Archive for October 2nd, 2008
Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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We have a black aging arthritic ex football player who killed two people, and we have a young white lady who has only killed one person. About the only thing in common is the legal system. It is no wonder that the legal profession is held in such low esteem. One of my favorite jokes, [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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Best-of collections are so hit and miss. In my experience, I find you rarely see the best, it’s more of the of that they stick you with. They’ll throw in a couple of good songs or stories or episodes or whatever, some of the ones that everyone knows and then they just fill the rest [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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Starting this September 23rd, now available on DVD from Twentieth Century Fox Studios Home Entertainment comes a film about sex, lies and a whole mess of trouble. Deception is ready to creep into your living room, show you the time of your life and then take absolutely everything away from you. Bring home this captivating [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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I was never good at science as a kid. Well, I was good at it, I simply didn’t enjoy it and it took a whole lot more work than it was worth to do as well as I wanted to in those classes, so I simply stopped caring. My sister and my brother are just [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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“Must Love Dogs.” They have non-animated dogs? And the dogs talk? I am excited already. The new live action Disney comedy Beverly Hills Chihuahua is complete family entertainment. And yes it has talking dogs. I was a little concerned at the outset and was worried this was going to be a cheesy, unoriginal script geared [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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“This playlist has a good mix of just the right elements.” To watch my interview with Michael Cera and Kat Dennings, click here. I think I may have discovered the secret to making an above board teenage romantic comedy. Or I should say I discovered a film that is above board in my mind due [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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Not since Salmon Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses has a literary work caused such turmoil as The Jewel Of Medina. Jewel is a historical novel, a work of ‘faction’ about the Prophet Mohammad’s child bride Aisha. I have not yet read the book, but from the excepts I have seen the part that has our [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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By Honey Gillard FRIENDS of popular singer Lily Allen are said to be becoming increasingly concerned over their friend’s health, after a spate of drunken and depressed episodes recently. One friend spoke of her concern in an interview with Britain’s ‘Daily Star’ newspaper, claiming that Allen is in a bad place and needs help. “We [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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By Honey Gillard Just 2 months after Emmy Award winning actress Christina Applegate was first officially diagnosed with breast cancer, the actress has come out, opening up about the emotional turmoil involved and the preparation she underwent for losing her breasts – a private nude photo shoot. On August 3 of this year, People Magazine [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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Nick and Phyllis are happy with the new cover for the magazine with no regrets. Not having Jack and Sharon around makes it even better for them. Sharon is at home going over the designs with the interior decorator when the doorbell rings. She is surprised to see Billy at the door. He wants to [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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A common feminist/domestic violence establishment claim goes something like this–”a third of all women who are murdered are murdered by an intimate partner, whereas only 3% of men are murdered by an intimate partner.” From this one would think that men are 11 times more likely to kill their wives as vice versa, or something [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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Rupert Cornwell, the distinguished and experienced US correspondent of London’s Independent newspaper wrote, more in sorrow than in anger that: “Yesterday was not only a black Monday for markets. It was the blackest of Mondays too for the US political system, saddled with a discredited president who has completely lost control of his own party [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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I have to admit that while science fiction was a genre that I greatly enjoyed as a teenager, it is a genre that I read only on rare occasions these days. Conspiracy theories on the other hand is a world I can not resist. There is something hugely moreish about them, the wilder the better. [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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A man from the UK is trying to find former colleagues that he worked with some decades ago so that he can continue his fight for compensation after contracting asbestos related cancer. Sixty one year old John Mullen worked at Insulation and Partitions in Stoke, England, in 1964 where he was exposed to asbestos when [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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In what can hardly be called a big surprise the ghost written OJ Simpson book If I Did It has been made over and reissued right in the middle of OJ’s latest skirmish with the law. This second imprint has all of the original content with some additional commentary from the Goldman family concerning the [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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A major step forward has occurred now. The police are now calling Casey Anthony, mother of the missing Caylee Anthony, a “suspect†in the disappearance of her daughter. Up until now she had only been labeled as a “person of interestâ€. “Casey is a suspect,†said Orange County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Angelo Nieves. “She’s been [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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How you figure? Those folks over at Reuters obviously don’t know what the hell is going on here in the land of Beschwerden (complaints) when one of them actually has the gall to entitle his/her piece “Choir full of moans a surprise hit in Germany.†Of course it would be a hit here. How could [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008
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I remember one influenza epidemic of the 1990′s. We had two strains of influenza, and several in our local nursing home got the flu and almost died, so we put their contacts on one of the anti influenza medicines, and everyone did well. But I also remember getting called to the Emergency room, where a [...]
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