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In early July, while most Americans were preparing for a long weekend of cheesy parades, charred meats, and noisy fireworks, Sarah Palin made some plans of her own. The Alaska governor had been the object of endless media attention and assorted calumnies since she became John McCain's vice presidential nominee last August. Now she wanted to try something new. So, on July 3, in a speech delivered from her home on Lake Lucille in Wasilla, Palin told her constituents that not only would she not seek a second term, but she would also be transferring authority to Lieutenant Governor Sean...

The 50th anniversary this year of the shooting of Hitchcock's film Psycho will be employed to demonstrate how a one-minute shower will help conserve water and the environment.The Royal Society of Chemistry is seeking a lookalike of Janet Leigh, who played the part of Norman Bates' shower victim in the celebrated horror movie.The RSC is to make a tasteful video, called Shower Murder, to go on its website to illustrate how a shower can be taken effectively in just 60 seconds, so avoiding the huge wastage of water and the contamination that many in Britain cause currently.   RSC chief...

In the last few weeks numerous technology and mass media web-sites published hundreds of stories about Apple, its products, their availability or their issues. But does that enthusiasm towards the company have any correlation with Apple’s actual market share? It seems that not really. Apple is a company that has been extensively covered by media, especially in the USA, for many years now without an obvious reason: apart from the iPod, all the products from Apple are hardly used by a lot of people around the globe. But the latest load of rush coverage about Apple on the Internet more...

Note: The following text is a quote: Federal Grand Jury Returns Indictment on Internet Bomb Threats Hammond, IN—The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana announced that a three-count indictment was returned against Ashton Lundeby for his role in Internet bomb and related threats directed to Purdue University, Indiana University/Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Ind., and numerous other educational institutions throughout the country. Lundeby, 16, of Oxford, N.C., was arrested by the FBI at his home in Oxford on March 6, 2009. A federal search warrant was also executed at that time. Lundeby was arrested pursuant to a...

May I just say, the satirical piece about Sarah Palin from the National Review is masterful. I didn't read or digg it yesterday because of the title, but so many people on Twitter were talking about it that I felt the need to see what the fuss was about. It's definitely worth the read! In other news, Obama's poll numbers are still tumbling, the EPA is still being shifty, the stimulus was a bad idea and a waste of tax payer money, the House is playing politics with the national defense to help Pelosi save face and the Obama administration...

Note: The following text is a quote: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Eric Holder at the Vera Institute of Justice’s Third Annual Justice Address Thursday, July 9, 2009 Laurie, thank you for that wonderful introduction. When I asked Laurie to come back to the Justice Department to lead our Office of Justice Programs, I was keenly aware of how much she would have to give up to join us. Not only did she take leave from the University of Pennsylvania, but she also had to give up her Chair of Vera’s Board of Trustees. I know that...

Obama officials urge Senate action on climateBy DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press writer Wednesday, July 8, 2009 2:06 AM MDT WASHINGTON -- Saying global warming poses unprecedented threats to Americans' way of life, four of President Barack Obama's top environmental and energy officials urged the Senate on Tuesday to pass legislation to reduce the pollution linked to the planet's rising temperature. The heads of the Energy Department, Agriculture Department, Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency told a Senate panel it should pass a bill similar to one the House narrowly cleared late last month. That legislation would impose the first limits...

Sarah Palin's early retirement from Alaska's governor's mansion has been called erratic, unhinged, and irrational, which isn't surprising: Her ten-month career as a national figure has been marked by erratic, extreme, and unhinged behavior, most of it emanating from the other side. How rational is it for a once-noted blogger to obsess for months over Palin's gynecological history, insisting that her younger son, born in April, 2008, was really born to her 18-year-old daughter, although the daughter was already pregnant with her own child, born eight months later, in December of the same year? How rational is it for a...

