Havoc and Chaos: July 2012

Monday, July 23, 2012

Republican Congressman Gloats About Bill To Enable Animal Torture | ThinkProgress

Uhm what planet is this dude from,,,

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brags that his legislation “wipes out everything they’ve [animal rights advocates] done with pork and veal.” Indeed, King has a long record of opposing animal welfare law — he has, for example, been Congress’ leading advocate against anti-dogfighting legislation. He also believes that the Humane Society and other animal rights advocates are attempting to ban “production agriculture” and has fantasized about exposing vegetarians with “an agenda for our diets” on the House floor.

Republican Congressman Gloats About Bill To Enable Animal Torture | ThinkProgress

Tennessee Republicans Condemn Their Governor For Having Gay And Muslim Employees | ThinkProgress

This is just freakin pathetic,,,

The Tennessean obtained copies of the counties’ nearly-identical resolutions, which say Haslam has “forced this GOP organization to lose the confidence in our Governor during an election year.” One of the reasons listed for why Republicans have lost confidence, it continues, is that Haslam allowed “openly homosexuals to make policy decisions”:

Tennessee Republicans Condemn Their Governor For Having Gay And Muslim Employees | ThinkProgress

George Zimmerman: 'It Was God's Plan' For Me To Kill Trayvon Martin

Hmmmm,,,,ok,,,whatever dude,,,keep talking to faux news and you'll dig your own grave,,,

George Zimmerman: 'It Was God's Plan' For Me To Kill Trayvon Martin

Ann Romney: We've Given 'All You People Need To Know' About Family Finances

Who the heck is "all you people",,,us common folk?? So is Romney now a lord and master w/ his wife as queen?? Are we now serfs and servants at their beck and call?? SCARY!!

Ann Romney: We've Given 'All You People Need To Know' About Family Finances

Federal Judge Orders Tennessee To Stop Blocking Muslims From Worshiping In New Mosque | ThinkProgress

What an excellent example of dominionist ideology at work,,,highlights the importance of church/state separation very well,,.

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Islamic center’s legal troubles first began in 2010, when Rutherford County residents filed a lawsuit alleging that Islam was not a real religion, but rather a “seditious cult” that intended to impose Islamic religious law on the U.S. government. Although that case was thrown out, a local judge picked the fight up again this May and ruled that the mosque’s building permits were invalid because the congregation had not provided “adequate public notice” of the construction. But thanks to U.S. Attorney Jerry Martin’s ruling yesterday in favor of the Murfreesboro congregation’s emergency petition — ultimately determining that the local judge could not hold the Murfreesboro mosque to the separate standard he had created in his May ruling — congregants will be able to worship in their newly-constructed mosque beginning today.

Federal Judge Orders Tennessee To Stop Blocking Muslims From Worshiping In New Mosque | ThinkProgress

Officials: U.S. Whooping Cough Epidemic Worst In 50 Years | ThinkProgress

Zippin lips on this one,,,will let the #s do the talking,,,damn anti -vaccers,,,oh did I say that out loud,,,

Officials: U.S. Whooping Cough Epidemic Worst In 50 Years | ThinkProgress

Mike Huckabee: Keeping Gays Out Of Boy Scouts Will Protect Boys From Abuse | ThinkProgress

Sigh,,,will this kind of thinking ever end,,,

Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which individuals have a primary or exclusive sexual interest in children. It in no way defines or relates to an individual’s sexual orientation — it refers only to age and level of sexual development. That gay men are attracted to men makes them no more likely to abuse children than straight men because they are attracted to women. As psychologists have stated for years, “There is no inherent connection between an adult’s sexual orientation and her or his propensity for endangering others.”

Mike Huckabee: Keeping Gays Out Of Boy Scouts Will Protect Boys From Abuse | ThinkProgress

Capitol One Bank Forced To Return $150 Million In Stolen Money By Obama Administration | Addicting Info

Conservatives would have us believe that the customer is responsible for knowing if the bank is misleading them and that if they didn’t do their own research, that’s their problem. In the next breath they also tell us that corporations would never deliberately harm their customers because the “free” market would punish them. So we should trust the banks but if they lie to us it’s our own fault for believing them. It’s a perfect tautology for holding banks unaccountable for their actions.

