http://www.drudge.com/user/rcade New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 http://www.drudge.com/news/122724/68-hot-dogs-10-minutes http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/07/03/2009-07-03_man_bites_dog__with_one_winner.html Joey Chestnut kept the coveted Mustard Belt in the United States Saturday, eating a world-record 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, New York. Rival Takeru Kobayashi came in second with 64 1/2. This is Chestnut's third straight win. "July 4 isn't a holiday for these men," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg. "It's going to be a day of reckoning." Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:59:47 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122724/68-hot-dogs-10-minutes#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122724 news breaking, 0.5 daily 122724 http://www.drudge.com/news/122723/ambinder-palin-wants-fight http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/07/what_palins_really_up_to.php Marc Ambinder: Assuming there is no scandal shoe about to drop, to understand what Gov. Sarah Palin is doing, we ought to begin by taking her at her word. The elites v. Sarah Palin is just the latest incarnation in the great American culture war, and Palin no longer wants to fight with one hand tied behind her back. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:17:33 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122723/ambinder-palin-wants-fight#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122723 News, 0.5 daily 122723 http://www.drudge.com/news/122718/robot-obama-debuts-disney-world http://www.lifthill.com/news/obama-debuts-at-disneys-hall-of-presidents/ President Obama has joined the robotic Hall of Presidents at Disney World. The attraction officially reopens to the public July 4. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:41:19 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122718/robot-obama-debuts-disney-world#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122718 News, 0.5 daily 122718 http://www.drudge.com/news/122707/competitive-eaters-risk-serious-health http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/03/competitive.eating.stomach/index.html On the eve of the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, former competitive eaters report weight gains of 100 pounds, stomach woes, chest pains and other health problems from their pursuit of gluttony. "Any way you look at it, it's not healthy," said Dave "Coondog" O'Karma, a retired gurgitator. "I don't think loading your body with fat and salt is healthy." In an opinion piece published in the <i>American Journal of Radiology</i>, doctors warned of possible "morbid obesity, profound gastroparesis, intractable nausea and vomiting, and even the need for a gastrectomy [surgical removal of all or part of the stomach]. Despite its growing popularity, competitive speed eating is a potentially self-destructive form of behavior." Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:09:11 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122707/competitive-eaters-risk-serious-health#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122707 News, 0.5 daily 122707 http://www.drudge.com/news/122696/texas-rangers-owner-cant-make-payroll http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ge-rangershicks070209&prov=yhoo&type=lgns Major League Baseball has loaned as much as $15 million to the Texas Rangers after Owner Tom Hicks reportedly couldn't meet payroll, according to Yahoo News. "He won't be running the team much longer," a source told the site. "Major League Baseball is helping him through this until someone else can be put in place to run the club." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hicks" rel="nofollow">Hicks</a>, whose net worth was reported by Forbes as $1 billion, also owns the Dallas Stars and 50 percent of Liverpool FC. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:31:46 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122696/texas-rangers-owner-cant-make-payroll#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122696 News, 0.5 daily 122696 http://www.drudge.com/news/122691/iranian-protester-beaten-tortured-raped http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/01/iran-protest-arrests-afshin-friend "I was kept in a van till evening that day and then transferred to a solitary cell where I was kept for two days," he said. "Then I was repeatedly interrogated, beaten and hung from a ceiling. They call it chicken kebab. They tie your hands and feet together and hang you from the ceiling, turning you around and beating you with cables." -- an Iranian election protester describes his time in jail Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:58:45 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122691/iranian-protester-beaten-tortured-raped#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122691 News, 0.5 daily 122691 http://www.drudge.com/news/122680/teacher-gives-sex-tape-5th-graders http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/02/national/main5129748.shtml Crystal Defanti, a fifth grade teacher at Isabelle Jackson Elementary in Elk Grove, Calif., accidentally sent home with students a DVD of classroom memories that included a personal sex tape. "My son's reaction was, 'Dad, is that Ms. Defanti?'" one parent said. Part of the video was shown with obscured nudity on a <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/02/crimesider/entry5129869.shtml">local news station</a>. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:34:18 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122680/teacher-gives-sex-tape-5th-graders#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122680 News, 0.5 daily 122680 http://www.drudge.com/news/122676/hedges-take-back-media-save-democracy http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/29-2 Chris Hedges: The ability of the corporate state to pacify the country by extending credit and providing cheap manufactured goods to the masses is gone. The pernicious idea that democracy lies in the choice between competing brands and the freedom to accumulate vast sums of personal wealth at the expense of others has collapsed. Those who care about the plight of the working class and the poor must begin to mobilize quickly or we will lose our last opportunity to save our embattled democracy. The most important struggle will be to wrest the organs of communication from corporations that use mass media to demonize movements of social change and empower proto-fascist movements such as the Christian right. The battle ahead will be fought outside the journalistic mainstream, he said. The old forms of journalism are dying or have sold their soul to corporate manipulation and celebrity culture. We must now wed fact to rhetoric. We must appeal to reason and emotion. We must not be afraid to openly take sides, to speak, photograph or write on behalf of the disempowered. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:34:59 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122676/hedges-take-back-media-save-democracy#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122676 News, 0.5 daily 122676 http://www.drudge.com/news/122670/judge-end-disposable-marriage http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/02/sears.family.divorce/index.html As a judge I have long held a front row seat to the wreckage left behind by our culture of disposable marriage and casual divorce. No-fault divorce was a response to a very real problem. The social and legal landscape that preceded it largely prevented casual divorce, but it often trapped people in abusive marriages. But no-fault divorce's broad acceptance as an unquestioned social good helped usher in an era that fundamentally altered the seriousness with which marriage is viewed. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:05:27 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122670/judge-end-disposable-marriage#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122670 News, 0.5 daily 122670 http://www.drudge.com/news/122665/cnbc-host-bloggers-digital-dickweeds http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/01/9473/ Earlier this week on CNBC, host Dennis Kneale called out a bunch of bloggers who criticized his statement that the recession was over, calling them "digital dickweeds." He even confronted one anonymous blogger on the air, Mike from <a href="http://www.annuityiq.com/blog/main/dennis-kneale/">AnnuityIQ.Com</a>, though he gave him less than 15 seconds to defend his criticism before kicking him off the air. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:18:42 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122665/cnbc-host-bloggers-digital-dickweeds#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122665 News, 0.5 daily 122665 http://www.drudge.com/news/122654/5-states-face-shutdowns-over-budgets http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-shutdown30-2009jun30,0,1912245.story Indiana is one of five states -- along with Arizona, California, Mississippi and Pennsylvania -- bracing for possible shutdowns this week as time runs out for lawmakers to close billion-dollar gaps in their fiscal 2010 budgets. The last time Indiana missed its deadline for passing a budget and had to shut down the government was during the Civil War. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:32:00 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122654/5-states-face-shutdowns-over-budgets#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122654 News, 0.5 daily 122654 http://www.drudge.com/news/122655/jones-no-troop-increases-afghanistan http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/71140.html After hearing a "drumbeat" for more troops, White House National Security Adviser James L. Jones has told U.S. commanders in Afghanistan that they won't get any more troops this year beyond what President Barack Obama already has promised. Obama's order to send 21,000 more troops to Afghanistan, mostly completed, will bring the U.S. total in the country to 68,000. Another 32,000 troops from other countries are also there. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:41:54 -0400 rcade http://www.drudge.com/news/122655/jones-no-troop-increases-afghanistan#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.122655 News, 0.5 daily 122655