Month: May 2013

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Man Walks Away With Community Service, After Almost Beating Girlfriend To Death

A thug who attacked his girlfriend in the street has walked free from court after magistrates told him a community sentence is ‘tougher’ than prison.

Toby Hayden, 27, hit his partner of two years in a drunken rage when a cash machine told him he had insufficient funds to withdraw money.

He repeatedly punched Loretta Butterworth, 22, in an assault that ended only when passers-by heard her screaming ‘please help me’.

When police arrived to arrest Hayden, he spat in the face of one officer and tried to gouge out the eyes of another.

 But despite being on a suspended sentence for a previous violent crime, magistrates sentenced him to an 18-month community order with 200 hours of unpaid work and ordered him to complete an anger management course.

Miss Butterworth, who had once considered having children with Hayden, said he had ‘no remorse’ and criticised magistrates for letting him off.

She said she looked ‘like a zombie’ after the attack and still has the outline of a footprint on her forehead.

She added: ‘When I found out that he had walked free my heart sank. I was shocked and angry.

‘He definitely should have gone to prison. He had previous convictions, he had been violent to people before, he was on probation when it happened.

h/t Mail Online

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Chris Matthews Politics

Chris Matthews is Apparently Auditioning for a Fox News Show

Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s Hardball seems to be auditioning for a show of Fox News. Over the last few nights on his program, Matthews has taken the unusual position of hauling unwarranted attacks on the President, questioning the President’s leadership skills and wondering if Mr. Obama has any idea what is happening in America.

Here is an example of how Matthews is updating his resume with some Fox News talking points;

“What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn’t like dealing with other politicians — that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn’t particularly like the press…. He likes to write the speeches, likes to rewrite what Favreau and the others wrote for the first draft.

“So what part does he like? He likes going on the road, campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple days somewhere in Ohio or somewhere,” Matthews continued. “But what part does he like? He doesn’t like lobbying for the bills he cares about. He doesn’t like selling to the press. He doesn’t like giving orders or giving somebody the power to give orders. He doesn’t seem to like being an executive.”

Matthews also said that the President, who gave him a thrill up his leg back in the 2008 campaign, “obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch.”

The people at Fox News are taking notes.

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News

Boston Bomber Wrote “F*ck America” While Hiding In Boat

He thought he was going to die. And while feeling around in his hiding place, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found a pen and wrote what he thought was his final message to the world, explaining why the bombings occured.

The 19-year-old found a pen in the boat but no paper so it was revealed today that he wrote his message on an interior wall of the boat that he used as shelter in Watertown.

His message was clear: ‘F*** America’.

In other portions of his message, ABC News reports that he wrote ‘Praise Allah’ and mentioned ‘infidels’ across the interior walls of the boat that are now riddled with bullets.

Law enforcement sources told CBS that Dzhokhar wrote that he ‘does not mourn’ the death of his older brother Tamerlan because he is a martyr living in ‘paradise’ and that he expected to join him there soon.

The note is a critical piece of evidence for police as it reiterates what Dzhokhar said to them  in the hospital after his arrest.

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Health

Human Embryonic Stem Cells Successfully Cloned

Next step… cloning babies. Not sure if I’m ready for that step.

Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University have successfully created human embryonic stem cells by cloning.

By doing so, the science community has taken a giant step toward developing replacement tissue to treat diseases and could also be a step toward the day when cloned babies could be a possibility.

The scientists took skin cells from an eight month old baby with a genetic disease and combined them with donated human eggs. The result was human embryos that were genetically identical to the baby. They were then able to extract stem cells from these created embryos.

This technique is basically the same process that was used to create Dolly the sheep and many of the cloned animals that have followed although in those cases the created embryos were implanted in the womb of surrogate mothers.

Dolly was a domesticated sheep and the first mammal to be successfully cloned. She was the only lamb that survived into adulthood of 227 attempts.  She died at age six even though the life expectancy of her breed of sheep is usually 11 or 12. She died of a progressive lung disease which is fairly common in sheep.  If is not believed that her early death was related to her creation process but there will always be some doubt.

The Oregon researchers, led by Prof. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, did not implant their human embryos and said they had no intention of doing so. Despite the fact that dozens of animals have been cloned using this technique, called nuclear transfer, human cells have remained stubbornly resistant to the process.

 

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Beauty

50 Crazy Facts about Hair

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Benghazi Benghazi Politics

Emails Reveal No Wrong Doing by White House on Benghazi Crisis

There was an active investigation going on in reference to what happened and who was responsible for the embassy attack in Benghazi.

The emails show that the State Department and the CIA wanted to use the correct language, to allow the investigation to proceed without opinions on what might have happened.

The Obama administration released 100 pages of emails Wednesday that reveal differences between intelligence analysts and State Department officials over how to describe the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. post in Benghazi, Libya.

The internal debate did not include political interference from the White House, according to the emails, which were provided to Congressional intelligence committees several months ago.

