Andrew Sullivan Tagged for Rampant Falsehoods About Catholic Church, Pope
December 11, 2010 No Comment[HT: Thomas Peters, American Papist at CatholicVote.org ] Following a debate the other night with Maggie Gallagher on the topic of gay “marriage,” pundit Andrew Sullivan has been cited for airing a number of falsehoods and lies about the Catholic Church and Pope Benedict. 1. The most egregious and malicious falsehood in the debate from the openly gay Sullivan was his claim that Pope Benedict, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger, opined in 1986 that homosexuals “deserve violence” given their “desire to change society.” In fact, in his 1986 letter “On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,” then-Cardinal Ratzinger wrote the complete opposite of what Sullivan claims: read more
Continue reading …As Bernie Sanders’s heroic performance on the Senate floor today demonstrates, sometimes endurance is necessary to represent Progressive values. This being the season for altruism as well as activism, here’s another opportunity for tenacious performance to improve the lives of those most hard hit by the economic downturn. The Second City That Never Sleeps is a tradition begun (and thriving ) in Chicago, where a small group of comic improvisers perform for 24 hours straight to raise money for a good cause. In Los Angeles this year, we’re about to perform for 24 hours to benefit Los Angeles Youth Network. The sucktastic economic situation has hit all of us, but it’s hard to find a more vulnerable population than homeless kids. Their situation in LA County is dire, as EVERY SINGLE OTHER youth facility of its type has had to close its doors in recent years due to a lack of funding. Schwarzenegger et al have slashed funding for social services to the bone, and it’s up to the rest of us to pick up the pieces. LAYN has a remarkable, unheard, crap-your-pants fantastic 80 percent success rate in getting its charges through high school and on their way off the streets. They provide 48 beds, counseling, tutoring, arts and academic education, and the support kids need to get off the streets. They’re a spectacular shining star in an area desperately needing some light. So if you’re not in the LA area and can’t come down and join us, please join us online. We’ll be live streaming the event below (nothing fancy, a basic two-camera setup) from Hollywood starting at 10:30PM PST tonight, ending 10:30 tomorrow. We’ll be there with some of the funniest people in LA, sweating it out for the kids. Please, if you’re able to donate, no amount is too small to help. So enjoy the weirdness , the show will feature veterans of shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, MTV’s Wild N Out, Current Television, Groundlings, Second City, SNL, FrankTV, Reno 911, 30 Rock, Last Comic Standing, Colbert Report, Daily Show, Tonight Show, According To Jim, Heroes, Lie To Me. MAD TV, Parks And Recreation, and much much more.
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Google. Google, Google , Google , Google , Google !!! So precocious for an awkward tween. Fire up the Engadget Podcast Bingo site or iOS app and jump start your weekend with a hot tech injection full of a company that does much more than just search , these days, if you know what we mean. Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, Nilay Patel Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Paranoid Android 00:00:55 – Nexus S review 00:08:00 – Google’s Nexus S official, coming December 16th to US, 20th to UK (update: $199 on contract, $529 unlocked) 00:17:07 – Google’s big week: Nexus S, Honeycomb tablets, Chrome OS laptops, and eBooks to boot 00:22:00 – Google rolls out NFC-equipped Places business kits, muscles in on location-based territory in Portland 00:27:07 – LG invents imaginary 1GHz processor requirement to say Optimus One won’t get Gingerbread 00:27:15 – LG pulls back, ‘will evaluate’ upgrading Optimus series to Gingerbread when specs and source code are public 00:27:45 – LG commits to upgrading Optimus Ones to Gingerbread, angry hordes abate 00:31:00 – Android 2.3 SDK revealed, Gingerbread improvements called out 00:31:30 – Android Honeycomb coming ‘next year,’ adds tablet support 00:32:30 – Google’s Andy Rubin live from D: Dive Into Mobile 00:47:50 – Live from Google’s Chrome event! 00:48:50 – Google Chrome OS gets detailed, first laptops from Acer and Samsung coming mid-2011 00:49:10 – Google unveils Cr-48, the first Chrome OS laptop 00:49:20 – Google Cr-48 Chrome laptop preview (update: in-depth impressions!) 00:49:30 – Google demos Chrome Web Store, rolling out later today to US (update: now live) 00:52:00 – Flash working poorly on your Google Cr-48? Adobe’s working on it 00:55:55 – Google partners with Verizon for free 3G data allowance with every Chrome OS netbook 01:03:50 – Chrome Web Store, HTML5 and the iPad: symbiosis at its best 01:16:50 – Mike Lazaridis live at D: Dive Into Mobile (with the PlayBook!) 01:18:00 – RIM’s Mike Lazaridis: QNX coming to BlackBerry phones when dual-core processors are ready 01:26:26 – The Engadget Show returns next Friday, December 17th with televisions, robots, giveaways, and more! Hear the podcast Subscribe to the podcast [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes (enhanced AAC). [ RSS MP3 ] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically. [ RSS AAC ] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in enhanced AAC) to your RSS aggregator. [ Zune ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in the Zune Marketplace Download the podcast LISTEN (MP3) LISTEN (AAC) LISTEN (OGG) Contact the podcast 1-888-ENGADGET or podcast (at) engadget (dot) com. Twitter: @joshuatopolsky @futurepaul @reckless @engadget Filed under: Podcasts Engadget Podcast 221 – 12.11.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Barbara Walters Edits Mark Levin’s Book From Palin’s Reading List Answer
