REDDING, Calif. - A California man is facing charges after allegedly shooting his son because he didn't like his karaoke singing.
The Sun Sentinel highlights two Republican lawmakers who are introducing this type of legislation in Florida.
Beyond his latest statement that he doesn’t care about poor people, hides the fact that Mitt Romney has no idea, exactly how many poor and low income people there are in the US. Here is the video of Mitt Romney explaining why he doesn’t care about the poor from CNN …
Susan G Komen For the Cure has announced that it will stop funneling money to Planned Parenthood, ending a years-long partnership between the two organizations that provided mammograms and related services to low income women.
Monsanto’s seed monopoly has grown so powerful that they control the genetics of nearly 90% of five major commodity crops including corn, soybeans, cotton, canola and sugar beets.
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Not one bit of it is implausible. Arguably, a deadlock is an entirely realistic outcome in a race where Romney's institutional edges are considerable, but his vulnerabilities and Gingrich's raw campaign skills are more than enough to offset that advantage.
It’s been a little over four months since we got back home. Fall has turned into winter and the RV…now affectionately called “The Ark”, is sitting in our front yard covered with 12” inches of thawing snow.
Had the same thing been carried out by a worker for the now-defunct ACORN, Republicans --- and even Newt Gingrich --- would have called it massive "voter fraud." But the 1,500 acts of fraud, by Gingrich's own admission, were carried out by a worker hired by his campaign, so it …
In May 2010, Susana Martinez was running neck and neck in the Republican primary for the New Mexico governor’s race.
A Los Angeles elementary school teacher was charged with committing lewd acts against nearly two dozen students after a film processor gave authorities bondage-style photographs showing children in blindfolds with their mouths taped, and some with giant cockroaches on their faces, authorities said Tuesday.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stirred the pot again in the GOP presidential campaign. Using her Facebook account Friday she blast "the Republican establishment" for using "Alinsky tactics" against her favored candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
I got into a flame-war the other day:
A Knoxville, Tenn., restaurant owner has drawn cheers and jeers for refusing to serve a state senator whose beliefs she viewed as homophobic. Republican state Sen. Stacey Campfield told ABC News he went out to brunch at The Bistro at Bijou restaurant on Sunday with some f …
Virginia state Senator Janet Howell (D) thinks that if the government is going to force women to undergo medically unnecessary tests, then it is only fair to apply the same standards to men. Republican lawmakers are pushing for legislation that would require pregnant women …
It seems it isn't enough to have a political opinion and to exercise freedom of speech without spending inordinate amounts of cash or to ignore the parts of the Constitution that don't fit an ideological profile.
I call this a sampler because I have a little bit of everything here today. A sunrise, some sunsets and some inside-scapes as well.
On Wednesday the Indiana House voted 54-44 to pass the controversial "right to work" bill, nearly ensuring the state will become the 23rd to have such a law.
Speaking to Michelangelo Signorile on SiriusXM radio, Tennessee State Senator Stacey Campfield (R) claimed on Thursday that it was nearly impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual sex.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she meant no disrespect when she pointed a finger at President Barack Obama during an intense discussion on an airport tarmac. But the Republican governor says the Democratic president showed disrespect for her by abruptly ending their conversation.
They claim to be the party of Lincoln or Reagan. I want to know what the hell happened to the party of Eisenhower.
Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after prolonged nonviolent struggle. They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different.
A couple walked into a gift shop during a pow wow on the reservation. The Native American clerk said to them, I have some special moccasins I think you would be interested in.
CHICAGO, IL (CBS) - A 22-year-old South Side man is in the Cook County jail - accused of kicking a kitten like it was a football.
This is the seventh of collaborations combing an image by myself and a poem by mstanley. A. Mac
The mother who lost her three daughters and parents in a Christmas Day fire in Connecticut has tried to take her own life, the New York Daily News reported. According to the newspaper, Madonna Badger, one of only two survivors of the fire at her home in Stamford, was hospitalize …
LYNN HAVEN, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly hacking to death a Connecticut man and eating the victim's eye and part of his brain, police said Wednesday.
