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Tony Romo: Dating Candice Crawford?

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo definitely has a type.

According to Celeb TV, the NFL star and quasi-celebrity is now dating Miss Missouri Candice Crawford, the sister of Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford!

While this rumor is unsubstantiated, it could be true because:

• Tony and Chace, a Dallas native, are friends.
• Candice Crawford covers high school sports for Dallas station 33TV and also hosts the weekend Dallas Cowboys sports show Special Edition.
• She totally kind of looks like Jessica Simpson and Carrie Underwood (who, after dating Tony Romo, also dated Chace Crawford). We're sold!

Whether they're dating or not, don't you think Tony Romo and Candace Crawford make a cute pair? She's gotta be less annoying than Jessica, too ...

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Duggar Family Expecting 19th Child (VIDEO).

he Duggar family's famous brood is about to get just a little larger. The family went on the "Today Show" to announce that they are expecting their 19th child. Mrs. Duggar is almost three months pregnant. The family adheres to the religious belief that you shouldn't use birth control, instead letting God determine how many children you have.

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Jaycee Dugard and daughters appeared normal to outsiders.

To many friends, neighbors, and Phillip Garrido's clients, Jaycee Dugard and her daughters, Starlet and Angel appeared normal. As reports of their ordeal have surfaced, it seems apparent that no one was aware that anything was amiss. Many neighbors and acquaintances of Phillip Garrido have stated that he seemed odd and eccentric, yet none but one neighbor was concerned enough to contact authorities. When it comes to Jaycee Dugard, Starlet, and Angel, it appears that everyone who encountered them found them to be polite, friendly, and was well liked. When news first broke about Jaycee Dugard and her backyard imprisonment, the public had the immediate perception that she was continually locked in a shed and treated like a savage beast. However, now reports are surfacing that not only did Jaycee Dugard frequently use a computer, but her daughters attended a birthday party and liked Hannah Montana.

One of the most difficult concepts for many to understand is how Jaycee, Starlet, and Angel could continue to live under these circumstances. Hearing that neighbors and other associates found the trio to be ‘normal’ only highlights the perception that Officer Ally Jacobs and Lisa Campbell had. In 18 years of captivity, no one was akin to the fact that something wasn’t right with Jaycee Dugard. When her children were born, still, no one was alerted. We don’t know how long Jaycee and her daughters have been spending time outside the home, however.

In Phillip Garrido’s own words he stated that “It’s a disgusting thing that took place,” exactly what those disgusting things were, we are unsure. Yet, to those who were in actual contact with Jaycee, Starlet, and Angel no one was aware that they were living a nightmare, unfortunately, it is quite possible that Starlet and Angel never had any idea that anything was wrong. Since all they have ever known is the environment provided to them by Phillip Garrido, it is very likely that they have no concept of the grave deceptions that have occurred and are truly missing the Garridos. This type of response is typical from those suffering from the Stockholm syndrome.

Chevyonne Molino stated, “The media made it seem like these little girls were living like wolves or jungle kids in the backyard dungeon. Perhaps that's it, but they didn't give that visual to me. “ She went on to say that the girls were well-mannered and polite. This is a startling contrast to the impression that the girls gave to the two officers who were instrumental in Phillip Garrido’s arrest and Jaycee Dugard’s subsequent reunion with her family. How could two officers see in one hour what associates couldn’t see for years?

Jaycee was known to others as Allissa and Phillip Garrido often referred to her, Jaycee, and Starlet as ‘his girls.’ What is interesting to note, is that when Officer Jacobs and Campbell questioned both Jaycee and Starlet, they didn’t refer to Jaycee as their mother, but referred to her as their older sister. How Starlet and Angel viewed Jaycee has also been kept from the public. Yet, since they referred to their mother as their sister while in public, it seems clear that their conversations were rehearsed. The three may have been able to keep their horrible truth hidden from neighbors and customers, but thankfully, they didn’t appear normal to Officer Jacobs or Lisa Campb

ell. Had they appeared ‘normal’ to them; Jaycee Dugard might not ever have been found.

In this video by Phillip Garrido, he claims that he has never touched his daughters and that when the full story is revealed it will be a ‘powerful, heartwarming’ story. What is heartwarming about the Jaycee Dugard case has nothing to do with Phillip Garrido, but rather that two officers stepped in and Jaycee Dugard was finally reunited with her true family.

