EdailyDeal: The Curse of Lono
Rep. John Murtha, defense appropriations chair, dies
Death - Desidiosus - 0 Comments
Tags: pentagon, Democrats, Congress, John Murtha, defense appropriations
02/09/10 -  -  - (Link)
Democratic Representative John Murtha, the chairman of the House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee who exercised enormous influence on defense issues, died on Monday.
Chevron hires twelve public relations firms to discredit indigenous Indians
Business - Chet - 1 Comment
Tags: Amazon, pollution, Ecuador, Chevron, lying natives
02/09/10 - - - (Link)
In response to an environmental lawsuit filed against the oil giant, Chevron has fortified its defenses with at least twelve different public relations firms whose purpose is to debunk the claims made against the company by indigenous people living in the Amazon forests of Ecuador. According to them, Chevron dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Amazon between 1964 and 1990, causing damages assessed at more than $27 billion.
Original Story:
Who will pay for Amazon's 'Chernobyl'?
Iraq War Veteran Accused of Waterboarding 4-Year-Old Daughter
Crime - mumbly joe - 2 Comments
Tags: Child Abuse, waterboarding, Evil Parents, ABCs, Iraq War veteran
02/09/10 - - - (Link)
An Army sergeant who served in Iraq for 15 months has been restricted to his Washington military base after being accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because she refused to recite her ABCs.
Witch-hunt victim recounts torture ordeal
Crime - Chet - 2 Comments
Tags: Kidnapping, witch, nepal, scat, but does she float?
02/09/10 - - - (Link)
A woman has been tortured by her neighbours for two days and forced to eat human waste before she finally gave in and confessed to practising witchcraft.
Those who beat, punched and kicked Kalli Biswokarma, 47, accused her of casting evil spells on a schoolteacher who had fallen ill in the village of Pyutar, 40 kilometres south of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.
Green Groups Oppose Obama On Nuclear Power
Government - Tameriaen - 0 Comments
Tags: climate change, nuclear power, President Obama, loan guarantees, greenhouse gas goals
02/09/10 - - - (Link)
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President Obama this week showed how serious he is about nuclear power by proposing to triple the money available for loan guarantees for nuclear plants for a total of $54 billion. His nuclear overture also sent the message that he is determined to woo supporters for climate change legislation, which is stuck in the Senate.
But environmental and taxpayer groups complain that the proposal would set up Americans for another expensive corporate bailout.
Lawmaker: Climate change just ruse to control population
Government Politics - Nopey the Naysaying Puppy - 0 Comments
Tags: Global Warming, conspiracy, climate change, Utah, Mike Noel
02/09/10 - - - (Link)
Rep. Mike Noel, the Legislature's chief climate-change skeptic, declared Thursday that global warming is a conspiracy to control world population.
The House Natural Resources Committee then approved a resolution that expresses the Utah Legislature's belief that "climate alarmists' carbon dioxide-related global warming hypothesis is unable to account for the current downturn in global temperatures."
Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor
Living Health - Chet - 4 Comments
Tags: texas, doctor, nurse, bad medicine, misuse of official information
02/09/10 - - - (Link)
It occurred to Anne Mitchell as she was writing the letter that she might lose her job, which is why she chose not to sign it. But it was beyond her conception that she would be indicted and threatened with 10 years in prison for doing what she knew a nurse must: inform state regulators that a doctor at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine.
When she was fingerprinted and photographed at the jail here last June, it felt as if she had entered a parallel universe, albeit one situated in this barren scrap of West Texas oil patch.
High School administration confiscates student newspaper
News Unfair And Slanted - Chet - 0 Comments
Tags: high school, newspaper, athletes, disciplinary action, confidential information
02/09/10 - - - (Link)
Copies of the student newspaper at Bettendorf High School were confiscated last week by school administrators who believe an article violated student confidentiality, the school district superintendent said.
