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On Thursday, John McCain bought into the standard Republican national security scare tactic. This signals a new low for McCain which lowers the bar further in what was supposed to be a “respectful campaign” from the “straight talk express”. “All I can say is: If Senator Obama wants to sit down across the table from the leader of a country that calls Israel a stinking corpse, and co

Ontario NowOn 'American Idol,' David Archuleta tries out R&BDallas Morning News, TX - 2 hours agoThe top three contestants were allowed to chose songs of their liking this week, so David decided to leap out of his comfort zone and attempt R&B star Chris ...David vs. David Entertainment WeeklyDavid Cook, Archuleta Continue to Rule on "American Idol" on May 13th Ass

The scheduled Remy Ma and Papoose wedding at Riker's Island on Monday (May 12) was called off after Pap was caught trying to sneak in handcuff keys.According to a report from the New York Daily News, jail officials abruptly stopped the scheduled wedding service, when they found "jail contraband" on the groom, they said."A wedding was scheduled today and a visitor to that wedding service was found

The Bush administration has urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. A skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority. The government is seeking to reverse a lower court ruling allowing Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef to conduct more comprehensive testing in order to satisfy demand from overseas customers

Are you looking for a free and open source music player that you can use no matter which operating system you boot or switch to during the day? Meet aTunes, a small competitor to both Amarok and Apple's iTunes. Its name sounds like a hybrid of the two, and it tries to have a unique combination of the best of both user experiences. aTunes is a Java-written, cross-platform music player. It supports

Are you looking for a free and open source music player that you can use no matter which operating system you boot or switch to during the day? Meet aTunes, a small competitor to both Amarok and Apple's iTunes. Its name sounds like a hybrid of the two, and it tries to have a unique combination of the best of both user experiences. aTunes is a Java-written, cross-platform music player. It supports

Research In Motion (RIMM) has come out with a new version of its Blackberry called Bold. It incorporates many of the multimedia functions of the Apple (AAPL)... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Chennai, May 11 (IANS) While Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's contributions to movies continue, his extended family comprising son M.K. Muthu and grandsons Arivunidhi and Udayanidhi are out to reclaim tinsel town fame.

N.Y. Libor alternate tries to avoid London’s pitfalls Still, upcoming interest rate is unlikely to show bank risks have improved By Laura Mandaro, MarketWatch Last Update: 7:31 PM ET May 8, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — A New York-based measure of how much it costs banks to borrow money will try to circumvent problems dogging Libor, the London benchmark that sets [...]

A little kindness goes a long way toward receiving signed letters and photos from celebrities, Oklahoma City attorney Bob Burke says.For historical figures, the task also requires determination and knowing where to look.The Oklahoma City attorney and former broadcaster ought to know, considering his claim of collecting about 10,000 autographs during the past 45 years.Burke recently donated political memorabilia to the University of Oklahoma Libraries, including the signatures of every president and vice president in U.S. history.American history is ‘about people'The "Bob Burke Autographs of American Leaders” exhibit is open at Bizzell Memorial Library, 401 W Brooks."American history is not about places and events, it's about people,” Burke said at the exhibit's opening. "This reposit

Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) has announced a new gimmick tying the coming tax checks with the high gas prices. The company said that new and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Lindsay Lohan was photographed earlier this week getting “friendly” with Nicole Richie’s boyfriend and father of her baby, Joel Madden. According to MSNBC Spies caught the Good Charlotte frontman sitting up close and personal with [Lindsay] Monday night at a Cinco de Mayo celebration held at West Hollywood’s Crown Bar. Eight out of ten women surveyed [...]

As I said in an earlier post detailing the CCHashTable, it formed a part of a larger data structure, the HAT-Trie. The HAT-Trie is a recent variant on the trie data structure, published by Askitis and Sinha in last year’s Australasian conference on Computer science (the original paper is here). The problem they were addressing [...]

