Sharing: Pro-gun group to demonstrate at Va. Tech

From The Roanoke Times:

Supporters of concealed carry on college campuses have scheduled an all-day demonstration for Nov. 17 at Virginia Tech, the university where in 2007, 33 students and faculty were killed in the worst school shooting in U.S. history.

Sharing: When Condi Met Gaddafi

Photo: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images

The Daily Beast has a preview of Condoleezza Rice’s forthcoming memoir, in which she details recently killed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s obsession with, what he called, his “darling black African woman.”

Of one encounter with her admirer, after a Ramadan dinner, Condi recalled:

At the end of dinner, Qaddafi told me that he’d made a videotape for me. Uh oh, I thought, what is this going to be? It was a quite innocent collection of photos of me with world leaders—President Bush, Vladimir Putin, Hu Jintao, and so on—set to the music of a song called “Black Flower in the White House,” written for me by a Libyan composer. It was weird, but at least it wasn’t raunchy.

Gaddafi earlier said, of Rice, ”Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. … I love her very much.” He also had a “bound book of Condi-worship features full-page glossy photos and smaller snapshots.”

“I don’t even know what SimCity is…”

Default tax settings in SimCity game (999)

“I don’t even know what SimCity is…” insists Republican presidential (front-runner?) Herman Cain. He recently defended his 9-9-9 tax plan as his own (which some have said is eerily similar to the Electronic Arts build-a-city simulation game, Sim City).

The pizza empire (?) giant has insisted that he didn’t steal his popular across the board (sort of) tax policy from any video game, nor did it come from the top (back, bottom or any other location) of a pizza box. After all, he is the Godfather of pizza, whatever that means.

Sharing: 2001 anthrax attacks were a wake-up call, with efforts continuing today

 

Ottilie Lundgren

2001 anthrax attacks were a wake-up call, with efforts continuing today (video)- The New Haven Register – Serving New Haven, Connecticut.

The anthrax attacks of 2001 burst into our lives unexpectedly, changing the landscape of emergency and public health response in the weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The fear, anxiety and uncertainty that grew after 9/11 continued when bioterrorism in the form of a white powder threatened America in the last quarter of 2001.

Related: Danger Lurking in Your Mailbox

Campaign Trail & Browbeating Journalism

Ron Paul experiences an eyebrow malfunction.

Yes, this is about Ron Paul’s eyebrows. Moreover its about the entertaining article posted by the esteemed New York Times covering Paul’s eyebrow malfunction at last Tuesday’s Republican presidential candidate debate.

Full disclosure, the Times write up appeared in the Fashion & Style section, not on the front page or debate wrap up. But still, it got attention.

Paul’s people deny that the 76 year old presidential hopeful’s brows had been enhanced. His handlers insist that the brow malfunction was a result of bad allergies in New Hampshire.

No sir, the shifted brow had nothing to do with poor adhesive and hot lights on the debate set at Dartmouth College.

Move Over Wall Street, Unrest on Sesame Street

#occupysesamestreet

I’m not ready to tackle Occupy Wall Street, but Occupy Sesame Street, that’s a whole other story. Learn more and support the PAWS (Philadelphia Animal Wellness Society).

In a democracy, it’s your vote that counts. On Sesame Street, it’s your Count that votes. Ah-ah-ah! #occupysesamestreet

One Thing We May Have Forgotten from 9/11

Photo by: Thomas E. Franklin // The Record

No need to “remember,” as for many we have never forgotten the attacks on the United States of America that occurred on September 11, 2001. We remember where we were, we remember the emotions that we felt that day, or the lack thereof due to the shock. It was 10 years ago, but it seems like yesterday.

One thing we, collectively, seem to have forgotten was that spirit of unity that swept the nation 9/12/01 and in the days and weeks following. Marketplace Money‘s Bob Moon summed it up best:

Going Green GOAL!

Photo credit: Pomona College, Parking Garage with Soccer Field

No, the photo of the parking garage at Pomona College isn’t PhotoShopped. Yes, that is a soccer field on top of the parking garage, complete with solar panels that provide shade for spectators.

While the concept of a “sustainable parking garage” seems to be somewhat of an oxymoron, a campus news release insists the soccer-field-topped-parking-garage is part of the campus initiative to go green and to be pedestrian friendly.

The Chinese Bonsai Internet

A flurry of reports have come out about the decrease in websites in China last year. Some 1.4 million websites were shuttered due to government regulations (read: censorship). Apparently, websites in China decreased last year by some 40%, while globally the number of websites continue to increase.

The First Grader

An inspiring story:

The First Grader

HuffingtonPost: It’s Never Too Late: The Making of The First Grader