On a blizzardy January night in 2001, friends called to tell us they had a little baby Nubian goat for us. His mother was a champion dairy show goat, so she wasn't permitted to nurse her kids. Apparently it makes her teats look funny if she nurses.
Sometimes, we get a lucky break.
Here is the fabulous Rankin Family when based in Ireland, and singing in Gaelic.
A lawmaker inTennessee, one day after the suicide death of fourteen-year old gay Tennessee teen Phillip Parker, wrote a constituent telling her that a gay person is not a “mentally healthy adult human being.” Rep. John Ragan, a Southern Baptist, pro-life, …
So far, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the same period, the price of ground beef has gone up 24 percent and price of bacon has …
Ardem at Blue Arkansas reports a horrifying case (with graphic pictures of the cat, may not be safe for children):
"Staff Sergeant Wuterich accepted responsibility ...
Okay, this article is about the test that Christians say humanity has to undergo in order to determine your souls destination after death. You can go to heaven or you can go to hell.
Apparently Rick Santorum and his campaign staff were not thinking when they came up with this name. Another example of why America doesn't need this nut for President, he doesn't THINK!
An Arkansas Democrat has a message for whomever killed his kids’ cat: “I’ve got a gun and I know how to use it.” According to the Blue Arkansas blog, the campaign manager to Ken Aden, who’s running for the state’s third congressional distric …
With the competitors for the Republican presidential nomination engaged in an intriguing and unexpected debate over the dangers of capitalism’s “creative destruction,” this is the appropriate moment to explore the question: What does the right get right?
Today’s column is a counterpart to last week’s, in which some thoughtful liberals responded to the question, “What does the right get right?”
MARIETTA, Ga. — A Marietta man is facing charges after police said he stood by and watched as his pit bull attacked a woman.
Imagine a world where sixteen hour days and .70¢ hr is the prevailing wage. Now imagine the company you worked for earned $10B in profit in 2010 and by all accounts will make $30B in profit in 2011.
Great news in an email I received today from fightforthefuture.org.
(NewsCore) - A Wisconsin man was arrested on charges of beating his wife, but he told police that a "ghost" was actually responsible for the assault, The Oshkosh Northwestern reported Friday
CINCINNATI -- Authorities have released the details of a case involving a man who they said punished his daughter using duct tape
Over the years, I have had a few challenges when it comes to handling vegetarian requests. Some people are simply vegetarian, which to me means, they eat all things that do not contain any fish, flesh, or fowl. Those are easy to understand.
Dogs are among the most wonderful creatures on the planet. Dogs and elephants are amazing animals. Since most of us don't have an elephant, let's talk about the cute, bizarre, strange and wonderful things our dogs do. If you happen to have an elephant, feel fre …
In an explosive interview, Newt Gingrich’s second wife, Marianne Gingrich, says the former House Speaker wanted an “open marriage,” but that she refused.
The Newsvine Photographers group has a header on the group front page featuring photos by group members. The header photos are changed from time to time and are dependent on NVP member submissions for their content.
A few weeks ago, we posted a video of Bryan Fischer denying that HIV causes AIDS and claiming it is all a scheme concocted by scientists in order to get research grants. Since then, Fischer has continued to promote this position and earlier this week, Warre …
Some lawmakers are rethinking their support of controversial anti-piracy bills that led to some websites shutting down in protest. The protest was in response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill, a piece of proposed legislation that is working its way through Congress.
For all you funny Kornerites, the annual Erma Bombeck Writing Competition is now open for submissions. The contest, which is very well regarded in the field of humor writing, is accepting submissions thru Feb. 14.
Cars That Were Like Family Sometimes our car can seem more like a member of the family than just a machine. I think that's especially true with the first car or cars that we own. I think we all have some pleasant memories about the times with our first car/cars.
