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Current News for August 27, 2008

UPS Buys United States Post Office

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:22:07 PDT
In a sharp turn away from the recent news that FedEx is possibly going to take over German-based shipper DHL, United Parcel Service today announced that it is buying long-time competitive shipper, United States Postal Service.

Blockbuster, Riteaid, 7-Eleven to carry PSN cards by Septemb

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:07:46 PDT
Pretty good news for PS3 owners with no credit cards.

Texas A&M Breaks Attendance Records

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:06:03 PDT
The Dallas Morning News is reporting that Texas A&M University now has a larger student body than ever before in the school's history - with 47,925 students. According to the Dallas Morning News, Texas A&M's freshman class totals 8,127; that's an increase of almost 1,400 over last year. It is the largest freshman class in the school's history and one of the largest in the nation. Today was the first day of class at A&M and school officials are stressing that the numbers are prel

McCain and Obama Miss Filing Deadline in Texas (Seriously!)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:04:09 PDT
Richard Winger’s Ballot Access News reports that Democrats and Republicans have missed the August 26th deadline to place a presidential candidate on the ballot in Texas. According to the Texas Secretary of State website, Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root are the only candidates for president and vice-president that will appear on the ballot in Texas

More Leadership Lessons from Favre & The Packers

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:58:44 PDT
Although it's certainly old news about Favre's trade demands and the Packers' banking their 2008 season on Aaron Rodgers, TheManager felt compelled to discuss both sides collective inability to swallow their pride and do what's truly best for the team. True leaders would not act anything like Favre or the Packers in this situation.

Newsflashr.com Launches Massive Search Engine for News

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:01 PDT
Bedford, MA (PRWEB) August 6, 2008 -- www.Newsflashr.com Newsflashr.com] launches a radically new type of search engine specific to news. Users are prompted to enter keywords and the search results...

Nominees in major categories for the 23rd Gemini Awards (Toronto Star)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:36:12 PDT
"Chop Socky Chooks," (Decode Entertainment Inc., 2006 Aardman Animations Limited, CSC Productions Inc.) Miles Bullough, Neil Court, Steven DeNure, Pete Lord, Dave Sproxton, Beth Stevenson, Jacqueline White.

Project Runway’s Tim Gunn is “confused” by Katie Holmes pegged jeans

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:26:07 PDT
Project Runway’s venerable mentor and fashion maven Tim Gunn, who recently got his own show on Bravo, has weighed in on the recent, bizarre jeans trend started by Scientolowife Katie Holmes. This is the wretched trend of pegging and rolling the pantlegs of your jeans. Those of us who lived through this trend in the 80s are still shuddering at the memories- many of them captured in blackmail photos that will no doubt find their way into the hands of our children. Gunn is equally baffled by thi

Fox News - Part1 - Israeli Spy ring and 911

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:40:17 PDT
Series de reportages sur l'arrestation d'espions Israéliens aux états-Unis et de leur possible liens avec les attentats du 11 septembre 2001. Ces reportages de Fox News ont été retirés de plusieurs sites web et blogues. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x

ABC's Jake Tapper: "Today's new McCain ad... crosses a new

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:42:33 PDT
This is news. It's also the media actually doing their job (which Jake, among a handful of others, actually does routinely). In any case, this is bad. McCain is basically putting out ads (well, they're not even ads, because they're not really running them anywhere - they're just hoping the media will show them for free, and they do)


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Hot trends for August 08, 2008

Canada - Mortgage Insurance is NOT a sure thing

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:56:10 PST
"MarketPlace" was broadcasted on Feb 6 and re-ran on CBC NewsWorld on Feb 9. It was about claims made and declined by the major banks (and their underwriter Canada Life) regarding mortgage insurance that the borrowers took when they assumed their mortgage.Link: http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/in_denial/

Is this the CBC's last hurrah? (The Globe and Mail)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:17:46 PDT
This will be the network's last Olympics until at least 2014, but it isn't leaving quietly

Edwards admits to affair he denied as candidate - The Denver

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:41:09 PDT
The former North Carolina senator, who was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2004, confessed to ABC News that he had lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter. Hunter's daughter, Frances Quinn Hunter, was born on Feb. 27 this year, and no father's name is given on the birth certificate filed in California.

HoF: my first hof

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:44:28 PDT
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Swedish man jailed for attacks on gays he met in chatrooms

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:31:02 PDT
Concern for AIDS experts detained in Iran Two brothers who are pioneers in the prevention of HIV transmission in Iran have been held by the authorities without charge for nearly a month. opinionuk-newsworld-newspoliticslawhealthfinanceentertainment INTERVIEW: What's wrong with angry? Gay play revived for Edinburgh For gays of a certain age, the 1998 film Get Real holds fond memories. The story of a geeky teenage outcast, who discovers while out cottaging that the hottest boy in schoo

Ten Things We Didn't Know Last Week

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:10:52 PDT
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

BlackBerry Bold Launched in Germany & Other Parts of World -

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:12:52 PDT
Wireless and Mobile News reports the details of the BlackBerry Bold in Germany and other parts of the world. The BlackBerry Bold comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi and is the first BlackBerry smartphone to support tri-band HSDPA high-speed networks around the world. Users can surf the Internet and download large e-mail attachments over 3G.

Best of Tamino: Urging an Open Mind

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:01:40 PDT
More Summer Reading: Thanks to DeSmogger Brian D., we now have this well-categorized version of The Best of Tamino, a veritable celebration of debunkery courtesy of the clearest writing statisticians around. Brian's recommended (and annotated) reading list is posted below. "It hasn't warmed since 1998!" Garbage is Forever Wiggles (Also an excellent introduction to the concept of signal and noise to those unfamiliar with statistics.) "The hockey stick was debunked!" Hockey Sticks Part 1 P

An Unhealthy Fashion Trend Why are beautiful people smoking?

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:35:43 PDT
There’s something about fashion and smoking mixed together that I never understood. Why are such beautiful people smoking? In my opinion, smoking is rather nasty, and I have never and never will touch a cigarette.

CBC, NBC take different approach toward Olympic coverage (The Globe and Mail)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:07:40 PDT
American audience will get most of its fill during prime time only


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