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Monday, October 31, 2011

Newsdome: Welcome Danica May Camacho, the seventh billion person alive

Posted by Bobby Feingold on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
>> UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, accepted the Palestinian bid for full membership: France voted for the bid, the U.S., Canada and Germany voted against, and Britain and Japan abstained. Now let's talk about money: American law prohibits Washington from funding any U.N. agency that accepts Palestinian membership, and currently the U.S. is UNESCO's biggest funding source at 22 percent of the agency's budget. Is it that time for Americans to hate the French again? (Voice of America)

>> NATO officially ended its seven-month military operation in Libya now that Muammar Qaddafi is dead. Oh, and is that an al Qaeda flag that just went up? (ABC News, Vice)

>> Danica May Camacho of the Philippines is (symbolically) the seventh billion person alive when she was born two minutes before midnight last night. Happy birthday Danica! Enjoy your cake since we won't have enough grain or sugar to feed the booming world population when you're an adult. (CBS News)

>> Herman Cain is feeling the heat of the political spotlight. When Cain was head of the NRA (that would be the National Restaurant Association) in the '90s, two female employees accused him of sexual harassment and ended up taking five-figure cash settlement gag orders. Cain's got a sexual harassment scandal under his belt? Now he really is prepared to be a politician. (Politico)

>> And finally, I'll be honest: This isn't really news. But this video of GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry totally drunk (I hope!) giving a speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, is "liquid gold." I've never seen anyone so excited for maple syrup (7:52). (Huffington Post)

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Getting tingly..."We are not going to be able to continue contributing to the budget," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. "Palestinian membership as a state in UNESCO triggers longstanding legislative restrictions which will compel the United States to refrain from making contributions to UNESCO."

Washington is required by law to cut off funding to any U.N. agency if the Palestinian Liberation Organization is granted membership in any group at the international body.

$60M in savings! Love it!

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Posted by PistolPete on 10/31/2011 at 3:03 PM

Which number human is President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?

"...we won't have enough grain or sugar." - Ethanol subsidies. Huge boondoggle. Who has the balls to go to Iowa and say, "Forget it?"

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Posted by oydave on 10/31/2011 at 3:27 PM

"Which number human is President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?"

#1

""...we won't have enough grain or sugar." - Ethanol subsidies. Huge boondoggle. Who has the balls to go to Iowa and say, "Forget it?""

non-ethanol biofuel is pretty cool

http://www.dailytech.com/Navys+New+Experim…

i wonder how low they can get the price as the tech matures and production increases

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Posted by eric pfeifer on 10/31/2011 at 3:59 PM

I liked it better when we had 4 Billion people because we had more elbow room.

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Posted by PistolPete on 10/31/2011 at 4:32 PM

I grew up on a farm..... (3:35)funniest part of the speech!

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Posted by jayde21 on 10/31/2011 at 6:57 PM
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