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That's the question many conservatives are asking in the wake of the surprise (to us) resignation of CIA Director Porter Goss, and President Bush's decision to nominate Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to succeed him, despite opposition from some prominent Republicans in Congress.
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Magician David Blaine was pulled from an aquarium by divers Monday nearly two minutes short of his goal of setting a world record for holding his breath underwater.
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Sony E3 Presser, in case anyone's interested in reading a liveblog. (Doesn't auto-reload tho, so get that F5 key handy.) Square-enix already made their expected announcement of Final Fantasy XIII.. Yay E3.. Ah, I mean Wii.
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The following is a transcript of an exclusive NBC News interview with Vice President Dick Cheney at the Excelsior Hotel in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on May 7, 2006.
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The Washington Post ’ s Richard Cohen wrote a column saying (incorrectly, I believe) Stephen Colbert wasn ’ t funny in his lampooning of the president at the ridiculous White House Correspondents Dinner. Cohen got inundated with emails, a significant number of which apparently came from utter jerks.
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I just really needed to talk to someone about the insanity that was the 7th heaven series finale, and i know you do nt care, but this way you can at least just skim it... Rose and Simon did not get married, and Rose is going to marry Umberto, and it turns out that Simon is the father of Sandy's baby! And Matt's wife, Mary, and Lucy are all pregnant with twins! And Ruthie finally has a boyfriend - cuz that's been a huge boring plotline all along... Anyway, whew... now you can be happy cuz I wo nt ever watch it again.ps - you 're doing a badder job that i am at this livejournal thing, i guess i'm more bored
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!! I'm sorry... too funny... BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!! Read all about it here. Sigh. These religious type people can be a source of great amusement sometimes. For the record, I haven't read Dan Brown's book nor do I plan to watch the movie, as I felt the subject matter wasn't that interesting in the first place. Heck, most people reading it today are probably reading it mainly because everyone else is reading it. Sheep. Still, calling The Da Vinci Code the work of the devil? Man o'man... I don't know if I should laugh or... nah, the only appropriate/suitable response is to just laugh.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair, moving to quell a rising revolt within his Labor Party, said Monday that he would not publicly set a timetable for stepping down because doing so would "paralyze" the government and "therefore damage the country."
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Considering that just about every aspect of music distribution is expected to move online, this strikes me as quite shortsighted. Apple Corps agrees; the company (owned by the two surviving Beatles as well as Yoko Ono and Harrison's estate) intends to appeal yesterday's decision, despite the olive branch proffered by Steve Jobs after the decision. He said Apple Computer "loves the Beatles" and that "hopefully [they] can work together to get them on the itunes Music Store."
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Gingrey's rationale is that his bill would simply extend to handguns the law that currently applies to shotguns and rifles. Yet the reason why federal law treats handguns differently is compelling. Small, easily hidden, and singularly deadly, handguns represent roughly one third of the firearms in circulation, yet they are associated with the vast majority of gun violence and gun crime. In 2004, handguns accounted for 78 percent of firearm homicides. Handguns are also by far the most prevalent weapon used to kill law enforcement officers. Sixty-nine percent of law enforcement officers slain in the line of duty from 1992 through 2002 were killed with handguns.
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Nicole Kidman is currently dating music star Keith Urban whom she is rumoured to be getting married to sometime soon. Tom Cruise recently celebrated the birth of his baby daughter Suri by fiancee Katie Holmes.
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ATTYTOOD - A lot of people are running away from Fox News these days. The LA Times is reporting that ratings for cable's Bush-friendly Fox News Channel were down 17 percent last month... Yet while others drift away from Fox, one woman is fighting the tide and seeking them out... Hillary Clinton is taking Fox's money and running: Rupert Murdoch has agreed to host a political fundraiser for Hillary Clinton this summer...
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Detroit Free Press - Who will win “ American Idol ”? A Free Press Web poll drew 3,282 votes and these results, as of 5 p.m. Monday: Taylor Hicks, second from the left, 42.9%; Chris Daughtry, right, 33.1%; Katharine Mcphee, second from the right, 15.9% and Elliot Yamin, 8.1
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AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to President Bush is available here (pdf). Mahmoud is a little bit long-winded, so I've taken the liberty of reducing his diatribe to some pithy talking points, below. Funny how so much of this stuff sounds really familiar...