The Growl included an article that questioned the consistency of disciplinary action against students, particularly athletes. The paper was distributed Tuesday. When administrators learned of the content, they confiscated remaining copies in school racks and the school’s journalism classroom Wednesday morning, Superintendent Theron Schutte said Friday.
Jackson's doctor charged with manslaughter
Death Accidental - Tameriaen - 0 Comments
Tags: Michael Jackson, prescription drugs, involuntary manslaughter, Dr. Conrad Murray, sleep aids
02/09/10 - - - (Link)
Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the pop star's death last summer.
A criminal complaint filed earlier in the day alleged that Murray "did unlawfully, and without malice, kill Michael Joseph Jackson."
Extra:
"The judge refused to suspend Murray's medical license as a term of his bond, but he did order him not to use any anesthesia on patients.
"I don't want you sedating people," Schwartz told Murray."
Original Story:
Michael Jackson dies at 50
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Missionary Stumbles on Road to Haiti
Followup - Thomas_Covenant - 2 Comments
Tags: baptists, orphans, child abduction, Haitian earthquake, personal shopper
02/09/10 - - - (Link)
In a closed courtroom in one of the few government buildings still standing here, Laura Silsby and nine other American missionaries were charged Thursday with abducting children from this earthquake-ravaged capital.
When the proceeding was done, the 40-year-old from a mountain valley in Idaho walked out of Le Tribunal de Paix, past a scrum of microphones, cameras and seething Haitians and into a government minivan with a co-defendant. As they waited to return to a fetid cell with mattresses on a concrete floor, they appeared to pray.
Original Story:
Americans charged with child trafficking in Haiti
Who Dat? Saints Win Superbowl XLIV
Sports - Chet - 91 Comments
Tags: New Orleans, Superbowl, Saints, Drew Brees
02/07/10 - - - (Link)
Who Dat won the Super Bowl? The New Orleans Saints, that's who.
Ain't kidding. Put away those paper bags forever: Drew Brees and the Saints are NFL champions, rallying to beat Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 Sunday night in one of pro football's most thrilling title games.
Brees tied a Super Bowl record with 32 completions, the last a 2-yard slant to Jeremy Shockey for the winning points with 5:42 remaining. The Pro Bowl quarterback was chosen Super Bowl MVP.
Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies
Death - raith - 135 Comments
Tags: anthropology, BO, linguistics, Andaman Islands, language death
02/07/10 - - - (Link)
The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest cultures.
Boa Sr, who lived through the 2004 tsunami, the Japanese occupation and diseases brought by British settlers, was the last native of the island chain who was fluent in Bo.
Sarah Palin Uses PAC to Buy Her Own Book
Government Politics - Bitterly Indifferent - 1 Comment
Tags: Pac, Sarah Palin, Going Rogue, colorful bookmarks, fundraising donor fulfillment
02/07/10 - - - (Link)
Sarah Palin has been using her political action committee to buy up thousands of copies of her book, "Going Rogue," in order to mail copies of the memoir to her donors, newly filed campaign records show.
Alaska governor's decision to step down has many people puzzled.The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate had her political organization spend more than $63,000 on what her reports describe as "books for fundraising donor fulfillment."
Original Story:
Palin memoirs to be published in spring of 2010
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Goldman's Blankfein collects $9 million bonus
Business - gmol - 3 Comments
Tags: Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, CEO, Bonuses, $9 million is a bad bonus?
02/07/10 - - - (Link)
Goldman Sachs stunned many in the Wall Street community Friday by awarding chief executive Lloyd Blankfein $9 million as his year-end bonus, far less than many were anticipating, and none of it in cash.
Charges in Michael Jackson's death expected Monday
Crime - Tameriaen - 4 Comments
Tags: Michael Jackson, homicide, prescription drugs, cardiac arrest, Dr. Conrad Murray
02/07/10 - - - (Link)
Charges relating to Michael Jackson's death will be filed Monday, prosecutors said.
