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John and Adam discuss the news of the day from an international perspective
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As usual, the paparazzi snuck in to snap photos like the one above. Obviously, they were candid and unplanned since the Prez & Veep have their sleeves rolled up. Just good, ole regular folk having some brews on the patio with buddies.
We here at DU, of course, are more concerned with the Real News in all this: What beer did they drink?
Obama was drinking Bud Light. Gates was drinking Samuel Adams and Officer Crowley had a Blue Moon. Here’s the scoop on the brews:
Bud Light: One of the best-selling beers in America, it’s Anheuser-Busch’s flagship light beer with 4.2% ABV and 110 calories per 12 ounce serving. It’s also the bestselling beer in America.
Blue Moon: The Belgian-Style wheat is brewed by the Molson Coors Brewing Company in Toronto, Ontario. The perfect summer brew is orange-amber in color with a cloudy appearance because it is unfiltered and boasts a pronounced orange flavor. It is 171 calories per 12-ounce serving and 5.4 percent ABV.
Samuel Adams Boston Lager: The original recipe was developed in 1860 in St. Louis, Missouri by Louis Koch, who sold under the name Louis Koch Lager until Prohibition, and again until the early 1950s. It contains 4.9% ABV.
Buckler: Owned by Heineken International, the low alcohol (0.5% ABV) pale lager is crisp and light. It was launched in the summer of 1988 and is distributed worldwide.
Turns out American beer makers didn’t like these choices.
BTW, although the President was fascinated by the fascination in this ‘event,’ why didn’t this obviously sexist pig summit include the woman who called 911 and started it all?
And for those of you who, for some odd reason, actually think this summit was really about something and wasn’t a distraction from important crap like the economy, the war, yada yada, read this.
Mr. President Bartender, can we get another round? Hic!
LEE COUNTY — Elvis Rodriguez, 30, flashed Latin Kings hand signals on his MySpace.com page and called himself “King Kamel,” according to his arrest report. Richard Figueroa-Santiago, 22, used his MySpace page to post pictures of friends making “Eastside” hand gestures, detectives said.
Now, in the first cases of their kind in Florida and in the nation, both Lee County men face five years in state prison for the gang-related content of their Web pages. Their prosecutions are the first under a state law passed last year that criminalizes the use of electronic media to “promote” gangs. Attorneys for both are challenging the law as unconstitutional. “It violates his right to free speech, to associate,” said Joseph Cerino, Rodriguez’s lawyer. The bill’s sponsor, a retired police officer, calls the law a modern response to increasing gang violence in some Florida cities.
“We have seen from day one until now that none of our freedoms are absolute, and the freedom of expression is not absolute,” said Rep. William D. Snyder, R-Stuart. The defendants appear to share little in common — Rodriguez has been arrested seven times in the past 10 years for a variety of non-violent crimes. Figueroa-Santiago has no apparent criminal background and, according to his father, was a student at Southwest Florida College at the time of his arrest.
Both were nabbed in November as part of “Operation Firewall,” a slate of arrests by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office that netted 15 people, including a Bonita Springs felon charged with stockpiling weapons, six juveniles with flashy Myspace.com accounts and a pair of middle-aged men accused of recruiting gang members.
Their arrests came weeks after a new anti-gang law hit the state books. House Bill 43, a 95-page bill that created or tweaked some 35 different statutes, stiffened penalties for gang-related crimes, upping certain charges when a documented gang member is involved.
Idiots all the way around on this one.
Crackdown on peer-to-peer file-sharing following Obama ‘safe-house’ leak — Safe house? For what? I thought there were underground bunkers in Colorado.
The US is pondering a crackdown on peer-to-peer file sharing programs after details of a Secret Service safe-house location for President Barack Obama and his family were found being traded on LimeWire.
A senior US lawmaker has said that it may be time for the Government to regulate companies that provide online file-sharing services after several people managed to access confidential information.
Tanning beds are as deadly as mustard gas, arsenic, plutonium and other known carcinogens, international cancer experts have ruled. The International Agency for Research on Cancer yesterday moved UV tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation to its highest cancer risk category, removing any ambiguity about their threat by labelling them “carcinogenic to humans.”
The move was based on a comprehensive review of studies, which found the risk of skin melanoma increases by 75 per cent when the use of tanning devices starts before the age of 30. The report, by the agency’s Cancer Monograph Working Group, was published online Tuesday in the medical journal Lancet Oncology. The agency is the cancer arm of the World Health Organization.
Until now, ultraviolet radiation and UV tanning equipment have been classified as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” The new classification places them alongside other known cancer-causing agents, including asbestos, benzene and the human papillomavirus. Cancer experts and advocacy groups welcomed the elevated classification. “This is important … it is another piece of evidence one can point to from a very conservative and eminent body,” said Dr. David Hogg, a cancer physician at Princess Margaret Hospital. “It doesn’t change my opinion, which is tanning beds are a dangerous carcinogen and should not be used at all.
