Poynter Online’s David Beard has an article that I’d like to touch on.

As well as Mark Glasner’s at Media Shift.  

Researchers with the B.C. Cancer Agency have become the first-ever to decode the DNA of breast cancer cells, and have discovered that gene mutations in those tumours shift as the disease spreads.

These findings were presented in the Nature journal, and chart the genetic mutations that occurred in the 3 billion letters of the DNA sequence from an estrogen-receptor-alpha-positive breast tumour. It has been said that this discovery will provide unprecedented understanding about how breast cancer progresses.

Chair of breast cancer research at the BC Cancer Agency and Canada research chair in molecular oncology, Dr. Samuel Aparicio said of the results:

Good morning, Motley Moose!

Apparently Texas Governor Rick Perry has been a naughty boy. No, not like that. Tsk, tsk, tsk, get your minds out of the gutter people. Actually, I would rather he had just been licentious.

Headzup allows the Governor to explain for himself.

Ugh, he makes me wish for more repugs like Sanford. Remind me to never go to Texass.

You know the repugnants have screwed up when Joe Scarborough is offended by them.

You think this one might come back to bite them in the butt? Just add it to the stack of crazy.

Here is a fairly mild example of the pug version of the funny.

These people are from another planet. I just wish they would return from whence they came. However, I suppose they ravaged theirs, and it can no longer sustain life.

While Erick Erickson pretty much defeats himself in citing Jonah Goldberg right off the bat, his October 5th column does illustrate perhaps the beginnings of an interesting fold to the hoopla that McChrystal has been a part of lately.  

The NY Times reported this morning:

Opening a month long meeting in Rome that will be devoted to Africa, where the Roman Catholic Church is growing most rapidly, Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday that the continent was at risk from materialism, nihilism and religious fundamentalism.

Benedict called Africa “a great spiritual lung” for the Catholic Church, but he added that it was also subject to maladies, including the “spiritual toxic waste” of materialism and nihilism sent by the first world, which he called a new form of colonialism.

That development, he said, led to the “virus” of “religious fundamentalism, mixed with political and economic interests.”

Today my uncle brought my grandmother a copy of the New York Daily News dated April 4, 1968.

The reason was because he thought my grandmother, a devout Catholic, would be interested in reading about the installation of Terrance Cardinal Cooke as Archibishop of New York.

I knew I recognize the date; April 4, 1968, but I couldn’t tell from where. I skimmed through the news stories; “President Johnson heads to Hawaii to strike peace deal with Hanoi”, “Senator Gene McCarthy wins Wisconsin Democratic Primary”, “New York Assembly kills bill to legalize abortion” Then, on page nine, in a small blurb in the corner next to a Gimbel’s ad, there it was;

DR. KING HEADS TO MEMPHIS

The Onion breaks open another little known crime! Warning for sexual content and brief nudity.

Ew.

Bernie Sanders and BraveNewFilms take on the relationship between Washington and corporate interests.

The Democratic Party just bought airtime for an ad to air in Senator John Kyl’s home state of Arizona featuring his infamous “I don’t need maternity care” statement. The ad will begin airing Monday in the two largest media markets in Arizona, Phoenix and Tucson. A DNC spokesperson said the ad will run indefinitely.

Yesterday, the DNC announced that Kyl would be focused in its “Call ‘Em Out” campaign and released a web video attacking Kyl for engaging in fear-mongering and lies. The DNC is also using traditional phonebanking and letter writing campaigns in conjunction with Twitter and Facebook as part of its Call ‘Em Out campaign against Kyl.

Crossposted from Huffington Post

Iran has no interest in compromise

Top ten things you didn’t know about Iran

Good grief. How could it possibly be October already? And with October upon us, it suddenly feels as if winter is coming early to Minnesota. However, we had such a beautiful September (really, all the summer we had this year), I think we got a bit spoiled.

The Onion has exposed the real reason for the recent dip in President Obama’s polls.

How dare he have a happy functional family! Perhaps we need a special investigator to check this out. Where is Ken Starr when you need him;~?

An amazing (and rare) display of Democratic courage appeared in the House of Representatives this week!

Oh noes! My world has been turned upside down! Won’t someone stop this man before it spreads;~?