Monday, January 31, 2011
Opinion: Here's an Easy Way to Improve Gun Safety
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
El-Baradei hails new era on Day Six of Egypt fury
via news.yahoo.com
Top dissident Mohamed ElBaradei told a sea of angry protesters in Cairo on Sunday that they were beginning a new era after six days of a deadly revolt against embattled President Hosni Mubarak. But despite the anticipation of change, Mubarak ordered police back on the streets after they had largely disappeared over the past two days following street battles with protesters. He also extended a curfew in key cities. Nobel peace laureate ElBaradei, mandated by Egyptian opposition groups including the banned Muslim Brotherhood to negotiate with Mubarak's regime, hailed "a new Egypt in which every Egyptian lives in freedom and dignity."
Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S.
Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S.: http://huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/30/al-jazeera-english-us_n_816030.html - For the same reason the U.S. government has supported the tyrant Mubarak while paying lip service to Democracy.
Tea Party Leader: Movement Wouldn't Exist 'If GOP Hadn't Failed Under Bush'
Tea Party Leader: Movement Wouldn't Exist 'If GOP Hadn't Failed Under Bush' - http://pulsene.ws/V3EQ
Obama Administration Cut Funding To Promote Democracy In Egypt
Obama Administration Cut Funding To Promote Democracy In Egypt - http://pulsene.ws/V49m
Calif. officer wounded, police search for shooter
Calif. officer wounded, police search for shooter - FoxNews.com
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Mahmoud Kabil, Influential Egyptian, Speaks About Protests (Q&A)
Mahmoud Kabil, Influential Egyptian, Speaks About Protests (Q&A)
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Anonymous Internet Users Team Up To Provide Communication Tools For Egyptian People
Anonymous Internet Users Help Egypt Communicate
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Can’t Sleep? It May Help to Get Out of Bed
Can’t Sleep? It May Help to Get Out of Bed – TIME Healthland
Nurse practitioners offered the following behavioral interventions for improving sleep: reduce time in bed; get up at the same time every day, regardless of sleep duration; don't go to bed unless sleepy; and don't stay in bed unless asleep.
GOP Sen. Rand Paul Urges Cutting Aid to Israel
GOP Sen. Rand Paul Urges Cutting Aid to Israel
- This is a violation of one of the commandments of American politics: Thou shall not question support for Israel.
- This is a violation of one of the commandments of American politics: Thou shall not question support for Israel.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Ohio Mom Kelley Williams-Bolar Jailed for Sending Kids to Better School District
Ohio Mom Kelley Williams-Bolar Jailed for Sending Kids to Better School District - ABC News
- She deserves a slap on the wrist not jail time. The point is she should not be put in that position.
- She deserves a slap on the wrist not jail time. The point is she should not be put in that position.
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Soldiers Seize Drug Slingshot on US-Mexico Border
Soldiers Seize Drug Slingshot on US-Mexico Border
In what seems like a scene straight out of a Monty Python movie, Mexican soldiers seized a giant catapult believed to have been used to fling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Holyfield, Williams fight ruled no-contest
This is why boxing is in such bad shape. A 48-year-old has been heavyweight champion fighting a guy who hadn't fought since 2009....on pay per view. Sadly there is a market for this kind of crap, still:
The 48-year-old Holyfield (43-10-2) was cut in the second round when Williams' head made contact just above Holyfield's left eye. The four-time heavyweight champion came out for the third round, and Williams (34-11-2) staggered him with several overhand punches. Before the fourth round could, the start the fight was stopped and rule a no-contest. Holyfield didn't protest the decision.
Ron Paul, Ralph Nader agree on ‘progressive-libertarian alliance’
Another voice not part of the two-party system. They will provide more debate on what's wrong with our government.
In this corner, a libertarian, tea party hero who ran several campaigns as a candidate for US president on the Republican ticket. And in that corner, a progressive icon of the left who also ran several campaigns for the US presidency but on the Green Party ticket.
Nader, who has recently called this coalition "the most exciting new political dynamic" in the US today, explained that it works well because both groups stand against corporatists who believe government should be run in the interests of corporations.
Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US
m.guardian.co.uk
Turkle's thesis is simple: technology is threatening to dominate our lives and make us less human. Under the illusion of allowing us to communicate better, it is actually isolating us from real human interactions in a cyber-reality that is a poor imitation of the real world.
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Former Spy With Agenda Operates a Private C.I.A.
NYT: Ex-Spy, Duane R. Clarridge, Ru
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Officials fear bath salts are growing drug problem
Officials fear bath salts are growing drug problem - USATODAY.com
When Neil Brown got high on bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven't been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Snow, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky.
Some say the effects of the powders are as powerful as abusing methamphetamine. Increasingly, law enforcement agents and poison control centers say the bath salts with complex chemical names are an emerging menace in several U.S. states where authorities talk of banning their sale.
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists'
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists' | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of "promiscuity" with the blessing of senior commanders, according to a former agent who worked in a secretive unit of the Metropolitan police for four years.
The former undercover policeman claims that sexual relationships with activists were sanctioned for both men and women officers infiltrating anarchist, leftwing and environmental groups.
Mystery surrounds Idaho winner of $190 million
Mystery surrounds Idaho winner of $190 million - FoxNews.com
Holly Lahti burst into the spotlight a week ago in a feel-good story about a single mother who won a $190 million Mega Millions jackpot.
Then came the mugshot: a thin young woman with disheveled brown hair, sporting a black eye and cuts and bruises on her face and neck. It turned out she was separated from a man who court records indicated had abused her, and now has a possible claim to some of the money through a quirk in Idaho law.
Lahti, 29, went underground with her two daughters immediately after learning she had won half of a $380 million jackpot in the Jan. 4 drawing. She has not been seen or heard in public since.
GOP Rep: Mixed seating a "trap" to "silence Republicans" at State of the Union
The Republican strategy to attack and undermine everything the Democrats do is still strong. They are not even interested in governing. They've adopted the Tea Party strategy after attacking government without offering any solutions.
Playboy iPad App Blocked Despite Hef's Tweets
Playboy iPad App Blocked Despite Hef's Tweets
- Way to go, Apple. Someone in the big business world has some decency.
- Way to go, Apple. Someone in the big business world has some decency.
I no Likee Lady Gaga's latest video, "Anatomy of Change." Too macabre and repetitive. She's making some kind of point, I think.
Climate Threatens Birds From Tropics to Mountaintops
Climate Threatens Birds From Tropics to Mountaintops - NYTimes.com
Over the past two decades, an increasing number of settlers who have moved here to farm have impinged on bird habitats and reduced bird populations by cutting down forests and turning grasslands into fields. Now the early effects of global warming and other climate changes have helped send the populations of many local mountain species into a steep downward spiral, from which many experts say they will never recover.
EPA Allows More Ethanol in Fuel for Cars
EPA Allows More Ethanol in Fuel for Cars - FoxNews.com
Nearly two-thirds of cars on the road could have more corn-based ethanol in their fuel tanks under an Environmental Protection Agency decision Friday.
The agency said that 15 percent ethanol blended with gasoline is safe for cars and light-duty trucks manufactured between 2001 and 2006, expanding an October decision that the higher blend is safe for cars built since 2007.The maximum gasoline blend has been 10 percent ethanol.
Nepal communists give up control over ex-fighters
This headline almost sounds hard to believe. Hopefully it's good news:
The head of Nepal's former communist rebels handed command of his fighters over to the government Saturday as part of a peace deal that ended the Himalayan nation's decade-long conflict.
Search widens for 5 missing American sailors
Search widens for 5 missing American sailors - CNN.com
U.S. military aircraft and a Coast Guard cutter Saturday searched a large swath of sea for a catamaran and five American sailors that went missing between Guam and the Philippines.
The 38-foot Pineapple was last seen January 6 in Guam harbor, officials said. The crew was making the 1,400 mile (2,250-km) journey to the island of Cebu to deliver the vessel, Coast Guard officials said.
The crew is experienced and well-provisioned, but the craft has no long-range emergency communications equipment and faced challenging winds during part of the journey, officials said.
