Kelly Clarkson Endorses Ron Paul, Republicans, Catches Hate on Twitter

Kelly Clarkson got herself into a bit of hot water?OK basically, it was a tidal wave?when she decided to reveal that she?d support Libertarian, Ron Paul in the next presidential election if he won the republican primary.

Yes, that?s right. Kelly says she?s a Republican, although she voted for Obama in the last election.

It all started with an innocent tweet:

I love Ron Paul. I liked him a lot during the last republican nomination and no one gave him a chance. If he wins the nomination for the Republican party in 2012 he?s got my vote. Too bad he probably won?t.

And then, almost immediately, all hell broke loose. Kelly attempted to deal with what appears to be an onslaught of hate tweets:

@msschantz we shouldn?t try & help/tell other countries how to solve their issues w/the poor when we can?t even solve our own.

@QueenVampireX @sexidance I am a Republican but I actually voted Democrat last election.

@deethers I have never heard that he?s a racist? I definitely don?t agree with racism, that?s ignorant.

@BarkingTurtles I love all people and could care less if you like men or women. I have never heard that Ron Paul is a racist or homophobe?

@my_warden I have never seen or heard Ron Paul say anything against gay people?

@Jcourt3 I respect your opinion and I am about progress. Ron Paul is about letting people decide, not the government. I am for this.

@Cibuloid Very mature of you. Someone says something you disagree with and you lash out at them.

(Singer, Michelle Branch, tweeted her response, ?@kelly_clarkson I wholeheartedly agree. #RonPaul?)

@uglybenny @michellebranch classy response.

I am really sorry if I have offended anyone. Obviously that was not my intent. I do not support racism. I support gay rights, straight rights, women?s rights, men?s rights, white/black/purple/orange rights. I like Ron Paul because he believes in less government and letting the people (all of us) make the decisions and mold our country. That is all. Out of all of the Republican nominees, he?s my favorite.

@LoveUMore because you don?t agree with me, I?m stupid. Very mature response.

@MauricioDelRey Man, seriously such hate coming from your tweets. This isn?t a healthy way to be heard. Say what you?d like without the hate

@infinityguitarz I don?t believe in the death penalty. Most Republicans do but not me.

@judeinlondon this is demeaning & rude, please don?t waste any more of your time and don?t follow me if you are going to continue like this

Man my eyes have been opened to so much hate tonight. If y?all ever disagree with something I say please don?t feel the need to attack me. I will listen to what you say and any articles or viewpoints you have when you say it with respect. Being hateful is not a healthy way to get people to see or hear you. I was raised to respect people and their decisions and beliefs and I hope you will grant me the same decency. If you don?t agree with me simply unfollow me. It?s really that easy. I hope you don?t because I would love the chance to hear what you have to say but if you?re so blinded by hate you can?t seek peace and progress then that is your unfortunate prerogative.

Some of the responses to Kelly:

@MattOrtega:? Pop singers for Paul? Way to show how little you know about him. RT @michellebranch: @kelly_clarkson I wholeheartedly agree. #RonPaul

@NerdyHBIC:? Wow @kelly_clarkson is looking really dumb right now, supporting Ron Paul aka blatantly racist LOLbetarian GOP candidate. #oop

@Ben_Howe: You have to figure @kelly_clarkson would be a fan of a candidate that constantly gets young idiots to vote over and over for them.

@jpbevi: it?s probably weird how much that pro-republican/Ron Paul tweet from @kelly_clarkson is breaking my heart right now. i need to go to bed.

@Jensenclan88: OK, so @kelly_clarkson is voting Ron Paul. I just need Katharine McPhee?s opinion now and I?ll be ready to make my decision.

@JonnyTorres: Congratulations to @kelly_clarkson & @MichelleBranch for having independent thought from brainwashed Hollywood. Move to Nashville!

@HEReinhartFans: Everyone is entitled to their opinion until a musical artist says theirs huh? @kelly_clarkson keep speaking your mind girl!

There were a series of newsletters that went out under Paul?s name from the late 1970s until the mid-1990s, which are littered with racist and homophobic statements. Paul denies writing the newsletters nor knowing who did.

Kelly is certainly entitled to her opinion, but it?s a little naive to endorse a candidate, yet be unaware of the of controversies swirling around them.? Any celebrity who decides to talk politics on social media should expect to be flamed.? In Kelly?s case, her ignorance of the issues around Paul?s candidacy only made it worse.

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$150 billion award for Texas fire victim's family (Providence Journal)

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Science Diction: The Origin Of The Petri Dish

In 1887, Julius Petri invented a simple pair of nesting glass dishes, ideal for keeping specimens of growing bacteria sterile?the 'Petri dish.' Science historian Howard Markel recounts the history of this ubiquitous lab supply, and the serendipitous discovery of the stuff in it, agar.

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Apple?s Grand Central store set to open December 9 (Yahoo! News)

Obama in Iowa City in 2010 (Charles Dharapak/AP)

The road to health care reform?what the Republican presidential candidates routinely call "Obamacare," and likely the central issue of the fall 2012 campaign?began in Iowa.

