Lindsay Lohan is continuing her reign as the queen of zero budget commercials shot with a Flip cam in her living room by starring in this sketch for Air New Zealand with a hairy dingle puppet named Rico who looks like something she’d might hallucinate while muff diving during an Oxy and Red Bull binge. LiLo shot this mess while she was on house arrest for violating probation by snatching that necklace… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Dlisted Discovery Date : 01/08/2011 17:48 Number of articles : 3
Continue reading …Lindsay Lohan is continuing her reign as the queen of zero budget commercials shot with a Flip cam in her living room by starring in this sketch for Air New Zealand with a hairy dingle puppet named Rico who looks like something she’d might hallucinate while muff diving during an Oxy and Red Bull binge. LiLo shot this mess while she was on house arrest for violating probation by snatching that necklace… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Dlisted Discovery Date : 01/08/2011 17:48 Number of articles : 3
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New US men’s soccer coach Juergen Klinsmann believes his mix of international experience and American knowledge will allow him to improve the national team. Klinsmann was introduced at a news conference Monday in Manhattan. (Aug. 1)
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New US men’s soccer coach Juergen Klinsmann believes his mix of international experience and American knowledge will allow him to improve the national team. Klinsmann was introduced at a news conference Monday in Manhattan. (Aug. 1)
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A see-saw day on Wall Street is ending with an 11-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average, the seventh straight daily drop. (August 1)
Continue reading …Will The Media Ban Pam Geller After Trying to Justify Anders Breivik Shooting
August 1, 2011 No Comment
Check out the above video to see Pam Geller getting grilled about her anti-Muslim views. Republicans always get away with it. ( Pam Geller insists she “loves” Muslims. Too bad they’re also the enemies of America ) You’ve probably heard all about Ground Zero Pam and her anti-Muslim rants and behavior. She’s as radical as they come. Her brand of extremism is the kind we covered in our book, Over The Cliff and it’s the type of extremism that attracts her to FOX News, the Birthers and the Norway shooter. As soon as the NY Times linked her to Breivik, she’s been trying to scrub her site as fast as she can. Charles Johnson has been all over this story. Get a load of her latest unconscionable defense of herself and Anders Breivik : Popular hate blogger Pam Geller has received scrutiny in recent days as the public became aware that the right-wing terrorist in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, had praised her blog and thoroughly cited her writing in his political manifesto. After a number of blogs made the connection, as well as the New York Times , the Atlantic , and other major outlets , Geller became incensed and began lashing out at her critics. In a post defending herself yesterday, Geller — who has called Obama “ President Jihad ” and claimed that Arab language classes are a plot to subvert the United States — reached a new low. Geller justifies Breivik’s attack on the Norwegian Labour Party summer youth camp because she says the camp is part of an anti-Israel “indoctrination training center.” She says the victims would have grown up to become “future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole.” To get her point across, Geller posts a picture of the youth camp children Breivik targeted. The picture was taken on the Utøya island camp about 24 hours before Breivik killed over 30 children, so it is likely Geller is mocking many of the victims. Under the picture, Geller writes: “ Note the faces which are more MIddle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian .” View a screen shot (click to enlarge) of Geller’s blog post below: enlarge Credit: AP Norway shooter victims Could Geller’s outburst of smears be a distraction against mounting evidence that she might have communicated with Breivik in the past? A post from Geller in 2007 reprints a reader-submitted letter in which an anonymous Norwegian complains of Muslim immigration and boasts that he is “ stockpiling and caching weapons , ammunition and equipment.” In the comment section, Geller claims that she provided anonymity to the reader to protect him from being prosecuted. Although Geller recently deleted the ammunition line from her post, a cached version is available. As Glenn Greenwald notes, “If this were an attack by a Muslim group, and a Muslim had something like this on his/her website, the FBI and multiple other groups would be swarming.” Doesn’t that picture look like a normal gathering of youths? Will the media start acting responsibly and stop transmitting extremist kooks like Pam Geller once and for all on our TV’s? I’ve been reading an excellent Noregian crime fiction writer, Jo Nesbo ‘s book, The Redbreast , about neo-Nazis. Eerie that I was reading it just as the shootings in Oslo happened. Nesbo posted an op-ed in the NY Times about the shooting.