C’mon, did anyone really believe these things were safe?
The wing damage that grounded Boeing’s new composite 787 Dreamliner occurred under less stress than previously reported — and is more extensive.
An engineer familiar with the details said the damage happened when the stress on the wings was well below the load the wings must bear to be federally certified to carry passengers.
Found by Aric Mackey.
As transit systems expand, local police are getting a $1.9 million federal stimulus grant to add anti-terrorism officers.
The timing is good because the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel is now open 20 hours a day — to serve the new Sound Transit Link trains — instead of closing at 7 p.m., said Jim Jacobsen, deputy manager for King County Metro Transit.
Found by Aric Mackey.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials.
The proposal is awaiting final approval from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The officials would not be identified because the proposal from U.S. Northern Command’s Gen. Victor Renuart has not been approved by the secretary.
The plan calls for military task forces to work in conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. There is no final decision on how the military effort would be manned, but one source said it would likely include personnel from all branches of the military. It has yet to be determined how many troops would be needed and whether they would come from the active duty or the National Guard and Reserve forces.
Civilian authorities would lead any relief efforts in the event of a major outbreak, the official said. The military, as they would for a natural disaster or other significant emergency situation, could provide support and fulfill any tasks that civilian authorities could not, such as air transport or testing of large numbers of viral samples from infected patients.
Man, this just gets better and better.
TMZ obtained this photo of the Apple co-founder leaving company headquarters in Cupertino, California around 3:00 PM (Wednesday).
It’s the first time we’ve seen Jobs back in action since January, when he took a leave of absence for a liver transplant. Jobs has reportedly been back at work for about a month.
Har! John keeps asking for a photo of Steve Jobs back at Apple.
Daylife/Reuters Pictures used by permission
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Bernard Madoff has admitted that he cannot believe he got away with his $65bn fraud for so long, in his first interview since being jailed.
The disgraced financier chose to lift the lid on his crimes to lawyers who represent victims of his Ponzi scheme. According to San Francisco attorney Joseph Cotchett, Madoff was “very candid” and an “absolute gentleman” during their four-and-a-half hour meeting…
Madoff also admitted that “there were several times that I met with the SEC and thought ‘they got me’”…
It appears that Madoff was keen to speak to Cotchett to try to exonerate his wife. ABC News quoted Cotchett saying: “He cares about Ruth, but he doesn’t give a —- about his two sons, Mark and Andrew.”
Madoff is serving his sentence in the Butner Federal Prison, a medium-security facility in North Carolina.
Maybe if the SEC had investigators and administrators worth a fraction of their paychecks – maybe if they paid attention to their job description – he wouldn’t have belief problems. He’d be serving the second decade of his sentence by now.
A pregnant woman who has already had 13 children taken into care last night vowed to keep on giving birth until she is allowed to keep one.
Theresa Winters has spent almost half of her life having babies, but has not been allowed to keep any of them beyond the age of two. Even her own sister believes that she should be sterilised.
But Miss Winters, 36, a heavy smoker who was herself taken into care as a teenager, insisted it was time for a ‘second chance’.
She accused social workers of failing to help her achieve her deepest wish of having a family with her second partner, Tony Housden. She admitted that social services had probably made the right decision in removing her first 13 children because of neglect, but said she had ‘calmed down’ now.
Miss Winters, who is 25 weeks into her 14th pregnancy, said: ‘We feel like social services are treating us like murderers when we haven’t done anything.
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Speaking at her home in Northampton, Mrs Walls said: ‘Whenever I have asked her why she keeps getting pregnant when she knows the baby will be taken off her she says, I don’t give a s*** – I just want the Government to pay for them.
When Wal-Mart announced in 2008 that it was pulling down the DRM servers behind its (nearly unused) online music store, the Internet suffered a collective aneurysm of outrage, eventually forcing the retail giant to run the servers for another year. Buying DRMed content, then having that content neutered a few months later, seemed to most consumers not to be fair.
But that’s not quite how Big Content sees things—just ask Steven Metalitz, the Washington DC lawyer who represents the MPAA, RIAA, and other rightsholders before the Copyright Office. Because the Copyright Office is in the thick of its triennial DMCA review process, in which it will decide to allow certain exemptions to the rules against cracking DRM, Metalitz has been doing plenty of representation of late.
He has now responded to a host of questions from the Copyright Office following up on live hearings held earlier this year, and in those comments, Metalitz (again) strongly opposes any exemption that would allow users to legally strip DRM from content if a store goes dark and takes down its authentication servers.
Saw this advertisement in the free newspaper I read in the morning while travelling on the train to London. The paper is called ‘Metro’. Reading the symptoms described, swine flu seems to be almost the same as regular flu. Maybe I should buy stock from the company that makes Tamiflu.
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