NFL players should stand up and vow that they will not play for a bigot like Rush Limbaugh. If the talk show flame thrower fails that would send a message to other bigots that hate will not be tolerated. Already some sponsors have pulled out of the Glenn Beck show for his hateful words.
- source: http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/nfl-players-blast-rush-limbaugh-over-hi
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Limbaugh Criticized for wanting to Buy Rams
Can Obama Make Peace with Gays?
This is what happens when you try to be all things to all people.
in reference to:"In an attempt to regain dwindling gay support, President Barack Obama is set to address a room of decked-out, well-heeled politicos at the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday night. As the self-proclaimed “largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil-rights organization,” the HRC might seem the natural place for Obama to amass support. But the gay community is unlikely to be placated by either the speech or the venue. Members of the gay community who are already angry at the administration for its weak defense of gay rights are also turning on established gay-lobbying groups like the HRC that some say have traded protest signs for cocktail glasses."
- Can Obama Make Peace With Gays - The Daily Beast (view on Google Sidewiki)
Congress to Require Vidoetaping of all Detainee interrogations
- About time
in reference to:"Congress is moving to require videotaping of interrogations of detainees held by the military, a step proponents say will prevent abuse and create a valuable intelligence record."
- Think Progress » Rush Holt Wins Congressional Approval For Measure To Mandate Videorecording Of Interrogations (view on Google Sidewiki)
Solar power outshining Colorado's gas industry
"For the Shaw brothers, who converted the downtown arts building and community center into a miniature solar power plant two years ago, each reverse rotation subtracts from their monthly electric bill. It also means the building at that moment is producing more electricity from the sun than it needs."
- solar power is the solution
- solar power is the solution
- Solar power outshining Colorado's gas industry - Yahoo! News (view on Google Sidewiki)
Gunmen in brazen attack on Pakistani army HQ
The mess in Afghanistan is worsening the situation in Pakistan, and vis versa. We have a serious problem here.
in reference to:"Gunmen in brazen attack on Pakistani army HQ"
- FT.com / Asia-Pacific / Pakistan - Gunmen in brazen attack on Pakistani army HQ (view on Google Sidewiki)
Friday, October 9, 2009
Why is the U.S. still subsidizing corn?
It's all about the lobbies. Why aren't there Republicans calling for an end to what could be considered socialism - subsidizing corn. It is also about disproportionate representation of rural states within the Senate. Every State is treated equally. We need to amend the Constitution so that we have equal representation.
in reference to:"Commentary: Why is the U.S. still subsidizing corn?"
- Commentary: Why is the U.S. still subsidizing corn? | McClatchy (view on Google Sidewiki)
Rupert Murdoch wants you to pay for Reading news online
If he succeeds this will prove that Murdoch is the most powerful force in media. Are you going to let it happen?
in reference to: Jimmy Leach: Murdoch will pay for the end of free news - Online, Media - The Independent (view on Google Sidewiki)Trade Deficit Declines but Doesn't Disappear
What does it matter if we are not exporting goods? We continue to run trade deficits year after year after year. That means the loss of more American jobs. This President has nothing to say on the subject. Is it any wonder the value of the dollar continues to dive.
in reference to:"US trade gap registers surprise drop"
- US trade gap registers surprise drop (view on Google Sidewiki)
The President abandons Fellow African-American Candidate
The President puts politics above everything else. Even if it means abandoning a fellow Democrat. He knows that Thompson has no chance. But it is still typical of the politician Obama promised not to be.
in reference to: NY mayoral challenger gets lukewarm Obama backing | U.S. | Reuters (view on Google Sidewiki)GOP member shoots target with Fla. Dem's initials
More craziness from Republicans.
in reference to:"GOP member shoots target with Fla. Dem's initials"
- GOP member shoots target with Fla. Dem's initials (view on Google Sidewiki)
Video: Special Needs Student Beaten by Police Officer. Was it Justified?
CNN:
A Dolton, Illinois, police officer assigned to a school was placed on administrative leave and later resigned after a surveillance video surfaced of him allegedly assaulting a special-needs student, officials said.
Ed Manzke, an attorney who represents the student, Marshawn Pitts, 15, told CNN Wednesday the officer beat Pitts for not adhering to the school's dress code.
The incident occurred in May at the Academy for Learning, a Dolton high school for special-needs students. Pitts was admitted to the school in May after moving from Iowa, Manzke said. He suffered brain injuries as a child when he was hit by a car.
The police officer, who has not been identified, reprimanded Pitts for not tucking in his shirt as school dress code and policy requires.
