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Source: Raw Story Posted on 12.16.10 by Steve Trinward “As the incoming chairman of the House monetary policy subcommittee, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) will hold the bully pulpit when it comes to the nation’s money woes. He’s not wasting any time getting right to the heart of the matter. The libertarian-leaning conservative has long been a critic of the US Federal Reserve and central banking as a whole, but this may be a new one: speaking with CNBC recently, Paul said he views the Fed as a ‘monopoly’ that could benefit from the introduction of competition. ‘We should start ending the Fed by allowing competition,’ he said.” (12/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23k3knk Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: Agence France-Presse Posted on 12.16.10 by Steve Trinward “Riders on the Washington metro system were warned Thursday to expect random checks of carry-on items two days after the government disclosed the arrest of an Afghan man for allegedly threatening to bomb the system. The stepped-up security [sic] measures at the height of the Christmas shopping season also coincided with a warning by Interpol that it had received information about possible Al-Qaeda attacks in the United States and Europe.” (12/16/10) Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/dc-subway-random-searches/ Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 12.16.10 by Steve Trinward “An $858 billion package to cut taxes and help the long-term unemployed was unexpectedly pulled from the House Thursday, suggesting that Democratic leaders underestimated the depth of opposition to the bill as well as the possibility that House members could amend it. The development means Democratic leadership will have to work behind the scenes to shore up support for the package before bringing it back to the floor — a process that could take anywhere for a few hours to a few days, if possible.” (12/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2a69bj2 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 12.16.10 by Steve Trinward “The Massachusetts Public Health Council voted unanimously yesterday to ban the sale and manufacture of baby bottles and sipping cups containing the chemical BPA, but turned aside a push by environmental activists for more sweeping restrictions on use of the chemical linked to possible health risks in children. Bisphenol A is used in a wide variety of products, including plastic bottles, children’s sipping cups, and the lining of canned food containers. Children and adults can ingest tiny amounts of BPA when they drink or eat from the containers, and studies of laboratory animals have suggested that the chemical could cause developmental problems for children if they are exposed to small quantities early in life.” (12/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2aes3p9 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Washington Post Posted on 12.16.10 by Steve Trinward “One in six Americans every year gets sick from food, and about 3,000 people die from those illnesses, according to new data released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … The numbers mark the first time the federal government has updated the estimates for foodborne illnesses since 1999, when a landmark study known as the Mead report offered a rough calculation of the extent of food poisoning in the United States.” (12/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2v5h2jf Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 12.15.10 by Steve Trinward “The escalating legal battle over the constitutionality of President Obama’s health-care reform law moves Thursday to Florida and to a federal judge who has already expressed skepticism about the statute. In October, US District Judge Roger Vinson dismissed four of six counts in the Florida-based lawsuit challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But in upholding two other counts, the judge appeared receptive to arguments questioning the constitutional validity of the health-care law.” (12/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23vukhk Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 12.15.10 by Steve Trinward “In a groundbreaking decision, a Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday found a tobacco company liable for the death of a Roxbury woman who said that, at age 9, she received free samples of Newport cigarettes in a targeted marketing campaign. The jury awarded a judgment of $50 million to the estate of Marie Evans, who, before she died of lung cancer in 2002, testified that she first received free Newports as a child, while living in the Orchard Park housing development in Boston. She smoked until her death at age 54. Her only son was awarded $21 million. Lorillard, which denied it targeted youth with free cigarettes, plans to appeal.” (12/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2ey9xr6 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: New York Times Posted on 12.15.10 by Steve Trinward “Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi narrowly survived two confidence votes yesterday, avoiding the collapse of his government but prolonging Italy’s political agony. He said he would work to broaden his untenable, razor-thin majority, a tall order when he seems at the weakest in his political career and as investors are eying Italy with increasing concern. ‘This country doesn’t need early elections,’ Berlusconi, looking tired, said after the voting.” (12/15/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23upckv Filed under: CANDi News | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 12.14.10 by Steve Trinward “If Amazon.com won’t host leaked diplomatic cables posted by the website WikiLeaks, Michael Moore will. The liberal filmmaker and author announced in a web posting Tuesday that he had donated $20,000 to the cause of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ embattled chief who is being held in the United Kingdom on sexual offense charges and is seeking to be released on bail. ‘I support Julian, whom I see as a pioneer of free speech, transparent government and the digital revolution in journalism. His commitment to exposing the follies of government and business offers the greater society a chance to protect itself from these follies,’ Moore wrote in a web posting Tuesday.” (12/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23wv6b6 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 12.14.10 by Steve Trinward “Some call it a disturbing trend Others call it a win-win for accident victims and low to middle-income families across America who might not otherwise be able to afford to seek justice in a court of law. The issue is legal lending; to plaintiffs who don’t have the money to pay for surgery related to a claim or pay their bills while their case is tied up in court, or to law firms who can’t afford to hire expensive experts or survive a lengthy drawn-out battle with a corporate giant. Supporters say more legitimate cases are now being heard and that means more little guys are now getting an opportunity for justice. Critics say this practice leads to an increase in frivolous cases that clog courtrooms.” (12/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23kwv5u Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 