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BBC Have Your Say (HYS) Debates - Stickied and updated

Sunday, 26. August 2007, 03:40:13

Here's Some More of my on-going BBC comments on the Have Your Say (HYS) Debates. It's a work in progress but the goal is to streamline my daily BBC posts into a Sticky Post on my Blog. Enjoy

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Blogmusik.net

Sunday, 8. July 2007, 18:37:16

blogmusik, net, New, opera ...

Courtesy of Opera Members, NOLA_1977 and Ricewood, found a nice alternative to imeem.com (my page is bigsaf2.imeem.com) called blogmusik.net

It's like an online storage Jukebox which is nice and very simple. Enjoy . Thanks again to NOLA and Ricewood.

Please,go ahead and click on one of the Songs on the List and/or any other buttons or options.

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The 'Untouchables' fight back

Sunday, 26. August 2007, 15:37:45

article, Dalit, south asia, media ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6958213.stm

Here's a little story by the BBC on a man, a Dalit, who's started his own grass-roots newspaper to battle injustice and social inequality.

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Traffic Stats

Saturday, 25. August 2007, 16:28:35

hitlink, opera, hits, links ...

http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2007/08/23/traffic-statistics-for-everyone

http://www.hitslink.com/

I'm pretty sure Most know abt it already. I think hitlinks is a kool service being offered by Opera.

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CIA, Political parties and Multi-corporation delete and edit on Wikipedia!

Thursday, 16. August 2007, 00:54:08

O'Dell, wikipedia, iran, censor ...

This is TOO good to pass up!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6947532.stm

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Car burning in Detroit and Worrisome Bridges

Tuesday, 7. August 2007, 03:55:54

bridge, minnesota, timber, minneapolis ...

Might sound like stereotyping here, but while I was in the States last weekend for a couple of days, I saw a burning car on one of the highway ramps when I was driving in Detroit on it's expressway. The media images of Detroit riots came to mind. L8r though my Brother-in-law told me tht it's a common thing around the area but not for the reasons of violence as most think. Apparently many ppl who can't seem to get by burn their cars to claim insurance. However it's a common occurance and i'm pretty sure the cops hv picked up on it now. So thought I share tht.

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Post Lal-Masjid and other Rambling Thoughts

Wednesday, 18. July 2007, 04:38:53

government, extremists, lal, red ...

The consequences are brutal (to be continued)

6th August:
Ok, left tht hanging there for a long time. If u follow the news, u've probably seen the increased terrorist attacks happening all over Pakistan. When I first wrote the above comment, it was nothing more than the beginning...

Wht's sad is the increasing militant polarization of disaffected Pakistanis who support this more than ever. It's a reminder of a stupid reply a friend,who retardly luved OBL yet sought to seek education and work in the US, made after I asked him whether he'd be kool whether he'd be blown up standing in line for a visa at an US embassy. He said 'Yes'.

Don't be too shocked though. Not all my friends were crackpots! But there were definitely alot of ppl who thought like him and alot of ppl who thought like me. The scary part is we're hearing more and more ppl who thinks like him...and actually do...he was too much of a whimp,really.

I've got no answers for this. Just tht Lal Masjid should hv been crushed as quickly as possible. Now Nutcases around the country who hate the government and the US (nothing new there) r rallying around this, fully knowing how criminal these so called 'Mullanahs' were in the Masjid where one of them actually tried to escape in women's clothing. Sad.

I'm rambling on here, no planned structure for this blog, and I don't really hv a conclusion. I'm just sick and tired of seeing stuff like this. Doctors in the UK joining this crap. Wht the hell?! Maybe I should be glad I'm Shia...I don't know of any suicide bombings by them on civilian populations. Not like as if their saints too...at least in Iraq. And perhaps our somewhat priesthood type system helps us unite under one guy (an Ayatoullah) and don't make up splinter groups or different idealogies from wht we hv.

AHHHHH! Karzai and Bush met yesterday and today. Karzai mentions Iran helping out. Bush sidesteps it saying they're making it worse. Wht a bastard. The Washington Post had an article yesterday stating tht the US made up the intelligence report saying tht Taleban were regrouping in Pakistan. They could hv. But there wasn't any real proof. They got the desired results though. The Peace broker deal fell apart. I'll find the link in a while. Also wanna post the BBC article of the Abu Gharib whistle blower who got outted by Donald Rumsfeld. Will add to this l8r. (to be continued)

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Airing out dirty laundry: Clergy apology and Celibacy

Tuesday, 17. July 2007, 05:38:16

priest, FM, judge, opera ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6900129.stm Not really my department but wanted to share this story with the Opera community. A Los Angeles Cardinal of a Roman Catholic Church just offered an apology yesterday and agreed to a financial settlement worth $(USD)660 million for 508 victims of abuse.

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Revival of My HYS(Have Your Say) BBC Posts

Monday, 9. July 2007, 02:48:44

glasgow, have your say, America, laptop ...

Here's my BBC activity on the Have Your Say(HYS) Debates from 28th May to today's...Enjoy!

DEBATE: The wonders of the world: Your reaction SENT: 09-Jul-2007 01:19 COMMENT: The number 7 is too small to cover all the Wonders of today's World. The original 7 covered The Mediterranean and Middle-East only. 1000's of years has collapsed since then. Today's current Wonders are so many that entries should be extended to at least 10 to 15 to accomodate the rest of the world, despite 6 of the original wonders being non-existent. Time to detach from the sentimental value #7.

DEBATE: How safe do you feel in the UK?(To Continue,Click 'Read More'---->)

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Transformers

Friday, 6. July 2007, 18:22:11

xavier, fox, megan, Transformers ...

OK Transformers...Well, the movie had awesome special effects and the jokes were nice and of course Megan Fox, who seemed to care more for Bumble Bee more at the end than Shia. Luved the way Optimus killed Bone Crusher. And he had that awesome speech on freedom for sentinent beings...very Shakesperean.

Why, oh why, did they hv to give him lips...it just ain't optimus! It had a gay ending which really negated the whole Optimus vs. Megatron. They're relationship was painted as more of a Xavier vs. Magneto, dumbing down the all evil that Megatron was portrayed with in the toons,with giving him a reason for his 'evilness'.

For some reason the writers painted Bumble Bee as a stereotypical alien non-speaking robot that forms a bond with a special boy that u see in the cartoons. A little wasted there, but u do feel for him, though it just ain't Bumblee Bee.

A lot of weird stuff close to the end, such as Secretary of Defense brandishing a rifle(ironic touch?). Anyways, all in all a good movie to watch at the cinema. U won't be overly disappointed with the portrayl of the decepticons and the autobots, which reminds me, they could hv done better with Star Scream but they did show him as the king of the skies and u got a sense of his power from Iron Hide's pointing out his imminent attack.

Anyways, where was I...yea a good movie to watch on the big screen. It'll hardly be a classic but it isn't ruined that most die hard critics claimed. So my recommendation...enjoy it on the BIG screen!

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