[1] With her movie career in the toilet from so many flops, her singing career a thing of the past, Lindsay Lohan decides to try television. Lindsay will be making a guest appearance on US television comedy Ugly Betty.  I guess she thinks if Britney Spears can do it, so can she.  Lindsay plays a schoolmate of America Ferrera's character Betty Suarez in a flashback scene for the show's season finale. Lohan began shooting her scenes over the weekend and is also expected to appear in five episodes of the popular series next season. [1]

Man accused of trying to cash check for $360,000,000,000 | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Latest News Oh, brother. A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business, Fort Worth police said. [...]

Online classifieds company Craigslist has tremendous goodwill among those who use the internet. It does not even charge for most of its listings. It is more a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

(Baltimore) Sometimes there's just no substitute for wet feet. School kids more familiar with concrete and city streets found that out Friday. Alex DeMetrick reports. Tech Tags: children's newswatch children's news kids news children kids youth

Joba Chamberlain tryin to get at Erin Andrews?? Ok so I don’t know if thats what he was actually doing but why else would he whisper in her ear? And her reaction is classic, she gives him the eye roll. It’s probably because Joba just got back from being with his sick father, Erin [...]

I happened to catch this episode of Rachel Ray by accident this morning, and couldn’t stop watching. King of Queens star, Leah Remini was on, and she let Rachel Ray’s cameras inside her home as she tried to wean her 3 1/2 year old daughter Sofia from the bottle. Sofia co-sleeps with Leah and her husband [...]

Everybody’s doing it these days… reality TV.  And new mommy Jennifer Lopez and her hubby Marc Anthony have signed on with The Learning Channel to let the world in on their crazy life. According to TLC President Angela Shapiro-Mathes, the new show will, “deliver a slice of [Lopez’s] life that audiences...

(Credit: Ceiva) Mother's Day is only a couple of weeks away, and that can mean only one thing: The floodgates are about to unleash a torrent of digital photo frames. While we've never understood the attraction of this wildly overproduced product category--especially those that are larger than life...

It's nice to see McCain finally forced to play a little defense, poorly.  During a Sunday interview show, George Stephanopoulos was apparently shamed into asking McCain at least one or two real questions about the senator's problem temper (though he failed to ask the obvious follow-ups).  McCain variously tried to dismiss the stories of his screaming, cursing at, and scaring the hell out of colleagues as old news, exaggerations, lies, or the result of his"passion". My first question is: which is it?  Is McCain saying that his fellow Republicans who were taken aback by his temper are liars?  But that's not the real point: McCain's goal was to distract from the real issue– that several prominent Republicans have questioned McCain's fitness to serve as president.  Is McCain cl

According to a BBC report,France's president has expressed sympathy for a disabled Chinese athlete who was jostled by a pro-Tibet activist as she held the Olympic torch in Paris.In a letter to 27-year-old Paralympian fencer Jin Jing, Nicolas Sarkozy told her she had shown "outstanding courage" in the face of the assault.The Paris incident sparked an outburst of anti-France protests in China.

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is making an investment through Motorola Ventures, which is its strategic venture capital arm. The company has decided to go after... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Yikes, if looks could kill! Reuters - April 18, 2008 via HardOCP: Michigan woman who advertised online for a hitman to kill her lover’s wife pleaded guilty to the murder-for-hire scheme, prosecutors said on Friday. In November 2007, three California residents searching job listings on Craigslist.com found an advertisement for a “freelance” position posted by Linscott, according to [...]

So I had a “financial advisor” from Hartford mutual back in my “younger days” (Dec2007) that sold me a Life Insurance policy and then proceeded to tell me the next thing I needed on my ordered list of investments was a deferred annuity. She said it was very stable and something I really should [...]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is sick of being kick around in China. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Lenovo, and Acer have been picking on the Austin-based PC firm for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

ViewSonic tries real hard with $499 PJ513DB projector We applaud the effort, we really do, but even $499 for a projector touting a lowly 800 x 600 native resolution, 2,000:1 contrast ratio and 2,200 lumens is a tad steep in our eyes. Then again, you'll likely find ViewSonic's 5-pound PJ513DB marginally cheaper on the street, and of course, it's quite obvious the outfit was aiming this one at those deep-pocketed boardroom bigwigs and district superintendents. Nevertheless, this DLP PJ promises to toss up a visible image even in well-lit rooms, and you'll find composite / S-Video / component inputs 'round back to go along with the VGA in / out ports and the audio input. Knock off another Benjamin or up that resolution a hair, and maybe then we'll talk.(Via Engadget.)

