Sugar, sugar (da-da-da-du): People who drink at least two sugary sodas a week have an increased risk of developing cancer of the pancreas, and researchers suspect the culprit is sugar.
Beer, it does a body good: Rejoice Scissorheads! It turns out that beer is good for your bones or something, so let’s all get healthy! “Choose the beer you enjoy. Drink it in moderation,” lead researcher Charles Bamforth of the University of California, Davis, told LiveScience. “It is contributing silicon (and more) to your good health.”
Posted by Tex Roller Derby QueenFebruary 9th, 2010
When you sign Sarah Palin up for a remedial reading class, please choose another class. Mine are full and are supposed to be limited to recent immigrants.
Citing a column by Pat Buchanan that clearly argues against conflict with Iran, Sarah Palin on Sunday suggested that a war with Iran would be good policy and a boon for President Obama’s 2012 reelection hopes.
Buchanan’s column, “Will Obama Play The War Card?” was a rebuttal of Daniel Pipes call last week for Obama to bomb Iran to save his presidency. “Will Obama cynically yield to temptation, play the war card and make ‘conservatives swoon,’ in Pipes’ phrase, to save himself and his party?” Buchanan writes.
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Check out the key exchange (emphasis ours):
WALLACE: I know that three years is an eternity in politics. But how hard do you think President Obama will be to defeat in 2012?PALIN: It depends on a few things. Say he played, and I got this from Buchanan, reading one of his columns the other day. Say he played the war card. Say he decided to declare war on Iran, or decided to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do. But that changes the dynamics in what we can assume is going to happen between now and three years. Because I think if the election were today, I do not think Obama would be re-elected.
But three years from now things could change if on the national security threat –
WALLACE: You’re not suggesting that he would cynically play the war card.
PALIN: I’m not suggesting that. I’m saying, if he did, things would dramatically change if he decided to toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and our allies. I think people would perhaps shift their thinking a little bit and decide, well, maybe he’s tougher than we think he is today. And there wouldn’t be as much passion to make sure that he doesn’t serve another four years –
A McHenry County judge Wednesday refused to throw out a nuisance charge against a Lakemoor woman using two old toilets and a bathroom sink as front yard planters, rejecting arguments the village was applying its rules too broadly.
The decision by Judge Michael Caldwell moves Tina Asmus closer to a trial showdown with the village over whether the old bathroom fixtures are constitutionally protected artistic expression, as she maintains, or old junk that belongs in a landfill, not a front yard.
In his decision, Caldwell said whether the village is applying its nuisance ordinance unconstitutionally is a fact issue to be decided at trial, but the ordinance itself is not overbroad as Asmus’s attorney argued.
The ruling comes about seven months after village officials cited Asmus, of the 100 block of South Highland Drive, for maintaining a public nuisance when she refused to remove the fixtures. The village ordinance declares as a nuisance any item “no longer safely usable for the purpose for which it was manufactured” and stored without shelter.
Asmus attorney Tom Spencer argued before Caldwell that the fixtures are not stored, and it is not for the village to decide whether an item is being used for its manufactured purpose. By that standard, he noted, residents who place wagon wheels and other items of “Americana” outside their homes should also be ticketed.
Spencer added that messages written on the planters – including one stating “God bless my neighbors” adds to their constitutionally protected nature.
“The fact of the matter is that they don’t like that her artistic expression happens to involve plumbing,” Spencer said. “They can’t just willy-nilly decide that they don’t like it. I don’t have to like it, you don’t have to like it, but it is her constitutional right.”
Lakemoor attorney Greg Waggoner said the village’s decision to cite Asmus has nothing to do with her art or her message, but rather with her medium.
“We’re not objecting to a sign,” Waggoner said. “But at the same time, a person can’t decide to put a sign on anything they choose and call it freedom of expression. This is a reasonable exercise of government authority.”
Asmus, who faces a $25 fine if found guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, continues to display the fixtures.
I think this is genius, sheer genius. DuChamps lives!
Posted by Tex Roller Derby QueenFebruary 8th, 2010
Have you been following the controversy surrounding Tim Tebow’s mother’s superbowl ad? It aired yesterday while we were still wandering around the airport terminal looking for our gate, but I’ve been reading the commentary.
