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Tuesday, 28 June 2011

It seems that once again, Michelle Bachman is just a little confused about facts - compares herself to wrong John Wayne -

It seems that once again, Michelle Bachman is just a little confused about facts, history, etc..

In a recent interview with FoxNews from Waterloo, Iowa, where she is preparing to kick off her official Presidential campaign, Bachmann told the reporter: "Well, what I want them to know is... just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa... that's the kind of spirit that I have too. It's really about not being ashamed of America... it's embracing America, loving America, sacrificing for America."

The only problem with Bachmann's comparison of herself to John Wayne (other than the fact that it's a false equivalency).... is that she picked the wrong John Wayne.

You see, the John Wayne who is from Waterloo, Iowa is none other than the infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy... who committed the rape and murder of 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. So... yeah, I guess that John Wayne did a lot of sacrificing too.

OOPS!

The John Wayne that Bachmann is no doubt comparing herself to is John Wayne, the actor, AKA "the Duke".... who was born in Winterset, Iowa, not Waterloo.

Now, before all you Bachmann circle jerkers start leaving your apologist comments about how it's just a "slip-of-the-tongue" (one of hundreds), or about how "Obama thinks there are 57 states"... keep in mind that Bachmann is actually from Waterloo, Iowa. One would think that, at the very least, she would be able to get ONE fact right... if it was about her own hometown.

The simple fact of the matter is this... Michelle Bachmann lives in a world where she has all the pertinent "facts" conveniently stored right under her voluminous helmet of hair. No need to research or consult higher authorities... Michelle Bachmann believes it, so it is a fact.

Bottom line... it took me a total of 20 seconds on google to confirm that John "the Duke" Wayne was from Winterset, Iowa, not Waterloo.

If this dumb chunk of Minnesota fence-post can't take 20 seconds to confirm that she is comparing herself to an American icon (a joke in itself) and not a deranged homosexual, pedophile, rapist, serial murder who posed as a clown... then she shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a microphone, let alone the Presidency.

Shame on all of you, who pass over a true American Patriot like Ron Paul, in favor of this know-nothing, empty-headed, religious zealot, make-it-up-as-you-go-along, ignorant, populist fucktard.

If you want to jerk-off to Michelle Bachmann, that's your business.... just don't do it in the voting booth.

America deserves better!

RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012!

Read more -
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b91_1309221202

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michele-bachmann-kicks-off-campaign-but-john-wayne-gacy-gaffe-mars-speech/2011/06/27/AGDYNjpH_story.html

London COPS are breaking into homes - climbing through windows left open to alert residents to a sinister threat -

I didn’t believe that this was real. I thought that some hoax had been picked up by a tabloid newspaper and that it was off to the races from there.
Nope. It’s real. This is the ‘Operation Poppins’ page on the London Metropolitan Police website.
Via: The Sun:
COPS are breaking into homes in a dramatic bid to highlight the risk of being a victim of burglars.Police from Fortune Greens Safer Neighbourhood Team in West Hampstead, north London, are climbing through windows left open to alert residents to the sinister threat.
Officers are carrying out the mock raids in a high-profile initiative to slash the number of burglaries.
They are committing break-ins across their patch, locking up the property and leaving a calling card to notify the stunned owner that they were there.

Read more -
http://cryptogon.com/?p=23225

Pope Benedict XVI tweeted for the first time on Tuesday - by tapping an iPad -

Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal.

Benedict's tweet read: “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI”.

The portal for the first time aggregates information from the Vatican's various print, online, radio and television media. It's the latest effort by the Vatican to bring its evangelizing message to a greater, Internet-savvy audience and follows forays into Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Benedict put the site online himself by tapping an iPad, said Thaddeus Jones, project co-ordinator and an official with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. Moments later the pope sent the tweet.

The 84-year-old pontiff was then shown the portal and its features in greater detail.

Jones described him as “interested and impressed,” and “clearly enjoying it.”

“He was clearly in awe at the new technology,” said Jones. “It's a lighter moment but also an important one, it marks a new way of communicating.”

TSA has been caught covering up a surge in cases of TSA workers developing cancer from close proximity to scanners -

Fearful of provoking further public resistance to naked airport body scanners, the TSA has been caught covering up a surge in cases of TSA workers developing cancer as a result of their close proximity to radiation-firing devices, perhaps the most shocking revelation to emerge from the latest FOIA documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

After Union representatives in Boston discovered a “cancer cluster” amongst TSA workers linked with radiation from the body scanners, the TSA sought to downplay the matter and refused to issue employees with dosimeters to measure levels of exposure.

The documents indicate how, “A large number of workers have been falling victim to cancer, strokes and heart disease.”

“The Department, rather than acting on it, or explaining its position seems to have just dismissed. I don’t think that’s the way most other agencies would have acted in a similar situation if they were confronted with that question,” EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg said.

