AP - The chaos began with police finding an elderly woman dead and her car missing.
***I think the States should look into the idea of doing a psychiatric evaluation of all its citizens, including and starting with, my namesake President Bush
The following (not necessarily in order, and not necessarily mutually exclusive)interest me: GOD, Catholicism, Aquinas School, UST-Manila, De la Salle University, Dominicans, Money, Stock Market, Gold Coins, Internet, Google (sipsip), Philosophy, Education, Mathematics, Research, Languages, Music, Management, Physics/Cosmology, St. Thomas Aquinas, Silver Radicals, Dreamshadow, Blister, Psychology and myself
AP - The chaos began with police finding an elderly woman dead and her car missing.
AFP - A top US congressional Democrat has raised the possibility of George W. Bush's impeachment in a bid to force the president to accept a compromise that would place conditions on continued US military involvement in Iraq.
AFP - The head of Russia's space agency Sunday said the US has rebuffed an offer from Moscow to jointly explore the moon, while announcing a separate contract with NASA for nearly one billion dollars for the International Space Station.
Chinese Fake Brands - Hemmy.net, A source of varied interests
They are the same people proliferating the fakes around Metro Manila. The Muslims selling here are just fronts. The wholesale comes from the big pirates from the Mainland. They are descendants of Limahong right? Always a pirate.
What is wrong with the world?
For every 4 persons on earth, there is a yellow man from China.
Reuters - Yet another unique New York institution is set to disappear when the last riding stable in Manhattan closes its doors during the weekend.
AP - More than 142 years after a band of state militia volunteers massacred 150 sleeping Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in a misdirected act of vengeance, a memorial to the tragic event was officially dedicated Saturday.
KABUL, Afghanistan - At least 85 students and teachers were killed last year in attacks blamed on insurgents who oppose education for girls and teaching boys anything other than religion,Afghanistan's education minister said Sunday.
Reuters - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert responded stoically on Sunday to his reported censure in a Lebanon war inquiry report that could shape his political fate.
AP - President Bush will not support a war spending bill that punishes the Iraqi government for failing to meet benchmarks for progress, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
Today is going to be the day that I've been dreading for quite sometime now. Today is the day I walk away from this blog. Done. Finished.
There are many reasons, each would take a post to list, and I just do not have the energy to list them. As anyone who has been reading this blog for the past month, I think it is apparent that things are not the same with me. (contd.)
***I don't even believe s/he is Arab. Alright maybe. Whatever. I don't care.
Reuters - Iran's Telecommunications Ministry will start filtering "immoral" video and audio messages sent via mobile phones, state television reported on Saturday.
AP - A small group of student protesters, including one wearing a black hood and an orange jumpsuit, heckled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he posed with old classmates Saturday during their 25-year Harvard Law School reunion.
AP - Billionaire Donald Trump gave $10,000 to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to help pay off his campaign debts, a little more than a month after the governor guest-starred on Trump's TV show "The Apprentice: Los Angeles," according to a campaign filing.
Reuters - A fierce political battle over a Democratic plan to pull U.S. troops from Iraq is moving toward a critical stage as President George W. Bush prepares to veto it, but talks on a new bill have quietly begun.
There was a lot of controversy recently when Wikipedia announced that all outbound links from the online encyclopedia would include the nofollow tag. The nofollow tag on a link is said to prevent link spamming since some search engines (Google among them) do not count links containing the tag towards any weighing of the destination page. What this means is that a link from Wikipedia will no longer boost the position of a page in search results, the intention being that this will deter spammers from sneaking links onto Wikipedia.
In Febuary of 2005 the Wikipedia community voted in favor (by a vote of 61% to 39%) of removing the nofollow tags, but this outcome was overruled by Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, earlier this year. It seems that while the nofollow tag is added to the standard outbound links, it isn’t applied to inter-wiki links, including links to Wikia, Wikipedia’s for-profit spin off. (Follow the link below to read the entire article in CrunchGear)
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According to a recent nationwide online survey, 72 percent of the American public does not know that conventional plastic is made from petroleum products, primarily oil. Moreover, 40 percent of the respondents believe that plastic will biodegrade at some point.
