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Where To Find The Real News

Igor Derysh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:59:56 +0000

In an era where politicians happily take bribe money from special interests in the form of campaign contributions (or in the form of bribes) and in an era where no media source, mainstream or otherwise, can be trusted more than any blog on the internet, there is a serious need for serious people to get serious about where they get their news.

In a world where facts have been put aside in the interest of being the first to break a story or where career journalists sacrifice major stories because their employer won’t run them or because it ...continue reading

Saints, Colts To Face Off In Super Bowl XLIV

Igor Derysh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:00:36 +0000

With the Saints having defeated the Jets, the matchup for this year’s Super Bowl has been set and it is exactly what fans expected it to be all year: the 14-2 Colts taking on the 13-3 Saints in Miami.

The Colts had started out slow against the New York Jets, largely because Gang Green shut down their top two receiving options, Reggie Wayne and Dallas Clark.

Still, the second half belonged to Peyton Manning as he proved once again why he is the best quarterback in the NFL, marching the Colts from 11 points down to a ...continue reading

Colts End Jets’ Miracle Run

Igor Derysh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:30:58 +0000

After ten games of the NFL season, the New York Jets were 4-6 and out of playoff contention. Not quite. The Jets hit a hot streak and their top defense and top rushing attack won them 7 out of 8 games until the team’s Cinderella run finally came to an end today as they were topped by the Colts in the AFC Championship game.

While Jets fans were disappointed by the team’s loss, especially after the Jets were up 17-6 in the second quarter, the season was far from a disappointment.

With a lot of uncertainty surrounding ...continue reading

300,000 Estimated Dead in Haiti

Igor Derysh — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:00:10 +0000

More than 100,000 bodies have been buried in mass graves but that may be less than a third of the ultimate death toll from the massive earthquake that destroyed Haiti’s capital city Port-au-Prince and its surrounding areas. Officials are now estimating the deathtoll to be at around 300,000 once all of the bodies have been found and the diseases stemming from conditions on the ground prove to be even more catastrophic than the quake.

With so much of the country in rubble, officials cannot give a good estimate of how many people have died (the estimate had previously ...continue reading

Jets The Underdog…In A Good Way

Igor Derysh — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:00:43 +0000

The Colts, Vikings, and Saints all have great quarterbacks and phenomenal offenses so it obviously stands to reason that the Jets are the underdog among the four remaining playoff teams. Perhaps, but in the past decade the playoffs have become a perfect venue for a defensive based team that no one takes as a serious threat.

A look at the teams that have made it to the Super Bowl in the past decade shows that 15 of the 20 teams that have made it to the Super Bowl in the past 10 years did so because their defense ...continue reading

Marines End Mission In Iraq

Igor Derysh — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:00:12 +0000

After nearly seven years in a country that we were originally only going to invade for six months at most, the United States Marine Corp. completed their mission in Iraq and began to turn over command of Anbar province to the U.S. Army. This was the first move to truly signal the beginning of the United States’ withdrawal from Iraq and a shift in focus to Afghanistan.

While military officials have been happy with the security situation in most of Iraq, the move also comes in the middle of an election scandal in which 500 politicians have been ...continue reading

Molina Spurns Mets, Signs With Giants For Less Money

Igor Derysh — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:00:52 +0000

It isn’t often that you will see an over-the-hill catcher with little left in the tank turn down a potential two-year offer to stay on a team that that is only offering one year for less money but that is exactly what Bengie Molina did after two months in which the Mets were the only team talking to him and seemed to have him locked up.

The Giants had given up on signing Molina around the time of winter meetings. Molina was reportedly seeking a three-year deal worth $6 million per year, much more than anyone was willing ...continue reading

Another Earthquake Rocks Haiti

Igor Derysh — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:00:30 +0000

Though most assumed the worst (at least earthquake-wise) was over after the 30-plus aftershocks that Haiti saw following the massive 7.0 earthquake that has completely ravaged the country and the city of Port-au-Prince, the country was rocked again by a 6.1 mag aftershock early this morning that sent sleeping Haitians running into the streets with all too vivid memories of last week’s events.

The earthquake hit about 35 miles away from Port-au-Prince (the first earthquake hit just 15 miles from Haiti’s capital and biggest city) and the effects were not being well reported because most relief workers, military ...continue reading

Republicans Now Running On Platform Of Change

Igor Derysh — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:00:58 +0000

It wasn’t very long ago that President Barack Obama was Presidential candidate Barack Obama, a freshman Senator running on a platform of change after eight disastrous years of George Bush. Last night’s Republican win in Massachusetts by Scott Brown, who will now take over Ted Kennedy’s vacated seat, showed that Republicans are not only planning on running on a platform of change but winning because of it.

With the country restless and angry over the Democrats’ utter incompetence when it has come to pushing through their agenda despite a massive majority in both the House and the Senate, ...continue reading

2000s Warmest Decade On Record

Igor Derysh — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:00:49 +0000

Despite what the Fox News Channels and right-wingnut blogs will have you believe, the 2000s were the warmest decade on record, even more so than the 1990s, which is now the second warmest decade on record. Starting to see a pattern yet?

According to the National Climatic Data Center, the earth’s surface temperature was more than 1 degree higher than normal and nearly 1 degree higher than normal all decade. Doesn’t seem like much? Scientists predict that the worst effects of global warming will strike once the earth’s surface temperature is only about 3 degrees higher than normal.