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A man was found dead attached to a crab pot Tuesday on a boat off Morro Bay, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A person on board a fishing boat named Miss Allison reported finding 47-year-old David Allen Kubiak of Los Osos attached to a crab pot around 11:35 a.m. The crab pot is registered to the fishing vessel Axel, a 39-foot boat home ported in Morro Bay, Coast Guard officials said. Sheriff's spokesman Rob Bryn said it appears Kubiak fell from the vessel sometime overnight. His body was discovered tied to a fishing buoy at 10:40 this morning.

Click the link above to access the poll. The poll can be found on the right side of the page about a 3rd of the way down in a box titled "Quick Vote." I hate to send any traffic to CNN's website, but CNN needs a reality check about what people think of this failed presidency. Yes approve is currently winning at 53%.

Are you racially biased? Harvard University has been trying to find out with its racism test, Project Implicit. The less than 10-minute test throws different races at you and has you identify the images as "bad" or "good" as quickly as you can. The idea is that your first reaction is usually the most honest. You can try the test out for yourself. Simply click on the "Demonstration" button and then click the "Race IAT" button. Project Implicit, started 11 years ago by Harvard, the University of Washington and the University of Virginia, is a joint investigation into our subconscious...

Thanks for killing the planet, dog owners. Well, that's a rough paraphrase of a New Zealand study that claims a medium-size dog leaves a larger ecological footprint than an SUV. In "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required to feed a dog — including the amount of land needed to feed the animals that go into its food — give it about twice the eco-footprint of, say, building and fueling a Toyota Land Cruiser. Noting that a cat's pawprint was roughly equivalent to a Volkswagen Golf's, "New...

Taylor Mitchell, a 19-year-old Toronto singer whose debut album was released in March, has died in a Nova Scotia hospital after being mauled by coyotes in a Cape Breton park. Mitchell was hiking Tuesday on the Skyline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park when she was attacked by two coyotes. Another hiker, who was walking nearby, heard her cries for help and called 911. Officers arrived about 3:15 p.m., and one of the coyotes fled into the bush. The other coyote was shot and limped away. Mitchell was airlifted to a hospital in Halifax, where she died early Wednesday....

PRINCETON, NJ -- After peaking at 59% last November, Vice President Joe Biden's favorable rating continues to decline and now stands at 42%. That barely exceeds his 40% unfavorable rating, and is easily his worst evaluation since last year's Democratic National Convention. Independents' opinions of Biden have declined more steadily since the post-election high mark, and now 32% of independents view the vice president favorably.

The New Theory: Earth’s magnetic field is not produced by an internal dynamo within the planet. The magnetic field and the planet are separate parts of a complex dynamo system surrounding the planet. The system includes the planet, the magnetic field, radiation belts, and ring current. The same is true of the other planets. Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus are visible components of otherwise invisible planetary dynamo systems, which are all housed within a magnetosphere. According to this new theory, there is no internal dynamo within the planet. Planet Earth does not have a unique way of producing it’s magnetic...

A coalition of top musicians, including R.E.M. and Pearl Jam, want to know if their music was used by the U.S. military as part of controversial interrogation methods at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The artists have endorsed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests, which were filed Thursday morning, asking the U.S. government to declassify documents that would reveal which artists' work was used on detainees at U.S. prison facilities and military detention centers, including the one at Guantanamo Bay. The National Security Archive, a Washington-based independent research institute that advocates "for the right to know,"...

Remember Ida, the fossil discovery announced last May with its own book and TV documentary? A publicity blitz called it "the link" that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. Experts protested that Ida wasn't even a close relative. And now a new analysis supports their reaction...

Target Anyone who's walked down Santa Monica Boulevard on Halloween night is well aware there are plenty of tasteless costumes out there. From over-sexed nuns to ... well, we can stop our list of examples at over-sexed nuns. That pretty much sums up tasteless costumes. Well, this year, you may notice a new tasteless costume in Los Angeles: The "Illegal Alien." "He didn't just cross a border, he crossed a galaxy!" according to the costume's description. "He's got his green card, but it's from another planet! Sure to get some laughs, the Illegal Alien Adult Costume includes an orange prison-style...

