Last week, another young man in Indonesia died of Bird flu. That makes over 100 deaths in that country alone. At the same time, isolated cases in various countries from VietNam to China have been reported in humans, and the diagnosis of various strains of bird flu in chickens or wild birds has been reported [...]

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On August 3, 2008, Reuters reported that Nouriel Roubini, “influential economist and New York University professor,” said that hundreds of banks will go under during the next 18 months or so. According to a recent article by James Quinn, the FDIC has 90 banks on its watch list, though it may be worthwhile to note [...]

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Leaky toilets are pesky things, they involve expending huge amounts of money getting a plumber to come and rectify it. Luckily a former transport director in Chongqing ‘s Wushan county Yan Dabin was in the position to pay the plumber. Unluckily for Yan Dabin he wasn’t home at the time. The neighbor living below the [...]

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Three years before the massive success of the Stephen Frears-directed, Peter Morgan-written drama The Queen, this made for television prequel based around the relationship between former Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen – who reprised his role in The Queen) and current Prime Minister Gordon Brown (David Morrissey) was released in the UK. And now that viwers are familiar [...]

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The first trial of a suspected terrorist held at the less than luxurious hotel in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has now concluded. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former driver for Osama bin Laden, has been found guilty. This was not really much of a surprise. He openly admitted that he took a job driving Osama around, and [...]

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When prolific ”Saturday Night Live” writer Robert Smigel created this spinoff series in 2000 it was called “ahead of its time”… and promptly cancelled. Or maybe it’s only called “ahead of its time” now as viewers look back at the various shows of 2000 and compare them to the haphazardly nonsensical and unexplainably popular shows of recent [...]

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We here at Blogger News love to be involved in giving people the opportunity to snag swag! Our good friends over at History Publishing Company are about to release a new book Homeland Insecurity, and it’s a cracker! I know because I have read a pre-release version. Who is is your favorite Power Addict in [...]

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At the ranch Paul, JT and Nick worry that Victor might have been kidnapped but agree there has been no ransom calls. Adam is still against calling the FBI saying it would be bad for Newman. He says he has taken over control at Newman but Neil steps in and tells him that Victor left [...]

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The reporter continues questioning Bo in front of everyone demanding to know how Bo sleeps at night. Bo says this is not the time and place. The man says they are going to move a lot of papers with this one. Caroline asks Bo if he knows anything about this. The reporter asks doesn’t everyone [...]

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Political humor is wonderful.  It’s like punditry, but more bitingly hilarious.  Simply put, it’s not acceptable to come out and say that those who disagree with you are idiots.  Yet if you can express that idea in a joke, you’re golden.  Now there is a new DVD out which takes a look at political humor [...]

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REXANO, www.REXANO.org  Editorial By Zuzana Kukol Even though attacks by captive exotic animals are extremely rare, they create lots of sensationalized media coverage, such as the two recent tiger attacks at Missouri commercial facilities.  When these accidents happen, usually the victims are the owners or the workers themselves, aka, a voluntarily accepted occupational hazard. When [...]

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I enjoy a good intelligent movie.  If The New Yorker is invoked, or existentialism, or the idiosyncrasies of the overly intellectual, chances are I will like that movie.  That’s the reason I find myself so drawn to Noah Baumbach films.  Now there is a new inheritor of that esteemed genre. Starting this August 12th, now [...]

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I have two roommates and we don’t really compete that much.  Maybe as far as who can cook a better dinner or get more cleaning done or something like that, but not really.  We do play darts and poker and video games, sometimes even chess, but those are just ways of relaxing, not trying to [...]

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Another example of the way the child support system leads to the abuse/jailing of ordinary citizens. From British university lecturer thrown into crowded Brazilian jail for not paying ex-wife £20,000 child support (Daily Mail, 7/30/08): Martin Boyle is being held in a Sao Paulo prison over unpaid child support.    A British university lecturer has been [...]

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Mystery Man Resides in Dallas, TX Bloggers May Run Down Money Man’s ID Faster than MSM More clues to the identity of the mysterious money man who’s been “funneling hush money” to the principle actors in the Edwards scandal cover up? The National Enquirer released more than just the photos of John Edwards holding Frances [...]

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What was billed as the big day for the DOJ and FBI to show us the results of their yawningly long investigation into the post 9/11 anthrax letter bombs, was less than satisfying, at least in my mind. And probably unsatisfying in their minds now they have had time to reflect. The 2001 Anthrax attacks [...]

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Limestone Presbyterian Church, Pike Creek, Delaware generating its own solar spirit! This week while on vacation the Holy Father spoke to a group of faithful about the Church’s need to develop and appreciate a new respect for the environment. While we have already reported on the progress the Vatican has made in retrofitting the Paul [...]

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How to Save Money on Gas During WW2 we had gas shortages and gas rationing which, as I recall, divided into 3 categories — A was for those who needed to drive to a store from home for food and got enough gas to do so about once a week, B for driving to work, [...]

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“If there is not an explanation that’s satisfactory, acceptable and meets high moral standards, the answer is ‘no,’ he would not be a prime candidate to make a major address to the convention.” –Don Fowler, a former Democratic National Committee chair, as reported in Tabloid’s claims threaten Edwards’ role at party’s convention Distress Could Have [...]

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Where is John Edwards? Dropped out of sight Since July 30 DBKP has been following the unfolding John Edwards scandal and we happened to notice that the main character in this sordid saga hasn’t been seen in a while, so we wondered, where in the world is John Edwards? Following the Edwards Trail July 21, [...]

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One reason that I have always liked McCain was that he balances his “gravitas” with a wicked sense of humor. I mean, anyone who brought a stipper to a formal party full of pompous Naval officers and their wives, or who gives a speech to a bunch of bikers offering to let his wife take [...]

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They buried a giant of literature and human rights yesterday in Russia. Alexander Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsyn was a witness to the horrors of communism, writing about the Gulag in such detail that after his trilogy was published, no longer could the elites of the west pretend that communism was a benign system of government whose successes [...]

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   A recent study from Norway finds a link between abortion and subsequent depression. Titled, Abortion and depression: A population-based longitudinal study of young women, the research was conducted by Willy Pedersen and published in the 2008 Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, volume 36, pages 424–428. Here is the abstract: Induced abortion is an experience [...]

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