In May 2007, Barack Obama was a United States senator and Democratic presidential candidate who was losing to Hillary Clinton by double digits in national polls, when he unveiled the first blueprint of what became the most comprehensive overhaul of the nation's health insurance laws in history.

Speaking to a mostly friendly audience at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Obama spoke of the plight of average Americans who tried to keep up with the rising costs of medical care.

And when Obama signed his health care bill into law in March 2010, he celebrated by returning to Iowa City, where he touted the state's influence in helping to pass the legislation. "Because of you," Obama told the cheering crowd, "this is the place where change began."

Nearly two years later, Iowans' reaction to that change is mixed, as the state isn't the friendly territory it used to be for Obama?especially on health care.

Darlyne Neff, a 77-year-old breast cancer survivor whose efforts to pass the law landed her a White House invitation and a mention in Obama's 2010 speech in Iowa City, told Yahoo News that she still supports the law's overall goals. But she thinks the bill is "too expensive" and needs to be tweaked.

"We've got to do more to cut costs," Neff said. "We're trying to cover everything now, and everything into the future, and we simply aren't going to be able to afford that . . . . Everybody needs to be covered, but there has to be limits . . . . ?We can't pay for everything."

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Planes and protests on Geithner's visit to Europe (AP)

FRANKFURT, Germany ? Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is seeing the sites on his whirlwind three-day, three-country tour of Europe. Not that he's spent time touring the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

But one site probably looked quite familiar to him. Outside the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt was a tent city erected by the Occupy Frankfurt forces.

The tent city was spread out below the hulking blue euro sculpture that's often served as a backdrop for TV news reports on the debt crisis in the 17-nation eurozone. The supporters, following the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street movement, had erected their tents beneath the symbol of European capitalism.

Geithner didn't see the protesters on his visit to Mario Draghi, the ECB's new president. His motorcade came and left through a different side of the bank building.

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Shades of Lehman Brothers. There's nothing like a crisis to draw hordes of reporters.

When Geithner appeared at a news conference in Berlin with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, the two men were confronted by 15 television cameras and a crush of photographers and reporters jockeying for position.

It might have reminded Geithner of the dark days of the U.S. financial crisis in 2008, when he was president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank at the time Lehman collapsed, and in 2009, when became Treasury secretary.

The news conference Tuesday was packed. Many in Europe are eager to hear how U.S. officials are responding to their proposed solutions. Among some Europeans, Geithner's words carry credibility because of how he helped defuse the U.S. crisis.

But Geithner and Schaeuble were toeing a narrow line. They wanted to say enough to reassure financial markets. Yet with details still being worked out, they didn't want reporters delving into the particulars of Europe's latest proposals to resolve the crisis.

Which was probably why reporters were limited to just two questions ? one from an American reporter, one from a German.

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Geithner worked a full day Monday and then boarded a plane to fly all night to Europe. His mission this week: to lobby finance officials to act quickly and decisively to get control of the debt crisis. Yet Geithner looked none the worse for the wear, perhaps because he has a secret weapon.

His Air Force C-40 jet has a bed in back. It's a compartment with a desk and a bed that lets Geithner sleep on his way over the Atlantic if he chooses, so he can be rested the next morning.

The plane, the military equivalent of a Boeing 737, is staffed and flown by the Air Force. It comes complete with military personnel to prepare meals and keep sophisticated telecommunications gear running. That gear allows Cabinet officials and the military brass who use the fleet of planes to remain plugged in wherever they are in the world.

The planes are prized not only by Cabinet secretaries like Geithner but also by lawmakers when they take congressional delegations on "fact-finding" missions overseas. The congressional delegations, or "codels" in government-speak, have absorbed criticism over the years for their travel to exotic destinations at taxpayers' expense.

Critics have a different name for them. They call them junkets.

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Girls More Prone Than Boys to Headaches After Head Injury (HealthDay)

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experience headaches months after the injury, with girls more apt to have
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Bat Ears Deform For Better Ping Pickups

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Slow motion video and high resolution imaging show that horseshoe bats can deform the shape of their outer ears for superior echolocation. Cynthia Graber reports.

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Bat see with their ears. Which are highly attuned to pick up minute variations in the reflection of the sound pulses they use to echolocate. Here are some pulses, slowed down. [Bat sound.]

And now researchers have shown that horseshoe bats can manipulate the shape of their ears in milliseconds to better catch those bouncing sound waves.

Horseshoe bats had been known to move their entire outer ear, or pinna. But scientists wondered whether the motion was a generalized swiveling of the entire ear?the way a cat can point its whole ear in a specific direction?or whether the bats could delicately manipulate the shape of the pinnae.

The researchers analyzed the pinnae with high-speed video and high-resolution imaging. And they found that the pinnae could move from upright to bent and back again within a tenth of a second, less than the blink of an eye. The study appeared in the journal Physical Review Letters. [Li Gao et al, Ear Deformations Give Bats a Physical Mechanism for Fast Adaptation of Ultrasonic Beam Patterns]

The changes in the deformation of the bats? ears can correspond to different echolocation beam patterns. Which might allow the bats to tune in to particular frequencies. And you thought wiggling your ears was impressive.

?Cynthia Graber

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