President Arroyo is due to give the state of the nation report next week, and years of controversy and scandals are catching up with her. The latest polls show that she has a low approval rating and a credibility gap: a recent GMA poll notes that only 14% of the public expect her to tell [...]

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Go Brooklyn. A jury in that fair borough has found Emmanuel “Toto” Constant guilty of mortgage fraud and grand larceny. Emmanuel Constant is the former founder and leader of FRAPH, the Haitian paramilitary group that in the early 90′s, systematically tortured and murdered thousands of supporters of deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Gang rapes and mutilation [...]

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Michael tells Victor that one of the limos was in an accident. He says it was Nikki and David’s car. Victor wants to go there right away. Victor says his car hasn’t come back yet so Michael offers to drive him. While Victor waits on Michael to get the car he calls Sabrina and leaves [...]

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Chelsea goes to see Victor and tells him she has noticed the tension between him and Bo. She says Bo won’t tell her what is going on but she is sure he won’t either. Daniel walks in and asks her what she thinks she is doing. He tells her she is doing exactly what he [...]

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Hi all… It seems it’s time to review the last DVD for the Avatar: The Last Airbender series. I can’t believe it. The Book 3: Fire, Volume 4 DVD has 6 episodes of Avatar: Chapter 16: The Southern Raiders Chapter 17: The Ember Island Players Chapter 18: Sozin’s Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King Chapter [...]

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Hey all… Sometimes I get the opportunity to review games slightly before they are released. Not often, but I’m very happy when it happens. The Princess Bride Game is based, of course, on the classic book and movie The Princess Bride. The book was written by William Goldman in 1973 and Rob Reiner turned it [...]

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BREAKING! Fox News Confirms Enquirer’s story! It’s now “officially” news: Fox News has confirmed the National Enquirer’s story of cornering John Edwards at the Beverly Hilton. UPDATES #1 and #2 at end of original story. Perhaps all of the MSM reporters and editors who decided that this story was “beneath” them, because it came from [...]

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I love the computer industry, and with thirty too many years of being involved in it, I may not have seen it all, but you certainly get an eye for trends. Those trends are very cyclic. In the 60′s the trend was for centralization, this was driven by the very nature of the computers available, [...]

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The two day sensation created by The New Yorker’s cover Portraying Michelle and Barack Obama as fist-bumping terrorists, is pretty stale news now, but some interest continues in asking why such an open satire fails, as I believe it did, and what the character of Satire itself is that makes it sometime as dangerous to [...]

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According to a recent report, asbestos that had been dumped at a beauty spot in Wales was left there for around three weeks before finally being removed, increasing the chances of contamination in the area. Asbestos is a substance that can cause serious and even deadly health problems through exposure to its airborne dust and [...]

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This Central American country has been in the press a great deal of late, and not all of the press has been positive. But as the saying goes, there are two sides to every coin. Victor Chavez has come in for a good deal of criticism from the US, vitriol that has its roots in [...]

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The White Shoe Gang My attempt to work with a little gang of kids in West Harlem as an intern from my first student year at Union Theological Seminary stretched my imagination to the limits. Apart from the London kids with whom I had worked in a center as a student, I had never encountered [...]

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We all hate spam, no-one that I know likes to check their email and discover that out of the 100 emails in their inbox only one or two are actual emails, the rest are offers for cheap Viagra, Russian brides, or discovering that you are the sole heir to millions of dollars in Nigeria!   [...]

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When it comes to wars not all are reported the same way, why is that? Well the answers are many and varied, if the US has no direct involvement, the conventional media prefers to focus on matters that directly effect the US, and US interests. While one cannot fault the news organizations for reporting on [...]

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