AFP – Al-Qaeda’s military chief in Yemen warned Americans in an audio message posted online that the Boston bombings revealed a fragile security as he urged Muslims to defend their religion. Qassim al-Rimi, the military chief of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said making bombs such as the ones used in the twin blasts in… Read more »
The QE2 is passing by earth today but hopefully will not dock on the West Side. The QE2, is not the ship of the same name but the1998 QE2, an asteroid, and mountain sized monster (yes you read that correctly), that will pass Earth at what NASA calls a “safe distance” of about 3.6.million miles. Let’s hope our beloved NASA are good with distances.The… Read more »
Oprah Winfrey received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University, on Thursday. The media mogul was obviously deeply touched by the commendation as she accepted the law degree with a few tears brimming in her eyes on the famous campus grounds in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The honour was bestowed upon the 59-year-old talk show host just hours … Read more »
Being confident and loud is the best way to win an argument – even if you are wrong according to a new study and it is the best way to get more Twitter followers. Researchers from Washington State University who studied the activity of Twitter users realized the more opinionated they were, the more influential and trustworthy… Read more »
We all do it but apparently scientists have now discovered that sitting down is bad for us. Which of course begs the question as to whether there is anything left that might not be hazardous to our health. Drinking soda, smoking, headphones, cell phones, the list goes on, and now sitting! “Prolonged sitting is not what nature intended… Read more »
A Saudi journalist working for London-Based Asharq Alawsat says Saudi monarch King Abdullah has been clinically dead since Wednesday. He also quoted medical sources in Saudi Arabia as saying that the king’s vital organs, including his heart, kidneys and lungs, have stopped functioning. Doctors are said to have used a defibrillator on him several times. He… Read more »
Popular West Village eatery Saint Ambroeus may be forced to close its sidewalk tables because of new City enforced legislation.The Department of Consumer Affairs has sent notice to 17 New York restaurants including Saint Ambroeus, telling them that that they will have to close their sidewalk seating areas unless they are willing to comply with the… Read more »
Billy Joel, is a great performer but his remarks about 9/11 are extremely offensive to the many people who really suffered as a result of that tragedy. The singer went into rehab for his alcohol problem in 2005 and now in an interview with the New York Times he reveals how 9/11 turned him to drink…. Read more »
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis has hailed a priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia and urged mobsters to stop exploiting people in criminal rackets including prostitution. The pontiff exhorted Mafiosi to change their ways, issuing the call, before todays beatification of an Italian priest in Palermo who was slain in 1993 by mobsters after he defiantly… Read more »
Millions of protesters rallied in major cities across the world last Saturday as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces. We wonder where is Mayor Bloomberg in all of this? Yes, he is concerned about soft drinks and smoking, which is commendable but what about Monsanto’s work at play in New York supermarkets and across… Read more »
