People like the Koch brothers are accustomed to having their own way. The right winged media bows to their every command, so they obviously have some pull in those media outlets. But the brothers apparently got carried away when they sent Rachel Maddow some talking points an expected the MSNBC host to read their demands on air, to her audience.
Needless to say, Rachel happily put them in their place. “NO, I won’t read your script,” Maddow said in last night’s show.
Maddow previously highlighted a failed policy in Florida where the Republican governor tried to drug-test poor people applying for assistance from the state. This failed policy was funded in part by the Koch brothers and they were not happy hearing how Maddow covered their involvement. So they sent her a script expecting her to read their defense on her show.
President Obama used his first weekly address of 2014 to urge Republicans to joint Democrats in doing what they should for the unemployed – extending unemployment insurance.
For decades, Republicans and Democrats put partisanship and ideology aside to offer some security for job-seekers, even when the unemployment rate was lower than it is today. Instead of punishing families who can least afford it, Republicans should make it their New Year’s resolution to do the right thing, and restore this vital economic security for their constituents right now.
After all, our focus as a country this year shouldn’t be shrinking our economy, but growing it; not narrowing opportunity, but expanding it; not fewer jobs, but doing everything we can to help our businesses create more of the good jobs that a growing middle class requires.
They may look like perfectly crafted sculptures or delicately etched pictures – but a father-daughter team say these images took far less effort.
Photographer Nelson Jones and his daughter Hillary told MyFoxDC that the pair created the pictures by pressing their faces in the snow and then taking snaps of the indents.
Speaking with Fox, Jones explained that the pair had been shoveling snow outside their Washington D.C. home on Friday morning and commented on how fresh it looked.
Ice work: Nelson Jones and his daughter Hillary pushed their faces into the snow outside their D.C. home and snapped a picture of it. When they looked at the photo they were shocked to see it looked 3D
There’s snow stopping them: They made a series of faces on the snow and were shocked at the results
His daughter suggested that they stick their faces in the snow on the roof of the car, so they gave it ago, ‘and so the crazy, 3D snow face plant pic was born!’, Fox reported.
Jones said that the resulting image on his daughter’s iPhone surprised them as the dents did not look 3D to the naked eye.
While Fox insisted that the images were real, others expressed their skepticism at the level of detail.
‘I take extreme issue with the very fine detail of Jones’ face, one wrote on Facebook. ‘You realize how clay like the snow would have to be, how firm yet soft? How much pressure would need to be applied and depth to get into the lines?’
Bizarre: They said that the 3D faces weren’t visible until they took photos of the snow, using a flash
Snow lies here: They insisted the indents were really created by their faces as skeptics called them fakes
He also asked why there were no indents from items such as hats or coats. But Fox insisted the images were created with nothing but their faces, adding of Jones: ‘He was as suprised as we are!’
The images come after the area was blanketed with snow throughout Thursday night, with residents seeing anything between two and four inches.
They also suffered bitterly cold temperatures, with the mercury plummeting to its lowest level so far this season of 16 degrees. Forecasters said it felt more like -1 degree due to the wind.
Snow hit other areas across the Northeast even harder; there were between six and 10 inches reported around New York City, nine inches in Philadelphia and nearly 14 inches in Boston.
I’m not trying to make this apology a political issue, but this is just another example of the vast difference between Democrats and Republicans.
On December 29th Melissa Harris Perry, host at MSNBC, aired a show featuring a group of comedians to reflect on some of the news that caught their attention during the year 2013. It was a panel of comedians, so naturally the segment’s intent was comedic. What caused the controversy was a picture Melissa showed of the Romney’s grand kids, showing Mitt Romney’s black adopted grandson. Melissa’s panel of comedians offered various ‘jokes’ about the Romney clan and the Republican media went insane, demanding an immediate apology.
Among those calling for an apology was, of course, Sarah Palin. Palin took to her Facebook page and called the comedic segment “despicable.” She wrote;
“Leftist media hounds are not expressing an opinion with this attack; they are expressing a prejudice that would never be accepted if it came from anyone else but the lib[eral] media. This latest attack from the Left is despicable.”
So today, one week after her episode aired, Melissa Perry offered an apology. A tearful, heartfelt apology. Will anyone on the right ever apologize for anything they’ve said? Will Sarah Palin apologize for her careless slavery analogy that caused Martin Bashir to lose his job at MSNBC? Will Rush Limbaugh issue an apology to Sandra Fluke and all the women for all the insensitive things he’s said over the last 20 years?
Of course they wont. And that’s the difference between us and them.
Time is money, especially if you are launching a business. As you kick off the new year, let go of old habits and focus on becoming more efficient.