Capitol One Bank Forced To Return $150 Million In Stolen Money By Obama Administration | Addicting Info

Ex-Gay In-Fighting Exposes Silliness Of Dangerous Sin-Motivated Treatments | ThinkProgress

If the consequences weren't so serious this bit of bickering could be comical to watch,,,

Ex-Gay In-Fighting Exposes Silliness Of Dangerous Sin-Motivated Treatments | ThinkProgress

Bachmann Stands By Widely Condemned Islamophobic Attack, Finds Ally In Glenn Beck | ThinkProgress

Oh my,,,someone needs to put a sock in this woman's mouth,,,her blabberings are not going to lead to anything good

Bachmann Stands By Widely Condemned Islamophobic Attack, Finds Ally In Glenn Beck | ThinkProgress

Evil public library indoctrinating kids with Harry Potter movies, Midlands group says | Palmetto Public Record

Sigh,,,

Evil public library indoctrinating kids with Harry Potter movies, Midlands group says | Palmetto Public Record

Jon Stewart Turns Michele Bachmann Into A Radical Islamist By Creating His Own Conspiracy Theory (VIDEO) | Addicting Info

Funny!!

Jon Stewart Turns Michele Bachmann Into A Radical Islamist By Creating His Own Conspiracy Theory (VIDEO) | Addicting Info

Rick Warren: Aurora shooting the fault of evolution - National atheism | Examiner.com

I have tried to maintain a modicum of silence concerning the events in aurora out of deference to the victims and families and all those involved,,,but this just galls me, and what little respect I had for warren just disappeared,,,Mr Warren you need to return to high school,,,evolution means change, to become different,, it is not a cause for the tragedy that occurred,,,

Animals do not kill for pleasure or ideologies, they kill out of survival and necessity,,,to bring religious (or political) rhetoric into the discussion, especially at this time, IMHO is disgusting,,,no one knows why Holmes did what he did and to speculate is an injustice to all involved,,,

Mr Warren you may want to also re-read your bible both man and animals suffer he same fate,,,

Ecc.3 :19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

(and yes I am aware I am cherry picking)

Rick Warren: Aurora shooting the fault of evolution - National atheism | Examiner.com

Questioning the Conspiracy: The Aurora Shootings | Disinformation

Just have no clue as to what to think but I do believe - if we don't have a clear reason for why a tragedy occurs, jumping to the conspiracy (no matter how outlandish) provides something to take up the negative space.

Questioning the Conspiracy: The Aurora Shootings | Disinformation

Paul Abrams: Prediction: Romney Will Not be the Republican Nominee

Interesting but scarey at the same time

Paul Abrams: Prediction: Romney Will Not be the Republican Nominee

Monday, July 16, 2012

Romney Campaign Claims He Retired Retroactively (But Kept All of the Profits)

hmmm,,,,as one who actively invests in the market per my 401k and individual accounts,,,I would be a bit fukd off if one of the companies I invested in pulled this shit,,,some of my investments are based on who is calling the shots and signing the papers,,,

Romney Campaign Claims He Retired Retroactively (But Kept All of the Profits)

Mitt Romney's Candidacy is Turning into The Republican Party's Worst Nightmare

Since Romney’s attitude of arrogance stems from his privileged experience as a “businessman”, he is telling the American people the story of the decline of the middle class over the last 40 years, albeit without meaning to.

Mitt Romney's Candidacy is Turning into The Republican Party's Worst Nightmare

The GOP's Wacky One-Way Religious Freedom (We Got it, You Don't)

A good summation of Church/State issues, especially prayer,,,

If I am forced to live according to your religious tenets, where are my religious freedoms? If I am not allowed contraception because your religion is opposed to it, where are my religious freedoms? What if as a woman you want an abortion and you are told, “no, that’s against my religion”? If I have to listen to you lead a prayer to your god while I am forced to sit in silence, where are my religious freedoms?

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Republicans don’t seem to see the irony. They simply keep insisting that their religious freedoms are being infringed because they can’t do whatever they want while we…sit on our hands.

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Unless, of course, you’re not Christian. Look what they’ve done to President Obama because his Christianity is not like their own. Look at the abuse being heaped on their own Republican candidate for president, Mitty Romney, for daring to be a Mormon who has some different ideas about Jesus. Look what they’ve done to Keith Ellison, who is not a Christian at all but a Muslim. Look at the outrage over inviting a Hindu priest to give a prayer at the opening of a House session.

Then you should not be allowed to pray at all. It’s amazing how rapidly arguments for religious freedom evaporate when another God is mentioned – or no god.

