Rick Perry Subjects Ron Paul To A 'Rick Lazio Moment' Most of the post-debate media chatter centered on the sparks that flew between top-tier candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. That's to be expected, of course -- that's precisely the way the media framed the debate going in to last night. And for the most part, that's the story today, with the addition of some "Jon Huntsman tried to inject himself into the race" sidelines.
Writing for The Plum Line, Jonathan Bernstein says that "the most notable thing about the Republican field" is the "absence of a middle tier -- candidates who would make perfectly plausible nominees, but just weren’t likely to win. " Well, I'd disagree with that -- the "middle tier," for the moment, is Ron Paul. And if this image is any indication, Rick Perry, at the very least, hasn't managed to put Paul in his rear view: This picture of Perry getting in Paul's face was apparently snapped while the cameras were not rolling at the debate last night. British Tourist Complains That Fishing Attraction Smells Of Fish. A tourist filed an official complaint last week alleging that his walk through the fishing harbor of Ilfracombe in Devon, England was ruined by the smell of fish. David Copp, a British tourist who apparently headed to Ilfracombe to take in the sea air, claimed that the “foul stench” upset his children.
The Mirror reports that the Ilfracombe authorities were not terribly concerned by the complaint. “My response to him was ‘I’m sorry, but you shouldn’t be taking you children to a harbor if that is how they react to dead fish,’” Harbormaster Rob Lawson told the tabloid. According to the Telegraph, Copp called the North Devon Journal after Lawson’s answer failed to satisfy him. The Journal printed his olfactory complaints along with the allegation that the smell was issuing from a boat named The Lady of Lundy. NASA Human Space Flight: A Look Ahead. Broadcast Yourself. Obama Avoids 'Green Jobs' Talk, Skirts Political Quagmires. WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's jobs speech on Thursday night was infused with the passion that many who campaigned for him in 2008 had been waiting to hear again.
Yet despite his combative rhetoric, the president largely avoided the “green jobs” talk formerly at the center of his economic message. "From an energy policy perspective there was really nothing there, which is a little surprising given the historical focus of the Obama administration on green jobs and given the number of significant provisions that are set to expire at the end of this year," said Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program, in an interview with HuffPost. Still, the president's zeal won over a number of green advocates, including BlueGreen Alliance's David Foster, who said Obama's call to action could help pass clean energy tax incentives that have been stymied by political bickering. Obama also announced a $25 billion effort aimed at modernizing more than 35,000 public schools. THE ZOMBIE APOCATYPSE. United Nations Sub-Domain of Swaziland hacked by Cocain Team Hackers ~ THN : The Hacker News.
Rick Perry’s Vasectomy: The Governor's Reliance on What He Denies to His Fellow Texans. Rick Perry has only two children?! As the biographical information flashed by on television during a recent debate of Republican presidential hopefuls, it was strangely incongruous to see that the rising star of the religious right was so woefully behind his competitors. Rick Santorum and Jon Hunstman led the pack with seven kids each, followed by Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Michelle Bachman with five (and the 23 children she had fostered). To be sure, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain also had a paltry two, but they, unlike Perry, were not considered to be the new favorite of the social conservative wing of the Republican.
Recent polls show Perry supplanting Bachman in that role, not withstanding her impressive numbers. Perry’s late entrance into the race saved him from the awkwardness of having to deal with the “pro-marriage pledge," put forth by a leading Iowa conservative activist, and signed by some of his fellow candidates who had competed in that state’s straw poll. Apple Wins Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 In Germany. By Nicola Leske DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - A German court upheld an injunction sought by Apple Inc barring Samsung from selling its Galaxy 10.1 tablets in Germany, marking a victory for the U.S. company in its battle across the globe with its South Korean rival. However retailers such as German consumer electronics chain Media Markt will still be able to sell the device, if they are getting rid of existing stock or obtaining new supplies from the South Korean group's parent Samsung International.
Giving the ruling, Judge Johanna Brueckner-Hoffmann said in court in Duesseldorf the overall impression of the tablet was too similar to the design of Apple's iPad. "It (the tablet) is distinguished by its smooth, simple areas," Brueckner-Hoffmann said. Samsung, which can object to the decision, has been locked in a battle with Apple over smartphone and tablet patents since April. Samsung, whose tablets are based on Google Inc's Android software, has counter-sued Apple. Bro News You Can Use: The Jersey Tax - The Bros of Failblog: Celebrating Guidos, Bros, Frat Boys and Bro Culture.