Friday's announcement by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office did not say what the charges would be or who would be charged
Original Story:
Michael Jackson dies at 50
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Jackson's doctor charged with manslaughter
Man arrested had 75 bottles of lotion in his pants
Crime Stupid - enki don't - 12 Comments
Tags: massachusetts, lotion, shoplifter, pathetic getaway attempt, It puts the lotion in its pants...
02/07/10 - - - (Link)
Police say a Massachusetts man who allegedly stuffed 75 bottles of body lotion in his pants couldn't make a smooth getaway, hampered by slacks that were nearly bursting at the seams.
Giant Humboldt squid taking Southland anglers by storm
Living Nature - Name Brand Aspirin - 9 Comments
Tags: California, giant squid, horrors of the deep, Humboldt Squid, sportfishing
02/06/10 - - - (Link)
Giant Humboldt squid have moved into waters off Orange County and are giving anglers such a run for their money that most sport-fishing trips are limiting out within hours.
Hacking for Fun and Profit in China’s Underworld
Technology - Chet - 0 Comments
Tags: china, Internet, Hacking, trojan, Cyberthief
02/06/10 - - - (Link)
With a few quick keystrokes, a computer hacker who goes by the code name Majia calls up a screen displaying his latest victims.
“Here’s a list of the people who’ve been infected with my Trojan horse,” he says, working from a dingy apartment on the outskirts of this city in central China. “They don’t even know what’s happened.”
As he explains it, an online “trapdoor” he created just over a week ago has already lured 2,000 people from China and overseas — people who clicked on something they should not have, inadvertently spreading a virus that allows him to take control of their computers and steal bank account passwords.
UK debates generic cigarette packaging.
Living Health - thirteen3seven - 16 Comments
Tags: tobacco, UK, cigarettes, generic packaging, corporate brands
02/06/10 - - - (Link)
Tobacco companies are digging in to fight a possible U.K. ban on one of their last marketing tools: cigarette packaging.
The U.K.'s Department of Health said Monday that it would consider mandating generic packaging for all cigarettes as part of an aggressive campaign to halve smoking rates by 2020.
Extra:
Philip Morris' anti plain-packaging website:
Good and Boring
Government - Invincible Iron Iconoclast - 12 Comments
Tags: canada, economics, banking crisis, bailouts, role model
02/06/10 - - - (Link)
In times of crisis, good news is no news. Iceland’s meltdown made headlines; the remarkable stability of Canada’s banks, not so much.
Yet as the world’s attention shifts from financial rescue to financial reform, the quiet success stories deserve at least as much attention as the spectacular failures. We need to learn from those countries that evidently did it right. And leading that list is our neighbor to the north. Right now, Canada is a very important role model.
Medical journal retracts study linking autism to vaccine
Science Faulty Study - Charon - 0 Comments
Tags: vaccines, bad science, Andrew Wakefield, medical journal, autsim
02/06/10 - - - (Link)
The medical journal The Lancet on Tuesday retracted a controversial 1998 paper that linked the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism.
The study subsequently had been discredited, and last week, the lead author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, was found to have acted unethically in conducting the research.
Original Story:
Andrew Wakefield found 'irresponsible' by GMC over MMR vaccine scare
Patient ‘locked in’ by brain injury answers question using thoughts alone
Living Health - Ludo Smell Bad - 19 Comments
Tags: coma, communication, brain scan, vegetative state, oh god let me out of here
02/06/10 - - - (Link)
A man who was presumed to be in a vegetative state for five years has answered questions using his thoughts alone in a ground-breaking experiment that promises to allow some patients who are “locked in” by brain injuries to communicate.
House to take up one piece of health care reform
Government Politics - Tameriaen - 4 Comments
Tags: Democrats, Congress, health care reform, health insurance industry, anti-trust exemption
02/06/10 - - - (Link)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday the chamber will take up one piece of its health care bill as a separate provision next week.
The House passed a comprehensive health care bill last year, but progress has stalled over the inability to work out a compromise with a separate version passed by the Senate.
