May Police Cut a Drug Baggie off a Suspect's, uh, Nether Regions?

Seeded on Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:16 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Seriously. It’s a question that needed answering. The U.S.

drugs, us-news, search-and-seizure, 4th-amendment

Go Daddy Drops SOPA Support After Boycott Threat

Seeded on Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:51 PM EST (Escapist magazine)

Yesterday, I reported on how Go Daddy was courting some serious nerd rage with its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

technology, protest, boycott, activism, go-daddy, stop-online-piracy-act

Cafe 54 in Tucson Is the Real Face of Mental Illness in Arizona, Not Jared Loughner

Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:18 PM EST (Phoenix New Times)

A big man has a small cut on his finger. The boss is concerned. Work on a prep line in a restaurant and sooner or later, you're going to cut your finger.

health, food-network, mental-illness, vocational-training, jared-loughner

Virginia Tech and the freedom to hold a candlelight vigil

Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:23 AM EST (The Daily Caller)

In the aftermath of Thursday’s Virginia Tech shooting, students unsurprisingly were determined to hold immediate events to help students discuss and process what happened.

shooting, virginia-tech, us-news, first-amendment, censorship, individual-rights

Police Try to Dissuade Elderly Woman From Defending Herself Against Home Invasion

Seeded on Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:07 PM EST (The Alex Jones Show - Infowars.com)

If Donna Hopper, a 66 year old Redding, California, woman had listened to police during a 911 call, she may have been killed by an intruder. During a 911 call, a police operator told Hopper not to shoot the intruder breaking into her home.

shooting, guns, us-news, second-amendment, self-defense, home-invasion, right-bear-arms, duty-to-protect

Refurbished HP TouchPad fire sale is happening this Sunday

Seeded on Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:34 PM EST (PC World)

Just when we thought the $99 Hewlett-Packard TouchPad was gone forever, the tablet that refuses to die is coming back for one last sale, according to online reports. A limited quantity of refurbished TouchPads will reportedly go on sale at HP's eBay Store starting at 6 p.m.

ebay, technology, hp-touchpad

Obama's campaign for class resentment

Seeded on Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:38 PM EST (The Washington Post)

In the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama averred that if in three years he hadn’t alleviated the nation’s economic pain, he’d be a “one-term proposition.” When three-quarters of Americans think the country is on the “wrong track&r …

election, politics, democratic, barack-obama, democrat, fiscal-policy, dnc, ows, zuccotti-park, charles-krauthammer-krauthammer

Khan Academy ponders what it can teach the higher education establishment

Seeded on Wed Dec 7, 2011 7:38 PM EST (Inside Higher Ed)

As a fledgling voice of reform in higher education, Salman Khan is an oddity. He cannot name any higher education accrediting agencies off the top of his head. He advocates for competency-based credentialing, but has never heard of Western Governors University.

technology, education, secondary-education, you-tube, pattern-matching, khan-academy, mastery-based-learning

Why @PayPal is wrong regarding @Regretsy, according to their own policies.

Seeded on Tue Dec 6, 2011 6:45 PM EST (Geek Girl)

Whether you love or hate Regretsy, only the most insane conspiracy theorists can deny that Regretsy and the Regretsy community do some kickass charitable giving.

technology, money, paypal, christmas, abuse-of-power, pay-pal, toy-drive, regretsy

Police: Calif. Wife Tried to Sever Husband's Penis

Seeded on Tue Dec 6, 2011 3:36 AM EST (ABC News)

Police say a 69-year-old woman from Palm Springs has been arrested after her husband reported that she tried to cut off his penis with a pair of scissors. Palm Springs police said in a statement Sunday that Virginia Valdez was arrested on suspicion of mayhem, assault with a …

assault, torture, us-news, domestic-violence, spousal-abuse, lorena-bobbitt, maiming, abusive-women

CATS 1, KIDS 0 : Pay-Pal freezes account set up to buy gifts for kids.

Seeded on Tue Dec 6, 2011 2:21 AM EST (regretsy.com)

As you know, we have been trying to buy Christmas presents for kids in the Regretsy community. We took many applications, vetted them carefully and set about creating a giant gift exchange program, where you could buy a gift for the over 200 children we’re helping. We …

money, banking, paypal, christmas, us-news, abuse-of-power, grinch, conversion, scrooge, pay-pal

Soldier from Glendale Wounded in Afghanistan

Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2011 10:40 PM EST (myFOXphoenix.com)

For any family with someone fighting overseas, it's the phone call they dread.

army, afghanistan, us-news, purple-heart, army-specialist-zac-rand, kathy-binford

Staten Island man sues mother-in-law for spreading infertility lies - NYPOST.com

Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2011 9:57 PM EST (New York Post)

A Staten Island man says he’s got the mother of all monster-in-laws. Mohammad Shoman, 29, says the Brooklyn busybody was so determined to humiliate him that she obtained his confidential medical records to find out whether he was shooting blanks in the bedroom, and th …

us-news

Policing's 'new normal' doesn't work with white folks

Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2011 8:36 PM EST (The Davis Enterprise)

We have reached an important crossroads in American policing. In the aftermath of the UC Davis pepper spray debacle, people are finally tuning in to the militarization of the American police. This shift is hardly new; it’s been happening since Sept. 11, 2001.

police, us-news, uc-davis, pepper-spray, militarization, ows

How could you test a claim Godhood?

