Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. The confrontation between the rich political ruler and Jesus is one of the most intriguing stories in the Gospels of Matthew, Luke and Mark. It is also very relevant to Republican leaders and financiers-assuming many are Christians and including those of the Tea Party and Christian Right-who spend hundreds of millions of dollars in campaigns and television ads to smear and beat their opponents by manipulating peoples fears over Social Security, immigration, universal healthcare, racism, and terrorism. Republicans have now been able to maintain an edge over their opponents by spending huge sums of monies, much of it coming from…
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Community leaders in Nigeria’s Plateau State are appealing for calm in villages outside the city of Jos. At least six people – women and children – were killed, cattle slaughtered and homes burned in one village this week. In January and…
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The much-hyped, much-delayed Chevy Volt is due out in “late 2010.” At least that’s the latest estimate. Meanwhile, Volt-maker General Motors plans to launch a robot to the International Space Station on Nov. 1…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Newly born Hurricane Tomas barreled toward a cluster of eastern Caribbean islands on Saturday after it downed power lines and damaged homes in Barbados as a tropical storm. (Oct. 30)
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Anti-immigration poster child SB1070 will soon have its day in court, Arizona’s toxic new immigration law has been scheduled on the docket of a San Francisco appeals court for Monday, and is thus slated to determine what exactly is state and local authorities’ role in immigration issues. —JCL The Associated Press via The Guardian: Arizona’s tough and controversial new immigration law will get its day before a San Francisco appeals court Monday, with the central issue being just what role state and local authorities can play in confronting those who cross the border illegally. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will consider Gov. Jan Brewer’s appeal of a ruling that put on hold parts of the law. Among the blocked provisions is the requirement that police — in enforcing other laws — must question the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally. When the law passed and was signed by Brewer on April 23, it touched off a national furor with supporters calling for similar legislation for their own states and detractors calling for an economic boycott of Arizona. Senate Bill 1070, as it is known, also blew up into a huge political issue during this year’s mid-term elections. Read more Related Entries October 29, 2010 Oklahoma Not OK With Shariah Law October 23, 2010 Arizona Lawmaker Fights Boycott Backlash
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The anti-immigration SB 1070 will soon have its day in court. Arizona’s toxic new law is on the docket of a federal appeals court in San Francisco for Monday. The justices are expected to consider what exactly is the role of state and local authorities in immigration issues. —JCL The Associated Press via The Guardian: Arizona’s tough and controversial new immigration law will get its day before a San Francisco appeals court Monday, with the central issue being just what role state and local authorities can play in confronting those who cross the border illegally. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will consider Gov. Jan Brewer’s appeal of a ruling that put on hold parts of the law. Among the blocked provisions is the requirement that police — in enforcing other laws — must question the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally. When the law passed and was signed by Brewer on April 23, it touched off a national furor with supporters calling for similar legislation for their own states and detractors calling for an economic boycott of Arizona. Senate Bill 1070, as it is known, also blew up into a huge political issue during this year’s mid-term elections. Read more Related Entries October 27, 2010 Sex, Lies and Twitter October 11, 2010 Open Call: Obama’s Town Hall
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Image credit:via University of Missouri -Kansas City School of Law . Excerpted from the work by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. “Galileo before the Holy Office”, 1847. Musee Luxembourg. Due mainly to habitat loss, well-known and loved animals are perishing at astonishing rates. Nothing proposed by the UN has appreciably curbed the modern extreme ‘loss of biodiversity.’ (In other words: animals that Disney made billions animating are disappearing rapidly because there are way too many humans and because resource extraction operates at full throttle to sat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Best Engadget Podcast Ever? Worst Engadget Podcast Ever? Is there really even a difference anymore? Only to the discerning Engadget Podcast Listener / Bingo player. Test your aptitude with this week’s edition of The Engadget Podcast !!!!!!!!!! Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, Nilay Patel Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Stan 00:02:55 – The PlayStation Phone 00:03:55 – The PlayStation Phone is still real 00:07:45 – Sony Ericsson Z-System: the PlayStation Phone’s gaming platform? 00:26:55 – Palm gets official with webOS 2.0 and Pre 2: hitting France on Friday, Verizon ‘in the coming months’ 00:30:00 – webOS 2.0 review 00:43:44 – HP Slate 500 finally (finally!) official, rings up at $799 00:50:21 – Microsoft announces a record first-quarter revenue of $16.20 billion, $5.41 billion in profit 00:52:08 – Mac OS X 10.7 Lion announced, coming summer 2011 00:52:55 – Mac App Store for OS X 10.6 and 10.7 unveiled, coming ‘within 90 days’ 00:56:00 – Apple’s Mac App Store Review Guidelines posted — will Photoshop make it in? 01:20:10 – MacBook Air review (late 2010) 01:27:45 – Google TV Review 01:28:28 – Nook Color first hands-on! (updated: with video) 01:30:00 – Barnes & Noble Nook Color revealed 01:37:20 – Editorial: Why the Galaxy Tab’s price makes sense 01:37:30 – Verizon to sell Galaxy Tab starting November 11th for $599.99 01:44:00 – Samsung Galaxy Tab hitting T-Mobile USA on November 10th, $400 on contract 01:44:30 – Galaxy Tab for Sprint confirmed for November 14th: $400 with two-year contract 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 @zpower Filed under: Podcasts Engadget Podcast 217 – 10.30.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …And I’ll be most of them think it should be Hillary: Democratic voters are closely divided over whether President Barack Obama should be challenged within the party for a second term in 2012, an Associated Press-Knowledge Networks Poll finds. That glum assessment carries over into the nation at large, which is equally divided over whether Obama should be a one-term president. A real Democratic challenge to Obama seems unlikely at this stage and his re-election bid is a long way off. But the findings underscore how disenchanted his party has grown heading into the congressional elections Tuesday. The AP-KN poll has tracked a group of people and their views since the beginning of the 2008 presidential campaign. Among all 2008 voters, 51 percent say he deserves to be defeated in November 2012 while 47 percent support his re-election — essentially a tie. Except that when an election ends 51-47 they don’t declare it a tie. The guy with 47 loses. She’s just waiting to make her move .
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