Tonights MNF games is the Tennessee Titans against the Houston Texans. I've got Steve Slaton on my fantasy team and the guy I'm playing has Andre Johnson, both are on the Texans. I need Slaton to get 9.5 pts more than Johnson to win my matchup. How's your fantasy matchup doing? Any thoughts on tonight's game?
Links
1. Huffington Post Rom Houben, Man In Coma For 23 Years, Was Fully Conscious, Mom Says
BRUSSELS — For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.
The car-crash victim had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state but appears to have been conscious the whole time. An expert using a specialized type of brain scan that was not available in the 1980s finally realized it, and unlocked Houben's mind again.
The 46-year-old Houben is now communicating with one finger and a special touchscreen on his wheelchair.
"Powerlessness. Utter powerlessness. At first I was angry, then I learned to live with it," he said
2. Huffington Post Lifesize Lincoln. This piece looks at Lincoln's face in some rare photographs, comparing the left to the right. That's creepy but really cool.
3. This link rules It's an article about how Microsoft and News Corp are having preliminary talks about de-indexing their work from google. This is a play to expand Microsoft's new search engine (which shall remain nameless), as well as a desperate grab for newspapermonger Rupert Murdoch. They are on the wrong side of history just click that link to see if it will work. When I click it, it asks me to pay them money to see their work. So I leave.
#4 Huffington Post- The Teabaggers have no shame.
A group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family and suggested that the couple fabricated their tragic story.
At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their daughter-in-law and her unborn child were caused, in part, by a lack of health insurance. Twenty-four-year old Jennifer was uninsured. According to her in-laws, she was not receiving regular prenatal care and was not properly treated when she got sick. She ended up in an emergency room with double pneumonia that developed into septic shock, had a heart attack, a brain bleed and a stroke. The baby died and Jennifer died a few weeks later.
#5 Media Matters TV Glenn Beck is at it again Calls Sen. Landrieu a Hooker If this guy had any real sponsors left I'd say we should call them and complain. This is the second time he's called Sen. Landrieu a hooker if there were many women left in the Republican party I'd call them up to complain.
#6 ThinkProgress- Add Carly Fiorina to the list of Conservatives bailout flip floppers. They were for the bailout before they were against it. Just Like Palin, Fiorina Flip-Flops On Her Support For The Bank Bailout
#7 MediaMatters TV Glenn Beck blames Local officials for Katrina failure
#8 Huffington Post The Wall Street Journal supports breaking up too big to fail banks
The Murdoch owned WSJ supports the idea that banks that are too big to fail should be broken up. This would reimpliment the Depression era Glass Steagal law, which separated investment banks, commercial banks and insurance operations. Interestingly we no longer have investment banks in this country because they all switched their business type from investment banks to bank holding companies so they could get loans from the Fed. But they are still investment banks in everything but name. Anyway the WSJ feels that going back to this system would be the easiest way for businesses to get on with their jobs. It's nice we finally have some left/right agreement, albeit for different reasons.
#9 This is a slideshow of a counter rally at a Tea Party protest in Las Vegas. Provided by one of my new facebook friends.
Here's video from that rally. Courtesy of the same facebook friend and ProgressNow Nevada
The Nevada Republican Party from ProgressNow Nevada on Vimeo.
#10 Here's a slideshow of some pictures that my photographer friend Vatche Abnous took in Daly City a few days ago. It was a perfect clear day and we saw two paragliders enjoying it as well from a higher altitude.
You'll be hearing a lot more from Vatche, he's working with me on a project called Government Works. His photo site Larger Than Life Photography is here.