Photo 1- Jaycee Dugard, photo released by her stepfather, Carl Probyn

Photo 2- A police investigator searches a shed next door to the home of Phillip Garrido in Antioch, California, August 31, 2009. Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have been charged in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard who was 11 years old at the time. Authorities believe that the now 29-year-old Dugard spent most of the past two decades living in squalid tents and sheds in Garrido's backyard. He is accused of fathering two children with her. Police have expanded their search to include the neighboring property.

Photo 3- A Contra Costa sheriff inspects the backyard of the Phillip Garrido residence Monday, Aug. 31, 2009, in Antioch, Calif. Police have resumed searching for any links to unsolved crimes at the home of the Northern California man charged with kidnapping a little girl and hiding her in his backyard for 18 years.

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BJP asks Jaswant Singh to vacate PAC post

Jaswant Singh Book Controversy.

Most likely the most hated form of discrimination, racial discrimination is found almost everywhere in India. Ignorance, arrogance, or stupidity, describe the causes for the use of this form of discrimination against the minorities in the world’s biggest democracy, which is basically a Hinducracy.

A Sikh wrote a book, in which observed that Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel together conceded Pakistan to Jinnah with help from the British. That irked and angered the Hindu extremists and they expelled the writer, who was a prominent member of their party from BJP.

Narendra Modi-led Gujarat Government banned sale of the expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh book titled– Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence-in the State. The Gujarat government blamed Jaswant’s book for denigrating the image of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, who was a Gujarati and held in high esteem by people across Gujarat and rest of the India for his role during India’s freedom struggle against the British rulers.

So much for the democracy. President Musharraf was right when he faced these extremist in Agra and told them about their true face. Today’s leaders won’t have the guts to support Jaswant Singh. Had Musharraf been here, he would have offered Jaswant Singh any help he wanted.

Truth always prevail.

BJP asks Jaswant Singh to vacate PAC post.

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday asked Jaswant Singh to step down as chairman of parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Sushma Swaraj and SS Ahluwalia, deputy leaders of the BJP in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha respectively, called on Singh at his residence to ask him to give up the post that had been given to him as a BJP leader and to which he was not entitled since he had been expelled from the party. iftikhar gilani

Behind the U.S.-Pakistan Missile Spat: The Indian Threat

Behind the U.S.-Pakistan Missile Spat: The Indian Threat .

A Harpoon missile is fired from a U.S. destroyer.

The spat between Washington and Islamabad over allegations that Pakistan illegally modified U.S.-supplied missiles to improve its ability to target India reveals a deeper schism in the relationship: Pakistan's military establishment remains unmoved by Washington's best efforts to persuade it that the Taliban, rather than India, is the primary threat facing Pakistan — and that's bad news for the U.S. effort in neighboring Afghanistan.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry on Aug. 31 "categorically rejected" charges made by unnamed Obama Administration and Congressional officials quoted in the New York Times the day before that new missiles enabling Pakistan's navy to strike targets on shore were modified from stock supplied by the U.S. during the 1980s. Officials in Islamabad insist that Pakistan produced the new missiles itself.

(Read "In the War Against Militants, U.S. and Pakistan Remain at Odds.")

The quarrel centers on Harpoon antiship missiles sold to Pakistan during the 1980s by the Reagan Administration as part of a broader strategy to counter Soviet influence in the region. Pakistan is alleged to have tinkered with the missiles to enable them to be used against targets on land, and to have conducted a discreet test of the new capability in April. If the allegations are true, Pakistan could be in violation of U.S. law — a point that was reportedly raised by Obama Administration officials with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in June.

Some Pakistani experts believe the official claims. "It's nothing extraordinary for Pakistan," says Talat Masood, a retired lieutenant general who headed Pakistan's largest ordnance factory. "Pakistan has a very comprehensive missile program and is fully capable of producing a wide range of missiles: surface-to-surface, ballistic, anti-air, anti-tanks, etc."

(Read "Does Pakistan's Taliban Surge Raise a Nuclear Threat?")

Other former officials and analysts are less convinced. "It's quite possible that they may have made some modifications," says a former military official, speaking on condition that his name be withheld. "Because of the sanctions that were imposed in Pakistan in late 1990 [by the U.S. in response to Pakistan's nuclear-weapons program], the missiles stopped going to the U.S. for routine maintenance. They must have opened it up and probably extended its range."

