What did she ever see in him?
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Samsung/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
What can I tell you about men that you don’t already know?
They’re ungracious, semi-literate buffoons whose ability to lift even one buttock from the couch is dependent only on the urgency of their bodily needs.
Men are insensitive, unfeeling, gross, dirty, and smell not unlike your garbage disposal. They eat food with the delicate air of a depressed rhinoceros.
These are not my opinions — though a lifetime of research sugges [...]
Samsung’s ‘men are pigs’ ad for TVs gets YouTube love (and hate)
What did she ever see in him?
(Credit:
Samsung/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
What can I tell you about men that you don’t already know?
They’re ungracious, semi-literate buffoons whose ability to lift even one buttock from the couch is dependent only on the urgency of their bodily needs.
Men are insensitive, unfeeling, gross, dirty, and smell not unlike your garbage disposal. They eat food with the delicate air of a depressed rhinoceros.
These are not my opinions — though a lifetime of research sugges [...]
Appeals court strikes down Arizona ban on abortions at 20 weeks
By Dan Whitcomb
Tue May 21, 2013 4:21pm EDT
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court struck down an Arizona law on Tuesday that bans abortions from 20 weeks gestation, saying it violated “unalterably clear” U.S. Supreme Court rulings that women have a right to terminate pregnancies until a fetus is viable.
The decision by a three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals in San Francisco, which overturned the ruling of a federal district court judge, was hailed by abortion rights groups as a [...]
Vatican denies ‘exorcism’ by Pope
21 May 2013
Last updated at 15:39 ET
The young man opened his mouth as the Pope laid his hands on his head, then convulsed and slumped in his wheelchair
The Vatican has denied claims that Pope Francis performed an exorcism, after TV images showed a man apparently reacting to him putting his hands on his head.
The encounter – during Sunday Mass – was shown on a TV channel owned by the Italian bishops’ conference.
The station quoted exorcists as saying there was “no doubt” the Pope had either p [...]
Stocks end at record highs ahead of Bernanke
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Investors pushed stocks higher into record territory Tuesday after comments from a Federal Reserve official raised hopes the central bank will continue to pump money into the financial system.
New York Federal Reserve president William Dudley said the Fed needs to rethink its current exit strategy, although he stressed that it could involve both increasing or decreasing the pace of its bond buying program.
Investors have been paying close attention to comments from various Fed officials recently as they [...]
Agent says Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski unlikely to have another forearm surgery
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Rob Gronkowski’s agent says the tight end’s latest surgery is expected to be the last on his forearm.
The New England Patriots’ star had his fourth surgery on Monday on the left forearm that he broke on Nov. 18 while blocking for an extra point against the Indianapolis Colts. He broke it again early in the Patriots’ first playoff game, a win over the Houston Texans.
Gronkowski’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said Tuesday that the surgeons said the latest operation went as well as they could hav [...]
Age, Other Illnesses May Make Prostate Cancer Treatment Unnecessary
TUESDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) — Aggressive treatment for prostate cancer may not be warranted for many older patients with underlying medical conditions, a new study finds.
Treatments for prostate cancer, such as surgery, radiation and radioactive seed implants, can cause serious side effects, such as erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence and bowel problems, explained researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
They found that older patients with slower growing forms of prostate cance [...]
IRS official to assert Fifth Amendment right at House hearing
WASHINGTON |
Tue May 21, 2013 4:15pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official who revealed the agency was giving extra scrutiny to conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, will assert her constitutional right not to answer questions to a congressional committee on Wednesday, her lawyer said in a letter obtained by Reuters.
“She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course,& [...]
Optical drives not working with Mountain Lion for some
An ongoing issue for some people who have installed Mountain Lion is the inability to access their systems’ internal optical drives. Once installed, inserting a disc results in a couple of noises before the disc is ejected. While this can sometimes happen for burned discs that are no longer readable, it appears to happen for all discs, be they home-burned or commercial.
If this is happening on your system, first try testing the problem with multiple operating systems to see if the problem is hardware or software based. If your syst [...]
Whole neighborhoods razed by Oklahoma tornado that killed 24
By Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson
MOORE, Oklahoma |
Tue May 21, 2013 3:11pm EDT
MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) – Emergency workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, and officials lowered the death toll from the storm to 24, including nine children.
The 2-mile (3-km) wide tornado tore through Moore outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, trapping victims beneath the rubble, wiping out entire neighborhoods and tossing [...]
French historian kills himself at Notre Dame after gay marriage rant
A far-right French historian has killed himself at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after declaring that more radical action was needed in opposition to same-sex marriage in France.
Dominique Venner, 78, walked into the building at 4pm and put a letter on the altar before shooting himself through the mouth, according to local media reports. Hundreds of visitors were immediately evacuated from the site, which is the most visited Catholic monument in Paris.
The motive for the suicide and the contents of the letter were not immedi [...]
What would George Washington do with Syria?
George Washington asked his countrymen, “Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?”
He could easily pose the same question today as the United States lunges towards a possible intervention in Syria. Now is the time to stop and ask ourselves, “why?”
Iran, whose official policy is “Death to America,” is backing Syrian President Assad’s forces, which may have used sarin gas against the Al Qaeda linked rebels, whose ranks comprise the same people that the United States fought in Iraq.
Got all that? This is a tangled mess of fact [...]
FEMA offers aid to tornado victims
FEMA will provide rental assistance, as well as short-term loans to victims of the Oklahoma tornado.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced a series of aid programs available to tornado victims who live in one of the Oklahoma counties declared a disaster area by President Obama.
The agency had already been putting boots on the ground in Oklahoma as early as Sunday when the state suffered the first of a wave of deadly tornadoes. It has since brought in rescue teams from Texas, Nebraska, and Tennessee.
On Monday, the presi [...]