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Faux News Bans Beaver Pervert from Super Bowl
2008-02-02 18:13:00
Faux News has determined that the beaver ? even in an electronically animated rendition ? is a politically incorrect animal, and banned his use in a GoDaddy commercial which was to air during tomorrow’s Super Bowl XLII football extravaganza in Glendale, Arizona.
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2008-02-02 07:00:00
Digital Journal - Kentucky Senate Passes Bill That Bans Insurance At State Schools For Same Sex Couples Michael Jackson Children Unveiled! Michael Jackson?s children, Paris, 9, and 10-year-old Prince Michael I (no, we?re not kidding, that?s the name the child has been saddled with), have at last been seen in public without the weird veils which they wore when younger. They were in Las CTV.ca | Tamiflu-resistant flu found in Canada and U.S.
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Michael Jackson’s Children Unveiled!
2008-02-01 20:51:00
Michael Jackson’s children, Paris, 9, and 10-year-old Prince Michael I (no, we’re not kidding, that’s the name the child has been saddled with), have at last been seen in public without the weird veils which they wore when younger. They were in Las Vegas at the Luxor Casino, to see a performance by ventriloquist Ronn Lucas. Only five-year-old Prince Michael II (no, we’re not making that up, either), whom we recall as the baby which Michael Jackson, 49, dangled from a balcony several years ago in Europe, was hidden, with a nanny pulling a hood over his face. (Prince Michael II also sufers from the name “blanket.”) Jackson, who suffers from vitiligo and God knows what else, was disguised in large sunglasses, a scarf and a hood. It was either bring you the fascinating Michael Jackson news or bring you the depressing news that Labor Department figures released today show that 17,000 additional American jobs have been lost in January, adding to evid...
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2008-02-01 07:00:00
Britney Spears Hospitalized Again For the second time in less than a month, a police presence has been required to hospitalize Britney Spears for psychiatric reasons. This time, the destination was the UCLA Medical Center, for another 72-hour mental health evaluation hold. While a plan ha Digital Journal - West Virginia Schools May Offer Gun Training
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Britney Spears Hospitalized Again
2008-01-31 14:46:00
For the second time in less than a month, a police presence has been required to hospitalize Britney Spears for psychiatric reasons. This time, the destination was the UCLA Medical Center, for another 72-hour mental health evaluation hold. While a plan has been in the works for days to re-hospitalize the troubled train wreck, it finally went down last night after her new psychiatrist visited Britney’s home and deemed her to be a danger to herself and others, partly because of “downhill behavior” and partly because of continued reckless driving. (Britney, who reportedly has not slept since last Saturday, recently drove down congested Sunset Blvd. at speeds reaching 100 m.p.h.) Shortly before 1:00 a.m. PST, a Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance and more than a dozen motorcycle officers drove through the gates at Britney Spears’s home, on a road called The Summit in Studio City. As a police helicopter hovered overhead, officers radioed messages that &ldquo...

Bizarre CNN Commercial for Alzheimer’s Disease
2008-01-31 03:32:00
There was a disquieting, strange commercial on CNN the other day for Aricept (donepezil), a prescription medication used to treat mild, moderate and severe Alzheimer’s disease. Aricept (temporarily) improves cognitive function, including memory and the ability to perform ADLs (activities of daily living). So, anyway, the ad features two striking brunette sisters and a jolly old fellow in homey Waltonesque surroundings. Superimposed on this sugar-coated scene is a soft, reassuring feminine voice saying: “When Dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, we started looking in on him more often.” Jeez, we would hope so! Here’s the first person ever diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease — Mrs. Auguste Deter (1850-1906) of Germany, who became symptomatic in her 40s. She was diagnosed by Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist from whom we got the name for this debilitating disease. Does she look like she needs a little more ...
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2008-01-30 07:00:00
Ted Kennedy, Toni Morrison Endorse Barack Obama Political giant and power broker Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) upstaged President Bush?s last State of the Union address tonight and endorsed Barack Obama as the Democratic Party?s nominee for President this afternoon at American University?s Ben
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Economic Stimulus or Deliberate Fiscal Suicide?
2008-01-29 18:41:00
Last week, George W. Bush finally acknowledged the long-expected downturn in the U.S. economy and announced a hastily passed economic stimulus package as the solution. In the next few months, everyone in the United States will receive a check in the mail. The total expenditure on this little endeavor is expected to top $150 billion. Americans responded to the plan with skepticism…and for good reason.