Deadly CA crashes end with man beaten by a mob
This is what is called societal breakdown:
In a bizarre and deadly chain of events, a pedestrian was twice struck by hit-and-run drivers, the woman who came to his aid was also hit, and finally the driver trying to help her was beaten and robbed by a mob, police said Friday.
The crashes on a busy Los Angeles-area boulevard left a man dead, a woman injured, a suspect arrested, and detectives stunned.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Pet ferret in Missouri chews off seven of sleeping infant's fingers after crawling onto baby seat
Pet ferret in Missouri chews off seven of sleeping infant's fingers after crawling onto baby seat
A pet ferret chewed off seven of a Missouri infant's fingers, leaving the boy with two thumbs and a pinky.
The ferret feasted on the sleeping 4-month-old's hands after it crawled onto his baby seat about 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 10, authorities said.
2 New Yorkers come to rescue when deranged man attacks flight attendant on JFK-bound plane
2 New Yorkers come to rescue when deranged man attacks flight attendant on JFK-bound plane
Two New Yorkers came to the rescue of a beleaguered flight attendant after he was attacked by a deranged man on a JFK-bound plane, sources said Friday.
One of them, 36-year-old Ramiro Silos, said the burly man was "screaming something about his sons."
"The guy was big and he was screaming, screaming, screaming," Ramiro Silos told The Daily News. "I could not understand him. But when we took him down, we took him down hard."
Santorum invokes Obama’s race in abortion debate
Santorum invokes Obama’s race in abortion debate - Yahoo! News
Rick Santorum says President Obama should be against abortion because Obama is black.
Feds Probe Post-Flu Shot Seizures Among Kids
Feds Probe Post-Flu Shot Seizures Among Kids - CBS News
Government officials are investigating an apparent increase in fever-related seizures in young children after they got a flu shot.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said there have been 36 confirmed reports of seizures this flu season in children ages 6 months through 2 years. The seizures occurred within one day after they were vaccinated with Fluzone, the only flu shot recommended in the United States for infants and very young children. Ten of the children were hospitalized, but all recovered.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Parents Group Petitions Congress, Attorney General to Investigate MTV for Child Pornography in 'Skins' Series
Parents Group Petitions Congress, Attorney General to Investigate MTV for Child Pornography in 'Skins' Series - FoxNews.com
Is MTV a purveyor of kiddie porn?
The Parents Television Council wants to find out.
The media watchdog group called on lawmakers and law enforcement officials Thursday to open an investigation regarding possible child pornography and exploitation on the cable network's new series “Skins.”
Guns seized after Mass. man suggests targeting politicians
It's only going to get worse until something is done about the number of guns out there and the culture of violence that has become the norm:
Police have seized a Boston-area comic book dealer's arsenal and suspended his gun license over a blog post that suggested other members of Congress and their aides should be targeted in the wake of the shooting of Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
In a post titled "1 down, 534 to go," Travis Corcoran of Arlington, Mass., wrote: "It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot 'indiscriminately'. Target only politicians and their staff, and leave regular citizens alone." The blog, TJICistan, is no longer accessible, but affiliates have emerged.
...Corcoran, 39, who runs the online comic site HeavyInk and calls himself an "anarcho-capitalist," has not been arrested or charged with any crime. Local and federal authorities are investigating.
...But in a Twitter exchange recounted by the liberal blog ThinkProgress, Corcoran explains his anti-government philosophy and why and when political assassination may be legitimate.
2010 weakest year for home sales since 1997
How is this an economic turnaround as the press keeps pronouncing? There is no indication that the economy is getting significantly better:
The number of people who bought previously owned homes last year fell to the lowest level in 13 years. But home sales in December jumped to fastest pace in seven months.
The National Association of Realtors says sales dropped 4.8 percent to 4.91 million units in 2010. That was slightly lower than 2008, which had been the weakest level since 1997.
...Still, many economists believe it will take years for sales to rise to a normal level of around 6 million units a year. And some say 2011 will be even weaker than last year because more foreclosures are expected and home prices are likely to keep falling through the first six months of the year.