12.14.10 by Steve Trinward “The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the nonprofit group that has spearheaded opposition to the nation’s first offshore wind farm for nearly a decade, may have breached federal tax law by airing a radio ad critical of Governor Deval Patrick in the final days of the governor’s race, according to a Globe review of the Internal Revenue Service code and agency guidelines. The ad, which aired on five stations covering Greater Boston, the South Shore, and the Worcester area, criticized Patrick for supporting the Cape Wind energy proposal while noting that ‘the other candidates for governor’ opposed the project.” (12/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2wxce8n Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 12.14.10 by Steve Trinward “A drive through Atlanta’s older ‘intown’ residential areas quickly bears out new Census findings: That segregation by race in the US is fading in many, though far from all, American neighborhoods. Atlanta is one of several predominantly Southern and Western cities that showed a noticeable integration trend over the last five years as both middle-class blacks and whites moved into each other’s neighborhoods, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey of 10 million Americans, released Tuesday. The ACS is the largest demographic survey ever done in the United States.” (12/14/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2wdykh6 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Time Posted on 12.13.10 by Steve Trinward “The man behind WikiLeaks has won the most votes in this year’s Person of the Year poll. Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear. Julian Assange raked in 382,020 votes, giving him an easy first place. He was 148,383 votes over the silver medalist, Recep Tayyip Ergodan, Prime Minister of Turkey. But Assange wasn’t the winner in all aspects — Lady Gaga trounced him on Facebook, receiving 65,417 ‘likes’ on Facebook to Assange’s 45,643.” (12/113/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/26cdbhu Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 12.13.10 by Steve Trinward “Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a … lawyer. The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the thorny issue of how far lawyers may go when seeking to attract clients through whimsical and gimmicky advertising. The action lets stand a ruling by a federal appeals court invalidating a portion of New York’s rules of professional conduct mandating how law firms in the state are to behave while advertising for new clients. The rules, adopted in 2006, had prohibited the use of nicknames, trade names, and marketing slogans that might imply an unproved ability to win cases. The rules also barred use of marketing gimmicks and other attention-grabbing techniques that do not contain objective information about legal services.” (12/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2f2an6y Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 12.13.10 by Steve Trinward “School districts in western Alaska have found a new way to crack down on truancy — or rather, an old way: They’re getting police to enforce a years-old state law that lets them fine parents whose children skip school. Court records show some parents are being fined hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars, if their children miss too many school days. State law says children between the ages of 7 and 16 have to be in school or their parents can be fined up to $500 for every five unexcused absences. But not all school districts are making sure the law is enforced.” (12/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/28eodak Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 12.13.10 by Steve Trinward “One of the solar system’s most evocative mysteries, the origin of Saturn’s rings, may be a case of cosmic murder, new research suggests. The victim: an unnamed moon of Saturn that disappeared about 4.5 billion years ago. The suspect: a disk of hydrogen gas that once surrounded Saturn when its dozens of moons were forming. The crime: the gas forced the moon to plunge into the planet, and those spectacular, colorful rings are the only evidence left. As the doomed moon made its death spiral, Saturn robbed its outer layer of ice, which then formed rings, according to a new theory published online yesterday in the journal Nature.” (12/13/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2drehzw Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 12.12.10 by Steve Trinward “A Globe investigation has found that this Supplemental Security Income program — created by Congress primarily to aid indigent children with severe physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and blindness — now largely serves children with relatively common mental, learning, and behavioral disorders such as ADHD. It has also created, for many needy parents, a financial motive to seek prescriptions for powerful drugs for their children. And once a family gets on SSI, it can be very hard to let go. The attraction of up to $700 a month in payments, and the near-automatic Medicaid coverage that comes with SSI approval, leads some families to count on a child’s remaining classified as disabled, even as his or her condition may be improving.” (12/12/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/32dvbjc Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 12.12.10 by Steve Trinward “From the start, Michael Steele was not only a historical figure in the Republican Party but a controversial one as well. Now he may be on the way out. Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is expected to announce his intentions about running for reelection to the top party post Monday evening. Several sources are reporting that he is expected to step down when his two-year term ends in January. ‘Steele … has built no known reelection team or structure, making a campaign unlikely in the face of competition that grows fiercer by the day,’ reports Politico.com.” (12/12/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/282bh4f Filed under: CANDi News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 12.09.10 by Steve Trinward “At least $3 billion is needed over five years to restore the environmental health of the Gulf of Maine, according to a new report described as the most comprehensive ecological needs assessment ever done for the gulf. Two years in the making, the US Gulf of Maine Habitat Restoration and Conservation Plan identifies the major environmental problems in the gulf, including habitat loss, pollution, climate change, and the spread of invasive species. It also gives solutions for the problems and, for the first time, attaches a price tag to those solutions.” (12/09/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2febu6t Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 12.09.10 by Steve Trinward “In the vicious civil war that consumed his homeland, Moses Geng Ajou’s village in Southern Sudan was burned down twice. At 7 years old, he fled, joining thousands of Lost Boys who braved crocodile attacks and hunger in a long journey to safety that eventually landed them in the United States. Now 30 years old, he joined a steady stream of South Sudanese refugees who converged at a community center in Arlington