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Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia won seats on the new U.N. Human Rights Council. I suppose they will want to look into exagurated torture claims against us, or maybe outsourcing torture, or maybe they will complain that we have court marshaled only 103 of our own troops for alleged violations.
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“ Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers calls the band ’ s first new album in four years, Stadium Arcadium, the most-anticipated album of the spring, “ the best thing that we ’ ve ever done …. There ’ s this weird kind of sublime, subliminal undercurrent that is suggestive, in a spirited way, of our earliest records. ” Exuding all the passion, energy and funked-up rock that have made the Red Hot Chili Peppers one of the most popular bands in history, the 2-CD Stadium Arcadium, simply put, will knock your socks off. ”
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Variety.com broke the news that World of Warcraft will be coming to the big screen. Warner Brothers offshoot Legendary Pictures has picked up the film rights to adapt the popular fantasy video game franchise and will develop the project with game publisher Blizzard Entertainment, which is owned by Vivendi. While the Warcraft franchise has been around for more than a decade, the most recent iteration, the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft has transformed the video game industry. Unlike most games, where players pay $50 once and play until they 're done, more than 6 million people around the world pay $14.99 per month to participate in the multiplayer game.
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It turns out the Minutemen, whom Prez Bush blasted as "vigilantes," are being ratted out by his regime to the Mexican government: "While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are."
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Today's blog post is firstly dedicated to the three men from Beaconsfield, Tasmania, two of which we today joyously celebrate their "Great Escape" and the other we mourn. It was once said to "Rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn" and in this country of ours where mateship is the backbone let us rejoice with Todd Russell and Brant Webb and mourn with the family of Larry Knight.
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Karin Muskopf, the product manager for MSN and Windows Live Messenger, gave me a brief overview of the new features earlier today. Live Messenger has a cleaner interface than MSN Messenger 7.5, the current non-beta release. Other improvements include integration with MSN video in the bottom of the window, and expansion of the VOIP pre-paid calling feature called Windows Live Call (powered by Verizon) into eight new markets (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands). You can also make some changes to the Live Messenger template, such as color customization. In addition, they are rolling out offline messaging so, like Yahoo and Skype IM, you can send a message to someone offline and they will receive it when they log in.
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Birth because this is Huffpost's one year anniversary. And what an amazing 12 months it's been, thanks to all of you in the Huffpost community: our staff, our bloggers, our readers and, of course, to George Bush, Dick Cheney, Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Scott Mcclellan, Judy Miller, Bob Woodward, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Mike Brown, Tim Russert, Patrick Fitzgerald, Porter Goss, and all the rest who have made this such a fun and fascinating year to blog about.
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The US dollar was down again on Tuesday in an unexpected sell-off that analysts said had no obvious reason behind it. It was expected that there would be few fireworks the day before the Federal Reserve is set to make a decision on interest rates and ahead of a report from the US Treasury that could call China a “ currency manipulator ”. Several theories emerged to explain the sell-off, including a plan by the G7 to let the dollar weaken to ease imbalances and a delayed reaction to a report that Iran is considering setting up a market to trade oil in euros.
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So we definitely know what it's like to be afraid of terrorist attacks coming at any time without warning - just like the residents of major international cities like London, Paris, Madrid and Tokyo. But that's not the fear that puzzles the rest of the world. Rather, they can't understand, for all our talk about "family values," the outright panic that strikes a middle class American family if, say, the head of the household loses his or her job.
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The Air Force describes Gen. Michael Hayden as "the highest-ranking military intelligence officer in the armed forces... responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the national intelligence program." That means that the US military's illegal and unconstitutional spying on American citizens happened on his watch.
