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090310
Strong quake strikes near Christchurch, New Zealand - CNN.com
AP Issues Standards Memo: 'Combat In Iraq Is Not Over'
AP refuses to use WH/NBC propaganda terms for Iraq - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (the Pentagon's 27,000 member $.5 billion PR dept at work)
Soldier admits to looting Turkish ship - Israel News, Ynetnews
Stations Picked, Huge Automated Transit Project for Paris is Closer to Realization « The Transport Politic (twenty billion euros or three months in Afganistan)
Gulf oil rig explosion reportedly spreading sheen in Gulf of Mexico | NOLA.com
BP Says Curb on Drilling Would Imperil Payouts - NYTimes.com (in other words: "fuck you")
For families of Muslim 9/11 victims, a new pain (hate mail from Glenn Beck/Palin fans)
Crossroads County - Fewer Young Voters See Themselves as Democrats - NYTimes.com (Obama managed to turn off an entire generation in two years)
Obama Should Feel 'Uncomfortable' That Conservatives Are Co-opting Gay Rights Issues: Top Dem (Obama "a marriage is between a man and a woman" is now to the right of GOP)
The profound mystery of the "enthusiasm gap" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Obama governed like a Republican; Dems losing on issues +DiFi leading attack on marijuana)
GOP Will 'Descend Into A Brawl' Upon Taking Power: Top Strategist
Meet The Next Sarah Palin: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer | Prose Before Hos (there is nothing she could do that would lose her support by insane Republicans)
The Rachel Maddow Show - Journalism: Jan Brewer will get you for that (she's got the avenging harpie part down)
Think Progress » DOJ Sues Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio For Refusing To Cooperate With Civil Rights Probe
Tea Party Rocks Primaries -- RollingStone.com - Just to prove that it can be done, I’d like to see at least one firm get blown out of business as a consequence of financially supporting the network that is telling America that its black president wants to kill white babies.
Sarah Palin Slams 'Impotent,' 'Limp' Reporters Who Use Anonymous Sources
Sarah Palin's Shopping Spree: Yes, There's More... | Politics | Vanity Fair Bose headphones. A birthday dress for Bristol. Campaign documents and e-mails reveal the fine print.
Krugman - The Real Story - NYTimes.com - If you were, say, reading The Wall Street Journal’s opinion pages in early 2009, you would have been repeatedly informed that the Obama plan would lead to skyrocketing interest rates and soaring inflation ... So, as I said, here’s hoping that Mr. Obama goes big next week. If he does, he’ll have the facts on his side. (he won't; he doesn't know how)
Employment Situation Summary the unemployment rate was about unchanged at 9.6 percent
Matthew Yglesias » New Jobs Program Coming? (not really)
Administration’s September Rollout: Big Payroll Tax Cut | FDL News Desk the Administration doesn’t want to use the word “stimulus.” And in fact, what they’re proposing, according to Lori Montgomery and Anne Kornblut, is a series of big tax cuts (for your overlords)
White House considers pre-midterm package of business tax breaks to spur hiring White House considers pre-midterm package of business tax breaks to spur hiring (see what they did there?)
Hebrew U. researchers develop treatment to kill HIV cells - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News New therapy is superior to current treatments, which only delay the development of the disease and make AIDS more manageable.
An idle brain may be the self's workshop - latimes.com Recent research suggests that mind-wandering may be important and that knowledge of how it works might help treat such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, autism, depression and schizophrenia.
Withdrawal Method Finds Ally - NYTimes.com withdrawal “almost as effective as the male condom — at least when it comes to pregnancy prevention.”
New Discovery Encourages Alzheimer’s Researchers - NYTimes.com a new protein that is needed to make beta amyloid, which makes up the telltale plaque that builds up in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s.
SAM-e May Be Effective Treatment for Depression - NYTimes.com SAMe stands for S-adenosyl methionine, a naturally occurring molecule that is widely used in Europe for depression, arthritis and other ailments.
Phys Ed: Does Stretching Before Running Prevent Injuries? - NYTimes.com (no)
Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria "talk" | Video on TED.com
The Student Loans Scheme: a Gateway Drug to Debt Slavery (student loan debt now exceed credit card debt: Amercian educational system at work)
Inside a toxic hellhole, Iron Mountain Mine
Guest Post: Go Where? Sex, Gender, and Toilets » Sociological Images
Stormdrane's Blog: a million uses for paracord
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090210
Hurricane Earl closing in on Virginia and North Carolina coast - latimes.com
Hurricane EARL
Hurricane Earl 2010: Parts Of New York, Massachusetts Put On Notice
Obama Wants Us To Forget The Lessons Of Iraq | The New Republic . The surge, now remembered as an epic feat of arms, functions chiefly as a smokescreen, obscuring a vast panorama of recklessness, miscalculation, and waste that politicians, generals, and sundry warmongers are keen to forget ... The United States leaves Iraq having learned nothing
Iraq: The Morning After Commentary (Updated) | Center for a New American Security does anyone out there see a U.S. administration ever embracing the kind of neo-isolationism that Bacevich is apparently demanding? And is it just me, or is he crankier than normal lately? (rightwingers aren't happy unless they are looting the treasury and blowing people up - everything else is "neo-isolationism")
Karzai's brother calls for U.S. to shore up Kabul Bank as withdrawals accelerate the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown (TARP extends to Afganistan to protect graft and drug profits)
Tony Blair: Gordon Brown Has 'Zero' Emotional Intelligence Tony Blair regrets banning fox hunting, but not invading Iraq (+drunk into Baghdad)
Dead British spy was 'padlocked in bag' - Yahoo! News described by friends as a shy mathematics genius (MI6 suggests he padlocked himself into the bag)
Israel is willing to give up east Jerusalem in final deal, key official says - NYPOST.com
Up to 90% of oysters dead in DMR’s reef sample - Pass Christian - SunHerald.com
Oil platform explodes in Gulf, rescues under way – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
ISS - Big Oil rallies to save Big Oil - "astroturf" events that are designed to appear grassroots but which are actually funded by corporate interests.
Did BP Assassinate This Man? | Death and Taxes
Beck: "We have been setting up re-education camps. We call them universities" | Media Matters for America (college students, the new Muslims)
DGA Files Complaint Against Fox News For Illegal Contribution To GOP Candidate
pandagon.net: Whitey McWhiterson, Sam, And Their Pal Darko Black, Who Is, Ironically, White (Jim Treacher, creepy rightwinger, doesn't undertand anything)
Late Night: Jehovah Goes Galt | Firedoglake (Michael Medved: God is a Republican!)
Daily Kos: "Guiding assumptions" of American governance (American Prospect wankers)
American Taliban Not So Talibanish After All? | Mother Jones Over at the American Prospect, Jamelle Bouie goes to town on Markos Moulitsas's new book, American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right (pathetic)
Vanity Fair's Sarah Palin Profiler: 'The Worst Stuff Isn't Even In There' - "This is a person for whom there is no topic too small to lie about," he said. "She lies about everything."
Obama White House Still Backs Catfood Co-Chair Alan Simpson After Vietnam Vets Slur | The Seminal (there is nothing he could say that would get him fired)
Meet The 18 People Who Could Determine The Fate Of Social Security | TPMDC (these are the people Obama appointed to dismantle SS/Medicare - 25 years before it might have problems: shows their priorities)
Daily Kos: The deficit commission's conservative bias (Obama, being a center-right Republican, stacked the catfood commission with center-right Dems - Conrad and Baucus, the guys who screwed health care -- and far-right Repubs)
Hullabaloo: digby: Dealing With The Devil Redux
Right-wing media's pathetic attempt to spin the Discovery Channel hostage situation | Media Matters for America
Did NIST Edit WTC 7 Footage To Hide Evidence Of Implosion?
Democrats unlikely to repeal tax cuts for the rich | McClatchy (because that would go too far to balance the budget and Obama can't stand to upset rich Republicans who hate him)
Eschaton: Farewell: Christina Romer's departing words (they didn't listen to girls)
Story Topic: This is the headline - CNBC Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped for a second straight week, slipping 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 472,000
Bernanke says stopping housing bubble was not an option « HousingWire (but screwing millions of ordinary people was)
Fed’s Rosengren: Consider community needs in solving foreclosure crisis | REO Insider (fat chance, unless it's a "community" of billionairies)
Banks Playing 'Foreclosure Roulette' With Delinquent Homeowners (they never gave a shit about homeowners)
Steven Rattner's 'Overhaul' Pulls No Punches On Obama Administration's Auto Rescue But Minimizes His Own Troubles (plenty of blame to go around, but Obama and Emmanuel and Summers don't look good)
Irish Worries For The Global Economy « The Baseline Scenario - The consensus among officials and most of the international banking community is that the global economy has stabilized and is now well down the road to recovery (and they have always been right)
FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Obama was too cautious in fearful times (the timidity of governing +Obama should have listened more to Summers, muhahaha)
Researchers build mysterious "Quantum Cats" from light | NetworkWorld.com Community
Researchers discover how to conduct first test of 'untestable' string theory
Scientist at Work - Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier - Debunking Myths of the Medical World - NYTimes.com
How the Innocence Project Decides to Take a Case | Barry Scheck | Big Think
What to Do When Police Tell You to Stop Taking Photos, Video « Change… You're World
ACLU Seeks End To Prosecutions For Recording Public Conversations With Police | American Civil Liberties Union
Maryland Attorney General Upholds Right to Video Traffic Stops Maryland attorney general rules that state police were wrong to charge motorist with felony for recording his traffic stop (and where is Martha Coakley? protecting cops who abuse the law, what a loser)
Paley & Doctorow argue over Non-Commercial licenses « Nina Paley’s Blog
Op-Ed Contributor - Google's Earth - NYTimes.com
F**k you official video FAIL: colossal waste of money. - My Quilt
The Best of YouTube - bestofyoutube.com | Dancing Merengue Dog - The Best of YouTube (unfucking believable)
090110
The "nobody-could-have-known" excuse and Iraq - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (by which they mean none of the Village Idiots who always support idiotic lies: 9/11, WMDs, Iraq, financial crisis)
Eschaton: The Wayback Machine: November 13, 2003: The Bush administration plans to support the creation of a reconstituted governing body in Iraq that will assume a large degree of sovereignty by next summer -- a move that could lead to a relinquishing of control by the U.S.-led occupation before the 2004 presidential election (suckas!)
Tony Blair Memoir: Thinks War In Iraq Was Right (they are all crawling out of their holes)
Think Progress » Bush-Era Iraq War Architects Emerge To Demand ‘Credit’ For Iraq War ‘Success’
Matt Miller - My Iraq mistake may God save America's unaccountable chattering class.
As Troops Leave Iraq, Why Is Obama Sounding Like A Neocon? | The Seminal And I didn’t even mention how insulting it is for Obama to praise the man who should be getting investigated for war crimes. It reminds me of the final scene from Animal Farm.
Palestinians arrest 250 Hamas members after shooting deaths of 4 Israelis - latimes.com The Palestinian Authority appears to be sending a message that it is committed to peace talks about to begin in Washington (but you-know-who isn't)
Obama Tiptoes Into The Israel-Palestine Crisis
Afghanistan's dirty little secret For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers - Afganistan pedophilia capital of Asia (Islamic law makes women unavailable, so ...)
Julian Assange Rape Investigation Reopened: Sweden Probing WikiLeaks Founder
Brazilian agriculture: The miracle of the cerrado | The Economist Brazil has revolutionised its own farms. Can it do the same for others?
Islamic Center Imam: Fight Could Shape Future Of Muslims In America
Teens Harass Muslims In Upstate New York | TPMMuckraker (crankin' up the hate)
James Lee, Discovery Hostage Taker, Has List Of Demands That Is Hilarious And Crazy ! All human procreation and farming must cease!
Police kill Discovery building gunman - msnbc.com ‘The planet does not need humans’
Alan Simpson Calls Recipient Of Angry Letter (angry old man know nothing; WH says he's just the guy to kill SS)
Daily Kos: State of the Nation Disabled vets are just like seniors--those "lesser people" of Simpson's, the ones who fought our wars. Those disabled vets that our own military poisoned while they were serving, can just shove it (Gibbs stands firm behind their man)
Glenn Beck's George Washington Whopper | Mother Jones The Fox host says he held the inaugural address of the famously truthful founding father. Yeah right, says the National Archive
Murkowski Concedes Alaska GOP Senate Primary To Joe Miller (t-bagged!)
Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury | Politics | Vanity Fair (all your Palin trainwreck in one place: "anywhere you peel back the skin of Sarah Palin’s life, a sad and moldering strangeness lies beneath.")
Argument by Analogy - The Atlantic - Glenn Beck has emerged as the Lich King
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect Glenn Beck Is Not Malcolm X.
Dethroned Miss California Carrie Prejean lands right-wing book deal | Media Matters for America with Regnery Publishing, the notorious right-wing publishing house (wingnut welfare)
Biden To Cool His Heels In Mexico For A While | The Onion - America's Finest News Source "I need to steer clear of D.C. until some shit blows over," said Biden
Wall Street Believes Elizabeth Warren Will Get CFPB Nod | FDL News Desk
The Economic Narrative - NYTimes.com The way the right wants to tell the story — and, I’m afraid, the way it will play in November — is that the Obama team went all out for Keynesian policies, and they failed. So back to supply-side economics! (another Obama messaging fail: they tried to have it both ways, got none)
Tax Cuts, Infrastructure Spending Weighed to Spur Economy - WSJ.com
The 10 Banks That Recieved The Biggest Bailouts Spent The Most On Lobbying In 2010 (of course)
The 10 Highest-Paid CEOs Who Laid Off The Most Workers: Institute For Policy Studies
Science, Reason and Critical Thinking: Modern Science Map
The fine-structure constant and the nature of the universe: Ye cannae change the laws of physics | The Economist - alpha: fine-structure constant variance
BBC News - Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle
Computer Chips Seem Poised to Shrink Again - NYTimes.com
Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science | Magazine
Bedbugs Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists - NYTimes.com
Oliver Sacks on Vision, His Next Book, and Surviving Cancer | NeuroTribes
Texas Court: Gay Couples Can't Divorce
How Much Pee in Pan Will Prompt Museum Intervention?
Julia Oldham: Brooklyn is Burning 4 at PS1: The Morning After (+Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE)
Google Chrome Is The New “Down For Everyone Or Just Me”
Put Your System on a Diet: Replace Bloated Apps with Command-Line Alternatives
New Digg CEO, take note: How social media companies respond to irate users | Technology | Los Angeles Times
083110
Five US soldiers killed in Afghanistan, brings August death toll to 55 in fight against Taliban (Obama's pointless war)
BBC News - Assessing America's 'imperial adventure' in Iraq (complete and tragic failure accomplished; Americans still love Bush and their wars)
John Bolton's Revisionist History Of Iraq War Criticism
The Washington Monthly - Hatch Gets It Right On Religious Liberty - Hatch is the first high-profile Republican official to offer a strong endorsement of the Park51 proposal. My suspicion is, he's also likely the last (he's also a Mormon: where's Mittens?)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect The Impending Democratic Bloodbath - we should expect another round of pointless investigations and ridiculous witch hunts (because Obama decided to govern like a Republican)
Voters Leaning Republican On Economy, Terrorism, Other Hot Button Issues (poll)
Immigration Boosts Wages, Employment And Productivity, Fed Study Finds (Arizona'a head explodes)
Glenn Beck's rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected—the Waterworld of white self-pity. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine Glenn Beck's rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected—the Waterworld of white self-pity (stupid white people at work, or not)
Beck: Obama's not a racist, he just believes in an "evil" theology | Media Matters for America ("liberation theology")
Poll: Majority Of GOP Believes Obama Sympathizes With Islamic Fundamentalism, Wants Worldwide Islamic Law (Conservative white people: stupid and insane)
'Young Guns' Ad Campaign Mocked Mercilessly On 'Morning Joe'
Robert Kuttner: Simpson's 'Tits' Are the Least of It Exhibit A is a doubly dishonest column by the New York Times' new whiz-kid pundit, Matt Bai
Brother, Can You Paradigm? - NYTimes.com they argued that too big a plan would alarm the bond markets, and that anyway fiscal stimulus was only needed as an insurance policy (that would be Larry "Always Wrong" Summers and our naive, ahistorical Pres bought the line)
Why Paul Krugman Is Perhaps The Biggest Economic Optimist There Is
Why Paul Krugman Is Perhaps The Biggest Economic Optimist There Is Bottom line: Paul Krugman thinks the solution to the economic malaise is fairly simple, and thus he can't think the slump is fundamentally that bad. He's an optimist (and if he's an optomist ...)
Wastebasket Overdue For Failed Theories of Economics | The Seminal (house of cards +always wrong with no consequences except for destroying the world)
Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy: It's All About the Costs : Greentech Media Wall Street Journal: PV is a “speculative and immature technology that costs far more than ordinary power.” (except for the externalities part; lying Conservatives are generally bad about everything)
Wall Street May Pay Bonuses Early To Dodge Possible Repeal Of Bush Tax Cuts (plan B)
Lawrence O’Donnell is Dangerously Wrong About Social Security | FDL News Desk
Senator Simpson’s Quick Budget Quiz | Op-Eds & Columns (give it to Dimbulb O'Donnell)
tenreasons.pdf - top ten reasons not to raise the retirement age
Bank Profits Soar, Lending Falls As Banks Pay Next To Nothing For Funds
Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change | Environment | The Guardian 'Sceptical environmentalist' and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world (stupid and wrong, found himself left in the dustbin of history)
Bjørn Lomborg - RCwiki
6 global warming skeptics who changed their minds - The Week
Linking Head Trauma and A.L.S. in Military - NYTimes.com
Severely increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among Italian professional football players -- Chiò et al. 128 (3): 472 -- Brain
Head trauma could make football players end up with an ALS-like disease later in life - SmartPlanet
Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds - TIME abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers
A tolerance of rape The Justice Department insists that it wants to take the time to do this right (so Republicans won't object?)
Stripped of dignity
Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » In Colorado, A New Breed of Degrading Search in Prisons
Focus On The Family: Anti-Bullying Efforts Are A Gay Front | TPMMuckraker (they are bullies)
The Online State of Nature | Big Questions Online Why has Internet discourse devolved into a "war of every man against every man"?
083010
Hurricane EARL
Lawsuit challenges Obama's power to kill citizens without due process - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Iraqi Citizens Angry After U.S. Combat Troop Withdrawal - time (freedom isn't free)
U.S. Military Loses Control Of Subcontractor Spending, Warlords Benefit (lobbying against disclosing fraud and waste)
Op-Ed Contributor - Hamas, the I.R.A. and Us - NYTimes.com (you don't usually read this in America)
Abbas, Palestinians should die: Israeli rabbi - Yahoo! News An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week.
Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinain schoolgirl | World news | The Guardian · Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified · Defence says 'confirming the kill' standard practice (16 more times) (nothing is too ourtrageous)
More than 3,000 Mexican federal police fired, commissioner says - CNN.com - Of those, 465 have been charged with crimes.
‘Sinner’ singer given 39 lashes by rabbis Punishment for performance in front of "mixed audience." (they were only "symbolic")
Ex-Federal Contractor Indicted For Leaks To Fox News | TPMMuckraker
Charlie Brooker | 'Ground Zero mosque'? The reality is less provocative | Comment is free | The Guardian Millions of Americans are furious about the 'Ground Zero mosque'. But it doesn't exist (millions of Americans are racist and insane)
d Anti-mosque sentiment rages far from Ground Zero - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Gallup: Republican Congressional Ballot Lead Highest Ever | TPMDC (way to go, crack team of advisors)
Democrats' Generic Ballot Poll Numbers Drop (great strategy, guys)
What Can Obama Really Do? | Ian Welsh self-defeating, pre-negotation concession has been a repeated pattern for the Obama administration (assuming that Obama does seek Liberal ends) (which is a big assumption) (there is a lot he could have done without the Republicans) (assuming he really wanted to)
Hullabaloo: digby: Dealing With The Devil Redux (Gibbs: the professional left can shut the fuck up, Alan Simpson is staying)
DownWithTyranny!: Koches, Singers, Murdochs... The Vultures Move In For The Kill (We're The Kill)
David Addington's Return to Power | The National Interest Blog (the creeps are coming out of the shadows, natch)
FRONTLINE: cheney's law: analysis: david addington - cheney's powerful, one-man legal office | PBS
I Don’t Think “Identity Politics” Means What Ross Douthat Thinks It Means | Firedoglake (Douthat is a dishonest idiot, really)
Jan Brewer: UN Human Rights Report 'Downright Offensive', Remove Reference To Arizona Immigration Law
Border Wars | National Geographic Channel
Most Think Palin Wouldn't Be An Effective President (poll) 41% of conservatives said that she could be (and they are completely insane)
Booman Tribune - Gibbs: "Nobody had, in January of 2009, a sufficient grasp of ... what we were facing." ("no one" = "no one we/Larry was willing to listen to because we're the smartest people in the world!")
