From Sky News  (Pic added by B.S. Report)

Dominic Waghorn, Middle East correspondent

"I've seen this day coming for many years...and I've dreaded it--this may result in a pig holocaust!"

Israel - A retired Jewish cardiologist is set to make history – and generate a bit of controversy – with Israel’s first ever cookery book devoted to pork. While that may not sound interesting to those outside the region – bear in mind the animal’s meat is forbidden to religious Jews and Muslims.

More than that, it is also taboo in broader Israeli society. The majority of Israelis may be secular, but pork is rarely mentioned in the Israeli media, and almost never shown on television. Eli Landau is undaunted.  (Read more.)

From Fox News.com  (Pic added by B.S. Report)

The head of C-SPAN has implored Congress to open up the last leg of health care reform negotiations to the public, as top Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves.

C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb wrote to leaders in the House and Senate Dec. 30 urging them to open “all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings,” to televised coverage on his network.

“The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of the sessions LIVE and in their entirety,” he wrote.   (Read more.)

From Townhall.com

There has probably never been an era in history when intellectuals have played a larger role in society. When intellectuals who generate ideas are surrounded by a wide range of others who disseminate those ideas– whether as journalists, teachers, staffers to legislators or clerks to judges– the influence of intellectuals on the way a society evolves can be huge. Trying for years to understand the nature of that influence eventually led me to write the book “Intellectuals and Society,” which has just been published.

Intellectuals generate ideas and ideas matter, whether those ideas are right or wrong, and they matter far beyond the small segment of society who are intellectuals. Ideas affect the fate of whole nations and civilizations. Nowhere is that more true than in our own times, when some people make suicidal attacks to kill strangers who have done nothing to them, as on 9/11, because the attackers are consumed with a set of ideas– a vision– and driven by the emotions generated by those ideas and that vision.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Get the book here.

From the UK Guardian

A 12-month trial at Manchester airport of body scanners went ahead last month after under-18s were exempted. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

A 12-month trial at Manchester airport of full body scanners only went ahead last month after under-18s were exempted.

The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned.

Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to “virtual strip-searching” and have called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers involved.

Ministers now face having to exempt under 18s from the scans or face the delays of introducing new legislation to ensure airport security staff do not commit offences under child pornography laws.  (Read more.)

From the UK Times Online

By Tom Coghlan

Said Ali al-Shihri, Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish (ID not confirmed); Abdullah Saleh Ali al Ajmi; and Abdullah Mahsud

At least a dozen former Guantánamo Bay inmates have rejoined al-Qaeda to fight in Yemen, The Times has learnt, amid growing concern over the ability of the country’s Government to accept almost 100 more former inmates from the detention centre.

The Obama Administration promised to close the Guantánamo facility by January 22, a deadline that it will be unable to meet. The 91 Yemeni prisoners in Guantánamo make up the largest national contingent among the 198 being held.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–And even those that we have at Guantanamo may be headed to New York for trial.  How mixed-up and disgusting is that?

…[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”

–James Madison

From the Toledo Blade  (Top pic added by B.S. Report)

McNuggets--the stuff that dreams are made of...

A Toledo woman, who allegedly put her fist through a fast-food drive-through window after being told her order couldn’t be filled, appeared in court Saturday on a felony vandalism charge. Melodi Dushane, 24, of 1332 Felt St. became “upset that chicken nuggets weren’t available” and “punched out the drive-through window,” according to Toledo police. Police were called Friday to the McDonald’s restaurant at 90 Main St., where Ms. Dushane was arrested.  (Read more.)

From the SmokingGun.com

JANUARY 4–Meet Melodi Dushane. Angered that Chicken McNuggets were not available at an Ohio McDonald’s, the Toledo woman allegedly put her fist through the eatery’s drive-thru window. The January 1 McNuggets rage incident resulted in Dushane, 24, being arrested for felony vandalism and booked into the Lucas County jail, where the below mug shot was snapped.

According to a Toledo Police Department report, Dushane pulled up to the drive-thru window Friday at 6:20 AM and ordered “Chicken McNuggets and other dinner items.”  (Read more.)

Melodi Dushane--McMoron...