By Eliz­a­beth Weise (USA Today) Last week in a series of morn­ing TV inter­views, Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion Com­mis­sioner Mar­garet Ham­burg told con­sumers that they should reject over-​​easy eggs and avoid “runny egg yolks for mop­ping up with toast.” Carol Tucker-​​Foreman, an assis­tant sec­re­tary of agri­cul­ture under Pres­i­dent Carter who’s worked on food pol­icy at...
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By Cenk Uygur As we can all see now, when Fox says jump, the Obama admin­is­tra­tion asks how high? (Then jumps one inch less and con­sid­ers it a pro­gres­sive vic­tory). Is there any­one Obama won’t fire or throw under the bus if Fox asks him to? What if they ask Obama to fire him­self?...
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A woman in a hot air bal­loon real­ized she was lost. She low­ered her alti­tude and spot­ted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, ‘Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.’ The man con­sulted his...
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When Sarah Palin appeared at a cam­paign rally for John McCain’s next Sen­ate race on Fri­day she was sport­ing one of fall’s hottest trends: the leather motor­cy­cle jacket. via Sarah Palin’s Motor­cy­cle Jacket: Love It Or Lose It? (PHOTO, POLL).
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(Dai­ly­Mail UK) An air­line pas­sen­ger ate his £8,930 win­ning scratch­card after he was told he could not claim the money imme­di­ately. The unnamed British man was fly­ing with Ryanair from Krakow in Poland to East Mid­lands Air­port when he won 10,000 euros with the ticket. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1254570/Ryanair-passenger-eats-10–000-euro-winning-scratchcard.html#ixzz0gy8N6QSx
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By Bill Berkowitz (Alter­Net) “Have you ever won­dered why poul­try plant work­ers don’t hang their plas­tic smocks out­side on a line to dry after a shift spent cov­ered in chicken juice and meat?” Gabriel Thomp­son asked in a recent e-​​mail. “The answer: red ants.” Thomp­son found this out “ten min­utes into a new shift [at...
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Deutsch: What would it hurt if the the big banks, the Mor­gan Stanley’s, Gold­man Sachs, Citi Group, gave up some of that money, say 10% to 20% to Haiti? Answer in head­line. More at Silenced Major­ity Por­tal. Thanks to Moran Nyc Labrets.
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By Bob Grant (The Sci­en­tist) The HIV/​AIDS clinic in the cen­ter of the area of Port-​​au-​​Prince hard­est hit by yesterday’s 7.0 mag­ni­tude earth­quake is badly dam­aged but still stand­ing, and most of the center’s staff is appar­ently alive, accord­ing to the clinic’s direc­tor Jean Pape. “We were very lucky,” Pape wrote in a mes­sage posted on...
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(ThinkProgress​.org) Today, the Sen­ate began debate on Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-​​NE) amend­ment to pro­hibit fed­eral funds from being used for abor­tions or for plans that include abor­tion services. Boxer chal­lenged “the men who have brought us this” to “sin­gle out a pro­ce­dure that’s used by a man or a drug that is used by...
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A decade ago, Joe Lieber­man was a source of great pride for Amer­i­can Jews. Now Jews (who voted 78 per­cent for Barack Obama) are debat­ing a crit­i­cal ques­tion: why is Joe such a putz? Tough crowd. “Putz” is a Yid­dish word for the male anatomy. Al D’Amato lost his Sen­ate seat to Chuck Schumer...
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