The mother and an aunt of a 5-year-old Newberry boy who died in late December have been charged with his murder.
Christopher Hanney's attorneys will soon get to tell his side of the story.
The Obama administration will reject the Keystone XL pipeline Wednesday afternoon, according to a source closely following the issue.
Image by A. Mac/Poem by mstanley.
They treated a 34-year-old woman who developed forearm pain and redness after she attended a party. She didn't have any other symptoms but did have a small red puncture wound on her arm.
When I was summering in northern Spain a while back, I visited a pub for dinner. My friends said I should try the "rape". That's pronounced rah-pae, for you who are snickering. It was the most delicious piece of fish I had ever eaten and I ordered it several times ov …
Update: new link: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/walker-recall-leaders-say-they-gathered-more-than-million-signatures/article_5a9505e6-4141-11e1-9384-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz1jkLANUeR Leaders of the effort to recall Gov.
A 20-year-old maintenance man who had just begun a life sentence for molesting and killing a 7-year-old north Georgia girl used his sweat shirt to hang himself in his prison cell, according to autopsy results released Friday.
Is the Christian Right still a power in American politics? The lavish coverage which its partisans and their favorite issues have received during the current Republican campaign certainly leave that impression.
Well I thought it might be nice to share some old family pictures with ya. The picture of Grandpa Holley and Grandma Holley On the red couch. Grandpa was quarter Cherokee and grandmother was blackfoot....not real sure how much.
The do as we say, most certainly not as we do party struck again, and this level hypocrisy might just shift the tectonic plates and reveal a whole new world for the rational among us (or whatever is left).
A mother of four who raped her 11-year-old daughter and filmed it as a form of "sex education" has been jailed for four years in Australia. The 37-year-old woman from Queensland's Sunshine Coast made three films using her mobile phone showing her raping her youngest …
We take a look at the differences – and similarities – between Sunni and Shiite below.
"A 1-year-old by was killed Saturday night when he was attacked by his family's pit bull at his grandparent's Texas home, the Houston Chronicle reported."
Well, that was so not worth it. I need to clarify what happened (I hope I am allowed to), why I had an involuntary day off (without pay no less), if anyone cares. I do. The other day my good pal Grisham seeded an article asking where Atheists turn in times of crisis.& …
Hello, my friends. Those of you that have Kaiser for health insurance may relate to this post. If you've never heard of Kaiser, maybe you can relate just on the level that they are a "health care provider". Last year, our share of Kaiser insurance went up from $ …
The January 24th Senate vote is our best chance to stop SOPA. The EFF, Public Knowledge, Demand Progress, CDT, and anti-SOPA lobbyists all agree on this. So together we've been organizing meetings with Senators in their home districts.
I am sooooo bored today. Cleaned the house. Fed and watered all of the outside animals. Took out the garbage. Got the mail. Washed the dishes. Watered the plants. Took down Christmas lights. Boiled potatos for dinner. Put a meatloaf in the oven. Played with the dog. Fed th …
Hello All! My name is Holly, and I'm a contentiaholic. I have found life with my spouse damn near unbearable, so I turn to the Vine to provide me with the humour and satirization that I need to get me through. I check the front page for contentious seeds.& …
Antonio Buehler, 34, a combat veteran of Kosovo and Iraq, West Point graduate, and middle school teacher, was serving as a designated driver shortly after midnight on January 1 when he saw a woman being abused by police outside a 7-11.
Mississippi governor Republican Haley Barbour spent his final days in office granting pardons or early release to around 200 people - including more than two dozen convicted killers.The outraged families of the victims have slammed the decision as unfair but Mr Barbour has so f …
Ojibwe sayings and proverbs. 1. No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. 2. If the eyes had no tears the heart would have no feeling. 3. Sometime I feel pity for myself, all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky. 4.
Fellow Viners...if you follow the posting of candidate resumes for all to read, you will notice that myself and js are working together on this endeavor.
