Blaze Bayley may be a name most synonymous with Iron Maiden, he was after all the lead singer for them between 1994-1999. He has moved on, but is still punching out the same combination of gritty metal and soft ballads. Metal may be viewed as a dying breed here in North America, but it is [...]

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The Public Pronouncements of Lori Drew A Look at the Leters and Documents Did She Issue an Apology? a·pol·o·gy /əˈpÉ’lÉ™dÊ’i/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-pol-uh-jee] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation –noun, plural -gies. a written or spoken expression of one’s regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another: He [...]

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Swingers Operated Sex Club in Dallas Suburb Duncanville City Council Shuts it Down After Neighbor Complaints Good Clean Naked Fun?  Scrabble, anyone? Town officials cool down a popular hot spot outside of Dallas. The most popular address on Cedar Ridge Drive is Jim Trulock’s split-level home, which has a group sex room and attracts as [...]

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That the German Word of the Year was going to be Klimakatastrophe (climate catastrophe) certainly wasn’t one that anyone here would have bet against. But now it appears that a handful of ruthless pranksters at Greenpeace and co. are going to take advantage of this hysterical situation and play one of their biggest and most [...]

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“They could have come from anywhere, but they came from Oregon” the narrator tells us. This Is War follows the lives of some National Guardsmen deployed to Iraq. Much of the footage actually comes from their own camcorders. And it is not a pretty sight, of the nine featured, two are very seriously wounded, and [...]

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Here is a hacker, who ended up in a lot of trouble after using malware to blackmail underage girls into creating pornography of themselves. The problem is it was probably a little too easy for him to obtain the tools, he used to pull his “hack” off! This leads me to be slightly cynical that [...]

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Blog Continues Despite What Drew Lawyer Says Who is Behind the MHIC Blog? Statement by Jim Briscoe, Lori Drew’s Attorney  The mystery of why the Megan Had it Coming blog is still up continues. Another report of the evil blogosphere dogging a helpless victim. We present another sighting of the “Power of the Evil Bloggers” [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog We hear it over and over again to ad nauseam that Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance and it’s the evil western media that demonizes such a pure and innocent religion. That the media misunderstands what is said because we don’t understand the language or the words are [...]

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Global warming acolytes have a favorite image, that of Al Gore’s fabulist tale of 20 foot waves engulfing our coast lines. Invoking that awesome image, the L.A. Times published a story last month that is supposed to be just another global warming scare piece. Still, even the Times couldn’t lie through its teeth in every [...]

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The Associated Press brings us a doozie of a story about the creation of an entirely new area of union representation created in order to represent a workforce that mostly doesn’t even know they have a union in the first place. For that matter, this new union representation has a workforce the majority of which [...]

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Romney’s speech defending his identity as a Mormon ended up saying nothing about what Mormons believe — a wise move most likely as their beliefs are generally beyond belief.  Sobeit.  But what I found offensive was his total distortion of American church history and the beliefs of our founding fathers — particularly their religious views [...]

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This isn’t the first time private investigators have been caught using social engineering techniques to steal information. The Hewlett Packard case raised caused quite a bit of uproar about this in September of last year. Here is another case involving private investigators using illegal techniques to data mine information for their clients: Ten people were [...]

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[The book review below from tomorrow's NY Times touches on some of the details of our complex American religious history. One of the most informative courses that I had the good fortune to take along the line was that on American Church History taught by Robert Handy at Union Theological Seminary. Without such information, one [...]

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The whole pro life game is designed to infringe on the rights of women not to be forced to bear unwanted children. There is no biblical sanction for this position. In fact abortion was generally tolerated until well into the 19th century when two forces converged to attack it: 1) the First Vatican Council of [...]

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About 6 weeks ago I made the big change, out with Windows and in with Linux. Linspire is a commercial Linux distribution and was billed as the easiest to use and most user friendly. Guess what? It is the easiest, what amazed me was that the distribution, a mere one CD contained not just the [...]

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News Item: Stem cells cure sickle cell anemia Pro-Life groups around the world have battled tirelessly against embryonic stem cell research, their cause driven by moral and religious beliefs.  The latest break-through concerning stem cell science could once and for all make the controversy begin to go away, because embryos no longer come into play. [...]

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You get a strange feeling reading the different links cited in this article. See if you get the same impressions as the ones I will list. They are only impressions, not necessarily facts, but they do form a pattern. “Haas ‘was not poisoned.’” The suspicious illness of German tennis star Tommy Hass was thus dismissed [...]

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[By all reports, while Iraq seems poised like the calm in the middle of a hurricane -- ready to explode whenever the truce is called off between embittered competing factions -- the situation in Afghanistan continues to disintegrate.  Afghanis who originally enjoyed their liberation from Taliban tyrannies are now increasingly welcoming their return to power [...]

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[Racism seems to be deeply embedded in our nation's psyche.  The article cited below reflects the effects of it on our criminal justice system.  The new Republican hot button attack on Latino immigrants catches another piece of this abomination.  Our family has imposed parental control on the Lou Dobbs racial profanities -- what a way [...]

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When I was growing up, an old man used to visit his nephew, a policeman who lived next door to us. The old gentleman was quiet and shy, and would nod but not talk to us kids. His nephew explained that the old gentleman had no family; his son died at age 38 of sickle [...]

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