The Pope sayz about the AIDS problem:
"You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."

No Sh*t. Condoms are not a resolution to AIDS, they are a preventative and inhibitive measure. Now, how the hell do they increase the problem? He thinks this because he operates from the belief that sex for pleasure is wrong! dumbass. Sex is an innate human desire and has been happening forever and will continue to happen. AIDS proves this...it shows the level of sexual activity that HAS ALWAYS been going on, only now we have a disease to deal with. this ignorant mentality really pisses me off. When are we going to get beyond all these outdated, unintellectual idealisms. christ. power thirsty, know-it-all, old men...ingorant of the evidence and common sense that is reality! arrrrgh Let millions people suffer from your ignorance, and millions more suffer with it because they follow your ways of stupidity.

"Instead, his opposition to condoms conveys that religious dogma is more important to him than the lives of Africans," said Hodes, director of policy, communication and research for the action campaign.

While she said the pope is correct that condoms are not the sole solution to Africa's AIDS epidemic, she said they are one of the very few HIV prevention mechanisms proven to work.

Source = USA Today

Home Depot cofounder Bernie Marcus blew a gasket, spewing outrage in all directions..."As a shareholder, if I knew the CEO of the company wasn't doing anything on [EFCA]...I would sue the son of a bitch," he foamed. "If a retailer has not gotten involved in this...he should be shot. They should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs."
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"It is a political nightmare and a public policy disaster," shrieked a PR flack for a corporate front group opposing this legislation. He even claims that top executives "are ready to riot in the street about it." Now that's exciting! I, for one, would pay to watch a horde of red-faced, Gucci-clad, CEOs rioting, wouldn't you?
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What EFCA does is to restore workers' freedom to organize themselves into unions so they can bargain with corporate chieftains for fairer wages and benefits. That's it. Wait, you might say, can't they do that now? Wasn't this settled back in the 1930s with collective bargaining laws and creation of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to protect worker rights?

Source = Alternet

Embattled financial giant Citigroup Inc., which has received at least $50 billion in federal bailout funds, hosted a private conference call on Wednesday to build opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act.

"Citigroup and the Chamber of Commerce have no shame," said Stephen Lerner, director of the Private Equity Project at SEIU. "One day, Citi issues a report claiming it would hurt the stock of the Billionaire Walton family if free choice passes and workers win decent wages. Then they follow it up with a conference call where the Chamber of Commerce claims paying workers a living wage is bad for the economy."

"Let's remember, these are the same business 'experts' who brought us the housing crisis, record unemployment and the stock market collapse," said Lerner. "Now they're trying to tell us that raising wages, growing the middle class and putting more money in workers' pockets is somehow bad for the economy. American workers' patience for economic theory from wealthy corporate interests wore thin about two bailouts ago."

Sources: CREDO
Huffington Post

"Fear begets fear," Lawrence Summers, the president's director of the National Economic Council, told a forum.

"It is this transition from an excess of greed to an excess of fear that President Roosevelt had in mind when he famously observed that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself," Summers said. "It is this transition that has happened in the United States today."

Source = Yahoo News

http://community.ti.com/media/p/11647.aspx

This embedded development hardware is amazing.

"We're talking about an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences, including the Human Genome, huge amounts of chemistry data, machine readable encyclopedic entries about millions of different topics and an entire dump of Wikipedia. US Census data, data from the US Department of Transportation and more. It's all accessible by web applications in no time at all."

Imagine the possibilities!!! I am drooling :P~

Source - ReadWriteWeb

Source - InfoWorld

When Schwarzenegger originally started his push for governor i was very skeptical. I thought, "oh, no. another hollywood douch (doo'sh) using fame to obtain political power. This guy has turned out to actually be somewhat intelligent and most importantly has realistic perspectives on life and has good values that influence his policy decisions. blahblah

I hope this bodes well for communications future. Net Neutrality is a good thing. Much better than the previous money-driven leadership that Bush allowed - fiasco.

Source = CNET

"The United States will be vigorously engaged in the pursuit of a two-state solution every step of the way," Clinton said. "The road ahead, we acknowledge, is a difficult one, but there is no time to waste."

At the aid conference, Clinton maintained Washington's tough line against Hamas and was adamant no money would go to the Islamist group, saying it must recognize Israel, renounce violence and sign on to past Israeli-Palestinian agreements if it wanted to come out of isolation.

-- This makes me feel better about the entire situation over there...phew. Now, as long as Netanyahu does not go rogue on us...

Source = Reuters

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ruled out the use of "waterboarding" as an interrogation technique for terrorism suspects on Monday, calling it a form of torture that the Obama administration could never condone..."Waterboarding is torture ... My Justice Department will not justify it, will not rationalize it and will not condone it," Holder, who is heading a review of the treatment of terrorism suspects, said in a speech to the Jewish Council of Public Affairs in Washington."

""Living our values doesn't make us weaker, it makes us safer and it makes us stronger. And that is why I can stand here tonight and say without exception or equivocation that the United States of America does not torture," Obama said."
SMART MAN! Can you believe we actually have an intelligent president? What a refresher!

Article from Reuters (click here to read)