STOCKTON, Calif. -- Police on Thursday released a sketch of a man accused of molesting a 10-year-old boy in a Stockton hospital restroom. [Stockton police released this sketch of a man accused of sexually assaulting a boy at Dameron Hospital.] Stockton police released this sketch of a man accused of sexually assaulting a boy at Dameron Hospital. Authorities said the boy was in a Dameron Hospital restroom at about 2 p.m. Sunday when a man forced his way into a stall and molested him. The attack occured as the boy's father waited to be treated at the emergency room, police...

How does helping the salt marsh harvest mouse help middle-class families and small businesses struggling with dramatic job loss during this recession? That’s a good question to ask House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), other Democrats in Congress, and the Administration, as it was recently revealed that the tiny little mouse is getting $16 million in taxpayer dollars thanks to the Democrats’ “stimulus” spending bill that isn’t working. House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) exposed the mouse money in his weekly press briefing earlier today

Now the potheads want to pay their fair share. California marijuana consumers are trying to balance the state budget by regulating and taxing the sale of marijuana. They sale that taxes on marijuana could pay the salaries of 20,000 teachers.

Can you believe the gall of these Sarah Palin cultists? Presidential aspirations? This is a woman who named one of her kids "Track," for God's sake. (Well, if it really is her kid.) William Buckley once wrote that he rather would "entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." But running government is no longer a suitable vocation for the bumbling proletariat. It's for folks with schoolin' and such. It's a job for herculean thinkers with degrees from Ivy League schools. In other...

"The Beginning of the End…(a response to Barack Obama) by Abu Mansoor al-Amriki" July 9, 2009 by ummahmedia

. . . Not Made Available Elsewhere Posted in: Apple Legal News, Psystar Written by: dizzle The Psystar case has taken a odd path. Just after the Court-ordered deadline for production of financial records and just prior to the date scheduled for the deposition of the Psystar representative who would not answer “I don’t know” over 90 times when asked about the company’s finances, Psystar filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (reorganization) in its home state of Florida. While not conclusive, the timing certainly seems suspicious. It would be helpful to know if they fully complied with the production of the...

July 10, 2009                                     Friday of the Fourteenth Week                                     in Ordinary Time       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Gn 46:1-7, 28-30 Israel set out with all that was his.When he arrived at Beer-sheba,he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.There God, speaking to Israel in a vision by night, called,"Jacob! Jacob!"He answered, "Here I am."Then he said: "I am God, the God of your father.Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt,for there I will make you a great...

RESIGNATION: Daughter's ex-fiance says governor also missed family time. BY SEAN COCKERAM Levi Johnston, the former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, on Thursday joined the crowd offering up potential reasons for Palin's decision to step down. Johnston met with reporters to say that he heard her musing about a better life, one in which she could spend more time at home, reduce her stress, and accept the lucrative offers coming her way. Back in December, a month after her election defeat as John McCain's running mate, Johnston said that Palin "had talked about how nice it would be...

  Benedict's Third Encyclical: A Summary t | t | t | t     by Dr. Jeff Mirus, July 9, 2009 Pope Benedict’s new encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), may not be the kind of encyclical that everybody needs to read. It is an incremental addition to the Church’s social teaching with the stated purposes of observing the fortieth anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s great social encyclical, Populorum Progressio, and of bringing it up to date with respect to global developments since the 1960’s. Unlike her dogmas of Faith, the Church’s social teaching operates at the...

July 9: First lady Michelle Obama tours earthquake damage with Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, center left, Laureen Harper, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, foreground left, and others on the sidelines of the G-8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy.

The Gawker is reporting that reporters from “roughly 30 television networks, newspapers, magazines, and web sites celebrated the Fourth of July with Barack Obama at the White House…” Nothing wrong with that. I mean, what reporter covering the White House beat wouldn’t like to go to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the 4th and watch fireworks, eat ribs, enjoy good beverages. And in the company of the President, no less. Wouldn’t that just be a hoot! But, what if the invitation came with the following condition: “You are being invited to attend this event as a guest. Blogging, Twittering or otherwise...