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Yahoo! Shares Hit New Low

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:34:54 GMT

Yahoo closed at $17.75 a share Thursday, marking a new 52-week low for the Internet pioneer and raising the question of whether any near-term catalyst exists that could revive the battered stock.

Yahoo's share price performance not only pushes it past the 52-week mark it was trading in January, but also knocks it back to a level not seen since early October 2003. And while some investors may note that Yahoo was knocked about with the rest of tech stocks--as the tech-heavy Nasdaq took a beating Thursday--it may not cushion the pain of what could have been.

Tags: yahoo, stock, shares, low

McCain Surrogate Accuses Obama of Absenteeism

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:19:27 GMT

clipped by: Wisco
clipper's remarks: Hypocrisy, thy initials are GOP.

This also highlights something I've been saying; Republicans are bad on the economy because they suck at math and logic. First, 45.5% is there more often than gone, Lindsey gets it backward. Second, if Obama's "never challenged his own party to do anything different," how can he possibly be the most liberal senator?

I know that Team McCain's having trouble keeping his positions consistent, but if they could just keep their talking points in agreement, it'd be a big improvement.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Today on ABC This Week, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticized Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for being absent for so many Senate roll call votes, saying that “Sen. Obama’s been gone more than he’s been here.” Watch it:

[Video]

Of course, Graham failed to mention that his candidate, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) remains the most absent member of the Senate, beating even Obama. McCain has missed 63.8 percent of the votes in the 110th Congress; Obama has missed 45.5 percent.

Tags: news

Diplomatic Breakthru in Georgia: Red-Faced Russian Party Crashers Retreat

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:44:30 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: continued.........but nobody thought it was going to turn into a big ugly scene."

Russia's invasion prompted a quick stern response from GOP presidential candidate John McCain, while Democratic candidate Barack Obama urged Russia and Georgia to "work together to iron out their differences," and "chills, y'all." After learning that Georgia was a US ally, Obama clarified the remarks, demanding that Russia withdraw its troops north to Tennessee and West Virginia.

"Everyone was just sort of staring at Russia, who's in the middle of beating the hell out of Georgia, and Russia's like, 'what? Come on man, you have to admit it's funny,'" said a source with UNSCOM. "So Russia's going around, looking for high fives and is like, 'don't leave me hangin', bro,' but the G8 gives him the total gas face, so he's like, 'whatever, dude, this party sucked anyway.'"

Clip Source: iowahawk.typepad.com

"Look, I don't really know what to say - other than, 'hey, our bad,'" said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an awkward, shoe-gazing statement to the United Nations. "Seriously, dude, it just totally wasn't like us to lash out like that. We've been having a couple of bad decades, and I guess we just sort of snapped."

Lavrov and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin left several messages on the voice mail machine of Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili offering apologies and help cleaning up the damage from the weekend invasion. Sources say an angry Saakashvili was in no mood for forgiveness.

Russia's embarrassing geopolitical faux pas began over the weekend, just as the world was celebrating the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing.

"Russia said South Ossetia invited them, to try out some of their pipeline stash," explained a source with the French Foreign Ministry. "I know Russia used to have something going on with Georgia,

Tags: humor, satire, georgia, russia, south ossetia, putin, mccain

Animal Myths

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:51:28 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth

Clip Source: www.greenexpander.com

10 Animal Myths Debunked

Hares are cowards

All it needs is beating his paws relentlessly to escape from predators.

Commonly known as boxing

also used by females to “suggest” to the male that it is not yet ready for mating

Bears are slow

can reach a speed of up to 50 km/hr (30 mph.)

Hippos are clumsy

can reach speeds of up to 30 mph (48 lm/h)

faster than an Olympic sprinter

Badgers are sad and lonely

actually quite sociable

living in groups of 2 to 15 members

Giraffes are flexible

not even able to turn their head back

Zebras are given away by their stripes

stripes help them blend into the crowd

disappearing into a grey color spot

Rattlesnakes rattle before they attack

actually rattle when they are frightened

Octopuses use camouflage to protect from enemies

not

only

Male cuttlefish use their color to camouflage from other competing males and protect their females.

