Tag: tells
Investigation After Judge Tells Underage Drinker ...
"A decision has not yet been made on possible disciplinary action against a Novi magistrate who suggested to an underage drinker that he commit suicide. "
Colombia claims Venezuela sought FARC for training
"The government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez asked Colombia's main leftist guerrilla group to ''share its experience in guerrilla warfare,'' citing a possible U.S. invasion, according to documents obtained by The Miami Herald.A senior Colombian official said the...
Kids to learn about boob jobs
I think you always remember your favourite book when you were a kid - mine was 'The Paper Bag Princess' and I loved it. But now it seems times have changed and new books for kids are starting to come onto the market....
Lonely Planet rebuts 'fake' claim
Lonely Planet are insisting their travel books are accurate, after reports have emerged that one of its former writers addmitted he made up parts of his travel guides."Author Thomas Kohnstamm said he had accepted...
1 dead, 3 injured after cement truck wreck
A 41-year-old woman died and a five-year-old child has been hospitalized in critical condition, after what is being described as a 'freak accident' happened in Dallas, Texas earlier today."Dallas police say a cement truck vaulted a center barrier and landed on the...
AMITHAB BACHAN
"The war of words or rather the war of pictures between the MNS and Amitabh Bachchan continues, with a latest rather tongue-in-cheek poster hung oustide the Big B's Juhu residence. The Big B was recently in the news...
Pregnant man tells Oprah: It's a miracle
Many people thought it was an April Fool's Day joke, but the story appeared on Oprah so it must be true. Thomas Beatie, a pregnant man, revealed the ultrasound of his baby to Oprah. Since Oprah had him...
Sen. Leahy (D-VT) Tells Clinton, Get Out
Sen. Leahy (D-VT) Tells Clinton, Get Out With continued transfers of support going toward Obama and a Delegate lead of 1625 to Clinton's 1486, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) became the latest to call for Senator...
YouTube launches map of where videos are being wa...
YouTube announced yesterday it will soon be launching an interesting new feature that will enable video creators to see when and where across the world people are watching their videos. It will essentially map the...
Mayor tells locals don't die; cemetery's full
Locals of a small village in southwest France have been told they will be severly punished if they die, because there's no room left in the town's cemetery to bury them. I wonder how someone can be serverly punished...
Is Lawrence Lessig running for Congress?
I've met Lessig a few times. He'd have my vote."I recently wrote a post praising Lawrence Lessig, and it looks as though he is taking the idea of running for Congress very seriously. He took a courtly,...
Life after Yahoo
For the first time, massive layoffs in the tech sector are being reported in realtime by those in the firing line. Here is the twittering of former Yahoo employee who has turned his pink slip into a calling card. "
Article in tomorrow morning's LA Times about...
Find a job or lose your council house, Labour tel...
With very little Council owned social housing remaining only the very poorest homeless families with children qualify..."People living in social housing should be expected to hunt for work as a condition of their tenancy, the new housing minister will propose today.Caroline...
Press Review 22 January 2008
"Press Review 22 January 2008
Tuesday
by Frank Scimone
22-01-2008
Geert Wilders"Wilders, Wilders, Wilders" screams another full-page article over Dutch Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders in today's Volkskrant. This time however de Volkskrant is not reporting about the Dutch...
MSNBC blames Romney whisper on microphone malfunc...
A very weird voice of god-type whisper anticipated the words ot Mitt Romney during the recent GOP candidate debate. MSNBC doesn't know how it got there. Very strange indeed."The whisper that could be...