The Center for Reproductive Rights wrote a letter to CBS pointing out that Ms. Tebow lived in the Philippines at the time of her supposed choice and therefore her only real option was to have the baby because abortion was and still is illegal there.
Pam Tebow: “I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn’t make it into this world. I can remember so many times when I almost lost him. It was so hard. Well, he’s all grown up now, and I still worry about his health. You know, with all our family’s been through, we have to be tough–Timmy! I’m trying to tell our story here.”
Tim Tebow: “Sorry about that, Mom. Do you still worry about me, Mom?”
Pam Tebow: “Well, yeah, you’re not nearly as tough as I am.”
Congressman John P. Murtha (PA-12) passed away peacefully this afternoon at 1:18 p.m. at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA. At his bedside was his family.
Murtha, 77, was Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.
First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in February of 1974, Murtha dedicated his life to serving his country both in the military and in the halls of Congress. A former Marine, he became the first Vietnam War combat Veteran elected to the U.S. Congress.
This past Saturday, February 6, 2010, Murtha became Pennsylvania’s longest serving Member of Congress.
Tea Party Patriots Protecting their right to be nuts.
Ohio: Lap Dances for Haiti raises $1,000.(Mrs. Randall Graves is gonna be pissed.)
Illinois: The Democratic nominee for Illinois’ lieutenant governor, Scott Lee Cohen said he was stepping down because he did not want to jeopardize the Democratic Party ticket.”This is the hardest thing that I ever had to do in my life,” he said before choking up with sobs. (Not unlike all the women he choked first.)
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Sunday invited Republican and Democratic leaders to discuss possible [Healthcare] compromises in a televised gathering later this month. Obama’s move came amid widespread complaints that efforts so far by him and his Democratic allies in Congress have been too partisan and secretive.
At some point, don’t you become clinically insane when you keep repeating the same thing expecting a different outcome?
Yes, discuss what the what being a young Republican and future of the party means. I’d rather if you told us how a functional illiterate got a column and a book deal.
Energy, Tax and Lift American Spirits are clearly visible. There’s also what appears to read as Budget cuts with the word Budget crossed out. Jeebus, is her brain so small she cannot remember those three or four ideas?
It’s not a policy institution, and it certainly is not a “think” tank — it’s an Action Tank!:
Some of the wealthiest Republican CEOs on Wall Street have formed a group to take advantage of new fundraising possibilities for the GOP, now that the Supreme Court has opened the door to unlimited corporate donations:
Kenneth Langone, a former director of the New York Stock Exchange who defended a $139.5 million bonus in 2004 and has been sued for “extortion, defamation, fraudulent misrepresentation.”
Robert K. Steele, a former CEO of Goldman Sachs, helped Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson make his former bank one of the biggest beneficiaries of the $700 billion bailout.
Norm Coleman, who supported President Bush’s 2005 bankruptcy bill.
Ed Gillespie, a political strategist and former Counselor to the President in the George W. Bush White House, whose lobbying firm represents Enron, Citibank, Bank of America, Zurich Financial, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi and a former chairman of the Republican Party.
Fred Malek, an investor and official in the Nixon and first Bush administrations.
And of course, no graft and corruption franchise would be complete without a member of the Bush Crime Family, so wait for it… Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida.
And you can now bet me that Jeb is running for President.
Today, we thought it might be instructive to show some of the signage at The Mountjoy Center for the Appreciation of Cultural Delights. This, of course, is the directional sign to the Larry Craig Memorial Restroom.
A Christian group in Michigan has filed a lawsuit alleging that a package of hate crimes laws named after murder victim Matthew Shepard is an affront to their religious freedom.
Far from the intended purpose of severely punishing criminals who commit unspeakable acts against a persecuted minority group, the religious activists claim the laws are a guarded effort to “eradicate” their beliefs.
The sole purpose of this law is to criminalize the Bible and use the threat of federal prosecutions and long jail sentences to silence Christians from expressing their Biblically-based religious belief that homosexual conduct is a sin.
Sorry folks… while sympathetic to those suffering from the Snowpocalypse, I decided to go to the beach in Santa Cruz and wine tasting. You know, just another winter day in California.
GOP is wary of attending The Carebear’s Health Summit