Sun Dec 4, 2011 1:56 AM EST

Say you met a person/entity who told you they were a physical manifestation of God which excepting for the limitations of being in a physical form still had those attributes. They are omniscient, and omnipotent and their true from has omnipresence.

Continue reading this entry ...

religion, god, nature-of-god, omnipotence

W. Pa. town rejects atheist banner in holiday set | 6abc.com

Seeded on Sun Dec 4, 2011 1:05 AM EST (ABC Local Affiliates)

A western Pennsylvania mayor has refused to include a banner from an atheist group which says "there are no gods" as part of a holiday display that includes a Nativity scene. Ellwood City Mayor Anthony Court says the banner from the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madi …

christmas, us-news, first-amendment, nativity, atheism, freedom-from-religion-foundation, ellwood-city-mayor-anthony-court

Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 8:42 PM EST (YouTube)

I'm not as interested in answering the question of whether cell phones cause brain cancer (the jury is still out) as I am examining our response to an initial prospective study on the topic.

cancer, science, cell-phones

Analysis: Health care’s mandate — Part I : SCOTUSblog

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 6:55 AM EST (SCOTUS Blog)

Medical care is expensive, and apparently getting more so all the time. The government estimates that Americans now pay out about $2.500,000,000,000 — that’s in trillions — for medical care each year. Since public policymakers have believed …

health-care, supreme-court, us-news, individual-mandate, obama-administration

Analysis: Health care's mandate — Part II

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 6:52 AM EST (SCOTUS Blog)

No part of the 2,700-page Affordable Care Act passed by Congress in 2010 is more vital to the goal that the lawmakers and President Obama had in mind than the simple command that health insurance companies may not turn away anybody who applies for a policy — an individ …

supreme-court, us-news, individual-mandate, obama-administration, affordable-care-act, minimum-coverage

The Advent Calendar of Physics: Action and Reaction : Uncertain Principles

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 6:47 AM EST (ScienceBlogs)

We kicked off our countdown to Newton's birthday with his second law of motion, so the obvious next step is to go to his third law of motion: This one was also originally in Latin, because that's how Ike liked to roll: Lex III: Actioni contrariam semper et æqua …

newton, science, third-law-of-motion

Tampa law to impound cars of prostitutes' clients wins initial approval

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 6:19 AM EST (St. Petersburg Times > Local News)

Drivers who try to solicit a prostitute or buy drugs from behind the wheel could have to pay $500 to get their cars out of the city's impound lot under an ordinance that Thursday won the initial approval of the City Council. Nearly a dozen civic leaders from neighborhoods i …

south-florida, prostitution, us-news, florida-supreme-court, east-tampa

Scotch Whiskey Shortages Feared As Asian And Latin American Demand Rises

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 5:49 AM EST (The Huffington Post)

The Scotch whisky industry is like the Titanic. It's big, famous, awash in money and sees a lot of action in the North Atlantic.

crisis, latin-american, armageddon, world-news, scotch, whisky, chinese-demand, johnny-walker-blue, seriously-important, bet-your-butt-this-is-serious

Samsung, HTC And Carrier IQ Face Suit Over Logging Software

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 5:42 AM EST (NPR)

The first lawsuit has been filed against Samsung, HTC and Carrier IQ over software installed on millions of phones that can capture a wide range of data including key strokes. As we've reported, there's been uproar about the software after a researcher discovered it secret …

technology, privacy, apple, samsung, htc, carrier-iq

Siri Is Sexist

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 5:38 AM EST (Forbes)

The voice of Siri, Apple’s new voice-activated command software for the iPhone, is female: a warm, helpful-sounding and of course, nurturing female voice.

technology, apple, sexism, feminism, iphone, siri

GOP eager to squelch student voters

Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 4:43 AM EST (Daily Kos)

Dwight Eisenhower backed the 18-year-old vote nearly 60 years ago. Richard Nixon backed it a decade and a half later. Forty years ago, every Republican in the Senate supported amending the Constitution to lower the voting age to 18 across the nation.

politics, republican, democrat, student-voting

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Jake! We are missing you here bro... Where have you been? Come back?
— onomatopoeia

You're the man Jake! I always enjoy your take on things... Happy to have you as a friend buddy!
— onomatopoeia

Thanks for the comment. The feeling is mutual. I think life is about learning, not agreeing. Insight cannot come when a mind is closed, and to disagree is an opportunity to find understanding. Your posts are so well formulated and referenced that they provide just those opportunities.
— landspirit

Per your request I deleted 8.7 and 8.8. Sorry about the trolling issue you've got. Hope it helped.
— veryhappydemocracy?

Welcome to NewsVine, Jake. I don't think you and I will agree very often, but I certainly have to admire the quality of your arguments and the difficulty of refuting them. I hope you stick around. Your side desperately needs someone who can argue their point of view effectively enough to make me resonsider mine.
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