Papa John's Pizza fired a cashier at one of its New York chains and apologized to an Asian-American woman for a receipt that identified her as "lady chinky eyes."
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Greece’s financial crisis has made some families so desperate they are giving up the most precious thing of all – their children.
IN 2010, the Chicago Public Schools declined to hire Darrell Langdon for a job as a boiler-room engineer, because he had been convicted of possessing a half-gram of cocaine in 1985, a felony for which he received probation. It didn’t matter that Mr.
Over the last three decades, through good economic times and bad, one of the few constants in American life has been the relentless rise in the price of higher education.
The Teamsters have been active in fighting for workers rights across the country in the last year, yet few in the media have covered numerous strikes the union's members are engaged in around the country.
An elderly, former Marine who lost his wife of 54 years in the Tucson mass shootings expressed his anger at fellow victim and Congresswoman Gabbie Giffords. George Morris, 77, was shot in the leg and back in the attack just over a year ago as he tried to protect his wife from …
American research linking chemicals from coal seam gas extraction to the deaths of scores of animals has prompted calls for a freeze on new drilling licences in Australia. The University of Massachusetts study, published in the New Solutions journal, examined the impact of gas …
Woo hoo! We have tile!!! I busted my arse this weekend!!! I can't believe that I'm not sore! I'm glad that part is done. Next... Grout and sealer.
The alleged attackers hit the teen with sticks, metal bars, a hammer and chisel, prosecutors said, and he “begged to die” because of the pain from the beating.
An unexpected alliance is blooming seven weeks into a hard winter strike by 50 Millworkers at the Indiana Limestone Company: The participants of Occupy Bloomington in that nearby college town are rallying to their cause.
Tyler & Sally, We the undersigned would be grateful if you could reinstate Remote Viewer's membership to this establishment. She (rather hastily) deleted herself, & we would like for her to be able to come back, should she decide to do so. Please look at this not as …
If women as a group were able to escape male violence, we would not be men’s victims. Women as a group have obviously not yet found a way to stop or escape rape, wife abuse, incest, sexual harassment, or other forms of male tyranny. (Dee Graham, in Loving to Survive)
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) and his allies in the state legislature are pushing so-called 'right-to-work' legislation in Indiana that they claim will create jobs when, in reality, the legislation is a thinly-veiled assault on Indiana workers.
Last year, amidst crushing budget shortfalls and mounting deficits, state legislatures across the country spent their time on the issues Republicans said really matter: “personhood” for zygotes, the repeal of Obama’s healthcare plan, and the disenfranchisement …
At some point yesterday, Remote Viewer decided to exit the vine permanently, and she took down her column. I had no clue until I went to her column to look up something, and… …Oops! It seems that the page is no longer here… I kinda panicked.
Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light.
A growing number of companies across the country are purposely misclassifying workers as self-employed 'owners' for the sake of saving on labor costs.
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First, let's get this party started ... Then, shall we raise our glasses ... And then wind down the night with a little whimsy from Harry Mancini ...
This is McSpocky's Happy New Year 2012 Party! Everyone is welcome, and feel free to invite your friends/enemies/acquaintances.
The father responsible for the Christmas Day shooting in Texas that left seven dead told a 911 dispatcher 'I am shooting people' while cries of 'help, help' were heard in the background, police say. One of the victims of the shooting sent text messages before her 56-year-old u …
This is how a powerful interest group gains influence in a contested presidential primary: Last night, four GOP candidates—Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry—took part in a “tele-town hall” sponsored by Personhood …
Yep, it's another controversial statement from Hugo Chavez -- but he really seems to dial up the Nut-O-Meter to 11 with this cancer conspiracy theory.
Finally there's some good news for the millions of Americans who must to live on pay at or close to the legal minimum wage. Eight states are raising their minimum wage on January First, in line with state laws requiring the minimum to keep pace with inflation.
NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne went on a bizarre, anti-public breastfeeding tirade on his Twitter feed yesterday, later deleting his tweets without apology.
To become a less judgmental person who sees through political differences to the person within, the next step is not to think that politics is the be-all and end-all when you’re with other people. If you make a serious effort to do that — as dubious a suggesti …
Yes, this is an unabashed announcement not necessarily looking for attaboys or backpats or huzzahs, altho I do unabashedly confess I won't turn a one of them away! Any and all will be warmly received! It's been a struggle, a fight at times, and at no few times an almost uncontro …
So what is the Muslim Test? Simple! It is the fool proof method of revealing this Right Wing hypocrisy. As the last three years have made blindingly obvious, the average conservative has lost all sense of reality.
The mother of a nine-year-old autistic boy who was placed in a duffel bag with the drawstring pulled tight has called for the teacher responsible to be dismissed and for the practice to be banned. Sandra Baker, from Harrodsburg, Kentucky, said that her son, Christopher, has be …
It is said that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That statement has proven itself true time after time in both politics and business, but I would like to amend that statement slightly: Power corrupts, but money and power corrupt absolutely. This year has …
A babysitter and trusted neighbor has confessed that he bludgeoned a 9-year-old Indiana girl to death with a brick then dismembered her, hiding her head, hands and feet at a home where he was staying and dumping the rest of her remains nearby, police said Tuesday.
Everyone has been asking why doesn't Ron Paul answer questions about his newsletters? The thing is no one is getting an answer from him. Here are ten questions that the Republican Candidate refuses to answer.
A woman will face court charged with animal cruelty after allegedly throwing her dog out the window of a unit complex in Sydney's west. The eight-month-old Staffy has been nicknamed "Pup" by vets and will remain in care to undergo further tests.
Three Girl Scout leaders have resigned and disbanded their troops after a transgender child was allowed into the organisation.
Should information be withheld from academic journals because of the potential that it might fall into the hands of terrorists? The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) has asked the journals Science and Nature to keep certain details out of reports they inte …
IF you are ever on a jury in a marijuana case, I recommend that you vote “not guilty” — even if you think the defendant actually smoked pot, or sold it to another consenting adult.
A new exhibition about Judaism opened this week at Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk museum. The objects on display all come with a story because, the museum argues, stories are central to Judaism.
Vlads Dog gave me a challenge this morning to come up with a holiday themed poem and I just couldn't come up with anything but this tiny story. I hope the message will be enough. The Christmas Gift They had spent almost every bit of their free time trying to find all the g …
"A fifteen-year-old boy today was repeatedly stabbed in the head by a seething scissor-wielding classmate over a basketball game at the famed former Erasmus HS in Brooklyn, authorities and witnesses said."
Happy Yule to all my friends... may the rebirth of the Sun King bring you joy and happiness as the days begin to lengthen and the sun returns to us. Just a little information on my "holiday". And a so …
We are, as they say, spread all over all creation! Isn't that wonderful? Here on the Korner, our friendship knows no geographical barriers. And that, in and of itself, is a wonderful holiday message! I am putting dots on the map of where all the Kornerites are …
It sounds strange but is true... Handcuffed in the back seat of a squad car, Deangelo Rashard Mitchell, convinces his brother,Wayne Joshua Mitchell, to eat an ounce of cocaine out of his butt before the police find it...... The brother dies from an overdose.
Recently in the vine Defense Council wrote a piece with a poem about a broken brother, it got me to thinking about a friend of mine in school when I was in North Carolina.
It has always been a great disappointment to Native people that the humorous side of Native life has not been mentioned by professed experts on Indian affairs.
...The problem for Republicans after the welfare reform law passed was that, having achieved the victory, they no longer had the issue: The specter of the non-working poor could no longer be reliably evoked, and nothing with a similar power to divide voters has emerged to take it …
TUCSON, AZ - Tucson authorities are looking for whoever's responsible for abusing a dog in what they call "one of the cruelest acts performed by man".
