BBC – Walk on the Wild Side
An evening pause:
Author: Robert Zimmerman
“All of you are white. Go to hell!”
Australian space beer ready for micro-gravity test
Australian space beer ready for micro-gravity test.
Debunking gun myths
Computer Crushes the Competition on ‘Jeopardy!’
The computer has crushed the human champions in the second of three rounds of “Jeopardy!”
Study predicts one meter sea level rise by 2010
Wanna bet? A new study predicts the sea will rise by one meter by 2100.
How they come up with this number is a mystery to me, as every study I have read, including every IPCC report, says the sea has been rising about 1 to 2 millimeters per year for the last few centuries. At this rate, it will take between five hundred and a thousand years to get a rise of one meter.
Democrats join GOP criticism of Obama’s budget proposal
Holy moley! Do pigs fly? Yesterday Senate Democrats joined Republicans in attacking the timidity of Obama’s budget cuts.
Liberal journalist trashes raped CBS reporter because he doesn’t like her politics
Another liberal shows how he tones down the rhetoric: NYU fellow and leftwing journalist Nir Rosen appears to justify the rape of CBS reporter Lara Logan because he doesn’t like her politics. Key quotes:
- “At this moment when she is going to become a martyr and glorified, we should at least remember her role as a major war monger.”
- “Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson (Cooper)…but it would have been funny if it happened to Anderson, too.”
- Rosen went on the say that he even doubted she was assaulted saying she “was probably groped like thousands of other women.”
2 Repubican Utah state lawmakers get threat letter
The left once again shows how it avoids harsh rhetoric: Two Republican Utah state lawmakers get a letter threatening violence for their support of an Arizona-style immigration law.
GOP bill zeroes out programs, puts curbs on Obama initiatives
Another look at the GOP budget cuts: Republican proposal will zero out programs and puts serious limits on many Obama initiatives. Key quote:
“In the last two years, under President Obama, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs,” said [House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio)]. “If some of those jobs are lost, so be it. We’re broke.”
Not surprisingly, Democrats are squealing.
Democrats challenged the 200,000 job number and said he showed a callous attitude toward those who would be out of work. “Maybe ‘so be it’ for him, but not ‘so be it’ for people who are losing their jobs,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye, Hawaii Democrat, said Republicans’ cuts amounted to a “meat cleaver” approach.
The squealing of Wall Street regulators
Now its Wall Street regulators and their Democratic friends in Congress who are squealing over the Republican budget proposals.
The launch of Europe’s freighter to ISS delayed one day
The launch of Europe’s freighter to ISS was scrubbed today. They will try again tomorrow.