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2008-01-29 07:00:00
Caffeine ups blood sugar level in diabetics: study | Health | Reuters Kidney racket scandal shocks country | Oddly Enough | Reuters Alibaba.com Ranks in Top-Ten List of Search Engines Worldwide
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Ted Kennedy, Toni Morrison Endorse Barack Obama
2008-01-29 02:05:00
Political giant and power broker Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) upstaged President Bush’s last State of the Union address tonight and endorsed Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s nominee for President this afternoon at American University’s Bender Arena. The move is said to have dismayed Hillary Clinton, who had asked long-time friend Kennedy to ...
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Barack Obama?s South Carolina Speech
2008-01-27 23:34:00
Just for the record, we’re posting Barack Obama ’s speech made Saturday night at the Columbia Convention Center in Columbia, South Carolina, after he trounced Hillary Clinton by a margin of more than two to one and left John Edwards, a South Carolina native, in the dust in that state’s Democratic primary election. Obama knows how to work a crowd. He moves people. ‘Oh, no!’ you say. ‘A political speech! I’d rather drink poison.’ No, you wouldn’t, you silly goose. It’s a good speech. We promise. And awaaaay we go!
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Ted Kennedy to Endorse Barack Obama
2008-01-27 19:23:00
According to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) is expected to endorse Barack Obama as the Democratic Presidential candidate this afternoon. This follows on the heels of Caroline Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama in a New York Times op-ed segment today, movingly titled A President Like My Father.
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A Glorious Night for Barack Obama
2008-01-27 05:05:00
It was a glorious evening for Barack Obama : He routed Hillary Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic primary today, beating her by a margin of more than two to one, and was endorsed by Caroline Kennedy, daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy, Jr. Meanwhile, journalist Bob Woodward, commenting on CNN’s “America Votes 2008” post-election analysis, termed Obama’s win: “One of the worst nights in Hillary Clinton’s life.”
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Take a Frozen Vacation to Harbin, China Ice Bars
2008-01-25 17:52:00
Want to get away from it all? Consider a trip to Harbin City in northeastern China , just a few balmy (relatively speaking) hours’ drive south of Siberia. Every winter, the city has an ice festival. Ice bars ? where the bar, chairs, tables and glasses are carved from ice ? are popular, as is the vodka offered there. Be careful not to slip off your chair though, if it starts to melt. However, with winter temperatures of about -10 F., that’s not likely to happen. Harbin is known for long, cold winters.
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Border Fence Folly at Rafah, Gaza
2008-01-25 03:06:00
Wednesday’s breach of Israel i-built concrete and steel “border fencing” by Hamas militants in Rafah, Gaza , with tens of thousands of Palestinians now streaming into Egypt to buy food, fuel and other supplies they haven’t had access to in months, demonstrates once again the futility of walling people in or walling people out. Desperate people do desperate things, as we theoretically learned from the Berlin Wall debacle. Masked Palestinian gunmen simply blew holes into the Gaza-Egypt border fence on Wednesday, and that was that.
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Ron Paul Money Bombs Raise Over $1 Million Today
2008-01-22 03:59:00
Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul raised at least $1.25 million online today, in the latest “money bomb” to stoke his campaign’s impressive coffers. Paul’s campaign commented: “Let’s make as big a splash in the mainstream media as we can. The media would like to silence Dr. Paul, but with your help, his message will be heard.” Designed to coincide with Martin Luther King Day, today’s money bomb brings the Texas doctor’s fundraising in the first three weeks of 2008 to an impressive $2.6 million, most of it raised on the Internet. On Saturday, Paul finished second in the Nevada primary, and now heads into the Florida primary and Super Tuesday.
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Ruby Bridges, Child Civil Rights Pioneer
2008-01-21 21:23:00
In celebration of Martin Luther King Day, we thought we’d tell the story of Ruby Nell Bridges, who became a civil rights pioneer in the first grade. Ruby wasn’t entering just any first grade classroom. She was going to attend the William Frantz Public School, in 1960. In doing so, she would integrate New Orleans’ schools for the first time since the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated schools were unequal and therefore unconstitutional.
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President Bush Begs Saudi Arabia for Cheap Oil
2008-01-18 19:31:00
Mercifully for Republican Presidential candidates, President Bush traveled on his first-ever Middle East ern junket this week. He’s an albatross around any candidate’s neck; in fact, when Mitt Romney won the Republican primary in Michigan this week, he referenced former President George Herbert Walker Bush several times, but pointedly omitted any reference to Dubya. Talk about persona non grata.
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Tata Motors Unveils Nano Car for India
2008-01-15 23:28:00
The world’s most inexpensive automobile, with a list price of $2,500 (or 100,000 rupees) was launched last Friday at the 9th annual Auto Expo at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, India . Crowds mobbed the new “one-lakh” Nano car at the auto show. Ratan Tata, 70, the Cornell University-trained architect who heads the Tata Group, an industrial conglomerate including Tata Motors , heralded the Nano city car as a milestone in transportation history, comparing it to the Wright Brothers’ first flight and the first lunar landing.
