Archive for December, 2009

Happy New Year from Renovo Media! Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.  ~Benjamin Franklin »

The results are in for this year’s USA Today Most Admired People 2009. The poll asked respondents to indicate which man and woman living today they admire most. Barack Obama was the male winner with 30% of the vote. It was a virtual tie for the women with Hillary Rodham Clinton receiving 16% of the votes... »

According to Breitbart, residents of the U.S. capitol are going to have to ante-up a little more change at the grocery check out if they chose plastic over paper. The capitol city is getting ready to add a five-cent levy on each plastic shopping bag issued at checkout. The measure, which takes effect on... »

Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told Honolulu television station, KITV. Limbaugh was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room at the Kahala when emergency crews arrived, sources said. He told medical crews that he was taking medication for... »

On Christmas Eve, expectant Colorado mom Tracy Hermanstorfer went into cardiac arrest during labor and died. Her baby boy, Coltyn, was delivered showing no signs of life. But miraculously, both were revived. “I got a second chance in life,” Tracy Hermanstorfer said. Hermanstorfer, 33, was being prepped for childbirth at Memorial Hospital in Colorado... »

The herbal supplement industry constitutes a multi-billion dollar market.  According to Time, over the past decade, use of herbal supplements has jumped 83%, going from $12.2 billion in U.S. sales in 1996 to a whopping $22.3 billion last year. People often flock to claims for cure-all relief for everything from cancer to impotency.  Upon... »

Apparently, the CIA failed to properly process and communicate the information it had about terrorism suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab.  If it had done so, AbdulMutallab would have been denied passage on the Detroit-bound Northwest Flight 253. AbdulMutallab’s father talked about his son’s extremist views prior to the flight with someone from the CIA and... »

ABC News financial correspondent Bianna Golodryga, 31, has announced her engagement to Obama administration Office of Management & Budget Director Peter Orszag. The couple met in May at the White House correspondents dinner and were engaged Monday afternoon at lunch at New York’s Sarabeth’s restaurant, where they went to celebrate Orsazg’s 41st birthday. Orszag hid a 5-carat... »

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama led an opposition party to victory in August elections, ending an almost uninterrupted five decades of rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.  Since then, the relationship with Japan recently has recently turned a bit sour.  According to The Washington Post, there has been a series of canceled dinners, diplomatic... »

Recently Senator John McCain launched an American Issues Survey which attracted a response of almost 54,000 people within the past 10 daya.  Three feedback areas show strong voter discontent of a magnitude that that Beltway politicians and pundits need to be aware; 1 – 95% of respondents supported an amendment to block Democrats from... »

A never-before published photo of what appears to be John F. Kennedy sunbathing on a boat filled with several naked women has surfaced. The picture, which TMZ gained access to, shows obvious signs of age and was likely taken in the mid-1950′s. The photo shows two naked women jumping off the boat and two... »

  The peaceful protests in Tehran of the past few days have degenerated into violence with at least eight people killed, according to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council — making it the deadliest incident since June. A video leaked to YouTube graphically shows demonstrators cornering a handful of riot police who were sent to... »

Jasper Schuringa, a Dutch film director, has been cited as the man who helped take down terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab and thwart a potential disaster aboard Northwest Flight 253. In an interview with CNN, the Schuringa said that he heard a loud bang that sounded like a firecracker, followed by someone screaming... »

University of Florida head coach Urban Meyer has announced that he is stepping down due to health concerns. The 45-year-old Meyer resigned Saturday, calling it quits after five seasons in Gainesville and two national titles. He leaves Florida with a 56-10 record that includes a 32-8 mark in league play and a school-record 22-game... »

 Charlie Sheen, co-star of the popular television comedy “Two and a Half Men,”  was charged on Christmas day with second degree assault and menacing, both felonies, and criminal mischief, a misdemeanor, Aspen, Colorado police said. Police said the alleged victim, whom they did not identify, did not require a trip to a hospital.  Colorado law... »

A Nigerian national who claims he was acting on behalf of al-Qaeda is in custody in Detroit after attempting to light an incendiary device aboard a Northwest flight after landing on Friday. A White House official is calling it an act of terrorism. The FBI is investigating the incident. Minor injuries were reported aboard... »

From all of us at Renovo Media, have a wonderful holiday season and the happiest of all New Years. andrea kellie jim »

Senate Democrats have passed a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system today with a 60 vote majority.  In the aftermath, Republicans charged that the bill is a tarnished product of backroom deals, with some going so far as to declare it illegal.   According to The Los Angeles Times, GOP senators questioned a deal... »

“Air strikes agains are the only plausible option with any prospect of preventing Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons.”  This is the studied opinion expressed in a New York Times Op-Ed piece written by Alan J. Kuperman, director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin. He argues that incentives and... »

  Susan Sarandon, 63, and Tim Robbins, 51, have parted ways.  The couple, who never married but have been together for over twenty years, split six months ago according to publicist Teal Cannaday. Cannaday said, “Actress Susan Sarandon and her partner of 23 years, actor Tim Robbins have announced that they separated over the... »

Singer Amy Winehouse is in trouble again.  This time she was charged with a “public order offense and common assault,” authorities said in a news release. According to CNN, Winehouse went to the Thames Valley police station voluntarily with her attorney on Wednesday and was arrested. She is scheduled to appear in court on... »

The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is showing early signs of fracture.  Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith’s announced switch to the Republican Party on Tuesday may signal that others are approaching a similar conversion experience.  According to the Christian Science Monitor, Rep. Griffith’s defection could put pressure on other conservative and even moderate... »

  Kim Peek, the autistic savant who inspired the Oscar-winning film Rain Man, has died, at 58. Mr Peek’s father Fran said that his son had suffered a major heart attack on Saturday and was pronounced dead at a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, the town where he had spent his life. With a mixture... »

  A Democratic House member who has opposed several of President Barack Obama’s top domestic agenda items is switching to the Republican Party. Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama announced Tuesday that he will join the GOP. “I have become increasingly concerned that the bills and policies pushed by the current Democratic leadership are not... »

The chief justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled in favor of David Goldman on Tuesday in an international custody battle. The ruling by Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes will reunite a 9-year-old Sean Goldman with his father who has been locked in a custody battle with the family of the boy’s deceased mother. Last... »

There really is a Southern Bible Belt. Of all states surveyed by a recent Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, over 70% of the people who live in the heart of Dixie say religion is very important in their lives.  Led by Mississippi with 82%, five other southern states with at least 70%... »

The “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign, which  was stolen late last week from the front gate of the Auschwitz concentration camp has been recovered and five men in their 20s and 30s have been arrested.     Journalist Tomas Machala of CNN affiliate Polsat in the Polish capital Warsaw said Monday that the men were not... »

The funeral procession that attracted thousands of mourners in Qom, Iran, for a top Iranian cleric turned into another major protest against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his hard-line Iranian government. Shouts of “death to the dictator!” loudly echoed outside the home of senior Iranian dissident Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, who died early Sunday.  According... »

  Speculations of drug use and an eating disorder have already begun to circulate as possible explanations for the death of Brittany Murphy. When a seemingly healthy 32-year-old dies suddenly of cardiac arrest, people want to know why. Brittany Murphy’s unexpected death is already causing rumors of drug use. There has also been mention of Murphy’s recent severe weight loss by sources... »

  In spite of protests from Brittany Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack, an autopsy will be performed on the 32-year-old actress. Murphy was found unconscious in the shower around 8:00 a.m. by her mother who told paramedics that Murphy had a history of diabetes. Paramedics were unable to revive Brittany and she was pronounced dead at 10:04... »