Lizards climb with the use of suction

Elephant have a thick skin

Actually its skin

is very sensitive.

Elephants can feel a simple touch

Tags: nature, animals, photos

NBC Refutes Censorship in Coverage of Olympic Gay Diver Matthew Mitcham

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:47:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.gaywired.com

NBC is denying they intentionally used censorship in the network's coverage of Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham. In a shocking upset, the openly gay diver took home a gold medal in the 10-meter platform event at the Beijing Olympics, beating out the Chinese favorites. Despite intensive coverage of other gold medalist’s personal lives during the Games, NBC failed to mention Mitcham was gay, or show footage of the diver’s partner cheering him on and congratulating him after the win.

Illegals shock, suffocate, slit throats in U.S.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:51:00 GMT

clipped by: dl211
clipper's remarks: Crime creeping across U.S. border

The drug-related murders came on the heels of recent reports of tightened U.S. security along the Southern border as cartels send murderers-for-hire into the U.S. Last week, Texas and New Mexico authorities reported a hit list identifying 15 to 20 targets in the two states alone.

Illegal immigrant violence has claimed the lives of many Americans. As WND reported earlier, MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, a highly organized and well-funded Central American gang, has infiltrated at least 33 states across the U.S., according to law-enforcement authorities. The gang is well-known in Los Angeles, Houston, New York and Washington, D.C., for excessive brutality. Any person suspected of cooperating with authorities is hunted down, tortured and killed. Initiation rites include kickings, beatings and gang rapes.

Clip Source: www.wnd.com

Illegals shock, suffocate, slit throats in U.S.

Alien murderers-for-hire send 4 shipped back to Mexico in body bags

A showdown over drug money between suspected Mexican illegal aliens in Alabama ended with four men in prison and four shipped back to Mexico in body bags.

Three suspected illegal aliens from Mexico and another man have been arrested and charged with capital murder for electrocuting, stabbing, suffocating and beating five men to death in a murder-for-hire.

The four suspects were paid between $400,000 and $450,000 to torture the victims with electric shock and slit their throats in an Alabama apartment, police said Tuesday. The murders have been tied to a drug cartel that transports cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, the Birmingham News reported.

Tags: illegal, immigration, murder

Officer's Actions Probed After Multiple Complaints

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:17:42 GMT

clipped by: Rain7128

Clip Source: www.nbc10.com

Philadelphia Police Officer Thomas Schaffling was cleared of wrong doing in a high-profile beating, but citizens claim he has threatened and roughed up innocent people in two more incidents.

hayden clip

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:22:02 GMT

clipped by: Tromano

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Hayden went further. "[Obama's] problem is that he's lived in the world of beating the Democratic establishment for so long, it's hard to transition to being the Democratic establishment." Hayden is part of the group Progressives for Obama, but he has his issues with the candidate. "There's the pursuit of the last white man standing in Pennsylvania," he said, rather than a fierce pursuit of the Latino vote, which is what Hayden would like to see.

best imange from Beiging

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:14:37 GMT

clipped by: chefalina

Clip Source: content3.clipmarks.com

August, 22, 2008: Alex Schwazer of Italy celebrates as he wins gold in the men's 50km walk

August 21, 2008: Uzbekistan's Artur Taymazov lifts his coach into the air after victory in the men's freestyle 120kg wrestling

August 21, 2008: Misty May-Treanor (front) and Kerri Walsh of the USA

August 19, 2008: Paul Goodison is lifted high in his boat by team manager Stephen Park and fellow gold medalist Ben Ainslie as he celebrates overall victory in the Laser class

August 21, 2008: Norway's Kjersti Tysse Platzer celebrates winning the silver medal in the women's 20km walk

Tan Xue of China

Usain Bolt welcomes his victory

Christine Ohuruogu

late wife Susann

August 21, 2008: Japan's softball team hoist their pitcher aloft after beating the USA in the final

August 22, 2008: Jorgen Persson of Sweden celebrates after beating Croatia's Zoran Primorac during their men's table tennis singles quarter-final

August 12, 2008: Francesco Daniello of Italy reacts after winning the silver medal in the men's double trap

Best images of victory from the olympics.

