| American Meat Institute Calls WCRF Panel Recommendations on Meat ...
Institute Says Alarmist Messages Reflect Group's Anti-Meat Bias, Stand in Sharp Contrast to U.S. Dietary Guidelines and Plain Common Sense WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Meat Institute (AMI) today said that World Cancer Research Fund's (WCRF) recommendations to limit red and processed meat intake to extremely low levels reflect WCRF's well-known anti-meat bias and should be met with skepticism because they oversimplify the complex issue of cancer, are not supported by the data and defy common sense. "WCRF's conclusions are extreme, unfounded and out of step with dietary guidelines," said AMI Foundation Vice President of Scientific Affairs Randy Huffman, Ph.D. "Headlines associated with this report may give consumers another case of nutrition whiplash.
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech ...
The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent. All over the internet, intelligent people who care about freedom are speaking out against this extremely dangerous law: Philip Giraldi at the Huffington Post, Declan McCullagh at CNET's News.com, Kathryn Smith at OpEdNews.com, and of course Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet.com
This bill is the beginning of the end of Free Speech in America.
For my next trick, I will be wildly off and deadly accurate at the ...
15 regular-season games?
P.S. Let's Go Rangers!
Thanks,
Dominic Peteroy
New Jersey
I'll take the high-level goalie playing 60-65 games every time. But you make a good point on goaltending and the style of NHL play this season. There are more shots, more odd-man rushes and shootouts. Shootouts put an enormous amount of mental and physical strain on goalies. Goalies are so flexible and athletic today, they put themselves in precarious positions for hip and knee injuries. Their added flexibility and athleticism has actually put them in danger of injuries. It's something worth watching. I bet at least one NHL goalie tears an ACL at worst, or has a significant injury at "best" this season. John,
I have one question about hockey being shown on TV, and I'm not sure if you have the answer.
Wild Card -- Tuesday PM
For those keeping score at home, there was a good reason why Duane Hagadone pulled his memorial garden request in December. He woulda gotten clobbered at the polls. On Dec. 15, two days before he pulled the request, internal polling for the library bond showed the downtown garden proposals failing 72% to 28% (outta 756 replies). This, while the poll showed the library passing with 63% and the public safety bond with 56%). And you were wondering why The Duane didn't want to risk an advisory vote?
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*I visited the Ron Rankin Veterans Memorial Plaza this p.m., and I'm certain The Ronfather woulda been pleased. You don't get the impact of the eagle statue, donated by the Rankin family, from photos. It's huge. And the new war mural of the kneeling Marines at Fallujah ... well, you can't visit the plaza without feeling as though you're on holy ground.
Starting Friday
She performs as both a solo artist and as her popular television character, Hannah Montana. The next best thing to catching the live show. OVER HER DEAD BODY: Devastated when his fiancee is killed on their wedding day, Henry (Paul Rudd) reluctantly agrees to consult a psychic named Ashley at the urging of his sister, Chloe. Despite his skepticism over her psychic abilities, Henry finds himself falling hard for Ashley, and vice versa. But there is a big snag. Ashley is being haunted by Kate's ghost (Eva Longoria Parker). STRANGE WILDERNESS: After the genial, beloved TV host of the popular wildlife show "Strange Wilderness" passes on to the great nature special in the sky, his son, Peter Gaulke, takes over the series, and things are never the same. Ignorant, bumbling and blissfully unaware of his own lack of talent, Peter sprinkles his documentary narrations with dubious factoids.
Shelby County: Memphis schools' food services audited
State prosecutors have called for an audit of lunchroom services for the Memphis school system amid reports of mismanagement and heavy financial losses. District Attorney General Bill Gibbons said the audit by the state comptroller's office will determine if criminal charges are warranted. .
Salma Hayek Joins With Pampers(R) and UNICEF to Help U.S. and Canadian ...
CINCINNATI, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- After the birth of her daughter last year, award-winning actress and "Ugly Betty" producer Salma Hayek is grateful for her daughter's health and, like most mothers, wants other moms around the world to be able to share in the basic medical advances that most of us in this country are lucky enough to take for granted. To help mothers across the globe, she is teaming up with Pampers and UNICEF to help stop the spread of life-threatening maternal and neonatal tetanus in developing nations worldwide. Pampers, a leader in baby care for almost 40 years, has announced that world-renowned Hayek will serve as the North American ambassador for its "One Pack = One Vaccine" global initiative with UNICEF. The immensely successful program, which launched in 2006 in the UK and expanded in 2007 to other countries in Western Europe, and debuts in the U.S.
Aid trucks stuck at border
Sooo grab your coffee...there are lots of headlines to chew over this morning....Top StoriesCar bomb blast kills at least 3...A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside a police station in northern Algeria, killing at least three people and wounding several others, security officials said.Economists rate chance of recession as a 'coin flip'There is a 50-50 chance that the U.S. economy will sink into recession this year, but any downturn will likely be short and shallow, according to a survey of economists out Tuesday.Senate to Offer Own Stimulus Package...The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday unveiled a rival plan to stimulate the economy, offering a $500 check to virtually every American--including low-income seniors and rich financiers-- in a direct challenge to the bipartisan deal reached last week by President Bush and House leaders.Bush's Final State of the Union...President Bush used his final State of the Union speech Monday to call for a quick shot in the arm for the economy in "a period of uncertainty" and touted last year's progress in the ongoing war in Iraq.A Defiant Look at What Little Lies Ahead...Making his seventh and final State of the Union address, President Bush proposed a short list of initiatives Monday that more than anything else underscored the White House's growing realization that his biggest political opponents now are time and an electorate already looking beyond him.Time running out to solve our problems...Democratic Kansas Gov.
GOP walks out after House rejects 21-day wiretap extension (updated)
The Bush administration and the House of Representatives are locked into a game of chicken over surveillance reform, and the White House has just torn off its steering wheel. Earlier this week, the Senate passed White House-approved legislation that would expand intelligence agencies' power to acquire communications between Americans and persons overseas without warrants. It would also grant telecom firms immunity from civil suits stemming from their cooperation with the program of warrantless wiretaps approved by President George W. Bush shortly after September 11, 2001. The new law is meant to replace the Protect America Act, a temporary stopgap passed hastily in August and due to expire at the end of this week. House Democrats sought a 21-day extension of the current law in order to provide time to reconcile their own bill with the language approved by the Senate, but under a presidential veto threat, that extension was defeated on Wednesday.
Kearsarge strike group heading back to Va.
The USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group and its 6,000 sailors and Marines are sailing back to Virginia. The Norfolk-based amphibious assault ship and its strike group have been on a nearly six-month deployment. Part of Kearsarge's deployment included helping cyclone victims in Bangladesh. The Navy announced Tuesday the USS Porter, a guided-missile destroyer, and the Carr, a guided-missile cruiser, will return Friday to Norfolk. The Ponce, an amphibious transport dock ship, and the Gunston Hall, a dock landing ship from Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, will pull in next Tuesday. The Kearsarge is scheduled to arrive pierside on February 1st. .
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