From figuring out the perfect sleep temperature to dumping the clutter from your desk and learning how to let go of “perfect,” streamlining everyday tasks can lead to a more productive lifestyle, according to San Francisco-based startup organization Funders and Founders.
Want to know more ways to become more productive? Check out the series of infographics below.
CAN THE MOVIE THEATER BE SAVED? WHILE HOLLYWOOD STICKS WITH THE SAME OLD IDEAS–BIGGER, PRICIER BLOCKBUSTERS–THESE OUTSIDERS ARE MAKING REAL CHANGES.
STACY SPIKES
Cofounder and CEO , MoviePass
The former Miramax executive’s subscription service works at almost any movie theater. For $35 a month, users can see one movie a day–any movie, at any time.
THE SUBSCRIBER
1. REMAKE THE MODEL
“‘Raise prices 5% every year’ can’t be the future. Millennials consume media in subscriptions– Netflix, Hulu–and we need to take that seriously. It’s not that disruptive. We could put AMC or Regal Crown memberships right into our app and become an extension of those programs. We build loyalty.”
2. FIT THE RIGHT MOLD
“Our system works within the theaters’ Subscribers select the movie and showtime on our app, which unlocks a debit card to purchase the ticket. MoviePass pays the theater the full price, and we sell in-app advertising. The strategy has helped us reach roughly 4,500 theaters across every state.”
3. FIND HIDDEN BENEFITS
“Theaters are open all day but are only crowded for a fraction of that. In a survey last year, we increased theater traffic 64%, users consumed more concessions, and they doubled their visits at off-peak times. Basically, we helped theaters make more money during the times they’re already open.”
4. BE AN EASY PARTNER
“When we talk to major theater chains, we stress our robust customer service. That isn’t just for our own customers; that’s so a user’s poor experience goes directly to us and nobody blames the theater. That really helps the theater see us as a friend, not a potential liability.”
Buzzfeed has 22 other selfies you should definitely check out. But this selfie pictured below is, as far as I’m concerned, the best and most impressive I’ve seen so far.
Imagine the difficulty level he must have faced, lifting that phone to take his pic. Looks like an apple to me.
The NYPD says they have arrested a man suspected of committing six unprovoked assaults in Brooklyn, including an alleged assault on a woman walking with her 7-year-old child in Midwood last week. He has been charged with six counts of assault as a hate crime, along with several additional attempted assault and harassment charges.
Barry Baldwin, a 35-year-old Brooklyn resident, was arrested and charged for numerous alleged attacks that appear to fit the “knockout” assault profile—in which a victim is sucker-punched at random—that span from November 9th to December 27th of this year. The allegations include a November 9th incident involving a 78-year-old woman, who was attacked in Midwood; Baldwin is also accused of attacking a 20-year-old woman in Bensonhurst, two elderly woman in Canarsie, and a 35-year-old woman in Canarsie, in addition to the attack on the aforementioned 33-year-old woman in Midwood.
The NYPD believes Baldwin’s most recent assault was on December 27th; he is also accused of attempted to hit a 38-year-old woman in Canarsie, but the NYPD says he missed and the victim was able to escape. There has been a lot of debate as to whether the so-called “knockout” attacks are a dangerous trend or merely overhyped by the media, and in announcing Baldwin’s arrest, the NYPD did not use the word “knockout.” Two weeks ago, a group of pre-teens ages 10, 11 and 14 were arrested in connection to “knockout”-like attacks, and they were all charged with assault, endangerment and criminal mischief.
Cold: Denitra Green allegedly drove away as her cohort stole Jay Z tickets from a seller they’d connected through on Craigslist. The seller clung to their car and was dragged, disfigured and then run over
A Houston man was disfigured and nearly killed when the women he was selling Jay Z tickets to sped away as he leaned into their car, leaving him clinging desperately to the door handle.
The unnamed victim begged Denitra Green and Cessica Darden, both 20, to stop the car but police say Green continued speeding away while Darden kicked at his hands in an attempt to get him to fall off.
As Darden’s baby sat in the backseat, Green continued to drive after the car ran over the man’s nearly lifeless body.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Darden had told the victim they’d need to meet in a parking lot, with her in the car, because she was unable to leave her young child.
Court documents indicate that the man held on to the speeding vehicle at the back seat, right beside where Darden’s child sat.
‘[Darden] kicked his arm so hard, they broke it,’ the victim’s attorney Andino Reynal told KTRK. ‘It was a clean break. He’s going to have to have surgery. When the arm broke, he came off the car and the car ran over his legs.’
The man broke a leg, an arm, tore a knee cap, and suffered disfiguring facial wounds.
‘He was begging them and instead of stopping, they drove faster,’ Reynal said.
He will in all likelihood live out his life with diminished use of his right hand and one of his legs.
