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‘Wanted’ Breaks Box Office Records
The Angelina Jolie action thriller Wanted scored the best opening ever for an R-rated film released in June and the 6th best opening of all time for any R-rated pic, according to Variety.
Easier to predict 100 years...wasn't twenty years the magic number twenty years ago? What is it now twenty more years... The global warming saga continues; of course, when I was in my twenties it was an "ice age" a coming. Let's put it this way - They need to get "almost" as accurate as the Farmers Almanac year-to-year if you expect me to even consider their predictions.
Scientists work on short-term climate predictions
ASPEN — Strange as it might seem, it is easier to predict changes in the climate 100 years from now than one decade from now, say scientists gathering this week in Aspen
I went to see what I thought would be a good movie - Wanted. I was wrong! It could have been a good movie - It has all the expected twist, but still it could have been good... Here is a hint, when you introduce something extremely "far fetched" you need to spend a little time making it somewhat believable (i.e. The Force, Krypton, Radioactive Spider Bite, etc.), a loom deciding who dies(?).
The actors/acting made it watchable - If you care what I think I would suggest you wait on the DVD...actually they may have been better served going directly to DVD.
When things start turning for the good US News stops reporting - I and many others have always know this. To bad there are so many "suckers" left out there!
Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner
According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007. The “CBS Evening News” has devoted the fewest minutes to Iraq, 51, versus 55 minutes on ABC’s “World News” and 74 minutes on “NBC Nightly News.” (The average evening newscast is 22 minutes long.)
The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans - and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer.
NEW YORK (AP) - Raging Midwest floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store.
It's a similar story for U.S. beef producers who are spending a whopping 60-70% of their production costs on animal feed. That number will rise as corn prices hover near an unprecedented $8 a bushel.
VeraSun Energy Corp., the largest U.S. ethanol producer, said this week it will delay the opening of two new ethanol plants — one in Iowa, the other in Minnesota — because of high corn costs and other market conditions.By the way, according to the National Review, "the venture capital group Gore joined in November, Klein Perkins Caufield & Byers, has investments in Amyis and AltraBiofues. One of the key partners of this firm, John Doerr, is advoctiong legislation that would expand bio fuel usage...an astonding number of dollars invested in agritechnology companies by Gore and fols connected to him..." - Proving fear is as good of a business tool as it is a governing tool.
Corn can be used to make ethanol, which in turn can be used as a substitute for, or additive to, gasoline.
High corn prices are also hurting livestock owners, who spend more than 50 percent of their production costs on corn to feed their cattle, hogs and chickens. Some livestock owners are now faced with slaughtering parts of their herds or flocks to cope with rising feed costs, a move that will mean higher beef, chicken and pork costs later this year, analysts say.
Other agriculture commodities also fell Thursday. Soybeans for July delivery fell 10.5 cents to settle at $15.455 a bushel on the CBOT, while July wheat dropped 23 cents to settle at $8.81 a bushel.
Ciongoli said that his letter “is not meant to be an attack upon NBC, but rather to be an illumination of a problem that continues to trouble our society.”“The perpetuation of negative stereotypes and demeaning language hurts us all,” he said.But Anthony Baratta, the president of the Order Sons of Italy in America’s commission for social justice, demanded Miller’s suspension. “If Johnny Miller had made a similar remark about Tiger Woods,” he said Thursday in a press release, “he would have been fired.”Are we really that sensitive or just that sensational? Come on, media types can dog "red necks", "country bumpkins", "Christians" and "farmer types" all the time...well even presidential candidates can, and the claim is "we were not talking about them they just read to much into it; however, when a specific group does read to much into a statement - "Katie bar the door" we want them hung...
Firefox 3 At 14 Million Downloads
Firefox 3, the Web browser from Mozilla, has broken the 14 million download mark. Launched on Download Day this past Tuesday, The company hoped for 5 million downloads in a World Record attempt. The Web browser surpassed that goal, ending up with over 8 million downloads in a 24 hour window.
I have and unlike what I have from others, "knock on wood", it hasn't crashed yet...
Worst seen over for Midwest floods, cleanup starts
EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois (Reuters) - The worst Midwest flooding in 15 years eased on Saturday after the swollen Mississippi River crested in St. Louis, but the toll was still rising as billions of dollars in damage to crops, communities and infrastructure were assessed.
What is different between this tragedy and Katrina.....oh yeh, New Orleans - The politicians, the... Kinda like the difference in Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina - Some knew what had to be done and others wanted it done for them...
I have hope, the media will soon start blaming the President, screaming for FEMA, victimizing the residents - Even if those same residents won't!