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Walberg claims that his resolution wouldn’t infringe on anyone’s religious freedom, that it only acknowledges “the role and power of prayer” but he, as a private citizen enjoying his First Amendment rights, can acknowledge the role and power of prayer any time he wants to – the government should not.

The GOP's Wacky One-Way Religious Freedom (We Got it, You Don't)

Firestorms Of Accusations Rage That Obama Is Going To ‘Kill The Internet;’ What’s The Truth? | Addicting Info

I have seen a few postings in regards to the bill referred to, but is not an issue I have followed very closely,,,they do include a link to the legislation so you can read it for yourself,,,,(now after hearing the the ACA act was an alleged 2000 pages,,,I can tell u that it was not, in total it took bout 4 hrs to read,,,so dont let the length scare you away from reading it,,, lots of white space)

Multiple assertions claim that the President “quietly” signed an Executive Order on July 6th, giving himself control of all communication systems in America, with the ability to “kill” the Internet. This is blatantly false.

Firestorms Of Accusations Rage That Obama Is Going To ‘Kill The Internet;’ What’s The Truth? | Addicting Info

GM crop grant planted in UK: Britons wary | TruthTheory

It will be interesting to see how this plays out,,,as a former Monsanto investor, I withdrew my funds about 5 yrs ago as their GM work become questionable in my mind,,,their original intent was a good but I think now it is coming down to corporate greed,,,,the science is still out, but I have a hard time believing that there are not consequences when you manipulate genetics of any living organism,,,the ecological balance is going to be thrown for a loop and as we have seen with the climate,,,mother nature don't like that shit!!

GM crop grant planted in UK: Britons wary | TruthTheory

Thursday, July 12, 2012

1 Flesh: The Christian Group That Pushes Condomless Sex | | AlterNet

Definitely not a good thing

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In reality, a sexually active woman who uses no contraception has an 85% chance of getting pregnant within a year. Anti-contraception activists go out of their way to conceal this fact, hoping women feel that their risks of skipping contraception are much lower than they are. It would be laughable if the only audience for this anti-contraception propaganda were folks with good sex education and a solid knowledge of how effective contraception really is. Unfortunately, they’re speaking to a larger audience already rife with misinformation about contraception and fertility; an audience that might not like the anti-sex message, but could be influenced by the anti-contraception one.

1 Flesh: The Christian Group That Pushes Condomless Sex | | AlterNet

Romney Claims Ignorance Of Own Finances | Addicting Info

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This of course is the false argument that just because something is legal it is the correct thing to do. At one time, owning another human being was legal. At one time, women being denied the right to vote was legal. At one time, blocking a person of African decent from drinking from the same water fountain as white people was legal. If the blind trustee is engaging in behavior which is by a technical definition legal, but causes severe harm to the nation, such as investments in companies which engage in fracking or in promoting sexism, Willards willful ignorance of his assets will not protect him.

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Something to consider is that the Romney campaign has been based in large part on his financial success in the business field. But, if he is so successful, then why is he not even aware of what he actually possesses? Is that someone you wish to be President, a man who cannot even keep track as to where his money even is? How can we trust him with the nations finances when he cannot be responsible with his own?

Romney Claims Ignorance Of Own Finances | Addicting Info

Consultant for Creation Museum’s Noah’s Ark plans to build a Bible museum in Washington D. C. within the next four years | God Discussion

This is something that I would actually go see as I find the history of the Bible and its translation fascination from an academic point of view. Altho as the article's author pointed out in a comment:

Somehow, the words "non-profit", billionaire, and admittance fee just don't go together. I'm really skeptical that it really is a non-profit group.

Consultant for Creation Museum’s Noah’s Ark plans to build a Bible museum in Washington D. C. within the next four years | God Discussion

Mormon Studies Attracts More Scholars and Attention - NYTimes.com

For a century and a half, Mormonism has been something of a paradox in the history of the American West: passionately argued about by the church’s adherents and detractors, but largely ignored by professional scholars unsure of what to make of the religion Joseph Smith founded in 1830 or the communities created by what Mormon scripture itself described as a “peculiar people.”

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Books relating to Mormon history are appearing in the catalogs of top academic presses, while secular universities are adding courses, graduate fellowships and endowed chairs.

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“Mormons have been seen as outliers, as oddities, as strange, as people who don’t seem to fit the American narrative,” said Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a professor of history at Harvard University who is working on a book about Mormon women. “But they end up illuminating some of the most important themes in our national history.”