Matthew Yglesias » Inadequate Easing in Japan (America now doing what Japan did to fail; bankers cheer)
Robert J. Samuelson - The saving mentality is hurting the economy's recovery (it's all the jobless consumers fault)
Eschaton - The Optimistic View - So the good scenario - the worst is over - unemployment will drop all the way down to 9% by the end of 2011!! In January 2009, the administration projected that unemployment would drop below 7% by the end of 2011, without any stimulus (Larry Summers at work)
Small businesses hold off spending while waiting for aid - usatoday.com
Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium - Telegraph
Dr. Michael J. Breus: Sleep Disorder Linked to Risk of Dementia
Spatial History Project
Pennsylvania Outlaws Shackling of Prisoners Giving Birth | PhillyNow (way to go, Pennsylvania)
Stop Violence Against Women Excessive Use of Restraints on Women in U.S. Prisons: Shackling of Pregnant Prisoners
NYC Public Advocate - Worst Landlords Watchlist
10 Rules for Radicals
Plans for Print-Free Oxford Dictionary Aren't Fully Defined - NYTimes.com
Reddit Bucks Condé Nast Owners, Runs Pro-Pot Legalization Ads | Epicenter | Wired.com
Just Say Now: Facebook, Google and the Reddit Revolt | FDL Action Jay Rosen also weighed in, saying “So Facebook is deciding what the sphere of deviance is now? They were supposed to be a platform.” (corporate censorship fails)
Behind The Bidding War: The Real Reasons Why HP And Dell are So Desperate For 3Par
What you don't know about Wi-Fi channels can hurt performance - Computerworld Blogs
082910
Toll From Afghan Base Raids Rises - NYTimes.com Despite the presence of almost 150,000 foreign troops, violence across Afghanistan is at its worst since the Taliban were ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in late 2001 (that went really well, didn't it?)
A U.S. 'legacy of waste' in Iraq - latimes.com (on to Afganistan with the same crew)
General Protection Racket | The Seminal In WWII, there was roughly one general officer for every 14,545 troops. Today there is roughly one general officer for every 1,557 troops (and they get paid more +huge ego-staffs)
Leaks Aren't 'In,' Clapper Tells Intelligence Community - Politics - The Atlantic Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admonishes intelligence community personnel to stop "blabbing secrets"
Muslim shops ban Israeli produce in Palestine protest - Herald Scotland | News | Home News (AIPAC will investigate)
Fidel Castro claims Osama bin Laden is a US spy | World news | The Guardian Former Cuban president says the 9/11 mastermind is in the pay of the CIA and cites WikiLeaks as his source
Graduates warned of record 70 applicants for every job | Education | The Guardian
YouTube - Death of a Nation - East Timor
The Decade in Pictures - Pixcetera Blog
Fire at Tenn. Mosque Building Site Ruled Arson - CBS News "No mosque in Murfreesboro. I don't want it. I don't want them here," Evy Summers said to WTVF. "Go start their own country overseas somewhere. This is a Christian country. It was based on Christianity." (so much for the Constitution)
Op-Ed Columnist - The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party - NYTimes.com The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among Americans (the Kochtopus bankrolls the Teaparty and the extreme-right)
Glenn Beck 'Restoring Honor' Rally (VIDEO): Attendees Talk Illegal Immigration, Gun Rights For Terror Suspects
Eric Deggans: The Frightening Prospect of Seeing Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Use Big Media to Rewrite Civil Rights History black people still earn 72 cents for every $1 earned by a similarly-educated white person, and are 445 percent more likely to be imprisoned, 527 percent more likely to be murdered. (racist white America)
Failure To Rise - NYTimes.com I still don’t think people in the administration understand the magnitude of the catastrophe their excessive caution has created. I keep waiting for Obama to do something, something, to shake things up; but it never seems to happen ... he important thing is that all signs are that the next few years will be a combination of economic stagnation and political witch-hunt. (Clueless in DC: will he fire his crack team of advisors who got it wrong?)
Laura Tyson - Why We Need a Second Stimulus - NYTimes.com (Obama advisor: trial balloon)
Carmen Reinhart Warns That Economic Recovery Could Be Slow - NYTimes.com The American economy could experience painfully slow growth and stubbornly high unemployment for a decade or longer as a result of the 2007 collapse of the housing market and the economic turmoil that followed (but they will do just fine)
How Obama Got Rolled by Wall Street - Newsweek Why the 44th president is no FDR—and the economy is still in the doldrums (Obama rolled by the bankers: our naive, a-historical Pres with no moral center)
Editorial - Waiting for Mr. Obama - NYTimes.com If President Obama has a big economic initiative up his sleeve, as he hinted recently, now would be a good time to let the rest of us in on it.
The Washington Monthly - There Is No Secret 'Big Economic Initiative,' But There Could Be
No Decision on Reviving Homebuyer Credit - Donovan - NYTimes.com (will try again the re-inflate the bubble?)
Westerners vs. the World: We are the WEIRD ones (Ultimatum game)
The Millions : Are Picture Books Leading Our Children Astray? | The Millions : Again, I Ask: Are Picture Books Leading Our Children Astray?
School District Seeks Gag Order to Limit Media Access in Pregnancy Test Case | Pacific Justice Institute a 12-year-old student in Nevada City who was allegedly pulled out of class and forced to take a pregnancy test by a school counselor, without her parents’ knowledge or consent.
Older Adults and Social Media | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project (geezers invade twitter and facebook)
Armorize Blog: More than 500,000 (or 5,000,000 according to Yahoo) Network Solutions parked domains actively serving malware
Armorize Blog: Parked domain numbers and traffic, and more on the exploits served
Time Explorer
082810
Insurgents In U.S. Army Uniforms Attack 2 Bases In Afghanistan
India, China Defense Row Heats Up
Sen. John McCain wants to allow U.S. citizens to be arrested, held indefinitely - Virginia Beach conservative | Examiner.com The bill has nine co-sponsors including Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) - If it was not clear before, it should be now that John McCain has as little respect for the Constitution as he does for our borders.
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes
Beck's Restoring Honor Rally: Thousands Expected To Attend, Civil Rights Leaders Protest Event - ""Something beyond imagination is happening," he said. "America today begins to turn back to God."
MonkeyBusinessBlog: We Had ONE President Who Told Us The Truth.
Daily Kos: Calls increase for Simpson's removal from deficit commission (but it only took a faked video and the rumor of a Glenn Beck show for them to dump Shirley Sherrod ... they couldn't do worse if they were Repubicans ... oh, wait)
The Washington Monthly - Smart Policy, Smart Politics - Given a choice between economic growth and deficit reduction, large majorities -- over and over again -- said policymakers should focus on the latter. There was no real rationale for the majority of the public to be so wrong about this (idiot Americans)
Americans Pay $140 Billion, Spend 7.6 Billion Hours A Year Just To File Their Taxes, Report Finds
Beware That New Credit-Card Offer - WSJ.com Professional cards aren't covered under the Credit Card Accountability and Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009
Aids PSA Topsy 90 human Mix-Simian H.264 2 on Vimeo
Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com
WNYC - Radiolab: Words (September 10, 2010)
Behind the Scenes
Fox Panel Including Judith Miller Discuss Public Losing Faith in Broadcast News | Video Cafe (post-irony)
"Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?": America's misguided culture of overwork - Nonfiction - Salon.com Germany's workers have higher productivity, shorter hours and greater quality of life. How did we get it so wrong? (might have something to do with socialism?)
OUPblog » Blog Archive » The Gender-Neutral Pronoun: 150 Years Later, Still an Epic Fail
082710
Obama Iraq Speech To Signal Shift To Afghan Focus (on to the new war!)
WikiLeaks Airs Classified CIA Memo, But Real Message Is No Secret | Threat Level | Wired.com
44 - Bush BBQ at the center of German lawsuit But when it was reported that the BBQ's bill came to a reported 8.7 million euros, one taxpayer felt he'd been overcharged. Using Germany's freedom of information law, he filed a request to see the exact breakdown of expenditures
Toronto formally endorses harm reduction on drug use - The Globe and Mail City becomes the first in the world to do so
Found: BP's Missing Oil | Mother Jones (it's on the beaches your not allowed to see)
Bloomberg Bashes Park51 Critics On 'The Daily Show'
The Daily Show on Tennessee's Ground Zero Mosque | Indecision Forever | Political Humor, 2010 Election, and Satire Blog | Comedy Central (all of America is "ground zero")
Joseph Bafumi: A Forecast of the 2010 House Election Outcome (Republicans will win House, maybe Senate: brilliant strategy, Obama)
Stewart RIPS Glenn Beck's Civil Rights Rally: 'I Have A Scheme'
News Analysis - Gay Bush Aide? No Bombshell in Age of Fiscal Cares - NYTimes.com (hating Obama changed their focus)
Hard Pressed, Cities Take Ax to Once-Sacrosanct Firehouses - NYTimes.com (teapartiers celebrate end of socialism)
Building a Nation of Know-Nothings - NYTimes.com (who vote Republican)
Economic Growth at 1.6%; Bad, But Not as Bad as Expected - CNBC ("they" expected 2.4%)
Op-Ed Columnist - This Is Not a Recovery - NYTimes.com Tim Geithner, the Treasury secretary, says that “we’re on the road to recovery.” No, we aren’t.(they'd rather lie than admit the truth)
Banks’ Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis - ProPublica (then they gave themselves huge bonuses)
Extend and Pretend about to Bite the Banksters in the Butt | Emptywheel (another Obama policy failure - no cramdown)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Triumphs of Bureaucracy - If you can pass out over a quarter of a trillion dollars without any major examples of what we in Washington call "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse," you've really done something.
An Analysis of Using "Progressive Price Indexing" To Set Social Security Benefits — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Obama's Catfood Commission to gut Social Security is full of idiots and ideologues)
Daily Kos: Alan Simpson: Social Security denialist, senior citizen hater (THIS is the guy Obama appointed to head his cut-Social-Security Catfood Commission: career-long hater of SS and AARP)
Cenk Uygur: White House Circling the Wagons Around Alan Simpson | Video Cafe (but they fired Shirley Sherrod in a heartbeat over a fake video ... see the difference? +"So the White House counsel Greg Craig who tried to keep the promise on Guantanamo is gone and Alan Simpson who wants to cut Social Security gets to keep his job.")
Unless Obama Lets All The Bush Tax Cuts Expire, Deficits Are Here To Stay (charts) | TPMDC (isn't it funny what the deficit-hawks are willing to cut and what they aren't?)
Roles of the President’s White House economic advisors | KeithHennessey.com (these are the idiots responsible for screwing policy and losing the next election: mainly Larry Summers and our clueless Obama)
Portrait of HAMP Failure: Like A Lottery Ticket, With Servicers | FDL News Desk (they couldn't have come up with a bigger failure if they had tried ... oh, wait)
U.S. Birth Rate Sets Record, Hits Lowest Level In A Century (recession causing people to rethink the whole $750K/child thing)
The Greatest Mathematical Discovery? « Math Drudge (decimal notation)
Dr Pachauri - Apology - Telegraph (Telegraph retracts it's denialist lies, too late to do any good)
RSA Animate – Drive « RSA Comment
Reflections On Judging Mothering - Chris Gottlieb
Editorial: Watching is a crime? | Salisbury, NC - Salisbury Post Can a person be charged with resisting arrest while observing a traffic stop from his or her own front porch? (yes, in North Carolina: end of "your home is your castle")
Who writes pro-cable Internet legislation? Cable does
The revolving door: Froyo for Droid Incredible coming tomorrow, Froyo for EVO 4G gets rooted -- Engadget
reddit's official statement on prop 19 ads : blog (Conde-Nast pro drug-war, pro-wrecking California's economy)
Reddit Won’t Run Any Display Ads for Marijuana Legalization [updated with Reddit, Conde Nast Responses] | FDL Action (but Scientology ok)
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Pro-Cordoba House Group Ties Harry Reid And Howard Dean To Muslim Cab Driver Stabbing
Zero Party Politics: The Ground Zero Synagogue—Lebanon Becoming More American than America
Amy Goodman: Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy - Truthdig
Ben Smith: 'Don't Ask' at issue in Nevada ad - politico.com - The Family Research Council's new spot, to air in Nevada, pits images of soldiers against "Harry Reid and homosexual activists."
REPORT: Martin Luther King would have been on Glenn Beck's chalkboard | Media Matters for America - Beck is completely rewriting history (isn't that what Republicans do?)
WATCH: Glenn Beck's egomania reaching comical proportions | Media Matters for America
Sizable Portion Of Louisiana Electorate Has No Knowledge Of David Vitter's Past Scandals (the whole state watches Fox)
Dodd Questions Elizabeth Warren's Management Experience -- A Concern He's Never Raised Before (and no one elses: you can see where they are going with this)
Nouriel Roubini: Double-Dip Odds Now Greater Than 40%, GDP To Be 'Pathetically Lousy' (video)
We're Still In A Paradox Of Thrift World - NYTimes.com That’s why fiscal austerity is such a terrible idea: no only does it raise unemployment, it actually makes us poorer in the long run. (Obama's crack team of economic advisor - you know who they are - are tragically wrong, again)
With Economy Shaky, Bernanke Will Set Monetary Policy Course | FDL News Desk (out of options)
Echidne Of The snakes - How does the poor thing walk? Lie down? Does she reach from here to Honolulu? (did Obama appoint Alan fucking Simpson, ex-R,WY, chair of the Catfood Commission in the first place?)
Eschaton - For Immediate Release - “We cannot trust the integrity of any product or recommendations of the Commission as long as former Senator Simpson is the Chairman. His insulting and outrageous comments reveal his own mistaken belief that Social Security is a) in crisis, b) about to collapse, and c) contributes to the deficit. None of this is true. (Obama at work)
Portrait of HAMP Failure: Strangled by the Bureaucracy | FDL News Desk (Obama's program designed to screw homeowners)
Foreclosures fall but new delinquencies up: MBA | Reuters (over $1 Trillion overdue by 90 days)
Choice Blindness | Wired Science | Wired.com
Magic at the marketplace: Choice blindness for the... [Cognition. 2010] - PubMed result
YouTube - Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010
Cambridge Police shoot rabid raccoon - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cambridge Chronicle
Redefining the American Citizen | Politics & Media | SPLICETODAY.com Looking beyond history for a justification of birthright citizenship.
Inmate Sexual Victimization Persists, While Feds Stall On New Rules (rape: good old American justice)
Jason Pinter: Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive
Women’s Tennis — The Beauty of the Power Game - Video Feature - NYTimes.com
Third Coast International Audio Festival :: A Lucky Wind (listen)
Littlewood's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Littlewood defines a miracle as an exceptional event of special significance occurring at a frequency of one in a million
mosteller89.pdf (PDF) Methods for Studying Coincidences
YouTube - Announcer Larry Collmus calls the 7th at Monmouth Park
Let the Corpses Decay - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
YouTube - 100 Ways To Love A Cat: Ways 1-100
YouTube - Ghost In The Sealab
Jerry Stiller Unscripted on Vimeo
Digg - RIP digg.com (digg 4.0 sucks)
Why The New Digg Version 4 May Lead To The Companies Demise | ScottBradley.name
100 Ways Google Can Make You a Better Educator | OEDb
Google: Call phones from Gmail
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Moldovan authorities seize smuggled uranium - CNN.com Officials in Moldova seized 1.8 kilograms (about 4 pounds) of smuggled uranium and arrested three of seven suspects ... The smugglers were trying to traffic the uranium with an intent to sell it for more than $11 million
Gareth Williams, Suspected British Spy, Found Stuffed In Bag In His Apartment
Canada school board supports anti-Israel novel - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News By Canadian author Anne Laurel Carter, 'The Shepherd’s Granddaughter' portrays Israelis soldiers and Jewish settlers negatively - because it describes accurately that IDF soldiers and Israeli settlers harass Palestinian farmers. Does reality now have an anti-Israel bias?
The Anarchic Republic of Pakistan | The National Interest
Fact-free accusations about WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf wanks and lies: "His carelessness has killed people")
Bloomberg Launches Another Impassioned Defense Of Cordoba House
Daily Kos: CNN goes for the racist's point of view on Park51 CNN decided that giving a known racist airtime to voice his deep thoughts on the subject was a good idea. Mark "Judenrat" Williams - and why should zoning decisions made in New York City need a clearance from an out-of-work teabagger from Texas?
Michael Enright Charged With Hate Crime: Ahmed Sharif, Muslim Cab Driver, Attacked For Religion "Consider this a checkpoint" (result of revin' up the hate)
Gulf Oil Spill: Rick Steiner Got BP Disaster Right From The Beginning, Warns Crisis Is Far From Over (Pres "Transparency" supporting huge coverup +NOAA is a division of Big Oil)
Katrina: 5 years later - Then and Now - Special Coverage on CNN.com
Daily Kos: WH on Simpson: "We accept his apology and he will continue to serve" NOW: Alan Simpson is not fit to lead the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The ugliness of his disrespect for women is matched only by his dogged determination to dismantle Social Security by cutting benefits or increasing the retirement age.
Daily Kos: Simpson's apology fails to convince Krugman, lawmakers - The credibility of the entire enterprise--dubious with many observers from the git-go--has been even more damaged by Simpson showing, once again, his true colors on the process.
Tits4anAss - Call on President Obama to fire Alan Simpson
Election Forecasts - FiveThirtyEight Blog - NYTimes.com The Democratic majority is in increasing jeopardy in the Senate (Obama's crack political team is a disaster)
The Monkey Cage: Is 538.com Good for Political Science?
Election Results LIVE: August 24 Primary Liveblog “Today, the Republican party of Arizona nominated for Senate JD Hayworth in the shell of a politician that was once John McCain,” (someone learned how to message?)
Alan Simpson: Social Security Is 'A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits' (these are the guys Obama appointed to lead the catfood commission - Simpson's "disdain for the very program he claims he is trying to protect" makes him unfit for a leadership position on the commission, which is considering cuts to Social Security.)
Republicans' Long, Hot, Racist Summer - The Daily Beast The GOP's Long, Hot, Racist Summer
Former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Comes Out: I'm Gay Mehlman headed the RNC when the Republican Party was pushing anti-gay initiatives and increasingly speaking out against marriage equality
Next: Andrew Malcolm discovers “issue ads” | Media Matters for America LA Times blogger/former Bush flack Andrew Malcolm breaks news of a newfangled tactic you probably haven’t heard of: The “prebuttal” (Gore used the term 15 years ago +media loves formers Bushies)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect The Dark Side of Beltway Bipartisanship.
The WSJ Changes Its Line - NYTimes.com It’s not the fact that lots of people made a bad forecast; that’s going to happen now and then. it’s the fact that people were pushing a theory — a theory that said that we had to be terribly afraid of those bond vigilantes — which had no basis in actual evidence. Yet you wouldn’t have known that from reading the financial news media, which reported this theory, not as a hypothesis, but as fact (and the White House and their elite advisors bought it hook, line and sinker)
Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg - CNBC (breaking news)
Economy: Durable Goods Orders Ex-Transportation Tumble - CNBC (expected? people with no jobs are going to buy shit?)
Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's - Aug. 23, 2010
The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth
Drinking Water Proven to Help Weight Loss : Discovery News scientists find that dieters who drink two cups of water before meals lose more weight.
Robert Reich: Corporate Rotten Eggs Wright County Egg," headquartered in Galt, Iowa (you can't make this shit up)
Egg Recall: U.S. Chose Not To Require Vaccine For Salmonella Egg Threat ... although in Great Britain, officials say vaccinations have given them the safest egg supply in Europe (it would have inconvienenced Big Egg)
Law and Disorder – After Katrina, New Orleans Cops Were Told They Could Shoot Looters - ProPublica (people trying to get fresh water were "looters" and should be killed - the media, law enforcement and the military all agreed)
'Time For Adults': The Onion Mercilessly Spoofs Time Magazine
Sumner Redstone’s $1 Million Harassment Settlement - The Daily Beast (very creepy angry guy)
Fox News Rejects Media Matters Ad Highlighting Its $1 Million GOP Donation, Admits News Corp Opposes 'Democratic Candidates'
Web of Stories •
YouTube - journeymanpictures's Channel
The Vagina Dialogues - Page 1 - News - Los Angeles - LA Weekly
A letter to my students « The Berkeley Blog
Can you take a child away from an abusive parent? - By Brian Palmer - Slate Magazine Can a flight attendant take a child from an abusive parent? (you mean "alleged" abusive parent +no)
Gary Arndt: 20 Things I've Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years
Westboro Church Protest Against Jews Hilariously Interrupted By Brick Stone (video)
Dr. Joseph Mercola: Is This Common Kitchen Appliance Harming Your Health?
Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test - Boing Boing
UVB-76: August 23, 2010 9:35AM PST Voice transmission confirmed
How Authors Really Make Money: The Rebirth of Seth Godin and Death of Traditional Publishing
Net-neutrality group challenged by ties to MoveOn.Org, ACORN - The Hill's Hillicon Valley The Gun Owners of America (GOA) severed ties with the net-neutrality coalition Save the Internet after a conservative blog questioned the association with liberal organizations such as ACORN and the ACLU (you know, the non-existent ACORN that the Dems killed off after seeing a fake video)
Facebook Death Threats Come True: Colombian Teens Murdered Off 'Hit List' (social networking)
Google testing voice calling in Gmail | CNET News - Google could be ready to turn Gmail into a communications hub by adding the ability to make phone calls from the Google Chat interface
Alexa: YouTube surpasses Yahoo! as the Internet’s 3rd most visited site
Microsoft ID guru slams 'duplicitous' Apple • The Register Jobs' non-personal data claim 'hogwash'
'I Can Stalk U' Reveals TwitPics as Creepy Tracking Devices
Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware | Electronic Frontier Foundation (Jobs is a total control-freak: just say no to Apple's Big Brother)
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BBC - Dimensions - Index The area affected by the 2010 Pakistan floods as shown over 02138
In Focus: Kashmir, Valley of Tears – Plog Photo Blog
Death toll from Hong Kong hostage crisis rises to 10
China's massive traffic jam could last for weeks | Asian Correspondent Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles (100 kilometers) with cars moving little more than a half-mile (one kilometer) a day
The Canadian Press: UN chief calls Congo rapes an outrage and urges government to investigate (but they did nothing)
Mark Williams' New Line On NYC Mosque: Mayor Bloomberg Is A 'Judenrat' | TPMMuckraker (they will stop at nothing)
Why do pundits think Bush regularly attended church? | Media Matters for America CNN’s Candy Crowley says people think President Obama is Muslim because he doesn’t go to church regularly, like George Bush did (but he didn't, but media airheads don't know crap or they are deliberately lying, like Fox)
Protests, Rhetoric Feed Jihadists' Fire - WSJ.com Islamic radicals are seizing on protests against a planned Islamic community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero and anti-Muslim rhetoric elsewhere as a propaganda opportunity and are stepping up anti-U.S. chatter and threats on their websites (be afraid of chatter on websites and don't build any mosques in America)
Stewart: FOX Failed To Mention Co-Owner Is One They Accuse Of 'Terror Funding' (VIDEO) Showing a photo of the prince shaking hands with Rupet Murdoch, Stewart exclaimed, "That's right, the guy they're painting as a sinister money force OWNS Fox News." "If we want to cut off funding to the terror mosque, we must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox."
ColorOfChange.org a FREE TurnOffFox sticker (and that includes shipping — you pay nothing)
Keith Olbermann Mocks Obama Muslim Conspiracy Theorists With Apocalyptic Video
The Plum Line - Karen Hughes: I don't remember any of my work with Imam (funny how the Bushies can't remember anything)
propaganda - Imgur - Obama's Relentless Attack on Christian Virtues (now circulating in Christian churches)
Fox News' White House Seat A 'Travesty': Former White House Correspondents Association President
The Senate In Play ... Barely
Shirley Sherrod Declines Offer To Return To Ag. Department She told reporters she did not think she could say yes to a job "at this point, with all that has happened." The NAACP also apologized for its reaction. (Breitbart rules their world)
2.53 - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com 10-year bond rates (they were completely, tragically, wrong +bond vigilantes never showed up)
Existing Homes Sales PLUNGE To 15-Year Low (reinflating the bubble didn't work)
Housing in Ten Words « The Baseline Scenario “Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say.” - Housing is generally a worse investment than either stocks or simple U.S. Treasury bonds. (+inflation is too complicated for homeowners to understand)
Portrait of HAMP Failure: “It Makes Your Financial Situation Worse” | FDL News Desk (Obama's program designed to not only fail but to fuck up homeowners)
The cruelty of HAMP | Analysis & Opinion | It’s undeniably cruel to raise people’s hopes like that if you know those hopes will end up being dashed.
Hangover Theory At The Fed - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com (completely ideologically driven and wrong every time: our elites at work)
Extinction Countdown: Deadly fungus spreads to ninth North American bat species (no more bats; insect invasion to follow)
Darwin May Have Been WRONG, New Study Argues "competition did not play a big role in the overall pattern of evolution."
BBC News - Space is the final frontier for evolution, study claims
Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land — Biology Letters
Do-gooders get voted off island first: People don't really like unselfish colleagues, psychologists find (people prefer selfish sociopaths)
The Problem With Self-help Books: The Negative Side To Positive Self-statements these statements can actually have the opposite effect.
Planets Weighed Using Pulsar Flashes | Wired Science | Wired.com
Introduction: A Different Kind of College Ranking by the Editors | Washington Monthly
25 TED Talks Every Parent Should Watch | Nursing Schools.net
The Spoon Theory written by Christine Miserandino | But You Dont Look Sick?
interactions magazine | On Education
Satirical Christian Site Hoodwinks the Huffington Post | The Atlantic Wire HuffPo Hides Its Mistake Instead of running a correction, The Huffington Post article in question was re-written to suggest that they suspected it was satire all along (low-integrity)
Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign
The Craziest Beliefs Shared By 'One-In-Five' Americans (PHOTOS)
s Minneapolis will pay $165,000 to zombies | StarTribune.com Minneapolis will pay seven people who were jailed after a street theater protest (way to go, Minneapolis cops: this won't stop until settlements come out of their own budget)
The Harper government and the Insite flim-flam - Inkless Wells - Macleans.ca he RCMP’s protracted attempts to make up new “facts” about Vancouver’s Insite safe-injection centre (Canadian The Harper government and the Insite flim-flam - Inkless Wells - Macleans.ca he RCMP’s protracted attempts to make up new “facts” about Vancouver’s Insite safe-injection centre - Canadian The Harper government and the Insite flim-flam - Inkless Wells - Macleans.ca he RCMP’s protracted attempts to make up new “facts” about Vancouver’s Insite safe-injection centre - Canadian Repubicans at work lying
How "The Last Washington Painting" Became "The Lost Washington Painting": On the trail of Alan Sonneman's apocalyptic image of nuclear doom - Washington City Paper
BBC News - Pont-Saint-Esprit poisoning: Did the CIA spread LSD? (well, yes)
The "mystery stone" that suggests ancient Greeks were in New Mexico in 500 BC
All Movie Talk » Vintage: Ballyhoo, Part 1
YouTube - Canon 7D vs Hacked Panasonic Gh1 - 1080P 24fps versus comparison - Bundled lenses
Pay Up :: News :: Article :: Philadelphia City Paper Got a blog that makes no money? The city wants $300, thank you very much.
True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash | The Daily Caller - rightwing astroturf
Icons of the Web A large-scale scan of the top million web sites
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Pakistanis Tell of Motive in Taliban Leader’s Arrest - NYTimes.com because they wanted to shut down secret peace talks that Mr. Baradar had been conducting with the Afghan government that excluded Pakistan, the Taliban’s longtime backer.
Funny How All Those Peace Negotiations Seem to Fail… | Emptywheel
Some 200 Women Gang-Raped Over 4 Days Near Congo U.N. Base More than three weeks later, the U.N. mission has issued no statement about the atrocities and said Monday it still is investigating (and will issue a report in 2-3 years)
Wikileaks’ Assange: Pentagon may be behind rape claims | Raw Story
Dan Collins: New York GOP Sinks to New Low on Ground Zero Politics The battle for the Republican gubernatorial nomination is now officially being fought over who can whip up the most religious and racial hysteria over the "the mosque.
YouTube - Obama warns Americans of covert sponsored manipulation of peoples opinion (like, by the 27,000 person Pentagon PR team)
The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama by Jane Mayer (minions of Satan)
Howard Dean: Obama Advisers 'Have Really Misjudged' Political Climate (Rahm, Gibbs, Alexrod have been consistently wrong; Obama incapable of independent critical thinking)
RNC Committeewoman Kim Lehman Claims Obama Told Muslims That He Was A Muslim (Republican=Liar)
A Breakthrough for the GOP: More Women Running - time (and they are all insane)
Republicans Love the Constitution, Except All the Parts They Want to Change | Firedoglake
Op-Ed Columnist - Bush Tax Cuts - Now That’s Rich - NYTimes.com But these same politicians are eager to cut checks averaging $3 million each to the richest 120,000 people in the country.(Bush's tax cuts must be preserved say deficit hawks)
Real Estate’s Gold Rush Seems Gone for Good - NYTimes.com - Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, estimates that it will take 20 years to recoup the $6 trillion of housing wealth that has been lost since 2005. After adjusting for inflation, values will never catch up. (breaking news from the paper for rich people)
Real Estate Boom-Time Won't Be Returning Anytime Soon
FT Alphaville » Moving targets, US housing edition In the grand tradition of stimulus policy gone wrong, that seems to be just what the US Treasury has done in relation to its Hamp mortgage modification programme (the program Obama designed to fail homeowners was actually designed to protect ... bankers!)
Eschaton: No They Are Cruel People - Conning homeowners by announcing a government program designed to help them when in fact it was designed to help the banksters is, in my world, "cruel." (extend-and-don’t-even-bother-to-pretend.)
“We the Parasites” Benefiting from HAMP | Emptywheel
Marginal Revolution: Will there be a helium crisis? Right now the government is committed to selling off its strategic reserve of helium, located near Amarillo, Texas, by 2015
Nordea: Let banks crash - Politiken.dk Nordea’s CEO Christian Clausen says the idea that politicians automatically buoy up irresponsible and rash banks is not a good one
The clown shoe still capers : Pharyngula (the new, "totalitarian" atheists are coming to get you)
AD79eruption Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, Oplontis and Boscoreale were lost to the world in August AD79 to lie hidden for almost 1800 years. Through their destruction and re-discovery, they provide us with a time capsule of Roman life in the first century AD
The Timeless Beauty of National Geographic - Retinart
No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion? - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law?
Students, Welcome to College - Parents, Go Home - NYTimes.com (special programs for helicopter parents)
ExtremeTech Overclocking Guide 2010 - How To by ExtremeTech
Most Useful Cheat Sheet For HTML, CSS and Javascript
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Prosecutors Eye WikiLeaks Charges - WSJ.com
Why won't the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact documents? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Charges against Julian Assange withdrawn, unfounded - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Is Assange the target of a U.S. smear campaign? – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs (ya think? +our moral-centerless CEO Pres)
Sweden Rescinds Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange - NYTimes.com
Visualizing the Wikileaks War Logs - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
The Associated Press: Swedish prosecutors defend WikiLeaks about-face Swedish prosecutors defended their handling of a rape allegation against the founder of WikiLeaks, saying Sunday that they had made no mistakes in issuing an arrest warrant and withdrawing it less than a day later - "It is such an unbelievable unfolding of events that it would be unnatural not to consider that there is something behind it," he said
JO-call prosecutor notified - News - On-call prosecutor walked across the border (they are having trouble explaining things)
Assange claims 'smear campaign' - Europe - Al Jazeera English Assange told Al Jazeera on Sunday that while he had been forewarned by Australian intelligence on August 11 to expect a campaign against him
New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action - washingtonpost.com Probe Finds 'Rendition' Of Terror Suspects Illegal (2005: Sweden illegally extraordinarily rendited innocent people to be tortured, no consequences)
PressTV - Israeli aircraft enter Lebanon airspace Four Israeli warplanes and one spy drone have illegally flown over Lebanon's airspace in the third day of provocative violations of the country's sovereignty
U.S. Seen as Less Important, China as More Powerful: Section 2: Global Threats and Use of Military Force - Pew - Majorities of the public and Council on Foreign Relations members say Islamic extremist groups, Iran’s nuclear program and international financial instability represent major threats to the well-being of the United States (crank up the fear)
Hamid Karzai: U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Private Contractors Engaging In Terrorist, Mafia-Like Activity (takes one to know one ...)
Blackwater’s Erik Prince Moves to Abu Dhabi - NYTimes.com “He needs a break from America,” said one colleague (but he's a real, freedom-loving real American)
Australia in political limbo after voters punish PM
YouTube - Anti-muslim Rally at Ground Zero (racist teaparty crowd mistakes black carpenter for Muslim: hilarity ensues)
Op-Ed Columnist - How Fox Betrayed Petraeus - NYTimes.com - The prime movers in the campaign against the “ground zero mosque” just happen to be among the last cheerleaders for America’s nine-year war in Afghanistan
How the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering began - War Room - Salon.com A viciously anti-Muslim blogger, the New York Post and the right-wing media machine: How it all went down
Question Amidst Anti-Mosque Flare-Up: What's The Deal With That Church? | TPMMuckraker - With the state committed to help rebuild the church, a new building six times the size of the original location ... directly receive $20-million in public funds, and the New York-New Jersey Port Authority agreed to pay for a $40-million blast proof platform and foundation for the church (Hallowed Ground Zero)
At AP, It’s Officially Not the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ The controversial proposed New York City mosque and Islamic center is not the “ground zero mosque” and its location two blocks away is “near” – not “at”— ground zero of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, The Associated Press’ style arbiter told staffers in a memo Thursday (American is all Hallowed Ground)
10 Shameless Right-Wing Tributes to Ayn Rand That Should Make Any Sane Person Blush | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet As the evangelical Right's influence has declined, conservatives are adhering to another religion -- one based on the scribblings of a sociopath.
Picture Past: August 18, 1925, Ku Klux Klan in Washington | In Pictures | The First Post | Members of the Ku Klux Klan marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC (Glen Beck)
Ruling sets up IRS as overseer of groups' gifts to campaigns (loopholes!)
Top 10 Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories | News & Politics | AlterNet The American radical right has to be considered a strong contender for the title of modern conspiracy champion (the paranoid style ...)
Daily Kos: UPDATED: Fox News Scrubbing Wikipedia Entry on $1 Mil. Donation News Corps secretly donated $1 million to the republican governors association back in June...one of the largest donations in history by a media organization.
The O’Reilly Factor : CJR How the Fox host used raw corporate power to crush a critic (Fox O'Reilly really evil)
McConnell: I Take Obama 'At His Word' That He's A Christian (...even though I know he's lying)
The Unnecessary Fall | The New Republic A counter-history of the Obama presidency.
The View’s Right-Winger, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, to the Left of Obama on Marriage Equality | The Seminal (Obama: "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman")
CNN’s Erick Erickson: Lying, Theocratic Bigot | Firedoglake
Small Investors Flee Stock Market Even as Companies Recover - NYTimes.com
Talking Business - Consumers Are Clamoring for Elizabeth Warren - NYTimes.com (Obama and Summers hoping Dodd will kill her off)
Small Investors Flee Stock Market Even as Companies Recover - NYTimes.com Small investors are “losing their appetite for risk,” a Credit Suisse analyst said (idiots - no one has income - your elites at work)
Calculated Risk: Greece Unemployment Rate continues to Rise (elites at work: making sure creditors/banks get their money: no one could have fucking predicted)
Bond Market Deficit Cheerleaders - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com So what the austerity people are in effect saying is that they are smarter than bond investors — that they know what the bond market is going to want, it just doesn’t know it yet. And on this basis they want us to ignore the plight of tens of millions of jobless workers.
Repaying The Compliment From Paul Krugman | Capital Gains and Games It’s hard to convey the sheer audacity of this argument: first we were told that we must ignore economic fundamentals and instead obey the dictates of financial markets; now we’re being told to ignore what those markets are actually saying because they’re confused.
Bond Madness - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com And though the story shifts, the moral is always the same: the little people have to suffer.
The Power Of Error - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com he same people confidently declaring that there was a bubble in the bond market completely missed the housing bubble.
Could a Legal Technicality Prevent Banks from Having the Right to Foreclose on 62 Million Homes? | Economy | AlterNet A judge recently held that banks' electronic shortcut for recording mortgage information makes it impossible for banks to establish their rights to ownership.
Post-Mortgage Meltdown, Where Do We Go Now? : NPR (back to feudalism? +Obama's homeowner program designed to fail)
Target Corp. feels backlash from shareholders - latimes.com Institutions with stakes in the retail giant are demanding that the company revamp its donation process after a $150,000 contribution backed an anti-gay-rights candidate.
Target Shareholders Demand Review After Pro-Emmer Donation Fiasco | TPMDC Another fun fact in all of this: Target's previous name and corporation incarnation was as the Dayton-Hudson company -- the century-old family business of Dem nominee Mark Dayton.
The Prehistory of Prop 8 | Psychology Today "Marriage as the union between one man and one woman has been the universally-recognized understanding of marriage not only since America's founding but for millennia.” is hogwash
BBC News - Fate of Universe revealed by galactic lens A "galactic lens" has revealed that the Universe will probably expand forever.
Astronomers use galactic magnifying lens to probe elusive dark energy
Model describes universe with no big bang, no beginning, and no end the new models might explain the increasing acceleration of the universe without relying on a cosmological constant such as dark energy, as well as solve or eliminate other cosmological dilemmas such as the flatness problem and the horizon problem.
Supernovas could be directing the development of life throughout the universe
MIT researchers develop a better way to grow stem cells — Science Blog materials scientists and biologists have devised a synthetic surface that includes no foreign animal material and allows stem cells to stay alive and continue reproducing themselves for at least three months
Global tropical forests threatened by 2100 By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today
Ancient bacteria has chlorophyll see red › News in Science - the new pigment named chlorophyll f, absorbs a far redder part of the spectrum than other types of chlorophyll, extending into the near-infrared range.
Raucous Active Galaxy Destroys Own Environment : Discovery News the galaxy-altering power of the active supermassive black hole in the center of M87.
Researchers identify two FDA approved drugs that may fight HIV
Returning astronauts as weak as 80-year-olds: study - CTV News according to a new study that raises serious health concerns as NASA contemplates prolonged trips to asteroids and Mars.
pandagon.net Adulthood, lack of jobs, and slippery definitions (the NYT article about 20-somethings "delaying adulthood" didn't think jobs or enormous debt was a big deal)
Your Extra Virgin Olive Oil Is Lying to You. It's Not Its First Time. - Borborygmi - GOOD
Background Music Impairs Performance at Work (no shit)
Autostraddle — Does Gay Marriage Make Gays Straight?
FreeRangeKids
FBI: North Carolina Crime Lab Buried Blood Evidence in Hundreds of Criminal Cases Including in Death of Michael Jordan's Father - ABC News FBI Report Says Crime Lab Misrepresented Crucial Blood Evidence in Hundreds of Cases - Of the 190 cases that will now be reviewed, four people are sitting on death row, three have already been executed and five died in prison (way to go, North Carolina)
What happened in my birth year?
Earth from Above a collection of aerial photography
We've made the world's largest amateur space rocket. - The Something Awful Forums
Inside the HDMI cable scam - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - msnbc.com HDMI cables can no more be manufactured for specific refresh-rate HDTVs than a garden hose can be manufactured specifically to water seeded lawns and sod lawns.
082110
BBC News - Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled
Julian Assange Rape Case: Sweden withdraws Arrest Warrant ("lacked substance" but maybe they could have figured that out first?)
News Analysis - In Mideast Talks, Scant Hopes From the Beginning - NYTimes.com
Blackwater Fine: $42 Million Deal On U.S. Export Violations (slap on the wrist, no criminal charges, contracts ok)
PressTV - Blackwater/Xe founder relocating to UAE
Troops: Skipping Christian Concert Got Us Punished (onward, Christian military)
Gulf Oil Spill Bound BP, Feds Together: AP Enterprise (Obama's tough talk a sham)
Little Green Footballs - Meet the Leaders of the Anti-Mosque Movement (blacks and women shouldn't be allowed to vote)
Daily Kos: John McCain loses his mind -- but he didn't change it
Obama Housing Program Slowing To A Crawl While Homeowners Suffer (the program Obama/Summers designed to fail because only bankers need bailouts: where's my bonus?)
Treasury Admits HAMP Expectations Not Met, Thinks Extend and Pretend Is A Virtue | FDL News Desk
Back: Rortybomb Goes to Treasury « Rortybomb They are sticking by HAMP. The narrative seemed to change from helping homeowners to spacing out the foreclosures.