I Prefer “Bees to Honey” KäTAS 11 [Parody] VIDEO: How to Deactivate a Kitteh. Flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station. Copenhagen Phil playing Ravel's Bolero. Fun Facts. PSAs the GOON Way. THE WAR ON DRUGS. Rich People Problems. Beta. How Your Bookseller Really Feels About You. #OccupyWallStreet Protesters March, Campout To Protest Big Banks, Corporations. A few hundred demonstrators protesting against corporations march from nearby Zucotti park to Wall Street amid heavy police presence, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, in the Manhattan borough of New York.
The demonstrators, who have been camping overnight in the park since Saturday, have been surrounded by police officers around the clock with at least 12 protestors arrested in recent days. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) From StruggleVideoMedia: "#Occupy Wall St. demo Sept. 17, 2011. Marchers leave Zucotti Park to attempt to enter blocked off Wall St. At 55 Wall St. they find the wealthy at play and a faceoff begins.
" At the 54 second mark, watch footage of men in tuxedoes, women in dresses drinking champagne on a balcony while looking down at the protesters. 'The Daily Show' Celebrates 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Repeal, Emmy Wins. "The Daily Show" returned Tuesday after taking home a few Emmys Sunday night, and kicked things off with a look at the military after the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell. " The policy that prevented openly gay individuals from enlisting in the military came to an end at midnight on Tuesday, allowing new gay soldiers to enlist as well as those who were kicked out to re-enlist.
Jon Stewart was happy about the repeal but couldn't help but notice how anticlimactic the justice felt: "That's how ridiculous this policy was. The apology for the affront is, 'All right, sorry! To see get an idea of how the armed forces will be changed by the repeal, Stewart turned to correspondent Jason Jones reporting "live" from Afghanistan in his most revealing camo (while listening to Cher, of course).
Watch the second segment below to hear Stewart reflect on how the military got to banning gays in the first place, and how profound it really is that DADT is finally gone. WATCH: Part one WATCH: Part two. Government Shutdown Looms: House Rejects Short-Term Budget Bill. WASHINGTON -- The House on Wednesday failed to pass legislation to keep the government funded past next week, a major defeat for Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who was banking on having the votes for a package that tied emergency disaster aid to spending cuts. The bill went down in a vote of 195 to 230. A whopping 48 Republicans sided with nearly all Democrats in opposing the measure aimed at keeping the government funded past Sept. 30, when current funding runs out, and through Nov. 18.
Just six Democrats voted to pass the bill: Reps. Jason Altmire (Pa.), Tim Holden (Pa.), Larry Kissell (N.C.), Carolyn McCarthy (N.Y.), Michael Michaud (Maine) and Peter Welch (Vt.). The failed vote was not only an embarrassment for Republican leaders, who ended up nowhere near the 218 votes they needed to pass the bill, but it also eats into the small window of time left to avert a government shutdown. Rep. Freshman Rep. Rep. "They targeted a program that created jobs," Peters told The Huffington Post.
Louis CK On Public Drinking. 'Sex meter' helps Bonn tax prostitutes. (CNN) – As the eurozone battles public debt issues, a city in Germany has made it easier for sex workers to pay taxes. Bonn has installed automated pay stations on the streets in which streetwalkers can pay and print out receipts for a 6 euro fee (about $8.70) each night, according to an article in the New York Times. If police stop the prostitutes, they must have a current ticket to practice their trade. Prostitution is legal in Germany and income taxable. While collecting tax returns is easier at brothels, getting government revenues from curbside sex workers is more problematic for Germany tax authorities.
“What the government in Bonn was finding was that it was hard for sex workers who solicit sex on the street to fill out tax returns for many reasons: A) they were probably really busy, but also some of them don’t speak the language,” Nadia Bilchik, a CNN editorial producer, explained on CNN Saturday. TEENAGERS. International Cannabis And Hemp Expo: America's First Marijuana Street Fair Lights Up Oakland (PHOTOS) Marijuana aficionados from across the country descended upon five blocks of downtown Oakland Labor Day weekend to celebrate America's first cannabis-themed open air street festival. In addition to live performances and booths touting everything from paraphernalia to THC-laced chocolate bananas, the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo featured a designated area where card-carrying medical patients could openly smoke weed--right outside Oakland's City Hall.
"Patients need an opportunity to take their medicine," festival chief Kim Cue told the Associated Press. Even city police officers kept their distance, poised peaceably—and, according to one officer, indifferently—on the outskirts of the festival. Within the event, hired security did little more than give directions and check wristbands at entrances. "I was a child of the 60s," 64-year-old Maryfrancis Wasson, who traveled from Sugar Land, Texas, to attend the event, told Oakland North.
