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Rumor has it, that sexy Jessica Alba is in labor! The 27-year-old and her husband Cash Warren were due in late May, so this could be it!
She was seen being wheeled into Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Hubby was seen holding "birthing balls." Ya, she’ll want those.
I’m not going to hold my breath on this one - hence the whole Angelina Jolie has had her twins debacle.
If she is in labor, we’ll wish her good luck! Hopefully baby Honor arrives safe and sound. Sassy Smith

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So whatever his actual convictions, it is a matter of ordinary political prudence that Barack Obama "get right with the Jews." Since Jews tend to be about as liberal as the Illinois senator on most domestic issues, what this really means is that he get right with Israel.
And so he has.
Over his campaign’s port side have gone pastor Jeremiah Wright ("Every time you say ‘Israel’ Negroes get awfully quiet on you because they [sic] scared: Don’t be scared; don’t be scared"); former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski ("I think what the Israelis are doing today [2006] for example in Lebanon is in effect – maybe not in intent – the killing of hostages"); and former Clinton administration diplomat Robert Malley (an advocate and practitioner of talks with Hamas).
MIKA brZEZINSKI: Time for our must-read op-eds. And there’s an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that really has me irked this morning. It talks about Barack Obama and the Jews and whether or not Obama is dealing with this problem he may or may not have with the Jewish community. And it actually mentions my father [Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor who had been advising Obama on foreign policy] and lumps him as a problem along with Jeremiah Wright. This guy Brett Stephens does this and I just, Brett, you know, I just want to tell you that before you lump my father with Jeremiah Wright as a problem, you might want to call me, and then I could tell you about the Jewish leaders that we’ve had over dinner who love my father. I can tell you about the decades of work that my father has done toward peace in the Middle East. I can tell you about my grandfather who helped a lot of Jews escape Germany by reinstating their passports at his own peril. So, I don’t know, I just, that, Brett, you might want to give me a call, then maybe you wouldn’t make that connection. Pat?

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Posted on: Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 03:00 CDT
By Schelmetic, Tracey E
We all have pet peeves. I have a few more than most people. But the runaway madness with the number of online functions requiring unique alphanumeric passwords peeves me at least once a week. Never write passwords down, they tell us. Create a very unique alphanumeric password. Never use familiar words or numbers, like family names and birthdays. How about XGFlurbl*54yyz4927? That’s an excellent password that no thief will ever guess. Now, create 43 more passwords like that, for all your loans, mortgage, banks, savings and retirement accounts, newspaper subscriptions, utilities, health insurance accounts, telecommunications companies and any social networking sites you belong to. Oh.. .and don’t write them down!
I, like many parents, once upon a time signed up for a membership at Pampers.com, figuring that a few coupons in the mail now and then for what is one of the largest household expenses in the early childhood years - diapers, which might be made of titanium considering their cost - would be a good thing. And it has. Pampers’ parent company has shared my name with other partner companies, so a steady stream of coupons for all sorts of childhood-related expenses comes in via the mailbox.
I received one of many e-mails I get from Pampers.com recently. Log in, it said, and enter to win $10,000 for your child’s education. I figure by the time my child attends college, that should just about cover the costs of condiments in the school’s meal plan, but who am I to expect my child to excel academically without ketchup and tartar sauce?
So, to enter their contest, I had to log in. No problem. E-mail address first (easy) and password. That was the hard part. I created this account a long time ago, and the password to my “Pampers” Parents Club” membership just isn’t engraved upon my memory the way my password to the Web site for the company that holds my mortgage. I tried to bluff my way through with a few likely combinations. No go. In an effort to avoid time wasted fiddling with this fairly unimportant activity, I finally had to “request my password” via e- mail. But they didn’t send me my password. They sent a temporary password. After I used the temporary password, I was ushered to a secret page where I was obliged to change to a NEW password. (It wouldn’t have done if I had used my previous password: that’s bad for security.) I was also required to input the answer to several security questions… you know the type: mother’s maiden name, first school you attended, favorite musical group.

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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
The opening moments of “Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten” show an image of The Clash frontman in the studio, headphones on, waiting for his cue.
In a voiceover, a producer asks Strummer what title he would like to have presented with his name, to which he replies: “I’d like you to write ‘Punk Rock Warlord.’”
In this touching and intriguing documentary, director Julien Temple looks at the life of the voice behind hits such as “Rock the Casbah” and “London Calling.”
The film itself is like a compilation tape, layering archival footage of The Clash with recordings of Strummer’s BBC radio show and fireside interviews with family, friends and sundry celebrities. The soundtrack incorporates a smorgasbord of musical styles, drawing from Strummer’s radio picks and popular tunes from his heyday.
And although much of the film’s two hours focuses on The Clash, Temple also gives air time to Strummer’s other musical projects, The 101′ers and the Mescaleros.
Though a bit long at times, “The Future is Unwritten” is packed with rock-and-roll and memories even the uninitiated will find enriching.
Those going into “Baby Mama” expecting the acerbic-yet-juvenile Tina Fey wit of “30 Rock”’s Liz Lemon should look elsewhere.
As an uptight careerwoman who can’t get pregnant, Fey ditches the sense of humor and goes for slightly caring and shrill, to varying degrees of success.
Amy Poehler plays the lower-class surrogate Fey hires to carry her baby and is obviously supposed to be the funny one here, but instead just comes off as gratingly dumb.
Her last-minute redemption is completely implausible to those with any amount of incredulity, and both characters come off as unsympathetic and unbelievable.
Peppered with laughs, the script is hit-or-miss, but the story goes in a surprising direction.
Unfortunately, the ending is too convenient and negates the interesting turns the story was taking.

