Often buried under the more sexy foreign policy issues such as terrorism, Iraq, nuclear proliferation, and imported steroids for baseball players, U.S. politicians only rarely speak up about what they believe should be done vis-à-vis Russia. Now, probably thanks to TIME Magazine’s selection of Vladimir Putin as Person of the Year, the Kremlin problem is […]

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…and officially over-paid.
The New York Yankees have finalized their signing of reliever LaTroy Hawkins to a $3.75 million, one-year deal, just a day after another has-been hurler, Mark Prior, scored a cool mill off the already-stacked San Diego Padres.
The Yanks’ plan is obviously to strengthen the core of their middle relief with a veteran presence. […]

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Rangers 4 Carolina 2: Putting Gomez on the top line certainly looked like a smart decision Wednesday. Gomez fed Jarmoir Jagr, helping him get nine shots and setting him up on both of his goals in the Rangers’ win. Chris Drury and Dan Girardi also scored for New York.
The game was stopped midway through […]

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She was an American original. A 20th century country girl who left small town Arkansas for a glittery life on the road. A road that lead from Broadway to Vegas, to Hollywood, with many interesting stops in between. Jeanne was a dancer, a pinup and a B movie star. She also worked as a profesional […]

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This is an updated post from December 23. I promised to publish the best answer.
These days, when the movie industry is clamoring for new ideas for a narrative (and, incidentally, suffering from the writers’ strike), the ever creative Palestinian folks keep surprising.
The two following pictures have one thing in common and significantly differ in their […]

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I must’ve been enjoying my one-day Christmas vacation, because I completely missed the most amazing news story of, well, many of the past few years. Somehow a 350-pound female tiger escaped its holding pen at the San Francisco Zoo yesterday, immediately attacked and killed one man, then mauled two more before police shot and killed […]

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An off-duty Mansfield police officer is one of two people killed in an overnight shooting, and his brother is being questioned by police. Get the latest.
Source: 2 Killed, 2 Wounded In Shooting

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It’s Christmas Eve…
…and the folks at NORAD Santa are tracking that jolly old elf’s progress around the globe — you can even follow along in 3-D using Google Earth!
Posting is likely to be sporadic between now and January 2nd. You are invited to explore the rest of my website this week.
See you after the presents, […]

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If you have kids (or if you’re a kid at heart!), on Christmas Eve there is only one travel site that matters - the NORAD Santa Tracker! The site follows Santa for 24 hours, telling you his last known location. When I logged on this morning, he had just been in Fuji, Japan. Right now, […]

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2007 ushered in the demise of mixtape sales and the rise of straight-to-the-web YouTube videos; while satellite radio outshined traditional terrestrial formats. All these factors resulted in some of…

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Source: Drama Rocks With The Top 5 Players Of 2007

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