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October 15, 2008 - 21:31 ET by bmovies Everytime I open a page on NB, I get a little pop up that reads "garbage". ---------------------- garbage October 15, 2008 - 21:33 ET by botg i got some too ---------------------- Yup October 15, 2008 - 21:34 ET by Gothampc Happened twice to me. --------------------- Happened to me 3 times October 15, 2008 - 21:38 ET by TheSter

NBC’s Matt Lauer, broadcasting live from the Great Wall of China on Monday’s "Today" show, referred to the "double-edged sword" of the world’s attention being on China for the Summer Olympic Games and asked a Chinese professor about how that "spotlight" might be "co-opted by party crashers who have a bone to pick with this country. He then asked the professor, "How worried are the people here about that?" Lauer, who will be in China during the next weeks for the Olympics, interviewed Professor Teng Dimeng of the Beijing Foreign Studies University 20 minutes into 7 am Eastern hour of...

For months the leaders of Call to Action have been collecting signatures on a petition to the US bishops' conference, demanding action against Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, who has refused to play along with the "audits" required by the Dallas Charter. Pause here for a bit of background: The bishops' conference has no authority to discipline an individual bishop for non-compliance with the Charter audits.Insofar as the conference can do anything, it's already been done; the conference has published public pleas for Bishop Bruskewitz to get in line with the policy.Bishop Bruskewitz, who (rightly) regards the audits as...

A legislator who filed a lawsuit against God has gotten something he might not have expected: a response. One of two court filings from “God� came Wednesday under otherworldly circumstances, according to John Friend, clerk of the Douglas County District Court in Omaha. “This one miraculously appeared on the counter. It just all of a sudden was here — poof!� Friend said. State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued God last week, seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty for making terroristic threats, inspiring fear and causing “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.�...