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Vomit. Slinkerwink, please stop exporting your lunatic governors...
Perry's busy schedule signals his political plans, aides say
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry appears to be bounding toward a full-scale plunge into the 2012 presidential race with visits to two early battleground states this week, where he is likely to tout Texas' robust economic growth and job creation while President Barack Obama struggles against an onslaught of bad economic news.
Perry is expected to remove any lingering doubt that he is running for president when he appears before a gathering of conservatives at the third annual RedState conference in Charleston, S.C., on Saturday, according to a report in Politico on Monday.
Later Saturday, he heads to New Hampshire to meet with potential supporters at the home of a state representative.
This article makes me wonder what abuses undocumented workers in America face.
Saudi beheading fuels backlash in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia — As leader of Indonesia’s — and the world’s — largest Muslim organization, Said Aqil Siraj used to get pelted with angry e-mails and text messages whenever he questioned Saudi Arabia’s rigid, ultra-puritanical take on Islam.
But the often menacing messages recently stopped — cut off by a single stroke from a Saudi executioner’s sword to the neck of an Indonesian maid in Mecca.
“Now I don’t get sent anything,” Siraj said. He is glad to be out of the firing line, at least for the moment, but is appalled that it took the beheading of a 54-year-old Indonesian grandmother to quiet abuse by supporters of Saudi-style Islam.
Obama plan: Destroy Romney
Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s re-election campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background, a strategy grounded in the early stage expectation that the former Massachusetts governor is the likely GOP nominee.
The dramatic and unabashedly negative turn is the product of political reality. Obama remains personally popular, but pluralities in recent polling disapprove of his handling of his job and Americans fear the country is on the wrong track. His aides are increasingly resigned to running for re-election in a glum nation. And so the candidate who ran on “hope” in 2008 has little choice four years later but to run a slashing, personal campaign aimed at disqualifying his likeliest opponent.
I bet the Fox News headlines reads, "Government wastes millions of taxpayer dollars to show that monkeys are nice"
It turns out chimps do show selfless behavior
Chimpanzees, long considered reluctant to share, apparently can display selfless tendencies, revealing one more key way our closest living relatives are like humans, scientists find.
These findings could shed light on the evolution of altruism in humans, showing that selflessness is less of an anomaly among our relatives than before suggested, researchers added.
In recent years, research has revealed just how much chimpanzees have in common with us. They can hunt with spears, play with improvised dolls and mourn their dead.
You'll want to read this if you own an Android.
10-year-old girl hacker discovers smartphone security flaw
The young hacker, whose real name has not been disclosed, presented her findings at the Defcon conference in Las Vegas as part of a competition to find the next generation of computer security experts.
Going by the hacker name “CyFi”, she found that she could manually advance the clock in unnamed games to avoid waiting for virtual crops to grow. Independent researchers have confirmed the vulnerability.
She told CNET: “It was hard to make progress in the game, because it took so long for things to grow. So I thought, 'Why don't I just change the time?’”