A judge in Charlottesville, Virginia is reviewing defense attorneys’ request for the medical records of a University of Virginia women’s lacrosse player who was found dead in her apartment last may. (Dec. 15)
Continue reading …An advisory panel today recommended that the FDA examine all relevant evidence in reviewing its 2009 ruling that mercury-containing fillings known as dental amalgams are safe.
Continue reading …Click here to view this media On C-SPAN’s morning call-in show Washington Journal on Tuesday, they took calls from Republicans only for reaction to Michael Steele’s decision to run again for Republican National Committee chair — and some of the responses were overtly racist, to put it mildly. I didn’t catch the entire segment, but these were two of the worst calls that I did hear, and I heard none that were complimentary to Steele. It doesn’t look like their minority outreach program went over too well with these two birds. I’m so glad that second caller decided to let us all know that he’s not a racist after he just twisted himself up in knots with his justifications for why he stopped donating to the RNC as soon as the black guy got elected to run it. MARYLAND CALLER: You’re not going to like what I have to say so you can put your finger on the dump button… I don’t want Steele to be chairman of the Republican National Committee because he’s black. I think we have bent over backwards to accommodate blacks in this country with the affirmative action stuff that’s gone on now for sixty years here. And it’s time we ended it. And as a black person I think he’s inhibited to come out and condemn some of these Black Panthers like creep up in Philadelphia who said they should start killing white children. And I’ve never heard a single word from Michael Steele condemning this guy. Now I’m… BRAWNER: Well what about the argument that the Republicans did capture the House, that they made gains in the Senate and that Michael Steele was the chair of the RNC at that time and has that record and that he made the point according to The Washington Times that this is… they need to make a bigger tent in the Republican party and show diversity? MARYLAND CALLER: I disagree with that. Diversity is terrible for any country. It’s destroying this country and it will destroy any country. […] ALABAMA CALLER: Yeah I agree with the previous caller a couple of calls ago about why they wouldn’t support Mr. Steele because he was black. I don’t have anything against black people, but I noticed after he took over all the letters that I kept getting from the Republican committee want me to donate my money they were wanting to keep supporting these RINO’s, what we call RINO’s, Republicans which really should be in the Democratic party. And so I just quit giving my money that I’ve been donating for about thirty five years every year to the Republican party, because of that reason. Because I just took my money and give it to the individual people that I wanted to vote for that were conservative Republicans and quit giving into everything that the Democrats wanted. And as far as getting the black vote for the Republican party, it’s never going to happen because you see what happened to Mrs. Clinton. You see how they praised her all those years about her husband being the first black president? Well they stabbed him in the back and they’re still stabbing white people in the back because 90% of the Democratic party in the black population, which I grew up in, and I’m not a racist… that I grew up in they want to tag the white people, all white people as racists, so the Republicans are never going to get to vote for ‘em.
Continue reading …(CNN) — Prosecutors in Ukraine have opened a corruption investigation into former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, she said Wednesday, accusing them of a “political witch hunt.” Authorities are looking into whether she diverted…
Continue reading …(CNN) — Prosecutors in Ukraine have opened a corruption investigation into former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, she said Wednesday, accusing them of a “political witch hunt.” Authorities are looking into whether she diverted…
Continue reading …(CNN) — Swedish Security Police have identified almost 200 individuals, mostly young males, as Islamic extremists who advocate violence, but there’s no indication their number is growing, a new report said Wednesday. In a country once considered immune from terrorism, Swedish police say that violence-promoting Islamist radicals do exist in their country and should not be underestimated as potential threats, according to the police study, commissioned months before Saturday’s terrorist bombings in central Stockholm. Sweden experienced its first suicide bombing last weekend, when two explosions killed the bomber and wounded two other people in a district full of Christmas shoppers. Sweden’s…
Continue reading …An HIV infected-patient treated for leukemia with HIV resistant stem cells is the first person to be totally rid of the AIDS virus. WebMD’s FAQ explains what this means for people with HIV/AIDS.
Continue reading …The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy that for 17 years has forced gays desiring to serve in the military to conceal their sexual identity. (Dec. 15)
Continue reading …Never underestimate the power of Dreamcast to live on long past its intended expiration date (which, if you ask Sega, would have been around September 2007 ). The final flagship console from the Haus of Sonic is survived by a multitude of emulators propagating across a multitude of platforms… and well, here’s another. Drk||Raziel has posted some videos showcasing the work in progress of nullDCe for Android (on what we make out to be a AT&T Samsung Captivate ). The footage ranges from buggy ( Soul Calibur ) to pretty smooth ( Crazy Taxi ), but again, no one’s calling this a finished product. See it for yourself after the break. Continue reading Android Dreamcast emulator nullDCe gets early video preview, still a work in progress Android Dreamcast emulator nullDCe gets early video preview, still a work in progress originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our stratospheric rise in smartphone adoption over the past several years (with no end in sight), it’s that we can never have enough spectrum to run data services for them — just ask the chairman of the FCC , the president of the CTIA , or pretty much anyone who’s ever tried to load Engadget on an iPhone in Times Square. To that end, we’re excited to see that the FCC has slated another round of 700MHz spectrum — the pure gold that Verizon, AT&T, MetroPCS, and others are using for LTE deployments — but we wouldn’t get too excited, because it’s actually just a few blocks left over from the last auction that went unsold or unpaid. Markets in Puerto Rico, North Dakota, North Carolina, and South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia make up the 16 licenses available, so if you were planning on setting up 4G services in the Bismarck metropolitan area, you’re in good shape. FCC to auction off deadbeat bidders’ 700MHz spectrum on July 19th, 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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