On Monday night’s broadcast of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, host Keith Olbermann matched the show’s edgy new look with some choice language for Motor City Madman Ted Nugent.
The 2012 GOP flavor of the week really only lasted a week and change. Newt Gingrich is plummeting in Iowa, running 27%, 22%, and 14% in the last three PPP polls.
Corporate participation in public discourse has long been a controversial issue, one that was reignited by the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, 130 S. Ct. 876 (2010).
This view of the basis of morality is hardly incompatible with religious belief. Indeed, anyone who believes that God made human beings in His image believes something like this — that there is a moral dimension of things, and that it is in our ability to apprehend …
FREDRICKSBURG, Ohio - Police in two Ohio counties are investigating the death of a teenage girl who was shot while riding home from a party in a horse and buggy.
i think this snow is going to stay, as the temp has stayed down.
Herbal Remedies for Headache Pain Some herbal remedies may be helpful in easing headache pain. Learn which ones are the most popular and why.
Tyler and I did NOT agree with his seeded list of the top 50 singles of 2011. So we made a new one. We each chose 25 songs (and we must hang out a lot, because there is a surprising amount of overlap in our song selections). Tyler's Picks: 1.
A sinus-flushing device used to relieve colds and allergies has been linked to a deadly brain-eating amoeba. It is thought the amoeba entered their brains when they used the devices. Both victims are thought to have used tap water, instead of distilled or st …
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." ......Albert EinsteinThink of how Einstein changed our understanding of time and space by imagining people …
The last two prisoners to leave the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay were dead. On February 1, Awal Gul, a 48-year-old Afghan, collapsed in the shower and died of an apparent heart attack after working out on an exercise machine.
I've renamed my squirrel - he is no longer a Rocky but is now Stocky from being in my feeder so much. These photos are all birds in my yard that I've been able to photograph this week. Thanks for looking at my pictures.
ALLONS, T.N.--A so-called joke backfires on a teacher. Now, he's suspended and could be out of a job.
The sky has been showing off a bit lately. I actually got to go to the beach and had a great time. Hope you enjoy these photos.
The Rattlesnake of the Cherokee is very sacred and its sacredness is written even in the Heavens. Upon the mouth of the Rattlesnake is found 52 scales. These scales in number of 52 is written upon the Calendar of the Cherokee and upon the wheels and rings of TIME UNTIME.
Today is Bill of Rights Day. So it’s an appropriate time to consider the state of our constitutional safeguards. Let’s consider each amendment in turn.
WHEN rumors started crisscrossing the Internet last week that the elusive Higgs particle had been detected by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, I experienced my first physics-generated chill in a decade.
It is the holiday season. However, most research indicates that those who suffer from depression (or excessive anxiety) have a decrease of symptoms during this time. If you do find yourself being more depressed than you are normally it is possible to relieve your symptoms.& …
A 10-year-old child was behind the death of 4-year-old Texas in Ljungby in south central Sweden, according to police who on Wednesday announced that that the crime has been solved
Today was the day for my dear girl to not have to worry about me anymore. She was always worrying about where I was when I wasn't within eye distance. She couldn't hear so she had to always see me. She had terrible separation anxiety. She had star …
INDIANA COUNTY, Pa. -- An Indiana County woman is facing charges after police said she broke her 4-year-old daughter's leg.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (KARE11) - A 39-year-old Minneapolis man was arrested for allegedly whipping his three-year-old stepson with a belt twice in the groin.
When I first started taking photography seriously as a creative pursuit, I used to worry a lot about finding really interesting subject matter. I thought that the subjects of my photographs had to be beautiful or exotic or at least humorous in some way. But over time, …
Four people have been killed and seventy-five people injured in an armed attack in the heart of the Walloon city of Liège on Tuesday lunchtime.
Zitkala-Sa. Impressions of an Indian Childhood Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library On one occasion, I forgot the cloud shadow in a strange notion to catch up with my own shadow.
