Facebook IPO? Report Says Mark Zuckerberg’s Company Will Go Public in Early 2012
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The building blocks Mark Zuckerberg has been playing with and his years of patience is definitely going to give everyone a big pay day in preps for the Facebook IPO filing in 2 days! #FacebookIPO #SEC #S-1 #UmbrellaDrinks
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Facebook already reaches 73.7% of the U.S. audience, compare with <40% for Google at time of its IPO.

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Who are the top ten twitterers to follow? That’s kind of like Alice in Wonderland asking which way she should go–that all depends on where you want to end up. If you do a little search, there are all sorts of top ten twitterers to follow listed out there. Are you into politics? Are you a tree hugger or an entrepreneur? There’s a list for just about every genre you can think of. At Americas News Now, we’ve come up with our own list and cut it down to five–ten would just be too hard to choose. So, we’ll let you see our top 5 list, but you have to promise to leave your top 5 in the comments. By the way, you don’t have to leave your name or email in the comments–just list your 5 and hit enter. So here’s our list, and also a few other top ten lists. If you don’t like ours, don’t complain, just leave yours in the comments below.

America’s News Now Top 5 Twitterers to Follow:

1. Oprah – Oprah

2. Obama – BarackObama

3. Sarah Palin – SarahPalinUsa

4. Ashton Kutcher – Aplusk

5. Justin Bieber – JustinBieber

Other Lists

10 Funniest twitterers

Top 10 Sports Twitterers

Top 10 Frugal Living Twitterers

Top Twitterers for Business and Politics

Top Twitterers for Music

So there you have it. That should be enough to get you started if you are looking for top Twitterers to follow. There are plenty more lists out there. If you don’t like ours, just let us know your top 5 or 10, or 3…..

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It never ceases to amaze me how old white guys can be so clueless. Dumbfounded and speechless, John Kerry stands by in awkward silence and disbelief as he allows some University of Florida student to get tased just because he doesn’t want to answer his question. We originally did a story on the tasing that you can read, but every time I see this I am more and more amazed at how out of touch politicians are.

Suffice it to say, it’s probably a good thing you didn’t get elected John.

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With the expiration date of the national emergency with Syria coming up, President Obama is forced to continue to block exports to Syria based on their actions in the international community. Although the Whitehouse seems to concede that Syria has done some work in trying to stem the flow of terrorists into Iraq, more needs to be done. See the President’s executive order below which describes the details.

Notice Continuing the National Emergency with Respect to Syria.

NOTICE

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CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT

TO THE ACTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA

On May 11, 2004, pursuant to his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C.

1701-1706, and the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003, Public Law 108-175, the President issued Executive Order 13338, in which he declared a national emergency with respect to the actions of the Government of Syria. To deal with this national emergency, Executive Order 13338 authorized the blocking of property of certain persons and prohibited the exportation or re-exportation of certain goods to Syria. On April 25, 2006, and February 13, 2008, the President issued Executive Order 13399 and Executive Order 13460, respectively, to take additional steps with respect to this national emergency.

The President took these actions to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the actions of the Government of Syria in supporting

terrorism, maintaining its then existing occupation of Lebanon, pursuing weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, and undermining U.S. and international efforts with respect to the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq.

While the Syrian government has made some progress in suppressing networks of foreign fighters bound for Iraq, its actions and policies, including continuing support for terrorist organizations and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. As a result, the national emergency declared on May 11, 2004, and the measures adopted on that date, on April 25, 2006, in Executive Order 13399, and on February 13, 2008, in Executive Order 13460, to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond May 11, 2010. Therefore, in

accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared with respect to certain actions of the Government of Syria. The United States will consider changes in the policies and actions of the Government of Syria in determining whether to continue or terminate this national emergency in the future and would welcome progress by the Government of Syria on these matters.

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,

May 3, 2010.

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OK, so you think you are having a hard day? Check out this quirky video below. Sure, they guy isn’t very smart, but that had to hurt…

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Yesterday we ran a story about how you could follow the Whitehouse and Obama on Twitter. Today we’re going to take that one step further. Did you ever wonder who Obama follows on Twitter? You would think that would be a good list to get on. Well, as you’d expect, he follows groups like the IRS, the U.S. Embassy, the Secretary of the Navy, the Army, Veteran Affairs. But there are also a few individuals he follows. Like who?

Well, as you would expect, he Obama follows his right hand man Press Secretary Bobby Gibbs. I still don’t get why people call him Robert Gibbs because he definitely strikes me as a Bobby. He also follows a guy by the name of BillBurton44 who is some sort of deputy secretary that likes to get on John McCain for not being more fluent with computers. Reading Burton’s tweets was kind of like watching paint dry so I wouldn’t recommend following him. However, something on his Twitter account said it was an official Whitehouse Twitter page and as such, the tweets could be officially archived. So that might be kind of cool if you could get one of your tweets officially archived. Wait, doesn’t Google archive all your information anyway? Oh well…

And if that isn’t weird enough, he also follows KateatState i.e. Kate Jacobs Stanton. Exactly, that’s what I was thinking–who is she? Well, get this–she used to work for Google as a moderator, whatever that is–yes you read that correctly. Obama appointed her to a newly created position–one of those 4 million jobs created–of Director of Citizen Participation. What, are your serious? Are you kidding me? I’m betting she makes over 6 figures a year and I’m not sure that’s the best use of taxpayer money. Actually, don’t worry about your tax dollars being wasted here. Katie is busy tweeting about important political stuff like Maddow attending bar at the Washing correspondent get together after party termed “nedrprom”. Do I detect a secret crush here? I know aman crush is a bromance–what’s a woman crush–a worance? That kinda sounds like Scooby Doo–but I digress. Katie Stanton was so busy doing her new government job tweeting all day long she forgot to attend her son’s play at school–imagine that. Twitter followers were asked if she should buy him ice cream or Bakugan (video game). Yah, that’s a no brainer. She further mused that missing the play was OK if she could get Justin Bieber’s autograph at the nerdprom–I’m seriously not kidding here–these are your hard-earned tax dollars at work.

So while originally I planned on just writing about Whitehouse followers, this whole nerdprom thing has me a little upset. Among the invitees to nerprom were Jon Bon Jovi and Jay Leno as well as the aforementioned teen throb Justin Bieber. At this point now, I don’t think anything would surprise me. You have to give Obama credit though, he is definitely catering to pop stars and Hollywood. He knows that by getting their support, you get the support of the masses that follow them.

I just hope the next time we come under terrorist attack that the counsel of such wise strategists like Leno and Bieber will prove to have been productive.

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Ever watch Good Eats on the Food Network with Alton Brown? If you answered no, that’s a good thing–you aren’t missing anything. What is up with this guy? Does he own the network or something?

Every time I flip past the Food Network and he’s on it’s like a bad car accident–you hate to but you can’t help from looking. It reminds me of one those bad public access shows we used to watch back in high school. Since it was school, watching those shows was exactly one notch above watching paint dry. And those close-ups. Isn’t he aware of how painful those close-ups of his face are to the audience? It doesn’t even rate above a boring science show…it’s just bad…real bad.

So the next time you’re flipping channels and see something that resembles a deadly train wreck, keep on surfing. It’s just Alton Brown’s Good Eats, bad host.

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If you’re tired of excuses or need some motivation, watch this video of Matt Scott of the Whitewater Warhawks.

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Lady Gaga and Beyonce don’t have anything on our fighting soldiers in Afghanistan. And here I thought the troops were all serious and deadly. I guess when you’re in the middle of a desert 5000 miles away from home this is what you do when you get bored in your down time…..

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