Joe Biden fans raising money to buy VP a Trans Am

Could this be what really got Joe Biden fired up during Thursday's debate? (AP)A parody of Vice President Joe Biden from the satirical news outlet The Onion has apparently morphed into an honest-to-goodness political reality. Some supporters of Biden have started a fundraising page to buy the country's second-highest-ranking political figure a vintage Trans Am sports car.

"In order to let Vice President Biden know just how much we appreciate him, while also making a very silly part of the internet come true (we are the internet after all); let's buy Uncle Joe a Trans Am like the one that is featured in the Onion article," writes the campaign's creator and Fark writer, "Hack Patooey." He tells Yahoo! News that the project was thought up with several of his colleagues and Fark readers, which they first posted here.

And while anyone can set up a farcical fundraising page, this humorous campaign has some very real support. It has received more than $1,000 in financial commitments from more than 80 donors.

Despite the tongue-in-cheek nature of the campaign, its founders list some sincere reasons for wanting to honor their political hero, citing Biden's support for gay marriage and his outspoken views on foreign policy.

Of course, there's a potential catch to the campaign.

Near the bottom of the fundraising page, a note says the proceeds from the campaign will be given to charity.

"Now, Uncle Joe won't be able to accept this behemoth of steely American grace and power. He has these pesky laws and regulations and political-y things to deal with," the page reads. "Take into consideration his magnanimity and power of personality, he probably wouldn't be able to drive the Trans AM without causing a mass outpouring of Conservative Tears."

Instead, the campaign will auction off the Trans Am and donate the proceeds to charitable organizations, including the Biden Breast Health Initiative, Doctors Without Borders, the Wounded Warrior Project and GLAAD.

Still, that hasn't stopped a few Biden believers from wanting to make their dreams a reality.

"It would be great if we could get a picture of Joe and his new whip after he receives it," writes a donor named William.

Another donor, Laurel, wrote: "Two words: Silver. Fox."

And as the site's curators themselves wistfully note, "Maybe if we ask nicely, Joe Biden will wash it on the White House lawn."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/joe-biden-fans-raising-money-buy-vp-trans-192630243.html

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6 Finance Apps To Make Your Life Easier | APPS | TechDrink

Irrespective of how hard people try to make a budget and follow it, it often turns to be a mess in the end. Maintaining a proper budget plan every month is not an easy task; sometimes you forget to note down a few things or you spend more than you planned, exceeding your income. This causes an imbalance in the budget. Help is at hand, however ? there are a number of apps for your smartphone that can help you keep your spending in check and manage your monthly budget in a more effective way.

Here are few of the most widely used finance related apps:

• Finance for Android: This helps you to access Google finance portfolios. With the help of this app Google finance is continuously synced to the data on your phone. It is an ideal application to manage your finances in the right way.
• Mint: This is one the most famous applications which helps you to track your expenses in a simple way. This way you can manage the flow of your money in an organised manner. This app provides alerts when you spend more than the budget limit set by you; you can check your status with the help of charts and bar graphs that are provided by it.
• SplashData: You can track your money here; it also allows you to connect to your bank accounts online and you can download these applications right from there. With this you can get customised reports along with pie charts.
• Pennies: This is the most adorable application that helps you in maintaining a proper budget plan. All you need to do is enter the budget that you want to set and keep updating your expenditures; update everything as soon as you do the transaction. This way you will not forget anything and you can maintain clear records without any burden.
• Payday Loans App: You can apply for a short-term loan through your mobile at any point of time and from anywhere. Payday loans do not involve any paperwork, the procedure is very simple. All you need to do is fill the form present in this app and send it. The approval is instant whereas cash will be deposited in your account within 24hours after the approval. [NOTE: TechDrink does not endorse taking out super high interest payday loans]
• Xpenser: The concept of Xpenser is that it records your purchases immediately; all you need to do is that update the data as soon as you pay or bill or make a purchase. This also supports advanced search result; through this you can find the receipts and data instantly. You only have to text the title of data in the search box and it will be highlighted. It is recently updated with an added feature of time tracking.

All the above mentioned applications are widely used by smartphone users. They help you to manage your finances and have a better and more secure financial life.

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300 Colorado Doctors, 130 Professors Endorse Marijuana Legalization

The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol announced this week that more than 300 physicians from 65 localities in Colorado have now endorsed Amendment 64, which would make marijuana legal in the state to people over 21. More than 130 college professors from Colorado and around the nation have also stated that they support the amendment, the campaign said. Here are the details.

* According to Dr. Larry Bedard, former president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, "It is time to embrace a more commonsense policy, and stop criminalizing adults for using a substance less harmful than alcohol."

* Bedard, who participated in a news conference with campaign members, stated that in more than 35 years as an emergency physician, he saw hundreds of injuries, accidents and deaths due to alcohol, but virtually none associated with marijuana.

* Dr. Bruce Madison, a former associate medical director of the faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, also spoke at the conference on Tuesday, stating that current laws waste millions of dollars in a "failed War on Marijuana," and ruin "thousands of lives by unnecessary arrest and incarceration."

* The 130 college professors, many in the fields of law, health, economics and criminal justice, signed an open letter to the voters of Colorado stating, "We have reviewed Amendment 64 and concluded that it presents an effective, responsible and needed new approach for Colorado and the nation."

* The letter went on to state that marijuana prohibition is particularly harmful to teens, "driving marijuana into the underground market where proof of age is not required and where other illegal products might be available."

* The letter goes on to state that the legalization of marijuana will help the state economically by reducing the amount of resources needed to enforce marijuana projibition.

