Dinosaurs with feathers is only a theory! (Protest Stickers Available)

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 6:41 PM EST (iheartchaos.com)

A couple days ago we brought you a story about how "scientists" were so proud of themselves that they had figured out the exact feather coloration of a particular dinosaur breed, which is all wonderful for them, except for the fact that the whole idea of dinosaurs with feathers i …

science, facebook, theory, dinosaurs

Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 2:05 PM EST (Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com)

Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and circulat …

world-news, airport, airport-security, shahrukh-khan, body-scanner

'Mystery worshippers' go online for ChurchRater.com

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 8:09 AM EST (The Seattle Times)

The help-wanted ad going live this week on Craigslist might raise some eyebrows. If not tempers. "Need people who aren't Christians to review church service," it says. It goes on. "Who: Age 20-35. Do not currently believe Jesus Christ is God. Not mad at Christians.

religion, christianity, yelp, ship-of-fools, jim-henderson, mystery-worshippers, churchrater

Fact check: Palin's claims in Tea Party speech debunked

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 8:02 AM EST (Raw Story)

Seeded by Killfile (Clipped by jedipunk)

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lauded the virtues of the Constitution in her Tea Party Convention speech Saturday, but some of her claims appear markedly flawed. Reports over the weekend also challenged her account of recent history on national security and terrorism.

politics, obama, barack-obama, terrorism, palin, sarah-palin, speech, national-security, tea-party, fact-check

Fox News: Palin's Hand-Notes Were A Clever Plot To Call Attention To Obama's Teleprompter Use

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 7:59 AM EST (Think Progress)

Seeded by Killfile (Clipped by jedipunk)

As ThinkProgress reported on Saturday night, paid Fox News contributor Sarah Palin was caught using "hand"-written notes during a Q & A session at the National Tea Party Convention this weekend.

politics, obama, barack-obama, republican, gop, palin, sarah-palin, tea-party, teabaggers, hand

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The strangest liquid: Why water is so weird

Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 7:32 AM EST (newscientist.com)

We are confronted by many mysteries, from the nature of dark matter and the origin of the universe to the quest for a theory of everything.

science, water, physics, chemistry, boston-university, h20, extreme-water

Seminole school dodges trademark infringement bullet

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 6:38 PM EST (The Orlando Sentinel)

No, it's a staid and not so 2010 image of the school's ram mascot that has shown up to reclaim his stomping grounds. By school year's end he will have butted an upstart young buck off campus.

education, school, trademark, mascot, trademark-infringement

Meghan McCain: Tea Party represents 'innate racism' - says young people 'turned off' by movement

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 5:56 PM EST (Raw Story)

Seeded by Carloz (Clipped by jedipunk)

Young people 'turned off' by Tea Party movement's racist undertones, McCain says The daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain has sharply criticized the Tea Party movement, accusing it of "innate racism."

politics, racism, the-view, tea-party, meghan-mccain

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The Tea Partiers: Fraudulent Fiscal Conservatives

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 1:24 PM EST (The Daily Dish)

I think the MSM is missing the real focus of this movement. We keep describing the tea-partiers as fiscal conservatives. But this is patently untrue on its face. They have no plans to cut serious spending whatsoever. They love their Medicare, as they screamed at us last August.

politics, fiscal-conservatives, tea-baggers, tea-party-movement, tea-partiers

Studies Seek Reasons for Autism's Rise

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 9:54 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Why is a child born in northwest Los Angeles four times as likely to be diagnosed with autism as a child born elsewhere in California?

health, research, autism, vaccination

License to Kill? Intelligence Chief Says U.S. Can Assassinate American Terrorists

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 8:09 AM EST (ABC News)

Seeded by Killfile (Clipped by jedipunk)

The director of national intelligence affirmed rather bluntly today that the U.S. intelligence community has authority to target American citizens for assassination if they present a direct terrorist threat to the United States.

politics, obama, bush, united-states, terrorism, democrats, republican, president, white-house, gop

The Truth About the Deficit: It's The GOP's Fault

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 8:00 AM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by Killfile (Clipped by jedipunk)

The deficit numbers — a projected $1.3 trillion in fiscal 2011 alone — are breathtaking. What is even more breathtaking is the Republicans' cynical refusal to acknowledge that the country would never have gotten into so deep a hole if President George W.

politics, obama, bush, barack-obama, democrats, republican, gop, economics, george-w-bush, stimulus

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Obama Ask Republican Lawmakers to Discuss Health Care Overhaul, wants live coverage

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 1:02 AM EST (Bloomberg.com)

Seeded by JoulesBeef (Clipped by jedipunk)

President Barack Obama invited Republican and Democratic lawmakers from the House and Senate to a Feb. 25 meeting to discuss ways to get an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system through Congress.

politics

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Rahm Emanuel "apologizes" to Sarah Palin on SNL (VIDEO)

Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 1:59 PM EST (nbc.com)

The White House Chief of Staff offers his apologies.

entertainment, white-house, snl, rahm-emanuel, sarah-palin

Crib Notes? Sarah Palin the Palm Reader.

Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 10:10 AM EST (The Huffington Post)

Crib Notes? This potential presidential candidate and "movement" leader was using crib notes to answer basic questions? This would mean: A) That she knew the questions beforehand and the whole thing was a farce. (Likely.) and

politics, sarah-palin, crib-notes

Witch-hunt victim recounts torture ordeal

Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 3:18 AM EST (abc.net.au)

Seeded by Red Wolf (Clipped by jedipunk)

A woman has been tortured by her neighbours for two days and forced to eat human waste before she finally gave in and confessed to practising witchcraft.

discrimination, nepal, crime, torture, world-news, stupidity, ignorance, superstition, hate-mongering, np-news

Comcast CEO Argues Rules Will Protect Customers In Merger, While Comcast Lawyers Argue Rules Are Unconstitutional

Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 3:55 PM EST (Techdirt)

Earlier, we had a story about NBC Universal boss Jeff Zucker being caught lying in his Congressional testimony on the Comcast/NBC merger.

merger, comcast, us-news, nbs

Queens Student Alexa Gonzalez Arrested After Doodling On Her Desk

Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 11:57 AM EST (Los Angeles News and Video for Southern California - KTLA.COM - KTLA 5 - KTLA)

FOREST HILLS, N.Y. (WPIX) - A 12-year-old student was arrested and quickly branded a delinquent after she apparently doodled her name on a classroom desk.

education, school, principal, vandelism

Follow up of Dystonia Girl, Desiree Jennings, on Inside Edition (Youtube)

Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 11:48 AM EST (YouTube)

Desiree Jennings & Dr. Buttar on Inside Edition

health, homeopathy, psychogenic, desiree-jennings, vaccine-saftety, dystonie

Physicists kill cancer with 'nanobubbles'

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 1:04 PM EST (Science Daily)

Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions. The scientists used lasers to make "nanobubbles" by zapping gold nanoparticles inside cells.

cancer, science, lasers, nanoparticles, tumorsnanobubbles

ACLU argues against Medical groups attempting to patent human genes

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 10:43 AM EST (USA Today)

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation, a not-for-profit organization affiliated with Cardozo School of Law in New York, argued before federal district court Judge Robert Sweet that patents on genes are unconstitutional.

health, patent, dna, genetics, aclu, human-genes

Headscarf-wearing officer to appear before disciplinary committee in France

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 8:52 AM EST (Frace24)

France's laws, which uphold a strict separation of church and state, prohibit civil servants from wearing conspicuous religious symbols or clothing – including a large crucifix, the Jewish kippa, or the Islamic headscarf – at work.

religion, separation-of-church-and-state, religious-symbols

The Senate-passed health care bill "is identical to the Massachusetts health care plan -- the same thing." (And Brown voted for it)

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 8:01 AM EST (Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National)

During the campaign, Brown said that if he was elected, he would become the 41st Republican senator, enabling the GOP to block the Democratic majority from reaching the 60-vote threshold required to pass key legislation, including a health care bill.

politics, new-york-times, mitt-romney, paul-krugman, healthcare-reform, scott-brown

The entire Bill-O and Jon Stewart interview

Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 7:36 AM EST (FOXNews.com)

You can hear a guy laughing in the background off an on as Jon makes jokes. Thanks to DerryGirl for the YouTube link.

politics, jon-stewart, fox-news, bill-oreilly, the-daily-show, oreilly-factor

Gays With Guns Send Bigots Into Derangement

Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 3:48 PM EST (The Agitator)

Seeded by Carloz (Clipped by jedipunk)

The possible repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell has right-wingers frothing like a fresh batch of santorum. (Sorry! Couldn’t resist.) Here’s Sen.

congress, gay, us-news, homosexual, duncan-hunter, glbt, lgbt, queer, dadt, dont-ask-dont-tell

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Dinosaurs with feathers is only a theory! (Protest Stickers Available)
Source: iheartchaos.com
A couple days ago we brought you a story about how "scientists" were so proud of themselves that they had figured out the exact feather coloration of a particular dinosaur breed, which is all wonderful for them, except for the fact that the whole idea of dinosaurs with feathers i …
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Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff
Source: Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and circulat …
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Gallup Poll: Global Perceptions of U.S. Leadership Improve Under Obama - approval rating up 17%
Source: gallup.com
Perceptions of U.S. leadership worldwide improved significantly from 2008 to 2009.
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'Mystery worshippers' go online for ChurchRater.com
Source: The Seattle Times
The help-wanted ad going live this week on Craigslist might raise some eyebrows. If not tempers. "Need people who aren't Christians to review church service," it says. It goes on. "Who: Age 20-35. Do not currently believe Jesus Christ is God. Not mad at Christians.
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Fact check: Palin's claims in Tea Party speech debunked
Source: Raw Story
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lauded the virtues of the Constitution in her Tea Party Convention speech Saturday, but some of her claims appear markedly flawed. Reports over the weekend also challenged her account of recent history on national security and terrorism.
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