June 2009
109 posts
Fifty Games In, Papi Has Yet to Show Up
I love it when cheaters lose.
Lil Papi is innocent until proven guilty, but in the court of public opinion, the juicer is as good as dead.
May 2009
137 posts
Heres a Feel-Good FB Story
From the UK’s Daily Mail-
A mother has been reunited with her son 27 years after he was ‘kidnapped’ by his Hungarian father - when her sister stumbled across his Facebook profile after Googling his name. Gavin Paros was spirited out of Britain in 1982 at the age of three by his father, Joseph, after his marriage to Avril Grube broke down. Ms Grube, now 62, had almost given up...
Terry McAuliffe; Enemy of Democracy!
From The Washington Post-
Consumer activist Ralph Nader accused Terry McAuliffe Thursday of orchestrating an effort to remove him from the presidential ballot in 2004 when McAuliffe was chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Nader said that McAuliffe offered him an unspecified amount of money to campaign in 31 states if Nader would agree to pull his campaign in 19 battleground states. ...
Done for Now, Back at 10:00pm in September
From The NYT-
LOS ANGELES — Jay Leno ended his final “Tonight Show” on Friday not with a surprise guest or a selection of his vintage comedy bits, but with what he called “the greatest thing we’ve ever done.” What followed was an onstage parade of the children — 68 in all — who had been born to people who had met because they worked on the program. He saluted Warren Littlefield, the former NBC...
WatchMr. Rupert Murdoch, on the future of News.
A True Shame
From The NYT-
A New York City police officer who had just gotten off duty was fatally shot late Thursday night in East Harlem by a fellow officer who mistook him for an armed criminal, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.
The slain officer, Omar J. Edwards, 25, who was assigned to patrol housing projects and was wearing plain clothes, was shot in the arm and chest after a team of three...
From Dr. Chu to You....Paint your Roofs White
The The UK’s Independent-
Some people believe that nuclear power is the answer to climate change, others have proposed green technologies such as wind or solar power, but Barack Obama’s top man on global warming has suggested something far simpler – painting your roof white.
Steven Chu, the US Secretary of Energy and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, said yesterday that making roofs...
Talking to Animals? Not out of the Question Say...
From The NYT-
People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees how to speak. A delicate, if tiny, step has now been taken toward the real thing — the creation of a mouse with a human gene for language.
The gene, known as FOXP2, was identified in 1998 as...
Bad News Rising
Taliban Warn of ‘Major Attacks’ in Pakistan
From The NYT-
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Multiple bombs exploded in two Pakistani cities on Thursday, just hours after Taliban groups issued an extraordinary warning for people to evacuate several large cities, saying they were preparing “major attacks.” The groups also claimed responsibility for a bloody attack in Lahore a day earlier that killed at least...
Roxana Saberi On Her Imprisonment In Iran
Journalist Roxana Saberi, who spent four months in an Iranian prison, returned to the United States on May 22. Until now, she has not spoken to the media at length about her ordeal, during which she says she faced “severe psychological and mental pressure” to confess to being a spy.
In her first in-depth interview, Saberi tells NPR about the events that led to her arrest on Jan. 31,...
The News I Live For
Police: Conn. woman bitten after ‘bite me’ remark
AP- An instructor at the Connecticut Police Academy has been charged with disorderly conduct after he allegedly responded literally to a co-worker’s “bite me” remark. Francis Woodruff, a former Waterbury police captain, was arraigned Tuesday and released on a promise to appear in court.
He was accused of biting...
“There’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I...”
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-Barack Obama
Speaking to progressives at a 2006 Campus Progress meeting.
No Shocker Here. Colin is King
CNN Poll: Powell vs. Cheney and Limbaugh
WASHINGTON (CNN) – As Colin Powell fires back against Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh in the latest skirmish in the battle over the future of the Republican Party, a new national poll indicates that Americans have a much more favorable opinion of Powell than Cheney or Limbaugh. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Monday, suggests that 70...
