On Saturday morning, a group of House Republicans -- led by Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) -- attempted to stop the Democratic Womens Caucus from making their arguments about how the health bill would benefit women by screaming over them.

Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) only had time to say "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to--," before Price shouted "I object." The presiding chair, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) made gestures to maintain control, declaring that "the request is not yet before the House" and that Price was "out of order," to little effect. Capps attempted to go on, but Price continued shouting "I object! I object! I object!"

The same shouting tactics were used on Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio), who asked angrily, "Do I not have the right to be able to continue my sentence without objections that are trying to censor my remarks here on the floor that I have a right to make as a member of this House?"

Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- Thirteen flag-draped coffins left Fort Hood on Friday as authorities searched for a motive in the massacre that left more than 50 casualties at the largest U.S. military base.

Thursdays mass shooting killed 12 soldiers and one civilian and wounded 38 people at the Fort Hood Army Post in Texas. The suspect in the shooting, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a licensed Army psychiatrist, was among the two dozen who remained hospitalized Friday night.

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FORT HOOD, Texas ? As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship ? common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead.

The 39-year-old Army psychiatrist emerged as a study in contradictions: a polite man who stewed with discontent, a counselor who needed to be counseled himself, a professional healer now suspected of cutting down the fellow soldiers he was sworn to help.

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Peter OToole & Anthony Quinn - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

WASHINGTON ? In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.

Ironically, that only solidified support for the legislation, clearing the way for conservative Democrats to vote for it.

An American flag left at the scene of Officer Timothy Brentons slaying on Halloween and at a city maintenance yard where four police vehicles were torched on Oct. 22 gave investigators a key link between the two crimes even before a Tukwila man was identified as the suspect.

Detectives are now trying to determine why the man suspected of both crimes, Christopher John Monfort, 41, held a grudge against police that went from destructive to lethal in the span of nine days.

Monfort was shot Friday afternoon outside his Tukwila apartment after police said he pulled a gun on detectives. He was listed in serious condition this morning at Harborview Medical Center.

Mourners gather at KeyArena for slain officers memorial
Mourners gathered at KeyArena for the memorial service of Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton on November 6, 2009.

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In his poem ?The Dead Young Soldiers,? Archibald MacLeish, whose younger brother died in World War I, has the soldiers in the poem tell us:?We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.? Until we help our returning soldiers get their lives back when they come home, the promise of restoring that meaning will go unfulfilled.

Disdain for the military is a constant theme on the political left, a group that has consistently portrayed soldiers as violent psychopaths and babykillers for far longer than Ive been alive. Ive noted images of progressive protesters carrying signs attacking the troops on numerous occasions. Among the most galling of their constant steam of obscenities directed at our soldiers are variations of the sentiment, "We support our troops when they shoot their officers."

These same liberals must have been thrilled yesterday afternoon to discover that an officer opened fire on our troops. Its time for them to break out their magic markers and pen new signs to praise Major Nidal Malik Hasan for doing what theyve asked.

One of the more brief but powerful scenes at the beginning of 1998?s Saving Private Ryan is when Mrs. Ryan sees a government car slowly approaching her home. She walks out onto her front porch, only to slowly collapse into sobs when she realizes that the unexpected arrival heralds the death of her sons. There are no words in that scene. Some feelings are simply beyond words.

On Thursday afternoon, family members of real soldiers experienced the crushing sense of loss and isolation when they learned that their loved ones were inexplicably cut down on base.

Not in Iraq or Afghanistan, but in Texas.

The knee-jerk response of many to seeing the shooter?s Arabic name was to assume this was a terrorist attack. Impulsive or not, facts now suggest that Hasan?s Islamic faith was indeed a motivating factor in the killings. That supposition seems backed by claims he shouted ?Allahu Akbar!? before he began his rampage.

HOW many universes are there? Cosmologists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin at Stanford University in California calculate that the number dwarfs the 10⁵⁰⁰ universes postulated in string theory, and raise the provocative notion that the answer may depend on the human brain.