Take a look at images and video from the event below: KNOW WHY IT’S CALLED A KILT? A TEXAS GOVERNOR. Toke Up to Tone Up. Growing up in California in the 1980s, we were active. Video games had yet to complete their assault on kids’ recreation time. Our games comprised any sport that was in season – or you could simply ride your bike all day long. The sport stars and action-movie heroes we idolized all shared intense training rituals: Whether it was Arnold or Bruce Lee or Sylvester Stallone as Rocky, we dreamed of transforming our bodies and achieving some type of epic victory.
And when we discovered weed, those dreams didn’t diminish. Eventually, however, a full-time job, eating out, drinking and a decreased activity level took their toll. For me, my wake-up call came 16 years ago, when I decided to overhaul my life. Now, as a fitness professional, I’ve discovered that cannabis use is not just conducive to exercise – it’s an outstanding “supplement” for adding lean body mass, as well as an excellent means of aiding the body’s overall recovery from a workout.
You guessed it: good ol’ Cannabis sativa! Classic: I Wanted a Bite. 100's of United Kingdom and USA websites hacked by Dinelson ~ THN : The Hacker News. Your Newly Mobile Workplace. FIRST CONTACT. Cable Organization, You’re Doing It Right. UPDATED: The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All. As I wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprisingly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group.
But that's not the email I'm talking about here. As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HBGary people are talking about creating "personas", what we would call sockpuppets. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses. But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA - whose enemies are labor unions, progressive organizations, journalists, and progressive bloggers, a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet. Yes!!! In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas: Really? Link. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz pushes lawmakers to get along - Sep. 6. Howard Schultz urges Americans to tell lawmakers that they need to set aside political differences and get the country on the right track.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz pleaded with Americans Tuesday night to take to the Internet, the mail or the telephone to urge lawmakers to quit their bickering and find solutions to the nation's mounting problems. "The country is going in the wrong direction because Washington is taking us there," Schultz said at a town hall-style conference organized by No Labels, a group working to find common political ground. "We cannot allow that to happen; they work for us. " Schultz, who has been urging fellow CEOs to withhold political donations until Washington types learn to get along, said the combination of unemployment, uncertainty, and massive deficits is creating one of the biggest crises this nation has ever been through. When all those obligations start coming due, he said, the picture will not be pretty. Obvious vs. Curious. Michigan's Right-Wing Governor Is Now Being Sued by His Own Citizenry.
If Rick Snyder ever comes to help you, run away as fast and as far as you can. Snyder is the right-wing, corporation-hugging governor of Michigan. The Mackinac Center, a front group bankrolled by the radical Koch Brothers, handed him an extremist anti-worker, anti-government agenda when he took office. The package included a doozie of autocratic mischief-making called The Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act. This new law turned Synder into a perverse hybrid of a Soviet czar and a tinhorn banana republic potentate, and it has infuriated the public. Helping? This is the kind of "help" that a fox brings to the henhouse, so the governor is now being sued by his own astonished citizenry. You might be thinking, "Thank goodness I don't live in Michigan.
" War Gives Way To Financial Strife For Returning Veterans. When he was still scrambling through the brush and dust of Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, listening to his buddies’ frantic pleas for a medic, Brendan O’Byrne gave no thought to whether he would be able to pay his bills when he returned home to the United States. He did not contemplate his future credit rating, or his ability to land a job. Within the netting of heat that enveloped his rickety camp on a rocky hillside 7,000 miles from home, the entire world was compressed to the 19 other young men in his platoon. His life had one organizing principle: to protect the guy to his left and his right; to survive the white-robed insurgents who were plotting over handheld radios to attack him, and who killed seven of his friends during his fifteen-month deployment. But when O’Byrne came home in December 2008, all those other considerations were waiting for him.
During combat, the present was his only frame of reference. His finances were the collateral damage. He survived that. Into the Trash It Goes. Dats juss nawt rite! PACK UP. The Greatest Show On Legs - The Naked Balloon Dance • videosift.com. MAIOR TRAPÉZIO DO BRASIL 2010. Michele Bachmann: Hurricane, Earthquake Comments 'A Metaphor' 13 Facebook Posts That Got People Arrested. Competition Brews To Become 'World's Heaviest Woman' In Guinness World Records.
That’ll Do It, Man. Part 1/4, GOP Republican Debate at Reagan Library - September 7, 2011.