A video, released to Pitts' parents by the school several weeks after the incident, showed Pitts talking to the officer and a faculty member grabbing Pitts' arm. Pitts pulls away and walks down the hall, with the officer and faculty member close behind. But the officer then slams him against the lockers and pins him on the floor -- breaking his nose, according to Manzke.
Pitts was treated by a school nurse after the incident, then taken to the Dolton Police Department, where his mother picked him up, Manzke said.
The officer was taken to a hospital and treated for an eye scratch, Manzke said. But, he said, the officer was never charged with anything and an explanation for the incident was never provided.
In a written statement, Guy Lindsay, internal information officer for Dolton police, said the department was made aware of the incident and the tape on May 20. After review of the tape, the officer was removed from the school and placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, Lindsay said.
While on administrative leave, the police officer returned to the department and voluntarily resigned, Lindsay said. The investigation continues, he said.
In a statement obtained by CNN affiliate WGN, the Academy for Learning said it could not comment on an incident involving a specific student.
President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize: Is he Deserving?
The Nobel Peace Prize should be given to a President for actually accomplishing something, not just good intentions and gestures.
AP White House Correspondent:
The prize seems to be more for Obama's promise than for his performance. Work on the president's ambitious agenda, both at home and abroad, is barely underway, much less finished. He has no standout moment of victory that would seem to warrant a verdict as sweeping as that issued by the Nobel committee.CBS:
And what about peace? Obama is running two wars in the Muslim world—in Iraq and Afghanistan—and can't get a climate change bill through his own Congress.
His scorecard for the year is largely an "incomplete," if he's being graded.
He banned torture and other extreme interrogation techniques for terrorists. But he also promised to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a source of much distaste for the U.S. around the world, a difficult task that now seems headed to miss his own January 2010 deadline.
He said he would end the Iraq war. But he has been slow to bring the troops home and the real end of the U.S. military presence there won't come until at least 2012, and that's only if both the U.S. and Iraq stick to their current agreement about American troop withdrawals.
He has pushed for new efforts to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. But he's received little cooperation from the two sides.
He said he wants a nuclear-free world. But it's one thing to telegraph the desire, in a speech in Prague in April, and quite another to unite other nations and U.S. lawmakers behind the web of treaties and agreements needed to make that reality.
He has said that battling climate change is a priority. But the U.S. seems likely to head into crucial international negotiations set for Copenhagen in December with legislation still stalled in Congress.
Mr. Obama is only the third U.S. President to win the Nobel Peace Prize while still in office. Theodore Roosevelt won it in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919.Timesonline:
Former President Jimmy Carter also won the prize in 2002, adds Knoller, but that was more than two decades after he left office.
Defending their surprising decision, the committee chairman said they sought not just to reward the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, but to "enhance" the recipient's actions - to promote peace.
"We do hope that this can contribute a little bit to enhance what he is trying to do."
"It is a clear statement to the world that we want to advocate and promote," the efforts undertaken by Mr. Obama.
"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee said. "In the past year Obama has been a key person for important initiatives in the U.N. for nuclear disarmament and to set a completely new agenda for the Muslim world and East-West relations."
He added that the committee endorsed "Obama's appeal that 'Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."'
Mr. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.
The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself.- Discuss this topic. What do you think?
Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world.
Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.
The pretext for the prize was Mr Obama’s decision to “strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”. Many people will point out that, while the President has indeed promised to “reset” relations with Russia and offer a fresh start to relations with the Muslim world, there is little so far to show for his fine words.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
FBI Director Nearly Hooked in Phishing Scam, Swears Off Online Banking
You know we are trouble when the FBI head could be duped by hackers:
In a speech in San Francisco, FBI Director Robert Mueller confessed he has given up online banking after nearly falling victim to a phishing attack. His remarks came the same day authorities in Egypt and the U.S. charged 100 people in an international phishing ring that was targeting American banks.
FBI Director Robert Mueller has apparently sworn off online banking after nearly falling victim to a phishing attack.
During a speech Oct. 7 at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco , Mueller recounted being “just a few clicks away from falling into a classic Internet phishing scheme.”
A transcript of the speech is posted here. In it, Mueller notes that the phishing e-mail that almost tricked him looked “pretty legitimate.”
NATO Forces Will Stay in Afghanistan for Another Year
The Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to extend U.N. authorization for NATO's 70,000-strong force in Afghanistan for a year, underlining the importance of protecting civilians at a time when the U.S. and international commitment to the war is under review.
Britain's U.N. Ambassador John Sawers said the resolution's adoption by all 15 council members "underlines the extent of international support for the international effort there."
The resolution calls for more personnel, equipment and other resources for NATO's International Security Assistance Force. But it makes no mention of the debate taking place in some NATO capitals on whether to increase or reduce the force.