Since the assault that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Republicans have accused President Obama and his senior advisers of mischaracterizing the attack, largely to prevent political repercussions during what was then a close re-election campaign.

Much of the Republican concern has focused on whether administration officials acknowledged early enough that an Islamist terrorist organization was behind the attack, rather than groups of demonstrators participating in anti-American protests outside many U.S. diplomatic missions in the Middle East and North Africa.

According to the emails and initial CIA-drafted talking points, the agency believed the attack included a mix of Islamist extremists from Ansar al-Sharia, an al-Qaeda affiliated group, and angry demonstrators.

White House officials did not challenge that analysis, the emails show.

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Healthcare

A Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest – What’s The Difference?

Many people use heart attack and cardiac arrest interchangeably, but they are actually two entirely different medical conditions. Here are the differences between the two.

Heart attacks are usually painful attacks that are caused by blockage of the arteries that send blood to the heart. The medical term for heart attack is myocardial infarction. Many people do not recognize the symptoms of heart attacks and may wait hours before going to the emergency room.

Seeking medical attention as soon as possible is critical as this may prevent further damage to the heart and possible death. During a heart attack, the patient is awake and the heart continues to beat

 Cardiac “arrest” means just that. The heart is arrested, or stops beating. This is known as sudden cardiac arrest. Patients are also in cardiac arrest when they collapse and their breathing is abnormal. Without CPR and immediate medical treatment, patients in cardiac arrest can die within just minutes. When a person collapses, is unresponsive, and is not breathing normally, they are most likely experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. Whether or not the victim survives depends largely upon the immediate response by those in close proximity to the victim to keep the heart beating.

h/t –affordablehealthinsurance
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75-Year Old Man Arrested For Running Prostitution Ring At Senior Home

What is the world coming to? James Parham, an elderly man in Englewood, New Jersey, is being accused of running a prostitution ring out of a senior home living facility. According to police, the operation employed both older residents who lived at the facility, and younger women who did not.

Parham, 75, and his alleged co-conspirator, Cheryl Chaney, 66, are also being accused of allowing the use of drugs in their units. Both are being charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and maintaining a nuisance.

Police say drug use was not only happening within the units, but also in the hallways, stairwells, and lobby of the senior living facility. Some residents said they feared for their lives because of the criminal element at the complex. One even told local reporters that he was aware of the prostitution ring.

So far, no prostitutes were arrested.

h/t – blacknews

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Entertainment Movies Music Television

Jaime Foxx Working On Scripted Series Based on Relationship with his Daughter

Jamie Foxx and TNT have decided to turn the pair’s father-daughter relationship into a new scripted series for the network.

The new show will be titled “Dad, Stop Embarrassing Me,” and will follow this premise:

Every teenager is embarrassed by his/her parents. But what if your dad decided to descend upon your life in every way? Inspired by Jamie Foxx’s relationship with his 18-year-old daughter, this comedy explores the dynamic between a parent and a child and all the embarrassment that comes with it.

Jamie Foxx will executive produce and handle scripting along with a couple other people, which means he’ll likely be completely off-screen rather than in front of it as we usually see. And even though the show is only based on Jamie’s relationship with his daughter.

 

h/t/ –madamenoire

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Entertainment Movies Television

Zoe Saldana Confirms Her Bisexuality

     
Zoe Saldana is open to finding love, whether it’s with a man or woman.The Star Trek Into Darkness star raised a few eyebrows when she revealed that she may “end up with a woman raising my children,” in the June issue of Allure magazine.

“That’s how androgynous I am”

The 34-year-old went on to say that when she finds love again she won’t second guess it. “If I have something good in front of me, it doesn’t matter if it’s a person or a pair of shoes, I’m not going to test something else”

h/t – hellobeautiful
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Entertainment Music Television

NEW MUSIC: SYLEENA JOHNSON FEAT. MUSIQ SOULCHILD – FEEL THE FIRE

Syleena Johnson and Musiq Soulchild get us ready for the summer with a reggae influenced record, “Feel the Fire,” the official single from their upcoming collaborative album, 9INE.

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News Politics taxes

Acting IRS Chief Resigns, Obama Condemns ‘Inexcusible’ Targeting of Tea Party Groups

President Obama announced on Wednesday that the Internal Revenue Service acting commissioner Steven Miller has submitted his resignation for his agency’s “inexcusable” targeting of conservative groups who had applied for tax-exempt status.

“I reviewed the Treasury Department watchdog’s report and the misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable,” Obama said in the East Room of the White House. “Americans have a right to be angry about it, and I’m angry about it.”

“I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency but especially at the IRS given the power that it has and the reach it has inside of our lives,” he added.

His comments come after the Treasury Inspector General released a report on Tuesday implicating “poor management” for allowing the practice to singling out groups with names like “tea party” or “patriot” in their names for additional scrutiny.

Obama said that he intends to hold the “responsible parties accountable” and pledged to work with Congress and the Treasury department to investigate the problems at the IRS and ensure that it never happens again.

h/t/ – ABCNEWS

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