The saga of the cellular phone records from 2002 being able to provide the location of callers with reference to the Gujarat riots gets curioser and curioser. Offstumped has dug into how and when these records surfaced into the public domain. The first reference to Cellular Phone Records in the media comes in a plea by [...]

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Economic growth, in terms of how it’s measured in GDP, is a complex area. And because many of our minds aren’t complex, we believe others who guide us on economic growth rates & the figures they throw at our face.   We need growth. We need to produce more goods, services, and food grains, from primary [...]

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Gillian Gibbons, from Liverpool UK, was sent to prison after she allowed her class of grade-school children, name a class teddy bear ‘Mohammed.’ Gibbons was recruited to work in Sudan by QTS Worldwide. After asking her students what name they wanted to give the bear, one student suggested it be named after him, Mohammed. The [...]

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The Spice Girls’ upcoming reunion tour may be in jeopardy because of a health scare. According to a British newspaper, Geri Halliwell’s 18-month old daughter is sick with chicken pox and terrified by the idea of risking the health of her band members and their children the Ginger Spice has flown her kiddo back to [...]

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The oh so politically correct anthropologists at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting.are going to debate if female mutilation under the guise of multiculturalism is okay. Writes John Tierney of the NYTimes: Should African women be allowed to engage in the practice sometimes called female circumcision? Are critics of this practice, who call it female [...]

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Nikki and Victor look into the nursery to see the baby. Nikki remembers back when Victoria was born and how she use to do things as a baby. Nikki takes pictures of the baby and then sets them up for Victoria in her room. She tells her she put them there for her in case [...]

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Gwen and Will are decorating the tree, and he tells her it is ok, that they didn’t jinx anything by hanging the ornament. Barbara comes in and tells them that she talked to her lawyer and he said he talked to the birth mother and she has agreed to sign the adoption papers. Alison pretends [...]

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Sami comes out looking for Lucas wearing a sexy outfit which he notices right away. He gets turned on and he asks if she thinks it is too early since they haven’t done anything since the babies were born. She tells him she is ready to rock his world and they start kissing. As they [...]

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Best known for his work as percussionist for the internationally proclaimed jazz/funk band Jamiroquai, Solá Akingbolá is reconnecting with his roots by releasing his first solo album, Routes to Roots. Though he has spent most of his life in England, Akingbolá was born in Nigeria and finds his way home during this musical journey with Yoruba [...]

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Apparently James Flynn and Charles Murray have had another public debate about black/white IQ. Flynn is the only Leftist who is capable of sustaining an informed debate on the matter (people like Gardner and Sternberg are off with the fairies). There was another debate between Flynn and Murray a year ago. The report of the [...]

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Vladimir Putin proves Bush’s soul searching judgment may very well have been inaccurate; his United Russia party is poised to win in a landslide amidst cries of vote rigging by the Kremlin; Campaigning for Russia’s parliamentary election ended on Friday with President Vladimir Putin’s party on course for a landslide victory and opposition groups voicing [...]

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With the glut of “Bushisms” that have garnered the President much public attention and derision throughout his presidency, it wouldn’t be a difficult task for an ambitious editor to compile a list of times the President was “misunderestimated” or wanted to ask “Is our children learning?” and publish a shallow, though disconcerting, book of quotations revealing Bush’s inadequacies [...]

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Yesterday Offstumped had challenged Mr. Mukul Sinha and his Jan Sangharsh Manch to make public the phone records in their possesion and their analysis to determine if it will stand up to scientific scrutiny. There has been no response so far and it is not surprising. Today it appears from news reports was a crucial [...]

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Following up on last month’s decision by the Turkish parliament to OK operations in northern Iraq’s moderately stable Kurdish area, today Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan announced his cabinet has authorized further action.  From the AP; Turkey’s prime minister said on Friday his cabinet had authorized the armed forces to conduct a cross-border operation against Kurdish [...]

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Official FBI photo for Bot Roast II (Globe in a laptop) This morning I read that a teenager in New Zealand had been arrested for allegedly being the kingpin behind an international cyber-crime network. Because he was a juvenile when the crimes were being committed, the authorities aren’t releasing his real name, but on the [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Yesterday I wrote a post about how Saudi Arabia was forced into bed with radical Islam. Here’s what we see today as the fallout of that marriage made in hell. The Saudi Academy opened in 1984. It’s K-12 school with campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax, Virginia, that is owned by [...]