***They don't play Capitalism II? I didn't know either, till I played that wonderful game. It's THE game for me.
MANILA, Philippines -- The House of Representatives will award its highest decoration to slain United States Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell.
LAGOS -- Nigeria is currently losing 600,000 barrels of oil per day in the oil rich Niger Delta as a result of the activities of militants in the region, oil officials said here.
AP - France has championed the Rights of Man for centuries but didn't give women the right to vote until the end of World War II — decades after Turkish and Soviet women were casting ballots. Things aren't much better today: Afghanistan, Iraq and 83 other countries have a larger ratio of women in parliament than France. That's why Segolene Royal's fight for the French presidency is so pivotal — and, she says, so tough.
Reuters - Iran's disputed nuclear programme could be severely hit by firing 1,000 cruise missiles in a 10-day attack, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying on Saturday.
The state's new method of electrocution — a single, sustained jolt instead of several shorter ones — could leave the condemned's heart beating well after the shock, backers and foes of the protocol say.
Reuters - European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana urged the United States on Friday to speak directly to Iran over its disputed nuclear program, saying he was sure Tehran was ready for such talks.
AP - Premier Wen Jiabao pledged Friday to help clean China's air and water and combat global warming by phasing out tax breaks and discounts on land and electricity for highly polluting industries.
AP - President Bush warned Congress Friday that he will continue vetoing war spending bills as long as they contain a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
***The question Mr. President, is not the money. It is the war. Bush is begging the issue, raising the excuse that he is just concerned about the soldiers who are at war without funds. The question is, first, should there be a war? Second, if there is a war, should America be in Iraq?
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Friday renewed criticism of U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe, saying Russia would take "appropriate measures" to counter the system.
AP - A senior White House counselor on Friday dismissed former CIA Director's George Tenet portrait of a Bush administration that rushed to war in Iraq without serious debate. "The president did wrestle with those very serious questions," Dan Bartlett said.
***No matter what the White House say, it is perception that really counts. Everything in America is business. Everything in the world is business. In business, it is image, not intentions. We don't talk about theories and philosophies anymore. We look to the facts and the horrid deaths lined in the streets of Baghdad, American blood, so far away from home, dying in a war that does not concern them. In business, it is image. Image is reality. That's how Americans and the whole world view the Bush Administration's take on Iraq. You cannot sway it by words or politics. It is how people feel.RIYADH -- More than 170 terror suspects have been rounded up by security forces in Saudi Arabia, an interior ministry spokesman said Friday.
AP - An active duty U.S. Army officer warns the United States faces the prospect of defeat in Iraq, blaming American generals for failing to prepare their forces for an insurgency and misleading Congress about the situation here.
AOL has started beta testing a new home page (the main AOL.com portal). AOL Senior Product Manager (and occasional TechCrunch contributor) Frank Gruber introduced it on his personal blog earlier today, although he is not the product manager for the product.
Nice portal…but it is nearly identical to Yahoo home page, which was redesigned last year. Click on the image above for a larger view. Internally, I’m hearing AOLers refer to the new portal as “the Yahoo Portal” although its official name is AOL 3.0.
Internet companies like to copy things from their competitors that work, but as we’ve seen even the largest companies sometimes get caught copying a little too much.
AOL says they are building best of breed products, not simply copying things from Google, Yahoo and others that are proven to work and porting them to its less cutting-edge audience. In the past year, though, we’ve seen them largely copy digg and then release a new mail product that would have been awesome two years ago but which stacks up poorly to the current versions of Gmail and Yahoo Mail.
David Liu, Senior Vice President of Portals & Personal Media at AOL, has told me that a number of new products in development are going to be impressive. I’ve seen early demos and wireframes of some of them, and I think he’s right. The company needs a category killer to get some street cred.
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Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama did not tangle, so it fell to their rivals to take cuts at them.
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***America is suing those chieftains. They hypnotized the President and made a fool of himself. Say, what? They don't need ...hypnotism?AP - Vice President Dick Cheney told Brigham Young University graduates on Thursday to savor second chances and be prepared for the unexpected throughout life in a commencement address that stirred up protests in one of the nation's most Republican states.
AP - In a bold wartime challenge to President Bush, the Democratic-controlled Congress cleared legislation Thursday to begin withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by Oct. 1 with a goal of a complete pullout six months later. The White House dismissed the legislation as "dead before arrival."