Dem Rep: No apology for saying GOP mendacity is worthy of Goebbels
- There is some truth here. The Republicans use propaganda as their political tool. They have no interest in being truthful in anything they are saying. Both parties lie. Republicans have turned into an art form.
Uh oh. Dem Rep. Steve Cohen has no intention to apologize for insisting in a controversial broadside on the House floor that GOP lies on health reform are worthy of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. In a lively interview with me just now, he doubled down on the claim -- hard.
"I don't think calling out liars is uncivil," Cohen told me. "No reason to apologize. You have a duty to respond. if they were telling the truth and I said they were lying, then I would apologize," Cohen continued, referring to Republicans.
GOP staff, energy lobby in closed-door talks
I was predictable. You knew when the Republicans took over the House they would get on their fours and start worshiping their masters--including the anti-regulation of-any-kind crowd. :
Top staff members for key House and Senate Republicans met in a closed-door session Tuesday with energy industry interests to work on strategy to handcuff the Obama administration’s climate change agenda.
With the backing of GOP caucus leaders, aides for House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) are seeking unwavering support from a host of industries for an all-out push to block federal and state climate rules.
CNN Poll: More People Think Obama Failure than Success
This President has done nothing to alleviate the suffering Americans are experiencing after the near collapse of the economy over 2 years ago. Not to mention his failure to bring "change" to American politics. Big business is more entrenched than ever.
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, 45 percent say the first two years of the Obama administration have been a success, with 48 percent describing it as a failure. The poll's Thursday release comes on the second anniversary of the inauguration of Obama as president.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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.
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.
- 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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Deadly Gas Explosion Caught on Video
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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."
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Obama's Bogus Explanation For Economic Troubles
Obama's Bogus Explanation For Economic Troubles
- Just like a typical politician.
- Just like a typical politician.
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Jailed US spy sent secrets to Moscow while in prison
Why wasn't this scum executed
A former CIA agent jailed for spying for Russia in 1997 had eight years added to his prison term Tuesday, after admitting using his son to pass more secrets to Moscow while behind bars.
Harold James Nicholson, 59, is serving over 23 years in the northwest state of Oregon, but has admitted to passing information during prison visits by his son Nathaniel, who then traveled abroad, from 2006 to December 2008.
'World must protect Palestinians from Israeli violence'
And Palestinian violence, as well:
UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk has called on the global community to protect the Palestinians from excessive Israeli violence.
“It is time for the international community to step in and offer this long-vulnerable Palestinian population protection against the violence perpetrated by Israeli authorities,” Falk said in a statement on Friday.
Rant against politicians lands Nobel laureate in court in Bangladesh
And I'm sure that the government deserved criticism.
Micro-credit pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus appeared in a Bangladesh court Tuesday on a defamation charge for reportedly criticizing politicians four years ago, court officials said.
The state prosecutor for Mymensingh district court, Wazedul Islam, confirmed Yunus' appearance, saying he "appeared in a defamation suit filed in January 2007."
Video: FBI: Bomb found on MLK march route
Why isn't frontpage news? I didn't hear a thing about until a day later:
A backpack found along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. march in Spokane contained a bomb "capable of inflicting multiple casualties," the FBI said Tuesday, describing the case as "domestic terrorism."
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Afghanistan's push to tax U.S. contractors could renew tensions
Afghanistan's push to tax U.S. contractors could renew tensions
- Tell me again why we are supporting the corrupt government in Kabul.
The Afghan government is ramping up efforts to tax U.S. contractors operating there - an effort that could raise millions for the cash-strapped government but could also provoke fresh confrontation with the United States, according to U.S. and Afghan officials.
Taxation of U.S. government assistance is barred by U.S. law, as well as by a number of bilateral accords between Afghanistan and the United States. But the wording in the documents is vague, and the two governments disagree on what "tax-exempt" means.
- Tell me again why we are supporting the corrupt government in Kabul.
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US on verge of approving NBC-Comcast deal: report
Apparently no one in the government seems to realize that greater concentration of media in fewer hands is a bad thing:
US regulators were on the verge of approving cable giant Comcast's purchase of entertainment titan NBC Universal and could announce the deal as early as Tuesday, a US newspaper reported.
