Los Angeles Times | February 5, 2013
Scientists identify remains as those of Richard III - "More than 500 years after his death in battle, scientists announced Monday that they had definitively identified a skeleton unearthed in central England last summer as that of Richard III, the medieval king portrayed by William Shakespeare as a homicidal tyrant who killed his two young nephews in order to ascend the throne. DNA from the bones, found beneath the ruins of an old church, matches that of a living descendant of the monarch's sister, researchers said. [...] Richard reigned from 1483 to 1485, and occupies a unique place in England's long line of colorful rulers. He was the last English king to be killed in combat, at the Battle of Bosworth Field, by his successor, Henry VII. His death ended the Plantagenet dynasty and ushered in the long era of the Tudors, including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I."

They introduced two bills. These bills would remove marijuana from under the thumb of the DEA and transfer regulation of it to the newly named Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana and Firearms. Each state would decide whether to legalize medicinal and recreational pot use. A federal excise tax would be established to tax the sale of pot.

hey
you will get or have gotten a friend request from "XXXXXXXX"  helloooooo its me.

please friend the "new" me and join me on my new "Obama-hateing-science-denying-tea-bagging-moron-republican-a$$hole" free face book page.
it was simply not feasible to unfriend all the idiots, since many were relatives, and I got tired of swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool but realized that facebook really is a good way
to stay in touch with the people you wish to stay in touch with as long as you dont include all the ones you dont.

ps
if you ever send me a farmville request you will be unfriended instantly.  :-)~

in less than 24 hours everyone responded and I am now happily back on facebook.  and its been days since I had to see a racist Obama cartoon or read some insane paranoid rant.  I now have two FB pages.  one I update and one I do not.

(cue eye roll)

Former Executive Director of the South Carolina Republican party, Todd Kincannon, spent the Super Bowl publishing a series of tweets joking about Trayvon Martin's death.

a freedom of speech patriot, educating America about the importance of speaking your mind.

But the reality is that staying home from work for several days to recuperate and recover from the flu -- or something worse -- is challenging or impossible for tens of millions of Americans. Forty percent of private-sector workers have no access to paid sick days, meaning that they cannot miss a day of work without risking a day's pay or even risking their job. So these hardworking people must make an impossible choice between the job they need and their health and well-being.

It's a choice that no American should have to make -- which is why, this year, I plan to reintroduce the Healthy Families Act, a bill that would allow workers to earn paid sick days that can be used to recover from a short-term illness, care for a sick family member, obtain preventive or diagnostic treatment or seek help if they have been victims of domestic violence.

Lindsey Vonn will miss the rest of the ski season after tearing knee ligaments and breaking a bone in her leg in a high-speed crash Tuesday at the world championships. The U.S. team expects her to return for the next World Cup season and the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Vonn lost balance on her right leg while landing a jump in the super-G. She flipped in the air, landed on her back and smashed through a gate before coming to a halt.

The four-time overall World Cup winner and 2010 Olympic downhill champion received medical treatment on the slope for 12 minutes before being taken by helicopter to a hospital in Schladming.

poor dick.  cant a guy be a cartoonishly evil embarrassment anymore?

That's not right. It lacks tempo, and adagio does not compensate but I tried.  Someone with music chops must forgive me.

From his basement office in the White House, Mr. Brennan has served as the principal coordinator of a "kill list" of Qaeda operatives marked for death, overseeing drone strikes by the military and the C.I.A., and advising Mr. Obama on which strikes he should approve.

And not only that, but:

As a top agency official under President George W. Bush Mr. Brennan had supported, or at least failed to stop, the use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding that are widely considered to be torture.

Drone strikes. From a playroom in the basement. What fun.

And torture - especially waterboarding (oops, I mean "simulated drowning") - You gotta love it. That choking and gurgling sound.
That filthy wet rag suffocating the "suspect". The best.

No wonder Obama couldn't resist naming this great and lovable guy.