According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a large preliminary magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck off the coast of Oregon in the United States. The quake struck at 01:37 (UTC) and its epicenter was located 242 kilometers (151 miles) west, northwest of Barview. It registered at a depth of 10 k.m. (6.2 miles)....
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Lam Luong, a 37 year old shrimp fisherman from Irvington, Bayou La Batre, Alabama, United States, has confessed to throwing his four children off a 80 feet high bridge after a fight with his wife the day before. Police have charged Luong with 4 counts of capital murder. Family members and friends told Fox...
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The European Commission has forced Apple Inc. to lower its prices for media in its United Kingdom iTunes store, Apple’s online media shop. The change in policy will occur within the next six months, Apple announced this morning. Apple is the producer of the world’s most-sold MP3 Player, the iPod and launched the iTunes...
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It has been announced that the global premiere of the Lordi horror movie Dark Floors will be on February 8 in Oulu, Finland. Lordi, a Finnish theatrical hard rock band, will also perform at the premiere. The event will take place at the Oulun Energia Areena, home of the Oulun Kärpät, a team in...
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Americans might be interested to know that to cross the Canadian border that the U.S. government will require them to be carrying a passport even if they have other legitimate forms of identification. However, most recall precious little is being done to stop the flow over our own borders of those with no proper...
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President Bush has arrived in Israel – the first stop on a Middle East journey designed to bolster the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and foster unity on Iran. Israel’s leaders were waiting at Ben Gurion Airport, as Air Force One taxied to a stop. They formed a long welcoming line as George W. Bush set...
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The People’s Republic of China has, in what Reuters calls a surprising move, banned free plastic shopping bags in a move to take effect from June 1, 2008. The decision made by the Chinese Cabinet, the State Council, is intended to reduce the amount of plastic bags used in China, currently being estimated at...
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I sometimes play Halo 3 with my son on Xbox LIVE. (On Xbox LIVE you can play in 8 or 16 man games with players from all over the world on your TV via an internet connection).
It's a nice thing to be able to do for an hour at night after the homework's done....
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In baseball, a pitcher will sometimes intentionally walk a strong hitter in order to face a weaker hitter. In the photo, a catcher is signaling for an intentional walk to Barry Bonds, baseball's greatest hitter over the past 20 years.
In political debates on gender issues, feminists often "intentionally walk" strong opponents in order to...
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Many proponents of intelligent design (ID) have argued for design of the cosmos based upon the highly improbable fine-tuning of our universe to permit the existence of advanced forms of life. Skeptics of cosmic-design often cite the possibility that there are infinite universes, or “multiverses,†where our universe just happened to win a cosmic...
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Yemen’s Abdul-Karim Qasem, who creates crosswords for publications like al-Arabi magazine and the newspaper al-Moshahad, has created a puzzle more than 178 times larger than the current recognized record holder. Qasem’s puzzle, currently in the initial stages of review with the Guinness World Records, includes 320,500 “puzzle squares”, easily topping the previous high of...
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Yemen’s Abdul-Karim Qasem, who creates crosswords for publications like al-Arabi magazine and the newspaper al-Moshahad, has created a puzzle more than 178 times larger than the current recognized record holder. Qasem’s puzzle, currently in the initial stages of review with the Guinness World Records, includes 320,500 “puzzle squares”, easily topping the previous high of...
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The Pentagon in the United States has released a video tape of an incident where Iranian high-speed boats attempted to surround at least three U.S. warships passing through international waters in the Persian Gulf. On Monday January 7, a fleet of the Iranian boats charged and then threatened to blow up the U.S. ships....
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Hans and Josie Schaffer of Bedford, United Kingdom are possibly world record holders, now that they have a total of 99 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The pensioners spend most of the year saving for Christmas gifts. Their eleven children have brought them 56 grandchildren and 43 great-grandchildren. “The kids just kept coming – and then...
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A spokesperson for the parents of Britney Spears went on The Today Show to speak out against television psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw, whom they feel exploited the family’s trust. Lou Taylor went on the NBC morning show to say that when they “extended trust” to “Dr. Phil”, as he’s known, it was as a...
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A spokesperson for the parents of Britney Spears went on The Today Show to speak out against television psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw, whom they feel exploited the family’s trust. Lou Taylor went on the NBC morning show to say that when they “extended trust” to “Dr. Phil”, as he’s known, it was as a...
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I was married in May 1994 to a woman I had been dating for 4 years. It hadn't been the best relationship, but we thought we loved each other. I wound up getting her pregnant on our honeymoon, and while we knew it was going to be hard, we were joyfully looking forward...
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What can one say other than, never count out a Clinton. Apparently, and spectacularly, rumors of Hillary’s political demise were premature and greatly exaggerated. After the Iowa debacle, the only thing remaining was the formal canonization of Obama and a potential lengthy stay for Hillary in a sanatorium for washed up power junkies. Headlines...
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A rather timely occurrence transpired just the other day: Apparently, since the Iowa caucuses people are trying to secure everything on one Barack Hussein Obama that they can get their hands on. A gentleman who had stumbled upon my column “Obamination†(The New Media Journal, February 20, 2007) wrote to me claiming that he...
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Republicans in Name Only, or RINOs, are a great asset to the Democrat Party and the news media. The liberals know they have little if any credibility, therefore when they wish to make a point they mention that Republicans also want what they want. But by Republicans they mean RINOs. Democrats believe Iraq is...
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