The Wall Street Journal's website, citing unnamed sources, said Monday that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officials spent the weekend making last-minute revisions to an order clearing the deal.
Poll: Little Support for Gun Control
That means we will continue to have mass shootings and national tragedies. When will we learn? The next time it could be President Obama.
Most Americans have not changed their views on gun control following the shooting nine days ago in Tucson, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll out Monday.
Sixty-nine percent of those polled said the shooting that left six dead and injured 13, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), has not changed their opinion on gun control. Twenty-eight percent said the shooting has made them “more likely” to support stricter controls on the sale of firearms, while 3 percent were “less likely.”
Why America's credit rating might be cut, and why it matters
We are on the verge of financial catastrophe:
Two major credit-rating firms have warned that the U.S. is at risk of losing its AAA rating. Analysts at Moody's and Standard & Poor said the U.S. credit rating — currently at the highest possible level — could be downgraded if the country continues on its present course. The U.S. national debt is around $14 trillion and rising, and the government must pay over $200 billion a year just to service it. The credit agencies worry that the U.S. is not doing enough to shrink its debt levels. The consequences of a downgrade could devastate the U.S. economy. Is this really a possibility, and should we be worried?
UN agency warns of shortfall in fight on hunger
UN agency warns of shortfall in fight on hunger
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Oprah Owns Piers Morgan in CNN Debut
So much for the second British invasion:
If he'd watched this, Ricky Gervais might just have needed a very large handkerchief.
The debut of fellow Englishman Piers Morgan's talk show on CNN, the one in which he officially succeeded Larry King, showed none of Gervais' pointed exposition of celebrity at the Golden Globes.
Instead, Morgan's debut was a wonderful advertisement.
A wonderful advertisement for Oprah Winfrey's new OWN TV channel.
It was an advertisement in which Piers Morgan largely served as the announcer.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Russia's Medvedev calls for crackdown on neo-Nazis
Is the World becoming more hateful?:
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday urged a crackdown on far-right nationalists, the latest government effort to curb neo-Nazi movements after Moscow saw the worst racial clashes since the fall of the Soviet Union. Neo-nationalist movements have been gaining ground and boosting their membership over the past year, shocking authorities and many ordinary Russians. At rallies, some tout swastikas and chant slogans such as "Russia is for Russians!"
Philadelphia police arrest serial killer suspect
Philadelphia police arrest serial killer suspect | Reuters
Philadelphia police on Monday arrested a suspect they believe is the "Kensington strangler" serial killer linked by DNA evidence to the sexual assault and murder of at least three women.
The suspect, 21-year-old Antonio Rodriguez, was arrested in the Kensington neighborhood on a tip from a member of the public, said Detective Justin Frank of the Philadelphia Police Department.
Poll: 13 percent of Tea Partiers are Dangerous Extremists
Sounds about right. The problem is that those 13% are armed:
That's 13 percent of teabaggers who are this close to becoming domestic terrorists. It's a frightening figure, and one that portends more violence ahead unless the Right puts a brake on its violent rhetoric and paranoid conspiracy theories.
Fake Emails Claiming to be from Facebook
I received this email claiming to be from Facebook. It asked me to log-in using my Facebook account. When I checked the IP address (10.30.241.182) no information could be obtained (it was private). If you get such an email report it to Facebook, as I did. If you receive any unsolicited email from a source (even if with a familiar name) asking you to login from the email itself, ignore. Then report it.
Right-Wing Terrorism: Murders Grow on the Far Right
Right-Wing Terrorism: Murders Grow on the Far Right:
They’ve been gunned down in Tucson, shot to death at the Pentagon, and blown away at the Holocaust Museum, as well as in Wichita, Knoxville, Pittsburgh, Brockton, and Okaloosa County, Florida. Total body count for these incidents: 19 dead, 26 wounded.
Not much, you might say, when taken in the context of about 30,000 gun-related deaths annually nationwide. As it happens, though, these murders over the past couple of years have some common threads. All involved white gunmen with ties to racist or right-wing groups or who harbored deep suspicions of “the government.” Many involved the killing of police officers.