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Despite the best efforts of leading man and American Pie veteran Jason Biggs, this satirical tale of military hijinx and base camp coverups fails to illicit either the subtle laughs warranted by a black comedy or the intrigue earned by a good mystery. M*A*S*H succeeded on all accounts where Guy X fails, and regardless of where the fault lies, [...]

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In a move many here are calling as despicable as the infamous Hitler-Stalin Pact, Tom Cruise has been honored with Germany’s prestigious Bambi Award for something called his “willingness to undertake brave projects”. That Tom Cruise would even be willing to show himself in public in Germany certainly proves this risk-taking willingness of his, but [...]

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Over 400 Pages of Signatures Collected So Far Deadline Extended Until December 4  Only 4 More Days Left To Sign  NOTICE Dog Fans, give yourselves a pat on the back. We’ve already collected over 400 pages worth of signatures and comments on the “BRING BACK DOG” petition. We’re going to leave it up for a [...]

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The AP has used the somewhat heartwarming tale of an illegal alien who found an American boy and his mother suffering from a car accident in the Arizona desert and stayed with them until help arrived as an excuse to plead that illegals aren’t “criminals” and should somehow be given a break. The AP tried [...]

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Why are so many people fooled by unions? It is because unions care about the little guy they are told. It is because unions are supposed to be against the “rich,” or so gullible people are led to believe. Well, here is another case that proves the lie to that claim. Realtors and business groups [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog: www.churchillsparrot.com Few pedigrees read as impressively: descendant of John Churchill, “the Duke of Marlborough,” by some accounts the greatest military leader Britain has ever produced; son of Randolph Churchill, a man of such political aptitude he was made England’s Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons simultaneously [...]

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[I was startled to discover that a number of my favorite stores and others ranging from B'way east down 125th St. have had their leases closed down since my last shopping trip to C-Town and the stores around it.  The closed ones include the neighborhood pharmacy, a 99 cent store, a shoe store, the laundromat [...]

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He has been a recluse for years now. His antipathy towards Consumerism and Free Markets are well known. But he has a point that all those who swear by “Right of Center” ideals must take notice of. Former general secretary of the BJP, K N Govindacharya in a free wheeling interview to Arun Chaubey of [...]

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I love Johnny Cash, there is always a rough and ready feel to him, he exudes a dark side. So this DVD came as a complete surprise, a softer, kinder Johnny. It was a made for TV special and filmed in and around his family farm in Bon Aqua, Tennessee. The scenery is spectacular, with [...]

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Before your New Year’s resolutions have all been broken and forgotten, the presidential nominations could be a done deal, what with IA holding its primary January 3rd, followed in rapid succession by NH on January 8th , MI on January 15th and more than 20 states holding primaries or caucuses Feb. 5th. Reports the Los Angeles [...]

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Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman is once again in the news. Now our fearless leather clad, pepper spray toting doyen of truth and justice is a wanted man in his home town.  A $150 bench warrant has been issued to bring this man to justice. I have no doubt that there is a posse being formed as [...]

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Employed the Same Methods They Protested Against Doesn’t Matter the Label, Totalitarianism is Totalitarianism  A Report From Disrupted Oxford Union Debate  To the Left, a sense of irony has always been over-rated. Socialists and others, proclaiming themselves anti-fascists, proceeded to use fascist tactics to shut down an Oxford Union debating club forum recently. An eyewitness [...]

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Confused by Talk of Flip Flops? DBKP Guide to Hillary’s Stand on the Issues Handy Pocket Reference 10 Hillary Clinton quotes on the issues to start your day. Two weeks ago,the news was about Hillary Clinton’s flip flops on the issue of driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. For or against? No one, including Clinton, seemed [...]

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Move Over Mary Kay, Here Comes Tasers The Taser as Personal Protection Device Shop for Mega Volts Protection in the Comfort of Your Own Home Can’t find that Taser you have your heart set on? Well, now you’ll never have a problem locating a place to buy your next Taser. The place to buy it [...]

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