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More than a dozen children in China’s rural Gansu province are sick, and at least one has died due to contaminated baby formula. Unlike a similar scandal in 2004, where over a dozen children died from being fed fake formula without nutritional value, in this case, the children developed kidney stones, making them sick and […]
Quotes by the People Involved: Casey Anthony, Cindy Anthony, George Anthony, Lee Anthony Leonard Padilla, Kevin Beary, Greta Van Susteren, Nancy Grace and others Including Protesters Outside the Anthony’s Home “What is given, Can be taken away. Everyone lies. Everyone dies.” –Casey Anthony, in a poem, July 7, 2008 Quotes from the media circus that […]
Blogging is a great outlet to convey thoughts and feelings about matters of concern to us, or about hobbies that we enjoy thoroughly. It is about issues, interests, and passions. And it is about time. Blogging can assist many people in expressing how they feel about specific subjects through a comfortable forum. It also allows […]
A widow has filed an asbestos lawsuit against seventy four defendant companies following the death of her husband from an asbestos related disease, according to a recent report. The woman’s husband recently passed away as a result of lung cancer according to the report, and she claims that the death of her husband was wrongfully […]
In another excerpt from the ABC interview, she who would be vice president engaged in more truth twisting and old fashioned political mendacity. Speaking with ABC’s Charles Gibson, the GOP vice presidential nominee emphatically insisted she had never denied humans’ role in driving climate changes across the globe.”Show me where I have ever said that […]
I just got Comedy Central the other day when I opted to up my cable subscription so I can watch the exciting pennant race in the AL Central. Getting Comedy Central was just a surprise which was well appreciated for bringing some reliable comedic programming into my apartment. That was one of the few channels […]
The soundtrack for Henry Poole is Here is a melancholy but hopeful affair filled with breathy vocals and dramatically plucked guitar strings. The film centers around a cynical man (Luke Wilson) who seeks to isolate himself in suburbia and ends up finding love and redemption and all those things most people find in uplifting family movies. And […]
I remember watching when Ronald Reagan left the White House for the last time. He waved and went up into the helicopter and was gone forever. I don’t remember the election, I don’t remember anything whatsoever about Dukakis. The other big moments in the life of George Herbert Walker Bush I do remember was the […]
Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes that in his own way, Trig Palin, too has made history in this election year: Â In addition to Barack Obama making history as the first African American to be nominated for president and Sarah Palin taking her shotgun to the glass ceiling, there was a third civil rights […]
The Coen brothers follow up their Oscar winning film, No Country for Old Men, with a dark, oddball, comedy that some will call a smart move and others a waste of talent. And if any film had an onslaught of talent, it is this one. Unfortunately, more times than not, that spells disaster. I wanted […]
This could possibly be the easiest review I have ever had to write. I could pen one line and be done. It would go something like, “Pacino and De Niro play NY cops in a gritty crime thrillerâ€. Need anything else really be said? Even if I went on to say this is the worst […]
Before Katrina, Before Ike, Even Before Hurricanes Had Names The Great Hurricane of 1886 Helped Wipe Indianola Off the Map ABOVE: Indianola, Texas With Hurricane Ike bearing down on the Gulf Coast of Texas, most people are unaware of a similar storm: the great hurricane of 1886. That storm hit not only the area known […]
The recent attacks by the loony liberal Left on the religious beliefs of Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska have been – not surprisingly, considering their source – deplorable and indicative of a spirit of desperation. The Obama campaign, his mainstream media surrogates, and Leftwing bloggers – essentially all on the Left […]
I was reading an article about two teenage girls from Northern California. They are Emily and Sarah Buder and they wrote a book entitled Letters to a Bullied Girl. The inspiration for this book was a girl in Northern California named Olivia Gardner. Olivia was experiencing severe bullying and peer abuse at the hands of […]
Well, a little late on the blogging but as they say “better late than never.†I tend to write about the articles and events that grab me right off the bat and at first this one did not. But as I did something thinking, I realized the value of the article and the fact that […]
    Republicans provided St. Paul police with a monetary incentive to illegally detain individuals who were opposed to the Republican National Convention. The incentive was: payment of unlimited legal fees resulting from illegal arrests, and a cache $10 million to go towards lawsuits. This ‘deal’ surely emboldened the ‘peace’ officers and essentially provided them with a free pass […]
In a near panic now to find anything of usefulness which can be used against her in the few weeks still remaining them, the small army of Palin-wary media paparazzi in action have realized that they don’t even have the time to properly examine “the dirt†they are so desperately trying to dig up. They […]
Life is full of stresses, and what now is called “post traumatic stress syndrome” is actually quite widespread in the general population. Abused children, battered wives, those living through life threatening illnesses or accidents all may suffer variations of the syndrome. . As many as 70% of adults in the United States have experienced at […]
Phishing is emerging in India as a major concern for the Banking industry. The recent revelation from a security agency that security in 88 Indian Banks have been compromised at one time or the other in recent days places an alarming question on the security of the Indian Banking systems. While Banks are shortchanging their […]
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