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Pajamadeen?s Left Headlight Repair
2008-01-11 03:19:00
Pajamadeen will be in the shop for repair tomorrow of her left headlight and will be out of commission for two to four days as she recuperates from (having her eye poked with a stick) cataract surgery. She has to get up bright and early for the 6:30 a.m. cattle call, where any number of patients will, in assembly line fashion, be sedated (pray for good drugs) and then bzzzt! bzzzt! - about 20 minutes later, her left headlight will be stitched or glued shut again and life will return to normal. Eww…However, she’s trying to be grateful for this miracle of modern medicine, and everyone she knows who’s had this done says it doesn’t hurt and will be over quickly. (But what if they’re…lying?)
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Fun and Games with Comcast Cable Bill
2008-01-11 00:53:00
Has anyone else had this experience with Comcast Cable? Pajamadeen’s cable bill has always been due on the 10th of the month, since time immemorial. Well, okay, not quite since time immemorial but long enough that she’s known for years that the bill’s due on the 10th of each month. This month was different.
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Faux News Holds Faux Republican Debate
2008-01-07 03:19:00
In its usual twisted mockery of its “fair and balanced” mantra, Fox “News ” is holding a Republican Presidential candidate debate tonight. There’s only one little problem: Ron Paul (R-Texas), the maverick Republican candidate, wasn’t invited. The faux news debate’s slogan, “You Decide 2008,” took on additional irony in the context.
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Bolton Faults U.S. in Bhutto Assassination
2008-01-07 02:08:00
Following Benazir Bhutto?s 27 December 2007 assassination in Pakistan , much ink was devoted to the blame game. But this little gem from the always-blunt and sometimes controversial John R. Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, didn’t receive much press coverage. Bolton believes that the U.S. helped set in motion a chain of events leading to former prime minister Bhutto’s murder.
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Australia Plans to Sanitize Internet
2008-01-05 13:01:00
Stephen Conroy, telecommunications minister of Australia ’s new Labor government, wants Internet service providers (ISPs) to ensure that children, schools and homes don?t receive “inappropriate” content. Under a new plan, the government will compile a list of unsuitable websites such as those containing pornography, violence and other X-rated content, and ISPs are expected to filter the content so that questionable content isn’t available, especially to children.
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New Jersey Bans Sex Offenders from Internet Use
2008-01-05 11:49:00
New Jersey has passed a draconian new law banning convicted sex offenders who used the Internet to commit crime from using the Internet at all. The bill applies to both sex offenders who lured victims with e’mail and instant messages and to paroled offenders who are under lifetime supervision but who didn’t commit an Internet-related offense.
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Calgary?s Lower Trans Fat Restaurant Rules
2008-01-05 02:23:00
If you’re eating out in Calgary , the New Year just became a little bit healthier. Starting on New Year’s Day, Calgary became the first Canadian city to regulate the amount of trans fat in restaurant foods. Restaurant s will be banned from using cooking oils that have a two percent or higher trans fat content; margarine and other spreads must also be below the two percent level. Trans fats have been linked to cardiovascular diease, clogged arteries, high cholesterol and obesity.
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Britney Spears Train Wreck Derails, Hospitalized
2008-01-04 23:06:00
If you care, Britney Spears was hospitalized late last night after barricading herself in a closet and refusing to turn over custody of her two children to ex-husband Kevin Federline ’s body guard, who had come to pick them up at the end of Britney’s visitation with them yesterday.
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Sleep Problems May Trigger Diabetes
2008-01-04 06:17:00
Researchers at the University of Chicago have completed a sleep lab study which indicates that poor sleep quality may be a risk factor for the development of diabetes. People deprived of deep sleep were found to have a reduced insulin sensitivity. Their bodies needed more insulin to process sugar, and the effect was similar to gaining 20 to 30 pounds.
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India Tourist Sites Won?t Accept U.S. Dollar
2008-01-03 20:25:00
The Tourist m Minister of India , Ambika Soni, said today that the weakened U.S. dollar (USD) will no longer be accepted at Indian tourist sites such as the Taj Mahal. The dollar has hit a new nine-year low against the rupee. This is the second country which has stopped accepting the USD as payment, the first having been Iran late last year.
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Endangered Long-Eared Jerboa Seen in Native Habitat For First Time
2008-01-03 00:00:00
The long-eared jerboa, an endangered species native to Mongolia n and Chinese deserts, has been captured on film in its native habitat for the first time by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The nocturnal jumping mammal is mouse-sized, jumps like a kangaroo, and has enormous ears out of all proportion to its body size.   Dr. ...
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