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Is The RIAA Getting Into The Hardware Game?
2008-07-09 01:15:00 There are a couple of unconfirmed stories swirling around the Blogosphere implicating our good buddies in the RIAA of intimidating hardware manufacturers, most notably Dell, Gateway, and in Europe Packard Bell. The systems are laptops that use the SigmaTel audio chip. Both Gizmodo and Electronista are claiming that the chip has been hobbled on purpose ... More About: Hardware , Game , Riaa
Veterans? Treatment Court
2008-07-08 23:31:00 Recently, I learned about an innovative approach to help veterans returning home to try to adjust to normal life and stay out of trouble. The Veterans Treatment Court , the first of its kind, is part of a program in Buffalo, New York to help all of its defendants, all military veterans, who have served their ...
The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for July 8, 2008
2008-07-08 23:23:00 Victor joins JT and Paul at the club and they discuss what they know about David. Paul tells him that Nikki told them to drop it so they are being careful about what they do. Victor tells them to continue the investigation, and to ignore what Nikki told them. JT and Paul tell Victor about ... More About: Reviews , Movie Reviews , Young , Update , Soaps
As The World Turns : Soap Update for July 8, 2008
2008-07-08 23:23:00 Neal goes to pick up Carly and while she finishes getting ready he goes to the kitchen for some water. While he is in there Jack comes inside and yells out if anyone is home. Neal comes out and asks if it is customary in the U.S. to just walk into someone?s home without knocking. ... More About: Reviews , World , Movie Reviews , Update , Soaps
Days of Our Lives : Soap Update for July 8, 2008
2008-07-08 23:22:00 Max and Stephanie talk about the ordeal they just went through with the lights off in Salem at the pub. He tells her the people there should be going home soon. Stephanie says Chelsea called and said the lights were back on at the University so they are open again. Steve and Kayla walk up ... More About: Reviews , Movie Reviews , Days Of Our Lives , Update , Soaps
Book Review: Now You See Her by Ceceila Tishy
2008-07-08 22:00:00 Regina Cutter had it all and then it was gone. Her wealthy husband dumped her in favor of a trophy wife and suddenly her years of effort, sacrifice and support for his career and their marriage didn?t matter. Gone were the club memberships, the private plane, and all the other perks and trappings of wealth ... More About: Entertainment , Reviews , Book Review , Book Reviews , Review
DVD Review: Steel Trap
2008-07-08 18:03:00 I am a big fan of horror movies so when this one came in I wanted to watch it and see what I thought of it. This movie was directed by Luis Camara and the DVD is 93 minutes long. The scene starts out at a New Year?s Party just at the stroke of midnight and ... More About: Reviews , Movie Reviews , Review , Trap , Steel
Italy Releases Terrorist of Achille Lauro Hijacking
2008-07-08 12:36:00 Yes, it’s been twenty years, so Ibrahim Fatayer Abdelatif, now 43, has been released from an Italian jail. A cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was hijacked by four armed thugs, and to prove they were mean and meant their threats, they killed a defenseless elderly man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, dumping his body over the ... More About: Italy , Terrorist
Deliver Us From Stuff
2008-07-08 12:30:00 A recent article from the AP Hi-Tech stated that, “A Lehman Brothers analyst downgraded the entertainment industry Monday and slashed forecasts for its five major companies, saying digital downloads of movies and TV shows posed a huge threat to profits from DVD sales that the companies rely on. The stocks of The Walt Disney Co., News ... More About: Stuff
Obama?s ?Religious Initiative? Proposal: Opportunity or Trojan Horse for Se
2008-07-08 10:40:00 Peter Steinfels of the NYTimes has read and analyzed Senator Obama ’s speech proposing to increase funding of church charities as is done by President Bush’s “faith based initiatives”. The original report was hopeful (NYTIMES LINK). The first part sounded hopeful: In embracing the same general approach as Mr. Bush, Mr. Obama ran the political risk of alienating ... More About: Proposal , Trojan , Opportunity , Initiative
Inflation Targeting: The Diverse Approach From China-India to US-Japan