Sopressata recalled on possible salmonella exposure
Followup - Name Brand Aspirin - 0 Comments
Tags: Vietnam, salmonella, food recall, sopressata, black pepper
02/06/10 - - - (Link)
Daniele Inc added more than 17,000 pounds of sopressata to an earlier recall of pepper-coated meats and ended its relationship with the spice supplier who gave it black pepper tied to a national salmonella outbreak.
Original Story:
Salami recalled over salmonella concerns
Former Mexican official urges legalizing marijuana
Government Laws - Tameriaen - 37 Comments
Tags: marijuana, mexico, drug cartels, United States, legalization
02/05/10 - - - (Link)
The United States and Mexico should both legalize marijuana in an attempt to break the power of the Mexican drug cartels and end the spiraling violence south of the border, a former Mexican foreign minister said Tuesday.
Teenage girl buried alive in Turkey for talking to boys
Death Stupid - B. Weed - 31 Comments
Tags: Turkey, Buried Alive, Honor Killing, 16-year-old girl, male friends
02/05/10 - - - (Link)
Medine Memi was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province of Adiyaman.
Her father and grandfather have since been arrested and are due to face trial over her death. Her mother was also charged but has since been released.
Groundhog Day: How accurate is Punxsutawney Phil?
Living Nature - Jack Jammer - 0 Comments
Tags: Pennsylvania, Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney Phil, weather predicting, shadow
02/05/10 - - - (Link)
Like most TV weathermen, Punxsutawney Phil is more about style than science. Each Groundhog Day, people gather at Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania to await a winter weather prediction from America's favorite furry forecaster.
Today, the marmot meteorologist saw his shadow, foretelling six more weeks of winter. But just how accurate is Groundhog Day?
"Gothic Kittens" Cruelty Case
Crime Stupid - Lurchi - 30 Comments
Tags: Cats, animal cruelty, Pennsylvania, piercing, gothic kittens
02/04/10 - - - (Link)
Holly Crawford thought there was nothing wrong with piercing kitty cats with a 14-gauge needle and selling them as "gothic kittens" over the Internet. But a jury thought otherwise and convicted her Wednesday of animal cruelty.
Man Arrested For Videotaping Police Files Lawsuit
Living Legal - Xiphias - 13 Comments
Tags: police, ACLU, Boston, wire-tapping, cell phone video
02/04/10 - - - (Link)
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed a civil rights lawsuit today against the city of Boston and three Boston police officers on behalf of a local man who was arrested for making a video recording of police officers as they struggled with a drug suspect in 2007.
Simon Glick, 33, now a criminal defense attorney, has said he was walking on Tremont Street, near Boston Common, on Oct. 1, 2007, when he saw three Boston police officers making an arrest. He heard another man yelling something like "you are hurting him, stop." So Glick, thinking police may be using excessive force, pulled out his cell phone and began to record what was going on.
Bestiality ban to cut video source
Government Laws - B. Weed - 34 Comments
Tags: Internet, bestiality, ban, Netherlands, videos
02/04/10 - - - (Link)
The Internet potentially will lose one of its main sources of bestiality videos under a ban approved Tuesday by the upper house of the Dutch parliament.
U.S. Report Details Money Laundering
Government Laws - EVILdogshu - 0 Comments
Tags: lobbyists, money laundering, banks, PEP, USA Patriot Act
02/04/10 - - - (Link)
A suitcase containing $1 million in shrink-wrapped bills, hand-carried into New York by the former president of Gabon for his daughter to buy a Manhattan apartment. Purchases of a stretch Hummer H2 armored limousine and C-130 Hercules military transport planes for a civil war in Angola. And a shell company named Sweet Pink used to funnel millions of dollars into the United States from Equatorial Guinea.
These and other deals and money transfers took place in recent years because of inadequate controls on money laundering at large American banks and unregulated American lawyers, real estate agents and lobbyists, according to a Senate report released late Wednesday.
WikiLeaks whistleblower site in temporary shutdown
Technology - Chet - 0 Comments
Tags: whistleblower, funding, shutdown, Wikileaks, not so free speech
02/04/10 - - - (Link)
WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website that allows people to publish uncensored information anonymously, has suspended operations owing to financial problems.
