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- Barbie.xxx? RedCross.xxx? Brands Scramble to Prevent X-Rated Rip-Offs
- Study: An hour of TV can shorten your life by 22 minutes
- Rick Perry: Fed Printing More Money Would Be “Treasonous”
- Jon Stewart: Why is Everyone Still Ignoring Ron Paul?
- Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands
- Tax Protest Breaks Out in Rhode Island
- GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13%
- Obama clashes with Tea Party member
| Barbie.xxx? RedCross.xxx? Brands Scramble to Prevent X-Rated Rip-Offs Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:21 PM PDT By Reuters, FOXNews.com NEW YORK – In preparation for a new triple-x Internet domain that will launch in December, lawyers for the most storied brands in the United States are scrambling to prevent an x-rated rip-off of an invaluable asset: corporate Web addresses. The domain operator administering the .xxx domain is accepting early applications from brand owners who want control over their names. ICM Registry says it has received over 900,000 “expressions of interest” from companies that want to preregister their trademarks or block others from snapping them up to create, say, a Barbie.xxx or Coke.xxx. While some adult-content providers are paying the approximately $200 fee because they want to use the domain, other non-porn brands ranging from MTV Networks and Budget Travel to the Red Cross are preregistering to avoid future legal battles with cybersquatters who register trademarks with the intention of reselling them. To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/16/barbiexxx-redcrossxxx-brands-scramble-to-prevent-x-rated-rip-offs/ |
| Study: An hour of TV can shorten your life by 22 minutes Posted: 16 Aug 2011 02:12 PM PDT From MSNBC.com Watching an hour of TV after the age of 25 can shorten the viewer’s life by just under 22 minutes, according to researchers in Australia. The AFP news agency said scientists at the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland studied 11,000 Australian adults who were aged at least 25 in the year 2000. The academics checked their data against an estimate from 2008 that Australians aged 25 or above watched TV for 9.8 billion hours. This was associated with the loss of 286,000 years of life, the AFP said. To read more, visit: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44156412/ns/health/ |
| Rick Perry: Fed Printing More Money Would Be “Treasonous” Posted: 16 Aug 2011 02:04 PM PDT From Real Clear Politics “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y'all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion,” Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) said at an event in Iowa on Monday. To read more, visit: http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/16/rick_perry_federal_reserve_acting_treasonous.html |
| Jon Stewart: Why is Everyone Still Ignoring Ron Paul? Posted: 16 Aug 2011 02:01 PM PDT By Eric Hayden, The Atlantic In Iowa’s Ames Straw Poll this weekend, Michele Bachmann bested 2nd place Ron Paul by less than 200 votes. And yet, in the immediate spin cycle at least, pundits talked about Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Bachmann. Paul seemed to be, as his supporters always point out, invisible. Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart became the latest to weigh in on the habit of ignoring Paul. After playing a few highlight reels showing anchors going out of their way not to mention the libertarian firebrand, he incredulously asks: “How did libertarian Ron Paul become the 13th floor in a hotel?” To read more, visit: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2011/08/jon-stewart-ron-paul/41311/ |
| Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:58 PM PDT By Liz Goodwin | Yahoo News Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine. Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch–free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be “a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.” “There are quite a lot of people who think it’s not possible,” Thiel said at a Seasteading Institute Conference in 2009, according to Details. (His first donation was in 2008, for $500,000.) “That’s a good thing. We don’t need to really worry about those people very much, because since they don’t think it’s possible they won’t take us very seriously. And they will not actually try to stop us until it’s too late.” To read more, visit: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html |
| Tax Protest Breaks Out in Rhode Island Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:56 PM PDT By Barbara Polichetti, Projo.com WARWICK, R.I. — A taxpayer rally to protest the city’s substantially increasing local car taxes got off to a slow and damp start at City Hall Monday but grew quickly with protesters opting to avoid the wet sidewalks and instead assemble in the council chambers to await the 7 p.m. start. By 6 p.m., more than 120 people had gathered and were conducting their own meeting, taking turns at the podium to decry the tax increase. The council, which was holding its committee meetings, as usual, in a small basement room, was intermittently off-limits to protesters as people with business before the committees took up the available 49 seats. Fire officials were on hand to keep count of the number of people in the room in the basement. As seats became vacant, uniformed police officers allowed protesters in. At one point, rally organizer Rob Cote asked the council if they would move upstairs to the council chambers where the larger crowd was waiting. They declined. About 30 minutes after the 5 p.m. scheduled start of the rally, only about 24 people had braved the rain to gather inside and outside City Hall in Apponaug. Cote said he wanted to start the rally at 5 p.m. to make a statement to council members as they arrived at City Hall for the subcommittee meetings. There was a strong police presence both inside and outside City Hall, with uniformed officers at some of the exterior doors and cruisers deployed around the building. “What is this, the Kremlin?” Cote said after learning that people were being turned away. To read more, visit: http://newsblog.projo.com/2011/08/rain-police-at-warwick-car-tax.html |
| GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13% Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:10 PM PDT
Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%. Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9%) of Likely Primary Voters, followed by Georgia businessman Herman Cain at six percent (6%) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with five percent (5%). Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and ex-Utah Governor Jon Huntsman each get one percent (1%) support, while Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter comes in statistically at zero. To read more, visit: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/gop_primary_perry_29_romney_18_bachmann_13 |
| Obama clashes with Tea Party member Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:08 PM PDT
President Obama came face-to-face with the Tea Party last night in Iowa, clashing with a member during and after a town hall last night. Ryan Rhodes, a group leader in the Hawkeye State, stood up and shouted a question during a town hall, asking the president how he can call for more civility when “your vice president is calling people like me, a Tea Party member, a ‘terrorist.’” Obama, who had not called on the man, said the town hall wouldn’t work “if you just stand up when I asked everybody to raise their hand. … I didn’t see you. I wasn’t avoiding you. … Please.” After calling another person, Obama circled back to address Rhodes’ question: “First of all, in fairness to this gentleman who raised a question, I absolutely agree that everybody needs to try to tone down the rhetoric. To read more, visit: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/08/obama-clashes-with-tea-party-member/1 |
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