Bottles of perfume and cologne are shown in New York. Several organizations, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, are questioning the safety of chemicals used in fragrances. This CAP guest post was first published here.
Perfume fragrances are considered trade secrets, so companies don’t have to reveal what’s in them—which could be any number of synthetic chemical compounds. Even “unscented” products may contain masking fragrances, whichSource: Climate Progress RSS Feed
Scott Roeder murdered Dr. George Tiller in cold blood while he was serving as an usher at his church. Roeder, who has close ties with Randall Terry's Operation Rescue is now considering a Justifiable Homicide defense:
WICHITA, Kan. – The suspect in the killing of abortion provider George Tiller is in talks with a prominent attorney who represents anti-abortion protesters and has long advocated justifiable homicide as a legal defense in such cases.
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From a celebratory Associated Press:
Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush to be released early
By Kim Gamel, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD – An Iraqi journalist imprisoned for hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behavior, his lawyer said Saturday…
The journalist has been in custody since the Dec. 14 outburst, which occurred as Bush was holding a news conference withSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
ANL Australia
Wall Street Journal reports on a UN leak revealing a month-old event. The appearance of the news story is probably related to a more recent development. It may represent a warning to North Korea, saying in essence, don’t bother sending that loaded container ship out of port, we arranged the seizure of the last one, and we can do it to the one you just loaded, too.
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates recently seized aSource: Never Yet Melted RSS Feed
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By Emily Geiger
It’s a sad day in the Spencer school district.
You see, Spencer was going to do something good. Rather than exclude any mention of God in schools (in violation of the students’ rights to religious freedom and expression), the Spencer school district had come up
The American Civil Liberties Union came to the defense of British hacker Gary McKinnon on Thursday, decrying an extradition treaty that could soon see McKinnon standing trial in the U.S. on charges of cracking and damaging American military systems.
“The recent tragic case of Gary McKinnon highlights the need to ensure that an individual’s case is properly judicially reviewed and the courts have the power to bar extradition if the interest of justice require it,” wroteSource: Threat Level RSS Feed
Butt Out, Already!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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I have great admiration for the British, but… I wish they would butt out of our national conversation (debate, argument…etc.) about socialized medicine in America. I DON’T GIVE A D**N HOW WELL THEY LOVE THEIR NHS (National Health Service). It is THEIR NHS… not ours.
Understand, my British friends, this is America. We are not Brits. Our ancestors came here (to escape yourSource: Faultline USA RSS Feed
President Barack Obama and Senator Ted Kennedy walk on the grounds of the White House, before signing of the Kennedy Service Act at the SEED School in Washington D.C. 4/21/09. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
From the White House Blog:
The President spoke at 9:57 this morning at Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark, Massachusetts:
THE PRESIDENT: I wanted to say a few words this morning about the passing of an extraordinary leader,Source: Jack and Jill Politics RSS Feed
Air Force Tech Sgt. Ronald Comer, an information management specialist deployed here with the 474th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron in support of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, and Air Force Lt. Col. John Dulin, commander of the 474th ECES, admire a finished haircut at Camp Justice, July 13. Comer has been cutting the hair of fellow Airmen since day one of his deployment to JTF Guantanamo. JTF Guantanamo conducts safe, humane, Source: Theodore's World RSS Feed
Strange. This woman cared enough about her kids to breastfeed...yet laced the milk she pumped with morphine to get the baby daddy to hang around?
"...A 25-year-old former medical assistant on probation for a similar crime laced her breast milk with morphine and fed it to her 2-month-old daughter in an effort to attract the attention of the child's father, authorities alleged Thursday.
Sarah Rose Dillard-Lubin, of Aloha, was on probation from California for feeding her son,Source: Blonde sagacity RSS Feed
Nothing could be more important than the national security of the United States of America. Your safety, your families' safety, my family, depends on our government doing the never-ending job of protecting our shores from radicals who wish to kill and destroy our way of life.
That means sometimes doing bad things. I know and understand that our government, in the name of national security, has to do some really outlandishly terrible things from time to time. I just accept that. InSource: Right From Left RSS Feed
But they promise that detainees won’t be abused. More on why I think that’s nonsense later on in the post.
But first, more from NY Times:
The announcement, by President Obama’s Interrogation and Transfer Policy Task Force, seemed intended in part to offset the impact of the release on Monday of a long-withheld report by the C.I.A. inspector general, written in 2004, that offered new details about the brutal tactics used by the C.I.A. inSource: Donklephant RSS Feed
Good morning, and I got the little fucker. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
Our weirdly pleasant weather here in Denver has continued: mostly highs in the 80s, although we nudged into the low 90s on Wednesday and Thursday - but dropped back to a high of 80? on Friday.
Thunderstorms in the afternoons, sometimes with hail, but nothing hugely damaging has hit Casa de Frankenoid.
As to the forecast... although warming up a bit today, we're forecast to be inSource: Square State RSS Feed
(Pyongyang) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) denounced upcoming joint South Korean and U.S. military excercises and said it would "wipe out" the countries with nuclear weapons if they threatened the communist state, its KCNA news agency reported on Sunday to the only person in North Korea who owns a TV set.
HuffPost
Income inequality in the United States is at an all-time high, surpassing even levels seen during the Great Depression, according to a recently updated paper by University of California, Berkeley Professor Emmanuel Saez. The paper, which covers data through 2007, points to a staggering, unprecedented disparity in American incomes. On his blog, Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman called the numbers "truly amazing."
Though incomeSource: Vox Verax RSS Feed
Hackers are now using Twitter to send coded update messages to computers they’ve previously infected with rogue code, according to a report from net-monitoring firm Arbor Networks.
This looks to be the first reported case of hackers using the popular micro-messaging company to control botnets, which are assemblages of infected PCs that can be directed to spy on their users, send spam, or attack web sites with fake traffic.
Arbor Network’s Jose Nazario, anSource: Threat Level RSS Feed
By Tahereh Ghanaati
When Puerto Rican judge, Sonia Sotomayor took her oath of office on Saturday, August 8th, and was sworn in as a Chief Justice to the United States Supreme Court, she represented, for many Hispanic Americans, not only herself, but the Latino community as a whole. Indeed, for numerous Latinos, the appointment of Ms. Sotomayor to the highest judicial body in the land embodied a major step in a process that began many years ago in the UnitedSource: The Two Malcontents RSS Feed
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By Emily Geiger
Does anyone else find it ironic that the Democrats are accusing conservatives (and the Republican party in particular) of organizing a concerted effort to bombard poor, unsuspecting congressman with challenging healthcare questions at their local townhall meetings?
In case anyone hasn’t noticed, if the Republican party
Having Children Brings High Carbon Impact
New York Times
By Kate Galbraith
Having children is the surest way to send your carbon footprint soaring, according to a new study from statisticians at Oregon State University.
The study found that having a child has an impact that far outweighs that of other energy-saving behaviors.
Take, for example, aSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed
Blanche & Ben yucking it up-- worse than Republicans
One of the Senate's most corrupt members, Arkansas reactionary Blanche Lincoln, has taken $469,383 in thinly disguised bribes from the Insurance industry and another $1,523,558 from the Medical-Industrial Complex. Is she in bed with the lobbyists who pay her to vote for their clients' interests instead of her constituents'? Well this year she's in the top 10 of senators favored with "donations" from lobbying firms and in her entireSource: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed
