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• HIV Cured by Adult Stem Cells
• Democrats Trying to Force Through a New $1.1 Trillion 1,924 Page Omnibus Spending Bill
• Scarborough (MSNBC) Blasts MSNBC’s Bias
• Snowman Gets Hit by a Bus
• Obama Thanks "Mike" McConnell [Meant Mitch McConnell (R)]
• Email Delegation: Granting Access to Your Gmail Account
• Budget Chef Presents: How to Balance The Budget Without Raising Taxes!
• 'Happy Holidays' From The Teachers Unions (Teachers Gone Wild)
• Restore Your Gmail Contacts

HIV Cured by Adult Stem Cells Posted: 14 Dec 2010 08:52 PM PST The message from the scientist is that it works but is not practical. I think the 'it works' part is much more important. A lot of things that started off as impractical (or even impossible) are common place today. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/12/14/doctors-claim-hiv-positive-man-cured-stem-cell-transplant "Timothy Ray Brown, an HIV-positive American living in Germany, had leukemia and was undergoing chemotherapy, when he received a transplant of stem cells from a donor carrying a rare, inherited gene mutation that seems to make carriers virtually immune to HIV infection. The transplant appeared to wipe out both diseases, giving hope to doctors, but Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has been studying HIV/AIDS for almost 30 years, said while this is an interesting proof of concept, it's absurdly impractical. "It's hard enough to get a good compatible match for a transplant like this," Fauci told FoxNews.com, "But you also have to find compatible donor that has this genetic defect, and this defect is only found in 1 percent of the Caucasian population and zero percent of the black population. This is very rare." Fauci said while this patient is "functionally cured" this is not something you can do with every HIV-infected individual."

Democrats Trying to Force Through a New $1.1 Trillion 1,924 Page Omnibus Spending Bill Posted: 14 Dec 2010 08:44 PM PST This is a step beyond going down with the ship. This is putting extra holes in it to make sure it sinks faster... Video embedded below. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/14/reid-threatens-keep-congress-next-year "The omnibus spending bill is likely to get the most attention, spanning 1,924 pages and spending an average of $575.13 million per page. It stands in contrast to the House, which last week passed a streamlined bill freezing fiscal 2011 government spending at 2010's level. The Senate bill, though, boosts spending by $16 billion — a tough sell at a time when deficits and debt already are dominating the policy debate in Washington. In some cases the spending bill not only rejects President Obama's proposed cuts, it actually boosts spending. For example, Mr. Obama earlier this year told Congress to cut funding for the health and welfare package targeting Mississippi's Delta region, which in 2010 received about $26 million. But the Senate bill includes funding and actually increases it to nearly $35 million in 2011."

Scarborough (MSNBC) Blasts MSNBC’s Bias Posted: 14 Dec 2010 08:35 PM PST This is an example of something could be a neutral story line, but the way in which it is applied shows bias. It is the same with political scandals. Both parties have bad apples, but when a Republican is caught the fact that they are Republican is prominently displayed. When it is a Democrat that gets caught the person magically becomes some party-less official. Video embedded below.

Snowman Gets Hit by a Bus Posted: 14 Dec 2010 08:22 PM PST It looks like the bus swerved to hit the snowman. Not sure if this was an elaborate prank set up; but it is mildly amusing. Video embedded below.

Obama Thanks "Mike" McConnell [Meant Mitch McConnell (R)] Posted: 14 Dec 2010 08:19 PM PST Is this a big deal; not really. Bigger I would think than Palin's North/South Korean slip where she originally made the correct identification and quickly corrected herself following the mistake (Palin's response). Obama did not correct himself. Again, not really that big a deal. Everyone makes mistakes and when everything you say is recorded on camera and combed through the mistakes are visible for anyone interested in looking. It is just interesting to note that while Palin's mistake 'proved' her foreign policy ineptitude, Obama's mistake is apparently not proof of his domestic policy ineptitude. Video embedded below.

Email Delegation: Granting Access to Your Gmail Account Posted: 14 Dec 2010 07:58 PM PST This will make it much easier to manage multiple Gmail accounts. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/email-delegation-granting-access-to.html "I use two Gmail accounts: one is my personal account and the other I share with my family (we use it to subscribe to groups like my children's classroom mailing list). Checking these two different accounts used to mean I had to sign out and back in to Gmail all the time. Not anymore. Instead, I can grant my personal account access to my shared family account and view, organize and send mail on behalf of our shared account. ... The account you add will get a verification email with links to accept or deny access. Once the account accepts, a small down arrow will appear beside the email address at the top right corner of Gmail which can be used to toggle between accounts ... Each account will open in a different browser tab or window so you can view both accounts simultaneously, all while signed into your primary account."

Budget Chef Presents: How to Balance The Budget Without Raising Taxes! Posted: 14 Dec 2010 07:44 PM PST Video embedded below.

'Happy Holidays' From The Teachers Unions (Teachers Gone Wild) Posted: 14 Dec 2010 07:33 PM PST Video embedded below. See also: Berman Post: Teachers Unions Gone Wild - Volume I Berman Post: Teachers Unions Gone Wild - Volume II

Restore Your Gmail Contacts Posted: 14 Dec 2010 07:27 PM PST This is a nice new feature. Now you can play around with your contacts, and if turns out you do not like what you end up with you can undo it all. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/restore-your-contacts.html "There are many times in life when a do-over can come in handy. Perhaps you clicked "Send" on an email that was better left unsaid, or "Delete" on a contact before realizing you still needed it. Just like Gmail lets you unsend a message, you can now have a second chance with your contacts too. We've added a new feature to Google Contacts that allows you to revert your contact list and undo any mistakes made up to 30 days in the past. Let's say you accidentally deleted a bunch of contacts or wiped the contact data from your Gmail account by mistake while syncing to another device. Visit Gmail's Contacts section, select "Restore contacts" in the "More actions" menu, and choose the time you would like to revert to."

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