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The latest scholarship builds on the so-called New Mormon history pioneered in the 1960s and ’70s, which aimed to advance a field long dominated by apologists and debunkers by focusing dispassionately on the facts.

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Other scholars are exploring the religious dimensions of plural marriage. In a widely noted 2009 lecture, Kathleen Flake, an associate professor of religious history at Vanderbilt University, argued that 19th-century Mormon plural marriage — while certainly not a happy experience for all women — was part of a broader ritual system that conveyed a reciprocal “priestly authority” on both men and women.

Mormon Studies Attracts More Scholars and Attention - NYTimes.com

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Romney’s Wealthy Donor Explains How The ‘Common People’ Are ‘Not As Educated’ And Just ‘Don’t Understand’ | Addicting Info

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“We’ve got the message,” she added. “But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.”

Romney’s Wealthy Donor Explains How The ‘Common People’ Are ‘Not As Educated’ And Just ‘Don’t Understand’ | Addicting Info

Conservative Christianity's Marketing Gimmick to Keep Its Old-Time, Heaven-and-Hell Religion Afloat | | AlterNet

The Southern Baptist Convention is a force to be reckoned with. As the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, with over 45,000 affiliate churches, it have been shaping and channeling conservative Christian sensibilities since the Civil War,,,

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With secularism on the rise, entrepreneurial Christian denominations have evolved a variety of survival strategies. Anglican theologian John Shelby Spong (Why Christianity Must Change or Die) proposes a rigorous rethinking of Christian belief. Mainline and Unitarian congregations have embraced Michael Dowd’s Evolutionary Christianity, an interplay between Christian worship and scientific wonder. Elsewhere on the spectrum, Joel Olsteen plays down theology, instead offering comforting platitudes and promises of prosperity to those who pray and give. Willow Creek mega-church in Chicago pioneered sound and light shows and indie rock bands that entice young people into the club by emulating familiar entertainment media. The Catholic bishops are brazenly trying to recreate an epoch in which they were ascendant.

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To those in the know, it announces that their future will be focused on turf wars – on competing for members and dollars rather than any kind of forward-facing spiritual leadership.

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The Southern Baptist denomination was formed in 1845 when Baptists split over a question of slaveholders as missionaries. Freed from the sensibilities of their Northern brethren, the Southern Baptists became strong and vocal advocates for slavery as a Biblical institution.

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But then at the national convention in 1979, hard-liners seized the reins of power. Theological dissent was purged. Over a several years, women were removed from positions of spiritual leadership. By 1993 an adroit biblical literalist, Albert Mohler, who had been instrumental in the coup, was installed at the helm of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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Like the Catholics, the Southern Baptists recently have doubled down on controlling women as it has become clear that they are losing their battle to ostracize gays. Last year, Albert Mohler told Focus on the Family Radio that Christians need to prepare for gay marriage. “I think it's clear that something like same-sex marriage is going to become normalized, legalized and recognized in the culture. It's time for Christians to start thinking about how we're going to deal with that.”

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The Southern Baptists are staking their institutional future and finances on the idea that Old Time patriarchal heaven-and-hell religion still has a market and will for some time to come. In their choice of a new name, they have made clear how they intend to compete for mindshare in the coming decades: with better and more aggressive marketing of their traditional theological product.

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Over the centuries many Christians have made these teachings the center of their faith and religious practice. The result is a spiritual life centered on simplicity and service. A Christianity centered on the Great Commission, by contrast has the following defining features.

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In past centuries religions could capture mindshare through conquest, which is how Christianity spread through Europe and how Islam spread through India. Competitive breeding was baked into both Catholicism and Islam because it offered some additional advantage. But in the last century, the primary mode of competition among religions has been evangelism. In other words, the Southern Baptists have placed their bets on a strategy with some history of success.

Conservative Christianity's Marketing Gimmick to Keep Its Old-Time, Heaven-and-Hell Religion Afloat | | AlterNet

Ancient 'New York City' of Canada Discovered - Yahoo! News

Today New York City is the Big Apple of the Northeast but new research reveals that 500 years ago, at a time when Europeans were just beginning to visit the New World, a settlement on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in Canada, was the biggest, most complex, cosmopolitan place in the region.

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Now, a scholarly book detailing the discoveries is being prepared and a documentary about the site called "Curse of the Axe" aired this week on the History Channel in Canada.

