White House: Tax Cuts for Very Rich, Big Red Goose Egg (Video)
September 30, 2010
(ChattahBox Political News)—With the Fox News propaganda machine running at full speed day and night, it’s hard for the White House to cut through the noise to reach Americans with some actual facts. So, President Obama is launching a new video White House Whiteboard to inform the public about important policies and programs. And first up is Austan Goolsbee to break down in simple terms, the ongoing tax cut debate. Goolsbee, says “it doesn’t make any sense” to award tax cuts to the super rich. And he points out that Republican lawmakers plan to hold tax cuts for the middle class hostage, until the wealthiest in our country get theirs. Read more
Mad Prophet Carl Paladino, Scaring the Bejesus Out of NY Voters (Video)
September 30, 2010
(ChattahBox Political News)—-There is mad and then there is Carl Paladino type of snarling, F-bombing and near-fisticuffs mad. The New York tea party-backed Republican gubernatorial candidate is making headlines this week for his angry confrontation with a New York Post reporter that ended with a Tony Soprano-like “I’m gonna wack you” threat. When reporter Fred Dicker approached Paladino yesterday to ask him to substantiate his charge that his opponent Andrew Cuomo engaged in extramarital affairs, Paladino exploded and started ranting about NY Post reporters staking out the home of his former mistress and love child. “You send another goon to my daughter’s house and I’ll take you out buddy,” shouted Paladino. Michael Caputo, Paladino’s campaign manager responded to the uproar over the videotaped confrontation that has gone viral, pledging that “Carl will take out the trash” and battle media bias. Read more
Murkowski’s Write-In Candidacy Surging Ahead of Teapartier Miller
September 30, 2010
(ChattahBox Political News)— Tea party hero Sen. Jim “Waterloo” DeMint (R-SC) won’t like this. A new poll shows Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) surging ahead of tea party candidate Joe Miller in the Alaska senatorial race. After losing in the Republican primary to the Sarah Palin-backed upstart, Murkowski opted to stay in the race as a write-in candidate, despite her somewhat hard to spell name. And to the chagrin of the tea party groups backing Miller. Read more
Christine O’Donnell LinkedOut of LinkedIn, After Education Fakery
September 30, 2010
(ChattahBox Political News)—This story is getting stranger, and stranger still. After education falsehoods were discovered on Christine O’Donnell’s LinededIn page, her spokesperson pushed back against claims of resume fudging, as early as September 15, but mentioned nothing about the profile being fake. O’Donnell’s LinkedIn page said she attended the University of Oxford and Claremont Graduate University. She didn’t. And despite years of claiming she earned an undergraduate degree form Fairleigh Dickinson, she didn’t officially obtain her degree until just this month. And there is the matter of her false claim in a lawsuit against a former employer that she was prohibited from pursing graduate courses at Princeton. The Republican senatorial candidate from Delaware and former witchcraft dabbler, now blames the Princeton falsehood on a mistake by her lawyer. And about that error-ridden LinkedIn bio, O’Donnell now claims it was unauthorized and possibly placed online by her political enemies. LinkedIn has now taken down the O’Donnell page at her request, but has offered no additional details about its creation. If you think this all smells fishy, join the club. Read more
First direct evidence that ADHD is a genetic disorder (Video)
September 30, 2010
(ChattahBox Science News) – Research published today provides the first direct evidence that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a genetic condition. Scientists at Cardiff University found that children with ADHD were more likely to have small segments of their DNA duplicated or missing than other children.
The study also found significant overlap between these segments, known as copy number variants (CNVs), and genetic variants implicated in autism and schizophrenia, proving strong evidence that ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder in other words, that the brains of children with the disorder differ from those of other children. Read more
High chair and Toy recalls announced by Fisher-Price
September 30, 2010
(ChattahBox Business News) Fisher-Price has announced it will start recalling over 10.1 million toys and high chairs that are potentially dangerous and could cause harm to children, said Health Canada and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
CBS correspondent, Michelle Miller, stated that this is the biggest toy recall of the year, involving various types of toys like high chairs, small cars, trikes and many more. Read more
Anderson Cooper the Next Oprah Winfrey of Daytime TV?
September 30, 2010
(ChattahBox Entertainment News)— CNN’s Anderson Cooper, host of “360,” has been making a name for himself lately with hard-hitting interviews that expose the underlying hypocrisy and disingenuousness of various bigots and extremists. Now, the longtime CNN contributor may be taking his journalistic savvy to a syndicated daytime talk show, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Read more
Newly discovered Earth-like planet has 100% possibility of life? (Update)
September 30, 2010
(ChattahBox Science News) – An astronomer claims that the possibility of life is 100 percent, for a newly discovered planet.
The planet, called Gliese 581g, has been discovered orbiting around a nearby star and considering the distance from it, the planet seems to be a suitable place for life to evolve. There are more than 500 planets discovered by astronomers outside our solar system, but this is the first one that seems to have the right situation to be habitable. Read more
1 in 5 gay men in the USA may suffer from HIV
September 30, 2010
(ChattahBox Health News) – After a laborious study conducted in the USA, it has been discovered that 1 in 5 gay men in the USA may suffer from HIV. According to the research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, many of the men are also unaware that they carry the virus. Read more
Meg Whitman’s Former Illegal Maid Claims Emotional Abuse
September 29, 2010
(ChattahBox Political News)— Meg Whitman, the former eBay chief executive, now locked in a hotly contested California gubernatorial race with Jerry Brown, has an illegal maid problem. The Republican candidate, who has already spent $119 million of her own money in the campaign, employed a domestic worker for nine-years, until she was dismissed last June, after admitting she was an undocumented immigrant. The maid, Nicky Diaz, has since hired celebrity attorney Gloria Allred. And the pair held a news conference this afternoon alleging Whitman emotionally and financially abused Diaz, during the time she worked for the Whitman family. Whitman, who has taken a tough stance on illegal immigration, during the campaign, issued a statement denying the claims of abuse made by her former maid, dismissing the charges as the “politics of personal destruction.” Read more