Thursday, October 25, 2007

News Jog 10/25/07

Left Coast Inferno Update:
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The Fire This Time
Bush Flying to California to See Damage Caused by Wildfires
Decision Due Today on Chargers Game

Stories for those with a WWIII fetish:
U.S. Will Cut Off Iran's "Malignant" Actions
Turks Bomb Kurdish Rebel Targets on Iraq Border
Lead Detective Quits Bhutto Attack Probe

The immigrant obsession continues:
Immigration Bill Blocked in U.S. Senate
McCain Skips a Key Vote on Immigration

The Castro death-watch continues:
Bush Reaffirms Cuba Embargo
Cuba Accuses Bush of Inciting Violence

A Filipino Nixon?
Former Philippine President Estrada Pardoned

Rudy News:
Giuliani: Blind Should Be Able to Carry Guns
Mob Families Considered Killing Giuliani, According to Testimony

Want to play a game?
The 2008 Candidates- Democrat or Republican?

Asians in Space!
China Sends Its First Probe for the Moon Into Space

Lunar Lander Teams Compete for $2 Million in Prizes This Weekend

HERETIC!
Global Warming: Let's Rely on Science Instead of Hysteria

SuperBug Update:
Experts Tout Hygiene to Battle Staph in Schools
Governments Urged to Make Killer Bugs a Priority

Panel Recommends FluMist for Young Kids

Glow-in-the-dark shrimp -- it's all a little fishy

Sox Fan Stephen King Bored at Game
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Series Banter:
Fall Classic that Really Fell Flat
Red Sox win World Series game 1 in 13-1 Rout of Rockies
Opening Rout May Not Carry to Game 2

Another TV hero falls
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Gary Collins Busted for DUI Smash Up
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Let's get something straight. There is no such thing as quality vodka. Vodka is vodka... you can choose to pay a premium price for slick packaging- but that's all you're getting:
Diddy Unveils $100M Vodka Deal

[Another awfully good British author, the late Douglas Adams of the successful Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy series, confronted a comparable question a few years back. One of his fans asked about the kind of computer one of his characters used. He replied, in part:

"The book is a work of fiction. It's a sequence of words arranged to unfold a story in a reader's mind. There is no such actual, real person as Arthur Dent. He has no existence outside the sequence of words designed to create an idea of this imaginary person in people's minds. There is no objective real world I am describing, or which I can enter, and pick up his computer, look at it and tell you what model it is, or turn it over and read off its serial number for you. It doesn't exist."]
Harry Potter and the Author who Wouldn't Shut Up
Gay Dumbledore Ruckus Follows Rowling into Canada

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It seemed like a good idea at the time:
Dad's Tattoo Dumble-Doh!

We are still talking about a dog here... right?
DeGeneres' Pooch Has New Foster Parents

Maybe it was Global Warming!
Osmond Blames Allergies and Bad Air Quality for Faint

Still the Boss:
Springsteen's "Magic" - No. 1 on US Charts

The latest from the trial of the 21st century:
New Charges Filed in O.J. Simpson Case

Microsoft Buys into Facebook

HD DVD Inside an Xbox 360? Toshiba Says "Nothing To Do With Us"

Gmail Now Has IMAP Support

And finally-
The latest dispatch from Britney's last days on earth:
Britney and K-Fed Reunite For Parenting Class

There's plenty more News,
but there's no more News Jog.
We're done.