Grammy Awards 2009: Rihanna pulls out after Chris Brown arrest

The Grammy awards’ opening act – and triple nominee – Rihanna pulled out of the ceremony after her boyfriend Chris Brown was arrested for an alleged domestic violence incident.

The incident occurred after the couple left Clive Davis’s star-studded pre-Grammys gala at LA’s Beverly Hilton on Saturday night.

Mass Murder

Thousands of firefighters and hundreds of volunteers are battling wildfires in southeastern Australia.

In the state of Victoria, dozens have been killed and at least 100 homes destroyed.

People are busy trying to protect their homes and to avoid the heat, as the temperature reaches record levels.

Australia’s prime minister has called the country’s deadliest bushfires, believed to be the result of arson, “mass murder”.

Many good people lie dead

A fire truck in front a wall of flame at the Bunyip sate forest Tonimbuk township in Victoria, Australia

AUSTRALIA has witnessed its greatest natural disaster. Worse than Black Friday. Worse than Ash Wednesday. Only in wartime has the toll of dead and wounded been greater.

Tough Math Ahead for Obama, Stimulus Plan

President Barack Obama and both houses of Congress face tricky negotiations to produce a unified version of a stimulus bill. In the main image above, the American flag flies at the U.S. Capitol, Sunday,

President Obama returned from his first getaway to Camp David on Sunday to face an urgent priority: pressuring Congress to avert a stimulus stalemate.

The Senate is poised to pass a compromise $827 billion version as soon as Tuesday. The legislation would have to be reconciled with the very different $819 billion version already approved by the House.

Bloggers Helping Bloggers

Great Top 5 +1 post from other sites…

 

Here are some great post from blogs that caught our eye this week… These blogs each  have different political, and religious views:

Jay Keasling

Saving the World, One Molecule at a Time

Ever since Alexander Fleming noticed a clump of blue-green mold destroying a neighboring culture of bacteria in a nearly discarded petri dish, scientists have searched the most unlikely of places for cures to human disease. Eventually, Fleming’s serendipitous 1928 discovery led to the development of penicillin. Today’s scientists have taken a more proactive approach.