Continue reading …MSNBC’s Alter and Bashir Agree: ‘We’d Be in a Depression Now if There Had Been a Balanced Budget Amendment in 2009′
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On Monday's “Martin Bashir,” MSNBC analyst Jonathan Alter proclaimed that America would “be in a depression now if there had been a balanced budget amendment in 2009.” Bashir, concurring with the former Newsweek editor, added, “Indeed.” Reacting to Rep. John Boehner's (R-Ohio) press conference about the debt-ceiling deal , Alter and Bashir mocked the speaker's suggestion that a balanced budget amendment is needed to “handcuff” Congress. [Video will be posted soon] “Yeah, I mean, I'm laughing at that because let's say we'd had a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution in early 2009 when we were losing close to 800,000 jobs a month and headed for another Great Depression,” groused Alter, a former Newsweek editor. “By Speaker Boehner's terms, we wouldn't have had any government efforts to try to end that near depression.” Alter's implicit assumption that President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package was successful belies a 9.2 percent unemployment rate, an anemic housing market, and public opinion polls showing Americans think the country has been, and continues to be, on the wrong track . Not only that, but a balanced budget amendment does not preclude the possibility of injecting stimulus in times of economic distress, but rather, it forces Congress to prioritize spending to live within its means. It's not surprising that Alter would employ hyperbolic language to denigrate Republican proposals. After all, Alter told MSNBC's Cenk Uygur in April that in supporting the Ryan plan, the GOP voted to ” throw granny into the snow .” A transcript of the segment can be found below: MSNBC Martin Bashir August 1, 2011 3:45 p.m. Eastern LUKE RUSSERT, NBC congressional correspondent: The most interesting thing that he said though, was when he spoke at length about a balanced budget amendment. MARTIN BASHIR: Indeed. RUSSERT: That is a direct attempt to cater to the Tea Party part of his conference, essentially saying hey look, I know this is the framework of your Cut, Cap, and Balance that we tried to pass a couple weeks ago. The idea of this balanced budget amendment, saying this is the best chance I've had for it in the 20 years I've been here to try and garner support for it, that is trying to say to these Tea Party folks, hey come on board. If we extend this plan, albeit it's not perfect, but we'll have a great opportunity to try to pass a balanced budget amendment down the line. BASHIR: Indeed. Speaker Boehner actually said we would never have gotten into this mess in the first place had we had a balanced budget amendment. (Laughter) RUSSERT: Correct. That's the code word for the Tea Party, this balanced budget amendment. BASHIR: Jonathan Alter, you were laughing at that. JONATHAN ALTER: Yeah, I mean, I'm laughing at that because let's say we'd had a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution in early 2009 when we were losing close to 800,000 jobs a month and headed for another Great Depression. By Speaker Boehner's terms, we wouldn't have had any government efforts – BASHIR: Stimulus, nothing. ALTER: To try to end that near depression. Does he really think the country would have been better off if the Congress had been handcuffed and unable to take any measures to fight a coming depression? I think we'd be in a depression now if there had been a balanced budget amendment in 2009. BASHIR: Indeed. Jonathan Alter, Luke Russert, and Joy Ann Reid, thanks so much for joining us. –Alex Fitzsimmons is a News Analysis intern at the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.