Derogatory 'Jeopardy' board launches TSA probe
Government - Xiphias - 30 Comments
Tags: florida, TSA, pickle smokers, Derogatory Jeopardy, misconduct probe
02/02/10 - - - (Link)
The Transportation Security Administration has launched an internal investigation into an air marshal field office in Florida where supervisors are alleged to have used a crew assignment board to ridicule and keep score on women, gays and minorities, sources told CNN.
South Florida hospitals send Haitian earthquake victims north
Sports - smarmylittlegit - 0 Comments
Tags: florida, Superbowl, victims, Haitian earthquake, diverted
02/02/10 - - - (Link)
The U.S. military is evacuating Haitian earthquake victims to northern portions of Florida to make sure Miami emergency rooms are ready for the Super Bowl.
In addition, Gov. Charlie Crist formally asked the federal government Wednesday to have other states' hospitals receive future patients who come to the United States from the quake-stricken nation.
Anti-Abortion Super Bowl Commercial Causes Storm
Sports - Tameriaen - 83 Comments
Tags: abortion, super bowl, commercials, Tim Tebow, advocacy ads
02/02/10 - - - (Link)
For years, CBS and other networks banned "advocacy" commercials from airing during the Super Bowl.
But CBS recently reversed its stance. A commercial that opposes abortion, featuring Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow, is set to air in this year's big game. And some fans say they don't want to see these types of ads in the Super Bowl.
Colorado Springs cuts into services considered basic by many
Government - Redlof - 76 Comments
Tags: taxes, Denver, budget cuts, Colorado Springs, loss of city services
02/02/10 - - - (Link)
This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric.
More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.
Extra:
"I guess we're going to find out what the tolerance level is for people," said businessman Chuck Fowler, who is helping lead a private task force brainstorming for city budget fixes. "It's a new day."
Kids these days are stupid. Thanks Twitter.
Living Education - pooter - 47 Comments
Tags: canada, students, social networking, wretched state of English grammar, grammer
02/02/10 - - - (Link)
Little or no grammar teaching, cellphone texting, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, all are being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write properly.
Andrew Wakefield found 'irresponsible' by GMC over MMR vaccine scare
Living Health - EightFlyingCars - 11 Comments
Tags: autism, doctor, malpractice, vaccines, Andrew Wakefield
02/02/10 - - - (Link)
Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who claimed to have discovered a link between measles virus, bowel diseases and autism and thereby sparked widespread fear of the combined MMR jab, conducted unnecessary, invasive tests on children, the General Medical Council found today.
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Pentagon preparing repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' policy
Government Laws - Charon - 119 Comments
Tags: homosexuality, U.S. military, President Obama, DADT, repeal
02/02/10 - - - (Link)
The Pentagon has taken the first steps toward repealing the military's controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gay and lesbian service members, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
Laying the groundwork for a repeal of the policy will take more than a year, Gates said. In the interim, however, the Defense Department will start enforcing the policy "in a fairer manner," he told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The ex-gay files: The bizarre world of gay-to-straight conversion
Living Religion - Xiphias - 95 Comments
Tags: homosexuality, conversion, Evangelical Christians, SSA, pathology
02/02/10 - - - (Link)
Is homosexuality a form of mental illness? A small but evangelical band of psychotherapists believe that it is – and they're on a mission to 'heal' the afflicted. Patrick Strudwick enters the bizarre world of gay-to-straight conversion
Extra:
Full of astounding quotes:
"Did you have a difficult birth?" she asks. No, I say. Why?
"It's just something I have noticed. Often [with homosexuality] it is quite traumatic, the baby was put into intensive care and because of the separation from the mother there can be that lack of attachment."
She moves on. "Any Freemasonry in the family?" No, I say, again asking her to elaborate. "Because that often encourages it as well. It has a spiritual effect on males and it often comes out as SSA."
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