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:40:19 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

August 12, 2008: Francesco Daniello of Italy reacts after winning the silver medal in the men's double trap

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

August 22, 2008: Jorgen Persson of Sweden celebrates after beating Croatia's Zoran Primorac during their men's table tennis singles quarter-final

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

August 21, 2008: Japan's softball team hoist their pitcher aloft after beating the USA in the final

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

August, 22, 2008: Alex Schwazer of Italy celebrates as he wins gold in the men's 50km walk

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

August 21, 2008: Uzbekistan's Artur Taymazov lifts his coach into the air after victory in the men's freestyle 120kg wrestling

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

August 21, 2008: Misty May-Treanor (front) and Kerri Walsh of the USA

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

August 19, 2008: Paul Goodison is lifted high in his boat by team manager Stephen Park and fellow gold medalist Ben Ainslie as he celebrates overall victory in the Laser class

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

August 21, 2008: Norway's Kjersti Tysse Platzer celebrates winning the silver medal in the women's 20km walk

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Tan Xue of China

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Usain Bolt welcomes his victory

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Christine Ohuruogu

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

late wife Susann

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Tags: olympics, pictures, victory

The beating heart of nebula W5

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:46:22 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: Oh my!

Clip Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com

Holy frak! Check out this new image from Spitzer Space Telescope:

(Click to hugely embiggen)

W5 is a nebula, a giant cloud of gas roughly 6000 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It’s enormous, spanning about 2 x 1.5 degrees of the sky (15 times the size of the full Moon on the sky), and is actively cranking out stars. The valentine-shape is actually an enormous cavern, a hollow carved out of the gas by the winds and fierce ultraviolet light flooding out from massive young stars in its… well, its heart. It’s like these stars are blowing a vast bubble in the middle of the cloud.

The stars doing the work can be seen in the image; the bright blue ones are the culprits. Mind you, this is an infrared false-color image; blue is not really blue, it’s actually light at 3.6 microns, more than four times the wavelength of visible light.

Was McCain Actually Tortured?

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:04:33 GMT

clipped by: dulios

Clip Source: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured?

The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush. So do John Yoo and David Addington and George Tenet.

No war crimes were committed against McCain. And the techniques used are, according to the president, tools to extract accurate information. And so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the "intelligence" we have procured from "interrogating" terror suspects. Feel safer?

Now the kicker: in the Military Commissions Act, McCain acquiesced to the use of these techniques against terror suspects by the CIA. And so the tortured became the enabler of torture.

Tags: torture, war crimes

Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:22:16 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: What a bunch of ass-fucks BushCo is, John McSame included.

Clip Source: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush

These torture techniques are, according to the president of the United States, merely "enhanced interrogation."

No war crimes were committed against McCain.

so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the "intelligence" we have procured from "interrogating" terror suspects.

When they are used against future John McCains, the victims will know,

that their own government has no moral standing to complain.

wifi/restaurant info in NYC

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:16:33 GMT

clipped by: laurasmeaton

Clip Source: travel.nytimes.com

Finding restaurants, and even what to order in restaurants, may be the Internet’s finest hour, beating out guidebooks — even food-oriented guidebooks. Nytimes.com, nymag.com, citysearch.com and yelp.com all search by neighborhood and other categories.

Chowhound’s Manhattan board may be the most useful site (use the “search this board” function); there’s almost nothing it doesn’t have a suggestion for. Mexican near Times Square? (Toloache.) Gluten free in the East Village? (Caracas Arepa Bar.)

Gamer Kid Parents = Epic Fail

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:45:38 GMT

clipped by: jGrrl
clipper's remarks: I am a gamer and a parent, this kid is unbelievable. His parents are the worst case of bad parenting that I have seen in a while, they may not be beating him but honestly? Maybe they should. And kick themselves while they're at it...

Clip Source: www.newsobserver.com

'Guitar Hero' whiz aiming higher

Blake Peebles, 16, of Raleigh, dropped out of school last year to devote himself to playing 'Guitar Hero,' and his parents agreed to have him home-schooled. 'I usually play till I can't anymore,' Blake says.

STAFF PHOTO BY COREY LOWENSTEIN

Tags: bad parenting, idiot kids, stupid ideas, game culture