Bill Maher on President Obama

Bill Maher expressed disappointment and frustration with President Obama. Maher claims Democrats and Obama too weak against Republican unity.

http://newsone.com/nation/newsonestaff2/bill-maher-calls-obama-wussy-wimpy/

2012 Olympics: Alien plot to take over the world?

We knew someone was trying to take over, but we thought it was the Tea Party. Which is more credible?



http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/05/olympic-games-2012-alien-conspiracy-theory

Responsible Representatives or Democratic Dogooders?

Democrats choose for the people not for the politics.
Retiring Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) said that Democrats wisely passed the 2008 financial rescue bill, but it cost them politically.


http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/132021-dem-we-could-have-let-economy-collapse-and-been-in-majority-for-40-years

Nashville Billboards Claim Jesus Will Return May 21, 2011

That's the message on 40 billboards around Nashville, proclaiming May 21, 2011, as the date of the Rapture. Billboards are up in eight other U.S. cities, too.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20101201/NEWS06/12010350/Nashville-billboards-claim-Jesus-will-return-May-21-2011

Swastika Case Another Race Issue for NM Town

Three friends had just finished their shifts at a McDonald's when prosecutors say they carried out a gruesome attack on a customer: They allegedly shaped a coat hanger into a swastika, placed it on a heated stove and branded the symbol on the arm of the mentally disabled Navajo man.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-29/swastika-case-another-race-issue-for-nm-town.html

Republican Opposition to Extending Unemployment Benefits Makes No Sense

In economic terms, the loss of benefits is not good. There is a cost to having generous or long unemployment benefits: They do not come cheap to the government and do tend to lengthen the time it takes for a worker to find a new job. But given the way the jobs crisis is weighing on the recovery, most economists, save for the most conservative, say the benefits outweigh the costs.

http://www.slate.com/id/2276473

Republicans Block Child Nutrition Bill

Republicans say the nutrition bill is too costly and an example of government overreach.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101201/ap_on_bi_ge/us_congress_school_nutrition

National Portrait Gallery Bows to Censors, Withdraws Wojnarowicz Video on Gay Love

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113006911.html

Wikileaks Kicked Out of Amazon's Cloud

The Wikileaks website migrated to Amazon's cloud hosting service yesterday after being hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Amazon decided to discontinue serving the controversial website this morning in response to pressure from critics, including prominent members of Congress.

Wikileaks has received significant attention over the past week after publishing thousands of confidential diplomatic cables between the US State Department and embassies around the world. The documents, a portion of which are classified, expose US intelligence gathering efforts and details about sensitive foreign policy issues. The response from various US government officials has ranged from panic to outrage.

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/12/wikileaks-kicked-out-of-amazons-cloud.ars

Pentagon Leaders Say Gays Won't Hurt the Military

President Barack Obama, citing the troop poll, urged the Senate to repeal the ban before adjourning in the next few weeks, but there is still no indication GOP objections can be overcome with just a few weeks left in the postelection lame-duck session. Still, the survey did put new pressure on Republican opponents, led by Sen. John McCain, who say efforts to repeal the law are politically motivated and dangerous at a time of two wars.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101130/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_gays_in_military

Obama to Propose Freeze on Federal Wages

The freeze, which would save $60 billion over 10 years, would make a small dent in the nation's debt problem. The accumulated deficits are currently forecast to exceed $9 trillion over the next decade.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/29/news/economy/federal_pay_freeze/index.htm?hpt=T1

Study: Vikings May Have Taken a Native American to Iceland

Pity poor Leif Ericsson. The Viking explorer may well have been the first European to reach the Americas, but it is a certain Genoan sailor who gets all the glory. Thanks to evidence that has until now consisted only of bare archeological remains and a bunch of Icelandic legends, Ericsson has long been treated as a footnote in American history: no holiday, no state capitals named after him, no little ditty to remind you of the date of his voyage. But a group of Icelandic and Spanish scientists studying one mysterious genetic sequence — and one woman who's been dead 1,000 years — may soon change that.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2033038,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly

Oldest Bible Goes Online

Included in this edition are the books: 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, 1 & 4 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, The Epistle of Barnabas, and The Shepherd of Hermas. The edition is also hand written and contains numerous notes, corrections, alterations, and insertions.

http://www.examiner.com/atheism-in-philadelphia/oldest-bible-goes-online?sms_ss=reddit&at_xt=4cf288f50e13c07f,0

Animals Can Tell Right from Wrong - Telegraph

Scientists studying animal behaviour believe they have growing evidence that species ranging from mice to primates are governed by moral codes of conduct in the same way as humans.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5373379/Animals-can-tell-right-from-wrong.html

Oxygen detected on Saturn's moon Rhea

Nasa's Cassini probe has scooped oxygen from the thin atmosphere of Rhea – the first time the gas has been detected directly on another world.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/25/oxygen-saturn-moon-rhea

6 of Glenn Beck's Most Paranoid, Dangerous Attacks on Progressives

From smearing progressive funder George Soros to visionary Van Jones, Beck reveals his dark impulses and abhorrence for social justice.

http://www.alternet.org/media/148932/6_of_glenn_becks_most_paranoid,_dangerous_attacks_on_progressives

UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without Cause

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people were once again subject to the whims of homophobia and religious and cultural extremism this week, thanks to a United Nations vote that removed “sexual orientation” from a resolution that protects people from arbitrary executions. In other words, the UN General Assembly this week voted to allow LGBT people to be executed without cause.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/un-general-assembly-votes-to-allow-gays-to-be-executed-without-cause/politics/2010/11/20/15449

U.S. Warns Ottawa of WikiLeak Release

The U.S. government has notified Ottawa that the WikiLeaks website is preparing to release sensitive U.S. diplomatic files that could damage U.S. relations with allies around the world.

U.S. officials say the documents may contain accounts of compromising conversations with political dissidents and friendly politicians and could result in the expulsion of U.S. diplomats from foreign postings.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/11/24/wikileaks-ottawa.html

Kazakhstan dDrector Shoots Borat Sequel

The sequel trails an American journalist called John, who after watching the original Borat movie, decides to visit Kazakhstan. He goes in search of the character's fictional home village Kusek, but is shocked to find a modern and developed city.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11811933

Priest in Sex Case Now Charged with Trying to Hire Hitman

A Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 2008 in the rural parish where he worked west of here was rearrested last week in Dallas and charged with trying to hire someone to kill his alleged victim.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7307344.html