It was bad enough when Cyheam Forney made an illegal left turn in front of a Suffolk County police sergeant. That was just the start. After being pulled over by Sgt. Daniel Lynch, Forney, 31, couldn't produce a license. Nor did he have any other identification. Forney gave Lynch his name, and Lynch ran his name. Turns out that Forney's license had been suspended 35 times. Taken to the Second Precinct in Huntington, Forney was issued summonses for the illegal turn, too-dark tinted windows, unlicensed operation, and sub-standard tires. Whoa. The good thing was, he was offered $500 bail. The bad thing was, when he tried to pay with cash, one of the officers noticed one of the bills looked - well, fake. "He said some guy gave it to him when he was playing dice the night before,"

Hillary Clinton spoke to a union in Pennsylvania today, and they didn't seem to be buying her latest assault on Obama.As she went on to say, "Well, you know, I know that many of you, like me, were disappointed by recent remarks that he made," scattered boos and calls of "No" could clearly be heard from the audience.

This trailer has to be seen. It's hilarious. The typical high-society conspiracy, reminiscent of Wall Street for some reason. Everything from the title cards to the fast-paced adrenaline music and Hugh Jackman cackling...Not only that, but it's got an Aussie and a Brit both using American accents in an American movie. I guess that's why they call em actors.

At a recent lunch with colleagues in London’s financial fun zone, Canary Wharf, InterWined.com decided to put a single varietal bottle of Bonarda to the test. The way we saw it, Argentina’s popular wine should pair well with a sampling of Argentina’s popular steaks. So we settled in to a table at Gaucho Grill, an Argentina-themed [...]

 year after losing her Agent Provocateur contract amid rumours of a strained relationship with co-owner Serena Rees, Kate Moss has been invited in from the cold to front a new campaign for the lingerie firm. [1] Kate, 36, shot the new campaign before flying to LA with her five-year-old daughter Lila Grace last week. [2] [1] -3.jpg [2] -3.jpg

Kanye West checked in with fans on his official web site's blog on Wednesday (April 9), alluding to the death of his mother Donda last year. He writes, "I don't do anything I don't love anymore... I loved the 'Flashing Lights' vid so it didn't matter

This is crazy, if you have not heard the story -- from Youtube:A construction worker helping to build the new Yankees Stadium in New York is a Boston Red Sox fan -- so he buried a Red Sox T-shirt underneath the concrete used for the visitors' clubhouse (it has been since reported by the Yankees' PR Department to be not true, ala an urban legend - who knows. However, this attempt to curse the Yankees, according to baseball history, will not work. Countdown's Keith Olbermann explains.Alas, this is a great story. You could not make this up...red sox, yankees, yankee stadium

Melville, N.Y. (ThaLunatic Daily) -- Cyheam Forney, a 31 year old Long Island resident wins this week's dumbest crook contest for magically turning a simple misdemeanor charge into a felony.According to police, Forney was stopped after making an illegal left turn. The officer making the stop quickly discovered that Forney's license had been suspended. He was jailed and charged with driving on a suspended license.Unsatisfied with enough grief in his life, Forney then attempted to pay his bail with a counterfeit $50 bill. Voila! Forney instantly turned the misdemeanor charge in to a felony count of possessing a forged instrument.Danny ViceThaLunatic Daily

If you have followed shares of Revlon, Inc. (NYSE: REV), you already know what a long-term let down this stock has been. Despite years of having top models... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

A new Japanese law under which citizens will serve as de facto jurors in trials involving serious crimes will go into effect on May 21. The law enacted in 20044, provides for six elgible voters to work with three professional judges at district courts in order to determine a defendant’s guilt, and, if applicable, the [...]