Continue reading …MSNBC’s Alter and Bashir Agree: ‘We’d Be in a Depression Now if There Had Been a Balanced Budget Amendment in 2009′
August 1, 2011 No CommentOn Monday's “Martin Bashir,” MSNBC analyst Jonathan Alter proclaimed that America would “be in a depression now if there had been a balanced budget amendment in 2009.” Bashir, concurring with the former Newsweek editor, added, “Indeed.” Reacting to Rep. John Boehner's (R-Ohio) press conference about the debt-ceiling deal , Alter and Bashir mocked the speaker's suggestion that a balanced budget amendment is needed to “handcuff” Congress. [Video will be posted soon] “Yeah, I mean, I'm laughing at that because let's say we'd had a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution in early 2009 when we were losing close to 800,000 jobs a month and headed for another Great Depression,” groused Alter, a former Newsweek editor. “By Speaker Boehner's terms, we wouldn't have had any government efforts to try to end that near depression.” Alter's implicit assumption that President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package was successful belies a 9.2 percent unemployment rate, an anemic housing market, and public opinion polls showing Americans think the country has been, and continues to be, on the wrong track . Not only that, but a balanced budget amendment does not preclude the possibility of injecting stimulus in times of economic distress, but rather, it forces Congress to prioritize spending to live within its means. It's not surprising that Alter would employ hyperbolic language to denigrate Republican proposals. After all, Alter told MSNBC's Cenk Uygur in April that in supporting the Ryan plan, the GOP voted to ” throw granny into the snow .” A transcript of the segment can be found below: MSNBC Martin Bashir August 1, 2011 3:45 p.m. Eastern LUKE RUSSERT, NBC congressional correspondent: The most interesting thing that he said though, was when he spoke at length about a balanced budget amendment. MARTIN BASHIR: Indeed. RUSSERT: That is a direct attempt to cater to the Tea Party part of his conference, essentially saying hey look, I know this is the framework of your Cut, Cap, and Balance that we tried to pass a couple weeks ago. The idea of this balanced budget amendment, saying this is the best chance I've had for it in the 20 years I've been here to try and garner support for it, that is trying to say to these Tea Party folks, hey come on board. If we extend this plan, albeit it's not perfect, but we'll have a great opportunity to try to pass a balanced budget amendment down the line. BASHIR: Indeed. Speaker Boehner actually said we would never have gotten into this mess in the first place had we had a balanced budget amendment. (Laughter) RUSSERT: Correct. That's the code word for the Tea Party, this balanced budget amendment. BASHIR: Jonathan Alter, you were laughing at that. JONATHAN ALTER: Yeah, I mean, I'm laughing at that because let's say we'd had a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution in early 2009 when we were losing close to 800,000 jobs a month and headed for another Great Depression. By Speaker Boehner's terms, we wouldn't have had any government efforts – BASHIR: Stimulus, nothing. ALTER: To try to end that near depression. Does he really think the country would have been better off if the Congress had been handcuffed and unable to take any measures to fight a coming depression? I think we'd be in a depression now if there had been a balanced budget amendment in 2009. BASHIR: Indeed. Jonathan Alter, Luke Russert, and Joy Ann Reid, thanks so much for joining us. –Alex Fitzsimmons is a News Analysis intern at the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.
Continue reading …Tokyo Institute of Technology’s SOINN robot teaches itself to serve humans (video)
August 1, 2011 No Comment
Robots have been replacing more and more human workers for quite some time now, but in most instances they’re still just being programmed to perform specific tasks. As evidenced by this bot developed by the Hasegawa Group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, however, there’s also a growing number capable of teaching themselves some new tricks, and they’re getting smarter every day. This particular one employs what’s called a self-organizing incremental neural network (or SOINN), which lets it build up a base of knowledge that it can apply to new tasks and make educated guesses about how to proceed with them — in this case, pouring a glass of water and then dropping an ice cube in it (or what’s supposed to be water and an ice cube, at least). Head on past the break for a video. Continue reading Tokyo Institute of Technology’s SOINN robot teaches itself to serve humans (video) Tokyo Institute of Technology’s SOINN robot teaches itself to serve humans (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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In a discussion with Meet the Press host David Gregory and Tom Brokaw on Monday's NBC Today about the debt ceiling deal, co-host Ann Curry contemptuously wondered: “…do you think that members of the Tea Party Caucus know how to govern or are they – do they understand that standing up for a cause is not the same as governing?” [ Audio available here ] Interestingly, Brokaw rejected Curry's argument: “Well, I don't think that you can separate the two. The fact is that they were elected to pursue the goals that they took before their constituents and said, 'This is what we believe in, this is why we're going to Washington.' And they have changed the tenor of the debate there and the details of it.” He further added: “…this has been a big morning for them so far…” View video after the jump Undeterred, Curry fretted to Gregory: “Well, what's to stop this same caucus, the Tea Party Caucus, from blocking the work of this new subcommittee, without the threat of the debt – of a default, David?” Curry went on to blame the weak economy on the debt ceiling debate: “What about an emotional impact on the recovery? In other words, is there potentially, even with what we think is now a deal, is there – has there already been a negative impact on the economy, Tom?” Brokaw warned that any cut in government spending could do further damage: A lot of people, both in the private sector and the public sector, do worry that these cuts will take out what is an imperfect stimulus, we know that. A lot of the money that is helping to prop up the economy right now is public money, it's government money. These cuts will pull that out or reduce a lot of those. The impact of that on what we know is a very fragile economy remains to be seen.
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