A 12-year-old boy from South River has become a sensation at Rutgers University football games for his air guitar impersonation of Bon Jovi, according to a report in The Daily Targum. The report said Nicholas Sasso has become a fixture on the Rutgers jumbo screen when the public address system plays a Bon Jovi song. Sasso and his family have declined a Today show invitation.

3 Detroit marathon runners die Posted: 02:44 PM ET (CNN) — Three runners died Sunday during the Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Marathon in Detroit, Michigan, police told CNN. All three deaths occurred between 9 and 9:20 a.m. ET, Second Deputy Chief John Roach said. A man in his 60s fell and hit his head, Roach said. The cause of the fall was unknown. The man was transported to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Two other men, aged 36 and 26, also collapsed during the race and were pronounced dead at the hospital, Roach said. All three collapsed near...

February 29, 2008 -- Austin, TX - U.S. Senator Barack Obama was joined by Congressman Chet Edwards (TX-17) in Houston this morning for a town hall meeting with area veterans. Obama discussed his track record of fighting for veterans in the U.S. Senate and pledged that, as President, he will ensure that veterans are treated with the dignity and respect they have earned. "America enters into a sacred trust with every single person who puts on the uniform," Obama said. "That trust is simple: America will be there for you, just as you have been there for America. Keeping that...

A 75-year-old dead man sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the body was part of a Halloween display and didn’t call police. Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday with a single gunshot wound to one eye. He was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony of his apartment on Bora Bora Way, said cameraman Austin Raishbrook, who owns RMG News and was on scene Thursday when authorities found the body. Neighbors on the 13900 block of Bora Bora Way told Raishbrook that they noticed the body Monday “but didn’t...

BERLIN — Part of Berlin's red-light scene is going green. One bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in the economic crisis, has begun offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door. "It's very difficult to find parking around here, and this option is better for our environment," said Thomas Goetz, who owns the brothel Maison d'Envie, or House of Desire. Local residents in Prenzlauer Berg - a part of former East Berlin now home to scores of trendy boutiques, restaurants and clubs - had staunchly supported the Green party in recent elections and have welcomed the bordello's...

Among the training regimes that Russian cosmonauts pass before being admitted into orbit is the shooting range. The reason is that they must learn how to use a special three-barreled gun found on every Soyuz spacecraft.

Warning Letters From FDA Cause Decline in Drug Marketing Oct 14, 2009 Response This Week RESTON, Va. – Recent letters sent from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to large pharmaceutical manufacturers have caused a large decline in the number of sponsored link exposures by drug marketers, according to a recent ComScore report. Sponsored link exposures dropped by about 50 percent after the letters went out in March, reminding companies that fair and balanced language should be included in all sponsored link advertising. Prior to the letters, sponsored link exposure in the pharmaceutical market totaled about 11 million per...

“As a white running back you get stereotyped,” Stanford University running back Toby Gerhart said during an interview in the October 12, 2009 edition of Sports Illustrated. “When I tell people I play football they say, ‘Oh, you’re a fullback,’” he said. For those unfamiliar with the sport, fullbacks are running backs who rely more on strength then speed. However, they rarely carry the ball. Their role is usually reserved to block for the running back. Gerhardt then mentioned during one football game that he overheard a coach from the University of Washington refer to him by yelling, “He’s not...

The Jobless Recovery October 11, 2009 11:40 AM EDT | by: Megan Whittemore Many experts envision a jobless recovery, in which the economy grows but job losses persist. Economists now predict unemployment will peak at 10.5% next June, fall to 9.1% by 2011 but still be at 8.1% in 2013. So what can be done? There was bipartisan agreement among a top economist, a big businessman and a Democratic and Republican Governor, for more powerful tax policy to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, called for more tax incentives to create jobs as well...