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is negotiating, and Danny Huston, John Ortiz and Kelli Garner are set to star, in “Spectacular Regret.” The independently financed drama was scripted by Joshua Leonard, who will make his dramatic feature debut as director. Jackson will play a death row inmate whose imminent execution has made him a cause celebre. The drama interconnects with four Angelenos struggling to overcome past events. Article Tools Submit to Digg Bookmark to del.icio.us Give it to Reddit

The speed limit on a six-mile portion of I-5 in Seattle will begin changing several times a day when the Transportation Department completes the installation of new overhead electronic signs.   The Seattle Transportation Department believes that variable speed control will help traffic flow more smoothly and prevent rear-end collisions.  For overhead electronic signs will be installed in the northbound lanes next year between Boeing Field and I-90. For more news, information, policies, reports, etc. regarding car accidents on Seattle's I-5 visit our online library.   

As  proven by Lindsay Lohan, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a contemporary actress attempting to recreate the magic of an iconic 60s photo shoot. But while the just-rehabbed Lohan chose to recreate an infamous shoot featuring soft-core nudity, Jessica Simpson chose to … shave her face? Don’t get us wrong, we loves us some [...]

The guy has to be one of the craziest / toughest SOBs I have ever read about. A guy climbed out of the drivers side window of his mini-van while it was traveling at 55 MPH on the interstate and tried to surf on top of the roof. The mini-van hit the guardrail which threw [...]

Did you hear about the state legislator who last week blasted a Lutheran minister during a committee hearing for spewing dangerous religious superstitions, and then attempted to order the minister out of the witness chair on the grounds that his Christian beliefs are "destroying what this state was built upon?"Of course you didn't, because it didn't happen and would never happen. Not to a Christian, not to a Jew, not to a Muslim or to anyone who subscribes to any faith.Such an attack would rightly be considered scandalously out of bounds in contemporary society.But you probably also didn't hear about what actually did happen:Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Commi

Oh miss Heidi, why are you trying so damn hard to make me hate you. I mean it's one thing to be blond and perky, but then you subject me to your horrible try at a singing career. Then darling you go and record ANOTHER song. Then as a defensive strike to your nemesis Lauren Conrad you start your own cheap fashion line, called Heidiwood, that will be carried at cheaper prices than hers in hopes to spite her. Now this. Oh, no, no, no, no...this is so wrong.No. Not the dress and purse, that's cute.Rumor has it that Heidi Montag was hoping that the city of Los Angeles would be nice enough to alter a historical landmark for her, by changing the HOLLYWOOD sign to say 'Heidiwood' in time for her April 11th fashion show. WOW. Um, wow. Heidi my dear you may be a pivotal piece of our TV junk food fo

BARACK CAN'T BRING HIMSELF TO SAY WHAT HE NEEDS TO SAYOperation Chaos continues to affect Barack in many ways"If all I saw of Rev. Wright & were the 30-second or one-minute clips that have been looped over the last two weeks again and again as opposed to the body of work for 30 years that he engaged in in building a church that is a pillar of the community on the South Side [of Chicago]," Obama told ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson, referring to the controversy that erupted over incendiary remarks by his pastor of 20 years."It's as if we took the five dumbest things that I ever said or you ever said & in our lives and compressed them, and put them out there, you know, I think that people's reaction would be understandably upset." An ABC News review of dozens of Wright's sermons, offe

Italy on Wednesday sought to calm consumers' fears over the safety of its prized buffalo mozzarella after Japan followed South Korea in banning imports of the cheese due to concerns that high levels of dioxin had been found in samples of milk in southern Italy. The European Commission has asked Italy to provide information by Thursday on tests of buffalo herds in the Naples area. ~ more... ~  

Behind the Pentagon’s closed doors, militay leaders met with President Bush in an effort to get him to grasp the human implications and consequences of his war in Iraq. Wednesday’s 90 minute session held in a secure coference room kown as “the Tank” was arranged by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Military leaders discussed how the [...]