It might be, however, that this number is irrelevant, and that in a world ruled by quantum physics what matters is how many universes a single observer can distinguish. "Before quantum mechanics," says Linde, "we thought that reality was a well-defined word." In classical physics, observers are irrelevant - we simply want to know how many universes exist.

Owens indicated in a press release released shortly afterwards that he was now in favor of the the "Affordable Healthcare for America Act" bill in direct contrast to his earlier position during the election campaign.

According to Politico.com, Mr. Owens assured voters that he felt the public option had no place in the health care reform bill.  Contrary to that position, Mr. Owens now indicates that he intends to vote in favor of the bill even though it now contains a public option.

UPDATED: A spokesman for Congressman Owens indicated correctly that Mr. Owens had recanted his solid position against public option later in the campaign, clarifying that he did not wish public option to be a litmus test for the Health Reform bill and that on Oct. 30th, several days prior to the election, in a debate had stated that he generally supported the public option as it was now written (at that time.)

The son of former American Presidential candidate Ross Perot - Henry Ross Perot Jr. - is reportedly engaged in a legal battle involving South African wildlife authorities over the head of rhino he wounded during a trophy hunt earlier this year.

Perot supposedly shot a bull rhino at Mkhuze game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, but the animal escaped. However, Perot believes he?s still entitled to his trophy - the rhino?s head.

According to South Africa?s Independent Online, wildlife authorities have not been able to locate the wounded rhino - or a dead rhino.

A professional hunter acting for Perot then engaged lawyers to allow a ?follow-up? operation and it was agreed that Perot could have the animal?s head if it was tracked down during a hunting operation scheduled to start this weekend.

The professional hunter accompanying Perot is said to be Garry Kelly, who claims that the purpose of a second hunt was to destroy the wounded rhino in order to end its suffering.

Researchers in Malaysian Borneo have captured the world?s most elusive and endangered cat on film. The beautiful Bornean bay cat, Catopuma badia, is so rare; a live cat was not even photographed until 1998!

Although the amazing video only lasts seven seconds, the chestnut-red cat with the long tail can be clearly seen walking through the forest.  Because so little is known about this particular wild cat, even its eating habits are unknown. 

Endemic to the forests of Borneo, threats to this elusive animal include illegal pet trade, poaching, deforestation and habitat loss largely due to palm oil plantations.  Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, it is estimated that only 2,500 Bornean bay cats remain in the wild today.

ALong with numerous photographs, the Bornean bay cat video footage is available on the MongaBay website.

House passes health care reform bill; Vote garners only one Republican

WASHINGTON - The biggest overhaul of Americas medical system since Medicare took a big step forward Saturday night, narrowly passing the House with a controversial amendment to restrict coverage of abortion.

The bill passed 220-215, with 39 Democrats voting no and one Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.), voting in favor of the landmark bill.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced to allow the abortion amendment after a deal with conservative Democrats collapsed and they threatened to sink the reform bill.

The move enraged liberals, but most agreed to stay on board and President Obama traveled to the House to make a personal appeal and seal the deal.

? deserve Purple Hearts. Their killer probably deserves desertion, treason and terrorism charges if, as all indicators seem to very strongly suggest, he was engaged in jihad, from his violence-inciting, hateful rants about the Koran, his denunciation of the United States as ?the aggressor? in arguments with fellow soldiers, to his shouts of ?Allahu Akhbar,? to what they believe were his Internet defenses of suicide bombings, to his choice of targets, the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood. If al-Qaeda is an amorphous enemy, an idea made situationally manifest by the will of its adherents, and he was in fact an adherent of its violent agenda, then he is the enemy, his actions were acts of war, and they bled and died under enemy fire. 

Howard unleashes on Rudd over immigration

Former prime minister John Howard has lashed out at Kevin Rudds handling of asylum seekers and accused his Government of wasting the nations cash.

Mr Rudds approval rating dropped considerably last week as the impasse continues over what to do with hundreds of Australia-bound asylum seekers who remain in limbo.

Mr Howard used an interview with The Sunday Telegraph to attack the Federal Governments so-called Indonesian solution and defended his own record on immigration.

