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Automatic budget cuts are
almost certain

Los Angeles Times, by Jim Puzzanghera & Richard Simon Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/10/2013 3:33:12 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON —In less than a month, a budget ax is set to fall on the federal government, indiscriminately chopping funding for the military and slicing money for various programs, including preschools and national parks. The $85 billion in cuts that would take effect from March 1 through September — the first installment of $1.2 trillion in reductions over the next decade — would strike just about every agency and service in an attempt to ease the budget deficit. The slashing, part of an automatic process known as sequestration, would affect the economy, government workers and average Americans

Warning over social networking
´snooping´ technology

Telegraph [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/10/2013 3:32:54 PM Post Reply

New stalking software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour using data from social networking websites has been developed, it emerged today. [Snip] The system has been created by Raytheon, the US giant defence contractor. It was claimed that the technology could be transformed into a "Google for spies" and used by governments as a means of monitoring and controlling people online. The company insisted that the software--dubbed “Riot” or Rapid Information Overlay Technology--had not been sold to any clients but was shared with the US government in 2010. The move follows controversy over the Communications Bill in

Texas teen gets big
price for steer

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/10/2013 3:27:16 PM Post Reply

FORT WORTH, Texas- A Texas teen got a big check at the annual junior livestock sale, earning $20,895 for his steer, the 278th animal shown of 283 at the sale, officials said. Members of the Stock Show Syndicate, a group of Fort Worth-area business professionals that raises millions of dollars for the annual Sale of Champions, bought the steer from 14-year-old Wyatt Blaylock, after they learned his father died of brain cancer last year, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Saturday. "I don´t know what to say," said Blaylock, from Adkins, a small town south of San Antonio.

´Record close´ asteroid may miss
the Earth but it could take
out your phone

Telegraph [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/10/2013 3:18:10 PM Post Reply

Scientists say they are sure there is no chance of the 150ft (45.7m) wide space rock hitting the planet. But there is a remote possibility that it could collide with one of more than 100 telecommunication and weather satellites in fixed orbits above the Earth. The asteroid, 2012 DA14, has been closely tracked since its discovery a year ago. It is predicted to reach its nearest point to the Earth at around 7.30pm UK time on Friday. Experts have calculated it will stay at least 17,200 miles (27,681km) away--easily far enough to be safe, but a very close shave

An exciting new chapter in
the life of suave Tony Blair

Telegraph [UK], by Ian Hollingshead Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/10/2013 2:44:16 PM Post Reply

As the former prime minister emerges as a Euro-tanned lounge lizard, we imagine The Secret Diary of Tony Blair, aged 59 and two thirds. 2nd September 2010 Simon Cowell, who is worth several times more than I am, calls to congratulate me on my bestselling autobiography. “What did you like most about it?” I asked, modestly. “The bit where I invaded Iraq? Or the bit where I described devouring Cherie like an…” “No, no, I haven’t actually read it,” he said. “But I like that you called it A Journey. That’s very X Factor. And I really like the fact

China air pollution "beyond index"

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 2/10/2013 2:39:34 PM Post Reply

BEIJING — In the first two months of 2013 Beijing´s air pollution has kept schoolchildren indoors and sent coughing residents to hospitals, but this time something is different about the murky haze: the government´s transparency in talking about it. Even state-run media gave the smog remarkably critical and prominent play. "More suffocating than the haze is the weakness in response," read the headline of a front-page commentary by the Communist Party-run China Youth Daily.(Snip)Air pollution is a major problem in China due to the country´s rapid pace of industrialization, reliance on coal power, explosive growth in vehicle ownership

Pussies galore! How cats
are taking over the world

Telegraph [UK], by William Langley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/10/2013 2:32:22 PM Post Reply

Beyond the hard-to-refute argument that they are the world’s most useless animals, cats appear to have everything going their way. In the past 20 years, they have overtaken dogs to become Britain’s most popular pet, relentlessly raised their social profile, and colonised the internet to such an extent that Google has now installed special programmes to monitor their advance. For what can appear, at first acquaintance, to be a small, fur-coated, heat-seeking digestive tract that sleeps 16 hours a day, this is some achievement. Not that the cats show any signs of easing up. Last week they pulled off another

John Kerry refuses
to speak French
at news conference

BBC, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: James Leyva- 2/10/2013 2:20:35 PM Post Reply

John Kerry has prompted a Gallic shrug by refusing to speak French at his maiden news conference as US Secretary of State. Asked to answer a question with a "bit of French please", he said: "Not today. I got to refresh myself on that." The response surprised some in the francophone world as Mr Kerry attended a Swiss boarding school and is known to speak the language well.