Hardware wise this thing is amazing featuring a VIA C7M ULV CPU running at 1GHz, 4GB of RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, and your choice of a 60GB HDD or a 4GB SSD. Where it starts to fail is in respect to design, I guess what I'm trying to say here is that it's ugly. It even has a cool feature where it can dual boot WinXP and your choice of WinCE 5.0 or Linux Qplus. There are two screens; the larger of

The FDA has admitted that it based its determination that current levels of bisphenol-A (BPA) exposure pose no health risks on two studies sponsored by the American Plastics Council, the trade group that represents BPA manufacturers. One of these studies has been found to be deeply flawed, and the other study has not been published and its results have not been made public. The FDA chose to ignore data from almost 100 independent, peer-reviewed, and published animal studies that show that BPA is toxic at very low levels of exposure. Many of these independent studies were funded by the National Institutes of Health. BPA is used in a number of different plastic products, including baby bottles.

I remember a while back when Fox had "The Simpsons" and "King of the Hill" on Sundays. The other programming was... irrelevant? Well, I just don't remember it. Then came "Family Guy," and the Cartoon Factor increased from 2 to 3. So now we had a solid 90 minutes of modern cartoon humor most Sunday nights. Then came "American Dad," and after a brief warm-up period, it established itself as a keeper. Cartoon Factor 4. 2 solid hours, 8-10pm most Sundays.Then Fox said, "Hey, let's try to shove some new live-action pilot down their throats," and started airing shows during the block like "The Winner.""The Winner" ended up being a loser, and was canceled.Back to Cartoon Factor 4.Hey, wasn't there some airline comedy? Yeah, "The Loop" intruded upon Cartoon Sunday as well. I barely rememb

On Thursday evening, the Obama campaign released to the New York Times a 1998 picture of former president Bill Clinton with Jeremiah Wright at a White House function and also a letter written to Wright from Hillary Clinton that thanked him for the function's prayer.Presidential candidates meet thousands of people on the campaign trail and take thousands of pictures with complete strangers. If a candidate actually obtains the presidency much more of the same awaits plus they gain a large support staff whose primary purpose is to do things like write polite "thank you letters." Many of these letters are signed by the president or their spouse without either ever actually remembering the event it references. After all, they do have other things to focus on.A spokesman for Clinton campaign s

Its just one of those things that has to go... unless over thousands of years we are able to evolve to smoke cigarettes. Its not THAT good and its not THAT hard to stop. I did it, so can everyone else. But overall, I don't care if people smoke. Ive grown a bit tired of those who find it necessary to smoke and walk on the sidewalks as the smoke blows in the peoples faces behind them...

I still think that I should drop Adsense, and remove Google as my homepage, but somehow I just keep coming back for more..and more….and more. Google is just an overbearing entity that is trying to control my blog. When I first decided to make a blog I was always “Yes Google”, or “Yes [...]

Hilary Duff was seen out in LA looking sexy! I have to say though, I don’t like this look on Hilary as much as I like her in her usual - skinny jeans and a sexy top. This is so not her! For the complete gallery click here Celebrity Exposed, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity News, Celebrity Oops, Hilary [...]

Hilary Duff was seen out in LA looking sexy schmexy! I have to say though, I don't like this look on Hilary as much as I like her in her usual - skinny jeans and a sexy top. This is so not her! For the complete gallery click hereCheck out our forum for many more postsinternet marketing

Ford (NYSE:F) is launching a mad new ad campaign with the tag-line "Ford. Drive One". The company is working with it local dealers to get them to push the same... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

She's loosing her ass in the Primaries in Texas, So, she wants to stall... The Story: Clinton campaign wants Texas to postpone party conventions (via Dallas Morning News) Quote: As final results from the Texas Democratic caucus remain unknown, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign wants signatures from the March 4 contest verified before party conventions are held around the state later this month. In a letter sent to the state Democratic Party late Friday, the Clinton campaign requests the March 29 count and state Senate district conventions be postponed until the eligibility of an estimated 1 million caucus-goers are double checked. The Clinton campaign wrote they received more than 2,000 complaints of violations following the historic Texas turnout, which was perhaps

