Year: 2013

Staring Down The Enemy – Breast Cancer

Updates on what’s happening on the breast cancer frontlines. Use what you can, pass the rest on. MUTATED HEREDITY BRCA1 and BRCA2 are human genes that belong to a class of genes known as tumor suppressors. Mutation of these genes has been linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. A woman’s risk of developing breast… Continue reading Staring Down The Enemy – Breast Cancer

Stand Your Ground: Marissa Alexander To Get New Trial

Marissa Alexander, the African-American woman who was sentenced to 20 years for discharging a firearm in Florida despite pleading Stand Your Ground against her husband, will get a new trial. Alexander, 32, said she fired a bullet at the ceiling because she was afraid of her husband. No one was injured. It took 12 minutes for… Continue reading Stand Your Ground: Marissa Alexander To Get New Trial

Next For Samsung – Smart Phones with Curved Display

Curved displays are an early stage in screen evolution which is shifting to bendable or foldable designs, eventually allowing mobile and wearable gadgets to take on new forms that could radically change the high-end smartphone market. “We plan to introduce a smartphone with a curved display in South Korea in October,” Samsung’s mobile business head of strategic marketing D.J. Lee said… Continue reading Next For Samsung – Smart Phones with Curved Display

Republican Peter King: Ted Cruz “is a Fraud”

The wedge between the establishment GOP and the Tea Party gets driven deeper with each passing day, and got a good whack yesterday when House Republican media darling Peter King had something to say about the Senator from Calgary: “My sound bite is to say he’s a fraud,” Mr. King said. “I start with that,… Continue reading Republican Peter King: Ted Cruz “is a Fraud”

Gun Group Plans to Give Away Shotguns in Florida

We already hold the record for the most guns on iur streets with an armed population like no other in the world. And naturally with all those guns floating around, we also hold the record for the most gun-related deaths worldwide with mass shootings quickly becoming the norm. These disturbing distinctions and the record setting… Continue reading Gun Group Plans to Give Away Shotguns in Florida

Don’t Call It a Filibuster, It’s a Long Boring Speech

There are some Republican voters out there praising Ted Cruz for his one man “filibuster” of Obamacare. These poor uninformed folks think that what Cruz is doing will eventually result in the law being dismantled, or straight up voided by the Democrats and the President. Ted Cruz is their hero. As far as they are… Continue reading Don’t Call It a Filibuster, It’s a Long Boring Speech

Ted Cruz Said His Father Invented Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Seuss may have written Green Eggs and Ham, but Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Tuesday that his dad invented them. Cruz was well over an hour into his symbolic filibuster of a government spending bill that would defund Obamacare when he made the surprising claim. He was fondly reminiscing about how his father had… Continue reading Ted Cruz Said His Father Invented Green Eggs and Ham

Manhattan and Brooklyn Will Share 2015 NBA All-Star Weekend

It was well rumored, but the rumor will finally be being confirmed to be true. According to this tweet from  NY Post Marc Berman, the official announcement that the 2015 All-Star weekend will be split between Madison Square Garden in Manhattan and The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, will be made by the NBA in a… Continue reading Manhattan and Brooklyn Will Share 2015 NBA All-Star Weekend

ObamaCare Explained – Even a Two-Year Old Will Understand – Video

Okay. So apparently some of you have complained that it was too complicated to understand Obamacare. Maybe you’ve listened to the Republicans talk about the 2000+ pages of the law and the government red tape it entails. Well complain no more (and while you’re at it, switch off the Republican commentators spewing non factual talking… Continue reading ObamaCare Explained – Even a Two-Year Old Will Understand – Video

Rick Santorum Agrees with Ted Cruz on Government Shutdown

Did you know that Obamacare is everything that’s wrong with the Government? And if you cannot defund or repeal Obamacare, then nothing else matters and the government might as well shut down? Well that is the stance that Republicans have taken recently since their leader Ted Cruz forced a House vote stating just that –… Continue reading Rick Santorum Agrees with Ted Cruz on Government Shutdown