October 12, 2012

Obama Campaign Buys Ads for ‘Malarkey’ Hashtag on Twitter

Give the Obama Administration points for quick thinking: The campaign bought the trending Twitter term #malarkey during the vice presidential debates on Thursday after Vice President Joe Biden used the term.
When you search the term, the following ad pops up:



http://mashable.com/2012/10/11/obama-campaign-twitter-ad-malarkey/

October 12, 2012

Obama should crush a little bit of Joe Biden into a joint and smoke it.”

DANVILLE, KY (The Borowitz Report)—In a poll of Democratic voters taken immediately following Thursday night’s Vice-Presidential debate, a wide majority said they wanted Vice-President Joe Biden to appear in all remaining 2012 debates.

According to the constitutional scholar Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, the scenario of Mr. Biden appearing in all the remaining debates, while surely unorthodox, is within the realm of possibility: “According to the Constitution, the Vice-President steps in when the President is unable to fulfill his duties. Based on the first debate, that seems to be the case.”

Mr. Biden got off to a strong start in the debate, which began with moderator Martha Raddatz asking him and Rep. Paul Ryan, “Gentlemen, first question: To the best of your ability, smirk sarcastically at your opponent.”
The Vice-President rose to that challenge, smiling broadly and snickering throughout all of Mr. Ryan’s answers, and characterizing them with virtually every Irish synonym for shit

Mr. Biden’s performance clearly wowed the Democratic voters in the post-debate poll, as ninety per cent of them “strongly agreed” with the statement, “Obama should crush a little bit of Joe Biden into a joint and smoke it.”


Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/10/poll-by-wide-margin-democrats-want-biden-in-all-remaining-debates.html#ixzz294VH4omM

October 12, 2012

Four of Bill Maher's Tweets during the debate

October 12, 2012

CBS Poll: Biden takes debate over Ryan, uncommitted voters say

Fifty percent of uncommitted voters who tuned into Thursday night's vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., said they see Vice President Joe Biden as the winner over Mitt Romney's GOP running mate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., according to an instant poll taken by CBS News.

Of the 431 polled immediately following the debate, 31 percent deemed Ryan the winner, and 19 percent said they felt it was a tie. Party-wise

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57531059/poll-biden-takes-debate-over-ryan-uncommitted-voters-say/?tag=MidDeep

October 11, 2012

Food Sickens Millions as Company-Paid Checks Find It Safe

Source: Bloomberg

The FDA, a federal agency nominally responsible for overseeing most food safety, had never inspected Jensen.
During the past two decades, the food industry has taken over much of the FDA’s role in ensuring that what Americans eat is safe. The agency can’t come close to vetting its jurisdiction of $1.2 trillion in annual food sales.

In 2011, the FDA inspected 6 percent of domestic food producers and just 0.4 percent of importers. The FDA has had no rules for how often food producers must be inspected.

The food industry hires for-profit inspection companies -- known as third-party auditors -- who aren’t required by law to meet any federal standards and have no government supervision. Some of these monitors choose to follow guidelines from trade groups that include ConAgra Foods Inc. (CAG), Kraft Foods Inc. and Wal-Mart.

The private inspectors that companies select often check only those areas their clients ask them to review. That means they can miss deadly pathogens lurking in places they never examined.
3,000 Killed


Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/food-sickens-millions-as-industry-paid-inspectors-find-it-safe.html

October 10, 2012

GOP Congressman Says Romney Would Sell National Parks

How did you spend your summer? If you’re like many, rather than spending money you don’t have visiting exotic foreign lands, you chose to leave your passport at home and visit one of the many wonders available in our very own country, our national or state parks. If Mitt Romney is elected, as one GOP Congressman claims, state and national parks could begin to disappear.

Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) said in a speech to the Colorado Conservative Political Action Conference,

America, each state, the public lands were given back to the states after they were chartered. But in the West, starting with Teddy Roosevelt who had the big ideas of big forests and big national parks, they held that land. And so the next chart shows you the effect on us in the West. Just understand this is the education. The red is of course bad. We’re starved in the West for education funds because of policies that Mitt Romney sat and listened to Rob Bishop and myself explain when it came to Hobbs. He knows that if we want to reverse the trend, we’ll reverse this trend of public ownership of lands starving education. (Think Progress)

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/09/gop-congressman-says-romney-would-sell-national-parks/

October 10, 2012

Does it Matter?

Who Cares If Romney Lied During The Debate? He Looked Good!
http://www.newshounds.us/who_cares_if_romney_lied_during_the_debate_he_looked_good_10092012

October 10, 2012

Teacher- 'His dreams of being a scientist is a waste of time, ridiculous"

John Gurdon's future success was almost nipped in the bud in 1949 when a schoolmaster at elite Eton College wrote on his report card that pursuing science would be a waste of time.

"His work has been far from satisfactory," the teacher wrote. "If he can't learn simple biological facts he would have no chance of doing the work of a specialist, and it would be sheer waste of time, both on his part, and of those who have to teach him."



The scientific community could argue it's a good thing he didn't.

After starting out studying classics at Oxford, Gurdon switched to zoology. In 1962, he showed that the DNA from specialized cells of frogs, like skin or intestinal cells, could be used to generate new tadpoles — a breakthrough rewarded Monday with the Nobel Prize for Medicine, which he shared with Japan's Shinya Yamanaka



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2214605/Brit-Japanese-scientists-win-Nobel-Prize-groundbreaking-skin-cell-discovery-help-cure-diseases.html

October 9, 2012

Hackers have massacred all the virtual characters in World of Warcraft

I used to play this game 4 years ago and I know we have had many DU players here.




World of Warcraft cities hacked


Hackers have massacred all the virtual characters in some of online adventure game World of Warcraft's major cities.

They appear to have created a character able to destroy those of other players and those controlled by the game.


Writing in an online forum, Blizzard said it was taking the action "very seriously".

"Earlier today, certain realms were affected by an in-game exploit, resulting in the deaths of player characters and non-player characters in some of the major cities," wrote a representative going by the name of Nethaera, on Sunday.

Olivia Grace, contributing editor of website WoW Insider, said: "It was a significant hack.

"They discovered a method to roll a level-one [beginner] character, which ran to the major cities.

"We don't know exactly what they did, but somehow they were able to kill every single player's character in that city and every single computer controlled character -


http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19869466

October 9, 2012

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