AP - Democratic presidential hopefuls flashed their anti-war credentials Thursday night, heaping criticism on President Bush's Iraq policy in the first debate of the 2008 campaign.
***Two things: Either Bush is the evil one, and reason only unites the good; or, Bush is the genius, and all the dunces are in corporation against him.
AP - Eight Democratic presidential candidates will take part in a 90-minute debate tonight at South Carolina State University.
AP - President Vladimir Putin charged Thursday that foreigners seeking to thwart Russia's resurgence are increasingly interfering in its affairs.
***Get used to them. They're all over the place. They've been meddling with the Philippines since March 16, 1521. Shit.
AP - Hugh Grant has been arrested for allegedly throwing a container of baked beans at a photographer, London police said.
Beijing's top climate change official says a claim China will become the world's larger emitter of greenhouse gases as early as this year is "complete nonsense".
Republican presidential contender John McCain dismissed a demand by a prominent House Democrat that he apologize to U.S. troops in Iraq for making a joke about an explosive device, saying critics should "lighten up."
***These are the two three best things: Raul Gonzales' sarcasms, McCain's tactless jokes, and Resurreccion Borra's denials "What? Ah. I will not comment on that".
Reuters - A Chinese anti-satellite test in January increased the risk that a spacecraft could collide with debris by up to 40 percent in some orbits, the U.S. Air Force Space Command said on Wednesday.
***Hence, US is afraid of China.
AP - President Bush next week is expected to receive, and swiftly reject, legislation ordering U.S. troops to begin coming home from Iraq this fall. The veto could fall on the fourth anniversary of the president's Iraq "victory" speech.
A Wealth of Smarts Does Not Guarantee Actual Wealth: Scientific American
***Well, we have to exclude Bill Gates here, and I guess, Warren Buffett. They are definitely smart.
Smart people feel a lot of pressure. That's why they don't deliver as much. They won't try small time jobs because they feel these are below them. They don't know that real money flows from these small jobs - because you can meet real people there.
Smart people don't connect as much. And wealth is about social skills. One needs to connect. And stop blogging.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A 4-year-old boy who was inadvertently blitzed by a college football player during a game has 30 stitches in his head, but he's recovering well, his father said Tuesday.
***30 fucking stitches! Okay. What do we have here?
Moral: Don't watch football with your asshole dad/mom.
Moral 2: When you do grow up, sue the hell out of them for negligence and violation of the tort law.
Guitarist Keith Richards' mother dies - Stuff.co.nz
LOS ANGELES: The 91-year-old mother of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has died in Britain, a spokeswoman for the band said.
Doris Richards died on Saturday. The cause of death and the location were not disclosed.
***She bought him his first guitar for his 15th birthday. How sweet. What was her last wish? Not to be cremated.
Reuters - It is 7.30 in the evening and an excited chatter fills the room as 11-year-old Nampeung and her friends get their work checked before clearing their desks and heading home.
(AP) - In this undated handout image supplied by the European Southern Observatory, shown is the star Gliese 581. For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday April 24, 2007, as a big step in the search for 'life in the universe.' What they revealed is a planet circling the red dwarf star, Gliese 581. The planet was discovered by the European Southern Observatory's telescope in La Silla, Chile, which has a special instrument that splits light to find wobbles in different wave lengths. (AP Photo/European Southern Observatory via PA)
AP - Miss America can add crime fighter to her resume. Lauren Nelson recently went undercover with police in New York for a sting targeting sexual predators. Officers with Suffolk County's computer crimes unit created an online profile of a 14-year-old girl that included photographs of Nelson as a teenager.
AFP - Ethiopia on Wednesday accused arch-foe Eritrea of supporting the rebels behind an attack on a remote Chinese-run oil field that killed 74 people, including nine Chinese workers.
