The story this week regarding Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps operating naval ships in the Persian Gulf, is one that is worth keeping a close eye on. The manner in which the story was released (through a speech that Admiral Michael Mullen was giving at the army War College) seems inadvertent, but surely does the trick [...]

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The most absurd headline for today is in the Scotland (newspsper). Bagpipes a threat to the environment (and we’re not talking noise pollution) by MARC HORNE What’s going on is that bagpipes, which were originally carved from the swamp oak, are now made from blackwood trees, and that illegal blackwood logging is simply one aspect [...]

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I’m going out on a limb and make a prediction here and I really have no basis or strong evidence for doing so.  Just my gut instinct.  Here goes:  “Whoever wins the ‘08 Iowa and New Hampshire GOP primaries will not be the next President”.  Gosh why did I do that to myself?  Oh well [...]

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Some movies are meant to be great and turn out to be crap.  Others were wholly unwatchable from the start and should be relegated to the dustbin of history.  That’s where I come in.  If there’s a movie that could conceivably burn your eyes in an attempt to review it, I will take that challenge.  [...]

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On November 18th, 1993 at Sony Studios in New York, MTV taped their most famous and crittically acclaimed Unplugged special with the rock group Nirvana. Though popular on its own, this Unplugged special became infamous with the untimely death of frontman Kurt Cobain only four months later. This long anticipated DVD package includes the original unedited footage [...]

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English television presenter and pantomime actor Christopher Biggins has been crowned the winner of ITV’s jungle reality show “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! The 58-year-old actor became the fifth male winner of the show beating out former U.S. supermodel Janice Dickinson and boy band “Five” singer Jason “J” Brown. The “Porridge” star broke [...]

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With a hint of wit and an edge of modernism, Bix Pix Entertainment has set out to reinvent the Christmas special for a new generation. Employing stop-motion animation and a slew of middle-tier “name” actors to voice their characters, the first entry into their self-described holiday franchise Holidaze is the hour-long Christmas special The Christmas [...]

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What’s Going to Happen? Nobody Knows, Everybody’s Guessing A state of confusion and shock in the college football world? What could be better! After #1 Missouri and #2 West Virginia both lost last night, who’s going to be in the title game is a guess–and there are plenty of those being made right now. Here [...]

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With over 1500 people diagnosed and more than 200 already dead from the dangerous lung-disease asbestosis, members of the Libby community have paid a heavy toll for the vermiculite-rich mountains discovered near their rural city in Montana. As one Libbyite expresses in an interview included in the film: ”If you couldn’t read this in black and white, you couldn’t [...]

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So what is with the Congress no holds barred attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP ? First it was Congress President Sonia Gandhi calling Modi a “merchant of death” and accusing the BJP of being lax on Terrorism. Next it was Congress General Secy Digvijay Singh accusing the BJP of “Hindu [...]

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News Item: Game show to match migrants with citizens The scariest thing about American television is that it really is a reflection of us, or a good percentage of us, at any rate.  How else to explain the ongoing proliferation of so called ‘Reality’ shows?  Someone, in fact a whole lot of someone’s, must be [...]

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It’s our 30-Days-To-Iowa Special! We analyzed the election 2008 landscape one month before the most important primary/caucus of the election. We also talked a bit more about the CNN/YouTube Debate. Also, “Are the New England Patriots Really That Good (and other Football ponderings),” “Conspiracy or Quack: AIDS Drugs Tested on Foster Kids,” and there’s always [...]

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The “paper of record” once again makes like a broken record with another prosaic call to take away guns from the average American. The New York Times again displays its complete disregard of the Constitution in an editorial titled, “The Court and the Second Amendment”, claiming our founding law is out of date and doesn’t [...]

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‘Hello, my name is Johnny Cash’, was his standard, even trademark opening to a concert. And true to form that is the first thing you hear on the fabulous DVD. Yes I did say fabulous! I thought the 1976 Christmas Special was a little over stage managed, but this one is just great! Filmed at [...]

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There is an old joke of a gingerbread man who was running away from a hungry farmer and came to a river. A fox told him he could help the cookie man get across the river and away from the farmer. The cookie asked if the fox would eat him after they crossed, but the [...]

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Remember this one about New York One TV’s anchorman, Gary Anthony Ramsay? Gary Anthony Ramsay, an anchorman for NY1 News, has resigned this week over his efforts to damage Rudy Giuliani’s bid for the White House by commenting on the Bernard Kerik situation under a false name on the air. It appears that Ramsay called [...]

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This morning I was awakened by a sad npr (BBC?) report by and about a doctor operating a hospital in Gaza — struggling to maintain medical care there without basic supplies such as pain killers with which to carry out operations.  One of his young sons struck by a car died before he could be [...]

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