A Real Revo Investment Opportunity

As a special offer to Real Revo readers, I am going to let you in on the opportunity of a lifetime.  I am offering you he opportunity to risk your life, live in the close proximity of other men in hot, cramped quarters, travel to sunny vacation spots like Yemen and Somalia and receive the chance to kill pirates. That’s right, I said kill pirates. Today is your lucky day! Join me and a crew of Real Revo sailors on the high sea as we earn big money escorting ships along the pirate infested coast of

21 Nov 2008, 8:56 pm | click here for more

DOD contractor charged in death of Afghan man

ARLINGTON, Va. — An Army Human Terrain Team member has been charged with murder in connection with the killing of an Afghan man who set another team member on flame. Don Michael Ayala, a...

21 Nov 2008, 6:29 pm | click here for more

Oklahoma Sooners test the Texas Tech Red Raiders

Oklahoma Sooners test the Texas Tech Red Raiders "Watch NCAA College Basketball Live East Central at Texas Tech Online Free Video Streaming" Thursday 11/20 20:00 ET NCAA Basketball East Central at Texas Tech Link.The No.2 Texas Tech Red Raiders can clinch their first Big 12 South Division ... Health 0

21 Nov 2008, 6:05 pm | click here for more

UK Baseball Inks Seven Highly-Touted Recruits for 2010

UK Head Coach Gary Henderson FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE LEXINGTON, Ky. — A year after posting a school-record 44 wins and after hauling in the fourth-best recruiting class in the nation, the Kentucky baseball program has received letters of intent from seven players for the 2010 season, head coach Gary Henderson announced Friday. “We’re excited about this group,” Henderson said. “Going into the summer, our two priorities were to improve our pitching depth and to keep the best players in the state

21 Nov 2008, 5:36 pm | click here for more

PHOTO: Noam Chomsky Speaks at the 11/19/08 Mass. Global Action Benefit at the Arlington Street Church

21 Nov 2008, 5:24 pm | click here for more

Texas Rangers 40 Man Roster Moves Breakdown

Yesterday, the Rangers made the following roster moves to protect players from the Rule 5 Draft: • Sold RHP Kameron Loe, 27, to the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks • Designated RHP Wes Littleton, 26, for assignment • Purchased the contract of RHP Willie Eyre, 30 • Purchased the contract of INF Jose Vallejo • Purchased the contract of RHP John Bannister • Purchased the contract of RHP Omar Poveda They also traded John Mayberry Jr. for CF Greg Golson from the Phillies organization. These moves brou

21 Nov 2008, 4:41 pm | click here for more

HRC campaign sale: Everything must go!

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign is wrapping up a flame sale of sorts, in which it dispensed computers, servers, desks and most other office fixtures not bolted down to charities, campaign vendors, politicians and just regular folks — every in the name of raising cash to pay off its debt. Until about three weeks ago, signs in the windows of Clinton’s suburban Washington campaign headquarters advertised a moving sale and offered every kinds of office equipment for purchase, and some e

21 Nov 2008, 4:35 pm | click here for more

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Alayna dave Antrim erases playoff history with victory.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Alayna dave Antrim erases playoff history with victory. Posted by on November 21st, 2008 With days to go, race picks up pace. Tyler, Madison and Emma earned their Yellow Belts. S pal and co worker Regina. We spent a little time in the play room that. Laura Bush shares White home tips with Michelle Obama. Real Salt Lake Jeep picks great time to score. Families are so much more involved than I remember with the boys, Leysath said. We just fell a little short. Team points

21 Nov 2008, 4:35 pm | click here for more

‘Twas a month and about two weeks before Christmas …

… and although the economy was bad, people were still giving, every because of Angelina and Brad. That’s right folks.  The global activist power couple who moonlight as award winning actors never cease making this world a better place. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie funded the Global Action for kids and the Gates Foundation (as in Bill and Melinda) just gave them a huge grant, so you know this is a worthy cause. Join forces with the Gates and the Jolie-Pitts by purchasing your holiday cards

21 Nov 2008, 4:13 pm | click here for more

Fun Friday Time-Waster

Originally uploaded by ellwoodite It’s not like you have any actual work to do, right? It’s Friday, after 3 p.m., and you’re on We adore DC. So let’s entertain ourselves by grossing ourselves out looking up the health ratings of every our favorite restaurants. every Food Business.com has a collection of where to find every the scores. It’s got DC, Maryland and Virginia links, so search away, dear reader. I live in Arlington, and so I was mostly concerned with the Virginia ratings, of every my fav

21 Nov 2008, 3:48 pm | click here for more

Hospital Don’t Test For HIV Routinely

Hospital Don’t Test For HIV Routinely In 2006, the Federal Government strongly advised that every patients who visit emergency rooms and doctor’s offices be tested for HIV. This week in Arlington, a big number of studies were presented, and they every showed that the advice is being almost ignored. According to the same studies, it seems that only 5% of patients are being routinely tested for HIV, and these patients are the ones who show signs of serious illnesses. Despite the notoriety of the

