CSI actor charged with drug offences...

Actor Gary Dourdan, who plays a forensics investigator on the hit TV show CSI: Crime Scene, has been charged with possession of heroin, cocaine and ectasy. The charges arose from his arrest on April 28 2008 in the desert city of Palm Springs.

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I have a simple philosophy regarding telephones,callers and calls, including mobile or cell phones too.

I don't own a cell phone - no I don't friends. I'm not a slave to the new phenomenon of cell phones. You will not see me hunched over texting on a cell phone, period.

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I'm off to see the wizard - the one with the knife!

I'm getting that arthroscopy or keyhole surgery at 7-30 am Tuesday New Zealand time.

Should keep me off my feet for a couple of days.

I hope you bloggers will have done some class blogging that will bring readers flocking to read your posts.

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Stories in nature - human in nature...

First published at Qassia:

A beige coloured penguin was taunted and ostracised by its fellows down in Antarctica.

Scientists down there in Antarctica were trying to come up with ideas to help the unfortunate penguin - perhaps dye it black and white or something else.

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The much publicised giant 'colossal' squid has been thawed in New Zealand museum...

New Zealand marine scientists have completed the thawing process and have begun to analyse the colossal squid that was caught in the depths of the Ross Sea waters of Antarctica, and was donated to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. It has been kept deep frozen for a year.

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Saudi blogger freed after four months...

A Saudi blogger detained without charge for more than four months after expressing pro-reform opinions has been released, a colleague said on Saturday.

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In the 1960's Kiwi - standard bred harness horse champion racehorse, Cardigan Bay, took on the best in America and won - becoming the first million dollar pacer in history!

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I posted about ANZAC Day down under a few weeks ago, when we honour our fallen heroes from all wars on April 25 every year.

In Returned Services Association clubs in New Zealand, and Returned Services League clubs in Australia - up and down and way across each country, returned services personnel and their families will attend 'dawn parades' and return to their clubs to socialise and have a drink in memory of those who have passed on.

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AN ARTICLE TO KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF FRIENDS...
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Free Tibet? Hell, free America!

Support the humble monks? You bet. But oh, let's not forget our own wonderfully abundant atrocities...

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Mysterious UFO smashes through roof...

First published at Qassia:

A resident of a small Hawkes Bay town, Whakatu, near Hastings in the North ialand of New Zealand, received the shock of her life when an unidentified flying object crashed through her roof, landing on the lounge floor.

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First published at Qassia:

ANGLETON — When William Johnson made a couple of suspicious U-Turns at the intersection of Texas 35 and 288 early Sunday a state trooper pulled him over.

Then the trooper noticed a 6-foot alligator contentedly riding next to the back window of Johnson's car. Johnson said he found the gator on the side of a road.

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Police in Italy have issued footage of a man who is suspected of hypnotising supermarket checkout staff to hand over money from the cash tills.

In every case the last thing they remember is the thief, who has been captured on CCCTV, leaning over and saying,"Look into my eyes," before finding their tills empty!

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My arthroscopy posts were precipitated by my forthcoming knee cartilage operation.

Our local ACC branch( our state owned accident compensation corporation)has approved my operation and I just have to wait for the private hospital provider to set a date.

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THE WAHINE DISASTER - WELLINGTON'S WORST EVER RECORDED STORM AND MARITIME TRAGEDY - LOSS OF 53 LIVES when CYCLONE GISELLE collided with a massive southerly storm on April 10 1968, forty years ago today...

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Communati appears to have lost and gained some new writers since it went offline.What about Blogging Party I wonder?

I guess they have some new writers seeking Adsense exposure and lost other writers to other sites.

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