Sunday, April 11, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Polls: Vote Out Incumbents
Only a small percentage of you would vote to re-elect your representative. Now you have no excuses. But are you really going to vote the incumbents? This is your chance to control your own destiny. Follow through: vote them out come November. You might not get another chance.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Glenn Beck Earned $32 Million In 2009
Glenn Beck Earned $32 Million In 2009
- Hate is very profitable, nowadays.
Sarah Palin: Michael Steele 'doing a great job'
Sarah Palin: Michael Steele 'doing a great job'
They're made each other. They're both clowns.
Survey: 1 in 5 Believe in Aliens
Is it any wonder the world is going to hell-in-a-hand-basket? Ignorance and irrationality rules the world. It also demonstrates the power of the media:
Aliens exist and they live in our midst disguised as humans -- at least, that's what 20 percent of people polled in a global survey believe....full article
The Reuters Ipsos poll of 23,000 adults in 22 countries showed that more than 40 percent of people from India and China believe that aliens walk among us disguised as humans, while those least likely to believe in this are from Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands (8 percent each).
However, the majority of people polled, or 80 percent, don't believe aliens in our midst.
"It would appear that that there's a modest correlation between the most populated countries and those more likely to indicate there may be aliens disguised amongst them compared with those countries with the smaller populations," said John Wright, Senior Vice President of market research firm Ipsos.
"Maybe the it's a simple case that in a less populated country you are more likely to know your next door neighbor better," he said.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
April Fools: RNC lists Phone-sex Hotline
Wrong number: RNC lists phone-sex hotline
"Typo"? "Freudian slip"?
The best thing the Republican Party can say about this week is, it's nearly over.
First came news that the Republican National Committee paid $1,946 for a gathering at a sex-themed Hollywood club, which a group of young Republicans had visited without RNC approval. The money is to be paid back.
Now it turns out the RNC inadvertently listed a phone-sex number on a fundraising letter sent to potential donors. People who tried to call the committee were instead offered "live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl" for $2.99 a minute.
CEO Pay Fell Less Than 1 Percent in 2009
Despite a near financial catastrophe, CEO barely dropped. The rest of us saw our tough going even tougher. It was like there was no near collapse of the economy for corporate America. We thank that fraud in the White House, along with the big business pawns in Washington, for this obscenity:
The median compensation for chief executives of 200 major U.S. companies fell marginally to $6.95 million in 2009, the Wall Street Journal said, citing an analysis by Hay Group management consultancy....full article
The median value of salaries, bonuses, long-term incentives, and grants of stock and stock options for the chief executives fell 0.9 percent, the Journal said.
It was only the third time since 1989 that total direct compensation has fallen for U.S. chief executives, the newspaper said.
In March, Reuters reported that U.S. consumer, financial and technology companies slashed bonuses for their chief executives by more than half in 2009, as companies moved to more closely tie executive pay to performance.
Video: Hedge funds made Billions over Bailouts
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Actor Fired for Refusing to do Sex Scene on ABC Show
The people who control the entertainment industry are little more than pimps. So it shouldn't be any surprise:
Neal McDonough is a marvelous actor who elevates every role he plays, whether it's in Band of Brothers or Desperate Housewives. So when he was suddenly replaced with David James Elliott 3 days into the filming on ABC's new series Scoundrels earlier this week, there had to be a story behind the story. The move was officially explained as a casting change. But, in fact, McDonough was sacked because of his refusal to do some heated love scenes with babelicious star (and Botox pitchwoman) Virginia Madsen. The reason? He's a family man and a Catholic, and he's always made it clear that he won't do sex scenes. And ABC knew that. Because he also didn't get into action with Nicolette Sheridan on the network's Desperate Housewives when he played her psycho husband during Season 5....more
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
UN: Afghanistan Is Leading Hashish Producer
UN: Afghanistan Is Leading Hashish Producer
What are we fighting for again in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is not only the world's largest supplier of opium, it also is the global leader in hashish production, the United Nations said Wednesday.
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said it estimates that 10,000 to 24,000 hectares (24,700 to 59,300 acres) of cannabis are grown in Afghanistan every year and that this is used to make an estimated 1,500 to 3,500 tons of hashish annually.
"While other countries have even larger cannabis cultivation, the astonishing yield of the Afghan cannabis crop ... makes Afghanistan the world's biggest producer of hashish," UNODC chief Antonio Maria Costa said in a statement.
'RapeLay' video game goes viral amid outrage
'RapeLay' video game goes viral amid outrage
This sickness comes from Japan...not the U.S. Sickness in entertainment is everywhere.
The game begins with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, "Can I help you with something?"
That is when you, the player, can choose your method of assault.
With the click of your mouse, you can grope her and lift her skirt. Then you can follow her aboard the train, assaulting her sister and her mother.
As you continue to play, "friends" join in and in a series of graphic, interactive scenes, you can corner the women, rape them again and again.
The game allows you to even impregnate a girl and urge her to have an abortion. The reason behind your assault, explains the game, is that the teenage girl has accused you of molesting her on the train. The motive is revenge.
Police: NJ teen sold stepsister, 7, for party sex
Police: NJ teen sold stepsister, 7, for party sex
What is going on this country? Where were the parents in all this? What would make these men stupid enough to want to do something like this? And think that they wouldn't be caught. Or did they care? What a sick society we live in.
Police in New Jersey's capital city have arrested a 15-year-old girl they say prostituted herself and her 7-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home in a crime-plagued neighborhood.
Trenton police Capt. Joseph Juniak said Wednesday that the older girl started by taking money to have sex with several men at the party in a high-rise apartment. The teen then gave some of the money she had collected to the younger girl to let the men start touching her, Juniak said.