Eschaton The Horror Show Continued - if HAMP is actually a program designed to boost the housing market and funnel money several billion more dollars to banks, it's also a really fucking horrible and stupid and inefficient way to do that even without the "screwing people over" part
Harvard Finds Marc Hauser Guilty of Scientific Misconduct - NYTimes.com (the photo is telling)
Media Lens Message Board: Marc Hauser "Moral Minds" & The New York Times - Chomsky & Research Investigation Expert on Morality Is on Leave After Research Inquiry
What is going on in the brain when we experience déjà vu?: Scientific American ("out of sync brain" and "processing errors")
Kurzweil still doesn't understand the brain : Pharyngula
An interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter » American Scientist If you read Ray Kurzweil's books and Hans Moravec's, what I find is that it's a very bizarre mixture of ideas that are solid and good with ideas that are crazy. It's as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad.
File:PPTSuperComputersPRINT.jpg - Wikipedia - exponential growth of computing power surpasses human brain in 2025 supposedly
'Hot Jupiter' moons unlikely to exist › News in Science (ABC Science)
Beliefs - Sex Scandal Has American Buddhists Looking Within - NYTimes.com (sex, lies, coverups)
The Bay Citizen - University Head’s Housing Raises Ire and Expense - NYTimes.com - Mark Yudof - “He essentially turned the Office of the President into his personal staff,” a university official said.
Egg Recall Expands To More Than Half A Billion Nationwide
Peruvian hallucinogen ayahuasca draws tourists seeking transforming experience ("sludge")
Report: Men Unfaithful to Women Who Earn More - time
Your fears confirmed: "up to" broadband speeds are bogus
082010
Mea Culpa | The Agonist Wikileaks, based on the evidence that the DoD has presented, did its level best to work with the DoD to redact any names that might harm innocent Afghans. The Pentagon not only lied about it, but has even refused to cooperate going forward: The blood, if there is to be any, is on the Pentagon's hands. It's that simple.
Wikileaks Lawyer Says Pentagon Given Access to Unpublished Secret Documents - Newsweek
Sweden seeks Wikileaks founder arrest in rape case "We were warned to expect 'dirty tricks.' Now we have the first one," one Tweet said.
U.S. Persuades Israel That Iran's Nuclear Threat Is Not Imminent - NYTimes.com (now why would Obama do that?)
Israelis and Palestinians to Resume Talks, Officials Say - NYTimes.com (yeah, Israel will really talk)
U.N. study: Israel’s restrictions on Gaza ‘devastating’ | JTA - Jewish & Israel News (deliberately)
Israel, Palestine To Resume Peace Talks, Officials Say
Jeffrey Goldberg's fabrication on NPR - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (he's a fucking liar, and NPR/Ashbrook let him do it: will NPR issue a retraction? yeah sure)
Why Not to Bomb Iran - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com (why Jeffrey Goldberg should be deported to Israel)
Saudi Hospitals Asked to Maim Man as Punishment - NYTimes.com
Can Taliban Assassinations Change Game in Afghanistan? - time
Fox News Covered Iraq Withdrawal For Under TEN MINUTES Wednesday
'Tillman Story' Director: Media Bought Bush Administration Spin On Pat Tillman Death (remember Stanley Mcchrystal?)
Think Progress » Media: Maybe Obama Should Go To Church More Publicly So People Know He’s Christian 18 percent of the American public believes President Obama is a Muslim. That number includes 31 percent of Republicans. Only 34 percent of the adult public says Obama is a Christian, down from 48 percent in 2009
Eschaton: Mainstream Positions (facts vs beliefs: all the same to mainstream media +yeah, whatever happened to that Reverend Wright ragegasm?)
Could George W. Bush End the Mosque Madness? | The Atlantic Wire
Another Mosque Project Comes Under Fire -- In Kentucky | TPMMuckraker (too close to Hallowed Ground)
Franklin Graham: 'President's Problem Is That He Was Born A Muslim' (video) | TPM LiveWire (son of Billy)
In Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Church 'Yes,' Mosque 'No' - TIME
BP Oil Spill Settlements Likely to Shield Top Defendants - NYTimes.com (Obama treated BP just like the bankers: destroy the world, get rewarded!)
Gov't Admits There's A Lot More Oil Left In The Gulf Than They Initially Said | TPMMuckraker (+Gibbs lies again)
Extremist Makeover - Homeland Edition - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/19/2010 - Video Clip | Comedy Central If Fox News wants to play a game of guilt by association with Imam Rauf, Jon can find Rupert Murdoch's questionable ties to terrorism (Fox has not denied it)
Glenn Beck Lets the Mormon Out While Talking About Native Americans
Beyond City Limits - By Parag Khanna | Foreign Policy The age of nations is over. The new urban age has begun.
Op-Ed Columnist - Appeasing the Bond Gods - NYTimes.com the policy elite — central bankers, finance ministers, politicians who pose as defenders of fiscal virtue — are acting like the priests of some ancient cult, demanding that we engage in human sacrifices to appease the anger of invisible gods (faires and lepruchans too)
The Power Of Error - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com So policy makers live in awe of savage priests, who demand that we sacrifice virgins to the invisible gods of the bond market. But what puzzles me is this: why do the priests have such influence? (subtext: Larry Summers)
Dean Baker: When Wall Street Rules, We Get Wall Street Rules
Calculated Risk: HAMP data for July (the program Obama/Larry Summers designed to fail, failed spectacularly, but no one will lose their job)
Obama Housing Program Slowing To A Crawl While Homeowners Suffer
Obama Administration Defends Lackluster Foreclosure Programs; Says Interest Rates Will Remain Low To Help Housing Market (not the bond market vigilantees)
Target Political Giving 'A Debacle' Says Target Institutional Investor (teabagger CEO pisses off America)
MSNBC Rejects MoveOn's Ad Calling For Target Boycott | TPMDC ("only profit-making corporations have free speech")
L.A. teacher ratings: L.A. Times analysis rates teachers' effectiveness - latimes.com looks at which educators help students learn, and which hold them back.
X-Phi's New Take on Old Problems - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com (look: lights in the brain! may save Philosophy)
Ray Kurzweil Responds to “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain” | KurzweilAI
Gregory Taylor Released From Prison After Serving 13 Years For Food Theft (prison-state-America-Repubican-war-poor-people-one-strike-you're-in-prison-for-life)
Crash in Huntington Beach, pay a fee | The Orange County Register - upwards of $3,000 depending on the accident. (end of public services: a Libertarian wetdream!)
Manhunt in Arizona Ends in Arrests - NYTimes.com The prison has a badly defective alarm system, a perimeter post was unstaffed, an outside dormitory door had been propped open with a rock and the alarms went off so often that prison personnel often just ignored them, the report said. Also, operational practices often led to a gap of 15 minutes or longer during shift changes along the perimeter fence, Ryan said (Arizona's private prisons at work)
Straub: 'The system failed' | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star Outcry swift after DUI charges against officer dropped (but the drunk-driving-killer-cop coverup worked)
World-O-Crap » Blog Archive » REAL Movies for Mythological Families (more American mythology propagated by the teaparty front American Family Association: back to the past! +only Christians have faith +homosexual agenda!)
Hollywood Rangers To Manage Overpopulation Problem By Killing Off 1,200 Celebrities | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
The 'Cougar' concept: older women preying on younger men is a myth, claim scientists - Telegraph but the trend of older women going out with younger men is a myth outside of the world of celebrities, a study claims.
Do Gay Pets Go To Heaven? | ChristWire (there are no gay animals, and if there were, no)
What Is The Agenda Of ChristWire.org? - Find Answers to this Question
Video: Immigration crackdown creates insecure communities | Need to Know | PBS
Cancer journal: A happy birthday despite grim news - TODAYshow.com
Canon 7D vs. Barbie Video Girl on Vimeo
YouTube - Canon 7D vs Hacked Panasonic Gh1 - 1080P 24fps versus comparison - Bundled lenses
YouTube - Air New Zealand - Crazy About Rugby - Safety Video
Rep. Alan Grayson: Verizon-Google: There's a Hard Rain Coming
FCC Commissioners Copps, Clyburn Strongly Support Open Internet | FDL News Desk (but Obama doesn't really)
Privacy lawsuit targets 'Net giants over "zombie" cookies
Apple may be looking to lock out unauthorized iOS users describes several ways a device could sense who is using an iPhone or iPad. Among the methods considered are voice print analysis, photo analysis, heartbeat analysis (!), hacking attempts, or even "noting particular activities that can indicate suspicious behavior." (Jobs=Stalin or at least Tony Blair)
The viability of open source forking | Open Source - InfoWorld (fuck Larry Ellison)
081910
Last U.S. Combat Brigade Pulls Out Of Iraq
Civilians to Take U.S. Lead as Military Leaves Iraq - NYTimes.com
France24 - US/Iraq: "Mission accomplished"? In one of the worst attacks this year, at least 57 recruits and soldiers were killed and more than 120 were injured by a suicide bomber at an army recruitment centre in Baghdad
Lori Berenson, American Activist, Has Parole Revoked In Peru Lori Berenson was arrested by police at the U.S. Embassy,
Pakistan To Receive Additional Flood Aid
Gulf Oil Spill: Full NOAA Report On Amount Of Oil In Gulf Won't Be Released For MONTHS (maybe years)
National Journal Magazine - The Gray And The Brown: The Generational Mismatch A contrast in priorities is arising between nonwhite young voters and white, older voters (Boomers are idiots)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Idiot Nation, Volume 2 Almost one in five Americans believe Obama is a Muslim (couldn't have anything to do with our elite media, could it?)
'Professional Left' Saga Says More About Media Than Obama the 20 percent of the public who think the president is a Muslim, 60 percent said they learned as much from the media (oooh, there you are)
Op-Ed Columnist - Our Mosque Madness - NYTimes.com When the president skittered back from his grandiose declaration at an iftar celebration at the White House Friday that Muslims enjoy freedom of religion in America and have the right to build a mosque and community center in Lower Manhattan, he offered a Clintonesque parsing.
When does Fox News’ ugly Muslim bashing become the story? | Media Matters for America - One month after launching a jaw-dropping campaign of racial discord and warning of a looming, Obama-led “race war,” Fox News and the far-right media have turned the page of the hate hymnal and embraced a new enemy: Muslims (bigots gotta bigot)
The Daily Mash - Outrage Over Plans To Build Library Next To Sarah Palin - Campaigners have described the project as insensitive and a deliberate act of provocation by people with brains.
Hullabaloo: digby: Martian Logic: And now a word from the woman who would have been a 76 year old's heartbeat away from the presidency if the Republicans had won
Shirley Sherrod Interview: Fired USDA Official Describes Her Ordeal, Blames Fox News she continues to assert that USDA Deputy Under Secretary Cheryl Cook told her that the White House asked for Sherrod's firing, despite the denials of Vilsack (yes, Obama/Gibbs lied: they had no fucking clue and were glued to the Glenn Beck show, and had never heard of Andrew Breitbart)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect- Mike Allen's Mind-Mis-Meld. - Sure makes it seem like the administration wants to cut social security, doesn't it?
Robin Carnahan, Missouri Senate Candidate, Wants Bush Tax Cuts Extended For Wealthy (Rahm trying to create replacement Blue Dogs)
Jon Stewart Brings Back His Glenn Beck Impression (video)
Glenn Beck Rally Continues to Spur Controversy - CBS News Washington Post: Civil Rights Leaders Are Holding Countermarches to Rally Planned by Fox News Host on MLK Speech Anniversary
Weekly Jobless Claims Post Surprise Jump, Hit 500,000 - CNBC unexpectedly climbed to a nine-month high last week, yet another setback to the frail economic recovery.
New Unemployment Claims SURGE, Hit Highest Level Since November 2009
Jobs Outlook Isn't Just Bad, It May Be Getting Worse - CNBC (ya think?)
Labour markets: Summer spikes | The Economist High unemployment, he supposes, is due to the unwillingness of labourers to take jobs, which he attributes to various government policies that create bad incentives for unemployed workers.(Casey Mulligan plays an economist on planet Bizarro)
interfluidity » Monetary policy for the 21st century
Counties Creating Least Revenue Use Most Services: The California Report | The California Report (more Republicans leeching off Dems)
Junk DNA Can Revive and Cause Disease, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
The rich have more money but the poor are rich in heart: study
Statisticians Confirm Age for "Mother of Us All" | Mitochondrial Eve | Human Evolution | LiveScience A maternal ancestor to all living humans called mitochondrial Eve likely lived about 200,000 years ago, at roughly the same time anatomically modern humans are believed to have emerged, a new review study confirms.
Sex Is Stressful, But Good For You | Wired Science | Wired.com acute sexual experience increased circulating corticosterone levels and the number of new neurons in the hippocampus. Chronic sexual experience no longer produced an increase in corticosterone levels but continued to promote adult neurogenesis and stimulate the growth of dendritic spines and dendritic architecture.
Sex, Stress, and Neurogenesis | The Decision Tree
Fossil reveals 48-million-year history of zombie ants
New Ocean Life Discovered at the 'Hadal Zone' (Deeper than Mount Everest is High)
Hurstwic: Health and Medicine in the Norse era (Vikings were tall and took baths and combed their hair, which made them very attractive to British women)
Davidson College's Police Force Powers Limited By Court A prestigious North Carolina private college cannot have police officers with the power to arrest suspects and enforce state law because the school is a religious institution (your theocratic South)
Grand Canyon University officially settles $5.2 mil lawsuit Phoenix-based Apollo Group, parent of the University of Phoenix, settled a whistle-blower lawsuit over the same issues for $78.5 million last year.
What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com (the new tweens, or twixsters, or something)
Is My Husband GAY? | ChristWire Right now in America there are over 2 million couples secretly struggling with homosexuality in their marriages ("I like how you did no research and linked to other hate-filled areas or sites that talk about weird as hell sex toys.")
Goodfella's Movie Blog: #94: The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953)
YouTube - The Unsettling Truth About Life
Lawsuit Update :The Armed Citizen: Righthaven doesn't want you to see thair website or they will sue you)
Google Product Graveyard | MakeUseOf.com
081810
A Plan B For Afghanistan a dramatic reduction in the American troop presence, a mission focused on the minimal Al Qaeda threat rather than on trying to defeat the Taliban, and a peace process that leads to power-sharing (Plan A is kill everybody and create thousands of terrorists)
US Soldiers: Suicides vs. KIA
Israel Places Order For 20 F-35s; U.S. Picks Up The Tab | Defense Tech (because you can afford it if we cut Social Security)
Eugene Robinson - Republicans pander over 'Ground Zero mosque'
Joe Scarborough Takes On Newt Gingrich Mosque Comments: 'It's Deplorable, It Is Sick Politics' (video) (Joe "Dead Intern" Scarborough: "our party")
Mosque debate strains tea party, GOP - Kenneth P. Vogel - politico (they want you to believe the aren't the same)
Nancy Pelosi, house speaker, wants investigation into Ground Zero mosque opposition funding (couldn't be Repubicans, could it?)
Obama: 'No Regrets' Over Ground Zero Mosque Comments (despite the Clintonesque waffling)
Ailing 9/11 responders slam President Obama: Focus on Zadroga health bill, not Ground Zero mosque
Howard Dean: "Mosque" should move - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Tensions Flare Over Proposed Mosque on Staten Island - NYTimes.com Muslim groups have encountered unexpectedly intense opposition to their plans for opening mosques in Lower Manhattan, in Brooklyn and most recently in an empty convent on Staten Island.
Ground Zero Mosque: Democrats Acting Like Cowards - The Daily Beast Grow a Pair, Democrats (America is united in hatred of Muslims)
Daily Kos: Poll: New York state residents support right to build "mosque"
"Hallowed Ground" | History Eraser Button
Hollowed Ground
Jurors: No 'smoking gun' in the Blagojevich trial :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Gov. Blagojevich Prosecution vows to try again after former gov is convicted only of lying to FBI, with jury hung on 23 other counts
AMERICAblog News: 8 out of 10 Democrats who the Cook report just downgraded are Blue Dogs (first good news in a long time)
Political Times - The Paradox of a Legislative President - NYTimes.com The president who ran such a brilliant campaign, they argue, has utterly failed to communicate his successes (Podesta: not bi-partisan enough (cough, cough) when actually he was really a deal-making Senator)
Obama and the Problem with “Post-Partisanship” in the Age of Palin | Firedoglake Podesta’s notion that people wanted “nonpartisanship” is just rank Broderism< /a>
Chris Coons, Dem Senate Candidate, Wants Lifetime Ban On Senators Becoming Lobbyists
Health Reform 2.0 | The American Prospect If reform is to succeed, progressives will have to fight for a stronger government role, including a public option
The Washington Monthly - The Chamber Of Commerce And The Pay Gap (+women's wish for equality "reflects a Scrooge-like fetish for money." - yeah, they really said that)
Sarah Palin Said What? The 15 Craziest 'Palinisms'
Dr. Laura announces she will end her radio show due to criticism of her N-word rant | Media Matters for America "my First Amendment rights have been usurped by angry, hateful groups." (who don't have any First Amendment Rights)
Dr. Laura's History Of Incendiary Statements
WND DROPS Ann Coulter As Keynote Speaker Over Speech To Gay Republicans (race to the bottom)
In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity (wonder why that happened?)
Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott
Daily Kos: Obama, partly right on Social Security That "population is getting older" bit is one of the Zombie Social Security lies that has become conventional wisdom (the fact that Obama repeats this canard is really sad)
Desperate Dodd Grabbing at Straws to Stop Warren Nomination | Firedoglake (only doing Obama's bidding)
Obama: Social Security 'is not in crisis' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room (but open to changes)
US Says Bankruptcies Reach Nearly 5-Year High - CNBC
Entering a Death Spiral?: Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures Backfire - Spiegel Online (who could have predicted the bankers would be wrong? unemployment reaches 70% in parts of Greece)
FT.com / Technology - US matches Indian call centre costs Call centre workers are becoming as cheap to hire in the US as they are in India (Republican policies=slave labor)
State By State Revenue From Marijuana If It Were Legal | Prose Before Hos
Stanton Peele: The Hidden Health Benefits of Alcohol? drinking results in a longer life and less dementia, according to the government
Don’t Be a Dick, Part 1: the video | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Career Advice: Stop Admitting Ph.D. Students - Inside Higher Ed
Ketamine lifts mood quickly in bipolar disorder | Reuters An infusion of the anesthetic ketamine can lift mood within minutes in patients suffering from severe bipolar depression
Study Uses Ketamine in Worst Cases of Bipolar Disorder - NYTimes.com ketamine
Arch Gen Psychiatry -- A Randomized Add-on Trial of an N-methyl-D-aspartate Antagonist in Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Depression, August 2010, Diazgranados et al. 67 (8): 793
Just Say Now | Rolling Stone Culture
State By State Revenue From Marijuana If It Were Legal | Prose Before Hos
Why I Live With 57 Things (and what they are) « Far Beyond The Stars | Live a Minimalist Lifestyle and Work from Anywhere
Dangerous Minds | John Lurie’s disappearing act: the strange tale of a Loung Lizard and his stalker
Lounge Lizard John Lurie’s disappearing act : The New Yorker
YouTube - This American Life: Horses in North Philly
L. Weingarten - Don't You Think You Still Carry Male Privilege?
Trans 101 — Feministe
Is the web really dead? - Boing Boing
What's Wrong With 'X Is Dead' - Science and Tech - The Atlantic
Anthologize transforms WordPress 3.0 into a platform for publishing electronic texts.
Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal. | BIT-101
A Fascinating Communications Map (updated) - Science and Tech - The Atlantic interactive map of the world's undersea data-cable architecture.
081710
Afghanistan News | Private Security | Afghanistan President A push to oust private security firms from Afghanistan puts "fear of god" into foreign forces.
CIA Tapes Of Terrorist Interrogation FOUND Under Desk (they got rid of all the others)
Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens in Attack on Iraqi Army Recruits - NYTimes.com (Petraeus has moved on)
Eden Aberjil Facebook Photos Controversy: Ex-Israeli Soldier Says She Didn't Humiliate Palestinians she insisted she did not humiliate the detainees and said she was surprised the pictures were viewed as offensive (well, obviously, it wasn't in Israel)
'Facebook photos of soldiers posing with bound Palestinians are the norm' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Rights group Breaking the Silence refutes IDF claim that photos posted by female soldier under the heading 'the time of my life' are an anomaly (there you go)
Noam Chomsky: The Real Reasons the U.S. Enables Israeli Crimes and Atrocities | World | AlterNet the United States has overwhelmingly vetoed Security Council resolutions condemning Israeli crimes and atrocities
France urged to repay $23-billion in compensation to Haiti (but then ...)
Slavery Reparations Information Center The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives (oxymoron alert)
The two faces of Winston Churchill - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Note, too, the glaring irony that Obama's grandfather was "imprisoned without trial for two years and tortured on Churchill's watch, for resisting Churchill's empire." (racist junior Hitler: takes one to know one)
Eschaton: Two Blocks Is A Million Miles - 99% of the obvious response is: you people are insane bigots and our mainstream media apparently loves you (the bigots all live in suburbs with one house per block: eek, it's next door!)