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My subject is completely and irreversibly random. I have nothing interesting going on in my life. No one has intervened to make me jolly and stuff. I'm not not jolly. I'm quite content. I'm actually listening to Weird Al Yankovitch's song Albequerque from Running With Scissors. It's rather a funny song. It's so backwards. I love it though. Adam went swimming with his brother and sister and cousin, so I'm here doing nothing because my own family went out to the hardware store. I am truly lonely right now. Anyway. I think I'm going to go watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It might be a bit funny. And I could use a joke. I don't know what to do for my homework. Maybe I'll get something to mind.
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The British High court has rejected Apple Corps claims that Apple Computers has infringed their trademark. The music publishing company owned by Paul Mccartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono - John Lennon's widow, and the estate of George Harrison, shares a similar looking logo to that used by Apple Computers.
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Americans have a bleaker view of the country's direction than at any time in more than two decades, and sharp disapproval of President Bush's handling of gasoline prices has combined with intensified unhappiness about Iraq to create a grim political environment for the White House and Congressional Republicans, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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If you are a bird that does not fly, having two legs is pretty important. So when a wild kiwi lost one of his legs below the knee to a gin trap, a New Zealand zoo decided to help out this iconic native bird. The zoo decided to see if it could fit a prosthetic leg to the North Island brown kiwi. For help, the zoo turned to its neighbours - the Wellington Artificial Limb Board and the Weta Workshop, makers of special effects for movies such as Lord of the Rings and King Kong. To create a mould of the bird's stump, Gina Acevedo, prosthetic and visual creature effects art director at Weta Workshop, used the same techniques on the kiwi as he would on a film star. [More]
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This comes on the heels of MSNBC reporter David Shuster saying he was “ convinced that Karl Rove will, in fact, be indicted. ” He listed three reasons for his supposition:
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According to the news, Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie has slammed criticism she stole Brad Pitt away from Jennifer Aniston. Since the last year break-up, of the biggest celebrity couple - Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston - Angelina Jolie and the Hollywood actor had been in the media attention, and with criticism both were slammed from one side to another, Angelina Jolie was the homewrecker and Brad Pitt was the unfaithful husband.
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Zacarias Moussaoui tried to withdraw his guilty plea, saying that he lied and wanted a fair trial. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who last week told him he was going to prison and thus was through occupying the media stage, cited a federal rule barring a plea change after sentencing in tossing his complaint.
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The U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary is a wonderful storyteller. Gather around while Alphonso Jackson tells you (and the Real Estate Executive Council) the heartwarming tale of a man with rent-seeking dreams who, after a decade of red-tape, is now able to eat at the government trough:
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To support high-resolution images, the computer uses an Intel Core Duo processor and Centrino mobile platform, running Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition. To handle data storage demands, it includes two 100G byte hard drives and 1024M bytes of DDR2 (double data rate) memory.
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At the end of the show Sony announced the new PS3 controller. It looks exactly like the PS2 controller with the exception of being wireless. But the biggest bombshell, in my opinion, is the fact that it has a built-in “ motion sensor ”. Wait a minute … wasn ’ t that supposed to be what the Nintendo Wii was all about … oh boy! I smell blood!!
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For Knight Rider fans out there, here ’ s some good news. Knight Rider is going to be resurrected in big screen format. A Knight Rider movie is in the works and production will start next year. Of course, Michael Knight will be played by someone else and not the original actor David Hasselhoff, but William Daniels, the original voice actor for KITT could make a comeback. Though I wonder if they will still use the old Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. There has been several updates to the Firebird, and here ’ s one of the newer models shown above.
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Josh Beckett walked off the mound at Yankee Stadium a winner once again, thanks to another poor start by Randy Johnson and New York's bumbling defense. Beckett allowed a two-run homer to Jason Giambi in the first inning and little else Tuesday night in a 14-3 rout by the Boston Red Sox.
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Daniel Berninger argues on Gigaom that in spite of Whitacre ’ s bitching, the bells need net neutrality as much as the content providers and users do. This is an Olympic-caliber oversight, even for the bureaucratic dunderheads at the FCC:
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The condemnation of the Islamic Republic of Iran by international organizations like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), as well as sporadic condemnations by western parliaments, governments and politicians6 do not, in the absence of systematic diplomatic pressure based on a strict control of a Special United Nations Rapporteur for Iran, have any effect on the worsening situation. Over the period of 1-june 2005 - 31 January 2006 Amnesty International alone has issued more than 53 statements regarding the human rights violations in Iran. This signifies about one statement every four days! All in vain!
