Impious since 2006
Well, it looks like I'll be keeping closer attention to college football this year.
A Connecticut man who was halfway through a haircut allegedly stabbed another man in the back with a pair of scissors, according to police.
He's moved Egypt to where Iraq should be - and the fact that no one caught that is odd -- but come on? You make new maps every day over there, or can you re-use one every so often? America's only been engaged in the region since -- well, that Marine's song -- how's that go? "Shores of Tripoli?" 
How does this sort of thing happen on a network in the first place? Kind of makes me wonder what else those guys are just 'whipping up' over there.
Two governors in states bordering Illinois are celebrating the Prairie State's massive tax increase.![Of Note of the Day: According to CNN, there is snow on the ground right now in 49 states, with Florida being the only exception. How unusual is this? “This is extremely unusual,” says CNN, “though it’s hard to put a date on when this last happened because records aren’t kept on this kind of event.” Actually, Google tells me that this last happened exactly 11 months ago, with the only difference being that the holdout then was Hawaii. A USA Today article reporting on the phenomenon in 2010 quoted weather service meteorologist Brian Korty as saying that “it’s extremely rare to have so many states with snow.” [cnn.]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uzbvxFBjxW2tXCeez7oFn3k-2jC-voF07HcPiq4bw-ySvnd9kGsz6DFft2sOMHdXAV6CY9_3cb87ufsvlI9jkpg_eY81s4oVQewNs2B9L_QiMsMzQOYoAv_ACu-obbWuI=s0-d)
According to CNN, there is snow on the ground right now in 49 states, with Florida being the only exception. How unusual is this? “This is extremely unusual,” says CNN, “though it’s hard to put a date on when this last happened because records aren’t kept on this kind of event.”
Actually, you non reporting nor remembering lazy morons it happened exactly 11 months ago, with the only difference being that the holdout then was Hawaii, and that's only because no one wanted to hike up a volcano to see if there was any snow on it. A USA Today article reporting on the phenomenon in 2010 quoted weather service meteorologist Brian Korty as saying that “it’s extremely rare to have so many states with snow.”
No, Detroit playing in a Super Bowl is rare. Snow in January is getting downright predictable.
Meanwhile, in the south...
Top White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee warned Sunday that a congressional failure to rise the nation's debt limit early this year would be "catastrophic."
Snooki and a Red Solo Cup inside a giant hamster ball getting ready to drop during yesterday’s taping of her New Year’s Eve Ball Drop, which was forced to move from Times Square to Seaside Heights due to “technical difficulties.”
The top 2% just got their tax cuts extended. Thank the spineless Democratic leadership."In Washington, where anything beyond last week’s news cycle is considered ancient history, the jury-rigged nature of the Bush plan—and the fiscal sleight-of-hand involved—have been all but forgotten.“We knew that, politically, once you get it into law, it becomes almost impossible to remove it,” says Dan Bartlett, Bush’s former communications director. “That’s not a bad legacy. The fact that we were able to lay the trap does feel pretty good, to tell you the truth.”
[...] Had the tax breaks been made permanent—or even extended beyond Sept. 30, 2011—the fledgling Bush administration would have had to muster a 60-vote Senate majority under the so-called Byrd Rule, named for master parliamentarian Robert Byrd. (The final version, cutting taxes by $1.35 trillion, garnered 58 votes.) And by moving up the expiration date by nine months, the Bush team saved $100 billion and made the bill’s deficit-busting impact appear smaller.
As an added bonus, the “sunset” provision, in Beltway-speak, was a political time bomb: At some point in the way distant future, Democrats could be accused of raising taxes if they tried to undo the Bush breaks and return to Clinton-era levels of taxation."
[Found by Gary the Dangerous Infidel]
Look gang, the Republicans a scoring a victory while the Democrats are placing their tails between their legs and doing this in a lame-duck session. Of course they extended it. They always were. if anyone really cared about the 300 Billion - they would have simply raised the taxes or extended this forever, rather than 2 years -- where they get to do it again. And campaign on it. This is merely a distraction from the one group that fundamentally CONTROLS the economy. The Banks.
Cutting or raising Taxes doesn’t matter. Banks not lending because Glass/Stegeall was removed is all that does. We need to take off the partisan blinders and pay attention to the real issues.
Long story short, in case you’re not current on the latest Facebook meme, people all over the world have been changing their profile pics to cartoon characters from their youth to “raise awareness” for violence against children. So how is this helping abused children? Folks participating in this meme aren’t doing a thing to raise awareness for actions their friends can take to support this cause, just merely pointing out the fact that children are being abused while letting everyone know they once had a thing for Smurfette?
Here’s an idea: How about skipping the silliness and plugging an anti-child abuse charity instead? This is a good one. This is another good one. As is this one.
Facebook has the potential to be a powerful catalyst for social change. But these frequent Facebook charity memes are meaningless exercises in futility. People don’t need to be made aware that breast cancer exists or that child abuse is a problem. What they need are real things they can do to support individuals battling these scourges.
Like memes? Here’s a good one: Things that actually make a difference. Feel free to spread it around.
The victim and a single passenger were driving home towards the southern city of Seville after working at a street fair when the Peugeot 306 ploughed straight into the waters of La Serena reservoir.via
Although both men managed to get out of the car, only one made it to the shore. Red Cross divers found the body of the unnamed driver at the bottom of the reservoir on Sunday morning.
Pictures of the scene show the old road running on a slight downhill slope straight into the reservoir, which is the biggest in the country.