yesterday and registered to vote in a historic referendum next month that could dramatically reshape their homeland’s future.” (12/09/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2a4vh65 Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 12.08.10 by Steve Trinward “Nearly two years after Bernard Madoff’s swindle became public, one of his most enduring clients and friends, Boston philanthropist Carl J. Shapiro, has agreed to return $625 million that Madoff stole from other people and paid to him over four decades. The legal settlement, announced yesterday, is the largest so far in the Madoff case and resolves the government’s civil claims against Shapiro and his extended family. … Shapiro, 97, admitted no wrongdoing in yesterday’s settlement.” (12/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/26m9byo Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Tennessean Posted on 12.08.10 by Steve Trinward “The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee has warned school officials across the state about holiday celebrations. In a letter to the 137 public school superintendents, the group reminded them that holiday celebrations focusing primarily on one religious holiday amount to a school’s unconstitutional endorsement of religion.” [editor’s note: So does that mean Christmas decorations, without at least a menorah and a Kwanzaa headdress alongside ‘em, are now illegal in school? - SAT] (12/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/32pd8ss Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Bloomberg News Posted on 12.08.10 by Steve Trinward “The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 42.9 million in September as the jobless rate stayed near a 27-year high, the government said. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 16 percent from a year earlier and increased 1.2 percent from August, the US Department of Agriculture said yesterday in a statement on its website. Participation has set records for 22 straight months.” (12/08/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/29hlox2 Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: Washington Post Posted on 12.07.10 by Steve Trinward “Ayad Allawi had hoped his political coalition’s strong showing in Iraq’s parliamentary election would propel him to the job of prime minister. But after more than eight months of acrimonious negotiations, the secular Shi’ite lost his fight — and is now the greatest uncertainty as incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moves forward with forming a new government. In a nation divided along sectarian and ethnic lines, Allawi became a symbol of secularists and the Sunni Arab minority. The possibility that he may not participate leaves many US officials … worried that the government that stands at the end of 2011, when US troops are scheduled to leave, could be seen as illegitimate, worsening a fragile security situation.” (12/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24v8yq3 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: The Guardian [UK] Posted on 12.07.10 by Steve Trinward “China and 18 other countries have declined invitations to Friday’s Nobel peace prize ceremony, organizers said today, as Beijing launched a fresh attack on the decision to honor jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo. … Beijing has urged diplomats in Oslo to stay away from the event, warning of ‘consequences’ if they go. Several of those who have turned down invitations are long-term allies or trade partners. The full list comprises Pakistan, Iran, Sudan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Venezuela, the Philippines, Egypt, Ukraine, Cuba and Morocco.” (12/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/27dhdad Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Los Angeles Times Posted on 12.07.10 by Steve Trinward “People with suspected food allergies may need to submit to an oral food challenge — ingesting the food in a doctor’s office while symptoms are assessed — in order to receive an accurate diagnosis, according to new guidelines issued Monday by a consortium of food-allergy experts led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The guidelines specifically rule out attempting to diagnose a food allergy solely by skin-prick or blood tests that merely suggest an individual is ’sensitized’ to a particular food.” (12/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/29lg3db Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 12.07.10 by Steve Trinward “Defense Secretary Robert Gates is touring Afghanistan this week to gauge progress on the ground, but back in Washington, the Pentagon is already wrestling with what to do about the ’significant’ increase in the number and effectiveness of roadside bombs throughout the country. Between June 2009 and 2010, insurgents’ use of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, rose by 22 percent. More worrying, say senior US military officials, is that the rate of effective attacks — in other words, bombs that result in injuries to NATO troops or Afghan civilians — has increased 45 percent.” (12/07/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2d5ew54 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Tennessean Posted on 12.06.10 by Steve Trinward “State Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, is working on a Tennessee version of the controversial Arizona law that made it a state crime to be in the country illegally [sic]. It also gave local police power to question and detain anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. Ketron said he expects to file his bill by Thursday. ‘You can’t deny how (illegal immigration) is affecting us, from education to health care to the judicial system to incarceration, and more importantly the number of jobs it’s taken away,’ he said.” [editor’s note: Yes you can deny it; xenophobia, scapegoating and racism are the only purpose of this nonsense - SAT] (12/06/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/29k7n68 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 12.06.10 by Steve Trinward “Ethel Johnson couldn’t get her prescription for pain medication filled fast enough. The 60-year-old Buffalo woman was hurting — but investigators said that was not the reason for the rush. Her pain pills were allegedly destined to be sold on the street. According to secretly recorded telephone conversations, the sooner Johnson could pick up her pills, the more quickly she could sell them to her dealer. Johnson is among 33 people charged so far in a large-scale investigation into an emerging class of suppliers in the illicit drug trade: medical patients, including many who rely on Medicaid to pay for their appointments and prescriptions.” (12/06/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2byho8c Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: ABC News Posted on 12.06.10 by Steve Trinward “In what is being called a first of its kind study, researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY) have discovered that about half of all people have a gene that makes them more vulnerable to promiscuity and cheating. Those with a certain variant of the dopamine receptor D4 polymorphism — or DRD4 gene — ‘were more likely to have a history of uncommitted sex, including one-night stands and acts of infidelity,’ according