Olbermann: There Is No 'Ground Zero Mosque' (video)
Republicans Support Strip Clubs on Ground Zero Sacred Ground
Twitter / Jason Mustian : In fairness, we've been building 'ground zeros' near Iraqi mosques since March 2003.
Editorial - The Constitution and the Mosque - NYTimes.com Mr. Obama and all people of conscience need to push back hard. Defending all Americans’ right to worship — and their right to build places to worship — is fundamental to who we are.
Mosque-Erade - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/16/2010 - Video Clip | Comedy Central John Oliver says Muslims are allowed to put a mosque near Ground Zero, just like Catholics can build a church next to a playground (oooh, good point)
Ground Zero Mosque: Paterson Tries To Broker Deal For Alternate Location (Christ, what an asshole)
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect Islamophobia And The Bigger Picture.
Calif. Gays Must Wait To Wed During Prop 8 Appeal - News Story - KCCI Des Moines
Is the White House Angry That the “Professional Left” Keeps Getting Proven Right? | FDL Action (yes, they hate having their failures and incompetence called out, surprising they haven't used a Predator on Krugman)
News Corp Donates $1 MILLION To Republican Governors Association (just the beginning)
Glenn Beck On 99ers: 'Some Of These People, I Bet You'd Be Ashamed To Call Them Americans' (the unemployed are un-American and should be deported to France or somewhere)
Tim Wise » With Friends Like These, Who Needs Glenn Beck? Racism and White Privilege on the Liberal-Left
Tim Wise » Reading Racism Right to Left: Reflections on a Powerful Word and Its Applications
How The Unemployment Crisis Has Swept Across America (video)
Monetary policy: Why isn't the Fed acting? | The Economist (unemployment is not their thing)
What’s Worse Than Credit Card Debt? Student Loans | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice why in the world would you ever let your 18-year-old kid, who is no longer allowed to get a measly credit card on their own, to walk blindly down the path of financial suicide just to go to an expensive school?
The fear campaign and Social Security - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com "the imminent threat to Social Security right now is from the administration -- and its pet Catfood Commission."
MoveOn.Org Calls For Target Boycott In New Ad (their CEO supports far, far right agendas)
American Apparel Bankruptcy Appears Likely
Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain : Pharyngula The media will not end their infatuation with this pseudo-scientific dingbat, Kurzweil, no matter how uninformed and ridiculous his claims get (he's not the only one, either)
6 reasons why you'll never upload your mind into a computer | DVICE
Presidential election outcomes directly influence suicide rates, study finds (Republicans energized!)
Why Antarctic Sea Ice Is Growing in a Warmer World Models solve mystery, but suggest South Pole sea ice melt will soon accelerate.
Why A Brush With Death Triggers The Slow-Mo Effect : NPR
Francis Collins: One year at the helm : Nature News Francis Collins must now help his agency over a funding cliff.
Welcome — UC Davis Olive Center
One Man's Experience With the Stop-Smoking Drug Chantix -- New York Magazine
Chantix, a smoking cessation pill causes "strange or unusual dreams"
My Top 3 Incredibly Weird Dreams While Quitting Smoking on Chantix
My Experience With Chantix: Stop Smoking, Start Hallucinating
How to Understand American Decline - Newsweek America may be declining, but don’t despair.
Beloit College Mindset List
What Killed Kevin Morrissey? - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education How the death of an editor threatens the future of the University of Virginia's prestigious literary review
Family of woman killed in botched drug raid to receive $4.9 million - CNN.com the raid was based on falsified paperwork stating that illegal drugs were present in the home ... Smith admitted to planting bags of marijuana in Johnston's home after her death. (way to go, Atlanta)
How to Order at Starbucks: 12 steps - wikiHow
"Stickler" English professor Lynne Rosenthal: Starbucks booted me over a bagel order - NYPOST.com
Anger Management: What is Your Anger Language?
Language Log: Language Anger Management
House Dems: FCC Must Reject Google-Verizon Deal To Ensure Net Neutrality
Internet access at home increases the likelihood that adults will be in relationships Internet is especially important for bringing together same-sex couples, and may soon replace friends as the prime way all Americans meet their romantic partners
Clients From Hell
Jetting Through the Grand Canyon | Airspacemag.com
Film features: The 25 Most Disturbing Movies Ever | TotalFilm.com
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » You Better Do As You’re Told, You Better Listen to the Radio the RIAA, who along with the National Association of Broadcasters, wants to mandate an FM radio in every cellphone and iPod. I’m sure Congress will get right on that, as soon as they’ve mandated that every car has a buggy whip holder.
At&t claims net neutrality is oppressive - The Inquirer AT&T has come out in support of Google's contention that wireless communications are different than wireline Internet services (wireless company)
Lycos Is Still Around – Sold By Daum To Ybrant In $36 Million Deal (sold in 2000 for $5.4Bn)
Why Android developers are losing money, and it’s not due to piracy | Royal Pingdom In other words, piracy isn’t the root of the problem, the inability to pay is.
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Flooding in Pakistan : Natural Hazards (NOAA: before/after)
YouTube - Countdown Iran / Israel War part 1
China Passes Japan As Second-Largest Economy
Think Progress » Cato’s Pat Michaels admits 40 percent of funding comes from big oil. Michaels: I don’t know. 40 percent? I don’t know. (60? 70? Cato idiolibertarians at work lying)
Washington, We Have a Problem | Politics | Vanity Fair How broken is Washington?
Lexington: Build that mosque | The Economist Like Mr bin Laden, Mr Gingrich is apparently still relitigating the victories and defeats of religious wars fought in Europe and the Middle East centuries ago. He should rejoin the modern world, before he does real harm. (+the racist ditz)
Gingrich compares NYC Islamic community center to "Nazis" putting a "sign next to the Holocaust museum" | Media Matters for America (he will be on teevee this Sunday)
Defeat the Right in Three Minutes | Conceptual Guerilla | Right-Wing Ideology in a Nutshell (free slaves, er, cheap labor)
Were Philly's Irish Immigrants Murdered? | NBC Philadelphia (what we do with immigrants around here)
Robert Creamer: What's the Difference Between Mainstream Republican Leaders and Tea Party Extremists? The main difference is the willingness of the Tea Party gang to say what they believe out loud (i.e. zero)
Fineman: Immigration, Ethics, and Islam - Newsweek A Season of Fear The GOP’s shortsighted immigration play.
Tea Party Activists Gather at U.S.-Mexico Border - CBS News Over 400 People Have Gathered to Show Support for Arizona's Immigration Laws (as estimated by the baggers; national media goes 24/7 on them)
Op-Ed Columnist - Attacking Social Security - NYTimes.com Rumor has it that President Obama’s deficit commission may call for deep benefit cuts, in particular a sharp rise in the retirement age (Obama's Catfood Commission hard at work)
Economists See Increased Chance Of Double-Dip Recession
Homeowner Questionnaire Shows Banks Violating Gov’t Program Rules - ProPublica - Despite violations of the program guidelines such as the extended trials, the Treasury Department has not penalized any servicers. (that would be HAMP, the program Obama designed to do absolutely fucking nothing)
David Rosenberg: 'If You Don't Believe In A Double Dip, It's Because The First Recession Never Ended'
Stock Market Likely To Stay Difficult For Some Time
Dangerous bacterium hosts genetic remnant of life's distant past an ancient but functioning genetic remnant from a time before DNA existed
Bed Bug Infestation Is Scaring Millions Of Americans | Personal Health | AlterNet Outbreaks of bed bugs, soaring in the most unexpected places -- like CNN's headquarters -- stoke some of our deepest fears.
Deadly Whooping Cough, Once Wiped Out, Is Back : NPR (anti-vac crowd kills children; thank you Oprah and Jenny McCarthy)
Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes
The Allure of a Female Hitchhiker’s Breast Size (To Male Drivers). | Psychology Today
The Cyborg: Kevin Warwick is the World's First Human-Robot Hybrid | Motherboard
Calif. school settles suit over anti-abortion shirt
Factum on Vimeo intensive interviews with seven pairs of identical twins and a single set of identical triplets in and around Toronto during the summer of 2009
Tea Party groups out against net neutrality - The Hill's Hillicon Valley (they love paying more for corporate-controlled content)
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Gen. David Petraeus says Afghanistan war strategy 'fundamentally sound' (just like their previous sound adventure; time for Moveon to get a medal)
Petraeus Begins Media Blitz to Counter Calls for Rapid Afghanistan Withdrawal | The Seminal (the PR surge: your tax dollars at work)
Gen. David Petraeus Cites Progress In Afghanistan, Hedges On July 2011 Troop Withdrawal ("progress" is just six more months -'FU's' +just why does get to use taxpayer money to sell his failure to taxpayers?)
Derrick Crowe: Media Failing to Ask Tough Questions on Afghanistan War...Again (they love their wars and now they don't have to cover dead people)
I’ll Take Choice “C:” Civil Society | Emptywheel Barely expressed in the NYT’s long story about our use of paramilitary strikes in places we’re not officially at war is a conflict between three choices.
NewsDaily: Afghanistan says finds 1.8 billion barrel oilfield (remember all the minerals they "found" a couple of months ago?)
An Israeli Attack on Iran would reduce Barack Obama to a One-Term President | Informed Comment
Putin's Russia: Exile Businessmen - Newsweek Corruption is forcing Russia’s best and brightest to flee the country - Putin's Russia: Exile Businessmen - Newsweek - fully one third of Russian businesses have been targeted in attempted corporate raids by police.
Abkhazia: two years of independence | openDemocracy
Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved | News - CCTV cameras have cost the taxpayer in the region of £200million in the last 10 years but it's not entirely clear if some of that money would not have been better spent on police officers.
The Yorkshire Ranter: GCHQ Review, Part 2 - GCHQ and the Tech Industry (Brit's spy industry)
Japan, Checking on Its Oldest, Finds Many Gone - NYTimes.com
Losing faith in Pakistan - Culture - livemint.com Another attack on a shrine underscores the zeal to cleanse Islam of all references to the Indian subcontinent.
UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon: Pakistan Floods Are Worst Disaster I've Ever Seen
Cholera Confirmed In Pakistani Flood Disaster The floods have killed about 1,500 people, and aid workers have warned that diseases could raise that toll.
Pambazuka - Banks, blood and chocolate Rudolf Elmer, whistleblower and former CEO of Swiss bank Julius Baer’s Cayman Island operations, reveals the secrets of the murky world of offshore banking
The Cyprus Scramble: An Investigation into Human Egg Markets | Pulitzer Center
A million mutinies now - India - The Times of India Separatism of this variety has been endemic in the north-eastern region of India, a melting pot of 475 ethnic groups. There are over 35 avowed separatist groups in the region’s seven states, active to varying degrees.
China in Africa
Gail Collins - My Favorite August - NYTimes.com - Women's Suffrage: 56 referendum campaigns directed at male voters, plus “480 campaigns to get Legislatures to submit suffrage amendments to voters, 47 campaigns to get constitutional conventions to write woman suffrage into state constitutions; 277 campaigns to get State party conventions to include woman suffrage planks, 30 campaigns to get presidential party campaigns to include woman suffrage planks in party platforms and 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses.” And you thought health care reform was a drawn-out battle.
Op-Ed Columnist - Angels in America - NYTimes.com
Obama Stands On Principle, Defends Muslim Rights | The New Republic
Obama's Ground Zero Mosque Comments: President Recalibrates (that was fast)
> FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Obama Defense of "Ground Zero Mosque" Less Risky Than it Seems
GOP takes harsher stance toward Islam - Ben Smith and Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com
SoHo properties, developer of Park51 mosque near Ground Zero, willing to talk about moving (to somewhere in the Middle East)
Twitter / Anil Dash: Because of their track record of killing Americans, I can't support the construction of a Ground Zero McDonald's (or the Constitution, apparently)
The Washington Monthly - Cornyn Should Try To Keep Up With Current Events - When the right organizes to prevent a Muslim American from converting a clothing store into a community center, solely because Muslims will pray there, it's quite obviously about freedom of religion. (Box Turtle Ben Cornyn)
It’s Not About THEM, It’s About Us | ATTACKERMAN We need to figure out to what extent we want other people’s hatred to determine whether we can actually have faith in the promises and guarantees made to us in the founding documents.
Tea Party Activists Rally Along Arizona-Mexico Border To Protest Illegal Immigration (hundreds of thousands ... well ten's of thousands, well, hundreds, well actually about 10 guys)
Robert Reich: Forget a Double-Dip, We're Still in One Long Big Dipper
Professional Traders Exited Market Before Flash Crash | Firedoglake
We’re Making Quite A Gulf in Life Forms | The Seminal The Gulf of Mexico faces a renewed and enlarged threat to marine life: a low-oxygen “dead zone” about the size of Massachusetts, caused by chemical runoff into the Mississippi River that flows into the sea.
Daily Kos: Harry Reid touches a nerve "I don't know how anyone of Latino heritage could be a Republican, OK?" Reid said. "Do I need to say more?" - the Republican Party is, increasingly, a party of bigots.
MoDo Applauds Gibbs for Making Shit Up | Emptywheel Shorter MoDo: I think Gibbs is at his best when he just makes shit up about people I don’t like - MoDo, who finds Robert Gibbs most right when he just makes shit up. And then complains that Robert Gibbs doesn’t take “journalists” like her–the ones who applaud him for making shit up–seriously. (they are both idiots: "Dept of Peace?")
SPLC Sues Mississippi Authorities, Hospital for Illegally Taking Immigrant's Newborn | Southern Poverty Law Center - "Mississippi officials and hospital workers conspired to steal Cirila Baltazar Cruz's baby by inventing false charges against her – allegations she couldn't refute because she doesn't speak the right language – and then told her she couldn't talk about it
El Rushbo and the Rocket Man | Media Matters for America (Limbaugh is a really nice guy who likes gays if you ignore everything he says on the radio)
Krugman - The Flimflam Man - NYTimes.com - the innovative thinker du jour: Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin - the audacity of dopes (good one, Paul +the roadmap is more tax cuts for the rich!)
Daily Kos: State of the Nation (it's like the "Contract on America")
Fair Game - In the Mortgage Drama, One Role Is Enough - NYTimes.com MEET Brad Miller, a Democratic representative from North Carolina who was elected to Congress in 2002, talks straight and understands how big banks can put consumers at peril.
The P?NP “Proof” Is One Week Old « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
Language Log » The Linguistic Diversity of Aboriginal Europe
BBC News - Sun's 'quiet period' explained the longer-than-expected period of weak activity may have been linked to changes in the way a hot soup of charged particles called plasma circulated in the Sun.
Extended solar minimum linked to changes in sun’s conveyor belt — Science Blog
In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming - NYTimes.com (so when are you going to publish another climate-change-denier op-ed?)
Italy History | Coast | Death Heat | City Safety death came because of the temperature, not suffocation,” said Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, a rogue vulcanologist from the Naples Observatory. “Everything that has been written in the guides, and the texts, and that has been re-told to tourists is false,” he said.
Frozen jet stream links Pakistan floods, Russian fires - environment - 10 August 2010 - New Scientist
Weekend Essay by Jonah Lehrer: How Power Affects Us - WSJ.com Contrary to the Machiavellian cliché, nice people are more likely to rise to power. Then something strange happens: Authority atrophies the very talents that got them there
Why Your Kids Need Recess - Forbes.com They might be better off putting down their books and heading outside.
StoryCorps » Listen Listen to any of the hundreds of stories we’ve recorded, drawn from conversations between more than 30,000 participants in all 50 states.
LA36: Public Access
In Praise of Fast Food We need a culinary ethos that comes to terms with industrialized food
Red menace - The Boston Globe How the ‘strange and horrible’ tomato conquered Italy, and America
Lack of nearby parks, playgrounds one reason why children are obese, health officials say - Orlando Sentinel (+their parent won't let them walk anywhere)
Tila Tequila suffers cuts, but escapes juggalos attack - CNN.com
Watch Obama's Net Neutrality Promises, Promises, Promises (we've heard them all before)
12 Valuable WordPress Cheat Sheets You Must Know
XKCD-Inspired Cartoon Maps the World's Social Networks [pic]
xkcd: Online Communities (old version)
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Why Petraeus Can't Make The Sale That reality, increasingly obvious to national security experts and the general public alike, is that no amount of good intentions or firepower is going to advance our fundamental interests in Afghanistan - Petraeus's target audience "shouldn't buy into this military incrementalism. 'Six months more' is not a strategy." (but the Pentagon's 27,000 person PR dept will surge all over you)
Gunmen Kill 5 In Baghdad Checkpoint Shootings; Two Policemen Set On Fire (and here we see his last success)
Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents - NYTimes.com But the strike, it turned out, had also killed the province’s deputy governor, a respected local leader who Yemeni officials said had been trying to talk Qaeda members into giving up their fight.(your brilliant military at work making enemies for them to fight)
Massey: Don't 'Rush To Judgment' Blaming Us For West Virginia Mine Explosion
Obama defends "Ground Zero mosque" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com This is one of the most impressive and commendable things Obama has done since being inaugurated - when is the last time a President voluntarily entered an inflammatory public controversy by taking a position opposed by 70% of the public?
Obama Strongly Backs Islam Center Near 9/11 Site - NYTimes.com (he actually took a position +fuck you, David Patterson)
Social Conservative Bryan Fischer: Paterson Wants To Impose Sharia Law On New York | TPMMuckraker - "every single mosque is a potential terror training center or recruitment center for jihad." (the "American Family Association" at work +whut?)
New York Conservative Party Planning Anti-'Ground Zero' Mosque TV Ad Campaign - The ad states "patriotic Americans" want "real answers" about the cultural center
The memory hole: the real tragedy of the Omar Khadr trial. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine The real tragedy of the Omar Khadr trial.
UN envoy warns of implications of trial of last child soldier held in Guantánamo - “Since World War II, no child has been prosecuted for a war crime,” (another first for Obama)
Prop 8: Jerry Brown Urges Speedy Return To Gay Marriages
The Woods - Personal - The Atlantic In a world where Newt Gingrich, is allowed to credibly position himself as a defender of "marriage," there is something gut-wrenching about engaging people who think gays shouldn't be allowed to marry.
Congress Had Right to Bar Acorn Funding, Appeals Court Rules - WSJ.com (not a "Bill of Attainder" uh-huh)
The Volokh Conspiracy » ACORN decision explained
Obama Weekly Address: GOP Trying To Destroy Social Security (video) (finally stating the obvious, but media wankers will pay no attention)
Social Security Keeps 20 Million Americans Out Of Poverty, Report Finds (Republicans: yeah, well, fuck them)
Florida Republican: Put immigrants in "camps" - War Room - Salon.com State GOP candidate wants to "ship them out to the middle of the country and put up high walls"
Limbaugh: "It's the Democrats that try to keep black people out of political powerful positions, it ain't us" | Media Matters for America (straight from the mouth of Satan!)
Lautenberg Fundraises With Lady Gaga Concert the 86-year-old New Jersey Democrat (will be 92 when he runs next time)
Hal Turner GUILTY: Blogger Convicted After Threatening Judges Over Chicago Gun Ban Turner's defense had argued that his rants were "political trash talk" protected by the First Amendment (it always is, for them)
South Carolina Senate Candidate Alvin Greene indicted On Felony Pornography Charges
Police Dismiss Right-Winger's New 'Proof' Of Phony Mexican Drug Cartel Raid | TPMMuckraker - cops: "She's trying to save herself from criticism of going too far off a branch. I don't care, I really don't care." (how crazy can they get?)
Victorious GOPer Allegedly Flashes Gun At Defeated Rival's Staffer Over Sex Allegations | TPMMuckraker (Republicans!)
Anderson Cooper Grills Shouting GOPer Louie Gohmert On 'Terror Babies' Conspiracy (video) | TPMDC (the babies want to impose Sharia law! talk about projection ...)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » And Yet Another Update on History’s Greatest Monster A bunch of wingnut blogs got together and ranked the 25 worst people throughout all of American history. (#1 - Jimmy Carter!)
Meg Whitman donates another $13 million to her gubernatorial campaign - ContraCostaTimes.com
YouTube - Ben Quayle Commercial (Quayle 2.0 - OMFG)
Op-Ed Columnist - Paralysis at the Federal Reserve - NYTimes.com he Fed — which is required by statute to promote “maximum employment” — isn’t doing its job. (but the inflation faires! will get us!)