FEDERAL USURPATION A PERIL, SAYS MAYOR; McClellan Asserts That Congress Is Heedless of Restrictions of the Constitution. OUT FOR STATES' RIGHTS In Talk at Wyoming County Fair Declares Tendency Toward Centralization Is Source of Danger. September 16, 1909, Thursday Page 8, 829 words WARSAW, N.Y., Sept. 15. -- "If State sovereignty is to become a joke and State government a memory, let the Constitution be amended openly, in the broad light of day, and not violated in the dark," said Mayor McClellan in an address here to-day. Speaking at the Wyoming County Fair, Mr. McClellan vigorously upheld the Democratic doctrine...

Clinton pulls back from Turkish-Armenian signing By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS and BRADLEY S. KLAPPER Associated Press Writer © 2009 The Associated Press Oct. 10, 2009, 10:42AM ZURICH — U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton has abruptly returned to her hotel as the signing of a Turkish-Armenian accord was delayed at the last minute over the wording of final statements the parties will make. State Department spokesman Ian Kelley says the American delegation is helping the two sides work out the wording of the statements. The agreement to be signed would establish diplomatic ties in hopes of reopening the border...

Obama has achieved the ultimate in software programming, his new code runing on a super-duper computer designed and built by him also, has completed an infinite loop in just under 5.68320846 seconds.

Hudson Institute mourns the loss of Senior Fellow Laurent Murawiec. Murawiec was a big thinker who published with ease in French, German, and English. He was a well known intellectual in France, a gadfly who challenged the conventional wisdom by drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of history, political thought, and theology. Prior to moving to the United States, he was an advisor to the French Ministry of Defense and taught the history of economic planning at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He also taught military analysis and cultural anthropology at the Elliott School of...

Historical fiction differs from ordinary fiction in that it is presenting the past, history, in a novelistic format, with characters who ellicit sympathy or antipathy, in the context of a story that ought to be plausible against the known historical record. Monsieur Jacq is an Egyptologist. I can't begin to hold a candle to his knowledge of the reign of Ramses II. But one thing I do know is that the Egyptian evidence is mostly elicited from archaeological evidence, hieroglyphics on walls, papyrus, and from whatever contacts they had with other civilizations. That being the case, I could understand M....

WASHINGTON — Wondering if swine flu's bad enough to require a doctor's attention? An interactive Web site may help you decide, using the same type of triage calculations that doctors at Emory University use. Microsoft Corp. unveiled the site Wednesday at http://www.h1n1responsecenter.com. Type in your age — it's only for people over 12 — and answer questions about fever, other symptoms and your underlying health.

"Kids are being aggressively recruited to become heterosexual in this country." Editor's note: This audio is from the speech Kevin Jennings gave at a GLSEN event in Iowa in 2000.

Obama Administration task force closing in on deadline for 'health care' for nation's shorelines, waterways IRVINE, Calif. USA - October 5, 2009 - A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America. The White House created an Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force in June and gave them only 90 days to develop a comprehensive federal policy for all U.S. coastal, ocean and Great Lakes waters. Under the guise of 'protecting' these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which...

BANGKOK, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Hundreds of striking workers forced U.S. auto maker General Motors Co [GM.UL] to shut its Thai assembly plant on Monday, company and union officials said, raising the stakes in a pay dispute with management. About 200 of 800 unionized workers at the plant in southeast Rayong province joined the strike, a GM spokeswoman said. The rest were asked to take paid holidays pending negotiations with union leaders, she added. But GM union leader Suriya Pochairuak put the number of striking workers at about 700. The GM plant, which has about 1,700 employees on its payroll,...