to lead investigator Justin Garcia. DRD4 is the ‘thrill-seeking’ gene, also responsible for alcohol and gambling addictions.” (12/06/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2375eko Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 12.06.10 by Steve Trinward “As the U.S. Postal Service grapples with service cuts and massive budget shortfalls, an estimated $134.4 million dollars of its annual revenue is quietly slipping away to counterfeiters and perpetrators of other types of postal fraud. Counterfeit stamps have been identified as a steady, recurring risk for the U.S. Postal Service, which reported a loss of $8.5 billion in the last fiscal year, and they are one of the 10 biggest threats to Postal Service revenue, according to the 2009 annual report of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement arm of the Post Office.” (12/06/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/39m4wzj Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle Posted on 12.05.10 by Steve Trinward “By any measure, Netflix is having a really good year. Its subscriber base jumped by 52 percent in the third quarter, and its stock price has doubled since July 1. … the company now accounts for 20 percent of all Internet traffic during a typical evening, according to Sandvine, which makes network-monitoring equipment. At San Francisco’s Web 2.0 conference in mid-November, an onstage interviewer asked Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings whether the Internet’s infrastructure can withstand the strain as his streaming business grows.” (12/05/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2alazyl Filed under: CANDi News and PND News | |
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Source: New York Times Posted on 12.05.10 by Steve Trinward “Arizona used to be a knife carrier’s nightmare, with a patchwork of local laws …. that changed this year when Arizona made its Legislature the sole arbiter of knife regulations. And because of loose restrictions on weapons here, Arizona is now considered a knife carrier’s dream, a place where everything from a samurai sword to a switchblade can be carried without a quibble. Arizona’s transformation, and the recent lifting of a ban on switchblades, stilettos, dirks, and daggers in New Hampshire, has given new life to the knife rights lobby, the little-known cousin of the more politically potent gun rights movement.” [editor’s note: You can almost hear the snarkiness in this writer’s voice - SAT] (12/05/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24qt6a6 Filed under: 2AM News and CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: Tennessean Posted on 12.02.10 by Steve Trinward “The executive committee of the state Republican Party at a meeting this weekend is expected to consider a proposal to require party registration before voting in Tennessee primaries. The General Assembly would have to approve any change in current state law, though the GOP’s expanded majorities in both chambers would likely lend more weight to the executive committee’s recommendations.” [editor’s note: Perfect timing, now that the courts have ruled that “minor party” candidates may so identify themselves on final-election ballots; if this leads to party-designated registration of voters, the dynasties could all fall apart - SAT] (12/02/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24u763v Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 12.02.10 by Steve Trinward “Madonna, always the tough girl, did not let the news of drug-fueled beheadings and butchering in Mexico scare her off. The pop queen inaugurated her Hard Candy Fitness gym in a posh Mexico City neighborhood on Monday night, with Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard in the crowd. ‘A lot of places I go to are considered dangerous whether that’s Tel Aviv or Rio, [but] that never stops me from going somewhere to put on a show. … But if drug traffickers could not keep her away, something arguably even scarier might: Mexican bureaucracy.” (12/02/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2d3yxhf Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 12.02.10 by Steve Trinward “[I]n what residents are calling a tax on their dogs, Brookline officials are proposing to charge a fee for the right to let dogs run off-leash in designated parks. Residents would have to pay $50 a year to let a dog loose in the parks; nonresidents would have to pay $100. And the fees for park usage by professional dog-walkers would be considerably steeper …. Dog owners say the proposal puts them in an awkward position: pay the fee, or risk having their beloved canines turn into overweight, antisocial couch potatoes.” [editor’s note: The reality is, this is a (relatively small) “user fee” that applies only to those wishing to let their dogs run free in the parks - SAT] (12/02/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/25zwny2 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 12.02.10 by Steve Trinward “A high school football player in Tacoma, Wash., got flagged for dropping to his knee and pointing to the sky after scoring a touchdown during a playoff game. ‘It’s just something I do every time I get in the end zone,’ said Ronnie Hastie, a Tumwater High School running back. ‘To honor my Lord because I play for him. I give him the glory because he’s the one that gives me the strength.’ Although Hastie’s strength may be divine, high school referees are apparently not.” (12/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/235gglk Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: New York Times Posted on 12.02.10 by Steve Trinward “Police in Spain and Thailand arrested 10 people suspected of operating a counterfeiting network that provided fake European passports to terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda in order to smooth their entry into Western countries, the Spanish Interior Ministry said yesterday. Seven people — six Pakistanis and one Nigerian — were arrested in Barcelona in raids late Tuesday and early yesterday. Three more people — two Pakistanis and one Thai — were arrested in Bangkok in the same period, the ministry said in a statement.” (12/02/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/29xrcq7 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 12.02.10 by Steve Trinward “The night sky may be a lot starrier than we thought. A study suggests the universe could have triple the number of stars scientists previously calculated. For those of you counting at home, the new estimate is 300,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000. That’s 300 sextillion. The study questions a key assumption that astronomers often use: that most galaxies have the same properties as our Milky Way. And that’s creating a bit of a stink among astronomers who want a more orderly cosmos. It’s one of two studies published online yesterday in the journal Nature that focus on red dwarf stars, the most common stars in the universe.” (12/02/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/26aqgrs Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Agence France-Presse Posted on 12.01.10 by Steve Trinward “The US space agency has created a buzz with its announcement of a press conference Thursday to discuss a scientific finding that relates to the hunt for life beyond the planet Earth. ‘NASA will hold a news conference at 2 pm EST (1900 GMT) on Thursday, December 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life,’ it said on its website. Space enthusiasts and believers in alien life took to the blogosphere in a flurry of speculation over the potential meaning of the announcement, though NASA declined to elaborate further.” (12/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3y9lfw2 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 12.01.10 by Steve Trinward “An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a technique the TSA is reportedly using to get children to co-operate with airport pat-downs: calling it a ‘game.’ Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA’s recommendation that children be told the pat-down is a ‘game’ is potentially putting children in danger. Telling a child that they are engaging in a game is ‘one of the most common ways’ that sexual predators use to convince children to engage in inappropriate contact, Wooden told Raw Story. … The TSA policy could ‘desensitize children to inappropriate touch and ultimately make it easier for sexual offenders to prey on our children,’ he added.” (12/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2v58kd4 Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 12.01.10 by Steve Trinward “To ease surging budget deficits, Americans preferred cutting federal services to raising taxes by nearly 2-1 in a new poll. Yet there was little consensus on specific, meaningful steps — and a wariness about touching two gargantuan programs, Social Security and Medicare. An Associated Press-CNBC Poll showed widespread anxiety about budget shortfalls exceeding $1 trillion a year. Eighty-five percent said they worry that growing red ink will harm future generations …. Fifty-six percent said they think the shortfalls will spark a major economic crisis in the coming decade.” (12/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2fjktak Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: CNN News Posted on 12.01.10 by Steve Trinward “An atheist billboard that calls Christmas ‘a myth’ has sparked a growing controversy near the Lincoln Tunnel …. The full message, which appears with a nativity scene, reads: ‘You know it’s a myth. This season, celebrate reason.’ Its $20,000 price tag was paid for by American Atheists …. ‘We are addressing the 50 million atheists in this nation,’ Silverman said. He said the group erected the sign in a high-traffic area in an effort to challenge drivers to ‘think hard about whether or not they actually believe in what is, in reality, an invisible magic man in the sky.’” [editor’s note: Are they talking about Santa, or God? The actual existence of either one is irrelevant to the spirit of Christmas; the atheists are being as doctrinaire about their religion as the believers are - SAT] (12/01/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23fc9nj Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 12.01.10 by Steve Trinward “A satellite image of the headquarters of Iran’s national airline reveals a Star of David, and government officials in the Islamic Republic are calling for its immediate removal, according to reports. The satellite image of the Airline of the Islamic Republic of Iran, also known as Iran Air, was taken by Google Earth, according to Ynetnews.com. Local reports say the building was ‘built by Israeli engineers’ who worked in the country before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.” (11/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2elnq4p Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: Raw Story Posted on 11.30.10 by Steve Trinward “What does the release of over 250,000 secret US State Department cables by WikiLeaks ultimately reflect? ‘What that reveals is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership and of course the Israeli political leadership,’ Noam Chomsky, renowned American linguist and political dissident, told Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman on Tuesday. In the context of Israeli and US policymakers view of Iran shown in the cables, Chomsky said that the perspectives of the leadership stand in sharp contrast to the opinions of the populations they supposedly serve.’” [editor’s note: If only it was that, instead of the “profound hatred of liberty” that USA, Inc. truly displays, at home and abroad - SAT] (11/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2c2sced Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 11.30.10 by Steve Trinward “Less than a year after removing most limits on election spending by corporations and organized labor, the Supreme Court is signaling trouble for another campaign law that aims to curtail the political power of big money. The court yesterday said it will consider dismantling Arizona’s program that gives extra cash to publicly funded candidates who face privately funded rivals. Similar matching funds programs exist in a half-dozen other states and a handful of big cities.” (11/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2bzxm3r Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 11.30.10 by Steve Trinward “Fans of the Gadsden Flag may soon be able to display its familiar rattlesnake and ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ message every time they pull out of the driveway. At least three states — Virginia, Nevada and Texas — are weighing or have already approved proposals to add ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ specialty license plates to their state rosters. The Gadsden Flag, originally used by the U.S. Marine Corps during the American Revolution, was meant to represent the 13 original colonies and their battle for independence from the British monarchy. It has recently been adopted by some Tea Party groups as a message against big government.” (11/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/27f2bjr Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 11.30.10 by Steve Trinward “For the first time, North Korea made its uranium enrichment program a matter of written record Tuesday with the proud claim in the country’s leading newspaper of a modern facility that is already operational. That revelation in the Workers’ Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun marks another step toward North Korea’s emergence as a nuclear power. The North’s ‘modern uranium enrichment plan’ was still under construction but was already ‘equipped with several thousand centrifuges,’ according to the newspaper. In recent years Pyongyang has already exploded two nuclear devices with plutonium at their core.” (11/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/36auhtk Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 11.30.10 by Steve Trinward “Federal prosecutors are asking a US grand jury to weigh charges, including fraud, extortion, and conspiracy, in the widening patronage scandal that has staggered the state Probation Department. US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz has ordered probation officials to preserve all documents that could be used as evidence in the criminal probe …. ‘This letter shall notify you that a federal grand jury is and has been conducting an investigation into allegations relating to violations of certain federal statutes,’ Ortiz wrote to Acting Probation Commissioner Ronald P. Corbett