Nude Aid benefit

San Francisco Chronicle, by Carolyne Zinko Original Article

Posted By: wydleyred- 2/10/2013 2:19:48 PM Post Reply

San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener´s ban on baring it all in San Francisco notwithstanding, Nude Aid, a benefit for the Center for Sex and Culture, brought more than 30 artists and a dozen naked and fetish-clad models together for a pre-Valentine´s Day sketch session. Visitors hoping for an erotic thrill by seeing models in the buff got a different surprise (although the man with his face painted purple in the mode of a Mexican wrestling mask was an unexpected treat). The real voyeurism was peering over the shoulders of the artists as they worked

Against the Ghetto Plantation

American Thinker, by Jeanne Donovan Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 2/10/2013 2:19:38 PM Post Reply

If Frederick Douglass walked today´s ghettos, he would witness a new-age style of slavery, plantations without the lash and chains. He would soon be outraged that government overseers are perpetuating generations of dependency through policies designed to capture the votes of the ignorant. Of the people he would ask, "What have you done with your freedom? Where is your dignity and self-respect?"

Sen. Paul: I Thought Ashley Judd
Was Considering a Run for Parliament

National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/10/2013 2:07:16 PM Post Reply

Kentucky senator Rand Paul told CNN’s Candy Crowley this morning that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, Ky.) is unlikely to face a Tea Party challenger in the 2014 election, despite rumors to the contrary. “I haven’t heard of any challenger coming forward,” Paul said. Asked about the prospect of a Democratic challenge from actress Ashley Judd, who is reportedly mulling a run, Paul told Crowley, “When I heard Ashley Judd might run for office, I thought maybe it was Parliament, since she lives in Scotland half of the year.” Judd, who recently announced her intention

Officials: Obama coming to
Israel to prevent strike on Iran

Jerusalem Post, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: horacer- 2/10/2013 12:58:37 PM Post Reply

The main purpose of US President Barack Obama´s visit to Israel in the spring is to warn Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against attacking Iran, unnamed officials told Army Radio on Sunday. According to the officials, the urgency of the trip is because in his speech to the United Nations in September, Netanyahu had flagged the spring of 2013 as a significant time in the context of the Iranian nuclear threat. Therefore, they said, Obama is concerned that the prime minister will decide to attack Iran now when he is backed by

Graham on Brennan, Hagel:
‘No confirmation without information’

The Hill, by Meghashyam Mali Original Article

Posted By: Toledo- 2/10/2013 12:52:17 PM Post Reply

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday threatened to hold President Obama’s nominees to head the CIA and Defense department unless the administration provides him with more answers on the response to the Benghazi Consulate attack. “I don’t think we should allow [John] Brennan to go forward for the CIA directorship, [former Sen. Chuck] Hagel [R-Neb.] to be confirmed secretary of Defense until the White House gives us an accounting,” said Graham on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “Did the White House ever pick up the phone and call anyone in the Libyan government to help these folks?”

After ignoring unemployment, Obama
seeks to convince Americans it’s
his top priority

Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/10/2013 12:06:29 PM Post Reply

White House spinners are working furiously in the final 72 hours before President Obama’s State of the Union speech. Their job: convince the recession-scarred American public that economic recovery is Obama’s top priority — after everything he has said and done to suggest otherwise. The unemployment rate is 7.9 percent — one tenth of a point higher than it was when Obama took office in January 2009. But the true toll of joblessness is far higher. The Labor Department’s so-called U-6 rate, which includes people who want a job but have become so discouraged they

Nancy Pelosi To Fox News Sunday:
It’s A ‘False Argument To Say
We Have A Spending Problem’

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/10/2013 11:52:30 AM Post Reply

On Fox News Sunday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told Fox News Channel anchor Chris Wallace that the ongoing debate about a balanced approach to deficit reduction should not place undue emphasis on spending cuts. She said that it is “almost a false argument” to say that Washington has a “spending problem.” Pelosi noted that there have been “plenty of spending cuts,” and budgetary priorities like education and food safety must be protected. (Snip) “Sequestration is a bad idea all around,” Pelosi began. “The fact is we’ve had plenty of spending cuts,

Candy Crowley Asks Panel
If They Were Offended By
Conservative Doctor´s Prayer
Breakfast Speech

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/10/2013 11:47:18 AM Post Reply

A conservative doctor named Ben Carson made quite a splash this week when he appeared to lecture President Obama at the national prayer breakfast. On CNN´s State of the Union Sunday, host Candy Crowley asked her guests, "Do you find anything offensive with" what the doctor said or did (video follows with transcript and commentary): CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: This was in Dr. Ben Carson. He is a world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon out of Johns Hopkins. He was at the prayer breakfast and he was talking about the idea of, you know, weaving the Bible into some objections

New US commander takes
the helm in Afghanistan

Associated Press, by Patrick Quinn Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/10/2013 11:43:02 AM Post Reply

KABUL, Afghanistan- Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford took over Sunday as the new and probably last commander of all U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan. The American-led NATO coalition is entering the final stretch of its participation in a war that will have lasted more than 13 years when most foreign combat troops pull out at the end of 2014. Dunford took over leadership of the International Security Assistance Force, and a smaller but separate detachment of American troops, from Marine Gen. John Allen, who had led them for the past 19 months. "Today is not about change,

CNN Panel: Was Doctor’s Conservative
Speech In Front Of Obama ‘Offensive,’
‘Inappropriate’?