Republicans Have the Most Sex Scandals
This article from the Daily Beast documents what many of us suspected: both parties are equally perverted. The point here is that Republicans are hypocritical when it comes to morality. Many of these Republicans caught in sex scandals were fond of talking family and God. They would regularly decry the moral depravity of Democrats, Hollywood, and the Hippies. It turns out they are the most sexual perverted (with the exception of Bill Clinton). How ironic. Liberals are supposed to be more promiscuous. And let's not forget how many Republicans/Conservatives denounced Bill Clinton's adulterous behavior:
With every other issue devolving into partisan finger-pointing, The Daily Beast thought it would use two decades of cold, hard data and rational methodology to answer the question everyone in Washington wants to know: Which party has more problems with sex scandals?
After studying the 58 scandals over the past 20 years involving all politicians or major candidates for city mayor and above—many involved crimes, others just allegations, but all wound up as tabloid fodder—some conclusions can be reached.
• The number sex scandals has increased dramatically over the past few decades, thanks to technology, new press standards and a post-Clinton belief that everything is fair game.
• Republicans have more scandals (32 to 26), but Democrats have bigger ones, based on our methodology (13 out of the top 20).
• Democrats tend to have more problems with harassment, staffers and underage girls; Republicans tend to have more problems with prostitutes, hypocrisy and underage boys.
'Hardball' Transcript: 3-30-10
Read the complete transcript of Chris Matthews' 'Hardball' program for March 30th.
BLACKWELL: Look, no. I am the co-chairman of the RNC`s redistricting committee. My job is to work with John Ryder, the chairman, to make sure that we`re in a position of keeping the pens that will draw the maps of the congressional district in our party`s hands for competitive advantage. Pure and simple. That is a full -- that is a full plate.
You asked me a question as someone that is intricately involved in the party, and I gave you an honest answer. We must make sure that we are not distracted from the business at hand and the charge of the Republican National Committee.
MATTHEWS: Right. Is Michael Steele a distraction?
BLACKWELL: I can tell you what is a distraction -- having to explain these weird expenditures, having to explain that we are not high rollers and high flyers and duplicitous leaders. That is a distraction, and it is Michael`s responsibility to make sure that we do away with those distractions, and we do away with incompetence, and we do away with those who would spend money unwisely. That`s what we need to take a step forward (ph).
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: Bob Woodward of the Watergate fame once said, "follow the money." Let`s follow the money. He started with $22 million at the RNC. He has got $9 million now, so that`s down about 10. Big problem. It`s not that just he`s down around 10. He brought in 96 during that period, so he lost $106 million that have gone out the door, have been burned in the last year because it has been spent--
(CROSSTALK)
BLACKWELL: Chris, Chris --
MATTHEWS: Has it been spent wisely?
BLACKWELL: Chris, let`s go back to what you said just in your last segment. The fact of the matter is, is that success has a thousand fathers. So I`m sure that Michael will take credit for Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, at least part credit. So as a consequence, there has been success.
The RNC is not a bank. We have to spend money in order to win elections. The question is, how are we spending the money? That`s why this is such a distraction. Because, one, there`s no way that you can explain that a stripper club expenditure is help building a grassroot organization in any county in the country.
MATTHEWS: Do you understand the responsibilities as the RNC chairman, is it to make sure -- does he have a fiduciary responsibility? In other words, if somebody writes a check and turns it in and says, I just paid $2,000 to go to the Voyeur Club in L.A. where they have bondage and S&M and all that stuff going on, is it the chairman`s responsibility to have people in place who will see that bill and say, no way in hell should this RNC, should the donors that kick into this party have to pay for that? Is it his responsibility --
BLACKWELL: Yes.
MATTHEWS: OK. So it`s Michael Steele`s responsibility to make sure this kind of (inaudible) doesn`t happen.
BLACKWELL: Look, but this --
MATTHEWS: Yes or no?
BLACKWELL: This is nothing -- Chris, can you hear? I said yes.
MATTHEWS: OK.
President Obama to modify drilling ban
Obama sells-out again. Another promise he has broken. Do you still think either party is going to do the right thing?
President Obama to modify drilling ban
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Second Radioactive Substance at Vermont Yankee
Second Radioactive Substance at Vermont Yankee
Test results have confirmed the presence of another, more dangerous, radioactive substance in the soil at Vermont's only nuclear power plant, officials said Tuesday, five days after announcing they had found and stopped tritium leaks at Vermont Yankee.
The state Health Department said Tuesday that cesium-137 was found at the site. The substance has a half-life of 30 years, about 2 1/2 times that of tritium, which was found in early January. A half-life is the time it can be expected to take for a substance to lose half its radioactivity. Unlike tritium, cesium-137 does not occur naturally in the environment; it is a product of nuclear fission.
Both radioactive substances can increase the chances of developing cancer depending on the intensity of exposure.
The presence of trace amounts of cesium-137 was first reported Feb. 24, but Vermont Yankee officials said it was ''consistent with what would be found in soil'' due to atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the 1950s and '60s and the accident at the Chernobyl reactor in the Soviet Union in 1986.
The Health Department statement on Tuesday said the cesium-137 found in the Vermont Yankee soil samples was three to 12 times as high as the background levels attributed to the other causes, meaning it ''appears likely the Cs-137 comes from Vermont Yankee reactor related sources.''
Video: Teens Charged with Bullying over Girl’s Suicide
It is time to deal with the serious problem among the young. Bullying has now spread from the schools to the Internet. The laws, and media attention, to catch up and start treating it as an important issue. Bullying can cause serious psychological damage, including suicide and other forms of violence (i.e.,school shootings):
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