Didn’t cbc.ca recently have something about that CCP official in Lhasa at the torch relay ceremony mouthing off about Beijing smashing the ’splittist’ schemes of the ‘Dalai Lama clique,’ thus injecting politics in direct contradiction to Beijing’s insistence that the Olympics are essentially a sports event which has no place for politics. Read the rest of this entry »
Two men on a cross-country cycling trip to raise money for diabetes research were struck and killed by a car in Manitoba on Sunday, RCMP said. Read the rest of this entry »
There are already free alternatives on the market for many of Microsofts products. Ubuntu is based on an operating system called Debian Linux and is free to anyone for any use. I personally recommend creating a boot disk to use as a tester before you install it as your primary operating system. Read the rest of this entry »
This is a most disgusting turn of events. If any nation deserved regime change more I’ve not come across it. As far as I’m concerned Zimbabwe & the DPRK, (North Korea), are in a dead heat for most vile nation status. Read the rest of this entry »
I just heard about this Brian Bates guy from Oklahoma and I have to say, Kudos to you, man! Brian Bates owns and runs johntv.com. Johntv.com is this one guy’s effort to clean up the organized prostitution that has impacted his city dearly. Armed with a camera and a lot of guts, Brian Bates takes to the streets to catch ‘johns’ and the hookers in the act of sexual trafficking. On top of that, he makes sure that anybody that gets caught doing so is posted about on his website; forever!! Read the rest of this entry »
1,100 prisoners found their way to freedom in a simply immense prison break which occurred in Southern Afghanistan. The prison break happened in June 13. A car filled with explosives detonated in the front gates. Read the rest of this entry »
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN for short, has approved to lift restrictions on domain names. Currently, we are only allowed to register certain top-level domains such as .com, .ca, .net, .org, etc. But this new move by ICANN opens the door for many, many, more variations. Read the rest of this entry »
Engraved inside the Statue of Liberty, you will find the words of ‘The New Colossus‘. The New Colossus is a sonnet written by Emma Lazarus in 1883. This sonnet, or poem, was initially written simply as a donation to an auction regarding art and literature. Read the rest of this entry »
For those who do not know, the Heisman Memorial Trophy Award is considered the most prestigious college football award. This trophy is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in the college level for that year; the selection is based on a voting point system. In the past, all Heisman trophy winners have gone on to play in the NFL with most going as a top draft pick. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s all over the web how Shaq disses Kobe through his rap lyrics. One of the most memorable lines: “You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn’t do without me.” An obvious cheap shot at the NBA’s MVP, Kobe, for not being able to win the championship last week. Haha. Talk about kicking someone while they’re down. Read the rest of this entry »