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 2/10/2013 11:41:48 AM Post Reply

Dr. Benjamin Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, raised a number of political eyebrows in Washington this week when he took to a stage he shared with President Barack Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast and advocated a number of conservative reforms. On Sunday, the panel guests on CNN’s State of the Union weighed in on whether it was appropriate for Carson to use the forum of the prayer breakfast to advocate for free market reforms to healthcare and a flat tax code. (Snip) “Whoa,” said CNN anchor Candy Crowley after playing a portion of Carson’s speech

Cardinal Mahony used cemetery
money to pay sex abuse settlement

Los Angeles Times, by Harriet Ryan Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/10/2013 11:34:48 AM Post Reply

Pressed to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to settle clergy sex abuse lawsuits, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony turned to one group of Catholics whose faith could not be shaken: the dead. Under his leadership in 2007, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles quietly appropriated $115 million from a cemetery maintenance fund and used it to help pay a landmark settlement with molestation victims. (Snip)Families of those buried in church-owned cemeteries and interred in its mausoleums have contributed to a dedicated account for the perpetual care of graves, crypts and grounds since the 1890s.

Ben Carson for President

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 2/10/2013 10:12:30 AM Post Reply

Whether this weekend finds you blowing two feet of snow off the driveway or counting the hours until "Downton Abbey," make time to watch the video of Dr. Ben Carson speaking to the White House prayer breakfast this week. Seated in view to his right are Senator Jeff Sessions and President Obama. One doesn´t look happy. You know something´s coming when Dr. Carson says, "It´s not my intention to offend anyone. But it´s hard not to. The PC police are out in force everywhere."

President Barack Obama has
earned ´Great Divider´ label

The Oklahoman, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/10/2013 10:09:08 AM Post Reply

WHEN the annals of presidential nicknames are updated a few years hence, it will be obvious that Barack Obama began earning a certain designation virtually from the day he took office in 2009. The Great Divider. This will be an appendix to a list that includes The Great Emancipator (Lincoln), The American Cincinnatus (Washington), The Apostle of Democracy (Jefferson) and The Great Communicator (Reagan). These are flattering descriptions. They are also earned descriptions — unlike irreverent and partisan monikers such as Martin Van Ruin (Van Buren) and The Human Iceberg (Benjamin Harrison).

Italian and Polish mafia gangs are
blamed for horsemeat scandal as
government warns MORE British
products will be contaminated

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/10/2013 10:03:53 AM Post Reply

Mafia gangs in Italy and Poland are being blamed for the horsemeat scandal amid fears that more cases of contamination could be revealed in Britain within days. Experts in the horse slaughter industry believe the meat is ending up in lasagnes, burgers and other products being served at dinner tables across Britain as part of multimillion pound scams. It has been claimed that the criminals use intimidation to get vets and other food production officials to approve the horsemeat and other cheaper alternatives, such as pork, as beef, which are then shipped around the world.

Obama’s Turn in Bush’s Bind

New York Times, by Peter Baker Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/10/2013 10:01:00 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — If President Obama tuned in to the past week’s bracing debate on Capitol Hill about terrorism, executive power, secrecy and due process, he might have recognized the arguments his critics were making: He once made some of them himself. Four years into his tenure, the onetime critic of President George W. Bush finds himself cast as a present-day Mr. Bush, justifying the muscular application of force in the defense of the nation while detractors complain that he has sacrificed the country’s core values in the name of security. The debate is not an exact parallel to those of

In speech, Ahmadinejad
reiterates willingness for
direct talks with U.S.

Washington Post, by Jason Rezaian Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/10/2013 9:58:03 AM Post Reply

TEHRAN — Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated Sunday his desire to engage in direct talks with the U.S., on one condition. “Take your guns out of the face of the Iranian nation and I myself will negotiate with you,” he said at an event attended by tens of thousands of Iranians in Tehran’s Azadi Square. Ahmadinejad delivered his eighth and final annual speech to commemorate Iran’s 1979 revolution amid a range of challenges from his domestic opponents as well as international pressures, which have resulted in tough economic sanctions over the country’s nuclear program.

Woman hospitalized after Kentucky house
she shares with her husband is overrun
by tens of thousands of bed bugs

Daily Mail [UK], by Nina Golgowski Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/10/2013 9:18:38 AM Post Reply

An infestation of tens of thousands of bed bugs has hospitalized a Kentucky homeowner after being literally eaten alive for more than a year in one of the worst cases exterminators have ever seen. Walking around Caleb and Debra Goins´ home in Frankfort, thousands of bed bugs are easily seen scurrying across walls, lampshades and falling out from holes in the sofa. ´This is one of the worst. I´ve seen others that are in line with it but this is about as bad as it gets,´ Michael Potter, professor of entomology at the University of Kentucky told WTVQ.

American adoptive mothers
get their Russian kids

Associated Press, by Jim Heintz Original Article

Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 2/10/2013 9:18:37 AM Post Reply

After weeks of anxiety plodding through the opaque Russian legal system, two U.S. women have custody of their adopted Russian children and are preparing to take them home to start a new life together. Jeana Bonner of South Jordan, Utah, and Rebecca Preece from Nampa, Idaho, told The Associated Press on Saturday about the expenses, the confusion and emotional swings they’ve gone through since arriving in Moscow in mid-January, expecting to quickly leave with their children, both of whom have Down syndrome.

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