Matthew Yglesias » Science Fiction Budgeting there needs to be more attention paid to the fact that sitting around in 2010 talking about the 2080 budget is insane (Paul Ryan's idiotic roadmap! )
If Obama Opposes Ryan’s Social Security Plan, Why Did He Appoint Him to the Catfood Commission? | FDL Action
Technical Gauge 'Hindenburg Omen' Senses Stock Gloom - WSJ.com Technical Gauge and Its Creator Sense Stock Gloom; 'Good Conspiracy Theories'?
Federal Reserve's Low Rate Policy Is A 'Dangerous Gamble,' Says Top Central Bank Official (ya think?)
Secret of life on Earth may be as simple as what happens between the sheets -- mica sheets, that is
Single neurons can detect sequences
Retraction Watch (watch science at work!)
The shroud of retraction: Virology Journal withdraws paper about whether Christ cured a woman with flu « Retraction Watch
Neptune 'dead zones' hold more rocks than asteroid belt - space - 12 August 2010 - New Scientist
Al Gore: 'The United States Government as a Whole Has Failed Us' on Global Warming
F.D.A. Approves 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive - NYTimes.com (the Republican womb-police will go nuts)
U.S. Broadens Bribery Inquiry Into Drug Makers - NYTimes.com into whether the companies made illegal payments to doctors and health officials in foreign countries.
Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Why We Need a "Practical Psychoanalysis" Daphne Merkin's New York Times Magazine article about her forty-year history of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (+shrinks have "special knowledge," yo)
Hamlet: Watch the Film | Great Performances | PBS
LRB · Colm Tóibín · Among the Flutterers The Pope Is Not Gay by Angelo Quattrocchi, translated by Romy Clark Giuliani (but "98% of the Vatican is")
Catholic church embarrassed by gay priests revelations | World news | The Guardian Vatican on defensive again after magazine exposes priests visiting gay clubs and bars and having sex (but they're not gay)
Are these the bones of John the Baptist? - CNN (no)
Study: Orthodox Jews More Open To Mental Health Counseling, But Needs Remain for marriage problems despite the community's relatively high marital satisfaction rate, according to a new study released Friday (no contradiction there)
Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D.: The Bible and Human 'Dominion' Over Animals: Superiority or Responsibility? (Christians: eat Fluffy!)
social-creature » The First 21st Century Vampires
My Roommate, The Diamond Thief -- New York Magazine He found me on Craigslist. I found him on America’s Most Wanted.
Mass Romance Novel Publisher Going All In On E-Books | Epicenter | Wired.com
Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education (old profs can't type and use teh google)
Line2 2.4 (iOS) Review & Rating | PCMag.com
Life without a CA | The Tor Blog
YouTube - Ford Fiesta road test - Top Gear - BBC
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Showcase Afghan Army Mission Turns Into Debacle - NYTimes.com “There are a lot of lessons to be learned here” (don't ever trust the military to tell the truth?)
Petraeus Hedges On July 2011 Afghan Pullback, NYT Airs Skepticism Over War (complete failure)
U.S. Military to Press for Slower Afghan Drawdown - NYTimes.com
Pat Tillman's Father To Army Investigator: 'F--- You... And Yours' (support our troops, especially our lying Generals))
Guantanamo critic removed from jury - Americas, World - The Independent Robert Verkaik reports from Camp Delta on a questionable selection process (your military at work, ensuring they get the outcome they want)
Experts call for David Kelly inquest | Politics | guardian.co.uk Official cause of David Kelly's death is 'extremely unlikely', say group of legal and medical experts (Blair-ordered assassination)
Vladimir Putin, Macho Man: His Funniest Headlines EVER (pictures)
alJazeera Magazine - Itching to fight another Muslim enemy If you read the major American newspapers or watch the propaganda on cable TV, it’s pretty clear that the U.S. foreign policy Establishment is again spoiling for a fight, this time in Iran (see Jeffrey Goldberg, Israeli Lobby wanker)
Noam Chomsky: speaking of truth and power | http://underclassrising.net
Judge Doubts Gay Marriage Ban's Backers Can Appeal - NYTimes.com By contrast, same-sex couples are being denied their constitutional rights every day they are prohibited from marrying, Walker said. (no standing for the "cloud of obscurity" and wait for it ... ''Proponents have not, however, argued that any of them seek to wed a same-sex spouse.'' (rimshot))
White House Ethics Initiatives At A Crossroads (you know that whole transparency and ethics thing? never mind)
Does the past record of journalists matter? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - No American elites are supposed to pay any price -- even reputationally -- for the role they played in leading the country into a horrific and unfathomably devastating war based on false pretenses. (James Fallows tries to defend the indefensible Jeffry Goldberg: wanker, Israeli Lobby +what country has damaged the US more, Mexico or Israel?)
Fun With Paul Ryan and the Washington Post | Beat the Press The Washington Post really really hates Social Security. They hate Medicare almost as much (those programs caused 9/11)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect But It's Awesome Broccoli for the Rich! - Matt Bai writes about the Paul Ryan's budget plan ... without writing about Paul Ryan's budget plan (the new "Road Map" - tax cuts for the rich, private accounts for SS)
full audio: Dr. Laura Schlessinger's N-word rant | Media Matters for America (nasty old Republicans: what crypt did they resurrect her from?)
Stewart Mocks Media For Focus On Proxy Battles (video)
Stewart Exposes GOP Hypocrisy: Extending Bush Tax Cuts Won't Lower Deficit (call John Boehner)
Liberals Start "F*ck Tea" Party Campaign - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
‘Hindenburg Omen’ Suggests Slump in Stocks: Technical Analysis - BusinessWeek
Elizabeth Warren Wins The Support Of Two More Senators (John Kerry finally pulls his head out of his banker-friendly ass)
Calculated Risk: More Europe: Greek Recession, Irish and Spanish Worries (how's that conservative austerity thing working out for you?)
Youth Unemployment Hits Record High - CNBC
Fermi detects 'shocking' surprise from supernova's little cousin a finding that stunned observers and theorists alike. The discovery overturns the notion that novae explosions lack the power to emit such high-energy radiation.
Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s - NYTimes.com (instead of privately hoarding data, they finally make progress)
Tom Toles - Election digest We are apparently going to let the debate on the science run until hell freezes over. If you can't accept the conclusions of 98 percent of the scientists whose FIELD IT IS, then why even bother with science?
Vampire Bats Kill 4 Kids, Attack 500 in Peru - CBS News Emergency Teams Sent to Amazon to Battle Outbreak of Rabies; Bat Attacks Linked to Amazon Deforestation
Israeli Suspect Nabbed in Deadly Stabbing Spree - CBS News Elias Abuelazam Arrested at Atlanta Airport Waiting for Flight to Tel Aviv; Linked to 18 Attacks, 5 Murders Across 3 States (just practicing his IDF skills)
Chicago Girl, 8, Gunned Down While Jumping Rope - CBS News (solution: give guns to all kids)
The Most Homoerotic Vintage Ads Of All Time (photos)
5 UFO Sightings That Even Non-Crazy People Find Creepy | Cracked.com
Traveler to the undiscovere'd country - Roger Ebert's Journal
Tea Party groups out against net neutrality - The Hill's Hillicon Valley (because, well, actually, they don't make any sense)
The Force Is Strong In Public Ridicule: Lucas Backs Down From Threats Against Wicked Lasers | Techdirt
The shit finally hits the fan.... : On a New Road - With Oracle, everything is always about money. It is the only metric they know. (Ellison sues Google over patents they got from Sun)
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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Could Face Criminal Charges from U.S. Allies - The Daily Beast The Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges against Julian Assange for his Afghan war leaks (President "Transparency" is an asshole)
The Coming Military Offensive Against the July 2011 Timetable | FDL News Desk (McChristal may come out of retirement to spread more lies)
The killing fields of Afghanistan | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
BBC News - Iraqi general says planned US troop pull-out 'too soon' Iraq's top army officer has criticised as premature the planned US troop withdrawal by the end of next year.
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Woman Who Faced Stoning Death, 'Confesses' On Iranian State TV (American Taliban jealous)
Nieman Watchdog > Commentary > The real story behind Time’s Afghan woman cover: American complicity The repressive and misogynistic forces the picture depicts are the very ones that were bolstered by U.S. policy in the early 1980s, and again now (see how that works?)
Russian Wildfires Reach Chernobyl Site, Recontamination Likely (Video)
How to find the radiant point for Perseid meteors | Tonight | EarthSky
Chinese Economy Turning 'From Boom To Bust' And It Could Hurt The U.S. Stocks in Asia tumbled in early trade Wednesday, after underwhelming stimulus steps announced by the Federal Reserve in the U.S. failed to rally shares there from early losses.
Ecuador Earthquake 2010: Magnitude-6.9 Quake Shakes South American Nation
Marijuana may cause Canada's economic comedown | Douglas Haddow | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk A thriving marijuana industry has aided Canada's economy – but political shifts in the US and at home are now threatening this
Pope Benedict rejects Irish bishop's resignation | Irish News | IrishCentral In a move that has stunned his critics the Pope has rejected the resignations of Bishop Raymond Field and Bishop Eamonn Walsh (by their deeds ye shall know them)
No more mosques, period each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government (Sharia law, etc, from the hard-core racist fringe of the American Taliban)
Great Mosque of Córdoba - Wikipedia (we should be so lucky)
$20 Billion BP Spill Fund Finalized, But 40,000 Claims Still Ignored : TreeHugger
Breaking: Judge Walker Won’t Stay Prop 8 Ruling Pending Appeal! Gay Marriages Can Start After August 18 at 5 PM. « Above the Law: A Legal Tabloid
Senate Passes $600 Million Border Security Bill
CNN - Anderson Cooper - Texas Rep Debbie Riddle and "little terrorists" - crazy, evasive white woman (Debbie Dingbat) with American Republican Elephant pin has no "actual facts")
Meet Debbie Riddle, Terror Baby Expert
Think Progress » Just 25 Americans Died As A Result Of Terrorism Last Year — Less Than Traffic Accidents, The Flu, Or Dog Bites 32 reported incidents of dogs fatally killing humans last year (but watch out for those anchor babies)
Citizenship Down - Akhil Amar - The Colbert Report - 8/10/10 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
A Tiny Revolution: Jeffrey Goldberg Still America's Preeminent Propagandist (that would be Israeli lobbyist)
Goldberg's War, By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine, 2006))
A Tiny Revolution: Jeffrey Goldberg Still America's Preeminent Propagandist
How propagandists function: Exhibit A - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg Probes Israel's Iran Strike Option: Is Netanyahu a "Bomber Boy"? | TPMCafe
The Weak Case for War with Iran - By Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett | Foreign Policy Jeffrey Goldberg's new article in the Atlantic is deeply reported -- and deeply wrong about the Middle East. But it's his misunderstanding of America that is most dangerous of all (Israeli propaganda mouthpiece)
INSTAPUTZ: The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of. This admisson from Mike Allen isn't a surprise, but it is nonetheless appalling (they rock your world +check out Hugh Hewitts wet dream)
Jon Stewart: Boehner's Stance On The Economy Is 'Profoundly Retarded' (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire (duh, he's a Republican)
Geller falsely claims Imam Rauf made comment blaming "the Jews" for 9-11 | Media Matters for America (Israeli lobby hack spreads racist lies)
Glenn Beck: Gay Marriage No Threat To Me, Or America
Sovereign Citizens Spin History, Reject Government As many as 300,000 people identify as sovereign citizens (the hard-core rightwing fringe of the hard-core Republican loonies)
Nieman Watchdog > Ask This > Six essential questions about the deficit, Wall Street and Washington
2nd Quarter G.D.P. May Be Revised Even Lower - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com ("even" - like half)
Jobs Market Still Gloomy as Weekly Claims Show Gain - CNBC The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for unemployment insurance unexpectedly rose to its highest level in close to six months, a fresh signal of a weak jobs market.
The Fed’s Fallacious “QE Lite” Logic « naked capitalism In case you somehow missed it, global markets got a bad case of deflation heebie jeebies over the last few days.
RealtyTrac: No foreclosure peak until 2011 MarketWatch News Break - MarketWatch (12 ... 13 ...)
Free statins with fast food could neutralize heart risk, scientists say Free statins with fast food could neutralize heart risk, scientists say
Are you ready for a world without antibiotics? | Society | The Guardian Antibiotics are a bedrock of modern medicine. But in the very near future, we're going to have to learn to live without them once again. And it's going to get nasty (bacteria declare victory)
Tool Use by Early Humans Started Much Earlier : Discovery News Small-brained human ancestors used stone tools to whack into large mammals some 800,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Breast cancer death rates fall by a third - Telegraph Death rates from breast cancer in Britain have dropped by a third in a generation, a pan-European study shows.
How to find the radiant point for Perseid meteors | Tonight | EarthSky
YouTube - Radiolab and NPR Present Words
WNYC - Radiolab » Words
Drownproofing
Teach Yourself to Sew: How to Sew Buttons, Snaps & Hooks - Threads
Thousands of Dead Fish Line Jersey Shore | NBC Philadelphia
Concert venues are hurting all over, except in Philadelphia | Philadelphia Daily News | 08/09/2010 Yeah, that's why they call them "Ticketbastards." (Live Nation discovers a limit to their infinite pricing)
TV’s top salaries: Winfrey, Seacrest, Sheen, Laurie (Judge Judy makes four times as much as Conan? So wrong...)
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Our Daughter Isn't a Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn't Read "Atlas Shrugged" ("bed-wetting looter!")
For the Pauls, Libertarianism Began at Home - NYTimes.com
Fire Megan McArdle
Barack Obama ¦ DiD US Presidential Election ¦ 2008 action figure w/accessories
Online gambling: House bill offers new approach - latimes.com
Why DRM Doesn't Work - PC opinion at Thunderbolt Games
Greatest hot chick internet hoaxes, White board Jenny hoax | Ranker - A World of Lists
Web Explodes With Best Quitting Stories -- Daily Intel
The Ballad of Steven Slater on CNN's Situation Room on Vimeo (avec metafilter)
Exclusive: Upcoming Apple TV loses 1080p playback, gains apps... and will be renamed iTV -- Engadget (crappy, out-of-date TV based on cell-phone processor that runs ... apps! and iTunes! and you can shop at Apple with it!)
What Happened to Yahoo (old media)
MozBackup - Backup tool for Firefox and Thunderbird
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The Point of No Return - Magazine - The Atlantic how, if things remain on the current course, an Israeli air strike will unfold (by Jeffrey Goldberg, "American-Israeli jounalist" pumping out the propaganda)
The Jeffrey Goldberg Media - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Negative Reaction to Charity Campaign: German Millionaires Criticize Gates' 'Giving Pledge' - spiegel online - The pledge has been criticized in Germany, with millionaires saying donations shouldn't replace duties that would be better carried out by the state.
Asia Times Online :: General and scholar test reform waters (advocate democracy in China)
ASA - ASA Adjudication on The Association of Chief Police Officers (UK's "Everyone is a potential terrorist" ad campaign)
Hillary Clinton Drags Taliban Leader's Body Through Streets Of Kabul | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect NYT On The So-Called Ground Zero Mosque - The reason this became a national controversy is because Republicans see a political advantage in harnessing anti-Muslim sentiment, particularly if that forces Democrats to defend an unpopular minority group. (Anne Barnard at the NYT wanks on the mosque and blames everyone but the rightwing smear machine - Rush pulls their strings)
Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama 'ought to be drug tested' | Richard Adams | World news | guardian.co.uk White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama's critics on the left are 'crazy' - and then tries to apologise (naive, out-of-touch political hack thinks he can count on swing voters he disses)
White House Gets Double Dose Of Relief In Colorado Ken Buck joins fellow Tea Partiers Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio as candidates that the National Republican Senatorial Committee either didn't want to see win their nomination or officially chose not to endorse
Connecticut Primary: Republican Linda McMahon Wins in U.S. Senate Race - Courant.com Millions Spent Pay Off With Big Victory
Joe Lieberman Says He'll Likely Run For Reelection In 2012 (S.Israel will run again and again)
South Carolina and Some Other States Relented on Taking Stimulus Money - NYTimes.com The reversal by Mr. Sanford attracted virtually no notice, but it made South Carolina the 33rd state in the country to expand jobless benefits to qualify for its full share of stimulus money under the program (he sure got a lot of "notice" when he campaigned against it)
Analysis Looks at Effect of Letting Tax Cuts Lapse for Rich - NYTimes.com Taxpayers with income of more than $1 million for 2011 would still receive on average a tax cut of about $6,300 compared with what they would have paid under rates in effect until 2001 (poor little rich babies are whining and their teaparty servants are crying)
Monetary policy: Small stuff | The Economist the Fed has taken the minimum possible non-contractionary action (suck it up, Americans)
FT Alphaville » Hamp – it’s worse than we thought (the program Obama designed to fail and not help anyone and not upset the bankers)
Where's relief for homeowners who played by rules? - Orlando Sentinel (you fools, no one got relief)
Wells Fargo Must Pay Consumers $203 Million in Overdraft Case - Bloomberg (rigged the game)
Perseid meteor shower nears peak - BostonHerald.com
BBC News - New 'superbug' found in UK hospitals bacteria that make an enzyme called NDM-1 have travelled back with NHS patients who went abroad to countries like India and Pakistan for treatments such as cosmetic surgery.
Tire tags reveal driver whereabouts - BusinessWeek wireless communications between new cars and their tires can be intercepted or even forged
The Least and Most Religious States nine of the top 10 church-going states are in the South, Utah is the only exception (fundamentalist, militaristic, racist and stupid)
Catholics don't get to define my marriage — even if I am heterosexual : Pharyngula (+baby Ross Douthat: relationships between men and women are specialer than those between men and men or women and women.)
Author on leave after Harvard inquiry - The Boston Globe
Confirmed: HOPA Dry Erase Girl Is A Hoax, Identity Revealed
YouTube - Jackie Evancho Opera Singer Americas got talent You tube edition.HQ-8-10-10
Eric Schmidt On Privacy (VIDEO): Google CEO Says Anonymity Online Is 'Dangerous' (to our planned surveillance state - Schmidt is dangerously naive: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.")
Craig Aaron: Google-Verizon Pact: It Gets Worse
A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Don't Tax the Internet | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com A new piece of legislation claims to level the playing field between Internet retailers and brick-and-mortar stores, but this "fairness" bill is anything but.
Business Email Usage Statistics | Email Usage Graph by State and Region | Blog
What Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night? - The Awl according to Pew, 26% of African-Americans online use Twitter; only 19% of white Internet people use Twitter. S
Prof. Dr. Style
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Obama Administration In Danger Of Establishing "New Normal" With Worst Bush-Era Policies, Says ACLU | American Civil Liberties Union (more Bush than the old Bush)
Gitmo Judge Parrish Allows Evidence From Teen Coerced Under Threat of Rape by Joshua Claus | The Seminal (endorsed by Obama)
China rescuers search sludge for mudslide survivors | Reuters The count of dead from the disaster in Zhouqu, in a narrow valley in Gansu province, jumped from 137 earlier on Monday evening to 337
Taliban Execute Pregnant Woman (Fundamentalists in Amerca jealous)
Richard Dawkins Likens Burqas To Trash Bags, Speaks Of 'Visceral Revulsion' To Islamic Veils (fatwa territory)
Lebanon crisis feared as indictments near in assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri (Hezbollah+Syria)
The US tank crew wanted for murder / Features / Home - Morning Star The Spanish government wants a three-man US army tank crew to stand trial for the death of cameraman Jose Couso in Baghdad in 2003. (collateral murder again)
Putin puts out two wildfires in central Russia (update 1) | Russia | RIA Novosti - He dumped approximately 12 tons of water on each of two fires, extinguishing both completely (let's see Obama try that with the Republicans)
Open Source Tools Turn WikiLeaks Into Illustrated Afghan Meltdown (Updated) | Danger Room | Wired.com
The Washington Monthly - Cordoba House 'Compromise' Has Some Serious Flaws (Patterson puts his foot up his ass, urges compromise with vicious racism)
White House unloads anger over criticism from 'professional left’ - TheHill.com - “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. Gibbs said: ” Those people ought to be drug tested,” “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.” (still dissing their base; we'll see who's out of touch)
Robert Gibbs attacks the fringe losers of the left - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - In 20 short months, we've gone from "hold me accountable" to "get drug tested," you wretched ingrates.