Reptile Trivia
This reptile tip comes to me from a devout fan, Who we will refer to as T.W.R. He wanted me to let you know about this snake he’s been eyeing in hopes of adding it to his reptile collection.
From our trusted friends at Wikipedia
Leptotyphlops carlae is a species of blind threadsnake and the smallest snake species currently known to exist.[1] It is found on the Caribbean island of...
Be Warned.
Last Weekend I was in DC and I happened to drink the most putrid Beer I’ve ever laid my hands on.
As we shopped, it was agreed on that each person would grab their own brew. I chose some kind of Honey Porter, I believe some trendy euro beer was chosen, as were two six packs of Natural Bohemian Beer, also known as “Natty Bo.”No one had heard of it, and its absurd name made it...
Looking to get Coked Up? Grab a Redbull Cola!
From the UK’s Dailymail-
Germany is considering a nationwide ban on the high-energy drink Red Bull Cola after traces of cocaine were found in it. Authorities in the states of Hesse and North-Rhine Westphalia have ordered retailers to stop selling the beverage - which is available in the UK. The consumer ministries in the two states confirmed they had ordered retailers to pull the drink...
A Guest Appearence
From The AP-
ARTESIA, N.M. (AP) — It was a humbling moment for the former commander in chief: President George W. Bush was walking former first dog Barney in his new Dallas neighborhood when it stopped in a neighbor’s yard for relief. “And there I was, former president of the United States of America, with a plastic bag on my hand,” he told a group of graduating high school...
What Cant the iphone do?
From The NYT-
Some people send text with their iPhones, and some play games. The artist Jorge Colombo created this week’s cover for The New Yorker with his.
Mr. Colombo drew the June 1 cover scene, of a late-night gathering around a 42nd Street hot dog stand, entirely with the iPhone application Brushes. Because of the smears and washes of color required by the inexact medium, it comes off as...
Chuck & Kirsten Fighting the Good NHL Fight
From ESPN-
BUFFALO, N.Y. — U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York are opposed to the Phoenix Coyotes relocating to southern Ontario because it would have a potential “crippling” effect on the Buffalo Sabres. In a letter sent to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday, the two Democrats sided with the league in its bid to prevent Canadian businessman...
History is Made
From CNN-
When Alysa Stanton officially becomes a rabbi next month, she’ll be walking into history.
She’ll become the first African-American woman ever to be ordained as a rabbi and the first African-American rabbi to lead a majority white congregation, according to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Stanton, 45, will be ordained June 6 in Cincinnati, Ohio,...
“When you have a majority of Americans, seventy-something percent, saying we...”
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- John McCain
In a conversation with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, The Arizona Senator questioned whether or not Cheney’s all out media blitz was really helping America’s cause. McCain knows what torture is, and experienced it on a daily basis for over six years while held...
WatchHere are some possible adjectives to justify this Republican jibberish.
1- Delusional
2- Ignorant?
3- deceitful
It is not even important to debate whether or not Guantanamo Bay is needed, that’s another question. But to posture that the prisons very existence is not fodder for terrorists to recruit new extremists is disingenuous at best.
We know that the 9/11 high jackers were highly...
A Time To Remember
America is an amazing place to live, for so many reasons, and rarely do people ask the question; who are the people who have sacrificed so much, who have made America the prosperous place it is - politics aside.
I’m surely not a fan of war, and I don’t think anyone is a fan of war, including American servicemen deployed in distant lands. But service is not about war, it’s...
The Af-Pak tour Leaves Washington for Tehran.
From The NYT-
CAIRO — Iran on Sunday hosted its first three-way summit meeting with Pakistan and Afghanistan to discuss cooperation on regional issues, the latest sign of Iran’s emergence as a regional power. With Pakistan and Afghanistan fighting to hold back the rising tide of radical, Islamic insurgencies led by the Taliban, the meeting in Tehran seemed designed by Iran to assure its...
Is it Just me or am I Seeing Things?
From FP-
The Olympics torch for the 2010 winter games in Vancouver is officially supposed to evoke “the cool, crisp and modern lines that are left behind in the snow and ice from winter sports.” But a lot of people are saying the 37-inch white torch, with crimped ends and twist in the middle, resembles a hand-rolled marijuana joint, especially when it’s lit (and viewed in the...