December 11, 2010 No Comment
On Thursday, NewsBusters made it clear that no matter how Sarah Palin answered Katie Couric's pathetic reading list question back in 2008, the liberal media were going to ridicule her. On Friday, this point was made even clearer when conservative talk radio host Mark Levin revealed that Palin's answer to Barbara Walters concerning this same silly issue was edited from her “10 Most Fascinating People of 2010″ program to remove his book “Liberty and Tyranny” (audio follows courtesy Right Scoop ): read more
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Two cars explode on busy Stockholm shopping street, send wave of panic across Swedish capital
Continue reading …Fred Clark from Slacktivist points out something that should be obvious to anyone with an ounce of empathy — or intelligence: The confused conservatives seem to mistakenly believe that during the Great Recession those 8 million workers were simply fired. If that had been the case, the economy would have greeted those 8 million newly unemployed workers with 8 million newly vacant job openings. The relocations, retrainings and logistics of rearranging all of those workers back into the assorted job openings created by their firings would have been unpleasant in the short term, but wouldn’t have created an insurmountable long-term problem for either those 8 million people or for the economy as a whole. That sort of churning and rearranging goes on all the time, which is why economists regard something like a 4 percent unemployment rate as “full employment.” If those workers had all simply been fired, the scenario would have played out as something like the economic equivalent of a Chinese fire drill — everyone get up and find a new seat. That would have been disruptive, but still possible because there would still have been one seat for every displaced worker. But that is not what happened during the Great Recession. Those 8 million workers were not fired, they were laid off. Getting laid off is not the same as getting fired. Those 8 million workers got up and their seats were taken away. They cannot find new seats because there are not nearly enough seats to go around. Those 8 million or so workers cannot simply find new jobs because there are 8 million fewer jobs to be found. The most recent figures, if you want to be precise: 14.2 million looking for work; 3.4 million job openings. That means 10.8 million Americans right now, today, are royally, epically screwed. That means it wouldn’t matter if every unemployed American followed all the advice for what job-seekers are supposed to do. If every single one of them keeps a positive attitude while still being willing to settle for less, if each and every one of them takes classes and volunteers to keep their skills sharp, if each and every one networks furiously, gets up every morning, showers, shaves and gets dressed for the office before sending out dozens of perfect, enticingly crafted résumés all day, every day, then 10.8 million of them will still not find jobs because there are 10.8 million fewer jobs than there are job seekers. That is the situation. That is what we are up against. Millions of people got laid off. They weren’t fired — they were laid off. Their jobs are gone and now there aren’t enough jobs. Getting laid off is not the same as getting fired.
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Palestinian leader says firefighters who helped Israel acted like Salah al-Din. ‘It was our duty to provide aid in order to save lives and the environment,’ he says
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Elizabeth Edwards’ oldest daughter is remembering her mother for both the witty advice she gave about clothing and dating, and also the grace and comfort she gave their family. (Dec. 11)
Continue reading …Navy’s prototype rail gun projectile hits mach 7 at 33 megajoules, our hearts skip a beat (video)
December 11, 2010 No Comment
Rail guns play a major part in nearly every fanciful battle of the future, whether it be giant robots fighting for control of the Inner Sphere or the last remaining member of Noble Team holding off the Covenant invasion for as long as possible. They’re the stuff of geeky dreams, and thanks to the US Navy they’re closer to deployment than ever. Three years ago our sea-borne force managed an 8 megajoule blast , now its researchers have more than tripled that: 33 megajoules accelerating a projectile using magnets. That power means speeds of Mach 7 for the slug and a current range of 100 miles, though the hope is for at least double that by the time these things start finding themselves mounted on the decks of battleships in 2025. At that point they’ll reduce the need for rooms full of powder charges and the associated dangers that come along with explosive shells, but will instead need to make way for what looks to be a warehouse full of capacitors. There’s a video of the thing in action below, and you’ll be sorry if you miss it. [Thanks, Jacob L.] Continue reading Navy’s prototype rail gun projectile hits mach 7 at 33 megajoules, our hearts skip a beat (video) Navy’s prototype rail gun projectile hits mach 7 at 33 megajoules, our hearts skip a beat (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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