A home on Long Island is found to host an array of animals, most living but some dead. Authorities say conditions inside were not fit for human habitation, but people were living there. (Feb. 23)
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Currently, sports is one of the main things that’s tough to stay connected to if you choose not to subscribe to traditional linear pay-TV service like cable or satellite, so it’s no surprise there was much ado over Gautam Anand, Google Director of Content Partnerships for Asia Pacific, saying the company is negotiating to broadcast NHL and NBA games on YouTube . However, the key words in Bloomberg’s report of the statement are “for Asia Pacific,” and while the NHL flat out denied any discussions, the NBA merely noted it was “pleased that YouTube recognizes the value of live sports.” YouTube already airs games from the Indian Cricket Premier League, and PaidContent’s Staci Kramer has learned talks centered around the possibility of airing NBA games — but only in Asia. It’s doubtful, if not ludicrous, to think TNT or ABC/ESPN would let hoop games escape from cable to the internet like free agents to South Beach and while leagues could see potential in new international broadcast models, don’t expect to see things changing in the US anytime soon. YouTube says it’s in talks to stream NHL, NBA games, NHL says it isn’t originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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And they bring on Maggie to ride the waambulance! Subscribe to Joe.My.God. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Joe. My. God. Discovery Date : 23/02/2011 20:14 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …Victory! Department of Justice will not defend Defense of Marriage Act UPDATED: Now Boehner says "focus on jobs"?
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Click here to view this media Paragraph Four of the Department of Justice Memo says it all: After careful consideration, including a review of my recommendation, the President has concluded that given a number of factors, including a documented history of discrimination, classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened standard of scrutiny. The President has also concluded that Section 3 of DOMA, as applied to legally married same-sex couples, fails to meet that standard and is therefore unconstitutional. Given that conclusion, the President has instructed the Department not to defend the statute in such cases. I fully concur with the President’s determination. This is a huge victory. FINALLY. UPDATE: House Speaker John Boehner, in an absolute fit of political amnesia, released a statement . While Americans want Washington to focus on creating jobs and cutting spending, the President will have to explain why he thinks now is the appropriate time to stir up a controversial issue that sharply divides the nation. Because abortion, slavery, and lay-offs are not controversial? So be it.
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Photo: US Coast Guard We’re closing in on the one-year anniversary of the tragic explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig that set in motion one of the greatest environmental disasters the United States has ever seen. And that disaster is still in motion, even today — just this morning, reports are coming in that a full 10 months after the crisis began, new oil is still washing ashore around the Gulf. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Scores of people fleeing the unrest in Libya are making their way to the border with Egypt. So far only Egyptians have been let through, no Libyans. Egyptian workers are returning to their native country, bringing all they can carry – televisions, refrigerators and washing machines Jamal Elshayyal reports from Salloum, on the Egyptian side of the border.
Continue reading …Scott Walker won’t take a call from the Democratic minority leader, but he’ll gladly make time for uber-fundraiser David Koch—or at least, someone he thinks is David Koch. Ian Murphy, editor of a Buffalo’s Beast alt-weekly, managed to get the Wisconsin governor on the phone in just a few…
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Libyan Leader Gaddafi hugs Lockerbie bomber and thanks Britain Libya’s Gaddafi Meets Freed Lockerbie Bomber Gordon Brown Wrote To Libya’s Gaddafi Asking For No Hero’s Welcome For Lockerbie Bomber Al Megrahi Gadhafi Ordered Lockerbie Bombing, Ex-Minister Claims Gaddafi Lockerbie . KARL RITTER 02/23/11 10:24 AM AP. Important Fascinating Typical Scary Outrageous Amazing Infuriating Beautiful. Read More: Gaddafi Lockerbie Bombing, Gaddafi Ordered Lockerbie Bombing, Lockerbie, Lockerbie Bomber, … Gaddafi Behind Lockerbie | The Friggin Loon Filed under All That Is Wrong With The World, I’m Just Saying !, Well I Never, Whoops! Tagged as bombing, colonel gaddafi, despot, gaddafi, Lockerbie , Mustapha Abdeljalil, ordered the Lockerbie bombing, Pan AM flight 103 … Gaddafi 'ordered Lockerbie bombing' | Voices for the Laotian Who … Channel 6 News Online. Posted on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 at 4:32 pm in Crime, Democracy/Freedom | RSS feed | Respond | Trackback URL. Tags: Gaddafi, Lockerbie bombing, Pan Am Flight 103, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie … The Disaffected Lib: Bombs, Please. … Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, claims to have proof of Gaddafi’s involvement. Chances are somebody is going to want to see that pretty soon. Recommend this Post. Posted by The Mound of Sound at 9:00 AM. Labels: Gaddafi, Lockerbie … English New News – Ex-minister says Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie bomb … Tags: Bomb, Exminister, Gaddafi, Lockerbie , ordered, Report, Reuters, says. Reuters – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a former Libyan cabinet minister was quoted as … shortformblog says: Libyan ex-justice minister says he has proof Gaddafi himself ordered the Lockerbie bombing http://ow.ly/4254v #gaddafi #lockerbie
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Image credit: Center for American Progress Action Fund , used under Creative Commons license. From aggressive emission cuts stimulating economic recovery to claims that cutting carbon necessitates de-industrialization , we’ve seen a lot of talk about what a cleaner, greener future would mean for our economy. James Murray, editor of B… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Click here to view this media Jeffrey Sachs was actually allowed some air time on Morning Joe to make a lot of really great points about how America is spending our money in the midst of what’s being called a budget crisis. I would argue that we don’t have a budget crisis. We have a refusal to levy adequate taxation on those that can afford it “crisis” created by our politicians who refuse to raise taxes on the rich at at time in our history that resembles the Gilded Age with income disparity. As Sachs noted, we’re going after discretionary spending which hits in is words, science, education, technology, and energy and he’s exactly right on how our approach to what we should be cutting is completely wrong. As he noted we’re not going after the extreme amount of waste in our military industrial complex, we’re not fixing the amount of profits going to the insurance companies that are driving up the cost of our health care, the oil industry and corporate tax evasion. Instead we’re looking to cut programs that harm the working class in America and I just want to say thank you to Jeffrey Sachs for laying out there how wrong headed our economic policies in the United States have been for at least the last thirty years. Scarborough’s response of course was to say that our working class and our seniors just haven’t given quite enough so the oligarchs can keep their pockets lined. Brzezinski to her credit, pointed out that her father said if this keeps up we might see people taking to the streets and that he was called crazy for saying so. She didn’t lay it on her buddy Scarborough and said he might not have been the one that said it, but I have the feeling that he was exactly who she was talking about and she gave him a pass. Of course Joe thought it was a good time to go to commercial break after she pointed that out to him. I’m wondering if they’ll have Sachs on again any time soon since he dared to speak the truth on that show. I’m not holding my breath for him to get another chance to say what he did today.
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