Tag: written by novy
Vampire Saga As Metaphor For Abstinence
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Posted to Media on Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 12:42:06 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
You haven't seen "Twilight: New Moon" yet? It sold $140.7 million in tickets in America, and $258.8 million worldwide, from its opening Friday through Sunday. Some reviewers insist that "resistance is futile", that this latest teen phenomenon will eventually sweep you up, for good or ill, no matter how strongly you resist.
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Breaking News: Opposition Wins In Japan
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Posted to Politics on Sun Aug 30, 2009 at 09:16:55 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Japan's Liberal Democrats ("LDP") didn't just lose power to their main opposition Democratic Party rivals in elections on 30 August, they got massacred. Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan ("DPJ"), made up largely of former Socialists and ruling party castoffs, won 302 out of 480 seats in Parliament, rising from only 112 seats previously, while LDPers only won 115 seats. If Hatoyama can cut deals to get support from minor parties holding at least 18 more seats, he would hold 2/3rds of seats in Parliament, enabling his party to do just about anything it wishes.
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Bad Week For Terrorists
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Posted to Etcetera on Mon Aug 10, 2009 at 01:39:37 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
First it was that C.I.A. drone attack that may have killed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, or not.
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Breaking News: Bill Clinton Meets Kim Jong-Il, U.S. Journalists Walk
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Posted to Media on Tue Aug 04, 2009 at 04:51:05 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
When Laura Ling and Euna Lee were taken into North Korean custody 4-1/2 months ago, DPRK officials claimed California-based Current TV, co-founded by Al Gore, was trying to smear their regime. They were convicted of illegal entry and unspecified "hostile acts" and sentenced to 12 years of hard labour. Ever since, North Korea has been privately demanding that someone with horsepower come to visit to ask for Ling's and Lee's release. Eventually, Bill Clinton was persuaded to visit Pyongyang, privately rather representing Obama's Adminstration, to plead for their release. North Korea treated Clinton better than anyone expected. He was met with flowers, whisked off to meet Kim Jong-Il, had his picture taken with Kim, and was then given what he came for.
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R.I.P., John Alva Keel
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Posted to Etcetera on Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 03:14:29 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
John Alva Keel, born as Alva John Kiehle in 1930, died on 3 July at age 79. Professional journalist and pseudoscientist extraordinaire, Keel will be best remembered for his 1975 movie-inspiring book, "The Mothman Prophesies", about his 1966-67 investigation of "the Infamous Feathery Garuda" in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
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Breaking News: Goodbye Governor Palin, Hello Candidate Palin?
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Posted to Politics on Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 05:08:32 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin intends to step down as Governor by month's end, and she has no intention to run for reelection as Alaska Governor in 2010. She made her announcement at home in Wasilla. Her decision seems to indicate that she will be running for President in 2012.
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What Does "World Takeover" Really Mean?
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Posted to SciTech on Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 08:15:01 AM EST (promoted by wetkarma). RSS.
From our own perspective, human beings have taken over this planet. From much smaller perspectives, though, human behaviour mostly matters because it serves to enable Argentine ants to spread across six continents, forming supercolonies so genetically similar to one another that ants from 1,000 miles apart would recognise one another as belonging to one single colony and refuse to fight with one another.
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You Just Can't Trust Biologists
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Posted to SciTech on Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 12:14:50 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
What with anthropogenic global warming and evolution of species, tens of millions of people now think they understand science much better than scientists do. Sometimes they figure things that way because they trust their interpretation of God's infallible word, as translated into English, more than opinions of any number of scientists, but often enough they figure scientists just lie to them for political or religious reasons, or don't understand science quite as well as they do.
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God Says Bring Your Guns To Church
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Posted to Religion on Sat Jun 27, 2009 at 09:40:55 PM EST (promoted by wetkarma). RSS.
Ken Pagano, pastor of Louisville, Kentucky's New Bethel Church, which belongs to Assembly of God, has invited members of his 150-member church to wear or carry their firearms to church as part of his "open carry celebration".
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Memorable Scam
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Posted to Media on Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 08:54:50 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
For two months, Becca's story about being pregnant with "a child diagnosed as terminally ill in the womb" fascinated pro-lifers. They prayed that God would save her pregnancy, they e-mailed photos of their children, they promoted her blog (which contained Bible quotes, anti-abortion messages, and inspirational Christian pop songs), and bought t-shirts. Problem was that she wasn't actually pregnant.
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Uighur, Please!
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Posted to Etcetera on Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 02:18:50 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
How can you possibly make it up to someone that you have wrongfully imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay's torture camp for seven years? Barack Obama seems to have come up with something acceptable to four Chinese Uighurs originally sold into captivity by Pakistani bounty hunters. They have been given jobs and possible citizenship in Bermuda and they sound like they think they have died and gone to heaven. No hard feelings, America.
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Boldly Going Backward With Star Trek
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Posted to Media on Sun May 17, 2009 at 04:54:11 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
SPOILER ALERT! Everything about this review will tend to ruin your enjoyment of this movie, from links to reviews and beyond. Stop reading now, for God's sake!
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