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It’s far from just Iris Robinson, but let’s remember what she, as Chair of the Northern Irish devolved assembly’s health committee said. After boasting that her pet ‘ex-gay’ psychiatrist could ‘fix’ gay people from being gay, saying: “I have a very lovely psychiatrist who works with me in my offices and his Christian background is that [...]

American media, especially newspapers have some kind of a hatred towards India. They seem to take vicarious pleasure in publishing all kinds of negative aspects of India. Completely unrelated... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By George Will Barack Obama recently said, “I believe in our ability to perfect this nation.” Clearly there is something the candidate of “change” will not change—the pattern of extravagant presidential rhetoric. Obama is trying to replace a president who vowed to “rid the world of evil”—and of tyranny, too. But then, rhetorical—and related—excesses are

I saw this great post in Macadamia's blog and thought it would be great and fun to do something similar.Well, Here's how i will post my matrimonial ad:Wanted a 500 pound,alien-like, very short guy who can manage a 400 pound bitch who has over-eating disorder.Her appetite is 16 pizzas and 20 hamburgers a day. She just hasn't enough money to buy all this. This means she'll be both mentally and phys

Sugarcane farmers are facing losses amid massive smuggling from Thailand and low input prices at major factories. Everyday, 300-400 tons of refined sugar is being smuggled through the southwest border, causing losses of millions of dong to state coffers, said Dr. Ha Huu Phai, Secretary General of the country’s Sugarcane and Sugar Association. Vietnamese sugar cannot compete with its Thai

Jay Davis from the Washington Post reports that since 1993 there have been 1,300 incidents of illicit transfer of plutonium and heavily enriched uranium; both capable of producing an atomic bomb. And unlike 9/11, there won’t be time to respond if God forbid a nuclear weapon ends up in a terrorist’s hands. It is quite possible [...]

Texas 1965. “And I don’t got time to waste on you.” Okay, I’ll be straight, these guys aren’t from Texas. A three-piece group that plays loudbluesrockpunk with a sound circa 1965, which was being done great in Texas 43 years ago. Sure, the Texas groups were imitating the Stones, but so be it. What’s scary to me now that I live here in Texas is that all those albums I collected by Texas punks from 1965-1967 were not as well known in Texas as they were elsewhere in the world. I mention some of these great groups and get blank stares. Guess Texans like to believe the young folk here were never rebellious. Whatever. Am I off-track? Maybe not. These guys are loudbluesrockpunk and certainly proud of it. They even claim to play “rock and roll”. Who says that anymore? And, the good

(photo from willisphotoart) The good boys of Cincinnati’s own Lions Rampant are the feature of the latest video installment from Kevin Bayer and his Soft City Lights project this week. Kevin has already done great videos of Bad Veins, Jukebox The Ghost and Ra Ra Riot and the trend continues on this one. The [...]

It’s an agony for those who are being disturbed by almost every night drag racing of motorcycles here at Alunan Avenue in Koronadal City; that includes me! Sleepless nights I had and felt helpless and tired after getting up from my bed around one o’clock to three in the morning. Watching at them through my

Yeah, this is more like the November I’ve come to know and dread. Apologies to those of you with November birthdays, who bring a tiny bit of sunshine to this otherwise hellacious month, but I really do hate November. The nanny called me at work yesterday sometime before 10:00 saying she was very sick and could I please come home, so I did. Takes just over an hour to get home on the bus at midday, damn suburbs. The day passed reasonably uneventfully until 5 pm, when child number one barfed. He barfed again, this time accompanied by the runs, just before 7 pm. Child number two barfed at 8 pm. Child number one woke up crying with the runs and dry heaves (there is nothing more pathetic than a three-year-old with dry heaves) at 10:30. Child number two woke up and barfed sometime around 2:30 this morning. The nanny called in sick around 7:30 this morning. What do you want to bet is on my agenda for this weekend? And really? I hate barfy viruses. Give me a good old fashioned

Comedian Eddie Griffin was performing a routine at a Black Enterprise Magazine event last week, when he decided to throw around the n-word like it was going out of style. Well, it looks like Eddie should have checked himself or he should have checked with Earl Graves, the publisher of Black Enterprise. Right in the middle of his performance, the microphone went dead on Mr. Griffin. The crowd went wild, when Mr. Griffin left the stage (quite pissed) and Earl Graves came out to say that the offensive language simply would not be tolerated at the Black Enterprise event.According to Black Enterprise’s spokesman, “We believe that ending the performance was the appropriate action…”What’s your stand on this issue? Should Mr. Griffin have been allowed to finish a performance filled with the word "ni**er" or was it the correct move to yank him? Should Black Enterprise have hired Mr. Griffin to perform, despite his history of using the n-word repeatedly in his shows?Sour

Last week we talked about what the CASA (or National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University) would report and now this week the detailed report has actually come out concerning drugs and alcohol in high schools. Parents, students, teachers and policy-makers all need to be on alert because of the latest findings. Some of the key findings include: 1) a 63-percent jump in observed drug use in middle schools by other students 2) of the students coming in for drug and alcohol treatment, 10.5-percent started using before 11-years-old 3) among parents, 11-percent said drug use in high school was the most important problem their children faced while 24-percent of their kids said drug use was the most important issue

CASA or The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, has sent out a little teaser of the survey results they will fully explain on August 16, 2007. According to the report, Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr will explain the in-depth survey of over 1,000 teens and over 500 parents nationwide that were asked about drug and alcohol use in the nation’s high schools. According to the early reports, the survey will reveal that America’s schools are “infested with drug possession, use, dealing, drunk and high students.” This also leads to a culture that accepts this behavior and sets the tone for drug and alcohol abuse later in life.

