WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

• According to a weather expert who has been spot-on with weather more so than the experts: There's a mini-Ice Age coming.
• Not sure what's bigger news, the Ice Age or the new FCC bullshit. I'm gonna go with the Ice Age. Here are some of the winners and losers for the new FCC internet traffic rules that are expected to get passed today. Just another way that Obama is letting us down. Here's some more about it.
• Julian Assange is on a rampage and his friends aren't even safe. And according to Wikileaks, canisters of Uranium were being held in a booby-trapped bunker in the Congo. Uranium is a key ingredient in making weapons of mass destruction. It would've been bad news if those canisters got into the wrong hands.
• NYC cab drivers will be getting bullet proof vests. Good.
• The number of victims of H1N1 in the UK has doubled in the past week as medical facilities are racing to help the ill.
• Epic amounts of snow are expected to fall in Colorado.
• A flash mob of carolers in Sacramento nearly caused the 2nd floor of a mall to cave-in. Bah humbag.
• Apparently budget cuts are going to cause San Diego county to shut off some street lights to save money. I think that's a pretty good idea, actually.
• The Baltimore police are assholes. They ticketed two good-Samaritans who rescued a deer from frozen waters because they weren't wearing life vests. Jerks.
• Census News: U.S. population is 308.7 million up from 281.4 million a decade ago but lowest growth since Great Depression of the 1930s. In a big win for the GOP, eight states gain 12 congressional seats; nine states lose representatives. Only one state, Michigan, lost population during the past decade. Nevada, with a 35 percent increase, was the fastest-growing state.
• United Nations gets evacuated because of gas leak.
• The latest terror threat in the US threatens to attack people in hotels via food poisoning.
• A new study shows that more than half the people from ages 25-29 don't have landlines, even when they have families.
• The teen birthrate in 2009 was at a record low. However, I'm excited to see what the 2010 numbers will be with all those teens who got pregnant to be on Teen Mom.
• Britain and Russia have each expelled a diplomat from each other's embassies in row over suspected espionage.
• A Brazilian groom killed himself, his bride, and best man at his wedding after announcing that he had a "big surprise." Holy shit.
• Travel conditions in the UK are still a shit show.