2008-07-08 08:21:00 One set happens to be the sufferers, the other set happens to be the drivers of this global monster. 1st of all, market needs to take all the official reports of inflation with a pinch of salt. High reported inflation doesn?t necessarily mean real higher inflation in comparison to officially reported lower inflation figure coming from ... More About: India , Japan , China , Inflation , Diverse
An Interview with John Manhold About His New Book El Tigre
2008-07-08 02:56:00 El Tigre is John Manhold’s first immersion into the world of novels, but it his not his first book, he has something like 6 textbooks and a lexicon in four languages under his belt. I really enjoyed El Tigre. I don’t usually get very excited about Historical Fiction, or the ‘Wild West’, El Tigre has ... More About: Book Reviews , Interview , Book
CD Review: 2*Sweet, Sleep Without Dreams
2008-07-08 01:46:00 I’ll just come out and say it: the best thing about this album is the fold-out cover art that spans four pages of liner notes. Before I sound like a cruel reviewer, that’s not meant as a hit to the music, but as a huge nod to artist Josh Shears. Featuring an expansive world of ... More About: Dreams , Reviews , Review , Sweet , Sleep
The Geneva Bible
2008-07-08 01:37:00 A great pleasure! I have just received my copy of the recently reprinted Geneva Bible , the translation that the Pilgrim Fathers mainly used. The Geneva Bible was the popular version in the English-speaking world until the “official” King James Bible gradually supplanted it. I bought my copy via World Net Daily and it cost ...
CD Review: Death Defying Acts Original Motion Picture Score, by Cezary Skub
2008-07-08 01:22:00 The first thing you’ll think after listening to the almost eight minute long opening track of the score for Death Defying Acts is, “Why haven’t I heard of Cezary Skubiszewski before?”… unless of course you’ve heard of him before, in which case you’ll be asking yourself, “Why haven’t more people heard of Cezary Skubiszewski yet?” ... More About: Reviews , Review , Original , Picture
Nine-Eleven: The Popular Spirit and the Big Spook
2008-07-08 01:03:00 In my posting of 6/21, ?Woody, Powerful Waters and the Popular Spirit ,? I finished with a paragraph lamenting the effects of polarization on the Popular Spirit that I suggested was a by-product of our post World War Two Security State. I open this writing with a revised excerpt from what I wrote, in order to ...
The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for July 7, 2008
2008-07-07 23:16:00 Sabrina goes in at Restless Style and Nick shows her to hair and makeup. Jana comes in with a dress for Sabrina and Nick points to hair and makeup. Victor walks in to talk to Nick about Nikki and David?s marriage. He asks Nick if he knows anything about it. Nick tells Victor he needs ... More About: Reviews , Movie Reviews , Young , Update , Soaps
As The World Turns : Soap Update for July 7, 2008
2008-07-07 23:15:00 Luke finds Noah in Chicago walking with his Army instruction officer. He tells Noah they need to talk. Noah tells him it won?t change his mind. He tells Luke this is what he wants to do. Noah tells him where to meet him at the hotel where he is staying in 10 minutes. Luke sneaks ... More About: Reviews , World , Movie Reviews , Update , Soaps
Days of Our Lives : Soap Update for July 7, 2008
2008-07-07 23:15:00 Max calls the number using Trent?s phone and he hears a little girl?s voice on the other end saying Dad. She says it is so early for him to call. Max wants to know who this is. The girl asks him who he is. Max asks the girl who she is. She tells him he ... More About: Reviews , Movie Reviews , Days Of Our Lives , Update , Soaps
Interview with Chante Moore on her new CD ?Love The Woman? from Peak Record
2008-07-07 21:22:00 When you think of Chante Moor what come to mind romance and classic Rhythm and Blues. Well Ms. Moor plans to give you that and more with her first solo CD in eight years ?Love the Woman ? is Chante Moor?s personal life observation. In a brief phone interview I had the pleasure to ask Mrs. Moor ... More About: Interview , Record , Moore
Spitzer Call-Girl Drops Lawsuit Against Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild
2008-07-07 19:02:00 Ashley Dupre from the Spitzer scandal, voluntarily dropped her $10 million dollar Federal lawsuit against, Girl s Gone Wild creator, Joe Francis . Dupre said that the Girls Gone Wild producers approached her to appear in videos while she was a vacationing 17-year-old at spring break in 2003 Miami Beach. She says that they gave her alcoholic beverages and ... More About: Lawsuit
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban Welcome New Baby Girl!