Updated 6/9/2007It seems that many hackers (mostly Turkish, according to my server logs) have been attempting to break into Joomla and Mambo based sites. They usually attack just by requesting a URL that at the same time would be able to change your CMS settings if you aren't up to date, and hardened. Some of these URLs include the following:/index.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content _REQUEST[Itemid]=1 GLOBALS=... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

STAPH INFECTIONS RAMPANT AT JAIL WHERE PARIS IS SERVING TIME - Drudge ReportExcerpt:"Paris Hilton may be facing a serious threat at the Lynwood Correction Facility where she is currently serving her 45-day sentence for violating her probation. The women’s prison is rife with staph infection, with over 402 inmates diagnosed with the serious infection last year alone!"http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm

With autism soaring in America, increasing at a rate of more than 20 percent per year, the need for answers is both vital and urgent. Mercury in early childhood vaccines has been pointed out as one main culprit. An additional theory that makes a whole lot of sense is the link between rampant vitamin D deficiency and the proportionate jump in autism. The Vitamin D Council observes that sun-avoidance has increased in the last 20 years as the medical community started warning about the dangers of sun exposure. They believe there is a link. The vitamin D receptor appears in a wide variety of brain tissue early in the development of the baby, and activated vitamin D receptors increase nerve growth in the brain. Just recently, the National Institutes of Mental Health concluded that it is vital that the mother get enough vitamin D while pregnant in order for the baby’s brain to develop properly. The child must also get enough vitamin

It cost Richard Stansfield $4,000 to prepare the paperwork to buy a four-bedroom town house in south London's Balham neighborhood. When the seller got a better offer, the deal was lost, and so was Stansfield's money.More...

Stuff I don't need and can't really afford right now, but made my greedy little inner child drool with envy and throw a temper tantrum: A door organizer. Actually, I don't need one of these, since I carry a backpack around. I just think it's looks cool. [Via Gizmodo.] Did I mention that I need an external hard drive? I think I just found one. The Lacie 1TB Ethernet Big Disk External Hard Drive, for only $290. [Via Gizmodo.] Oh, how I drooled over the new Blackberry Curve. Drooled, I tell you. Finally, Blackberry makes a proper PDA phone with a full-sized keyboard, digital camera, microSD slot and audio and video capabilities. [Via Endgadget.]OK, the feeling has passed. I just looked in my wallet.technorati tags: Blackberry Curve, door organizer, LaCie, Gizmodo, Endgadget, stuff

Things that made me laugh, for various reasons in various ways, when I heard them this morning:You don't have to be smart to be rich, study finds.No kidding.Laura Bush: "No one suffers more than their President and I do"Yeah, your life is really tough.Rudy Giuliani's electoral silliness:MANCHESTER, N.H. —- Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.But if a Republican is elected, he said, especially if it is him, terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped.Nothing like cribbing Dick Cheney's greatest hits.Actually, this sounds really familiar. Where have I heard this before?Yeah, the more things change …technorati tags: Giuliani, Laura Bush, stupidity

Venezuela launched a Zeppelin on Thursday to patrol Caracas, seeking to fight crime in one of Latin America’s most dangerous cities but also raising fears that President Hugo Chavez could be turning into Big … via News.yahoo.com Original post by Associated Press

Security policies honoured in the breach Audits of workplace PCs by security firm PixAlert discovered that more than a quarter (25.8 per cent) of the 10,000 PCs scanned contained pornography or other inappropriate images.… Read more…

One in 10 Internet users in the United Kingdom was a victim of online fraud last year, according to an official survey of 2,400 people, who were asked about their online surfing habits, level of security protection, and encounters with fraud and theft. Approximately 6 percent had been hit by fraud while shopping [...]

Rampant piracy is threatening the future of the PC games industry, Todd Hollenshead, head of Doom 3 creator Id software has said. He warned that unless the problem was tackled some companies could relegate the PC to a second tier platform. Some developers are taking that approach,he told the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week. Global piracy cost the US games industry more than $4bn in 2004, not including losses from net piracy. Mr Hollenshead said the PC games industry was still not taking the threat of piracy seriously. I find myself when I have a discussion about piracy trying to convince people it’’s a serious problem. Some estimates show that as much as 50% of game sales are lost to piracy in the US.

My Theories On Rampant Psychosis Prevalent in the National Football LeagueAn in-depth reader submission by "Worst Avid"After years of watching the NFL week in-week out, I have formed some definite opinions as to the reasons why things happen the way that they do, but one thing stands out far ahead of all the others: These guys are a bunch of "head cases". Worstavid loves any reference to "The Terminator"Here's an excellent recent example: The Cardinals take everyone's consensus #1 team this year, the Chicago Bears, all the way to a missed field goal at the end of the game, a contest that everyone who watched it knows that they should have won. It was also a game that everyone in the country thought would show the Cardinals getting dismembered.This same team then goes out six days later and plays the team that clearly is the worst in the league and gets thumped by the Oakland Raiders. Huh? It's not a Cardinal, but at least it's the desert..You can see this repeated ov

{mosgoogle right}Last year witnessed 1,753 reported crimes related to online matchmaking sites, a decline on the record number of the previous year, but a disturbing trend with a vast majority of the victims under 18, the National Police Agency said.Although the 1,753 cases that led to arrests or reporting to prosecutors was an 8.5 percent decline on the all-time worst year of 2006, last year was still the fifth consecutive year when crimes tied to lonely hearts sites topped 1,500 [...]

{mosgoogle right}In a bid to curb a surge in telephone-based fraud, the National Police Agency (NPA) and the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday compiled an "action plan to eradicate billing fraud."NPA data shows that the amount of losses from billing fraud, in which criminals convince victims to transfer money into a designated account, stood at about 13.74 billion yen for the period between January a