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"It's the largest, most complex, cosmopolitan village of its time," said Williamson, also of the University of Toronto, in an interview with LiveScience. "All of the archaeologists, basically, when they see Mantle, they're just utterly stunned."

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Despite its massive size, the site remained hidden for hundreds of years, likely escaping detection because its longhouses were primarily made of wood, which doesn't preserve well.

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For instance, among Mantle's discoveries are the earliest European goods ever found in the Great Lakes region of North America, predating the arrival of the first known European explorers by a century. They consist of two European copper beads and a wrought iron object, believed to be part of an ax, which was carefully buried near the center of the settlement.

Ancient 'New York City' of Canada Discovered - Yahoo! News

Monday, July 9, 2012

FactCheck.org : How Much Is the Obamacare ‘Tax’?

Mitch McConnell Tells Americans with No Healthcare, 'You Aren't an Issue'

WALLACE: I just want to ask, what specifically are you going to do to provide universal coverage to the 30 million people who are uninsured?

MCCONNELL: That is not the issue. The question is, how can you go step by step to improve the American health care system.

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The one common denominator in all the Republican solutions is that they will do nothing to insure more people.

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Sen. McConnell frankly admitted that the Republican Party doesn’t care getting more Americans access to healthcare. The uninsured aren’t an issue. They don’t matter. In order to defend his position that the uninsured don’t really need healthcare, McConnell claimed several things that flat out weren’t true. McConnell claimed Obamacare kills jobs when in reality, it creates them. He stated that America has the best healthcare system in the world, when in reality the U.S. healthcare system is one of the worst in developed world. The U.S. system is 37th in the world. If this is what Republicans consider the best, then we now know what they mean by “American exceptionalism.”

Mitch McConnell Tells Americans with No Healthcare, 'You Aren't an Issue'

Hilarious Alert – Gov. Bobby Jindal Thinks HCR Ruling Will Force Americans To Eat Tofu | Addicting Info

So confident was the right-wing noise machine that they “accidentally” broadcasted that Obamacare was struck down. But as soon as real news outlets started posting the Supreme Court did in fact side with Obamacare, it was as if Obama came to each and every tea party household himself, kicked over their Mountain Dew Code Red, ate their last Nutter Butter, expropriated their bible and handed them a Koran, and had Eric Holder take away their guns and give them to Mexican drug lords.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, the darling of the Republican Party and the Indian version of little Bobby Brady, said the Supreme Court’s “frightening” ruling that upheld the Affordable Care Act as a tax is a “blow to our freedoms.”

“What’s next?” Jindal asked, according to The Hill. Apparently he voiced concern for people who“refuse to eat tofu” or “refuse to drive a Chevy Volt” (Think Progress)

Hilarious Alert – Gov. Bobby Jindal Thinks HCR Ruling Will Force Americans To Eat Tofu | Addicting Info

ObamaCare Armageddon Day 5: The Right Declares John Roberts a Tyrannical Rodney King

hmm, ,an unnamed source, coming from dope head it doesn't surprise me,,,

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Today I’m scared. I’m a combination of angry and scared. Because if this CBS report from Jan Crawford is accurate, and I happen to believe that it is, she cites two sources, she doesn’t name them. But I happen to believe that her report is true.

gee and i thought that was onli reserved for the president,,,my how things change when they dont get their own way

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On Neil Cavuto’s show, Levin said, “When we have a Chief Justice of the United States who abandons principle, and frankly, abandons the constitution and rewrites it as if he is a one man constitutional convention, that’s tyranny.

ObamaCare Armageddon Day 5: The Right Declares John Roberts a Tyrannical Rodney King

Anderson Cooper: ‘The fact is, I’m gay’ | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

roflmao,,,got to love the man, tho a bit late to the party,,.
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"The fact is, I'm gay," Cooper wrote in an email to Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan. "Always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud."

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Cooper said he did not come out in his 2006 memoir, "Dispatches from the Edge," because the book was meant to be about war and not about his personal life. But his thinking has since changed:

Recently, however, I've begun to consider whether the unintended outcomes of maintaining my privacy outweigh personal and professional principle. It's become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to hide something—something that makes me uncomfortable, ashamed or even afraid. This is distressing because it is simply not true.

Anderson Cooper: ‘The fact is, I’m gay’ | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

Ancient Mosaic Depicting Fiery Bible Story Discovered - Yahoo! News

A glittering mosaic of colored stones once decorated an ancient synagogue floor with scenes of the Biblical hero Samson getting revenge on the Philistines.