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SCEA boss Kaz Hirai, worldwide studios head Phil Harrison and SCE president Ken Kutaragi took the stand to reveal new information - and to dispel some speculation, such as the idea that the system might ship without a hard drive, a notion which was quickly laid to rest.
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Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand) is having a book published later this year.'Sound Bites'is a compilation of the food columns he's been writing for The Guardian newspaper.
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Among the 33 who signed the document were Richard Clarke, a close partner of Mary O. Mccarthy in the Clinton Administration's NSA; Melvin Goodman, CIP's senior fellow; Ray Mcgovern, a close working ally of Goodman who has written for publications associated with conspiracy theorist and former Marxist Lyndon Larouche; and Larry Johnson, a long-time friend and defender of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson. (Careful media observers will also note that Mcgovern and Johnson were the mainstream media's "go to" experts on the CIA in the wake of the Mary Mccarthy firing.)
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Posted by: Molly Wood Microsoft wasn't supposed to have much to say today. So, it went ahead and pulled out the big guns at its E3 press conference. First, the newly tattooed (and surprisingly muscled) arm of entertainment boss Peter Moore -- emblazoned with the shocking words, "Grand Theft Auto IV," which will now be available on Xbox 360, with exclusive online content for Xbox Live. Ouch, Sony. Upon his big reveal, Moore took a verbal swipe, too: "Some guys do rubber ducks. We do tattoos," and it looked like it hurt.
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Don't call her Miss Spelling anymore. People magazine reports Tori Spelling and Dean Mcdermott got married on a private tropical island in Fiji Sunday. The non-denominational ceremony was attended only by the bride and groom, who were both barefoot and wearing white.
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There are multiple reasons why this interests me. First of all, I lived in Costa Rica for much of the 1980s and new president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias was also Costa Rica ’ s president for much of the time when I was there. Now he ’ s back again after a near 20-year gap (for concise background on why, see this BBC analysis).
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Here, she plays secret agent Ethan Hunt, who enters a two-hour-plus cat-fight with the villain played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Philip is trying to sell some sort of weapon or technology to some bad guy. Bitch tries to protect his own identity and that of his'girlfriend'(to be read with three snaps and a good back and forth head-tilt). The girlfriend is played by Michelle Monaghan (who played a homophobe in North Country, remember?). Philip is excellent as a villain, as expected. Both bitch and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (he's also a secret agent) appear shirtless a few times, but don't expect much.
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"The fight over the" 12th Man "is over. Texas A&M and the Seattle Seahawks are still in the game. The sides said Monday they had reached a deal settling the school's lawsuit. As part of the agreement, the Seahawks acknowledge Texas A&M's federal trademark rights to the phrase. However, the NFL team may continue using it under license. Neither side admitted any fault or liability. The Aggies trace"
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Britain and France have submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council underscoring a previous UN demand that Iran end uranium enrichment activities; provide adequate responses to unanswered questions on its nuclear program; and halt work on a heavy-water facility at Arak.
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You probably remember how Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, in response to Phoenix guard Raja Bell having thrown him to the floor during their playoff game last Tuesday night, quipped that Bell probably wasn ’ t hugged enough as a child.
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Anyway, there were, in fact, two playoff games with teams still alive going on last night, with the Suns continuing their assault on the corridors of Los Angeles by beating the Clippers, and, perhaps more surprising, the Nets pounding the Heat in Miami. We actually have a suspicion last night was an aberration — Jason Kidd won ’ t shoot like that again, and Richard Jefferson might be hurt — but we will say that if Vince Carter were Kobe Bryant, there ’ s a different tenor to the conversation today.