Jr.” (11/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/29avjhr Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: Washington Post Posted on 11.30.10 by Steve Trinward “The streets of Haiti’s capital were mostly quiet yesterday, as the international observers who monitored Sunday’s tumultuous elections called for the vote-counting to continue and results to be respected, saying they had witnessed irregularities but not the ‘massive fraud’ alleged by most of the country’s presidential candidates. Those findings challenged a statement made Sunday by 12 of the 19 presidential candidates that called for the election to be invalidated. They said the government of outgoing President Rene Preval had rigged the process to install his protege, Jude Celestin.” (11/30/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/29sn6vg Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Agence France-Presse Posted on 11.29.10 by Steve Trinward “A computer hacker known as the ‘Jester’ who calls himself a ‘hacktivist for good’ is taking credit for temporarily taking down the WikiLeaks website. WikiLeaks.org came under a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Sunday shortly before it began releasing the first batch of some 250,000 US diplomatic cables. The ‘Jester,’ a hacker who has targeted extremist websites in the past, claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on WikiLeaks in a message on his Twitter feed. … Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at computer security firm F-Secure, told AFP he believed the hacker could carry out the attack on WikiLeaks.” (11/29/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/3yrcbwt Filed under: CANDi News and PND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 11.29.10 by Steve Trinward “While Democrats and Republicans are at odds and polls expressing historic voter dissatisfaction, disgruntled voters in a handful of states now an outlet that could channel that populist anger into real-world solutions, say several political analysts. The idea is called the ‘there oughta be a law’ contest, in which citizens send ideas for new laws to lawmakers who then bring them before state legislatures. The movement began in California in 2001 and has now grown to about half a dozen incarnations from California to New York.” [editor’s note: Horrors! This authoritarian putsch needs a civil liberties-driven counter-movement of “there oughta be NO law” ASAP - SAT] (11/29/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/29dkmop Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Los Angeles Times Posted on 11.29.10 by Steve Trinward “European officials rescued their second country in seven months Sunday, offering financially strapped Ireland a bailout package worth $113 billion in a bid to shore up confidence in the battered euro. Dublin quickly accepted the lifeline, hoping to calm investors ahead of the opening of international markets today. The move was a humiliating concession by the Irish government, which had insisted for weeks that it did not need outside help to deal with its crushing public debt and crippled banking sector. All eyes are now turned to Portugal and Spain, where, in many ways, the true mettle of the Irish bailout will be tested.” (11/29/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/234pdme Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Guardian [UK] Posted on 11.29.10 by Steve Trinward “Scientists claim to be a step closer to reversing the aging process after rejuvenating worn out organs in elderly mice. The experimental treatment developed by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, turned weak and feeble old mice into healthy animals by regenerating their aged bodies. The surprise recovery of the animals has raised hopes among scientists that it may be possible to achieve a similar feat in humans — or at least to slow down the aging process.” (11/29/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2bxdgqv Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Los Angeles Times Posted on 11.28.10 by Steve Trinward “Ireland is on the verge of reaching a preliminary agreement with international finance officials on a massive bailout package, a government minister said Saturday, as thousands of angry demonstrators marched through Dublin to protest the country’s latest round of painful public-spending cutbacks. Irish Communications Minister Eamon Ryan told broadcaster RTE that his colleagues and their counterparts with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union were working hard to produce an ‘outline agreement’ in time for the opening of financial markets Monday.” (11/28/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/26kwets Filed under: CANDi News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 11.28.10 by Steve Trinward “No day goes by now in Britain without a new wave of headlines about next year’s royal wedding between Prince William and his sweetheart, Kate Middleton. Media attention Friday fussed over hints by Elton John that he will sing at the event, 17 years after performing an adapted version of his hit ‘Candle in the Wind’ at the funeral of William’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. But now that a venue date has been named for the big day — keep your diary free for April 29 at London’s Westminster Abbey, the royals’ ‘local’ church — the question of who will foot the bill in an era of austerity is rather tricky.” (11/26/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/37te6nh Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: Washington Post Posted on 11.28.10 by Steve Trinward “The capture of Mohamed Osman Mohamud is the latest indication that the government is increasingly turning to undercover operatives to infiltrate extremist cells and fight what authorities call a wave of homegrown terrorism. Agents arrested Mohamud moments after he tried to detonate a van he thought was packed with explosives in the crowded public square Friday night, the Justice Department said. As he was taken away, Mohamud, 19, kicked agents and screamed ‘Allahu Akbar!’ (Arabic for ‘God is great’) officials said. The bomb was an elaborate dud, assembled by FBI technicians.” [editor’s note: I hate the precedent of FBI “set-ups” (cf. Vietnam War-era peace activists?), but it’s a bit hard to argue with the methods in this case - SAT] [additional editor’s note: As more facts emerge, no, it’s not hard to argue with these methods. The FBI apparently purposely kept the guy unemployed and unable to travel while trying to lure him into a “terror plot” entirely of its own manufacture - TLK] [follow-up note: After posting this one, I read Greenwald’s latest analysis, and return to my initial reservations; if it takes this much effort to “find” a domestic terrorist, chances are there aren’t many to choose among - SAT] (11/28/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/28fyohw Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: New York Times Posted on 11.28.10 by Steve Trinward “The Republican who will lead the chief investigative committee in the House is planning to vastly expand scrutiny of the Obama administration by seeking new subpoena powers for dozens of federal agency watchdogs in hopes of using their investigations and his own in an aggressive push to cut spending and shrink the government. The Republican, Representative