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Danica Patrick's Mysterious Tattoo Disappearance

Danica Patrick has sported a tattoo on her lower back side which has been exposed in many photographs. Sports Illustrated apparently found an Earmark in Obama's new budget to help remove tattoos. The photo of Danica dropping her nomex racing attire in 2008 shows a clean sweep of any tattoo. Mmmmm? Well to be fare to SI they admit to cleaning up their act by using technology to remove Danica's racing flag. Most people could care less, and the majority of comments ask the more serious question, 'Why the
 heck is she between the staples to begin with?'.

Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False

A Jindal spokeswoman has admitted that in reality, Jindal overheard Lee talking about the episode to someone else by phone "days later." Jindal had implied that his support for the sheriff helped ensure the rescue went ahead, but it turns out Jindal wasn't there at the key moment, and played no role in making the rescue happen.

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Obama to Rescind Bush Abortion Rule

President Barack Obama wants to rescind a Bush administration rule that strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse for moral reasons to perform abortions.

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Obama's Budget: Almost $1 Trillion in New Taxes

President Obama's budget proposes $989 billion in new taxes over the course of the next 10 years, starting fiscal year 2011, most of which are tax increases on individuals.

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White House Watermelon Email From California Mayor Dean Gros

The mayor of Los Alamitos is coming under fire for an e-mail he sent out that depicts the White House lawn planted with watermelons, under the title "No Easter egg hunt this year."

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Top 10 Google Earth Finds

Exploration these days is quite literally an armchair activity, as high-resolution satellite images and tools like Google Earth make it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to pour over the globe with a fine-toothed comb, discovering everything from clandestine marijuana fields to the lost city of Atlantis.

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Islamic Scholar Suggests Ethanol-Powered Car May Be a Sin

As if the debate around using ethanol to fuel cars weren't already complicated enough, now an Islamic scholar has suggested that driving or even riding in a vehicle fueled by ethanol could be considered a sin for observant Muslims.

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Katie Couric On Biden: "There's The White Guy" (VIDEO)

In the CBS introductory coverage of President Obama's first address to Congress, Katie Couric poked fun at Vice President and white male Joe Biden. "Nice to see a little diversity, with an African-American President, a female Speaker of the House, and there's the white guy," she said.

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Beyond Obama's Hope, State of the Culture is... Scared?

Wall Street isn't the only place with a fearful lack of understanding these days. Whether it's horror in Hollywood or Mumbai, the digital era has become boxed in to the unknown.

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Top 10 Craziest Government Subsidies

Senator Tom Harkin managed to get a $250,000 subsidy from the federal government to implement the National Preschool Anger Management Project. A Canadian artist, a lesbian single mother, was given $9,000 to create the Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar.

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List Of World's Most Popular Given Names

The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely-used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current onomastic trends, or else be composed of the personal names occurring most within the total population.

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Citi Group Will Become A US Nationalized Asset

Citi Group is so cash strapped that the US must reach out and take over the assets.  Citi has only asked for a 40% buy out but the market has shown its hand and the US must take over at least 60% of assets.  With over 250 million customers in over 100 countries, Citi Group is the poster child for lender and banking problems.  The way of Citi Group is the way of all banking.  The US must take over the bank and eliminate any further negative spill over to all other banking institutions.  After nationalization, the government can resale all assets in the public market with a modest profit.  President Obama must take bolder moves and forgo future election buy ins. 

President Obama Puts Social Security In A Locked Closet

Obama will not address the issue of Social Security.  Those who supported his campaign to become president have told him to stow it and loose the key.  The issue of future benefits and the costs to our nation is way too much to handle these days as he assembles a staff (Joe Biden), to answer the questions of future monies and the new trickle-up money program. 

For the new administration its priority is to satisfy those who got him elected and those who may re-elect him.  Social Security beneficiaries are not considered as primary vote getter's.  As well, Social Security could out pace monetarily, any program on Obama's immediate menu.

Another reason for keeping Social Security in the closet is that anything this President does is a shot in the dark and the outcome is a crap shoot.  The chance of blaming Obama for the further sinking of our economy can always be re-targeted to the previous administration.  Putting Social Security on the front burner has no multiple outcomes, only one road is available, and any action now would put the onus on Obama if he should take the wrong fork in the road.   

Biden to Head Up MediCaid and Other Federal Monies

Vice President Joe Biden will be in charge of billions of dollars that are targeted to the people least likely to survive on their own.  Medicaid, food stamps, free school lunches, welfare, unemployment, bad loans, and anything that is considered trickle up money-fare, will be under the thumb of Biden as to be announced today.  I would rather have a street person over seer(see) this program than a sterling spoon baby who has no idea as to the needs of those who need a hand, not a hand out.  Don't feed the animals is a just  term to those who can not handle their day to day lives.  Peeps need help and help they should get, but handing out fresh 100 bills to any one who cries help will cost taxpayers billions and not lend anything to a national stimulus.  Joseph Biden is the least qualified person to over seer free hand outs.

Leaders Go to Anartica for First Hand Look at Global Warming

A parka-clad band of environment ministers landed in this remote corner of the icy continent on Monday, in the final days of an intense season of climate research, to learn more about how a melting Antarctica may endanger the planet.

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GOP Governors Take the (Stimulus) Money and Run

Voting against the economic stimulus package? That's so last week. For some Republicans, there's a hot new way to show just how fervently they opposed the $787 billion bill President Obama signed into law Tuesday: pretend they're not going to take the money.

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Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci discovered in Basilicata

What may be a hitherto unknown portrait of Leonardo da Vinci in middle age shows that the Renaissance genius had piercing blue eyes, a long nose and long graying hair with a droopy mustache.

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AP INVESTIGATION: Army charity hoards millions

As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the U.S. military has been stockpiling tens of millions of dollars meant to help put returning fighters back on their feet.

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George Will: Repeal the 17th Amendment

The Framers of the Constitution established election of senators by state legislators, under which system the nation got the Great Triumvirate (Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Calhoun) and thrived. In 1913, progressives, believing that more, and more direct, democracy is always wonderful, got the 17th Amendment ratified. It's time for repeal.

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Fox News "war games" the coming civil war

With Obama in office for four weeks, Fox convenes military and intelligence officials to analyze -- and call for -- violent upheaval against the tyrannical federal government.

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10 Celebrity Twitters Actually Worth Following

Previously, when celebrities wanted to contact their fans, they could issue a press release or release an Internet sex tape. Twitter, however, has shattered this sacred PR trinity, and that may not be an entirely good thing. It's the rare celeb that manages to transcend and maintain a truly interesting chronicle of their moment-to-moment activity.

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