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Times-leader - “ American Idol ” ’ s final five, from left: Chris Daughtry, Paris Bennett, Taylor Hicks, Elliott Yamin and Katherine Mcphee. It was a night of numbers on American Idol Tuesday: Five candidates remaining; two songs to perform, one being from the year of
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Meanwhile, Christopher Hitchens does well by highlighting the plight of Ayaan Hirsi Ali a Dutch Parliamentarian. The main problem with Europe and the liberal intellectual establishment that governs most of the region is their insistance on protecting group rights over individuals rights, some notable excerpts;
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What Mr. Cohen mostly did, unintentionally, was demonstrate that the Left is humorless. Of course, that makes the reaction to his essay even more amusing, because his fellow travelers just drove the point home.
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The decision reflects an assiduous courtship by Mrs Clinton and former President Bill Clinton. Last month Mrs Clinton surprised Washington by attending the “ Fox News Sunday ” 10th anniversary party, where she chatted with Mr Murdoch.
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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown is turning the screw on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to hand over power, saying he does not want a repeat of Margaret Thatcher's ejection from office at the hands of her Cabinet.
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Straight from the mouth of God... er, People magazine... comes confirmation that Britney Spears is, indeed, knocked up with her second child: Britney Spears and husband Kevin Federline are expecting their second child together, Spears told David Letterman during a surprise visit to his show on Tuesday afternoon. Spears's announcement, first reported by Access Hollywood, can be seen on
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The challenge had taken a toll on the magician ’ s body, including liver damage, pins and needles in his feet and hands, some loss of sensation and rashes all over his body, said Dr. Murat Gunel, who heads Blaine ’ s medical team and is associate professor of neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine.
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The biggest crowd pleaser of all the pre-e3 press conferences so far has been Nintendo showing off their Wii tennis game in a pairs match: Nintendo's Reggie Fils-aime and Satoru Iwata on one side, Shigeru Miyamoto and Wii First Test winner and current object of our boiling jealousy Scott Dyer on the other. Who do you think has got better form: Iwata-san or Shiggy? (Even if you give it to Shiggy, you've to admit no one makes being a corporate suit look like more fun than Iwata-san.)
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The people spinned sofar against this reasoning are Steve Clemons of the Washington Note and Dana Priest at the Washington Post. We will see more tomorrow.
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* Melky Cabrera is said to be on his way to New York and Gary Sheffield almost certainly will go on the disabled list today. It's probably the best thing. Wrist injuries are always tricky. Cabrera has hit well at Columbus.
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Starbuck: First mate in Moby Dick, or who my current employer is named after. Okay so I find if VERY creepy that my manager Greg and I are reading BOTH "The Davinci Code" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde at the same time. Who does that? Also, when I came into work today Jeff looked like he was going to explode if he didn't tell me something. What was it you asked? "Sooo yesterday I had the urge to call you something..." Then he literally blurts out, "CINDI LOU HOO! Is that okay? Because I'm going to call you that." Splenda... I mean splendid. * Please note I do not receive cash for mentioning products in my entries. * Drink Diet Coke or you will die.
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I could care less about who ’ s playing Kal ’ El. Though he looks really good. My real excitement is over seeing Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor. Holy SHIT!! I could never have imagined a better Luthor in this day and age. Just the glimpse we get in this trailer almost brought me to tears. I ’ m so happy!!
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Also in the lineup Tuesday was the HP Compaq 4400 Series, which converts from a notebook to a tablet PC and will be available in early June for US $1,649. The series is based on Core Duo chips. HP also unveiled two systems with 15.4 - inch wide-screen displays. The nx7400 is based on Core Duo processors and starts at US $749. The 8400 series, a desktop replacement with ATI Technologies Inc. graphics and an antiglare screen, starts at $1,599. Both are set to ship in mid-may.
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A long term threat to the rule of law in Northern Ireland is Sinn Fein ’ s insistence on glorifying the values associated with their terror campaign and imbuing a large section of Northern Ireland ‘ s school children and university students with their own perverse interpretation of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Unionism must begin to challenge this narrative. For too long the Republican Movement has been given a free ride to rewrite history in Northern Ireland.