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THAT'S inspirational. THAT'S real.
American Idol 's " Inspirational Music Night " was manufactured hokum — trumping up your emotions so you'll be all primed and ready to give to American Idol Gives Back, their big charity oozfest.
Now don't get me wrong. It's all for a good charity and it's commendable that they're doing it. But there's an element of inflated importance and grandstanding that just gives me the vibe that American Idol is doing this more for themselves and their image than for the charity itself.
I will not be watching the show this evening. I watched it last year. It was like freebasing the Jerry Lewis telethon .
Nor will I watch the results show. Last year they didn't eliminate anybody. How could they? What is American going to say — "Your song was the least inspirational. You've got to go"? Of course not. So now the show that is 90% filler normally will be 100% filler. There will be the zippy Ford commercial, the Up With People production number with the kids (probably singing "Climb Every Mountain" while Paula cries uncontrollably), probing questions from the viewers (" David Archuleta , I'm getting my braces off in a year. Will you wait for me?"), and finally the recaps — endless recaps (Tuesday's show, Wednesday's show, last year's show, the first half of this show).
But I did watch the Tuesday performance show. I'm not an overly sentimental slug as you know but I must admit I was moved to boredom.
I know I'm being snarky but does it seem to you that the performances are just not that good this year? There are always things to goof on but in the past those were mixed with some fantastic performances. Now the judges are fawning over Jason Castro. We've lowered the bar to the point where only a limbo champion could go under it.

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Frankie Howerd used to talk about Robin Day and his cruel glasses. The glint of Peter Taylor’s specs have lately become of interest to his directors, who tend to zoom in on them and his furrowed forehead as he ponders his past. Although he has worn them for as far back as I can remember, they are there, I would guess, to suggest age and wisdom. As a “green young reporter” in the 1960s, he told us last night on Age of Terror (BBC Two), he had hardly heard the word terrorism. Yet terrorism, particularly Irish terrorism, would become his specialist subject.
The first of this four-part series was a completely gripping and completely balanced account of the hijacking in 1976 of an Air France liner en route from Tel Aviv to Paris. The aircraft ended up in Entebbe airport in Uganda, leaving its Jewish passengers at the mercy of the four hijackers - two of them from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two Germans from something called Revolutionary Cells - and, God help them, Idi Amin.
After some government-level vacillation, the Israeli Defence Forces launched a night raid that saved 100 hostages. Partly the success was due to their hitting upon an inspired solution to the problem of transporting soldiers quietly from the airport to the terminal. They ordered a black Mercedes of the type Amin himself travelled in, to which the typical Ugandan response was a salute. When Mossad instead delivered a white one, they thought laterally, and painted it.
Most of us know the story roughly, if only through movies such as Raid on Entebbe, but many details have faded. That made for suspense as the story unfolded mainly in the words of the hostages but aided by news footage and some discreet re-enactments. I did not remember that the one Israel soldier killed was the leader of the assault, Yoni Netanyahu, a man with such iron nerves that he slept all through the flight over even as his comrades puked out of nerves and air turbulence. His older brother, Binyamin, went on to become Israeli Prime Minister in the 1990s. Nor did I recall the disgusting detail that after the operation, Amin ordered the murder of Nora Bloch, a 75-year-old taken from the plane with a choking fit in order to recover in hospital.

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They are also unable to say if she will be able to eat and function normally.
The excitement surrounding her arrival comes two years after the birth of another little girl, from the poverty stricken region of Bihar, who was born attached to her headless twin.
In a 40 hour operation, doctors successfully removed the lifeless body from Lakshmi Tatma, who was hailed as a reincarnation of Vishnu.
The extraordinary eight-limbed baby was born on the day devoted to the celebration of the four-armed Hindu deity Vishnu.
Since the operation Lakshmi has successfully taken her first steps.
Her mother Poonam Tatma said she believed her daughter was “a miracle”.
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I understand Katie from Ontario. Personally I wouldn’t want to live if had 4 eyes, two mouths and two noses. Poor little girl!
To Kate from Ontario. A kind death, are you serious? This beautiful baby despite her ‘deformity’ is not a dog that needs to be put down!
Surely it is now time that some research is started into why these birth deformities are occurring with seemingly increasing frequency in India.
- Barbara, St Helens UK

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