The headlines on the BBC report: Millions celebrate Christmas Day  People queued to enter the grotto under the Church of the Nativity Scenes in Bethlehem Millions of Christians around the world are marking Christmas Day – the traditional day of Christ’s birth. The article then goes on to discuss the fact that pilgrims are again [...]

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14 Year Old Basse Boy Rapes American Peace Corps Volunteer!! ….“The 63 Year Old White Peace Corps Volunteer was Forcefully Lured Into Sex By The Boy.” says School Authorities  By Mama Sowe, Basse   Drama unfolded in The Gambian town of Basse, when a 14 year old boy attempted to rape a 63 year old [...]

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Santa Claus, Christmas Trees and “Merry Christmas” Are Increasingly Popular Worldwide Did You Know? Some Christmas traditions from throughout the world. CHRISTMAS TREES Most people know that Christmas Trees originated in Germany. But most do not know how old the tradition is. The tradition of  Christmas trees is nearly 500 years old. In 16th-century Germany [...]

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Sage is upset telling Carly that Christmas Eve just isn’t the same without her Daddy. Carly tries to comfort her when someone knocks at the door. She says well look there is her father now. Sage is all excited and runs up to Jack and hugs him. He tells Carly he was just passing through [...]

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Marlena is lying in bed thinking about the night that John was killed when suddenly she hears a noise that startles her. When she sees nothing there she picks up his picture and asks him how she is going to get through Christmas without him. She hears the noise again and gets up to investigate. [...]

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Tony Parker, the French basketball star and newly married husband of “Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria, has sued a celebrity gossip Web site for publishing “false” stories of his affair with a French model. The lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court seeks at least $40 million in damages.The lawsuit comes just few days [...]

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The third DVD in the popular early socialization series known as The Wheels on the Bus doesn’t hit stores until early next year, but it’s already won several childhood media awards including the National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval, iParenting’s Media Award and Hot Media Award, and Creative Child Seal of Excellence. A quick viewing of this 33 minute [...]

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Academy Award-winning actor and staunch Rabbitohs supporter, Russell Crowe, has succeeded in his campaign to remove more than a hundred slot machines from the premises of his of South Sydney Rugby league club. The “Gladiator” star and his business partner Peter Holmes a Court had been pushing the club’s members to remove the gambling machines, [...]

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It was to be the “revenge of democracy”. It was also to be the “political punishment” of Gujarat politicians, social scientists, civil society activists, bureaucrats and citizens. It was supposed to be “Religion coming to the rescue of politicians” It was also supposed to be an election where “many Gujarati voters view these very merchants [...]

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There’s something about killers we are drawn to, serial killers in particular.  For whatever reason; our bourgeois thirst for the macabre, our innate voyeurism, or the search to understand the darkness inside ourselves; we take special note of them.  Bundy, Gacy, Gein, Dahmer, and the Zodiac killer, to only name a few.  These are only [...]

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  Realistically, a good beginning is indicative of nothing.  Just because something began well does not mean it is going to finish well.  For proof of this fact, look no further than the Farrelly Brothers.  Their first movie was none other than Dumb And Dumber, one of the movies which set the standard for comic [...]

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Underdog is back!  That’s right folks, the famed flying, talking, caped dog has grown up from his original cartoon roots and exploded into the big screen.  And now, Underdog is available on DVD. Underdog stars Patrick Warburton, Brad Garrett, and the vocal talents of both Amy Adams of Enchanted and Jason Lee of My Name [...]

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Nerd or not, history is fascinating.  There are the facts we learn in school and from textbook after textbook.  But what about the other facts?  What about all the little details?  The conspiracies?  The secret connections and coincidences?  Whether they are true or not or whether they even mean anything is completely immaterial.  They are [...]

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Action, adventure, espionage, seduction, betrayal, communism, pacifism, stunt driving, massive explosions.  Usually when those words are used to describe a movie, it’s somewhat of an exaggeration.  But not when it comes to this new 9 DVD boxed set.  That’s because it’s The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones – Volume Two: The War Years and it’s [...]

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Growing up around someone famous is always a strange experience.  You don’t appreciate it until you’re older and removed from the situation.  In second grade, we had a new girl in our class at River Heights Elementary School, Holly Gaiman.  She and the rest of her siblings had just moved over from their home in [...]

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Being a man is tough.  All sorts of responsibilities, all different types of skill sets we must master.  Even the vocabulary is different – HDMI, ratchet sets, DOHC, PVC.  It’s a daily competition against ourselves to see just how manly we can be.  No one has made it look easier than Mel Gibson.  And Mel [...]

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High school.  It was a terrible time.  Studying, taking tests, having to put up with uninformed classmates spouting off opinions on everything from forgiving third world debt to whether or not we should have dropped the bomb on Japan.  In Menomonie High School, there wasn’t any singing or dancing, no spontaneous devolutions into a musical [...]

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Oh sixties television.  You are so iconic, with your judo chops and bright colors.  You took the turmoil of a generation and let is all coalesce on the screen.  Civil rights, the plight of the poor, the peace movement.  There wasn’t really a time that had more going on in a social sense and when [...]

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The Software & Information Industry Association is willing to pay up to $500.00 to anyone, who inadvertantly buys pirated software off an auction site. Software piracy is a huge problem. The International Anticounterfeiting Coalition estimates that counterfeiting is a $600 billion a year problem. They also estimate that the problem has grown 10,000 percent in [...]

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A Collection of Christmas Quotes From Across the Spectrum of Personalities and Political Parties From the Recent to the Traditional  * Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” – Peg Bracken. * There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.” – Adele Comandini and Edward Sutherland. Michael O’Brien [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog  (Hear Charlie’s oral presentation of the following post here.) “It was the deep knowledge–and pray God we have not lost it–that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.” – President Ronald Reagan,  40th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion, [...]

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You tube seems to have everyone on it, from Jihadis to the Pinoy bishops to Fred Thompson to your favorite candidate. But there is a new gal on You Tube, and tongues are waggin. Queen Elizabeth, whose website is here,  now has her own You Tube Channel. Yes, the World War II veteran who has [...]

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Many People Have Traditions Surrounding Christmas Eve Some are Centuries Old, Some are Recent Traditions, Superstitions and Rituals about the Night Before Christmas  There are many Christmas Eve traditions. Some people drink egg nog, some let their kids open a Christmas present early, some read to the children, some go to midnight mass or other [...]

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Last week, the police raided the apartment of an Egyptian citizen in Cotabato, a city in the Southern Philippines. “Recovered from El-Sayed’s hideout were highly-combustible charges, detonating cords for improvised explosives, a 60-m.m. mortar ammunition, nine-volt batteries and schematic wiring diagrams for battery-operated blasting mechanisms for bombs,” he said. Chief Superintendent Willie Dangane, city police [...]

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