Happy Wednesday

It's Wednesday- YAY!! Unlike the folks up north, we are SNOW free!!

So President Obama extended the old "olive branch" again to Republicans. Should the GOP accept or is it an evil trap like Rush Limbaugh spouts?

While I'm all a fan of Obama doing this, it kinda creeps me out that he follows each gesture with " a live, televised discussion on CSPAN". This is when his own party totally wanted to do THEIR discussions IN PRIVATE and NOT on CSPAN last month. First the Dems diss the President on passing any of "his" health care initiatives and other things, now a public diss on transparency.

Hmmmmmm.

Let's see what's on the web today, shall we?

A new study relates a child's sweet tooth to family alcoholism and THIER eventual proclivity.

You can read about it HERE

Captain Phil Harris of television show "Deadliest Catch", has died. the 53 year old suffered a stroke January 29th of this year.

Changes abound in the way your shrink diagnoses your or anyone elses problems- Read about it HERE

Authorities in Flint Michigan say a man accused of stealing a car and then reporting it stolen remains in custody after telling police he was robbed at gunpoint while trying to buy crack cocaine with a credit card.

A small pre-dawn earthquake has hit northern Illinois, startling sleepy-eyed residents as far away as Iowa and Indiana, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported.

CBR NEWS is reporting that actor Tim Robbins has been cast in the film as Senator Hammond. The article refers to the character as "the disapproving father of the movie's villain, Dr. Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard), who becomes infused with psychic powers." The film is set to start filming in next March.

Reports all over the place are putting Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan in the "General Manager's" chair to helm the reboot of the rebooted Superman franchise.

The U.S. military freed a Reuters photographer after detaining him -- without charges -- for 17 months, Reuters reported. The military claimed Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed was a "security threat," but claimed the evidence against him was classified. Jassam is just one of several Iraqi journalists working for foreign news organizations who have been arrested by the military since the 2003 U.S. invasion. None of the journalists have ever been charged with a crime.

NASA's newest sun probe, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is launched from Cape Canaveral this morning.