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• Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin About Hero Plane! [Feuds]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  Unflappable (except by geese!) hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger is not sitting idly by while fancy writer William Langewiesche (pron. "Lain-guh-wees-chay-guevara") offers up his trashy "scientific theories" about Sullys famous crashed plane. Everyone listen, Sully is saying something confrontationa l! In an ...
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• When Will Obama Stop Sucking Off World Leaders?

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 708
  President Blackie McMuslimcommunist is still out there, going around the world spreading his plans for the extermination of people who love Jesus and the constitution globally, and he won’t stop bowing! Thank goodness that these acts of liberal faggotry haven’t gone unnoticed by the New York Post . Yes, the ...
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• Black couple removed from ‘Couples Retreat’ poster in the UK

  
  Cele|bitchy — Authority: 719
  There’s some controversy over differences between the US and UK versions of the poster for the Vince Vaughn movie Couples Retreat . The film was out in America in early October and did very well at the box office, earning $102 million domestically . It seems to have opened in the UK on October 14 , so I’m not ...
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• Wickmayer, Malisse Attack WADA

  
  Craig Hickman's Tennis Blog — Authority: 473
  This could be fun. Suspended Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse are launching appeals with European authorities challenging the legality of the whereabouts rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Victory at the European Commission in Brussels and the Strasbourg-based European Court of ...
  4 hours ago

• Michael Phelps Sports Energy Drink : Carnation Instant Breakfast

  
  Marathon You Can Do It — Authority: 123
  I was surfing around the internet when I found this interesting piece on cbs news During a 2004 Summer Olympics awash in controversies over steroids and supplements, one sportswriter wryly noticed that top American swimmer Michael Phelps was playing it safe — he preferred to drink Carnation Instant Breakfast ...
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• Megan Fox hides her personality under controversies!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Nov 15 (IANS) Model-turned-actress Megan Fox has claimed she hides her true self under layers of controversies.The 23-year-old, who has often caused raised eyebrows after coming out of the closet as a bisexual or for her candid remarks, says it’s just an outside persona she has created to veil her true self ...
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• Shadowbox musical offers lessons for new WOODSTOCK musical headed to Broadway

  
  THEATER TALK — Authority: 431
  (Caption: An ensemble scene from Shadowboxs musical Woodstock: Back to the Gafden . Credit: Jack Fleming / jackfleming.com) Shadowbox did it first, but Broadway is next in line to develop a new musical about the legendary Woodstock rock festival. While Shadowboxs world premiere of Woodstock: Back to the Garden ...
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• Yousuf backs Misbah for Kiwi series

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Karachi, Nov.14 (ANI): Newly appointed Pakistan Test captain Mohammad Yousuf has backed middle-order batsman Misbah-ul-Haq to fill in the gap created in the batting order by the absence of Younis Khan.“Our team is fine, but I have asked the board for Misbah-ul-Haq to fill the gap that has appeared in the middle ...
  2 days ago

• Proms, Plays, & Yearbooks: Erasing queer lives from school

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Recent school controversies around the country demonstrate how parents, administrators, and other school officials are harming students and teaching homophobia and intolerance. In Mississippi the issue is a female student who wore a tuxedo instead of the "drape" designated for female students for her yearbook photo. ...
  2 days ago

• Bala ‘u-turn’ is back

  
  Colour Blind — Authority: 136
  Sleepless nights again for the husband and wife team… Bala was in town, now on Youtube   Andrew Ong Nov 13, 09 2:31pm     A private investigator who made shocking allegations of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s links with Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu, appears to have freedom of ...
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• Migration is spreading creationism, says academic

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Immigration means more and more people in the UK do not accept evolution, says former director of education at the Royal Society Michael Reiss Mass migration has led to a rise in creationist beliefs across Europe, according to a British scientist. Michael Reiss , a professor of education at the Institute of ...
  3 days ago

• A sorry tale of shoddy science

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould exposes the shameful history of research into race and IQ Earlier this year Glenn Beck, the US Fox News commentator, called President Barack Obama "a racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people and white culture" . The subtext of the statement seemed to be that it ...
  3 days ago

• "Gabriels Vision" Watch, er, Dont Watch!

  
  Biblia Hebraica — Authority: 461
  Its been a while since I posted on the inscription known as Gabriels Vision or the Apocalypse of Gabriel. Thats because there really isnt anything new to say that hasnt already been said over and over and over about this inscription and Israel Knohls tendentious reading of it. However, that hasnt stopped ...
  3 days ago

• Three graphic novel news items of interest

  
  The Daily Cartoonist — Authority: 559
  Three stories caught my eye regarding graphic novels and libraries. The good news is that the Milford public Library (NJ) has received a $3,000 grant from the state Library to grow its graphic novel collection. The money will also be used to pay for panelist visits from experts to come and talk about various aspects ...
  4 days ago

• Sesame Streets 40th: Five biggest controversies

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 723
  Sit a kid in front of a TV for an hour a day and a parent is bound to find something that offends them, other than the fact that plopping impressionable minds in front of a TV unsupervised is considered "good parenting." Sesame Street is no stranger to controversy. Critics, cynics and crybabies have called out the ...
  4 days ago

• I reiterate, Sreesanth must evolve like Taresh did

  
  The Cricket Watcher's Journal — Authority: 128
  I was reading this article on a current cricketing issue. The article raises many useful points. We here have followed the fortunes of Indian fast bowling pool (Balas series on Indian pacemen titled Indias Quick Problem in two volumes - 1 & 2 , and Balaji is back ) and specifically spoke about aspects ...
  4 days ago

• Om Puri Unhappy with His Wife for Making his Private Life Public!

  
  Bollywooders — Authority: 129
    Om Puri is unhappy with his wife for making some of his deepest secrets about his private life public. If you thought Shiney Ahuja was the only Bollywood actor, who allegedly had an unethical relation with his maid, you are probably mistaken. Veteran Bollywood actor Om Puri tried to have a similar relation with ...
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• Duke University publishes book about Mohammad cartoons

  
  The Daily Cartoonist — Authority: 559
  Voltaire Press at Duke University has published a book “Muhammad: The "Banned" Images” by Dr. Gary Hull that includes reprinting the 12 cartoons that originally ran in the Jyllands-Posten that ignited an international violent reaction in the Muslim world. The book also includes several other images from William ...
  5 days ago

• Judge throws out Steve Kelley lawsuit

  
  The Daily Cartoonist — Authority: 559
  A lawsuit filed against the San Diego Union-Tribune by their former editorial cartoonist, Steve Kelley, has been thrown out due to lack of “evidence of any unfair or unlawful business practice.” The ruling is a set back for Kelley who accused his former employer of intimidating current Union-Tribune Steve Breen ...
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• English libel law stifles freedom of expression worldwide

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Our libel law is out of kilter with the rest of the democratic world, encouraging libel tourism and the erosion of free speech in other countries, writes Simon Singh I have just returned from the launch of Free Speech is Not For Sale , the report of a year-long inquiry into the impact of English libel law on ...
  6 days ago

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