29-Year-Old Man Has 21 Children With 11 Women But Can’t Pay Child Support
May 29, 2009
Tennessee (ChattahBox) – In a story that seems to be the perfect argument for Plan B being sold over the counter, a Tennessee man has father 21 children, by 11 different women, and he has not yet turned 30. The prolific breeder, Desmond Hatchett, has had four children in a single year – twice.
My Opinion On Buchanan’s Sotomayor Smear
May 29, 2009
US (ChattahBox) – Showing the world once again that he is an ignorant, racist, sexist pig, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan has accused President Obama of picking Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court as a part of the Affirmative Action program.
Massive slaughter of citizens in final days of Sri Lanka battle
May 29, 2009
(ChattahBox) — A massive slaughter of Tamil civilians occurred in the final days of Sri Lanka’s military operation to defeat Tamil Tigers rebels according to a new report. Citing confidential U.N. documents it acquired, The Times newspaper reports that Sri Lanka forces killed more than 20,000 civilians total and 1,000 a day in the latter stages of the war against the Tamil Tigers, three times the official figure.
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Directive calls timeout on ‘roadless’ forest projects
May 29, 2009
(ChattahBox) — The Obama administration announced Thursday that no new timber-cutting or road project could begin in roadless areas of national forests without the permission of the secretary of agriculture. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued the so-called temporary order or ‘timeout’, which will be in effect for a year, and require all new projects to be approved by him personally. Read more
Rise in Multiracial Americans May Abolish Identity Politics
May 28, 2009
(ChattahBox)—People in America identifying themselves as multiracial is a growing phenomenon, with recent census estimates indicating a 3.4 percent increase, making up a group of at least 5.2 million in the United States.
With multiracial golfer, Tiger Woods leading the way, an increasing number of people of mixed race are choosing to self-identify themselves as multiracial, instead of choosing one race, such as Black, Asian or Hispanic. Read more
Coach Calipari Flees to Kentucky: Leaves Memphis With NCAA Violations
May 28, 2009
(ChattahBox)—Men’s College Basketball Coach John Calipari is once again, leaving yet another major college basketball program to deal with allegations of NCAA violations, on the heels of leaving town for a head coaching gig with another program.
The NCAA officially notified the University of Memphis basketball program of an impending investigation into alleged recruiting violations during Calipari’s tenure as head coach, committed at the time of the 2007-2008 season. Read more
Microsoft Shows Off Bing Search Engine At ‘All Things Digital’ Conference
May 28, 2009
(ChattahBox) — Microsoft introduced the public to it’s new search engine, Bing, at News Corp.’s All Things Digital conference today. Microsoft Senior Vice-President Yusuf Mehdi, who called Bing “more of a decision engine,” put the revamped ‘Live’ engine through it’s paces. Microsoft’s main pitch with Bing is that today’s search engines often force users to make multiple queries to finally find what they want. Bing leveraging key Microsoft acquisitions, such as semantic search provider Powerset and travel site Farecast, aims to simplify that process by better understanding what you’re looking for, breaking down search results into categories and bringing back more information on the search results page, without requiring clicking through to external sites. Read more
Scientist Claims Evidence Shows Aliens Saved Earth in Tunguska Explosions
May 28, 2009
Russia (ChattahBox) – An interesting story out of Universe Today has a scientist claiming that he found crystals of extraterrestrial origin at the site of the Tunguska explosion of 1908.
Teenager Solves 300-Year-Old Math Problem In Sweden
May 28, 2009
Sweden (ChattahBox) – A 16-year-old High School student has managed to figure out a 300-year-old math problem that has been used as a challenge in the mathematical world for centuries. Iraq-born Mohamed Altoumaimi found a formula to prove and simplify ‘Bernoulli numbers’, a sequence of calculations named after the 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli.
Time Warner Ready to Dump AOL: To Sink or Swim on its Own
May 28, 2009
(ChattahBox)–”They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning,” said actor Clint Eastwood when describing his problem marriages and his sentiment also perfectly describes the shaky nine year union between Time Warner and AOL.
The ill-fated alliance between the staid media giant, Time Warner and the younger AOL deal makers, is about to come to an amicable end as Time Warner announced today it intends to spin-off, post haste, AOL’s advertising based dial-up unit. Read more