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Looks like there’s at least one high-profile Republican who won’t be voting for Sarah Palin should she run in 2012. Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s top political strategist in 2008, told a forum in Washington today that nominating Palin as the party’s next presidential nominee would be “catastrophic” for Republicans. “I think that she has talents, but my honest view is that she would not be a winning candidate,” Schmidt said. “In fact, were she to be the nominee, we would have a catastrophic election result.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/mackenzie-phillips-sexual-affair-dad/story?id=8647172 "confessed today that she engaged in a 10-year consensual sexual relationship with her father"

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc will eventually sell the Time Inc magazine unit and could buy holdings in its core entertainment category, Gordon Crawford, managing director of its largest shareholder, said during a presentation this week. "Time Warner just spun off their cable division, they are going to sell their print division, they are going to spin off AOL and they're just going to be Warner Brothers, HBO and the Turner Networks," said Crawford, managing director of The Capital Group.

<p>I was surprised to see that Craig Deeds received a very nice size donation from SEIU. The reason I am bringing this up is because with the election just 2 months away and Deeds trying to make a stink about McDonnell's 20 year old thesis, I believe the real issue should be a person is known by who their supporters are. To Virginia voters and all voters, check out where your candidate gets their money from. That should also be apart in your decision in whom you will vote for.</p>

The Sovereign Presidency: Is This What the Framers Had in Mind? Posted on 20 September 2009 by Joseph R. Stromberg, The Freeman American government under the Constitution was supposedly meant to work as follows: Congress, staying within delegated powers and the Bill of Rights, passes laws; the president executes the laws; and the courts sort out ensuing wrangles. This plan ran aground rather early—the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, for example—which raises at least two possibilities: 1) The Federalist movement systematically misrepresented its project or 2) the framers’ well-meant “design” fell short of their goals. Figuring this out is difficult,...

P2+ Total Day FNC – 1,586,000 viewers CNN – 590,000 viewers MSNBC –454,000 viewers CNBC – 197,000 viewers HLN – 374,000 viewers P2+ Prime Time FNC – 3,238,000viewers CNN— 1,054,000 viewers MSNBC –1,123,000 viewers CNBC – 259,000 viewers HLN – 813,000viewers

Why This Case Is Important Imagine America without our memorials. How would we remember? How would our children remember? The ACLU is threatening to tear down all monuments on public land that contain religious imagery. This fall, The Supreme Court will rule on whether these memorials will continue to stand for our freedoms, or if they will be removed permanently.   It is our patriotic duty to stand up and tell these left-wing organizations that we won't have our freedoms boarded up or our values torn down. By signing our petition, you will be showing your support for our veterans. Your...

Wolf Blitzer - Genius OK, I know, it's not really an IQ test or anything, but to do this badly on Jeapordy, on a "Celebrity Panel" against two TV stars, you have just GOT to be dumber than two rocks. If you saw it, you know what I mean, if you never watch, think it's stupid, whatever, OK...but this was amazing. I wonder how many jokes about Sara Palin's IQ this prink has told? Jeapordy does a show with celebrities and they ask questions like "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb" and it's all for charity, which is nice of...

Excerpts: "Before the Court is Defendants’ Ex Parte Application for Limited Stay of Discovery (the "Motion"). The Court finds the Motion to be appropriate for decision without oral argument. FED. R. CIV. P. 78; Local Rule 7-15. After considering the moving and opposing papers thereon, and for the reasons set forth below, the Court hereby GRANTS Defendants’ Motion." *** "The Court hereby GRANTS Defendants’ Ex Parte Application for Limited Stay of Discovery. All discovery herein shall be stayed pending resolution of Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss, except for any discovery as to which Plaintiffs can demonstrate, to the satisfaction of Magistrate...

Public trust in the US media is eroding and increasing numbers of Americans believe news coverage is inaccurate and biased, according to a study released on Monday.The poll found television remained the dominant news source for the public, with 71 percent saying they get most of their national and international news from television. Forty-two percent said they get most of their news from the Internet compared with 33 percent who cited newspapers. Fifty-nine percent rated news organizations as "highly professional," down from 66 percent two years ago and 72 percent in 1985. Sixty-two percent of those polled said news organizations...