The man remained in the hospital Thursday in the wake of the devastating December 15 incident and faces plastic surgeries and the possibility of never regaining the use of some fingers thanks to extensive broken bones and horrific road rash.
Horrific: The unidentified victim will require plastic surgery and may never fully regain the use of his right hand or one of his legs. He suffered a broken arm, leg, and horrible road rash on his face
Horrified witnesses gave the police the car’s license plate number.
The victim was also able to provide the contact information the women had used leading up to their meeting.
But they were led to the suspects by way of something far more shocking: police went to the December 19 concert and found them in seats matching those for which the victim had been selling tickets on Craigslist.
The witnesses and victim would later identify Green in a lineup. She was then arrested.
Police said the women admitted to the crime and showed no remorse even after being shown pictures of the grisly injuries they allegedly caused the man.
Green has now made her $30,000 bond. As of Thursday evening, Darden remained at large.
Scene: The victim told police that Darden wanted to meet him while inside the car at this Houston Starbucks because she had her baby with her
This is a very simple challenge. So simple, anyone can do it.
For the 52 weeks of the year, put some money aside. You decide the amount based on the week you’re in. For example, for the first week of January (week 1), put $1 in your savings. For the second week of January (week 2), put $2 in your savings. It goes on and on for each week… for the 7th week of the year, deposit $7. For the 18th week, deposit $18.
Here’s the guarantee – if you continue this process for the entire year, you will save $1378 by the 52nd week of the year when you make your last deposit of $52.
Have you ever wondered why you are not losing weight after following the exact same diet as your best friend and she manages to lose those 10 pounds fast and easy? Ever asked yourself why you get sick so often or why is your immune system so weak?
Are you eating the right foods for your blood type? It is important to learn how your blood type affects your health and wellness, same as your weight and believe it or not your blood type makes you more susceptible to certain diseases.
Why does this happen? We understand that there are four blood groups A, B, AB and O, and that blood type is determined by genetics. There are certain antigens (these could be proteins, carbohydrates and glycoproteins) that when they enter the body, the immune system produces antibodies against them. We respond differently to these antigens depending on our blood type.
Blood is classified by: New: AB
Old: O
Agrarian: A
Nomadic: B
Blood type and diet: Certain foods such as legumes contain a carbohydrate-binding protein called lectin. This substance is most likely to cause inflammation in the body, but it will produce stronger reactions in certain blood types. Therefore it can make you more susceptible to certain diseases and other factors like fatigue, poor digestion and weight gain.
There are a lot of chemical reactions going on in our bodies all day long, digestion is one of them and our blood type can affect how we digest the food, meaning it will be crucial in terms of weight loss or weight gain
Blood Type O Recommended to eat:
-High-protein found in meat and fish
-Reduce carb intake
-Avoid diary
Blood Type A Recommended to eat:
-Vegetarian diet (lots of veggies!)
-Grains (beans, legumes)
Blood Type B Recommended to eat:
-Red Meat (avoid chicken)
-Dairy
-Fruits and vegetables
Blood Type AB Recommended to eat:
-Lean meat
-Dairy
-Seafood
-Vegetables and legumes
Blood types and diseases: As previously mentioned every blood type is different because of their antigens located on the surface of the red blood cells. Each blood type creates certain defenses to help fight diseases.
Blood type and personality:
Blood Type O -Outgoing
-Initiators
-Creative
-Social
-Confident. Blood Type A -Most likely to be calm
-Perfectionists
-Most artistic
-Bold
-Trustworthy
-Sensitive Blood Type B -Goal oriented
– Strong minded
-Independent Blood Type AB -Split personalities: outgoing and shy
-Confident and timid
-Responsible
-Care a lot for others
Blood type and fertility: Women chances of fertility are different in different blood groups; this happens due to the fact that the amount of a hormone called follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) varies, depending on the blood type.
Some studies to prove this theory show that women with blood types A and AB were generally less likely than others to produce the follicle-stimulating hormone.
Please note that according to many nutritionists, there is not enough scientific evidence to support these claims, and if you’re among those who manage their diet based on scientific evidence, then you have to wait for more results to come up.
These people are absolutely disgusting and that’s not just my opinion. Even the people who visited the Facebook post – some of them conservatives – let their feelings known, causing the owner of the page to remove the picture.
The group called America the next Generation, thought it was proper to display a picture showing a noose being placed around a man’s neck with the president’s face superimposed on the man’s body. A graphic had the words “The making if a National Holiday,” implying that the killing of the president would be celebrated as a national holiday.
Although some people were agreed the idea of the picture, the outrage was apparently too much. American the next Generation eventually removed the picture with a clarification that it was taken down out of respect for the page’s supporters who did not feel that killing the legally elected President of the United States was an appropriate way to handle a dislike of the man.
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