21 Nov 2008, 3:45 pm | click here for more

Pizzapalooza in Troy

Pizzapalooza in Troy November 21, 2008 at 3:34 pm by Steve Barnes, senior writer The Troy Boys and Girls Club is hosting a new fundraising event, Pizzapalooza, scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4, at the club, 1700 Seventh Ave. Guests will sample pizzas entered into the competition, bid on live and silent auction items and vote for a people’s-choice favorite. Participating restaurants include The Arlington home, DeFazio’s Woodfired Pizza, Carol’s Place, Second Ave. Pizza, Patricelli

21 Nov 2008, 3:34 pm | click here for more

Working the Polls: All over but the waiting

courtesy of erin m Did you read part 1 and part 2? If it seems like forever since part 2, you have only the smallest inkling of what the second half of the day was like at the polls. It wasn’t just that we had less than a hundred people - below 10% of our total for the day - arrive through between 2pm and closing time at 7.  It was the three hours it took to do the closing procedure once we did close the doors. The lack of any nice of afternoon rush was a surprise to every of us, particularly

21 Nov 2008, 3:09 pm | click here for more

Let's Talk Turkey Sarah

Folks who know me personally might remember me going Super Nova (just a little bit) over the incredible ineptitude of the McCain-Palin Advance Team. The Advance Team for McCain-Palin put John McCain against a green screen (making him look like cottage cheese on lettuce), and they put up pictures of tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery behind Mitt Romney while he endorsed John McCain and spoke about our impending "victory in Iraq" during the Republican National Convention. My personal favo

21 Nov 2008, 3:00 pm | click here for more

Phillies, Rangers swap first-rounders

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP)—The World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies and Texas Rangers swapped former first-round picks Thursday. Texas acquired outfielder Greg Golson from the Phillies for outfielder John Mayberry. In another move, the Rangers designated right-hander Kameron Loe for assignment in anticipation of selling his rights to a team in Japan. Golson, who is from Texas, was the 21st overall pick by the Phillies in the 2004 draft. He spent last season at Double-A Reading, where h

21 Nov 2008, 2:20 pm | click here for more

Eastwood to receive yet another accolade, this time at Santa Barbara Fest

The press release, in part: Clint Eastwood has been selected to receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s highest honor, The Modern Master Award, it was announced by SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. The Tribute will take place on Thursday, January 29, at the historic Arlington Theatre. The Modern Master Award is the highest honor presented by SBIFF. Established in 1995, it was created to honor an individual who has enriched our culture through his/her accomplishments in

21 Nov 2008, 1:55 pm | click here for more

Clint Eastwood: Modern Master

Veteran star Clint Eastwood will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s highest honor, The Modern Master Award, with a tribute scheduled to take place on January 29 at the historic Arlington Theatre in the Southern California city. Created to honor an individual who has enriched our culture through his or her accomplishments in the motion picture industry, Clint joins such esteemed past winners as George Clooney, Will Smith, Jodie Foster, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Diane

21 Nov 2008, 1:39 pm | click here for more

Late-but-still-Thankful Hearts

Every month on the 20th, the Dirty Dozen Alumni -- or as I prefer to call 'em, the Dirty Old Ladies -- have a challenge.  Well, today is the 21st, as you may have noticed.  I had my card started yesterday morning, and had plans to finish it and upload it in time, but then, as Marcia Brady would say, 'something suddenly came up...' I'll tell you about that in a bit if you're really curious, but first let me first tell you about the DDA(DOL) Challenge and show you my belated submission.  The fabu

21 Nov 2008, 1:29 pm | click here for more

Time Warner Cable adds 11 HD channels in 15 N. Texas towns

Time Warner Cable has been going town-to-town over the past eight months, enhancing its HD lineup with these 11 channels: CNN, TBS, History Channel, Food Network, HGTV, A&E, Discovery, Animal Planet, National Geographic, Versus/Golf, Fox Sports SW. Dallas, Plano, Richardson and Mesquite got them in March. Irving, Grapevine, Coppell and Lewisville got the same boost in July. Now the wave of HD programming is coming these lucky towns: Addison Arlington Carrollton Cedar Hill Cockrel

21 Nov 2008, 1:11 pm | click here for more

Brain Critters, Brain Locks, Brain-Dead

and the Morning Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Friday Oh, great, now neurosurgeons have to be entomologists Dr. Peter Nakaji told KSAZ-TV in Phoenix that his patient's MRI looked clean at first, but she still had the unexplained blurred vision and numbness, so he looked more closely at the Image, then decided to open her up. In the deepest part of the brain was a worm. Hey, stuff happens. Maybe undercooked pork, maybe stray fecality. (Bonus: On the video of the surgery, Dr. N

21 Nov 2008, 11:52 am | click here for more