Tearful Russians filed past the open casket of former President Boris Yeltsin inside a vast Moscow cathedral Tuesday in a ceremony that reflected the changes that transformed the nation during his eight years in power. Yeltsin lay in state inside Christ the Savior Cathedral, with a Russian tricolor flag draped over the end of the coffin. A four-member honor guard stood solemnly at each corner. Yeltsin's widow, Naina, flanked by her two daughters, wiped away tears as she stood next to the casket. A Russian Orthodox priest blessed it with incense and a stream of mourners, some wiping away tears, placed flowers nearby. Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, sometimes appeared at church services but was not seen as overtly pious. Nevertheless, the Russian Orthodox Church credits him as a key figure in its changed fortunes after decades of the Communist-era's official athiesm. "By his strength, he helped the restoration of the proper role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the life of the country and its people"...
***Indeed, it was Yeltsin who drove the nail to the coffin of the former USSR. And the whole world recognizes him as he is...a man of peace, leadership, and dignity. Peace, brother Boris. The world has become a safer place because of you.
In the time it takes you to read this article, four African children will die from malaria. Before the day is over, it will claim the lives of 3,000 children.
AFP - One of the world's most endangered animals, the Sumatran rhinoceros, has been filmed in the wild for the first time in a coup that could help save it from extinction, wildlife campaigners said Tuesday.
AFP - A suicide car bomber struck a US military outpost north of Baghdad Tuesday, killing nine soldiers and wounding 20 others, in the deadliest attack on American ground forces in Iraq in 16 months.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 70 percent of Egyptians, Pakistanis, Indonesians and Moroccans believe the United States is trying to weaken and divide the Islamic world, a poll released on Tuesday showed.
AP - Students in Baghdad, where universities have been hard-hit by violence, said they were saddened by last week's massacre at Virginia Tech and hung up a banner to express their solidarity with "our brothers in humanity and in pursuing knowledge."
AP - Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets and mortar shells toward Israel on its independence day Tuesday, and said they considered it the end of a five-month truce with Israel.
Reuters - A man celebrated his 100th birthday with25,000 pounds in winnings on Tuesday after he beat the bookmakers with a wager that he would live for a century.
Reuters - China's infamous movie pirates havedone it again -- "Spider-Man 3" is already being sold onBeijing's streets almost two weeks ahead of its U.S. premier.
Reuters - U.S. complaints to the WTO over commercial piracy in China will "badly damage" cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on Tuesday, insisting that China has made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights.
MANILA, Philippines -- Russia is laying the infrastructure to become a major oil supplier to Asian countries, including an ambitious pipeline being built from Siberia to the Pacific coast, a Russian diplomat said Tuesday.
AP - Two of the oldest people in the United States met Saturday. A relative drove 113-year-old Bertha Fry of Muncie to a Shelbyville nursing home to visit Edna Parker, who celebrated her 114th birthday Friday.
AP - Riggs hardly looks or acts like a beauty king. A 3-year-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture.
AP - Overweight workers cost their bosses more in injury claims than their lean colleagues, suggests a study that found the heaviest employees had twice the rate of workers' compensation claims as their fit co-workers.
***Oops. Goota lose those pounds
Reuters - Google Inc. has knocked Microsoft Corp. from its perch as the world's top-ranked brand, according to findings released on Monday.
Reuters - Kryptonite, which robbed Superman of his powers, is no longer the stuff of comic books and films.
AP - A man facing eviction from a luxury apartment complex shot and killed the manager and then himself after writing an e-mail to friends saying he had died, police said. At least two other people were injured.
Imagine a newspaper with over 2,000 writers, researchers and copy editors, yet no supervisors or managers. No deadlines; no meetings; no chain of command. That seemingly chaotic nonstructure isn't recognizable of the hierarchical editorial control of old media, yet that's exactly how Wikipeida, an essential source for the VA Tech shootings, works.
An Army sergeant complained in a rare opinion article that the U.S. flag flew at half-staff last week at the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan for those killed at Virginia Tech but the same honor is not given to fallen U.S. troops here and in Iraq.
AP - With a veto fight looming, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that President Bush is in a state of denial over Iraq, "and the new Congress will show him the way" to a change in war policy.
***Yeah. Show him the blatant truth: No one wants US in Iraq. Not even the Iraqis. Go, dems!
Ruling party candidate Umaru Yar'Adua is declared the winner of Nigeria's controversial presidential poll.
AFP - Iran is ready to "support" the 15 British sailors it captured to publish their stories after London reversed a decision allowing them to receive payments for their accounts, a top presidential advisor said.
***Are they kidding? I don't really know Iranian humor.