Zitkala-Sa. Impressions of an Indian Childhood Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library My uncle, whose death my mother ever lamented, was one of our nation's bravest warriors.
Tim Tebow's ridiculous success has everyone wondering ... is he guilty of using a P.E.D. -- performance enhancing deity?? Hey-oh! (The preceding attempt at humor was not ordained by the Father, Son or Holy Ghost)
PHOENIX - A Phoenix man is accused of breaking his 7-week-old son's bones.
We normally say that a company “went bankrupt,” implying that it had no choice. But when, recently, American Airlines filed for bankruptcy, it did so deliberately. The airline had four billion dollars in the bank and could have kept paying its bills.
My gift? Peace of mind. I will be leaving the vine for no less than a year. My time on Newsvine has been absolutely riveting, unfortunately to the extent that it has become addictive. As moderation isn't my forte I feel it's best that I move on for a while.
This holiday season, anti-abortion activists in several states are renewing one of their favorite traditions: harassing women in front of family planning clinics with mean-spirited Christmas carols. RH Reality Check reports on the antics of Pro-Life Wisconsin: Yes, for the fe …
House Republicans on Friday released their legislation to extend the payroll tax cut, reform and extend unemployment insurance, and delay changes to the Medicare reimbursement rate for doctors.
Why does it seem, IMHO, that the left loves to go after political commentators or viners who state their opinions on various topics as liars ? Seems to me that if I'm not stating facts and backing them up with undeniable evidence, I'm sharing my opinion. Is the left u …
My family and I live in a campground in the Central Valley of California. It is an interesting place to live full of natural beauty, human discontent and some measure of peace. We lead 'organic' lives here in the campground, contented refugees from the economic crisis.
A Paisley mother accused of murdering her baby has told the High Court in Glasgow how she found him dead in his carry cot one morning.
So, for a few months now, my husband and I have been collecting items to perform a bathroom renovation. We have a 3/4 bath in the basement, so we are not without a way to wash the funk off or do our business.
FROM AN UNKOWN AUTHOR ! 1. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't. 2.
December 8, 2011 (CASCADE, Wis.) -- A rural Cascade mother is accused of using a tennis racket and horse whip to injure her daughters.
Fort Myers, Florida (News-Press) -- The Lee County Sheriff's Office is searching for a woman they say left her infant son at the North Fort Myers Walmart Wednesday as she fled the store after being caught shoplifting.
In 1995 I was living in a homeless shelter in Colorado Springs and having a really bad time of it, (I was on suicide watch).
President Obama, in this case sensibly mingling his re-election mindset with doing the right thing, appears to have ordered or strongly suggested to his Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, that she prevent the "morning after " birth control pill PlanB from bei …
G.H. asked me to post some pictures of our new kitty.
One Historical Perspective on Two Differing Types of Corporations and Their Relationship to the Regular Laborer By Leona For Writing 122 Fall 2011 The word “corporation” conjures different thoughts in people depending on their relative experiences with different corpo …
It's that time of year again! The entire Dowser Clan, including all the animals, would love to wish all of you a very Happy Holiday Greeting, in the form of a video Greeting! Little Pharaoh, BooBear, Lulu, and Tommy Two-Tone visit the Pet Store to put together their S …
The persistence of an Iowa yellow Labrador named Reagan saved the lives of two kittens that were left to die in a Meow Mix bag on the side of a Des Moines road. Reagan came across the bag on a country road near her home....
Pusuke, the World's Oldest Dog, Dies at Age of 26 After living a good, long life, Pusuke, who was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living dog, died peacefully in Japan this week at age 26. That puts him at well over 100 in human years.
Although GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich previously took the view that “personhood begins at conception,” on Friday, Gingrich told ABC’s Jake Tapper that life begins at the “successful implantation” of a fertilized egg in a woman’s …
Yesterday, I called Rush Limbaugh. In his first hour monologue, he told his audience that he is tired of hearing establishment Republicans whine about how formidable Barack Obama is as a candidate. This is standard fare for Rush; he's repeated this trope dozens of times.
