack Informational Punch Pravda Responds An awesome display of electronic warfare capabilities by Israel in September sparked a sharp reaction in Russia today. It all may bode ill for Iran tomorrow. Electronic warfare capabilities reached new heights during the September [...]

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I’m anti pollution, and worried about big businesses that exploit poor people, but I’m even more skeptical about the global warming hysteria…and the assumption that giving power to a big quasi governmental organization that has little oversight is the way to go. Where are the checks and balances in the UN? I mean, a lot [...]

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Victor and Nikki each prepare to appear in court for the decision on what they are going to do about Victoria. JT tells Nikki he can’t possibly respect anyone that would be willing to let their own daughter die. Meanwhile Michael warns Victor not to lose his temper in front of the judge. Victor promises [...]

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Emily is in bed when Chris walks in. She says well since she is suddenly unemployed she decided there was no reason to get out of bed. He tells her they are going to be moving into a penthouse but Emily is against it. Emily runs into Dusty in the lobby at the hotel. She [...]

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Cordy and Stephanie talk to Chelsea and Nick about Ford going to Stephanie’s house. Cordy is upset because Ford called her a whore and threatened to tell everyone that about her if she continues passing the fliers around. Cordy can’t handle the pressure even though Chelsea tries to get her to keep going. She says [...]

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A new Zogby poll released on Monday shows that Hillary Clinton if matched head to head with the top 5 Republican contenders would lose the presidential race by between 3% and 5%. If the vote were held today she would be beaten by Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mike Huckabee, in [...]

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Joran van der Sloot Doesn’t Like it in Jail Evidence Still Under Wraps  Life is hard. So is life behind bars, apparently. At least for one of the suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.  He’s not happy with the conditions in the jail he’s housed in. Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the [...]

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Riley Sawyers’ Last Moments are Recounted by Mother Chilling Details of a Savage Death The grim details of the last days of little Riley “Baby Grace” Sawyers life have begun to emerge. From today’s Galveston County Daily News: In an interview, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 19, of Spring, told investigators that she and her husband, Royce [...]

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So, imagine this: the Kulku, a super-intelligent alien race (who look exactly like humans except for their bleached eyebrows, circular metallic spots on one cheek, and a small growth on their necks) are holding the Earth hostage. The ransom? Eight million human lives. See, they need these human lives so that they can send their [...]

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Offstumped is marking the first in a series of posts from now till the counting of votes as Gujarat conducts elections to the State Legislative Assembly. So how is the battleground in Gujarat shaping up ? More than a month back when the Congress with great enthusiasm celebrated the arrival of its heir apparent Rahul [...]

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After his half-hour special was excitedly well-received, Kyle Cease was next commissioned by Comedy Central to perform a full hour. Taking the stage at the Moore Theatre in Seattle for his enigmatically titled special, Cease wastes no time getting down to the comedy. Reminiscing about the time his father (or maybe it was his mother) took him to see [...]

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For several months now speculation has been rife that the ‘Next Big One’ from our friends at Google is going to be a web based file storage system. Although Google are tight lipped about it, The Wall Street Journal today added further fuel to the fire saying that we could see the fabled Gdrive within [...]

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Now that we KNOW the loss of computer discs containing the vital statistics of 25 million children in the UK wasn’t caused by one person, everyone is probably going to start arguing (whether or not?) criminals are using the information. Even worse, it’s now been revealed that unencrypted discs with a lot of personal information [...]

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Not unlike the prancing and dancing that takes place whenever Valdimir Putin waves the Russian gas carrot in front of the noses of certain energy-addicted Western Europeans (only much worse, of course), the Chinese take visible pleasure in orchestrating calculated snubs to punish those who might not dance to their tune precisely as they wish. [...]

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Maybe it’s only being nostalgic, but it certainly seems as though the entire genre of children’s movies has gone downhill as of late.  At best, you will find one or two movies a year that are specifically made for children that actually stand out as being noteworthy.  The time has passed when the classic Disney [...]

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Short stories are the most perfect expression of an idea.  Novels have subplots and underdeveloped characters, movies get caught up in visual aspects, and sayings are trite and lack context.  But a short story, that’s where everything comes together in just the right proportions.  In a way, short films are like that too.  That’s why [...]

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There’s a proverb that says that good things comes in threes, or something to that general effect.  If in fact that is true, it looks as though that rule somehow managed to skip over the entire Shrek franchise.  Shrek 1 was hilarious, although less so than everyone passed it off as being, Shrek 2 was [...]

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The months passed, the leaders met, the problem still unresolved. Lebanon remains in a political vacuum as rival politicians have – yet again – failed to agree on a consensus candidate to fill the Presidency. Speaker of the House Nabih Berri could not get the majority and the opposition to come to an agreement. Former [...]

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Health care has become an important issue in America.  As the Baby Boomers grow older and begin to retire, they are not only taxing the already overdrawn Social Security system, but also are demanding more and more medical care of a higher caliber as well.  Pharmaceutical companies, HMOs, insurance companies, doctors, hospitals – all of [...]

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Oklahoma natives and psychedelic rock band The Flaming Lips sing a song about how there is such a great deal of idealism and goodwill built up around the Christmas season.  And, because of all this hope at the holidays, life will be different and people will change and everything will get all better.  Of course, [...]

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Winter is knocking on our doors and if you are lucky enough to live in the same part of the world that I find myself in right now, that means it gets awfully cold.  When I was younger, it would get so cold that we would actually have school canceled.  That’s not even a lie, [...]

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The recent outrage against Constitutional liberty by the Boston Police raises some very interesting questions. Can we voluntarily give up our Constitutional rights? Further, can government legally violate our rights even if we ask them to do so? These are questions that we all need to consider before allowing police into our homes, invited or [...]

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On the CBS “Early Show” on Nov. 13th, co-host Julie Chen claimed that there was “an alarming suicide rate among veterans” of the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts. CBS then aired a report that went on to claim that the suicide rate for our troops had wildly climbed. Our own Newsbuster Kyle Drennen had his doubts about the [...]

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  Who remembers all those great cartoons from Saturday mornings on the early 90s?  Not me, evidently.  I’d never heard of the show Captain N and I certainly never knew that there was ever a cartoon about The New Super Mario World. But, back in 1991, NBC had two greatly popular Saturday morning cartoons – [...]

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  America, can we handle the truth-iness?  Or rather, can we handle Stephen Colbert and his unique brand of political commentary?  With the release of this best of DVD from his show, the Colbert Report, all of America will be able to find out just how we react to this satirical look at our political [...]

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