Judy Rogers has been fired after ten years as Vancouver’s City Manager. While Rogers acknowledged to the media that it had not been her choice to leave the job she “loved”, Mayor Robertson was twisting his tongue into euphemisms: “Technically, it’s a cessation of her duties by mutual understanding.”  The firing has swept Rogers [...]

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A debate is going on on whether India should go ahead and visit Pakistan for the forthcoming Cricket test series when the Country is seething in anger on the terrorist attacks mounted on India by terrorists trained in Pakistan and supported by various Government agencies. In this context it is necessary to view this from [...]

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Anyone who has read the best seller “The Hot Zone” knows about the Ebola virus, a virus that is hiding in Africa, and one that kills 90% of those infected by destroying the body’s tissues and causing massive bleeding. In the book, a strain of the virus killed all the monkeys in a Reston Virginia [...]

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Yes folks, we will be back on Blog Talk Radio on Sunday. Once again the panel will be my wife Jan, bloggernews’s Caylee Anthony maven, Ms Pickles our regular commenter, and Sean Krause enjoyed the call in questions last week, he will be joining us again from his hospital bed in New York. I am [...]

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One of the delightful aspects of Prog Rock is that it covers such a wide spectrum of actual music. It is almost as if it is a catch all for everything that doesn’t fit anywhere else. Sometimes it comes close to creeping into the world of metal, and sometimes it strays into the worlds of [...]

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It all started in 1992 when Worrell Worcester, of the Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington Maine, estimated he would not be able to sell all of his wreaths by Christmas. Rather than discard them, he decided to donate them to Arlington Cemetary to lay on the graves of the soldiers. With plans underway, a number [...]

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A couple of weeks ago on To The Best Of Our Knowledge, the incredible radio show from Wisconsin Public Radio, they were talking about science fiction and the importance of it as a genre.  Several guests said that science fiction was becoming one of the few genres where the main character can be an idea [...]

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I love flipping by the HD Monster Channel when they are showing all the great 50’s and 60’s sci-fi thrillers. Movies created when the average American knew we would be easily attacked by aliens or nuclear missiles before the 70’s ever got here. How the future was full of space travel and the horrors that [...]

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If there was ever a question as to whom the finest actress of the last few decades is; Meryl Streep has now removed all doubt. She continues her habit of taking a role that would be average for most and escalating it to new heights of emotion and character. In her latest film, Doubt, Streep [...]

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Amid the twists, turns, and baffling uncertainties of the 2001 anthrax mailings case, many observers have managed to hold fast to one conviction: that the anthrax letters can’t possibly have been the work of al Qaeda. But are they right? One way to find out would be to identify the actual Mailer. That may prove [...]

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The Hoover Mentality To give it a more positive label than it deserves, it looks as though the Congressional Republican are attempting to leave the nation in the worst possible shape for Obama to repair when he assumes office next month. What other games will they play in addition to sabotaging the auto rescue efforts [...]

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Residents from the town of Lowell in Orleans County are concerned about asbestos exposure from a nearby mine, after discovering that some of the waste from the mine was routinely used to fill land and build roads. Officials from the state have apparently discovered a number of cases that could be linked to exposure to [...]

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Well it is if you translate it into English. When Germans say Finanzkrise, they actually mean “financial crisis”. Of course I do see why they want to scrunch it up like that. They too, like the rest of us, want to get it over with as soon as possible. But that’s about where it stops [...]

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Yes, I’m not a psychologist, but as a Family Practitioner in rural areas, I’ve diagnosed and treated my share of mental illnesses in my patients. So I am appalled at the press swallowing the spin that Governor Blagojevich’s desire for money/bribes is a “mental illness”. CBS2Chicago: Gov. Rod Blagojevich knew for months he was under [...]

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