"We stopped the boats coming. The facts speak for themselves. The Indonesian solution? Well, there doesnt seem to be one," he said.

Purchased by the U.S. government from Russia, Alaska became a part of the union as the 48th state of the USA on January 3rd 1959. But, although we consider Alaska a cold, lifeless area, we are very far from the truth. Alaska offers natural wonders that blend the end of their temperatures with a rich and diverse flora and fauna. This collection of 23 wonders of nature in Alaska show a lively area in each season. From the frozen rock solid to the delicate plains of this near Arctic land.

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Last week, the government has sacked its most senior drugs advisor, Dr Professor Nutt, after he claimed cannabis was no more harmful than alcohol. And that horse-riding was riskier than taking ecstasy.

(Technically hes right. The lifetime odds of dying from ecstasy overdose is 1 in 17,803. The risk of dying from horse-riding is around double - 1 in 7,833.)

Taking the science behind his statement and mashing it up with press coverage of drug risks creates an interesting picture.

The governments own data backs up Nutts assertions. Cannabis seems pretty risk-free, mortality-wise, and its dangers are over-reported in the popular media. Meanwhile, fatalities from legal drugs like paracetamol and anti-depressants are higher than most illicit drugs combined. And those fatalities mostly go unreported.

If You Want a Job Tomorrow, Cultivate Your Career Today

I just completed a search for a new job. In these economic times, finding a job can be daunting, even in the software industry, which has fared better than most. (Today, it was announced that the official unemployment rate in the U.S. is 10.2%, the highest level in 25 years.) A job search can be harder if youre a software developer of a certain age (I turn the big Five-Oh in January).

Despite these obstacles, this was the easiest and most rewarding job search of my career. I had the good fortune to receive several excellent job offers. I regret that I had to turn down all but one of the opportunities. (I start at DRW Holdings after Thanksgiving.)

The four passengers in the jeep must feel a whisker away from death as a lion jumps up on to their bonnet for lunch.

But thats all part of the attraction. The jeep is a new zoo exhibit which allows visitors to get incredibly close to the lions.

The back part of the vehicle, up to where the windscreen should be, is actually on the outside of the reinforced glass cage. The bonnet is on the inside, and covered with meat to entice the big cats closer.

Elvis - Walk a Mile In my Shoes

Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It?s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies ? to the tune of six pounds per American per year. That?s a lot of estrogen.

The Northern coast of Russia is covered with through the most part of the year. People of Russia couldn?t stand the situation when they have a 5000 mile long coastline but can?t transport anything across it. They thought they can fight the nature for their freedom of movement and have implemented those giant, nuclear-powdered icebreakers. They are completely independent from the fuel and are being powered by small nuclear power-plants on board. Here are some photos of those machines and the coastline across which they swim crushing all this ice and scaring the polar bears.

Ever wondered how plush toys do look like in Russia. If they use same teddy bears as American kids have or they have some Ivan Bears?

I am not sure about little Winnie-the-Poohs but they for sure have some tigers and more, being done on this toy factory.

And no matter what toys they would make for Russian children they still are afraid of N1H1 virus using masks too.

What?s this all about? Is it a new approach to sexual upbringing from early age?
Giving kids the possibility to know the reality of things way before they get it traditionally?
Like we are all the same and no need to hide some of our body parts.

Rob Gonsalves is an artist from Toronto, Canada. What I really love in his work is the surrealism inspiration and how he mixes elements to create amazing transitions from bridges to clouds to caravels. Even though his work is categorized as surrealistic, Robs work is deliberately planned and results from a conscious thought, the exact opposite of surrealism.

For more information visit Rob Goncalves website

Mr. Wood, a 79-year-old Boston architect, bought the house with his ex-wife Joan in 1961 for $3,600. It had been empty for two decades. Clingstone had been built by a distant cousin, J.S. Lovering Wharton. Mr. Wharton worked with an artist, William Trost Richards, to create a house of picture windows with 23 rooms on three stories radiating off a vast central hall. The total cost of the construction, which was completed in 1905, was $36,982.99. However, bear in mind that the currency in 1905 is not the same as for now. Possibly the price is estimated about $4 million

California State University officials reported late last week that they saved more jobs with stimulus money than the number of jobs saved in Texas ? and in 44 other states.