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It ’ s an odd patriotic book, most notably in that it never mentions which country it ’ s being patriotic about. The content of the book leaves no doubt which country is being discussed - it ’ s just a short storybook featuring Peanuts characters listing the people they think made “ this country ” great. For example, Linus invokes “ George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Polk … … and Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Simon and Garfunkel, Abe Lincoln, George Washington Carver, and … ” (The invocation of Simon and Garfunkel is particularly early; this was a 1972 book, and while the duet had already broken up, I don ’ t think they were ready to be writ into the history books just yet.)
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For those of you who did not follow the story, here is a brief background. Denise Richards and Heather Locklear are good friends. Heather is in the midst of a divorce with Richie and so is Denise with Charlie Sheen (an ugly divorce though). The next thing you know Denise is cozy with Richie. Naturally, this has created very uncomfortable situation for everyone except Denise and Richie, though not a big deal in Hollywood where anything is possible.
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New York, New York, May 9, 2006 – Online film journal Reverse Shot announced today its first foray into theatrical distribution with the acquisition of Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert ’ s critically acclaimed documentary A Lion in the House. The film saw its world premiere in the Documentary Competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and has since gone on to share the Best Documentary Prize at the Nashville Film Festival and earn Special Jury Prizes at both the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the Cleveland International Film Festival and win the Audience Award at Hot Docs. It will see television broadcast on PBS ’ Independent Lens in late June.
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So E3 started today with Sony's press conference. The "cheap" version of the Playstation 3 is 500 bucks. The full versions is 600. So yeah, go ahead and take out a loan if you want to play Final Fantasy 13 or Metal Gear 4. The other big announcment is that the PS3 controller will have various motion sensing capabilities. Hmm, that seems so familiar somehow...... I'm sure it's just a coincedence, though. If nothing else, I can't wait to see what Reggie * has to say about this at Nintendo's press conference tomorrow. * Reggie is Nintendo of America's press guy. He's notorious for being "about kicking ass and taking names." He's like the Mr. T/Brock Samson of video game PR guys... i.e. fucking crazy and a bad enough dude to rescue the president from ninjas.
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Yusaku Iriki, never a great option, will be out until June with a steroid suspension. With just two Double A starts under his belt, promoting Mike Pelfrey right now could be a tad risky for one of the best pitching prospects in baseball. Jeremi Gonzalez is a fine fifth starter for the rest of May, and I'm not sure he'll do much worse than Pelfrey would. With Billy Wagner's finger in doubt, the bullpen can not afford to lose Aaron Heilman.
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4. So far, "Hey, Nostradamus!" is a great book. I love Coupland. One of my top-five favorite authors. (Incidentally, the rest of the list, in no particular order: C. S. Lewis, Stephen King, Charles Dickens, and Ray Bradbury.)
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Where the Mets have cause for concern is the back end of their rotation. Their # 4 and # 5 starters who began the year, Victor Zambrano and Brian Bannister, are now on the disabled list; Zambrano, the underachieving right-hander for whom the Mets inexplicably dealt away Scott Kazmir, is gone for the season. At the moment, retreads Darren Oliver and Jose Lima round out the New York rotation; if any of the Big Three also go down -- and they 're 34, 40, and 35 respectively, with injury histories for Pedro and Trachsel -- the Mets will be scrambling.
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a hip-hop artist who is taking advantage of the “ enormous web portal ” at Jdate to promote his upcoming album. (Visit his site for samples, a theme that borrows heavily from the Six Million Dollar Man and the Terminator – and a bit from The Lion King – and a creepy graphic of the artist as his sunglasses seem to blink at you in an indication that he may be becoming Jeff Goldblum in The Fly.)
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• 2. Hang In There, KC Faithful. Royals owner David Glass has said he is planning major changes, and we hope he was talking about the front office and not the Kansas City bullpen. These guys have actually been playing well — 2.98 ERA over the past 18 games — and were instrumental in the Royals ’ 4-3 win over Cleveland on Monday. Mike Wood, Andrew Sisco and Ambiorix Burgos gave up one run over six innings of relief, and hey, John Buck had his first home run of the season.
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