This from WAVE TV:KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An 8-year-old Knoxville boy is recovering after trying to hang himself in his bedroom closet.Police Lt. Doug Stiles says the boy suffered severe neck injuries. He was being treated at University of Tennessee Medical Center on Friday morning.Police say the boy had gotten in trouble Thursday at his elementary school. When he got home, his mother spanked him and sent him to his room.Authorities say the boy then went into his bedroom closet and tied a belt around his neck and tried to hang himself. A few minutes later, the boy's sister found him unconscious in the closet.A neighbor helped revive the boy until emergency personnel arrived. The boy's identity was not released.

This evening while at home chilling out, I decided to read "Trembley Tries Wooing Two Big Birds Back To The Nest" by the Baltimore Sun's Roch Kubatko.Well, the content of the article made me glad to see that the team, spearheaded by Dave Trembley, are reaching out to the stars of yesteryear; however, I am very dumbfounded as to why the Orioles had not made the overture to players earlier.Obviously, we see Jim Palmer, Boog Powell, Rick Dempsey show-up at the Yard participating in team activities, but not Brooks, Frank, Eddie Murray or other former Orioles.Granted, all these guys have their own lives, but unlike let's say the Yankees & Red Sox, why do so few stars bother to show up?This passage by Brooks Robinson is a bit sad & may tell us more than we want to know:"The chances of Ro

...In a surprise yesterday, Carlos Beltran decided he was healthy enough to try playing a little bit in the field.He was quoted as saying the following to Willie Randolph:"I just told him that I wanted to come and take batting practice and be in the outfield, and I was going to let him know how I felt," "I said to him, 'Give me a try. If I get tired or sore before I take three at-bats, then you take me out of the game.'" CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICLE

In an unprecedented mood a world consortium of Central Banks from many leading countries led by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) have tried to infuse huge liquidity in the credit market which is starved of funds. This caused a positive response from the market which has been on a sustained bull runs for last few [...]

Target (NYSE: TGT) has a huge credit card business. In the current economy, that may not be perfect positioning. The value of the portfolio at the unit is $8... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Yesterday a Pentagon study showed that there was no connection between al Qaeda and Saddam. This contradicted claims made by the Bush administration to invade Iraq. It appears that the Bush administration wants to keep this evidence that they were wrong, and probably lying, from being disseminated. ABC News reports: The Bush Administration apparently does not [...]

Sad, saggy old pop stars are not what I want out of celebrities, but Madonna can still make me laugh. Last night at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceromony, after some bitchy comments about Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake introduced Madonna into the hall of fame. When Madonna got onto the stage she called the [...]

Curb appeal is so important. How it shows up in the lead photo can make or break whether a house ever gets shown. It’s tough when the lot size doesn’t give you much to work with, but….trash cans, cars and pigeons certainly don’t help.   The only thing worse than a bad picture is NO PICTURES [...]

I decided to start from scratch with my Debian server project. Last time I was too hasty in adding the open-source version of Movable Type to my installation and intermingling files before I was ready. This time I'm going to be a lot more methodical and make sure that Apache and MySQL are working properly -- meaning I can run CGI scripts and have a directory dedicated to same -- before I start with Movable Type. I could've removed Apache, done some cleanup and gone from there, but since I didn't have much "invested" in the install, I wiped the drive and started over.

Microsoft is trying to put the kibosh on more of its internal (and embarassing) e-mail messages around its Vista marketing plans going public. As Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Todd Bishop blogged on March 7, Microsoft is appealing the decision to turn the “Vista-capable” lawsuit lodged last year into a full-blown class-action case. (The original suit, filed in March 2007, claimed

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Fact: US President Bush vetoed a bill that would have banned the CIA from "waterboarding" or "simulated drowning", and other coercive interrogation methods, to gain information from suspected terrorists. (link)Fact: The bill would have limited the CIA to 19 interrogation techniques that are used by the military and spelled out in the Army Field Manual. In a recent speech, Bush said he vetoed the measure because it is important for the CIA to have a separate and classified interrogation program for suspected terrorists who possess critical information about possible plots against the United States. (link)Fact: Waterboarding (picture) involves strapping a person down and pouring water over his/her cloth-covered face to create the sensation of drowning. It has been traced back hundreds of yea

