Forbes' Most Powerful Women. Kind Of.

Today, Forbes realeased this year's edition of The World's Most Powerful Women.  Taking first place is Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, followed by Hillary Clinton.  Superstar entertainer Lady Gaga came in at eleventh, Oprah Winfrey at fourteenth.
But perhaps the most shocking ranking we saw was Michelle Bachmann; number twenty-two.  Under her name is her 'occupation': presidential candidate.  While Bachmann has had a very successful career in the House, is this really enough to make her the twenty-second most powerful woman in the entire world?  She even beat Angelina Jolie and Sarah Palin, who came in twenty-ninth and thirty-fourth respectively.

So congradulations to all of the women who made the list.  But Forbes, isn't the name of the list 'Most Powerful Women'? Not 'Most Interesting Women'?

5.8 Magnitude Earthquake... Where??

Earlier this afternoon, a 5.8 magnitude earth quake struck 40 miles outside of Richmond. The shaking could be felt all along almost the entire east coast. The quake promted dozens of evacuations and the automatic shutdown of a nuclear power plant in virgina.

Two after shocks ranging 2-3 in magnitude struck later in the evening. As of publishing, there are no reports of severe injuries or damage. Let's hope is stays that way.

Mitt Romney, Ohh Mitt Romney...

In a factory Q&A this morning, Mitt Romney bashed the president for taking three days off for a bus tour around the midwest. Romney aaid that it seems the president is more concerned about saving his job than creating jobs.

But what about the other candidates? Have the governors and senators not abandoned their posts as they seek the presidential nomination? While they are not presidents, surely they could be working to boost jobs in their jurisdiction instead of campaignig a year in advance?

You make the call..

A Straw Poll for a Straw Backbone

A year and some months before the next presidential election, the campaigning is well underway. Over the weekend a straw poll was held in Ames, Iowa to see which GOP candidates. Rising powerhouse Michelle Bachmann stole first place from the previously suspected winner Mitt Romney, who took sixth.

Ironically, Tim Pawllenty, who did fairly well and placed third, has decided to drop out of the race.

Another surprise came in the form of Texas governor Rick Perry who announced his candidancy on Saturday in South Carolina. he managed to snag fifth place on the polling in Iowa despite not being on the ballot at all. His votes were all write-ins!

So to all of our aspiring Republicans, stay strong, keep dodging questions, and try not to get your history facts mixed up (Palin **cough**)

Casey Anthony -- has done nothing!

Popular newsstation HLN was focusing, this morning, on the story that absolutely no decision has been reached in Casey Anthony's probation. Somehow it seems to us that if nothing has happened, then it's not really news is it?

He Plays Modern Warfare... Potential Mass-Murderer!

The latest news on the Norway bombings is that the suspect Anders Behring Breivik played such video games as Modern Warfare and World of Warcraft.  The media seems to have latched onto this fact as a reason for Breivik's attacks.  Breivik said on his Facebook account that he even used Modern Warfare in his 'training'.  While both video games contain violence, we urge the media to remember that pushing button 'x' on a controller to fire a gun, and actually firing a gun are two vastly different sensations.  It is highly unlikely that his attacks in Oslo were directly related to playing these video games, which millions upon millions of other people enjoy everyday. 


To suggest that these games create violence in the real world demonstrates an enormous misunderstanding of the games themselves.  Mark Turpin 'Turpster'; 'I'm one of those people who can raise his hand and say, "I play Modern Warfare,  but I've never shot a person.'