2008-07-07 18:28:00 Proud Parents, actress Nicole Kidman , 41 and singer Keith Urban , 40 announce the birth of their baby, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, born Monday morning, July 7th, 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee, weighing 6lbs and 7.5 oz. ?Husband Keith was by Nicole?s side and mother and baby are well, said spokesman Paul Freundich when talking to People Magazine. The ... More About: Baby , Entertainment , Celebrity News
Book Review: The Front by Patricia Cornwell
2008-07-07 17:19:00 The murder happened in 1962. On April fourth of that year in Watertown, Massachusetts, Janie Brolin was killed. Janie was blind and spending a year in the United States away from her home in Great Britain. It was never solved and District Attorney Monique Lamont has decided Massachusetts State Police Investigator Win Gerano is going ... More About: Entertainment , Reviews , Breaking News , Book Review , Book Reviews
Father Accused of Killing Own Daughter
2008-07-07 16:57:00 I would think the idea of an arranged marriage would be a thing of the past, especially in the United States of America. Apparently it isn?t in Clayton County Georgia, for the family of a man from Pakistan. Getting past the thought of being in a fixed marriage what is one to do if they ... More About: Father , Daughter , Killing
Why Leftie Obama Is Right Handed When He Eats
2008-07-07 16:23:00 When The Stiletto was but a little penknife, a family member who was a young child during WWII recounted how easily the locals could pick out American spies: When an Americans eats, (s)he holds the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right hands while cutting food, then puts the knife down and switches the fork to the right ... More About: Obama , Handed
Book Review: Phantom Prey by John Sandford
2008-07-07 16:13:00 Lucas Davenport of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension isn’t slowing down at all. Despite being wounded frequently and despite the fact that he long ago should have been sitting behind a desk when he isn’t home with his family, Lucas pushes cases hard. That fact is what makes him so good at what he does ... More About: Entertainment , Reviews , Book Review , Phantom , Book Reviews
Music Review: Holy by Love as Laughter
2008-07-07 12:37:00 While they have been together for over a decade Love as Laughter ?s new record Holy is their first on Isaac Brock?s Epic imprint Glacial Pace. While the group hails from Brooklyn, New York, Holy sounds like it could have come out of the Pacific North West during the early 1990s. This is not a surprise considering that Love As Laughter ... More About: Music , Review , Indie Rock
Nelson Mandela Removed From US Terrorist List:Will Bin Laden be Next?
2008-07-07 12:02:00 BBC July 2, 2008 ” Nelson Mandela taken off US Terror List ” It may not come as a shock for many readers that Nelson Mandela has been cleared from all allegations about his terrorism. The reason is easy to udnerstand. The media has portrayed him as a hero. It was George Bush who signed the paper ... More About: Terrorist , Bin Laden
Zimbabwe: ?Generals? Wage War On Unarmed Civilians?
2008-07-07 11:10:00 Mugabe is no longer in charge of Zimbabwe , he?s a puppet. When it became evident that he?d lost the March elections, he wanted to concede defeat (See ?Mugabe Admits Defeat?, April 03.) He was ready to slither into the undergrowth to enjoy retirement on the vast riches he?d stolen from the people he claims to ... More About: Breaking News , The United Nations , World Politics , Generals
Ego, Ideology and Payday Loans
More articles from this author:2008-07-07 02:14:00 There are three categories of payday loan opponents. The first category, which I refer to as “Mercenaries”, are entities that fight to put payday lenders (PDLs) out of business because these entities provide competitive products. Anyone can understand why the Alleged Center for Responsible Lending manipulates the truth in order to put a competitor out of ... More About: Loans , Ideology , Payday 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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