Thursday edition – November 17, 2011
From Boner To Stoner
At a campaign stop in Urbandale, Iowa, Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said he supports letting states establish their own laws regarding medical marijuana.
Millionaires on Capitol Hill: Please tax me more!
Lobbyists for a day, a band of millionaires stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge Congress to tax them more
They had a midnight raid and they cleaned out Zucotti Park where the Occupy Wall Streeters were camped out for about two months. So if you’re keeping score, here’s what the score is now: Eighty down in Zucotti Park; Wall Street executives arrested: Zero. – David Letterman
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam
- Suspected US missiles kill 7 in northwest Pakistan
- Insurgents fire rockets but miss Afghan loya jirga
- Kuwaitis storm parliament, demand leader’s resignation
- Russia says Syria’s crisis looks like ‘civil war’
- U.S. commander cannot pin down satellite anomaly
- Panel urges US scrutiny of China military, firms
- U.S. reserves right to meet cyber attack with force
- Cluster bomb funds shrinking under pressure: report
- Police find major drug tunnel under U.S.-Mexico border
OccupySeattle: Priest, Pregnant Teen, Elderly Woman Pepper Sprayed
The above photo was taken during the recent raid at Occupy Seattle of an 4-foot, 10-inch, 84-year-old activist after she was pepper sprayed by Seattle police dressed in riot gear. While this sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, the following report confirms it’s all quite true.
One by one the Republican candidate potentials have been shooting themselves in the foot making huge, horrible gaffes and they just look silly. It’s gotten so bad that President Obama is now worried he may actually be re-elected.- David Letterman
Thanks to Larry for the great graphic
Republican Shenanigans
- Rick Perry’s Part-Time Congress Idea Hurts Entire Republican Field
- Congress about to kill high-speed train program
- GOP tax plan targets itemized deductions
- Scalia & Thomas Have Anti-Obamacare Dinner
Newt Gingrich is rising. Bad news for America. Good news for comedy. President Newt! Almost makes President Palin sound whimsical. – Will Durst
Loaded Americans
A state permit to carry a concealed firearm would be valid in almost every other state in the country under legislation the House passed Wednesday.
The first pro-gun bill the House has taken up this year and the first since Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was severely injured in a gun attack in January, it had the National Rifle Association’s backing and passed by a comfortable margin. The vote was 272-154, with only seven Republicans voting against it and 43 Democrats supporting it.
Newt Gingrich is so confident about his chances that he’s already working on his concession speech. – David Letterman
Rock-The-Voter News
- Congress passes modest job-creation bill
- More Americans than not want health law repeal: poll
- Milwaukee Runs Provocative Ads to Wake Parents Up to Dangers of Co-Sleeping
- NPR’s ‘Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me’ to debut on TV
- 80 is the new 65 when it comes to retirement, survey says
Someone Is Lying
Penn State campus police and their counterparts in State College said Wednesday that they had no record of Mike McQueary reporting an alleged sexual assault by Jerry Sandusky on a 10-year-old boy in a campus shower.
The details ran counter to McQueary’s claims in an email to former teammates and made available to The Associated Press this week.
McQueary, then a graduate assistant, wrote in the email that he had discussions with police about what he saw. In the email, McQueary did not specify which police department he spoke to.
Business News
- Oil falls below $101 on European debt crisis
- Japan bans rice grown near crippled nuke plant
- Report paints dire picture of Greek finances
- Sears loss widens as sales fall
- Gingrich says he received Freddie Mac compensation
“[T]he United States is still the largest recipient of foreign investment in the world. And there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity — our stability, our openness, our innovative free market culture. But we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — well, people will want to come here and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America.” - President Barack Obama on Saturday at the APEC CEO Business Summit, in Honolulu
Newfound Google Maps images have revealed an array of mysterious structures and patterns etched into the surface of China’s Gobi Desert. The media — from mainstream to fringe — has wildly speculated that they might be Chinese weapons-testing sites, satellite calibration targets, street maps of Washington, D.C., and New York City, or even messages to (or from) aliens.
It turns out that they are almost definitely used to calibrate China’s spy satellites.
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Odd News
- Flier sues airline, says he’s owed 45 free drinks
- Umbrella causes 3-hour lockdown at North Carolina college
- Man Reported to Find $500,000 Worth of Treasure in Storage Unit
- Women more likely to have ‘broken heart syndrome’
World leaders are shown kissing in digitally manipulated images that are part of Benetton’s new “unhate” ad campaign promoting tolerance. Here, U.S. President Barack Obama and China’s President Hu Jintao are shown. Benetton Group is known for its controversial ads.
Unhate.