In a required state report to the federal government, the university system said the $268.5 million it received in stimulus funding through October allowed it to retain 26,156 employees.

That total represents more than half of CSUs statewide work force. However, university officials confirmed Thursday that half their workers were not going to be laid off without the stimulus dollars.

"This is not really a real number of people," CSU spokeswoman Clara Potes-Fellow said. "Its like a budget number."

Multiple cases of inflated and underreported job tallies have surfaced since the federal government released detailed stimulus reports last week, said Craig Jennings, a senior policy analyst at OMB Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group that tracks federal spending.

Canada?s top general issues order to start planning pullout of military units

Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk?s direction to units for a ?drawdown? of forces in Afghanistan lays the groundwork for what will be a lengthy process of transporting tonnes of equipment and supplies back home.

Canada?s military mission in Kandahar is scheduled to end in the summer of 2011.

 ?It?s a directive that people start the planning,? Natynczyk said in an interview with the Citizen Thursday night. ?Based on the (Parliamentary) mandate we have to make the preparations right now in terms of the plans with our allies (and) all of the logistics because we have so much stuff there, you can only imagine. It?s going to be more than a year process to haul it all out.?

Parliament has set 2011 as the end of the mission. ?You have to put an end date on these things,? Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters last year.

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Disasterpiece theater: Thirteen cinematic tales of disaster

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Its the end of the world as we know it... and we feel fascinated

Reality is terrifying enough, so why do we crave disaster movies? Just when we thought we were safely out of the 70s Irwin Allen-drenched disaster era ("The Poseidon Adventure," "The Towering Inferno"), the 90s revived the genre with star-studded, expensive epics of Gotterdammerung. Remember "Deep Impact," "Armageddon" and "Volcano?"

Now, Roland Emmerich has decided to once again destroy the world, this time for good it seems in "2012." With that in mind, weve come up with a cursory list of movies that feed our fascination with cataclysmic fear -- in many forms -- and entertain our thirst for watching stuff blow up. It looks like weve been paranoid a lot longer than we thought.

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Organisers of a Guy Fawkes night party in Devon claim health and safety officials have forced them to watch a film of a bonfire rather than the real thing.

The event, dubbed non fire night, at Ilfracombe Rugby Club will see about 2,000 revellers hold sparklers and gather around a big screen showing footage of a bonfire.

Recorded images of a roaring real fire will be projected onto the 16ft by 12ft screen mounted on a scaffolding stand - at a cost of £300.

Organisers say they were put off having a real fire by the mountain of paperwork and regulations set by council chiefs, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Officials at the authority said that to have a real fire they would require five qualified fire marshals and metal barricades to keep people at a safe distance.

The non-fire night will also involve giant heaters, lighting and a smoke machine to give the crowd the taste of a real bonfire night.

The first time I saw this thing I thought, ?Holy crap! An iPod mated with an X-ray machine.? General Electric (NYSE: GE) CEO and Chairman Jeff Immett debuted a pocket sized ultrasound scanner a few weeks ago at the Web2.0 conference in San Francisco. The Vscan is aimed at enhancing the level of diagnostic power of the average doctor, helping detect dangerous conditions before they get worse. Check out the introductory video from GE Reports after the break.

Ultrasound has a wide range of uses from examining fetuses to checking on the heart. It?s non-invasive, provides relatively quick results, and costs less than other examinations. The Vscan puts all of those advantages in the palm of your doctor?s hand. GE hopes that the device will become as common as the stethoscopes doctors rely upon today.

A Berlin brothel is doing its bit for the environment - by offering discounts to customers who arrive on bicycles.

"The recession has hit our industry hard," said Thomas Goetz, owner of the Maison denvie brothel.

"Obviously we hope that the discount will attract more people. Its good for business, its good for the environment - and its good for the girls."