This newly excavated discovery in the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq not only depicts an unusual scene — Samson tying torches to foxes' tails in order to burn his enemies' crops — it's also remarkably high-quality, said dig archaeologist Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

In a mosaic, "the smaller the cubes, the finer the work," Magness told LiveScience. "Our cubes are very small and fine."

The mosaic decorates part of a synagogue dating back to about A.D. 400 to 500.
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Ancient Mosaic Depicting Fiery Bible Story Discovered - Yahoo! News

Insight: Florida man sees "cruel" face of U.S. justice - Yahoo! News

At first when I read this article I had to agree the sentencing seemed a bit harsh,,,altho I do agree that "stacking" seems a bit excessive,,,BUT for once I have to agree with some of the comments (which is rare for a yahoo article),,,article hit a nerve as my ex gets out of prison in 5 days to begin her 6 months in a half-way house

He may be a first time defendant but one that committed 7 separate crimes, altho it does appear he may have gotten a raw deal as compared to his accomplices

Insight: Florida man sees "cruel" face of U.S. justice - Yahoo! News

Duke Energy CEO To Receive $44 Million Payout Despite Resigning On His First Day | ThinkProgress

The headline implies he is getting the pay-out,,,where as the article says he is eligible,,,either way, it is plain ole nutzo,,,

Duke Energy CEO To Receive $44 Million Payout Despite Resigning On His First Day | ThinkProgress

Archaeological Dispute Erupts over Gold Trove - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Archeologists in Germany have an unlikely new hero: former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. They have nothing but praise for the cigar-smoking veteran Social Democratic politician.

Why? Because it was Schröder who, together with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, pushed through a plan to pump Russian natural gas to Western Europe. For that purpose, an embankment 440 kilometers (275 miles) long and up to 30 meters (100 feet) wide had to be created from Lubmin, a coastal resort town in northeastern Germany, to Rehden in Lower Saxony near the northwestern city of Bremen.

The result has been a veritable cornucopia of ancient discoveries. The most beautiful find was made in the Gessel district of Lower Saxony, where 117 pieces of gold were found stacked tightly together in a rotten linen cloth. The hidden treasure is about 3,300 years old.

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As audacious as the Asia connection seems, it could be true. There is plenty of evidence that human greed led to globalized trade more than 3,000 years ago. The ancient Egyptians' folding-chair designs reached Sweden, and magnificent Spondylus shells from the Mediterranean have been found as far away as Bavaria.

Archaeological Dispute Erupts over Gold Trove - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Oldest Natural Pearl Found in Arabia : Discovery News

French researchers have unearthed the oldest natural pearl ever found at a Neolithic site in Arabia, suggesting that pearl oyster fishing first occurred in this region of the world.

Discovered in the Emirate of Umm al Quwain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), the pearl was believed to have originated between 5547 and 5235 BC.

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Some 7,500 years old and 0.07 inches in diameter, the newly discovered pearl is just the last of a series of findings at archeological sites in the Arabian Peninsula.

Over the years, researchers unearthed a total of 101 Neolithic pearls, coming from the large pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera and from Pinctada radiata, a much smaller, easier to collect species, which provides higher quality pearls.

"The discovery of archaeological pearls demonstrates an ancient fishing tradition that no longer exists today," wrote the researchers.

Oldest Natural Pearl Found in Arabia : Discovery News

Sri Lanka : Pre-historic human skeleton discovered in Sri Lanka

Archaeology Department of Sri Lanka has found a skeleton of a pre-historic man from the Fa-Hien cave archaeological site in Pahiyangala of Kalutara district.

The skeleton is believed to be about 12,000 years old and belonged to the Homo sapiens species known as Balangoda Man.

Sri Lanka : Pre-historic human skeleton discovered in Sri Lanka

What a 28,000-year-old piece of art looks like - thestar.com

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He said the rock art was made with charcoal, so radiocarbon dating could be used to determine its age. Most rock art is made with mineral paint, so its age cannot be accurately measured.

“It’s the oldest unequivocally dated rock art in Australia” and among the oldest in the world, Barker said.

The oldest known rock art is in Spain, where hand stencils and red disks made by blowing paint on to the wall in El Castillo cave were at least 40,800 years old, according to scientists using a technique known as uranium-thorium dating.

What a 28,000-year-old piece of art looks like - thestar.com