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Entries from January 2008

Star Trek XI

January 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

From director J.J. Abrams (“Mission: Impossible III,” “Lost” and “Alias”) and screenwriters Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (“TRANSFORMERS,” “MI: III”) comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, “Star Trek,” featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before.
Coming December 25, 2008.
Be still, my beating heart.

Spread The [...]

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Tags: Hollywood · Media

McCain Lying?

January 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

John McCain gets a bit of a free ride from Lefties and Media. Check out McCain’s record of changing his position to whatever Republican belief will get him closer to the White House. He far closer to an Opportunist than he is a Statesman.

From that rascal Ann Coulter:

John McCain is Bob Dole minus [...]

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Tags: Election · The Right · The US

Jamie Lynn Becomes Part-time Mother

January 29th, 2008 · Comments Off

From Starpulse Entertainment News Blog:

Jamie Lynn Spears will give her baby to her mother in order to concentrate on her career, according to reports. The 16-year-old stunned the world last month when she revealed she was pregnant with her first child - and now the Zoey 101 star has allegedly agreed to let her mother [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Hollywood · Media

Defending Self-Defense

January 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

From the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL):

Defending the Self-Defense Case
By Lisa J. Steele
March 2007
A self-defense case is fundamentally different from most other criminal prosecutions. The essence of the defense is that the defendant is the victim of an attempted or completed violent felony such as assault, rape, or homicide which, but for the [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Guns

Go Jill Stevens!

January 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

Normally I detest beauty pageants. They are usually nothing more than thinly-veiled soft-core voyeurism. The women watch it and say, “Wow, I wish I could be hot like her,” while the men watch it and say, “Wow, I wish I could be inside of her.”
But tonight’s Miss America Pageant contains a tiny slimmer [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan · Media · Military · The US

Suicide Bombers Have Dangerous Lives

January 25th, 2008 · Comments Off

From news.au.com:

A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say.
It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting it on [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan · Crime/Law · Muslim/Islam · Strange/Funny · Terrorism

Why Do I Carry A Gun?

January 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments

When someone asks me why I carry a gun, I reply:
- Because it is my right.
- For self defense.
- Why aren’t you carrying?
- Because when seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
- Do you see a cop close enough by to save your life in the next 5 seconds?
- Because a cop won’t fit [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Guns

None Of The Above

January 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off

OK, Fred Thompson is out. He could’a been a contender. That leaves:
- Romney: Massachusetts Liberal in Conservative clothes?
- McCain: RINO poster child?
- Huckabee: genuine Right Wing nutjob?
- Giuliani: New York Liberal in Conservative clothes?
- Paul: Republican version of Ralph Nader?
Ugh.
Says UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge:

God made the people of Israel wander in the [...]

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