Customers who arrive on a bicycle or who can prove they took public transportation get a five euro (£4.30) discount from the usual 70-euro fee for a 45 minute session.

"We have around three to five new customers coming in daily to take advantage of the discount," he said, adding the green rebate has helped alleviate traffic and parking congestion in the neighbourhood.

Workaround #1 ? Using Hide My Ass!

Hide My Ass! works flawlessly in bypassing the YouTube region filter. As Hide My Ass! streams YouTube video using its own player, it will prevent the YouTube player from displaying the ?We?re sorry, this video is no longer available? message. The server is located in US, therefore videos restricted to US viewers will play without a problem.

Workaround #2 ? Convert & Download Using Zamzar

Alternatively, you can use Zamzar to convert the YouTube video into any video format, then download and watch it locally. You might want to try other YouTube video downloaders too, but I have no luck so far.

Censorship? Discrimination? Muting? To hell with all that.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: "If an Institution Is Too Big to Fail, It Is Too Big to Exist?

"Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging from the bizarre to the hilarious. (This talk is aimed at adults. Viewer discretion advised.)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

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FLIP ? the flipping ship

FLIP (or, Floating Instrument Platform) is an amazing ship ? technically it isn?t a ship, but more like a buoy since it doesn?t have its own propulsion and has to be towed around ? but I bet you though no other sea vessels in the world can do what it can ? intentionally ?capsizing? so that it can turn 90 degrees, and turn from ?ship-mode? to a ?platform mode? by flooding its tail:

There is more good information at Popular Mechanics site in the story titled:

Open Ocean Lab FLIP Vessel: How it Works

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So Ed Balls has decreed that sex education will be compulsory. (At the moment, parents can opt out if they don?t fancy the idea of their little darlings being given the facts of life by spotty Mr Boil in a grotty classroom.) From 2011 the nanny state will be given full control of the birds and the bees (opening instalments from age five; no parental opt-out at all for 15-year-olds) and if you bunk off, you will be fined.

Sex ed has, of course, always been a bit of a joke. I have vivid memories of a flustered biology teacher showing 30 tittering girls how to put a condom on a boiling tube (the tube was rather puny, and the rubber sagged off it like an old balloon; poor Mrs W stuttered that it wasn?t quite like that in real life).

The debate about U.S. immigration policy is a difficult and often emotional one. In recent years, a new component has been added. Shifting focus away from a debate based on the merits of various policy options, some of those advocating higher levels of immigration and amnesty for illegal aliens have resorted to attacking and impugning the motives of their opponents.

In the eyes of the law, there is no such thing as a ?hate group.? It does not exist in federal statutes. It is a term entirely concocted by the SPLC. Moreover, the SPLC itself has no concrete definition. While lacking any useful specificity, the SPLC nonetheless deliberately uses this highly charged term to achieve political ends and to create an illusion that there is a surge of dangerous groups operating in America in order to increase the SPLC fundraising. In the process, the truth gets lost, reputations are damaged, and meaningful discourse on immigration policy is muted.

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Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

Richard Shelby (R-AL)

Jon Kyl (R-AZ)

John McCain (R-AZ)

Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)

Johnny Isakson (R-GA)

James Risch (R-ID)

Sam Brownback (R-KS)

Pat Roberts (R-KS)

Jim Inhofe (R-OK)

Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

Below is the list of thirty legislators who were brave enough to stand up in defense of rape and vote against Senator Al Frankens anti-rape amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill.  We applaud these courageous men!  Roll over the portraits with your mouse to see the Senators phone number, or click on a portrait to visit the Senators contact page.   We encourage you to send your kind words to these gentlemen!

An Italian court has cut the sentence given to a convicted murderer by a year because he has genes linked to violent behaviour ? the first time that behavioural genetics has affected a sentence passed by a European court. But researchers contacted by Nature have questioned whether the decision was based on sound science.

Abdelmalek Bayout, an Algerian citizen who has lived in Italy since 1993, admitted in 2007 to stabbing and killing Walter Felipe Novoa Perez on 10 March. Perez, a Colombian living in Italy, had, according to Bayouts testimony, insulted him over the kohl eye make-up the Algerian was wearing. Bayout, a Muslim, claims he wore the make-up for religious reasons.