The Girl Scouts have been in the news over the past few years for various scandals. And they again were all over the news as a little boy named Bobby Montoya tried to join. The story started off predictably enough.
As some of you may not know, my daughter and son-in-law have Fostered 3 sisters for 2 1/2 years.
As I discussed in a previous post, there might (or might not) be legitimate reasons for cutting spending on various programs, both due to policy or macroeconomic reasons.
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to support a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment that would assert that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights, and that money is not the same as free speech. The resolution was backed by Move to Amen …
Fletch made a comment yesterday that got me thinking it would be fun to post a few "What Is It?" images. Can you guess what these are? ©2011 HollyKL. All rights reserved for all images.
This is not an attempt to claim or assume any authority on Newsvine, and should not be construed as such. Rather, it is written with the goal of clarifying what I see everyday - misconceptions about the meaning and application of the First Article of the Newsvine Code of Honor.
SAN ANTONIO — A Texas woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office and staged a seven-hour standoff with police that ended with her shooting her two children before killing herself, officials said Tuesday. The children …
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Aries: Put yourself first today. Visit the hair salon, buy a holiday outfit. Pamper yourself to restore depleted energy.Taurus: Dreams may be active, lucid or strange now.
“Neuroaesthetics” is a term that has been coined to refer to the project of studying art using the methods of neuroscience. It would be fair to say that neuroaesthetics has become a hot field.
Once upon a time in America there was a group of people called Pioneers. They made their way West on wagon trains, enduring unbelievable difficulties. They did it to give their families a better quality of life. They packed up their meager possessions and spent …
Kentucky Baptist Church reverses barmy ban on mixed-race couples - The Free Thinker
The provision that seemed to be buried in the extensive law, the medical loss ratio, requires health insurance companies to spend 80-85% of consumer’s premiums on real medical care and not overhead, profits, or marketing expenses.
I think a lot of people have a dualistic view of their existence in terms of good and bad. I have been reading A Course In Miracles wiki (ACIM)for a little over a decade.
The Pirates of The Caribbean star Johnny Depp was hoping to rival The X Factor with his new song "Jesus Stag Night Club," but it seems that his bid for a Christmas chart success has got him into trouble with Christians.
On CNN's 'State of the Union' Michele Bachmann talked about Herman Cain's departure, the Tea Party, her book, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and debating President Obama:
The debate over the slaughter of American horses so that their meat can be transported and sold for consumption overseas galloped into a Capitol Hill hearing room today. Critics call it America's dirty little secret.
Billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump will play the role of moderator at a Republican debate in Des Moines, Iowa on Dec.
To Herman Cain, "Liar liar, pants on fire."
The Kaiser Family Foundation does regular polling about the public's view of healthcare reform, and the results are always interesting. This month's results, however, are even more interesting than usual.
It's been a while since I've had any sunsets to share, so I decided to show you what we have been seeing around here lately. It looks like it's going to turn off cold here pretty quick, but at least we haven't had any snow yet.
A New Hampshire man was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison Friday for beating his wife to death with a flashlight after he came home to find she had strangled their 4-year-old son with a ribbon and tried to kill their 7-year-old daughter.
The latest unemployment numbers today showed that unemployment dropped from over 9% to 8.6% for the first time since 2009 when the republican administration left us with a 9% unemployment rate and in the worst economic crisis in over 40 years. There were 140,000 new jo …
8.6% unemployment rate! WOW! That is such good news isn't it? Not really when you consider that the rate plummeted because of people who quit looking for work--a fact that has finally been admitted in a Mainstream Media outlet (MSNBC). Combined with the h …
[New York] Yaribely Almonte, 20, faces first degree self-abortion, a class A misdemeanor, for the death of her female fetus, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters Thursday.