Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes

Health officials in Vancouver have already provided 100,000 free condoms to the roughly 7,000 ahtletes and officials at the Games. That's about 14 condoms per person. But as of Wednesday, those supplies started running dangerously low.

Wow!

Missile agency’s ‘crescent moon’ logo scares right-wingers

The conservative blogosphere is abuzz about the new logo of the US Missile Defense Agency, which they say looks suspiciously similar to both the Obama campaign logo and the crescent moon typically seen on Islamic flags.

On Wednesday, the Drudge Report posted a picture of the agency's new logo -- a blue crescent with a wave of red stripes emerging from it -- above pictures of the Obama campaign logo and a crescent moon and star, a typical theme on flags of Islamic nations.

LOL!

I love it...Anything to mke these nut jobs apoplectic!

And, yes, there is an eerie similarity...

Steve King To Conservatives: 'Implode' IRS Offices

I was against the politicization of this (and still am) but a number of righties do and will have blood on their hands...

Scott Brown sympathizes with Austin bomber: ‘No one likes paying taxes, obviously’

Could you get any more shameful or opportunistic???

Your request is being processed... Sarah Palin & Bristol Respond To Family Guy: 'Another Kick In The Gut' (VIDEO)

In a Facebook note addressed to Fox Hollywood (as opposed to Palin's own employer, Fox News), Palin said the episode "felt like another kick in the gut." (Two weeks ago, Palin called for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to be fired after he called liberal groups thinking of running health care-related ads against Democratic lawmakers "F---ing retarded.") Palin then turned the note over to daughter Bristol:

Why won't she just go away??

As usual, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with special needs kids. No. It's about her.

It's always about her.

She's just pulling the "Woe is me," card yet again. Frankly, I'm sick of her constant whining. She truly is NOTHING special, yet every day it's something new for her to complain about how poorly people treat her.

DOES THAT SOUND PRESIDENTIAL TO ANYONE?

Stay out of public life if you can't handle constant scrutiny and attacks.

US 'Star Wars' lasers bring down ballistic missile

Finally!

Mosquito Death Ray in Action

Sweet! I knew the star wars program had a use!!!

Gingrich, Republicans Offering "Outright Fallacies"

The Democratic National Committee is attacking Newt Gingrich and Kit Bond for "playing politics with terror trials," pointing to recent appearances by the two men on television to make their point.

The DNC criticizes Gingrich for his comments on "The Daily Show," which you can watch below. In the interview, host Jon Stewart pressed Gingrich on his criticism of the decision to read Miranda rights to Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Stewart noted that shoe bomber Richard Reid, who was detained during the Bush administration, was also mirandized.

Gingrich responded that Reid was an American citizen – a claim the former House speaker later admitted was not true on Twitter with this Tweet: "On daily show was wrong re: ShoeBomber citizenship, was thinking of Padilla. Treating terrorists like criminals wrong no matter who is Pres."

What else is new???

Krugman: Oh. My God.

The point is that these bank executives are not free agents who are earning big bucks in fair competition; they run companies that are essentially wards of the state. There’s good reason to feel outraged at the growing appearance that we’re running a system of lemon socialism, in which losses are public but gains are private. And at the very least, you would think that Obama would understand the importance of acknowledging public anger over what’s happening.

But no. If the Bloomberg story is to be believed, Obama thinks his key to electoral success is to trumpet “the influence corporate leaders have had on his economic policies.”

We’re doomed.

Well put.

Obama is just continuing the previous regime's corporate socialism...

Filibuster Could Fall 'After Massive Conflict On The Floor'

Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the National Labor Relations Board that had been held up since April.

The GOP was joined by Democrats Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas in defeating President Obama's nominee, Craig Becker, by a vote of 52-33. The 52 votes were in favor of Becker, while the 33 were in opposition. In today's Senate, that's enough to block a nominee.

"I'm in my thirty-sixth year. I've never seen anything like it," said Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), noting that no previous Republican Senate leader would have allowed his party to filibuster such a routine nomination.

Leahy said that the overuse of filibusters by the GOP was leading Democrats to consider ways to modify it.

If Reid had any spine he would have threatened the nuclear option four months ago.

But, at least more people are starting to clamor for what needs to happen!

California's Largest Health Insurer Defends Premium Increases of Up to 39 Percent

Nearly a million Californians with individual insurance plans have received letters from the company notifying them of the rate hike, which, some customers said, makes their insurance unaffordable.

"I really can't afford to spend $9,000 a year on health insurance," San Francisco attorney Pamela Fasick said of her policy premiums scheduled to increase 28 percent March 1.

But...I thought the free market system would regulate itself!

Health care??? Who needs it???

Fire Departments Charge for Service, Asking Accident Victims to Pay Up

"Part of the sales tactic when municipalities consider this is, 'Hey, don't worry, it's going to go to insurance,'" Jon Zarich, director of government affairs for the Insurance Institute of Indiana, told ABCNews.com. "But it's the homeowner that's responsible once coverage runs out."

There is so much wrong with this...

Tea Party convention begins in Nashville

"We are all very mature people -- without the pointy hats and the signs," Skoda said. "You will see people of quality and maturity to help bring this movement to a pinnacle whereby we actually change politics."

...

The convention's first day lacked the orchestrated staging of most modern political events. The convention host delivered a meandering welcome speech without notes, saying he misplaced them. Former congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) offered a fiery defense of Judeo-Christian faith and traditional American values, but there was no prayer or Pledge of Allegiance to open the convention -- nor was there an American flag in the convention hall. (Skoda blamed the oversight on the hotel staff.)

Okay.

Mature morons then...

Ex-Rep. Tom Tancredo Suggests 'Civics, Literacy Test' Would Have Foiled Obama's Election

The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and "the cult of multiculturalism," asserting that Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."

At least they're now honest with their racism??

Avatar Producer: We 'Have To' Make A Sequel

Even if it only makes half as much, they'd be crazy not to!!!

Powell Favors Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

“In the almost 17 years since the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ legislation was passed, attitudes and circumstances have changed,” General Powell said in a statement issued by his office. He added: “I fully support the new approach presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee this week by Secretary of Defense Gates and Admiral Mullen.”

About time...

Medical journal 'Lancet' retracts study linking vaccines to autism

The prestigious British medical journal The Lancet has retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease.

The journal published the controversial paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues in 1998. That, in turn, prompted many British parents to abandon the vaccine, leading to a resurgence of measles.

Subsequent studies found no proof the vaccine is connected to autism.

The retraction comes only a week after Britain's General Medical Council ruled that Wakefield had been dishonest and unethical in gathering data for his study.

Why am I not surprised?

U.S. Air Force building supercomputer from PS3s

No doubt the Air Force purchasing department gets some odd requests from time to time, but we'd love to have seen the grin on the face of the officer tasked with procuring some 1,700 Playstation 3s for a USAF facility in Rome, NY.

Before you complain about your tax dollars being spent on toys, the machines aren't for gaming. Instead, the facility -- an Air Force research lab -- will join them into a parallel-computing cluster that, when complete, will number well over 2,000 PS3s.

The supercomputer -- snappily monikered "500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster" -- will be put to work playing 2,000 simultaneous games of God of War III. Wait, no. Among other things, they'll be attempting to simulate the way the human brain processes information and how it pulls off the remarkably difficult task of recognizing the content of images.

Cool!