George hoped that a computer would help him vote in Parliament more than 11.1% of the time, while performing his own show on stage in a theatre at the same time . It didn't seem to be working. Inspired by Friday Lolcats meme. Tags: george galloway mp, respect, bethnal green, stop the war [tags]george galloway mp, respect, bethnal green, stop the war[/tags]more

You may recall Joe, 54, married, two kids, one dog, successful business owner dreaming of retirement in New Smyrna, Florida. Review the previous article titled “Eat at Joe’s IRA’s Bar and Grill” for the full story of Joe’s IRA’s purchase of a business. Joe had found, after opening his IRA’s last mutual fund [...]

Yahoo extended the deadline for nominating candidates to its board fearing that Microsoft would nominate its own member to the board in an attempt to push the deal through. Yahoo had given itself more time to search for a white knight to help it fight off an unwanted takeover bid from Microsoft. There [...]

Here’s the “good looking” Simpson sister at a signing for her new CD at Wal-Mart. Yes, Wal-Mart. What, were all the Best Buys closed? Ashlee attended this signing without her boyfriend/creepy hair twin, Pete Wentz. Maybe there was only enough straightening balm for one of them, that evening. I get irritated when [...]

Drew Barrymore on the left. “Mac Guy” Justin Long on the right. Everyone thinks Justin uses a Mac because it’s a better computer. Wrong. He actually owns a PC - it’s sitting in a box in the corner of his living room. He tried moving it into his office a few times but the thing weighs nearly eleven pounds.

Senator Carr held a day-long series of meetings with Toyota's executives in Tokyo, while a review of automotive manufacturing in Australia works to prepare an interim report on the future of the industry by the end of this month. The Rudd Government has committed to spend $500 million on a green car fund, which could be used to convince Toyota to produce hybrid cars in Australia. Toyota produces its petrol-engined Camry and Aurion vehicles in Victoria, at Altona. A spokeswoman for Senator Carr said the meetings were "very productive discussions". "He has reinforced the federal Government's enthusiasm for the motor vehicle industry," shesaid.

Calif. McDonalds tries feng shui theme February 24, 2008: 02:31 PM EST Feb. 24, 2008 Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex – HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif. AP - The only familiar signs at the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

These rich kids in Utah build a gigantic human sling shot on their massive front lawn and use an ATV to propell a girl farther than she expected. Man that looks like fun I want that! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Sumvision Ice 1000 tries to be an iPod touch, fails miserablyOh yeah, we've seen our fair share of iPod touch imposters, and while this one isn't out to totally knock off Apple's darling per se, it's fairly devoid of originality. The Sumvision Ice 1000 offers up a 2.8-inch 320 x 240 resolution touchscreen, up to 4GB of internal storage space, a microSD expansion slot, built-in FM tuner and rechargeable battery, voice recorder, USB 2.0 connectivity and support for XviD, AVI, MP4, MP3 and WMA file formats. The good news? It's available now for £54.99 ($108) -- see how far that gets you in an Apple store.(Via Engadget.)

My father is an alcoholic, a drug addict and mostly, an asshole. He doesn't pay child support, he doesn't really care and tries to make me his punching bag. He tells me ALL abnout his every problem, from his house to his girlfriend of the week. Not once has he asked me about me! Even if I brought up myself, he would always direct it back to him, his friends, etc.Today I decided to have dinner and see a movie with my father, because he is my father, and he is sometimes willing to spend money on me. So after fighting a little 3 times in the 2 hrs we are together, only to have the argument stop when I refused to continue, he thinks he has the right to defend one of my friend's father. This father whom, After becoming addicted to Meth, becoming a drug dealer, going in and out of jail and makin

