Weather Related Crashes Says California Highway Patrol

"November 3, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) According to the California Highway Patrol there has been several weather related vehicle crashes. The storm that brought thunder and lightening is being called the first...

Beijing and the Dalai Lama: Machiavellian Strategy or Driving Off a Cliff?

"Beijing is apparently ignoring the Dalai Lama's comments about giving up on making a breakthrough and Chinese officials said yesterday that the next round of talks between the two sides would go ahead as planned. This is in accordance with their apparent long-term game plan,...

Anything is possible - possibly

"The last time I was on AE, a woman used ["anything is possible"]. I asked her if she understood that what is possible has no bearing on what is real. A friend of mine indicated he would have rather asked the woman if it’s possible she is wrong. I liked his reply better,...

New Blogging Community Lists Blogging Jobs for Newbies and Pros

Professional bloggers are stepping up their efforts to locate new and challenging blogging assignments by joining FreelanceBlogger.net – a new online community designed to connect bloggers and organizations looking for freelance bloggers.   This new blogger...

Japanese plant blogs and tells

It has been long believed that plants can talk, if only we could learn to understand them.  Well, now plants can blog.  They skipped right over the whole speech thing and went straight online to join the...

Travis Barker Released From Hospital

UPDATE: It's been 4 weeks to the day since Travis Barker was checked into hospital following the plane crash that only he and DJ AM survived. But Friday morning Barker was released from Sherman Oaks' Grossman...

Price? Condition? Presentation? Now Tell Me Again Which One is King?

Several weeks ago there was a flurry of activity here on SIF about the King of Real Estate. Price is King! No, presentation is King! No, price and presentation don't matter if it's in poor condition, condition is King! It occurred to me that when you look at the whole...

Deutsche Bank Sold Massive Amounts of Phantom Stock

" delivery records,” there were “only two failures to deliver.” So Deutsche Bank systematically failed to even locate the stock that it sold, but the NYSE isn’t calling it “naked short selling,” and...

EU Trade Commissioner Drinks Chinese Milk Diagnosed With Kidney Stone

In the midst of the still unfolding milk scandal, we have a report of an ironic coincidence.  EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson spoke in Tianjin, China  in support of the now disgraced milk industry.  A few days later he was diagnosed with a small kidney...

Did I Say I Was Innocent Of All Wrongdoing, and Call Patrick A Liar and A Cheat?

All Binge Drinking Ends in A Hangover.New Patrick Byrne Video on CNN. Don't Miss it. He's quite a character.5 minuteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoSsJ4BlTB8* * * * *Location: Blogs Bob O'Brien's Sanity Check...

Travis Barker Blogs From Hospital Bed

" Travis Barker Blogs From Hospital Bed""Three weeks after narrowly surviving a Learjet plane crash that killed four people in South Carolina, including two of his pals, Travis Barker posted a...

Take a Virtual Food Lover’s Trip Around the World From Seattle to Sydney to...

Recently, the folks at the Foodbuzz blog community helped coordinate a wonderful series of blog posts featuring two dozen of their members simultaneously celebrating some of the best regional and local foods...

Digg Revolution: Call Made for Blog Posts From Users

For the last couple of years, Digg has seen its ups and downs.  They have gone through two previous revolts: 1 that resulted in them allowing the HD-DVD codes to be published on the site and one that...

Clergyman apologises over call to tattoo gay people

An Anglican clergyman who advocated that homosexuals be tattooed with labels calling them sodomites has apologized for his remarks. Such language is extreemly unusual in the Church of England."A Church of England clergyman who wrote that gay men should be forced to have...

Tina Brown Launches Ad-Free 'Daily Beast'

Media publisher and journalist Tina Brown launched her much-anticipated new website, The Daily Beast, on Monday.The site is hoping to rival Arianna Huffington's most-linked-to-blog-on-the-internet The Huffington...
 

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