The Security Council also did not address the debate in Washington on whether to add up to 40,000 additional U.S. troops. President Barack Obama is weighing recommendations and is expected to make a decision within weeks.
The United States has 65,000 troops in Afghanistan — approximately 31,000 serving with NATO and 34,000 under U.S. command.
"I think there is an important debate going on in Washington, and indeed there is an important debate going on in a number of capitals as to exactly how best to achieve our collective goal in Afghanistan — which is to ensure that Afghanistan can no longer be used as a base of terrorists," Sawers said. "And that requires some form of sustained and accountable and stable government across Afghanistan."
California man Blows hand off While Mixing Explosives
Which scum bureaucracy would allow a drug dealer a license to take care of children. What if he decided to practice daycare? The lives of those children would be endangered. Where's Governor Terminator in all this?
Explosives and a marijuana farm were discovered at a Southern California home doubling as a state-licensed child day care center after a man blew off four of his fingers while mixing homemade explosives, authorities said Thursday.
Benjamin Kuzelka, 23, remained hospitalized at Loma Linda Medical Center and will be arrested when he his discharged, said sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez. His mother, Rebecca Kuzelka, 55, and brother, Greg Kuzelka, 21, were booked Thursday on suspicion of manufacturing illegal explosives, illegal growing of marijuana and child endangerment, he said.
Authorities went to Kuzelka Family Day Care after a local hospital reported late Wednesday that Kuzelka walked in and said he had shot himself in the hand. Doctors, however, became suspicious because the wound was inconsistent with a gun shot injury and they called authorities, Gutierrez said.
Investigators found explosives, a sophisticated marijuana-growing facility and evidence that the home had been used as a state-licensed child care facility as recently as the day before, Gutierrez said. The home is on a cul-de-sac in a remote area of Riverside County about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
"We do believe that when all this illegal activity was going on, that children were present," he said. However, no children were home at the time of the explosion, authorities said.
Report: Nearly 1 in 4 People Worldwide Is Muslim
We need to be more respectful of these people, or they will hate us:
The global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam, according to a report Wednesday billed as the most comprehensive of its kind.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life report provides a precise number for a population whose size has long has been subject to guesswork, with estimates ranging anywhere from 1 billion to 1.8 billion
The report also sought to pinpoint the world's Sunni-Shiite breakdown, but difficulties arose because so few countries track sectarian affiliation, said Brian Grim, the project's senior researcher.
As a result, the Shiite numbers are not as precise; the report estimates that Shiites represent between 10 and 13 percent of the Muslim population, in line with or slightly lower than other studies. As much as 80 percent of the world's Shiite population lives in four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq.
The report provides further evidence that while the heart of Islam might beat in the Middle East, its greatest numbers lie in Asia: More than 60 percent of the world's Muslims live in Asia.
About 20 percent live in the Middle East and North Africa, 15 percent live in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2.4 percent are in Europe and 0.3 percent are in the Americas. While the Middle East and North Africa have fewer Muslims overall than Asia, the region easily claims the most Muslim-majority countries.
Gov't: Over 60 Percent of Kids Exposed to Violence
There is too much violence in our society. And violence begets violence.
Justice Department officials said Wednesday that most children in the United States are exposed to violence in their daily lives — but a leading criminologist warned the government-sponsored survey may be lumping serious and minor incidents together.
More than 60 percent of children surveyed were exposed to violence within the past year, either directly or indirectly, according to data compiled by the department. The survey's authors defined exposure to violence as being a victim, or having witnessed violence, or learning about violence against a relative, friend, or hearing about a threat to their school or home.
That approach raised questions for some.
"What concerns me when you hear numbers like this is that in their attempt to be inclusive, which is commendable, the definition of violence becomes so broad that the results lack real meaning," said James Alan Fox, criminal justice professor at Northeastern University. "If you broaden the definition of violence so much, then most people will be included."
Gun-toting Soccer mom, Husband Found shot Dead
That's what guns are being used for: suicide.
A soccer mom who gained national attention when she openly carried a loaded gun to her 5-year-old daughter's game was shot dead Wednesday along with her husband in what appeared to be a murder-suicide, police said.
Meleanie Hain and Scott Hain were pronounced dead Wednesday night at their home in Lebanon, a small city about 80 miles west of Philadelphia.
The couple's three children were home at the time but weren't hurt, police said. They were taken to stay with friends and relatives.
Meleanie Hain, 31, and Scott Hain, 33, had been having marital problems for about a week, neighbor Mark Long said. Scott Hain had left the couple's home on Tuesday, and Meleanie Hain didn't know where he was, but he returned Wednesday, Long said.
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