Dogs naturally want to comfort people who are upset

  (DOG HEIRS)   Dogs want to give comfort to people when they are upset. It seems like a fact dog lovers have known for a very long time, and now a new study backs them up. Scientists at the University of London conducted a study that revealed dogs truly do respond to human tears and [...]

Feds Want Warrantless Spying Loss Overturned, Saying Law Can’t Touch Them

ShareThis Feds Want Warrantless Spying Loss Overturned, Saying Law Can’t Touch Them 31 May 2012 The Obama administration is set to argue to a federal appeals court Friday that the government may breach, with impunity, domestic spying laws adopted in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate scandal. The case tests whether Americans may [...]

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you

ShareThis Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you 26 May 2012 The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against [...]

143 MPH In A 55 Zone While DUI, Cops & Union Want Him Rehired

(TAC)   He was served a few too many, now his police union wants to protect his job. Most of us who aren’t naive know that law enforcement officers get treated differently when it comes to traffic laws. I’m not talking about the justifiable emergency cases on duty when a cop has to speed, run a red light or otherwise [...]

Don’t want to be groped by the TSA or go through a body scanner? Just pay $100!

Not to be outdone, they have now introduced a program which allows travelers to pay $ 100 to take part in a program where they are able to skip the degrading, dehumanizing procedures the rest of us are subjected to every time we’re unfortunate enough to travel by plane. “It’s pay to play,” aviation analyst [...]

Memo to Cameron and Obama: if you want cheaper oil, stop printing money!

By James Delingpole, The Telegraph One of the understandable issues of concern which has been raised during David Cameron’s Brokeback-Mountain-style bonding session with his fellow liberal Barack Obama is the rising price of oil. Maybe they should watch the clip of Ron Paul telling it like it is to Obama’s Spendthrift-in-Chief (aka head of the [...]

BBC: Would you want to be a Freemason?

Dogged by conspiracy theories, Freemasons insist theirs is a modern, open organisation. But can this male-dominated body cast off its secretive image and win over a sceptical public? They designed the pyramids, plotted the French Revolution and are keeping the flame alive for the Knights Templar. These are just some of the wilder theories about [...]

The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Read

ShareThis The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Read By Michael Hastings 10 Feb 2012 [Lt. Colonel Daniel] Davis last month submitted the unclassified report – titled “Dereliction of Duty II: Senior Military Leader’s Loss of Integrity Wounds Afghan War Effort” – for an internal Army review. Such a report could then be [...]

Marines Want iPads to Control Robo-Copter Brains

Wired January 9, 2012 It’s been less than a month since the Marines flew their first robotic supply helicopter on its debut combat mission in Afghanistan. Already, the amphibious combat branch is working on the next generation of pilotless cargo copter — one that’s an order of magnitude more sophisticated, and can be controlled by an iPad or other [...]

More Parents Want to Delay, Skip Vaccines

Mistrust of childhood vaccines is causing some parents to request “alternative” schedules from doctors, either delaying or skipping some shots. And a new study suggests that most pediatricians are willing to go along with these requests — up to a point. “Parents seem to be regularly requesting alternative childhood immunization schedules,” noted co-author Dr. Douglas [...]