Kanye Being Kanye: Rapper Interrupts Taylor Swift's VMAs Win Kanye West is known for speaking his mind and early on during the VMAs, he didn't disappoint. When Taylor Swift won Best Female Video for 'You Belong With Me,' Kanye jumped onstage, grabbed the mike from the country singer's hands and did what he does best. "Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'm a [sic] let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time," he yelled, to many boos. Swift had beat Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' for the award. And according to an MTV source, Kanye...

Keith Olbermann is a reprehensible swine, on a good day. The last thing I want to see when I turn on the television to watch the greatest rivalry on earth (Packers v. Bears) is the smirking face of the least talented, least fair, least honest person on television doing the pre-game show. It turned my stomach and I turned the channel. I did the same at halftime and I'm certainly not the only one. Olbermann is not funny anymore and he is such a partisan scumbag that it is an insult to football fans to have him anywhere near the...

Gee! Guess where a reporter is coming from if he uses the vulgar and childish term "tea-bagger" when referring to tea party protestors?Anderson Cooper was among the first "journalists" who used the "tea bagging" term back in April. Despite his initial glee over injecting "tea bagging" as often as possible into his comments on the tea party protests, Cooper was eventually forced to apologize for his highly unprofessional use of that term. Although the use of "tea bagger" has now become generally recognized as the mark of liberal unprofessionalism it does keep creeping back into stories such as a few...

Question... My wife and I was watching tv flipping stations and we watched a little of the Frost/Nixon interview (personally I don't know what the big deal is anyway). There is one thing that I have noticed, the Obama logo on the bottom corner.. Is this happening on all PBS Stations or just one???

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The first game is Thursday but you could miss it and still score big points on Sunday when the rest of the slate of games are played. Welcome back to Yahoo! Pro Pick'em! After minutes of thoughtful and deliberate consideration, the name of our league this year is Fishy Football Reform. Our league is here to help anyone who is entirely sick of the health-care debate and wants to hide from it for a few minutes a week. Actually, it tends to become an all-consuming week-after-week ego-deflating compulsion. You'll beat yourselves up for having put 16 points on the Bears...

Gary Samore, the WMD Czar is supposed to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Samore negotiated the original arms treaty with North Korea, under the Clinton administration. We know how well that worked out. http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Gary_Samore In interviews and articles, Samore has been openly skeptical of North Korea's willingness to abandon its nuclear weapons program. As a State Department official, Samore helped negotiate the original 1994 agreement with North Korea. But in an interview last October, he said that the latest agreement negotiated by the Bush Administration, which called for Washington to remove North Korea from the list...

There are crazy people in this country. We all know it. Reality television normal people move right on past prove to us how many egotistical, shallow, completely uninformed individuals there are in this society. That’s freedom baby. But its interesting to note, in the wake of news that conservatives now outnumber liberals in every state of the union, that it isn’t EVERYBODY who’s crazy in this country. Remember that 35% of Democrats think George W Bush was in on the 9-11 attacks, and 26% are not sure. A MAJORITY of Democrats, not the country, believe the President of the United...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians Lesley and Doug McGrath have for decades battled ocean swells that have eaten away at the backyard of their multi-million dollar Sydney home. They bought an old beach shack on Collaroy Beach in 1976 and replaced it with a two storey home anchored to the land by 12 meter (35 feet) long piers, a concrete slab, and an underground seawall of giant boulders. Even with all that protection, the fury of the ocean has at times torn up their backyard, large chunks of prime real estate disappearing under waves. With scientists predicting a 90cm (3 feet)...

Know the Inner Circle - Anthony Lake, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor (Co-founder of Global Zero) In December 2008, Lake and several other prominent leaders started Global Zero, an organization dedicated to eliminating nuclear weapons. The group, which already has over 100 members, will host a conference in 2010.Dombey, Daniel, “Obama camp signals robust approach on Iran,” Financial Times, July 1, 2008. Lake was one of the most prominent members of the Clinton administration to back Obama. He was particularly impressed by Obama’s stance on Iraq – unlike Clinton, the president had opposed the war from the start. Lake introduced Gregory...