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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."
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