In an email sent to Heather Callahan (PDF), deputy federal security director at Boston Logan International Airport, union representatives express their concern about “TSA Boston’s growing number of TSOs working here that have thus far been diagnosed with cancer.”

Of course, if TSA workers who are merely standing near the scanners are already developing cancer, frequent flyers are also putting themselves in harm’s way by standing directly inside the radiation-firing machines.

As we reported yesterday, newly released internal government documents, obtained via the Freedom Of Information Act by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, reveal that the TSA, and specifically the head of the Department of Homeland Security, “publicly mischaracterized” the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in stating that NIST had positively confirmed the safety of full body scanners in tests.

In erroneously citing both NIST and the Johns Hopkins school of medicine to claim that the body scanners are safe, the TSA has also deliberately misled the public on the dangers posed by the devices.

Afghan Central Bank Chief Takes Billion Dollar Bribes Flees to US -

Afghanistan’s central bank governor Abdul Qadir Fitrat fled to the United States after investigators summoned him for questioning over the collapse of the biggest Afghan commercial bank, a government spokesman said.

“Fitrat left the country after the attorney general’s office sent him a letter asking him to answer questions about his handling of the Kabul Bank scandal,” said Siamak Herawy, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai.

The government took over Kabul Bank in September as thousands of depositors rushed to withdraw their money after learning that the bank’s owners had lost funds that a U.S. government report said may total $850 million, or 94 percent of its loans. Some lending paid for luxury homes in Dubai for bank shareholders, including Mahmoud Karzai, the president’s brother, the Washington Post cited him as saying.

Fitrat said in an interview that he had resigned and flown to Washington because he received threats from officials he had named as profiting from the insider lending at Kabul Bank, Afghanistan’s Ariana Television reported. He left a week ago, the Financial Times cited him as saying in an interview.

BPA exposure makes male mice less masculine, attractive - raising possibility that it could affect boys in similar ways -

Male mice who are exposed in the womb to bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical compound found in some hard plastics and can linings, appear to be less masculine and less attractive to females once they mature, raising the possibility that the controversial chemical could subtly affect boys in similar ways.
In a new study, male deer mice whose mothers were fed BPA while pregnant had more difficulty navigating a maze and displayed less interest in exploring than unexposed males -- a sign of "demasculinization," researchers say, since navigational skill and a propensity for exploration are considered classic male traits in this particular species of mice. (In the wild, these traits help young male mice find potential mates.)
What's more, this reduction in masculinity appears to make BPA-exposed mice less attractive to those potential mates.
In another experiment, female mice who were released into cages containing two male mice, only one of which was exposed to BPA, spent roughly half as much time in "nose-to-nose contact"-- an expression of sexual interest in the rodent world -- with the BPA-exposed mice, perhaps because the females sensed differences in their behavior, pheromones, or both.
Health.com: 8 ways to protect your health (and the planet)
"The [BPA-exposed] mice outwardly look normal," says Cheryl Rosenfeld, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and an associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Missouri--Columbia. "We have measured their motor skills and done sensory skill assessments, and they look normal; you can't tell which were exposed. But when you go deeper, that's when you find this difference emerging. The fact that we found this sexually selected behavior is different."
Read more - http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/06/27/bpa.mice.exposure/index.html

Monday, 27 June 2011

Apartments using dog DNA to catch poop-scoop scofflaws - the company "PooPrints" provides a feces-collection kit -

Here's the scoop: Some apartment complexes are using DNA testing on dog doo to find out who's not cleaning up after their pets.

The Timberwood Commons in Lebanon, N.H., opened this year and already has had problems with some residents who aren't cleaning up messes their dogs leave.

So manager Debbie Violette is going to use commercially available DNA sampling kits to check the DNA that dogs leave behind when they go.

“We've tried doing the warning letters. We've tried all sorts of things,” she said Friday. “It's always a problem. It's just that the majority of people are responsible pet owners and there are a few who are not.”

She said residents have been told they must submit samples from their dogs so DNA profiles can be put on file.

“I want people to know that we're serious about this,” she said. More than 30 dogs call the 252-unit complex home.

Violette just received the kits from a Knoxville, Tenn., company called PooPrints, a subsidiary of BioPet Vet Lab. Jim Simpson, president of the lab, said about 20 properties in the country have been using the kits.

For testing samples, the company provides a feces-collection kit. A small amount is put in a solution and mailed back to the lab. DNA is extracted from the feces. The lab then checks to see if it matches any of the profiles listed for the apartment complex.

“It's one of the coolest things I've ever done as a property manager,” said Debbie Logan, who manages the Twin Ponds Development in Nashua, which has identified some problem pet owners through the tests.