A new solar industry report shows that global PV production in 2008 reached 6.4 GW ? an increase of 60% from 2007. China and Taiwan are emerging as world leaders with collectively 40% of the world market share.

So why the buzz? Thin film solar uses exotic mixtures of metals to achieve much lighter and flexible PV cells than silicon, and can be applied directly onto foil, windows, and potentially even used as solar paint.  Several companies and technologies are competing for this market that will continue to be one of the fastest growing renewable sectors.

The field is exploding. The many breaking thin-film solar stories this week include:

Apostle Claver

When the initial news reports started pouring out of Fort Hood about the mass murder (read terrorist attack) of some of America?s finest, I turned to my wife and daughter and without hesitation said, ?I?ll bet you a hundred bucks it was a Muslim.? I was spot on. But shame on me for thinking such a thing, right? (Yeah, those of us who immediately thought that the murderer, given the circumstances, had to be a Muslim, we?re the bad guys.)

Yep, a Religion of Peace adherent, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as you well know by now, opened fire as he screamed ?Allahu Akbar!? on a room full of unarmed soldiers, killing 13 and wounding 30. Unarmed soldiers. Wow. What a wussy. What a ?mighty warrior? for Allah, eh? Unarmed soldiers. I say it?s high time to begin carrying on base because, obviously, such d-bags cannot read that military bases are to be gun free zones.

No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
November!

The Intelligence Squared Debate - Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. The Catholics (Part 1/5)

There are now several distinct types of sports drinks available for athletes. Be sure to use the right product for your needs.

The only sports drink ingredient extras worth considering are added sodium, caffeine, and protein or amino acids.

Introduction to synthesizers

There are so many synth plugins out there, including free ones. Although they all have their own unique touch to them, they tend to have a similar set of features. There are also different types of synthesizers and synthesis methods (such as additive, subtractive, fm synthesis). What I want to do here is choose a freeware subtractive synthesizer and see how it works. Most of the information will be outlined below. However, to hear examples of how the settings affect the sound, play the video on the right where I go through the controls and play notes.

Rep. Deal wants Obama to prove citizenship

WASHINGTON -- Republican gubernatorial candidate and U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal says he wants the president to prove he is an American citizen.

Deal says he has "no reason to think" that President Barack Obama is not a legal U.S. citizen but enough questions have been raised that he plans to write a letter to the president asking him to produce a birth certificate showing he was born in the United States.

"I have looked at the documentation that is publicly available and it leaves many things to be desired," Deal said in an interview Friday.

Deals statement came a day after he noted in an online chat that he would join other U.S. House members in writing the president and asking that he release a copy of his birth certificate.

A Scottish game warden who bought a metal detector for a new hobby discovered a £1m hoard of Iron Age jewellery - on his first outing.

Five days after taking delivery of the £240 metal detector and seven steps into his first treasure hunt, David Booth unearthed four 2,300-year-old torcs made of pure gold.

It has been described by experts variously as "prime Iron Age bling" and the most significant discovery of Iron Age metalwork in Scotland, reports The Times.

Mr Booth, 35, a warden at Blampse of one of them, then uncovered the rest of the hoard.

"They were in a wee group. Half me was saying, that does look important, but I was thinking I couldnt be that lucky on my first go.

"I took them home, gave them a wee clean up and went online. I looked at some torcs and kind of guessed this was iron age history."

Giovanni was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes one month after his fourth birthday. He has been living with type1 diabetes for over two years. He wears an insulin pump and checks his sugar over ten times a day.

Giovanni loves anything that has to do with art, creating and building. He enjoys building with anything from cardboard boxes to clay. Giovanni may have type 1 diabetes, but type 1 diabetes doesn?t have him!

Elissa was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in June 2007 at age 8. She has been supported by friends and family ever since. The family has participated in the JDRF Walk ever since. ?Elissa?s Team,? comprised of our family and friends, participates in the JDRF walks anually.