Darrell Issa of California, who will take over as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has said the government needs ‘to go on a diet’ to help erase the annual budget deficit of $1.4 trillion.” (11/28/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2g4fuvy Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal Posted on 11.23.10 by Steve Trinward “A proposal to surrender the charter of Memphis City Schools is now before the school board. … If approved by the board — which will vote no earlier than next month — and the voters, the surrender would turn over operation of the city schools to the Shelby County Schools board. The resolution was a response to county schools leaders’ desire for status as a special school district with the power to freeze its boundaries to prevent schools consolidation. … If the board approves the measure, citizens would be asked to vote within 80 days.” (11/23/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2bajj7v Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: BBC News [UK] Posted on 11.23.10 by Steve Trinward “An unusual legal test case is taking place in Canada aimed at clarifying whether polygamy is a crime. … Over the next few months, a court will decide. Cradled in the picturesque Creston Valley, near the province of British Columbia’s border with the US, is the secluded hamlet of Bountiful. What distinguishes this settlement of some 1,200 from its rural neighbours is that many of its residents openly practise polygamy. … Bountiful’s residents are part of a fundamentalist breakaway Mormon sect, which believes that a man must marry at least three wives in order, one day, to enter heaven.” (11/23/10) Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11776534 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 11.23.10 by Steve Trinward “‘Prosecutors in the money laundering trial of Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, made a final pitch to jurors yesterday to connect the dots among the mounds of circumstantial evidence and find him guilty. DeLay’s lawyers said prosecutors needed jurors to infer DeLay’s guilt because they had presented no proof that the former lawmaker committed a crime. Jurors deliberated for about three hours after closing arguments without reaching a verdict. They will resume their deliberations [Tuesday].” (11/23/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2dexwcq Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Boston Globe Posted on 11.22.10 by Steve Trinward “It’s often said that the two certainties in life are death and taxes. For 2010, a hint of ambiguity has entered into that adage. This year, death has not been followed by federal estate taxes, due to a quirk in the law. It has cost the US Treasury billions of dollars and fueled a battle in Congress, and it may be prompting end-of-life discussions in some of America’s wealthiest families. Bluntly put, a very rich person could save his or her heirs a lot of money in taxes by dying before New Year’s Day. Starting Jan. 1, the federal estate tax is scheduled to return automatically after an unusual one-year hiatus, unless Congress takes action.” (11/22/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/23e46rb Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 11.22.10 by Steve Trinward “Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore reportedly has had a change of heart on ethanol, telling a conference on green energy in Europe that he only supported tax breaks for the alternative fuel to pander to farmers in his home state of Tennessee and the first-in-the-nation caucuses state of Iowa. Speaking at a green energy business conference in Athens sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank, Gore said the lobbyists have wrongly kept alive the program he once touted.” (11/22/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2aeuap8 Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: New York Times Posted on 11.22.10 by Steve Trinward “The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that any American proposal for restarting Israeli-Palestinian negotiations must include a complete halt in Israeli settlement building, including in East Jerusalem. It was not immediately clear whether Abbas’s position, which is consistent with Palestinian policy, would scuttle a proposed deal that the Americans hope will lead to a resumption of the negotiations. In the past Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel have found ways to surmount such difficulties.” (11/22/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2fa6tqb Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: New York Times Posted on 11.21.10 by Steve Trinward “When Congress passed the health care law, it envisioned doctors and hospitals joining forces, coordinating care, and holding down costs, with the prospect of earning government bonuses for controlling costs. Now, eight months into the new law, there is a growing frenzy of mergers involving hospitals, clinics, and doctor groups eager to share costs and savings and cash in on the incentives. … Consumer advocates fear that the health care law could worsen some of the problems it was meant to solve — by reducing competition, driving up costs, and creating incentives for doctors and hospitals to stint on care, in order to retain their cost-saving bonuses.” (11/21/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/28h7feu Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Washington Post Posted on 11.21.10 by Steve Trinward “For the first time, scientists believe they have witnessed the birth of a black hole. It began 30 years ago when a star 50 million light-years away imploded, setting into motion events that created a region where gravity is so great that nothing can escape, even light. The initial 1979 observation of the exploding star was made by an amateur astronomer from Maryland, but the profession’s top scientists have studied it intently with increasingly sophisticated orbiting X-ray telescopes. In announcing the discovery this month at NASA headquarters, the researchers said that although the information they have collected is consistent with the birth of a baby black hole, they cannot rule out some other possibilities. Nonetheless, they spoke enthusiastically about what they are learning and will learn about the evolution of black holes.” (11/21/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2edhc8r Filed under: CANDi News | |
