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China is in the midst of a major scandal of contaminated milk. And it may be hitting the Philippines and other countries. Someone has been watering down their milk and adding the chemical Melamine to the milk. Melamine tests similar to protein, so the watered milk tests as full strength milk. Multiply this by a […]
The financial crisis is being labeled by all concerned as the most serious crisis since the Great Depression. People on the street, myself included, are scrambling to figure this out. Now Democrats are calling for more regulation of financial institutions. However, in the recent past, they blocked such regulations despite calls from the Bush administration, […]
What does an indie pop-rock band do when they leave their record label? Some might choose to throw in the towel, but Pittsburgh-based Punchline did just the opposite, hitting the music world harder than ever and landing a $25,000 grand prize from www.heavy.com. And they didn’t rest on their laurels after winning the prize money, instead using […]
The list of compers for the latest full-length animated Batman film reads like a who’s who of animation composition. Rather than a single composer, Warner Brothers Animation chose to pool together a roster of talent to give the film – really a collection of short segments – more variation and life. Since each segment of the film is […]
After releasing a string of films in the early ’70s, Italian writer/director Dario Argento made a huge splash in the horror world when he released the 1977 witch-filled cult classic Suspiria, as well as the subsequent 1980 sequel Inferno. Three decades - and a string of not-so-well received horror movies later, Argento is back with the finale […]
When Marty Robbins started his career he admitted that he was scared to death of live television. Early in his career he was a painfully shy, up and coming singer from Glendale Arizona. He hosted his own weekly TV Show on Phoenix station KPHO. He was born on September 26, 1925 as Martin David Robinson. […]
I have been a fan of Tammy Wynette’s since I was 17 years old if not before that even. For some reason every song I would hear her singing always had some connection to something going on in my life, or at least I liked to think it did. Tammy Wynette was born in Itawamba […]
One of the best horror directors known, Dario Argento marks his return with this shocking gore and artistic brilliance as he concludes his classic “Three Mothers†trilogy. His daughter, Asia Argento stars in this thriller as Sarah. She plays the part of a young American art student who along with her lover’s partner naively opens […]
This past Monday, I was bored and had a sore throat so did not have a lot of energy. I was flipping through the tube and stumbled upon The CW’s Gossip Girl at 8pm. As I follow some of these teen dramas from time to time because of my work, I watched this and was […]
OK so now I have heard everything. When I saw this headline I couldn’t believe that Casey Anthony would think anyone would fall for this one. She tried to claim that the horrendous smell coming from her car that was described by her very own mother as the smell of a dead body in the […]
Who exactly is going to benefit from this? As one pundit put it ‘The fat cats on Wall Street’. In my mind this person is exactly right. What could $700 billion do? Well you could do a lot. You could pump it into the bank accounts of people that need it. Instead it likely will […]
A caretaker has received a payout from the local council in the area after he was found to been exposed to over one hundred times the safe level of asbestos while working at a local school. The UK man has received a payout of twenty thousand pounds, equating to around thirty eight thousand dollars, from […]
Obama’s Global Poverty Act estimated to cost US taxpayers $845 billion Finanacial bailout estimated at billions less [While the financial bailout is estimated to cost Americans $2300 apiece, Barack Obama was in Florida, touting his Global Poverty Act, which would cost every American man, woman and child an additional $2450 each.] At a time when […]
I live in a democracy where there is a high degree of freedom of speech and so long as I obey the law I can pretty much say what I want wherever I want. So if I happened to believe that the earth was flat I could erect a soapbox in Hyde Park, or anywhere […]
Not to give credence to the crazies in America (no offense … you know who you are) but you have to admit that things have suddenly gone awry, both domestically and internationally, at an awfully convenient time. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean someone isn’t following you. With what little we now know about what is REALLY going on […]
London Mayor, Boris Johnson, the most senior Conservative in office in Britain was at least beguilingly honest in his paean to the City of London in his recent Daily Telegraph column. Like many a Tory who over the years has enjoyed the hospitality, and maybe even the company, of the mega-rich bankers and industrialists of […]
As an observant Stern journalist put it, German know-it-all Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück can lash out at the American failings that have lead to the current financial market crisis all he wants to, what he and other vocal German critiques of late are really doing is covering up their own grave shortfalls. Germany is sliding […]
What a fascinating movie. Part documentary, part behind the scenes look at the somewhat murky world of Reality TV, and part lesson in life, Desperately Seeing Paul McCartney covers all of these bases and then some. I am not sure that the outset Marc Cushman intended to make the movie the way that he did, […]
Couple of days back, I heard British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Labor party meet – in what was dubbed as the make or break speech of the beleaguered leader. We all do exceedingly well in our columns and speeches – but when it comes to practicing those, history proves we have achieved catastrophic failures. […]
In a masterful attempt of political gamesmanship. Senator John McCain called a press conference to announce he was suspending his campaign. He needed to head back to the Capitol to solve the financial crises and invited Senator Barack Obama to join him in putting politics aside to tackle the looming collapse. Some republicans applauded the Senators actions […]
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