While the initial goal was $2,000…the Internets are better than that
via How Reddit Saved an Orphanage « Alexandra Pusateri.
Flash mob activism. Great story, let’s hope it can stay that way.
Making campaign promises for his second term before winning the nomination for his try at a first?….Gingrich does that for breakfast
NPR.org » On Florida’s Space Coast, Gingrich Aims For The Moon
http://m.npr.org/story/145882817?url=/2012/01/26/145882817/-president-gingrich-promises-permanent-moon-base&ps=cprs
‘The First Permanent Base On The Moon’
The space shuttle mission ended last year and with it the possibility of any imminent manned space flight. It also meant job losses on the Space Coast and a lack of a well-defined mission for NASA.
If elected, Gingrich promised, “by the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.”
Gingrich said he would encourage commercial activities in space, including science, tourism and manufacturing. And he promises, in about eight years, a rocket capable of reaching Mars.
Gingrich gave no details on how much a re-energized space program might cost or how he proposes to pay for it, except to say that commercial interests might be promised prizes in the billions of dollars for developing the hardware.
Details, p’shaw, those are for the devils to figure out.
Children Committing, err, Training For Genocide…Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You (with Indiana Jones, no less)
Harrison Ford will play Colonel Hyram Graff and Ben Kingsley takes on the role of Mazer Rackham. But its the young actors attracting much of the attention: Asa Butterfield stars as Ender Wiggin, Abigail Breslin plays his older sister, Valentine Wiggin and Hailee Steinfeld takes on the role of Petra Arkanian.
Author Orson Scott Card won two of science fictions highest honors for this novel. He is working on the film so he cannot talk with us yet But he is excited and hopeful. So, are those in the book world.”Enders game is relatable on every level, and even though it was written that long ago, it still holds its own,” Evans said.
via Enders Game will hit the silver screen with big star power | ksl.com.
Take a wild guess how the Republican candidates want to pay down the debt…
Comparing the Gingrich and Romney tax plans – CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57366331/comparing-the-gingrich-and-romney-tax-plans/
Romney has come under fire from some conservatives – and the Wall Street Journal -because they say his tax plan is too timid and doesn’t go far enough to lower taxes now.
The non-partisan Tax Policy Center in Washington estimates that if the Bush tax cuts stay in plane, the Romney plan would add $180 billion to the deficit in the year 2015. The Gingrich plan would add $850 billion that year.
The candidates argue that cutting taxes would create so many businesses and jobs that ultimately there would be more tax revenue, not less.
Hrrm, that sound awfully familiar. One would think, if this actually worked..we’d be swimming in jobs and growth right now, as we have the same tax rates that Bush Jr, promised would do the same thing.
Oh…and who is suprised Romney wants to completely get rid of the estate tax? Anyone?
There’s a few reasons why, as a long time gamer, I hate Zynga. Here’s another one
https://s3.amazonaws.com/nbpromo/dearzynga.jpg
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This company is built on the simple truism once discovered by Homer Simpson regarding criminal business models….get them addicted, then jack up the price.
I would highly recommend not investing in them, they are an ad-blocker away from insolvency, and require a high amount of ignorance on the part of their customers to make make any money. It isn’t really the most sustainable model…especially in the information age.
They need to update this so the word ‘days’ is singular (it’s not going above ’2′ for most folks)
Romney income calculator: How much does Mitt make? How long would it take him to earn your salary?
http://mobile.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/01/romney_income_calculator_how_much_does_mitt_make_how_long_would_it_take_him_to_earn_your_salary_.html
Right Wing Radio Turns You Into (or just seems to attract) Inbred Racist Assholes.
Tim Thomas defends snubbing White House ceremony – Political Intelligence – A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe – Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2012/01/tim-thomas-defends-snubbing-white-house-ceremony/AIkULcV9HWEe08pm72JLVO/index.html
When Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas skipped a White House ceremony today to honor his championship team, it was seen as an affront to President Obama, whose politics Thomas has made quite clear are not his own.
Looks like somebody is sad (or probably doesn’t know considering his choice of media) that the guy he refused to meet killed Osama Bin Laden. I’m guessing this guy probably thought that was a sham, like the moon landing.
SCOTOS Realizes GPS Bugs Violate 4th Amendment
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia said that the government’s installation of a GPS device, and its use to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a search, meaning that a warrant is required.
“By attaching the device to the Jeep” that Jones was using, “officers encroached on a protected area,” Scalia wrote.
CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen said today’s decision was a victory for civil libertarians and a defeat for law enforcement officials who had argued that putting a GPS device on a car wasn’t exactly a search under the Fourth Amendment.
via High court: Warrant needed for GPS tracking – CBS News.
Glad to see this one went unanimous and in the freedom direction. Had this failed, there would be no reason why cops couldn’t tag *anyone* for *any reason* with a GPS-tracker. That’s not a good society in which to live, and it looks like we’ve avoided becoming that society. For the time being.
Blatant (and I mean BLATANT) Hypocrite is the answer to the previous titular question
First Read – Gingrich wins SC GOP primary, beating Romney
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/21/10207281-gingrich-wins-sc-gop-primary-beating-romney
More broadly, core elements of the GOP base in South Carolina – conservatives, Tea Party supporters and evangelical Christians – broke for Gingrich. And the former speaker even edged Romney in two important constituencies for the former Massachusetts governor: voters who said electability in November was their most important concern in a nominee, and voters who said the economy was their top issue.
Gingrich had erased Romney’s lead by abandoning his previous pledge to wage a “relentlessly positive” campaign. The former speaker eventually embraced a strategy of drawing strong contrasts with Romney and benefited from the negative advertising run on his behalf by a super PAC – a practice Gingrich loudly denounced in Iowa, where he saw his poll numbers collapse amid attacks by a pro-Romney super PAC.
Today we find out what happens when Southern Baptists are forced to choose between a Catholic, a Mormon, and a Blatant Hypocrite
The South Carolina presidential primary has become one of several key early state nominating contests in the process of choosing nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties for the following election for President of the United States.
The South Carolina primary historically has been more important for the Republican Party, being considered a “firewall” to protect frontrunners in the presidential nomination race. It was designed to stop the momentum of insurgent candidates who could have received a boost from strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire.[1][2] From its inception in 1980 through the election of 2008, the winner of the South Carolina Republican presidential primary has gone on to win the nomination.[3]
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