Feeling the Saudi Squeeze
May 23 (Bloomberg) —
Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali al- Naimi said the price of oil will climb to $75 a barrel when demand picks up. “We’ll get there eventually,” al-Naimi told reporters in Rome today where he will attend meetings with energy ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations. “The trick is keeping it between $70 and $80. It will be achieved as demand rises and...
Google Street View Puzzle Solved
I’ve always wondered how Google went about getting all the street view footage that is now available on Google Earth, and now it’s clear. It’s a simple drive by operation, and this car was photographed yesterday in NYC.
“A Google spokeswoman, Elaine Filadelfo, would not say whether there was one car in New York or several. She denied a request for a ride in the car,...
Time Tested and Approved.
From The NYT-
PARAMOUNT, Calif. — At least one well-known American vehicle manufacturer is rolling out vehicles as usual. But before a Zamboni can take the ice, it hits the pavement on Colorado Avenue.
The neighbors are used to it by now, seeing one of the blocky ice-resurfacing machines rumble out of the low-slung Zamboni factory and trudge down the block — top speed: 9 miles per hour —...
Knowledge is Power. Power Denied. Sorry Facebook.
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US social networking site Facebook on Saturday said it had received reports its wesbite had been blocked in Iran, lamenting the apparent government bar as “a shame.” “We are disappointed to learn of reports that users in Iran may not have access to Facebook,” the company told AFP in a statement. One Iranian news agency reported earlier that the...
The Violation of Morality
From The Milwuakee Journal Sentinel-
In the early years of the sex abuse scandal in Milwaukee, retired Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland says in his soon-to-be released memoir, he did not comprehend the potential harm to victims or understand that what the priests had done constituted a crime. “We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal...
Who's Next on the Water Board? Rush? Glenn? Billo?
From The New Republic-
“One Less Torture Advocate” Conservative radio shock jock Eric “Mancow” Muller (sample quote: “Obama can keep his “hope”, the rest of us would like to keep our money, guns, and God!”) decided to prove that waterboarding isn’t torture by subjecting him self to it on the air. Of course, as my colleague Chris Orr has...
The Real Recession Fallout
May 22 (Bloomberg) -- After former Bear Stearns Cos. trader Guy Irace lost his job on the bond desk a year ago, he moved back to Long Island to teach high school math and dropped 40 pounds. Jack Yang’s deli in Manhattan cut three employees. Cavonberry’s, Yang’s 46th Street shop near the headquarters of the New York firm taken over by JPMorgan Chase & Co., once bustled with finance...
The Japs Love BOBBY!
CHIBA, Japan — Bobby Valentine put the fans first in Japan, and in his moment of need, they’re paying him back. An increasing number of fans of the Chiba Lotte Marines are holding nightly vigils in support of their manager, upset at the Japanese baseball club’s refusal to extend his contract beyond the end of this season. In his seventh season with the Marines, the charismatic...
Rebranding Hate in the Age of Obama
Very interesting Newsweek article, on the upsurge of online white supremacist activitiy, and how the groups of today differ from the Klan of yesterday. A great examination on the worst America has to offer.
“It’s not about hate, it’s about love. Love of white people. That’s the message in songs, speeches and casual conversation during a weekend retreat in Zinc, Ark.,...
WatchComing from Colin Powell’s chief-of-staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Dick Cheney was calling the shots.
Shocker?I think not.
Cheney’s hooting and hollering begins to make sense. He’s the one defending his own draconian policies, while former President Bush follows his Texas Rangers and sips on his N/A Odeuls back in Texas. (writing the word FORMER next to Prez Bush feels oh so...
Measuring the Culture War
While all studies have confirmed that the state of the Conservative movement is anything but healthy, on the social front things seem to moving slightly to the right.
In 2004, nearly one out of four voters stated that “values” meant the most to them before entering the voting booth, and in the group “value voters,” George W. Bush took nearly 85 Percent.
In 2008, the...