Just when you though the Bush Administration could not sink any lower! Here is a clip of the article. Click on the clip to go to the story at the Guardian:The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel, including allowing armed guards on all flights from Europe to America by US airlines.The demand to put armed air marshals on to the flights is part of a travel clampdown by the Bush administration that officials in Brussels described as "blackmail" and "troublesome", and could see west Europeans and Britons required to have US visas if their governments balk at Washington's requirements.According to a US document being circulated for signature in European capitals, EU states would also need

LONDON: Staff at the Promises clinic, where Britney Spears checked herself into last month, has been put on a 'suicide watch', after the singer reportedly tried to hang herself with a bed sheet. Britney had friends and family worried sick when paramedics were rushed to the clinic recently, and now a friend has revealed that medics were called because she tried to commit suicide. Just before she tried to hang herself, the pal said, Britney wrote 666 on her shaved head, and ran around the clinic screaming "I am the Antichrist!" "She is still very vulnerable. Last Saturday she said she had the number 666 written onto her bald head. She was crying, and shouting, 'I am the Antichrist!' The clinic people just didn't know what to do. Then she started screaming, 'I'm a fake! I'm a fake!' It must h

~Snooper~This is just so typical of a loser mentality. It seems that the "bite" of Move On is now an irritating "gumming"...similar to a pesky Chihuahua trying to hump your leg.It seems as though, according to them and, who can trust them, has raised $300K for the active duty troops in Harms Way. Gee. I wonder where their support was when they tried to paint General David Petraeus as incompetent. Seems like that vain and ignorant act blew up in their faces, eh?From The Swamp:MoveOn.org took a break from criticizing President Bush and his Republican allies this week to raise money for U.S. troops overseas - and netted more than $300,000 in 24 hours, the liberal group says.The money will benefit the USO's Operation Phone Home program, which gives phone cards free to service members in Iraq and Afghanistan."MoveOn members are committed to seeing our troops come home as quickly as possible and we'll keep working to make that happen," the group said in the appeal it sent on Thursday t

A federal judge Thursday unsealed a handwritten incantation that Bonanno crime boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano stashed in his shoe to put a curse on prosecutors, FBI agents and mob turncoats during his 2006 racketeering trial. Basciano has been jailed under conditions usually reserved for terrorists because the feds suspect it was a hit list to eliminate the gangster's enemies.

The leftist anti-Israel group has been getting funds from bad European sources, and according to Channel 2 news in Israel, they've even been trying to cover it up. From Israel National News: (IsraelNN.com) The Peace Now movement is suspected of setting up a financial scam to mask the European sources of its funding for its reconnaissance work against Israeli Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.

Drudge:"Special Treatment of Lobbyist" Causes McCain TroubleGhosts of Keating Five Past Returns to Haunt McCain?John McCain, a member of the Keating Five back in the 90s, has reportedly tried to talk the New York Times out of running a story about the Arizona Senator giving special treatment to a lobbyist.According to the Drudge Report, McCain has even hired super-lawyer and Washington insider Bob Bennett to tackle the problem.Drudge uses the word "charges": whether he means it in the legal sense of the word is hard to tell.The following just popped up on the Drudge Report website a few minutes ago.Just weeks away from a possible surprise victory in the primaries, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz has been waging a ferocious behind the scenes battle with the NEW YORK TIMES, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, and has hired DC power lawyer Bob Bennett to mount a bold defense against charges of giving special treatment to a lobbyist! John McCain has put a lot of groun

You really can’t make this stuff up. Hotel staff are used to guests using their rooms to do strange things. But this one takes the cake … er … pizza. A guest at the New Zealand’s $300 a night Hermitage Hotel in Mount Cook called staff to her room claiming that she couldn't get her microwave oven to open, and she'd stuffed a frozen pizza in there. When staff rushed in, they found her standing with a puzzled expression on her face in front of … wait for it … the wall safe. The guest, an American woman in her forties, apparently mistook the safe for an oven. Getting the pizza out was no laughing matter. The woman had punched in all kinds of numbers trying to get it to open, and had jumbled up the code. After trying unsuccessfully for hours, the staff was forced to track down the guy responsible for the master codes to the hotel safes.