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Daily News Roundup: SuperObama to the Rescue
Obama to the rescue! Burning up in California? Well, President-Elect Obama’s got your back. Our boy’s campaign website is asking folks to help the victims of the southern California wildfires by volunteering their time or donating to the cause through his website. Finally! A president that gives a shite.
China finally decided to check itself. The Chinese [...]
Daily News Roundup: Kanye in Trubs Again
In Order: A Late Registration to Anger Management? Kanye’s in the limelight again, but not for the right reasons. Dealing with the first anniversary of his mother’s death as well as a deeply ingrained propensity to get up in paparazzo faces, Kanye attacked another cameraman: this time in Newcastle. The self-proclaimed “voice of this generation” [...]
Don’t Want to Tickle These Ivories
Ivory’s for sale again. Legally.
And here I thought the taboo was strong enough never to make the substance available as anything but a black (er white) market ware; I was wrong.
Merchants in Namibia held a closed door auction for nine tons of ivory (the product of roughly 10,000 dead elephants) yesterday morning. Six buyers from [...]
Daily News Roundup: The Cutest Lil’ Republican You Ever Did See!
Mom may have given the big speech, but little Piper stole the show. Is it just me, or does this six-year-old make the Republican party a little more tolerable?
Prosperity was the RNC’s official theme on Wednesday. And the unofficial theme? Better get down on those knees and start begging for forgiveness, you sick, sorry, good-for-nothing, [...]
Beijing Beat: 16 is the New 13
This very interesting report from ABC News about the allegedly underage Chinese women’s gymnastics team, interviews a forensic artist to explain why looking 12 or 13 is the same as being 12 or 13. There are certain characteristics come with age that the Chinese gymnasts do not have. Like adult teeth.Tonight they square off against [...]
Noontime Nuggets: News Roundup
Keep diggin, Vladdy…
Maybe McCain DOES get the Internet: The Los Angeles Times blog Webscout is reporting that on the site Digg “in the last 30 days, at least 28 stories critical of GOP Sen. John McCain have been mysteriously “buried”— meaning enough Digg users have voted against a story that the submission may no longer [...]
Bush Makes Sense For the First Time Ever
In the run-up to the Olympics, the Washington Post runs a pretty candid interview with President Bush, who for maybe the first time ever, sounds like a reasonable human being. Though he’s attending the opening ceremonies, he’s fully aware of the issues, and explained to the reporter, “it’s really hard to tell” whether the country [...]
Breakfast Bites: Morning News Round Up
China’s Big Day: With the Olympics just three days away, China’s gearing up for it’s big reveal to the world. Unfortunately, it’s not all going swimmingly. There’s that pesky pollution problem, which is back, after a few days of “blue” skies. There’s those attacks killing 16 and wounding 16 others (blamed by the Chinese authorities [...]
Fleeing Tibet
This account was sent to me by Christa Grenawalt, who is traveling in India right now. Recently, she spent several weeks studying under the Dali Lama. She also participated in marches there supporting Tibetan monks who are protesting Chinese persecution of monks in Lhasa, Tibet. While Christa was sitting in a café near Dharamsala, Tenzin [...]
Attack of the anti-American dolls
A perennial holiday gift favorite should be crossed off the lists of any self-respecting patriot. Dallas local TV news CBS 11 gave Bill O’Reilly’s “War on Christmas” a run for its money yesterday, reporting that those beloved American Girl dolls that “teach our heritage” aren’t really American. The little darlings are infiltrators, “born” in [...]
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