What’s interesting in the news today?

Lots of stuff to choose from today. By the time you’re finished, your eyes will have rolled out of your head too. 😉

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Let’s start with the 10 shocking items from Texas school books.

From TheDailyCaller

“CSCOPE is the acronym-sounding name — that is not actually an acronym — for  the oft-criticized, all-embracing K-12 educational curriculum that is used in 80  percent of the school districts in Texas.

“CSCOPE’s high quality curriculum, assessment, and instructional components  assist schools in meeting the high standard of rigor and relevance” ostensibly  required by various assessments administered by the Lone Star State, touts the nonprofit entity’s website.

Most — though not all — of the critics of CSCOPE are politically  conservative. They charge that the controversial curriculum is a radical,  backdoor way for progressives to circumvent both the Texas legislative process  and the desires of local school boards and communities. They also charge that  the creators of the curriculum operate secretly and do not make it easy for  parents or even school board members to see the material.”

Just to give you an idea of what they mean…..

1. Islam is awesome

2. Christianity is a cult

Yeah. 🙄

Don’t worry though, there’s useful stuff too. Even I learned something. The Boston Tea Party was a terrorist attack. Who knew? And who doesn’t want the chance to make their own communist flag?

Again, 🙄

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This one? Sure, why not. What could possibly go wrong?

From LasVegas/CBSLocal

“Researchers have developed mammalian “zombie” cells that can actually function more effectively after dying.

By replicating a near-perfect version of a living mammalian cell, University of New Mexico researchers have created cells that not only look identical, but are also more apt to survive adverse conditions than the living organisms they were modeled after.”

You do realize that every zombie movie ever made starts with scientists doing stuff like this right? 😦

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And again, what could possibly go wrong? And we better get our 22 billion back quick, before these clowns crash and burn, again. 🙄

From TheWFB

“Bailout recipient General Motors leads the world in car sales thanks in part to subprime auto lending that may cause a fiscal calamity, financial and auto industry observers fear.

“You have the government trying to sell the bailout and this recovery and they’ve allowed, encouraged GM to revive itself off the back of subprime lending,” said Ed Niedermeyer, auto industry consultant.”

“Delinquent contracts at GM now represent 8.5 percent of all auto loans—higher than delinquencies at Ford, Toyota, and Honda combined.”

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Next up, the gift that keeps on giving.

From USNews

“Vice President Joe Biden might want to have a talk with his son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, before he makes another public statement about guns.

In a Facebook “chat” Tuesday, the vice president said that he had advised his wife, Jill, to fire a shotgun in the air from their Delaware home’s porch if she was concerned for her safety.”

“However, Delaware law would likely make his suggestion illegal—unless the shots were fired in self-defense in a truly life-threatening situation.”

I like the first comment. “Good thing this guy isn’t in charge of any task force on gun control laws or anything like that.  Now THAT would be just irresponsible.”

🙂 and a 🙄

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The more I see, the more I like. This one at least will make you smile. 🙂

From TheDailyCaller

“Kentucky  Sen. Rand Paul says he will send a $600,000 check to the U.S.  Treasury, returning the part of his operating budget as a senator that was not spent.

Paul made the announcement at press conference in Kentucky on Wednesday.  According to a press release from Paul’s office, the sum is over 20 percent of  the total operating budget.

Last year, he returned $500,000 worth of unspent funds to the Treasury.”

Gee, maybe he can show Senate Dems how math is done. Maybe show Reid how to do a budget and not waste so much too. That’d be good.

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And finally, a couple videos. The first, your tax dollars at work. More of that sensitivity training from the USDA. We have to re-educate all these racist govt. workers, for the good of all, of course.

Yes, again, 🙄

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And a rare truthful comment from a Democrat on the impending sequester. I’m sure the White House has already scolded him.

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What’s interesting in the news today?

Let’s start with this.

Scientists believe they have discovered why women talk more than men.

From ScienceWorldReport

“You know all the times that men complain about women talking too much? Apparently there’s a biological explanation for the reason why women are chattier than men. Scientists have discovered that women possess higher levels of a “language protein” in their brains, which could explain why females are so talkative.

Previous research has shown that women talk almost three times as much as men. In fact, an average woman notches up 20,000 words in a day, which is about 13,000 more than the average man. In addition, women generally speak more quickly and devote more brainpower to speaking. Yet before now, researchers haven’t been able to biologically explain why this is the case.

What’s interesting in the news today?

Open Thread.

Here’s a few to start.

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The next crisis saga has begun. Fiscal Armageddon or something. Across the board(govt) cuts.

Let’s face it, there’s plenty they could have reasonably cut from our bloated federal budget. They don’t mind the Defense cuts. Liberals like them. But since they weren’t willing to cut social programs, this is the result, everybody gets it. And one more thing to keep in mind. In many cases these so-called cuts are only cuts in proposed spending increases, NOT the actual existing budget. They just get less of an increase than they hoped for. Only in govt. is that considered a budget cut.

