China briefly cut off oil supplies to N. Korea: report

And the Chinese claim to have little influence over the North Koreans:

China cut off oil supplies to North Korea following North Korea's deadly shelling of a South Korean border island last November to prevent Pyongyang from carrying out its threats to retaliate against the South, a South Korean newspaper reported from Beijing on Thursday, citing a Japanese expert on North Korea.

Giant crayfish found in Tennessee is new species

A new species...

of giant crayfish literally crawled out from under a rock in Tennessee, proving that large new species of animals can be found in highly populated and well-explored places, researchers said on Wednesday.

Video: 50 Cent Backs Up Keenen Cahill

If you haven't already seen Keenen Cahill and 50 Cent rapping together, this is hysterical.

Cavern of Crystal Giants

Crystal Palace (National Geographic)

U.S. Housing Starts Slowed Sharply in December

NYTimes: U.S. Housing Starts Slowed Sharply in December
- But at least Wall St. is booming. Maybe we'll get some crumbs. Unfortunately we won't have anyplace to live. Maybe we'll get discovered by the roadside like Ted Williams.

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Harry Reid calls Chinese leader Hu Jintao a 'dictator'

And this is news? He spoke the truth--which is rare for politicians in Washington. The liberal establishment won't scream in protest as they did with Reagan's "evil empire" remark, because Reid is a Democrat.

“I am going to go back to Washington and meet with the President of China. He is a dictator. He can do a lot of things through the form of government they have. Maybe I shouldn’t have said dictator, but they have a different type of government then we have, and that is an understatement,” Reid said in the interview.

“So we have to work in the system we have, the best system ever devised to rule the affairs of men and women,” Reid continued. “And one of the few ways we get things done, in fact the most important way we get things done, is through compromise. It’s not a bad word, and that is how we get things done.”

Family of Yvonne Freeman, New York City Woman Who Died in Blizzard, Plans $20 Million Lawsuit

Bloomberg should be made to pay the family. He can afford it, not the City:

Suffering a heart attack during the New York City blizzard after Christmas, Yvonne Freeman "never had a chance," her daughter says, because an ambulance took three hours to reach her over unplowed streets. By the time it got there, it was too late.

Alabama's Governor Wants You to Convert

It is frightening such a person is Governor of a State. What must non-Christians of that State be thinking right about now. Are we becoming like the people we are fighting--the Jihadists?:

There may be some people here today who do not have living within them the Holy Spirit ... But if you have been adopted in God's family like I have, and like you have if you're a Christian and if you're saved, and the Holy Spirit lives within you just like the Holy Spirit lives within me, then you know what that makes? It makes you and me brothers. And it makes you and me brother and sister. ... Now I will have to say that, if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters. So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother.

Saudi ends Lebanon mediation, says country at risk

Sounds like more chaos in the Middle East:

Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it had abandoned mediation efforts in Lebanon between Shi'ite Hezbollah and Sunni leader Saad al-Hariri over the killing of his father and warned that the country's future was at stake.

Regional power Saudi Arabia and Syria had worked for months to resolve a dispute between Hezbollah and Hariri over indictments in the 2005 killing of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, which are widely expected to accuse Hezbollah members.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said the kingdom had abandoned its efforts and that the situation in Lebanon was "dangerous."