Ex-Bush speechwriter denounces right’s ‘paranoid narratives’ about Obama
At least one prominent Conservative has the courage to speak out.
Conservative David Frum on Sunday criticized some on the right for embracing "false and paranoid narratives" about President Barack Obama that he said were contributing to a toxic political climate.
DoJ veteran sees ‘dangerous precedent’ in letting Bush officials walk
More evidence that the current President is a DINO:
In a rare blistering attack on the Department of Justice, a career veteran of the agency recently told Raw Story that the Obama administration handing Bush-era officials "a get out of jail free card” sets “a dangerous precedent" that could encourage other offenses by future leaders.
After tragedy, Ariz. lawmakers eye more gun rights
After tragedy, Ariz. lawmakers eye more gun rights
- Pouring more gasoline on the fire. The question we should be asking is, how do we prevent the next mass shooting incident.
- Pouring more gasoline on the fire. The question we should be asking is, how do we prevent the next mass shooting incident.
Schumer: Congress doesn’t have the votes for gun control
Schumer: Congress doesn’t have the votes for gun control
- What else is new. Neither party will take on their master--the NRA. Even if it means sacrificing one of their own.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
60 Minutes Video: Yemen and the War on Terror
Plenty of guns and plenty of chaos:
Steve Kroft reports on the U.S.'s new partner in the war on terror, Yemen, a known al Qaeda hideout and recently the source of several explosive packages sent to America.
technipol:
Mordor Is Real, And It’s In Sicily
“It’s been nearly 350 years since Mt. Etna blew its top in a major way. Until yesterday, when Europe’s largest active volcano spewed hot lava for two hours—within shouting distance of these people’s houses. Location, location, location.
Fortunately the eruption didn’t cause any injuries or damage, which means that the residents of this volcanic village were treated to an amazing fire show. Fortunately, many were intrepid enough to have their cameras at the ready. Video cameras, even!”—Gizmodo
Video: The Beat of New York
Makes you appreciate the City. Especially if you are a New Yorker:
THE BEAT OF NEW YORK from tim hahne on Vimeo.
Why supermarket stocks are getting squeezed
Why supermarket stocks are getting squeezed
Rising food prices mean grocery store chains must absorb extra costs on items like meat, seafood, and produce, or they try to pass them along to customers. But many of those consumers are unemployed or have less money to spend, even on essentials. For now, the big chains are mostly choosing to absorb. As a result, profits are falling, and so are their stocks, making them one of the few dim lights in the market in 2011.
Frank Rich: No One Listened to Gabrielle Giffords
If only we had listened to her. If only we had listened after the Virginia Tech massacre:
If we learn nothing from this tragedy, we are back where we started. And where we started was with two years of accelerating political violence — actual violence, not to be confused with violent language — that struck fear into many, not the least of whom was Gabrielle Giffords.
For the sake of this discussion, let’s stipulate that Loughner was a “lone nutjob” who had never listened to Glenn Beck or been a card-carrying member of either the Tea or Communist parties. Let’s also face another tragedy: The only two civic reforms that might have actually stopped him — tighter gun control and an effective mental health safety net — won’t materialize even now.
Gun and ammunition sales spiked last week, especially for the specific varieties given the Loughner imprimatur. No editorial — or bloodbath — will move Congress to enact serious gun control (which Giffords herself never advocated and Obama has rarely pushed since 2008). Enhanced mental health coverage is also a nonstarter when the highest G.O.P. priority is to repeal the federal expansion of health care. In Arizona, cutbacks are already so severe that terminally ill patients are being denied life-saving organ transplants.
Child sex trafficking in UK on the rise with even younger victims targeted
The signs of a once great nation becoming a third word nation:
The trafficking of British children around UK cities for sexual exploitation is on the increase with some as young as 10 being groomed by predatory abusers, a report reveals today.
The average age of victims of such abuse has fallen from 15 to about 13 in five years, according to the report by Barnardo's, the UK's biggest children's charity.
Video: Study: Good-looking People Smarter
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