* Amendment 64, which is on this year's November ballot in Colorado, will remove legal penalties for personal possession of up to one ounce of marijuana and for the home-growing of up to six marijuana plants by those over 21.

* The amendment will also create legal marijuana establishments, including retail stores, cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities and testing facilities and facilities involving the cultivation, processing and sale of industrial hemp, all to be licensed by the state Department of Revenue.

* If passed, the amendment calls for an excise tax of up to 15 percent on the wholesale sale of non-medical marijuana, with the first $40 million of revenue from the tax each year being directed to the state's Public School Capital Construction Assistance Fund.

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Malala was returning home from school when the men attacked; a fellow-student and a teacher were injured as well. ?A bullet struck her head, but her brain is safe,? a doctor told the Express Tribune newspaper.

Malala was flown in a military helicopter to a military hospital in Peshawar, the insurgency-torn capital of North Western Frontier Province; Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has arranged for her to be flown out of Pakistan to get the complex surgery needed to save her.

Malala was not a random target. A Pakistani Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, claimed responsibility and threatened to attack her again, if she survives: ?She was pro-West, she was speaking against the Taliban and she was calling President Obama her idol.? He added, ?She was young but she was promoting Western culture in Pashtun areas.?

?She was just the girl who wanted to go to school,? Mirza Waheed, the former editor of the Urdu Web site of BBC World Service, told me.

One foggy winter afternoon in early 2009, when Mirza was working out of the BBC World Service?s Bush House offices in London, he got a proposal from one of his reporters in Pakistan, who was covering the takeover of Swat Valley by the Taliban militants led by Maulana Fazlullah, or ?FM Mullah.?

Fazlullah had banned TV, music, and girls? education; bodies of beheaded policemen were hanging from town squares. Abdul Hai Kakkar, the reporter, had first approached Ziauddin Yousafzai, a local school director, to get a female teacher to write about life under the Swat Taliban. No teacher agreed, but his eleven-year-old daughter, a seventh-grade student, was interested in writing a diary. ?Would they publish the diary?? the reporter asked.

?We had been covering the violence and politics in Swat in detail but we didn?t know much about how ordinary people lived under the Taliban,? Mirza said (he left the BBC to be a full-time novelist; his book ?The Collaborator? is about the war in Kashmir). ?We unanimously decided to publish the diary, but her safety was of utmost concern to us and we decided to use a pseudonym,? Mirza said.

?The Diary of a Pakistani School Girl,? written by Malala Yousafzai, was published under the byline Gul Makki. ?Malala passed on hand-written diary pages to our reporter and he would scan and email or fax them to me,? Mirza said. ?I would edit it to retain its directness, its raw texture, and at times, as I edited her, I would well up.?

I first read Malala?s diary in the summer of 2009, while reporting on the refugee crisis in North West Frontier Province following the battles between the Swat Taliban and the Pakistani Army. Like thousands of others, I knew her by the pseudonym. The scale of her courage struck me, as did the importance of her bearing witness.

As I travelled through refugee camps and in villages and towns, I often read and reread her diaries online. A haunting entry, which was also translated into English (the diaries in Urdu are more detailed) described the psychological price that life under tyranny, and amid violence, exacted:

On my way from school to home I heard a man saying ?I will kill you.? I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone.

And another:

I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools. Only 11 students attended the class out of 27. The number decreased because of Taliban?s edict.

The Taliban had blown up more than a hundred girls? schools. A video feature by the Times, published in 2009, describing the life of Malala?s family, shows her in her school, a girl with a fair, round face, hazel eyes, carrying a satchel with a Harry Potter picture on it.

She would be featured in two Times videos, which brought her considerable attention, but Malala became a celebrity in Pakistan in October, 2011, when Desmond Tutu announced her nomination for an international children?s prize.

It seems to have been the first time that her identity as the writer of the BBC diary became known to the broader public; the citation for her nomination mentioned her use of ?international media to let the world know girls should also have the right to go to school.?

Her public profile rose further after the Pakistan government awarded her the first National Peace Prize, in December 2011. ?In a situation where a lifelong school break was being imposed upon us by the terrorists, rising up against that became very important, essential,? she told a Pakistani television network.

When the interviewer asked her about fear and danger, Malala, speaking in a clear, forceful voice, said that her father, who worked for women?s education and fully supported his daughter, had inspired her, and that her mother had told her to speak up for her rights. And then, in a rather prophetic moment, she envisioned a confrontation with the Taliban.

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

The growing fame and her determination to speak out for girls? education put her on the Taliban radar. Malala was active on Facebook under her own name, and the extremists would threaten her online. ?They created fake profiles for her,? Nighat Daad, a Lahore based women?s-rights specialist with U.N. Women told me.

?She had to delete her personal Facebook page and was worried about digital security.? Malala attended several digital-security sessions with Daad and became part of a campaign ?Take Back the Tech,? which focused on violence against women in online spaces. Unfazed by the threats, she had told Daad that she would ?never stop working for education for girls.?

?She said that she wants to build schools for girls in Swat where they can get education without any fear. This is her biggest dream ever, but at the same time she was extremely focused on her studies as well,? Daad said.

The cover photo of a public Facebook page dedicated to her is an exhortation to primary education, a cause she embraced and lived from a very young age: ?One in ten of the world?s children who don?t go to primary school live in Pakistan.?

And a flood of messaging is expressing support, saying prayers for her. ?plz stay with us. we need the girls like u fo betterment of Pakistan,? a young girl wrote. Pakistan will be richer, if Malala Yousafzai makes it.

Source: http://tutoringtoexcellence.blogspot.com/2012/10/special-education-report-girl-who.html

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