"This is what happens in countries that are dependent on foreign technology," says Ayesha Siddiqa, a military expert and author of Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-99. Much of Pakistan's military modernization has come about from U.S. arms sales in the 1950s and '80s. "In Pakistan, we have not really gone beyond license production and reverse engineering." Siddiqa adds that this is not the first time that Pakistan has been accused of reverse engineering or modification. A U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile that had strayed into Pakistani territory during strikes on al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in August 1998 and was recovered intact by Pakistan is widely believed to have provided the basis for its Babur cruise missile.

Pakistan spends "a very small amount of defense production on research and development," says Siddiqa. The Ghauri missile — Pakistan's much-vaunted medium-range ballistic missile, capable of traveling up to 1,500 km and carrying a payload of 700 kg — is simply a renamed Nodong-1 missile imported from North Korea. Drawing on the technology of the North Korean imports, Pakistan is continuing to develop its own longer-range variants — all pointed at India.

(Read "Has Pakistan Outwitted India?")

The Obama Administration has been keen to revive the peace process between Islamabad and New Delhi after it was derailed by last November's Mumbai massacre, believing that taking the relationship between the two countries off a war footing could be a key factor in helping stabilize Afghanistan. The Pakistan military's unshaken focus on its eastern border stems in large part from advances by its rival, including the recent testing of a nuclear submarine. The fear, says retired general Masood, is that "every major induction [in India's military arsenal], whether it is from abroad or indigenous, can be used against Pakistan more than any other." That, of course, may be based on an exaggerated sense of Pakistan's importance in India's strategic thinking: India is establishing itself as a regional power to rival China, which guides the development of its military capability.

(See pictures of the days of terror in Mumbai.)

Pakistan remains suspicious of Indian ambitions in the region, and angry at unresolved disputes, first and foremost over Kashmir. The refusal of Obama's envoy, Richard Holbrooke, to even discuss the issue — which he says falls outside his purview — has not helped the new Administration win Pakistan's trust. Many in Islamabad accuse President Obama of reneging on a campaign promise to seek a resolution on the Kashmir question. Pakistan also fears rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, fearing that the prime challenger to President Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, is even more hostile to Pakistan than the incumbent has been perceived to be. To make matters worse, there is also a slowly bubbling water war between India and Pakistan.

(Read "Can India and Pakistan Lower Tensions over Kashmir?")

Against this backdrop, Pakistan's unpopular civilian government finds itself in a squeeze. President Asif Ali Zardari has prided himself on improving relations with Washington and across the region, but like all civilian leaders of Pakistan before him, he is faced with the dilemma of responding to Washington's concerns at the same time as staying on side with an all-powerful military hard-wired for war with India. As ever, in Pakistan, it's the military brass that Washington must convince that Islamic extremism rather than India is their primary challenge, and thus far the generals appear to remain unpersuaded.

Read "Pakistan-India Tensions Mount over Mumbai Terror."

Read "U.S. Stepping Up Operations in Pakistan."

India upgrading its missile programme.

India upgrading its missile programme.

WASHINGTON - Engineers in India are designing cruise missiles to carry nuclear warheads, relying partly on

Russian missile-design assistance, a major American newspaper said in a report Thursday on Indian and

Pakistani nuclear programmes over whose expansions, it said, US officials have concerns.

"India is also trying to equip its Agni ballistic missiles with such warheads and to deploy them on submarines,"

The Washington Post said in report apparently marking the day on which Pakistan carried out its nuclear tests in response to the Indian atomic blasts. "Its (India's) rudimentary missile-defence capability is slated for a major upgrade next year." US intelligence and proliferation experts say India and Pakistan indicate their nuclear programmes offer leverage in an arms race that has picked up and diversified similar to the US-USSR arms race, the Post said.

"They are both going great guns on new systems, new materials; they are doing everything you would imagine,"

a former US intelligence official told the Post. Pakistan is expected to be ready to produce plutonium for its

nuclear arsenal sometime next year, the newspaper said despite denials by Pakistan of such reports. At the

same time, the newspaper cited US experts as saying that Pakistan's nuclear programme should not been seen

in isolation when New Delhi is advancing its systems as well as piling on to its huge array of weapons. "While

Pakistan's nuclear programme has lately attracted the most worry, because of the close proximity to the capital of Taliban insurgents, many US experts say that it should not be considered in isolation from India's own nuclear expansion," the Post said in the report in which it also focused on the Indian activities.