Now, she is 10 years old. She is very active and healthy. With all of our effort, we hope to find a cure for juvenile diabetes soon.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ? There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. All are in the United States. And 77 of them are here in Florida.

A Brief History of U.S. Interventions:
1945 to the Present

by William Blum

The engine of American foreign policy has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but rather by the necessity to serve other imperatives, which can be summarized as follows:

* making the world safe for American corporations;

* enhancing the financial statements of defense contractors at home who have contributed generously to members of congress;

* preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model;

* extending political and economic hegemony over as wide an area as possible, as befits a "great power."

This in the name of fighting a supposed moral crusade against what cold warriors convinced themselves, and the American people, was the existence of an evil International Communist Conspiracy, which in fact never existed, evil or not.

The United States carried out extremely serious interventions into more than 70 nations in this period.

Patriot Games: GOP Reps Pick Tea Party Rally Over National-Security Votes

When its a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, whats a GOP lawmaker to do? Well give you one guess...

Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post 9/11 era to attend Michele Bachmanns Tea Party rally against health-care reform.

The day HCR finally comes up for a vote well just tell these idiots some teabaggers and Fox News cameras are outside making a ruckus.

Both Mr. Obama and the House leaders showcased Democrats? newest colleague, Representative Bill Owens, who last Tuesday won a special election in an upstate New York district that Republicans had held since 1872. In the campaign, Mr. Owens gave unabashed support to the pending House health care bill, despite the opposition of national conservative groups, including the new Tea Party Patriots, who backed Mr. Owens? conservative rival.

Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, ?Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit? Democratic voters ?and it will encourage the extremists.?

Beatles - Dig a pony (on the roof)

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Obama Admits He Is A Muslim

Crucifixes have been banned in Italian schools by a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights. 

The decision has enraged politicians, with Italys foreign minister Franco Frattini saying: This is a death blow for a Europe of values and rights. 

Europes roots lie in its Christian identity. At a time when were trying to bring religions closer, the Christian religion gets whacked. 

The case was brought by a Finnish woman, Soile Lautsi, who is married to an Italian. 

And it ordered the Italian government to pay 5000 Euro moral damages to Lautsi.

Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini introduced legislation in 1924 ordering all classrooms to display crucifixes. Despite several attempts to have the law overturned in recent years it has stood.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at Americas Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.

He also told colleagues at Americas top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.

Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe.

It was the latest in a series of "red flags" about his state of mind that have emerged since the massacre at Fort Hood, Americas largest military installation, on Thursday.

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A Muslim fanatic, known to the FBI as a fan of suicide bombers and to colleagues as an opponent of our government, coolly buys weapons, heads to a military facilityhe knows will be packed with unsuspecting soldiers, waits for the crowd to thicken, then shouts, ?Allah is great!? and guns down 51 patriots, calmly reloading among the dead and dying.

But don?t rush to judgment.

Imagine if, instead of Fort Hood, the massacre had gone down at a mosque in Detroit ? carried out by a maddened Christian or Jew. Obama would?ve been aboard Air Force One before the pilots had time to file a flight plan and he would?ve been on site before the gun smoke cleared, hugging and boo-hooing and dispensing stirring rhetoric for the evening news.

How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt?s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

What gender is the face on the left? How about the one on the right? Most people would say that the picture on the left shows a woman and the picture on the right shows a man. Actually, both pictures show the same androgynous face, but with differing levels of contrast. Richard Russell, assistant professor of psychology at Gettysburg College, published a study in the scholarly journal Perception about the effects of contrast of human faces on the perception of gender. He found that faces with more contrast are seen as more feminine, while faces with less contrast are seen as more masculine.

If anyone could have talked himself out of being gay, Kimberly Brooks said, it was her husband.

"He said, I dont know. And in that moment, I knew," said Brooks, who is a therapist in Falls Church. "That day, the marriage was over."

As the debate over legalizing same-sex marriage in the District grows louder and more polarized, there are people whose support for the proposal is personal but not often talked about. They are federal workers and professionals, men and women who share little except that their former spouses tried to live as heterosexuals but at some point realized they could not.