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Source: Washington Post Posted on 11.18.10 by Steve Trinward “Times might be tough for most Americans but not for the well-heeled lawmakers in Congress. The personal wealth of members of Congress collectively increased 16 percent between 2008 and 2009, even as the broader economic downturn eliminated thousands of jobs for ordinary Americans, according to a study by the Center for Responsive Politics released yesterday. In the House, the study found, median wealth grew to $765,010, up from $645,503 in 2008. In the Senate, median wealth grew from $2.27 million in 2008 to $2.38 million in 2009.” (11/18/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2eyf4eb Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Associated Press Posted on 11.18.10 by Steve Trinward “Thou shalt not commit adultery. And thou also shalt not use Facebook. That’s the edict from a New Jersey pastor who believes the two often go together. The Rev. Cedric Miller said 20 couples among the 1,100 members of his Living Word Christian Fellowship Church have run into marital trouble over the last six months after a spouse connected with a former flame on Facebook. Because of the problems, he is ordering about 50 married church officials to delete their accounts with the social networking site or resign from their positions. He had previously asked married congregants to share their login information with their spouses and now plans to suggest that they give up Facebook altogether.” [editor’s note: Yeah, that “’til death do you part” thing gotta be enforced at all costs, including even the happiness of the people involved (or, “first they came for the married folks …”) - SAT] (11/18/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/24qyqp9 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Reuters Posted on 11.18.10 by Steve Trinward “The Dutch government said on Wednesday it wanted to ban tourists from buying cannabis in ‘coffee shops,’ where hash is on sale legally, as part of a national crackdown on drug use. The Netherlands has one of Europe’s most liberal soft drug policies and its coffee shops are a popular tourist attraction, especially in Amsterdam and border cities near Belgium and Germany. But some cities near the border with Belgium have clamped down on drug tourism, and the Dutch minister for security and justice confirmed Wednesday a wider crackdown after coalition parties agreed to push for a ban in September. The government, which took office last month, has agreed to limit the sale of cannabis to Dutch residents to curb crime linked to its production and trading.” (11/18/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2drn2m4 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 11.18.10 by Steve Trinward “in a feat akin to capturing lightning in a bottle, physicists have created and for the first time briefly captured antihydrogen, the antimatter counterpart to the simple hydrogen atom. For more than 20 years, physicists have been looking for ways to create and study antihydrogen as a way to gain insights into processes that allowed the universe to evolve from a hot, roiling soup of subatomic particles shortly after the Big Bang some 13.6 billion years ago into the cooler collection of planets, stars, and galaxies astronomers observe today. The experiments yielding the result represent an important step toward designing tools that will create and maintain large numbers of these antimatter atoms long enough for scientists to study them in detail.” (11/18/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/25othpn Filed under: CANDi News and PND News | |
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Source: AOL News Posted on 11.18.10 by Steve Trinward “Nearly four in 10 Americans think marriage is becoming obsolete, according to a new survey that reveals changing attitudes on gay marriage, unwed couples and the definition of what a family is. The study, conducted by social scientists at the Pew Research Center in coordination with Time magazine, also shows that Americans’ attitudes toward family issues differ by race, age and social class. It’s based on interviews with 2,691 adults reached on their cell or land-line phones during the first three weeks of October. Pew researchers also analyzed demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Among the biggest changes in Americans’ attitude toward marriage was the number of those who now believe the institution is becoming obsolete. Thirty-nine percent of respondents said they believe that’s the case, compared with 28 percent who said that when Time magazine asked the same question in 1978.” [editor’s note: Yet another reason to ban Facebook for its “temptations?” - SAT] (11/18/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/36j7ym3 Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Posted on 11.17.10 by Steve Trinward “An anonymous student at Fresno State University outed student body President Pedro Ramirez — revealing that Mr. Ramirez is an illegal immigrant the day after the state supreme court ruled that illegal immigrants could claim in-state tuition. … Congress continues to consider the DREAM Act, which would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who were brought to the US as children and attend college or join the military. Mr. Ramirez, brought to the US from Mexico when he was 3, says he didn’t know he was not a citizen until he was a senior in high school. Elected student body president last June, Ramirez is working without the $9,000 stipend for his position because he refused to lie on employment papers.” (11/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2un3rsc Filed under: CANDi News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Source: Washington Post Posted on 11.17.10 by Steve Trinward “The proportion of cancer patients who die in the hospital and get hospice care varies widely from region to region and hospital to hospital across the country, according to a new report. Researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas Project in Lebanon, N.H., analyzed the records of 235,821 Medicare patients ages 65 and older who died between 2003 and 2007. Overall, the researchers found that one-third of patients spent their last days in hospitals and intensive-care units. But there was a big range. At one end was Manhattan, where 46.7 percent died in the hospital. In contrast, 7 percent of cancer patients died in the hospital in Mason City, Iowa.” (11/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/2akse2h Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News | |
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Source: MSNBC Posted on 11.17.10 by Thomas L. Knapp “After a two-week count of write-in ballots, the Associated Press has called the Alaska Senate race for incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski, who defeated Tea Party challenger Joe Miller, will be the first write-in candidate to win election to the Senate since South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond in 1954.” (11/17/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/32fpddm Filed under: CANDi News and RRND News and Twitter-Worthy | |
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Source: Fox News Posted on 11.16.10 by Steve Trinward “The Transportation Security Administration says airline passengers won’t get out of body imaging screening or pat-downs based on their religious beliefs. TSA chief John Pistole told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that passengers who refuse to go through a full-body scanner machine and reject a pat-down won’t be allowed to board, even if they turned down the in-depth screening for religious reasons. ‘That person is not going to get on an airplane,’ Pistole said in response to a question from Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., on whether the TSA would provide exemptions for passengers whose religious beliefs do not allow them to go through a physically revealing body scan or be touched by screeners.” (11/16/10) Link: http://tinyurl.com/386sxwg Filed under: CANDi News and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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