From Politico

“President Obama sought to sound the alarm on sequester cuts once again and blame Congress for failing to avert them as the clock ticks down on their implementation.

Starting next Friday, he said, the cuts will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and excoriate the economy. They were never designed to happen, he said.

“This was all designed to say ‘We can’t do these bad cuts, we need to do something smarter,'” Obama said at a White House event.”

Hmmmm…… and yet you didn’t Mr. President. You were too busy with your anti-gun thing and amnesty. But now it’s a crisis, or something. 🙄

And you forgot to mention these cuts loom because you negotiated this deal, and signed it into law.

From HotAir

“Via Charlie Spiering and Guy Benson, whose headline is better than mine. WaPo’s right that this is all about preparing the ground spin-wise for the coming budget standoff with the GOP. The more alarmist O is now, the more pressure in theory there’ll be on Republicans to agree to anything — like new tax revenues — to avert the sequester, which, as you’re hopefully by now aware, was actually the White House’s idea initially and which O himself stood by as recently as late last year. In a more honest world, he would have used the troops and defense contractors as his backdrop here. But he doesn’t want to make defense his anti-cuts showpiece. His base loves the idea of shrinking the Pentagon’s budget; O himself likes it enough to have nominated Chuck Hagel to serve as his Republican rubber-stamp for the practice. So the “potted plants” du jour are first responders, whose budgets will supposedly end up being slashed to put a small dent in annual deficits because Democrats still aren’t ready to address the real driver of unsustainability, mandatory spending. To get a better sense of what that means big-picture, follow the link to Benson’s post and note the graph at the bottom. John Sexton remembers that the whole point of the sequester when it passed was to impose cuts so unpalatable to both sides that they’d surely agree to a grand bargain to avert them before those cuts took effect. The GOP agreed to tax hikes at New Year’s as part of the revenue side of that bargain. Where’s the Dems’ agreement on the (mandatory) spending side?”

That noise you hear is the crickets. It’s the same noise you hear when budgets are mentioned.

And so you don’t forget, these are the same cuts Obama promised to veto any attempts to change. 

From WeaselZippers

“Via CBS News (11/21/2011):

President Obama is promising to veto any effort to undo the automatic spending cuts that are set to take effect now that the congressional supercommittee has announced its failure to strike a deal to cut $1.2 trillion from the deficit over the next 10 years.

“Already some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No,” Mr. Obama said from the White House briefing room Monday evening. “I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending.”

“There will be no easy off ramps on this one.,” he added.””

A crisis of his and Senate Dems own making. And now they want to save us from it. How convenient. 🙄

Meanwhile, back in the real world, real companies are preparing for the worst, as are their workers.

From TheWashingtonTimes

“Hundreds of Pentagon-related companies large and  small are preparing to lay off thousands of employees as Congress takes a recess this week, so far unable to agree on how to undo automatic military spending cuts set to begin March 1.”

““The biggest killer for us last year was the uncertainty,” Mr.  Kapoor said. “Even if there’s an eleventh-hour deal made [on sequestration],  it’s probably going to kick the can down the road.””

Of course they will. They’re not real leaders, they just play one on TV.

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John McCain had his hands full trying to sell the Senate Immigration/Amnesty Plan to his constituents.

From Yahoo

“Also Tuesday, McCain hosted two town hall meetings in Arizona, during which he defended his immigration plan to upset residents concerned about border security. A bipartisan group of senators — including Arizona Republicans McCain and Jeff Flake — want assurances on border security as Congress weighs what could be the biggest changes to immigration law in nearly 30 years. Arizona is the only state with both of its senators working on immigration reform in Congress, a sign of the state’s widely debated border security issues.”

“During a heated town hall gathering in the Phoenix suburb of Sun Lakes, McCain said the border near Yuma is largely secure, but he said smugglers are using the border near Tucson to pump drugs into Phoenix. He said immigration reform should be contingent on better border security that must rely largely on technology able to detect border crossings.”

Good luck convincing them they should believe you, and not their lyin’ eyes John.

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And lastly, never underestimate good ol’ fashioned American ingenuity. Liberals will absolutely hate it. Bonus! 🙂

From TheWashingtonPost

“Twenty minutes into his State of the Union address last week, President Obama entered the realm of uber-geekery — three-dimensional printing. The magical devices capable of printing prosthetics, violins and even aircraft parts have the potential, the president said, “to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.”

Forty miles away from the Capitol, in Glen Burnie, Md., Travis Lerol is proving Obama’s point — with guns.

In a spare bedroom, where an AR-15 rifle leans against the wall, Lerol is using a 3-D printer no larger than an espresso machine to make plastic rifle parts and ammunition magazines in between tea sets and chess pieces. The parts print, layer over layer, creating objects like an ink-jet printer etches words.”

“Three-dimensional printers offer a potentially easy way around restrictions and registrations — a source of growing consternation among gun-control advocates and some allies in Congress.”

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