10 signs that our world may be destined to resemble a really bad science fiction movie…. -

#1 In China, scientists have inserted human genes into the DNA of dairy cow embryos. At this point, approximately 200 hybrid cows have been successfully produced. These cows can produce milk that is virtually identical to human breast milk. The scientists hope to have huge herds of these cows producing an alternative to human breast milk soon, and they hope to have this “milk” sold in global supermarkets within 3 years.
#2 In Canada, scientists at the University of Guelph in the province of Ontario have produced what they are calling “enviropigs“. These “enviropigs” have had genes from mice spliced into them, and according to the scientists they produce less phosphorous in their poop so they are being touted as environmentally friendly. Authorities in both the U.S. and Canada are evaluating whether or not to allow these “enviropigs” into the food supply.
#3 Scientists in Japan have created a genetically modified mouse that tweets like a bird.
#4 One U.S. corporation can now produce a very muscular “monster salmon”which can grow up to three times as fast as normal salmon do.
#5 Science can now produce cats that glow in the dark. A genetically modified cat created by scientists named Mr. Green Genes was the very first fluorescent cat in the United States. But Mr. Green Genes was not the first “glow in the dark cat” in the world. That honor went to a cat created by a team of scientists in South Korea.
#6 In Japan, scientists have discovered that they can grow rat organs inside of mice. The researchers hope to use the same technology to grow human organs inside of pigs.
#7 But Japan is not the only one doing this kind of research. In Missouri, entitiesthat are part pig and part human are being grown with the goal of providing organs for human transplants.
#8 Scientists at Rockefeller University have injected human genes into mice. These “humanized mice” are being used to study the spread of the hepatitis C virus.
#9 U.S. scientists have discovered that they can actually “grow” new human organs from scratch. The following is a quote from a recent Newsweek article….

It might sound like science fiction, but growing new organs from scratch has already become reality. In addition to bladders, scientists have engineered new skin, bone, cartilage, corneas, windpipes, arteries, and urethras.

#10 Believe it or not, a company in Canada known as Nexia has actually taken goats and has genetically modified them to be part spider. The genetic modification process causes these “spider goats” to produce spider silk protein in their milk. This spider silk protein is collected, purified and spun into incredibly strong fibers. These fibers are apparently more durable than Kevlar, more flexible than nylon, and much stronger than steel.
As frightening as all of those examples may sound, the truth is that the genetic modification of plants has gone even farther than the genetic modification of animals has gone.
Today, approximately 93 percent of all soybeans and approximately 80 percent of all corn in the United States have been genetically modified.
Considering the fact that corn is literally in thousands upon thousands of our food products, there is a really good chance that you consumed some genetically modified food today.
Are you certain that it was safe?
Genetically modified crops have been linked to organ disruption in at least 19 different studies.
In addition, there is also an increasing body of evidence that suggests that genetically modified food actually alters our digestive systems.
Do we really know everything that we need to know about genetically modified food?
Perhaps we should have investigated all of this sooner. The truth is that once genetically modified crops get out into the wild it is just about impossible to put the genie back into the bottle.
A while back, a genetically modified strain of maize that was banned in the EUwas accidentally sown all across Germany.
Oops.
But once it got out there was no way of totally eliminating it. In fact, in many areas of the world genetically modified crop strains are breeding natural crop strains out of existence.
We are permanently changing the natural order of things.
Is that really a great idea?

Read more -
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Genetic_Modification_Gone_Wild%3A_10_Signs_That_Our_World_May_Be_Destined_To_Resemble_A_Really_Bad_Science_Fiction_Movie_/14439/0/0/0/Y/M.html

Sunday, 26 June 2011

Nevada is the first state in the U.S. to approve the use of driverless cars like those being developed at Google Inc. -

Nevada is the first state in the U.S. to approve the use of driverless cars like those being developed at Google Inc.

on its roads.

State legislators passed a law instructing the Nevada Department of Transportation to come up with rules including safety standards, insurance requirements and testing sites.

Google has tested driverless cars in California,driving about 140,000 miles with them.

The Nevade law defines permits cars that use artificial intelligence, sensors and GPS to drive without active the attention of a human operator.

Along with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG),Volkswagen

has been working on driverless cars.

Host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” asks Republican Presidential candidate - Michele Bachmann - “Are you a flake?” -

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann says a new poll showing her near the top of the Republican presidential pack in Iowa is proof that voters see her as a serious candidate.

“I am very serious about what I want to do,” Bachmann said on “Fox News Sunday,” adding that voters were impressed with her recent New Hampshire debate appearance. “People recognize that I’m serious.”
But host Chris Wallace pushed Bachmann on her history of making controversial statements and asked whether she was ready to be a national candidate.

“Are you a flake?” Wallace asked

“That would be insulting to say something like that,” responded Bachmann, pointing to her legislative and professional record. “Of course, a person has to be careful with what their words are. And now I will have an opportunity to speak fully.”