Gibbs’ Walk-Back: Clueless about “in America” | Emptywheel that professional DC hack Robert Gibbs should lecture hippies about what people “in America” think of Obama’s economic policies was the worst. (+taking credit for our wonderful "recovery" - clap louder, dirty hippies)
AFSCME - New TV Ad: Senators Collins, Snowe Found the Money to Bail Out Wall Street …But They Can’t Spare a Dime to Keep Cops, Teachers and Nurses Working in Maine? (that would be the "professional left" from Maine)
Gibbs on the Left: Dog Bites the Man | OurFuture.org
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: As Liberals Lose Hope, the White House is Losing Its Cool
Eschaton So frustration at right wing assholes on cable news make you lash out at The Professional Left, who are busy trying to get teacher funding passed? (they really are Republicans somewhere between Nixon and Reagan)
Obama vs. Obama On Endless Wars: Who Wins? (the one we voted for, not the one who won)
Ted Stevens DEAD: Former Senator Reportedly Killed In Alaska Plane Crash carrying ex-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe
The Senator in Full : CJR The press must fight the impulse to whitewash Ted Stevens’s record
Newt Gingrich's Ex-Wife Goes Public: Messy Relationship Life, Meltdowns, And 2012 - "It doesn't matter what I do," he answered. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live." (but he's on teevee all the time)
Print - Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican - Esquire (they love their creeps)
Clash of the Tea Party Travel Agents | Mother Jones Meet the activist-entrepreneurs battling to become the movement's official unofficial travel planner (back-stabbing in the teabaggers?)
House Passes State Aid Bill To Help Teachers, GOP Freaks Out | TPMDC
Levi Johnston preparing to follow in Palin footsteps | Raw Story Levi Johnston to run for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, in reality show.
Senate Passes “The ______Act of____”—No Foolin’! – The WashingtonWatch.com Blog
Advising Like It’s 1999 - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com Hence the view that fiscal stimulus was just an insurance policy, that the big thing was to stop the economy’s headlong descent, and then unemployment would come down mostly of its own accord. (Larry "Big Failure" Summers at work)
Fed to Meet, With Concerns on Deflation Rising - NYTimes.com - Greenspan still running the economy: "“At this particular moment, disinflationary pressures are paramount. They will not last indefinitely.”"
Incomes Fall in Most Metro Areas - WSJ.com (except for southern military centers: DC, San Antonio, Virginia Beach)
Tax reform for the rich and ultra-rich : The New Yorker (wait, that's socialism)
House Clears $26.1 Billion State-Aid Package, Dems Slam GOP Obstructionism
Letters of Note: The Tiger Oil Memos constantly angry CEO - Edward 'Tiger Mike' Davis - to his staff (Christ, what an asshole)
Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s - NYTimes.com
Petermann Glacier loss is 3x Manhattan Is. area; largest loss observed for Greenland « MODIS Studies of Greenland
CSI | Bridging the Chasm between Two Cultures A former leader in the New Age culture—author of nine titles on auras, chakras, “energy,” and so on—chronicles her difficult and painful transition to skepticism.
Mankind must abandon earth or face extinction: Hawking (game over)
Consumers Find Ways to Spend Less and Find Happiness - NYTimes.com - research on consumption and happiness.
Don’t Be Ugly By Accident! « OkTrends
girl quits job on dry erase board exposes farmville boss called her hopa - theCHIVE
UPDATE: Jet Blue Flight Attendant Curses, Quits, Makes Emergency Chute Exit - Gothamist
Designer Leading The Charge For Fashion Copyright... Caught Copying Someone Else's Design | Techdirt
Anthony Bertolone, Moron of the Day: Drugged & Raped Fellow Frat Brother at Drake University - True Crime Report - Sigma Chi has booted him from the frat for revealing its secret homoerotic agenda. If the videos would have involved an incapacitated woman, we're guessing they would have made Bertolone president for life.
Google, Verizon say no ‘net neutrality’ for wireless | Raw Story "In recognition of the still-nascent nature of the wireless broadband marketplace, under this proposal we would not now apply most of the wireline principles to wireless." (everything is moving to wirless, where everything will be paid for)
4Chan Founder Moot's Weird Testimony In Sarah Palin Email Hacking Trial
BBC News - Google offices raided by Korean police Police in South Korea have raided Google's headquarters in Seoul.
Apple most criticised brand in blogosphere - Social Media - Tech - The Times of India
Which Types of Businesses Will Be Affected by Net Neutrality - should net neutrality become law, "an ISP’s customers will suffer slower speeds so that other customers can use disproportionate capacity for which they are not paying their share." (US 28th in world, and no other country has had this happen)
Don’t Get Fireballed | brown blog
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Gen. David Petraeus Media Blitz Planned (cranks up his taxpayer-funded PR army to sell the war to ... taxpayers!)
27,000 Work in Pentagon PR and Recruiting | Danger Room | Wired.com ($4.7bn in 2009)
Pat Tillman's mother on Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal: I told you so Mary Tillman speaks on Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his role in covering up the truth about her son's death.
Red Dawn - An FP Slide Show | Foreign Policy
Moscow Deaths DOUBLE Amid Smog And Heat Wave (PHOTOS) "Our ancestors haven't observed or registered a heat like that within 1,000 years," Frolov said at a news conference. "This phenomenon is absolutely unique."
German Mosque Used By 9/11 Attackers Shut Down authorities believed the prayer house was again being used as a meeting point for Islamic radicals
The Duchess of York faces bankruptcy over her £5m debts - Telegraph (the style to which she is accustomed)
How the baby boomers blew it | Francis Beckett | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The greatest crime of the boomers who benefited from the 60s was their role in destroying the freedoms of those who did not
British Towns and Institutions Reel From First Austerity Cuts - NYTimes.com
Todd S. Purdum Asks, Can Washington Be Fixed? | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
Jan Brewer's Re-Election Chances Boosted By Arizona Immigration Law (nothing succeeds for Republicans like racisim)
Marriage Is Not a Zero Sum Game | Mother Jones (Ross Douthat can't really think very well)
Michelangelo Signorile: Judge Vaughn Walker Gets Smeared By the Media (point being, they'd never do this to a closeted anti-gay legislator, preacher, etc)
Op-Ed Columnist - America Goes Dark - NYTimes.com - America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere.
Rubinites Trading Off a Mid-90s Happy Accident | FDL News Desk (Obama's expert economic team)
Why is the Journal Mystified that Some Employers Are Having Trouble Finding Workers? « naked capitalism (because they are lazy fucks who are turning down good jobs!)
A decade of declining house prices By Mike Whitney : ICH - Information Clearing House 51 million homeowners have a meager $1 trillion in home equity. We're a nation of paupers (all your equity is gone)
How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review
secrets-to-maximizing-social-security: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
P ? NP-- Greg and Kat’s blog
A Proof That P Is Not Equal To NP? « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Putting my money where my mouth isn’t
Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time - physics-math - 09 August 2010 - New Scientist
God's Number is 20 - Every position of Rubik's Cube™ can be solved in twenty moves or less.
Pesticides linked to bee decline, say green groups | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Daily Nebraskan - US drops to 12th among college degrees earned (30 yrs of Republican policies have stupidized Amercia)
Swift Kick Central: Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech Instead of using her graduation speech to celebrate the triumph of her victory, the school, and the teachers that made it happen, she channeled her inner Ivan Illich and de-constructed the logic of a valedictorian and the whole educational system.
#6: Leave Children Behind: Don't Prepare Everyone for College | Dangerous Ideas | Big Think (like we aren't doing that already)
Counterexamples to Relativity - Conservapedia (Republicans are a dangerous idea)
A Hoarder Confronts Her Clutter - Video - TIME.com
The 4 Issues That Divide America the Most doctor-assisted suicide, same-sex relations, abortion, and having a baby outside of wedlock divide the country the most.
Churchgoers, strippers protest one another in Coshocton County | The Columbus Dispatch
Marijuana Policy Project: The DEA has gone rogue. Despite clear guidance from the Department of Justice directing them to do otherwise, agents are conducting raids of homes and businesses where the occupants are acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws.
Greg Mitchell: How Press Censorship Hid the Shocking Truth About Nagasaki A-Bomb 65 Years Ago
ILGWU: Doing the Reactionary
How to Microwave Gourmet Popcorn in a Brown Paper Bag | Squawkfox
Apple may have known of iPhone antenna flaw two years ago | Electronista
Google and Verizon Announce Net Neutrality Proposal - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (that would be non-Neutrality, NYT)
net-neutrality-thumb-550xauto-27419.jpg - after Net Neutrality: tiered pricing plan to be announced soon
Google Sold Out the Open Internet -- Help Us Protect It | Public Knowledge
Google-Verizon plan: Why you should worry - Dan Gillmor - Salon.com Ominous references to the "public Internet" inescapably suggest something else entirely
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U.S. Commander Ray Odierno: Iraqis 'Ready To Assume Full Operations,' Handle Own Security (all done, we're sorta outa here)
Battles Around Nation Over Proposed Mosques - NYTimes.com (Republican war on moderate Islam, always looking for someone to hate)
Think Progress » Study: Contemporary Mosques Are A Deterrent To The Spread Of Terrorism (which is why Think Progress » Study: Contemporary Mosques Are A Deterrent To The Spread Of Terrorism (which is why ...)
GAO Audits and Poppy Bush’s Covert World | Emptywheel
NKorea seizes SKorean fishing boat amid tension - Yahoo! News
Iran set to execute 18-year-old on false charge of sodomy | World news | The Observer on the basis of "judge's knowledge", a legal loophole that allows for subjective judicial rulings where there is no conclusive evidence (they hate people they think might be gay too)
Pope acts against incest priest's group - Americas, World - The Independent Immensely wealthy Catholic organisation, set up by controversial Mexican cleric and favoured by John Paul II, likely to be closed down
YouTube - Evacuation de familles sans logement à la Courneuve
Detained Belarusian Investigator Hospitalized - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2010 (KGB investigator hospitalized in ... KGB hospital!)
WikiLeaks not shielded by Swedish law: experts - The Local
YouTube - Judge Andrew Napolitano: The Plain Truth - The Government Lies to You!! Freedom Watch 7/31/2010 (wikileaks and Obama's absent moral center)
New Petition Gains Prominent Signatures: “Defend WikiLeaks – End the Secret Wars” | The Seminal
U.S. base in Kyrgyzstan remains on track despite tensions
In Mexico's Nuevo Laredo, drug cartels dictate media coverage (why, that's just like ...)
Daily Kos: An unfortunate debate here's something really depressing about the debate over whether it would have been better to fight BP's oil spill with or without the aid of chemical dispersants (see, two toxic chemicals cancel each other out! +Obama aided in BP coverup)
Filibusters and arcane obstructions in the Senate : The New Yorker The Empty Chamber Just how broken is the Senate? by George Packer
Force women to bear rapists’ babies, say multiple GOP candidates | Raw Story - "We're in a period of deep economic anxiety," Harris-Lacewell replied, suggesting that people are trying to assert control over their own lives by controlling women's reproduction" (the first thing they try to control- more disgustingness from the Republicans, Dems are quite as usual)
Why The Prop 8 Ruling Scares Religious Conservatives
A More Perfect Constitution, by Larry J. Sabato
A More Perfect Constitution, by Larry J. Sabato (24th suggestions)
Rachel Maddow Takes On Bill O'Reilly: 'Stupid,' 'Bullpucky' (video)
David S. Broder - Mitch McConnell comes to the Senate's defense he threw a curve by endorsing the idea that the 14th Amendment guarantee of U.S. citizenship to every child born in this country, whatever the child's parentage, should be examined in congressional hearings. That is a radical change, freighted with emotional baggage, and if this is an example of what it would mean to have more Republicans on Capitol Hill, watch out.
PolitiFact | Fact-checking the claims about 'anchor babies' and whether illegal immigrants 'drop and leave'
Whitman's jab at Poizner may cost GOP votes (eMeg, brilliant manager)
Wall Street's Big Win | Rolling Stone Politics ... But Dodd-Frank was neither an FDR-style, paradigm-shifting reform, nor a historic assault on free enterprise. What it was, ultimately, was a cop-out, a Band-Aid on a severed artery. If it marks the end of anything at all, it represents the end of the best opportunity we had to do something real about the criminal hijacking of America's financial-services industry - Matt Taibbi (our ahistorical banker-friendly Pres blew the opportunity)
Economy outranks Iraq, Afghan wars for voters this year | McClatchy
U.S. Economy Improving, More Stimulus Isn't the Answer, Rubin, O'Neill Say - Bloomberg . A “major second stimulus” might create uncertainty and undermine confidence, Rubin said ... Companies are concerned about demand and won’t expand facilities and hire new employees until sales have improved, said O’Neill, who was Treasury secretary under Republican (why should we have confidence in these idiots?)
Warren Buffett's billionaire donors club: By the numbers - The Week
With income from debit card fees falling, banks likely to raise other charges | cleveland.com
AP Source: Ousted HP CEO Settles With Accuser - ABC News Disgraced former HP CEO Mark Hurd (took over after the Carly debacle)
How to Become Unemployed in 7 Easy Steps - CBS MoneyWatch.com
Higher U.S. Food Prices: Why a Russian Heatwave Could Hit Your Wallet - DailyFinance (there's no shortage but the profiteers are out)
Irvine Housing Blog - Irvine Real Estate and Irvine Homes - Another Ignorant and Misguided Attack on the 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage (McMegan McAddled McHack McArdle runs into a brick wall)
How Brilliant Computer Scientists Solved the Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Salem-News.Com significant quantities of methane hydrates and older eruption sites.
Robot to explore mysterious tunnels in Great Pyramid - Science, News - The Independent For 4,500 years, no one has known what lies beyond two stone doors deep inside the monument
Deep brain stimulation may slow Alzheimer's in some - Healthzone.ca
Entire Island the Size of Hawaii Could be Made from Pacific Plastic | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
Clay Farris Naff: The End of Times: Do Scientists and Fundamentalists Concur?
Public Sees a Future Full of Promise and Peril: Section 3: War, Terrorism and Global Trends - Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Fully 58% of white evangelical Christians say Jesus Christ will definitely or probably return to earth in this period, by far the highest percentage in any religious group.
Appeals court limits use of GPS to track suspects - police cannot use a Global Positioning System device to track a person's movements for an extended time without a warrant, (small victory)
Hullabaloo: "It Doesn't Look Good" (black farmers not high on Obama's priority list, and besides, if we wait long enough, they will all be dead)
Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’ | Politics | Religion Dispatches The right hopes to create “sheriff’s posses,” militias armed to avenge the godless federal government (Jesus is carryin')
Clay Farris Naff: The End of Times: Do Scientists and Fundamentalists Concur?
Think Progress » Anti-Choice Group Says Its ‘Prayers’ Have Been Answered When Abortion Clinic Closes Due To Doctor’s Leukemia (Christians killing people with prayer)
Anne Mai Bertelsen: Visualizing Hunger and Its Impact: Why We Need a Hunger Data Consortium
Dallas PD Chief’s Solution for Date Rape: Women Quit Drinking | FrontBurner
Ad campaign: She didn't ask for it - Broadsheet - Salon.com
YouTube - Love & Theft
5 Real Historical Death Stars (Complete With Baffling Flaws) | Cracked.com
Roald Dahl's darkest hour - Telegraph friend Donald Sturrock reveals the extent to which Dahl’s life was shaped by catastrophe - and why his wife called him 'Roald the Rotten’.
'Private Browsing' Not So Much - PCWorld
Position-based quantum cryptography: New method for securing location-sensitive data
s Schneier on Security: Location-Based Quantum Encryption
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Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | US Military 'Banned' From Viewing Wikileaks ("security measure" ha-ha-ha)
Plugging The WikiLeak: US Government Frustrated By Lack Of Options ("nothing new" not working; Obama considering Predator missle attack on their Swedish servers, may have to invade Iceland)
WikiLeaks Interview: 'We Will Keep Publishing Documents'
Russian Capital Moscow Covered in Heavy Smog
6 Americans Killed In Afghanistan, Part Of Medical Team
Government Abuses Computer Crime Law to Boost Criminal Charges | Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF Asks Appeals Court to Block Attempt to Turn Misdemeanors into Felonies
What collapsing empire looks like - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street lights -- or once it chooses not to be able to afford those things in pursuit of imperial priorities and the maintenance of a vast Surveillance and National Security State -- that a very serious problem has arisen, that things have gone seriously awry, that imperial collapse, by definition, is an imminent inevitability?
BBC News - Child protection database to be switched off - A £235m government database containing the records of England's 11 million children (dismantling Blair's surveillance society)
Germany gave assassination list to secret US unit | Raw Story Buried in the 92,000 pages of documents released by the Web site Wikileaks is evidence that show the German government abetted a secret program to kill or capture Taliban leaders. (remember all the media outlets - lookin' at you, NPR - that said "nothing new here?")
Little Britain: How the rest of the world sees us - This Britain, UK - The Independent Britain was once a great power. Are we now best known for oil spills, airline strikes and Simon Cowell?
Petermann Glacier: Giant Ice Island Breaks Off Greenland - 100 square miles – more than four times the size of New York's Manhattan Island. (seems to be headed towards Kentucky)
Matthew Yglesias » Zakaria Returns ADL Prize - "Admitting an error is a small price to pay to regain a reputation." (constitutionally incapable)
The Plum Line - ADL: If mosque-builders really wanted to promote reconcilation, they'd move (sorta like ... the Palestians! ... Foxman's racism hits its expire date)
Ground Zero Mosque Opponents Must Not Have Heard About Muslims At The Pentagon (oh wait, that must mean ...)
This isn't the America I love | Mehdi Hasan | Comment is free | The Guardian As a Muslim and friend of the nation, I pray decency triumphs in the row over the Ground Zero mosque (racist-state America)
Got Medieval: Professor Newt's Distorted History Lesson (Gingrich plays historian on Fox)
BP Fires 10,000 Cleanup Workers | Mother Jones (oil all gone, go home and eat toxic seafood)
Final Deepwater Horizon Flow Rate Estimate Is Likely Too Low, Which Benefits BP (Obama's oil-friendly see-no-oil approach)
Gulf Oil Spill Investigation: Companies At Fault Will Be In Charge Of Recovering Evidence (which will work really well)
BP Wants to Keep Drilling Near Gulf Oil Disaster Site | Fast Company
What Obama Should Have Said to BP | The New York Review of Books (the Timidity of Obama)
Schwarzenegger, Brown File Motions To Resume Gay Marriage
Dr. William Tam’s Understanding of “The Gay Agenda” and Vaughn Walker’s Prop 8 Decision | Emptywheel (bigot in the headlights just got squashed +famous on the internets for all eternity for his "gay agenda")
Will Bush-bashing help Democrats win over weary voters? - CNN.com
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Sen. Bennet pushes back against critical report « - Blogs from CNN.com (Times publishes hit piece on Dem (again) right before election; Cheney rule doesn't apply)
One Part French Revolution, One Part Race Baiting = Rush Limbaugh | Media Matters for America - "Michelle 'Antoinette' Obama," (700 media outlets gladly spead Rushhead's racism +Jesus, do they project)
Rush Limbaugh: Media Giving Michelle Obama Vacation Pass Because Of 'Slave Past'
Is NH Republican Jack Kimball Jumping On The Nullification Bandwagon? | TPMDC
Akbar Ahmed On Jon Stewart: Americans' Perception Of Islam Is Way Off Base (video)
Late Night: Jane Hamsher on Obama’s Boys’ Club That Won’t Listen to Women Who Were Right | Firedoglake how, especially within the White House economic team, women who were right about the economic meltdown are ignored in favor of the men on the team who were “aggressively wrong” in making both the decisions that led to the disaster as well as current decisions that are not improving the situation sufficiently. (also, Volcker and Stiglitz: Obama hates people who are right even more than women; the "team of rivals" is an old-boys-always-wrong-club)
Administration Kicks Off "Recovery Summer" with Groundbreakings and Events Across the Country | The White House
HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns After Sexual-Harassment Probe for allegedly falsifying documents to conceal a relationship with a former contractor and help her get paid for work she didn't do. (replaced the Carly, gets paid $26 million to leave)
Obama Anti-Business? Think Again. - Newsweek ("anti-business?" bha-ha-ha)
Your Money - Nervous About Social Security? Better Prepare Now - NYTimes.com (NYT article advising the top 5% what to do ... the bottom 95% can go fuck themselves)
reaganomics.jpg : "We told them the wealth would 'trickle down'"
Get It Straight: Consumer Spending is *not* 70% of GDP - BusinessWeek - "households actually lay out about $5.5 trillion a year which drives domestic economic activities—about 40% of GDP" (lies, lies)
Economic Recovery for the Few | Professor Richard D. Wolff
Gartner Says the World of Work Will Witness 10 Changes During the Next 10 Years
GM, Chrysler spent millions lobbying after federal bailouts
As spending by wealthy weakens, so does economy - Forbes.com
U.S. Economy Is Increasingly Tied to the Rich - The Wealth Report - WSJ the top 5% of Americans by income account for 37% of all consumer outlays. Outlays include consumer spending, interest payments on installment debt and transfer payments. By contrast, the bottom 80% by income account for 39.5% of all consumer outlays.
Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders - Science and Tech - The Atlantic
Nanex - Market Crop Circle Of The Day
Suicide Risk Tests: Coming Soon to a Psychiatrist Near You? (shrinks fail at assessing suicide risk)
The Last Psychiatrist: This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
The Wrong Stuff : Error Message: Google Research Director Peter Norvig on Being Wrong
Gregory Denny Charged With Impersonating U.S. Marshal, Falsely Deporting Woman
Camden prepares to close library system | 6abc.com (no child left literate)
Mass Paperback Publisher Goes All Digital - WSJ.com Dorchester Publishing Inc., a closely held book and magazine house, said it is making the switch after its book unit sales fell 25% last year
Anis Shivani: The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers (PHOTOS)
‘Baby-Sitters’ Club’ By Bret Easton Ellis: Chapter 1 « Crushable
Words | The New York Review of Books - Tony Judt
Fresh Air Interview: Historian Tony Judt On Living With ALS : NPR
Op-Ed Contributors - Generations in the Balance - NYTimes.com
Class Struggle - Jaime Escalante, Alfie Kohn, John Taylor Gatto and Frank Smith
Class Struggle - Jaime Escalante, Alfie Kohn, John Taylor Gatto, Frank Smith (part 2)
Education Sector: Research and Reports: On the Clock: Rethinking the Way Schools Use Time (in 2007, as a response to Bush's unfunded mandates, schools considered a longer school-year; now they are lucky if they have any teachers left +180 day school year a product of the rich taking their kids to their summer homes/resorts)
YouTube - Q: Do TIGERS like catnip??
YouTube - "Stop" Al Kooper & Mike Bloomfield (Super Session)
Kerry: FCC Only Shot at Net Neutrality | FDL News Desk
FCC Abandons Efforts At Net Neutrality Compromise (business-friendly-captive Pres Obama caves yet again)
Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars
Government Abuses Computer Crime Law to Boost Criminal Charges | Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF Asks Appeals Court to Block Attempt to Turn Misdemeanors into Felonies (Obama's cop-state America)
10 Google Services That Don’t Get the Limelight They Deserve
Rash Of Traffic Accidents Blamed On ‘iPod Oblivion’ more than 17 accidents per day in the UK Alone
RIAA moves against bloggers sharing Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ | ZME Music
Flickr: The Help Forum: [Official Topic] New Photo Page FEEDBACK - Kudos | Gripes
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Kucinich Bill will Stop the Extrajudicial Killing of Americans | War Is A Crime .org (anti-Assassinator bill will be vetoed by the Assassinator)
Derrick Crowe: NATO Forces in Afghanistan Can't Deny They Killed Civilians in Sangin Anymore
The World from Berlin: 'The Kremlin's Central Control Is the Real Disaster' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International The German press on Friday says the overcentralization of power is partly to blame for the disaster.
Adnan Shukrijumah, New Al Qaeda Leader, Lived In U.S. For 15 Years has become chief of the terror network's global operations, the FBI says
CIA Whisked Detainees From Guantanamo Before Giving Access To Lawyers - The transfer allowed the U.S. to interrogate the detainees in CIA "black sites" for two more years without allowing them to speak with attorneys or human rights observers or challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
Iraq's Garden of Eden: Restoring the Paradise that Saddam Destroyed - Spiegel
Wyclef Jean Announces Haitian Presidential Bid on CNN; Sean Penn Skeptical (video) "One of the reasons I don't know very much about Wyclef Jean is that I haven't seen or heard anything of him in these last six months that I've been in Haiti."
Ten Musicians Better Than Wyclef Jean to Lead Haiti - Miami Music - Crossfade
Calling Gaza a prison camp is an understatement | Laila El-Haddad | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk There may be some semblance of civil life and stability in Gaza, but it is our freedoms that are under siege
BBC News - Harriet Harman: Class holds you back more than gender
Gulf oil spill: White House accused of spinning report | Environment | The Guardian Scientists say it is 'just not true' that the vast majority of oil from the BP spill has gone (White House: spin central)
The U.S. Military Spends Trillions for Oil - By Peter Maass | Foreign Policy It's not polite to say so, but if Americans understood just how many trillions their military was really spending on protecting oil, they wouldn't stand for it. (and we wouldn't want to be "impolite" to all those dead people, would we?)
Dean: Individual Mandate Will Be Removed From Health Care Reform By 2014 once Senate negotiators removed any hope of a public option for insurance coverage from the final health care reform package, he became much more outspoken in his criticism
James Tibbets Does Not Speak For Me. Nor Does Fox News. | Popehat (interesting contrast with venerated Confederacy)
Unemployment Rate Unchanged In July -- Employers Cut 131,000 Jobs
CRimages: Employment Recessions July 2010
Fannie Mae: Home Prices To Decline Into Next Year
Christina Romer Resigning: Top Obama Adviser Leaving Council of Economic Advisers (she was a girl, and correct, so she had to go, pushed out by "Always Wrong" Larry Summers)
'This Week' Transcript: NEC Director Larry Summers - ABC News (April 2009: "Now the process of job creation has started. We expect that it will accelerate" - rewarding failure and incompetence, but dumping Romer)
The Washington Monthly "The economic case for more government action to create jobs is about as clear as they come." (Larry Summers will make sure that doesn't happen)
Obama Making Sales Pitch for Auto Bailouts to Skeptical Voters - Bloomberg
t r u t h o u t | Dude, Where's My Industrial Policy?
The Return of Industrial Policy - Project Syndicate
Playing Ourselves for Fools | The American Prospect The trading system America sold the world is killing U.S. industry. Here's a better way.
America's New-Old Industrial Policy - Forbes.com If you liked the housing bust, you'll love the clean-tech boondoggle.
The global revival of industrial policy: Picking winners, saving losers | The Economist Industrial policy is back in fashion. Have governments learned from past failures? (bankers first, corps second, everyone else goes down with the ship)
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: US Manufacturing Is Not Dead
ESO - eso1032 - Seeing a Stellar Explosion in 3D
Churchill Ordered UFO Cover-Up, Archives Show ordered an alleged UFO incident in the 1950s be kept secret to prevent "mass panic"
Coloured X-Rays of Flowers : Turning X-Ray Into An Art by Hugh Turvey
extracts of local distance
On Her Wedding Day, Saying the Things Left Unsaid
How Not to Congratulate Your Ex on Her Wedding Day : Andrew Cohen ("Legal Analyst" and "Self-Centered Relational Doofus")
crap email from a dude - Jezebel
Miss at la Playa: The magic of make-up, photography and a good model
Amy Sedaris Is Betty Draper In “The Jewish Mad Men“ | Videogum
YouTube - Rabbit Rescue featuring Amy Sedaris
YouTube - Amy Sedaris on The Martha Stewart Show
YouTube - Amy Sedaris - Cheeseballs - Part 1 of 2
YouTube - Exit 57 Alley Cat
Barnes & Noble: The final chapter? | The Economist The world’s best-known bookstore puts itself up for sale
Elena's Inbox | A Project of the Sunlight Foundation
On Morality and Making Choices Matter in Video Games | Hellmode
The Rigging Of Digg: How A Covert Mob Of Conservatives Hijacked The Web’s To Social News Site | The Public Record
Aloha Editor - The HTML5 Editor
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ACLU, CCR seek to have Obama enjoined from killing Awlaki without due process - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Obama: The Assassinator)
Michael Hastings' embed permission is revoked - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com how the embed process is used to reward subservient journalists and punish ones who report negatively on the war (Hastings barred from embed)
Obama's growing unpopularity in the Muslim world - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com with approval ratings in many key nations collapsing to Bush-era levels.
Pentagon demands return of leaked war documents - Yahoo! News (everyone should mail in their copy now)
Karzai Asserts Control Over U.S.-Backed Anticorruption Units Upset by the recent arrest of a key adviser accused of taking a bribe, Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday sought to have more oversight over the work of a new anti-corruption task force (we don't need no steenking anti-corruption force +learned from Cheney)
Thanks to WikiLeaker, Afghan War Will End Soon | The Smirking Chimp So anyway, when a Pentagon biggie calls someone irresponsible, take them seriously. These guys know from irresponsibility.
Children found starving in rural Australia - Australasia, World - The Independent
Police filmed dragging women and babies during protest - CNN.com showing French police evicting African immigrants with babies and children during a housing protest in a Paris suburb.
Garbage islands threaten Three Gorges Dam - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com (world's largest trash-compactor)
Nongoloza's Children: Western Cape prison gangs during and after apartheid - Jonny Steinberg
Harry Shearer: K Plus 5 -- What We Know, and What We Don't
'The Big Uneasy' Documentary Explores How Hurricane Katrina Could Have Been Prevented - Among the most controversial accusations made in the film is levied against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, arguing that they ignored warning signs of a potential storm of Katrina's size, and covered up their negligence, all while insisting that the damage caused by the hurricane couldn't have been prevented.
Judge Hands Victory to Proposition 8 Opponents, Gay-Marriage Ban Overturned -- Daily Intel
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Framing
Prop 8 Ruling Exposes Democrats' Weak Support For LGBT Community - Nevertheless, Obama has also publicly opposed same-sex marriage, and a White House aide said the president's position has not changed. (well, fuck him and good luck in November)
Elena Kagan CONFIRMED To Supreme Court
Memo to the media: The Tea Party movement has collapsed | Media Matters for America - But how many people actually showed up last Saturday for the national Tea Party rally? One local report put the number at 300. (media doesn't report on their failures)
pandagon.net: Maggie Gallagher: Keeping The Government Out Of The Government’s Business (or something)
Colbert Hammers Fox News For Lack Of African-American Viewers - only 1.38% of their audience is African-American, while CNN and MSNBC's black viewership adds up closer to 20% (White News Network)
Stewart On Killing Of 9/11 Bill: 'I Give Up' (video)
The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt: an article by Richard Hofstader from the Winter 1954-55 issue of The Scholar | The American Scholar (+5 crystal ball: they hate America)
Medicare Gets New Lease On Life; Social Security Remains Healthy The new health care law has significantly improved the prognosis for Medicare, extending the life of its trust fund by 12 years until 2029, and thereby delaying any need for dramatic changes in benefits or revenues (Republicans: make the lazy bums work until they are 102)
Source: Debt Commission Fights Over Freezing Military Pay, Slashing Benefits | TPMDC (Obama's "Let Them Eat Catfood" Commission: Republicans are making us dump Social Security)
Romer To Leave White House - Hotline On Call - "She has been frustrated," a source with insight into the WH economics team said. "She doesn't feel that she has a direct line to the president. She would be giving different advice than Larry Summers [director of the National Economic Council], who does have a direct line to the president." (Obama is really the problem)
Eschaton: Don't Listen To The Girlymaths: The people who are always wrong about fucking everything maintain power. (from Inside the Crisis: Larry Summers ignored Chritiana Romer's expert projections (and fucked everything up for the second or third or fourth time +takes character to judge character)
Matthew Yglesias » Priorities In an Era of Deficit Anxiety (cut nutrition for kids rather than unnecessary nuclear weapons)
Mitch McConnell: After November, Legislation Is 'Going To Have To Be Center Right' (Obama is already "center right," he means "far right extremist")
Waxman sees bright side to Nov: 'Difficult' Dems won't be back - TheHill.com - Specifically, he is fed up with the Senate and what he calls “the tyranny of 60 votes.” (Republican Dems in danger)
Rachel Maddow: Fox News 'Slimeballs,' CNN 'Not Really Trying' (video)
Breitbart writer Kevin Pezzi's sockpuppet MySpace harem | Media Matters for America
Meet Breitbart's Sherrod writer: Racist sexual "expert" and inventor (who cured cancer) | Media Matters for America
Rasmussen Poll On Bush Tax Cuts Is Just One Of Many
Nearly half of those nearing retirement lack adequate savings - Chicago Tribune About 47 percent of early baby boomers are not expected to have enough money to cover basic living expenses (but they hate socialism)
Weekly Claims Show Surprise Gain in Wobbly Jobs Market - CNBC Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 479,000 in the week ended July 31, the Labor Department said. That was the highest level in claims since early April.
How Wall Street Can Win industry lobbyists who oppose some new regulations outnumber consumer advocates 50 to 1
Desperation Grows as Jobless Benefits Run Out - NYTimes.com (Republicans: they should get hedge-fund jobs)
Ovulating women unconsciously buy sexier clothing to outdo attractive women
Radioactive Wild Boars Increase in Number : Discovery News
My Life in Therapy - NYTimes.com (from WP: "the unacknowledged complexities of growing up rich on Park Avenue")
200.full.pdf Inner-City Poverty Why Both Social Structure and Culture Matter in a Holistic Analysis of
Sen. Dianne Feinstein Bill Passes: Stiffer Penalties Possible For Pot Brownies - Los Angeles News - The Informer - "It's a sad narrative on how, I think, how out of touch the Senate is," he said. (billionaire Di-Fi's personal war on reefer madness)
Portland lemonade stand runs into health inspectors, needs $120 license to operate | OregonLive.com this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy.
Dailymotion - Bobby Hebb - Sunny - une vidéo Musique
John Robbins: The Dark Side of Vitaminwater In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."
n+1: Internet as Social Movement A brief history of webism
Love, Lies, and Online Dating by Nozlee Samadzadeh - The Morning News
Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered « OOO A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed
Google, Verizon Web Deal Could Upend Net Neutrality (soon: paying by the word and picture)
Josh Silver: Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It (Us will soon be at the bottom)
Bend - A modern text editor
Richard A. Posner: Just Friends The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
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Israeli troops south of border when Lebanon fired, U.N. says - CNN.com showed Israeli forces were on their own side of the border when Lebanese troops opened fire,
FCH agrees to discuss legalization of drugs - El Universal - Mexico President Felipe Calderon said the debate should be having a plurality in the country (28,000 deaths later in the failed REpublican war on drugs)
WikiLeaks in Baghdad | The Nation "They'll take you in a room, close the door and knock you around if they didn't like your answer," says former Army Spc. Ray Corcoles, who deployed with Stieber. (collateral murder: kill civilians or get beat up)
The Associated Press: AP IMPACT: Before the CIA, there was the Pond
Israel to US: Stop Arming Lebanon | Firedoglake - Israel gets $2.2 billion a year in US military aid.”
Mayor Bloomberg Stands Up For Mosque
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Ground Zero Mosque Vote - WSJ.com
YouTube - Mayor Bloomberg Discusses the Landmarks Preservation Commission Vote On 45-47 Park Place
Mosque Controversy Reveals a Lot About the Republican Party | The Progressive - The Republican Party is fast degenerating into identity politics of the worst sort.
Ground Zero Mosque Imam’s Muslim Brotherhood Friends - The Corner - National Review Online We permit thousands of mosques in our country, and Islam is not a religion (Andy McCarthy, Republican, unclear on the concept of "religion")
Islam on My Side » Muslims after 9/11 “I was really hassled perhaps because of my name being Khan. These guys just wouldn’t let me through.” Khan, who is a Muslim, also called the incident “absolutely uncalled for” and pointed out that he was only released after he contacted the Indian Consulate (TSA racist thugs at work)
The Oil Drum | BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Start of the Static Kill - and Open Thread
Oil in Gulf Poses Only Slight Risk, New U.S. Report Says - NYTimes.com
BBC News - BP says 'static kill' to stop oil leak was successful
Susan Buchanan: Feds to Add Dispersant Test to Seafood Safety Tools
BP Confirms That Thousands Of Claims Decisions Will Be Deferred
Graphic shows how static kill operation plugged oil well | NOLA.com
Court Overturns Prop 8; Joy For Marriage Equality | Emptywheel
Proposition 8 Overturned: Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional (will go the Ninth Circuit and then lose 5-4 in SC)
Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger et al
Prop. 8 Overturned: The Facts, Not the Law, Matter - Politics - The Atlantic (oh, those pesky facts)
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Proposition 8: Long road to the Supreme Court « - Blogs from CNN.com
Judge being gay a nonissue during Prop. 8 trial - SFGate
The Prop 8 Report
The American Nations Plan - seantevis.com (Sean Tevis and XKCD +Justin Bieber)
The Dred Scott Republicans--UPDATED | Crooks and Liars They are not just saying we need a re-examination of the fundamental idea of birthright - but a repeal of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution which includes our right to due process and equal protection. They truly do want to take us back to 1868.
Alan Keyes: Lindsey Graham's Calls To Scrap Birthright Citizenship Are Too Crazy For Me (video) | TPMDC (Keyes goes suddenly sane)
Prop C passes overwhelmingly Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance (Missouri rejects health care reform, wants to stay on the old more expensive nonworking system that maximizes corporate profit)
Open Left:: The World's Greatest Election Forecast, in the World
Dodd Presses Senate Freshmen To Back Off Effort To End Filibuster (it would look bad and Republicans angry)
Lou Dobbs Opposes GOP Push To Repeal The 14th Amendment Over Immigration (too much even for Lou "White America" Dobbs)
Bike agenda spins cities toward U.N. control, Maes warns - The Denver Post - CO Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes: ""This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms," Maes said. (bikes are communist, or something; file under Republican insanity)
HuffPost TV: Ryan Grim: "You Almost Have To Feel Sorry For Sharron Angle" (VIDEO) she wants the press to "ask the questions we want to answer, so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported."
Republican Jobs Plan: Bigger Tax Cuts For The Rich (teaparty goes wild)
State Aid Clears Senate Hurdle, GOP Votes No Even Though Bill Reduces Deficit
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect NRO Lies About Faisal Rauf. (as usual)
Stephen Colbert Calls Laura Ingraham A Racist Who Can't Write (Republicans: mainstreaming racism)
YouTube - "This Is What Hitler Did": Beck's Obsessive Nazi Analogies (projection)
Sparky predicts: Bogus wingnut scandals of the future - This Modern World - Salon.com (crazy and proud of it!)
YouTube - Ken Buck: No abortions, even in cases of rape and incest (and be a good wife to your daddy!)
Angle: Reid Agenda Is 'A Violation Of The First Commandment' | TPMDC (and America is a Christian, Bronze-Age, Nation)
Poll: 27% Of Americans Doubt Obama's Citizenship -- Including 41% of Republicans | TPMDC (41% of Republicans need anti-psychotic medication)
extend and pretend: The Obama Administration's Failed Foreclosure Program Extending the process by which homes enter foreclosure allows banks to continue carrying the loans on their books at full value, delaying loss recognition. That allows unhealthy banks to appear healthy, staving off costly bank failures (program designed to fail was never about homeowners, it was about making banks look better than they really are)
Calculated Risk: Fed Research Supports Mortgage Cram Downs (but ... then banks would have to report real numbers ... and that would make them look ... bad!)
Elizabeth Warren Freak Out, 2: Other things. « Rortybomb According to a citation count, Warren is only the third most cited scholar on bankruptcy in the country. (+number 1 and number 2 aren't -consumer- bankruptcy experts +she's for transparency which Obama hates)
Meet the 99ers: "Even McDonald's Won't Hire Me" | Poverty in America | Change.org (Republicans: let the lazy bums eat dirt)
Canada Economic Development – Economy of Canada in 2010 - Esquire - How Canada's Dollar Got Ahead, and Left America Behind (Bush+bankers)
12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive: Scientific American
Mysterious Glow from the Milky Way Decoded scientists have identified the mystifying infrared emiters as PAHs that in space are probably produced by carbon-rich, giant stars. "
Ragbir Bhathal: Aussie Alien Hunter - Royce Akers & Alex Dunbar | VBS.TV Blog
openscholar free website builder for the academic community
Should Videotaping the Police Really Be a Crime? - TIME
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect | Aging And Prisons (Republican war on some crimes is bankrupting America, especially the South)
Aging inmates burden budget in Georgia | The Augusta Chronicle they are also dealing with a wave of prisoners whose health care is the most expensive: geriatric inmates (they didn't think of that when they voted against HCR) w
Body Scan Images From Security Checkpoints Were Saved By Feds (you know, what they said they'd never/couldn't do, of course: the TSA assholes lied)
DNA evidence could prompt release of Zion man jailed for murder :: Chicago Sun-Times ("20-hour intense interrogation" or, as some might call it, torture)
Cranberry rape victim's suit revived - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (the limits of "qualified immunity")
For-Profit Colleges Mislead Students, Report Finds - NYTimes.com ("mislead" = "lie")
Anita Diamant: A Happily Bifurcated Yoga Jew: Why I Keep My Asanas and My 'Adonais' Separate - "Yoga is for emptying my head. The Jewish stuff is about filling it up." "Think of your body as an aleph," she said. (wrong)
William Andrews Clark and Huguette Clark, an American story of wealth, scandal and mystery - Business - msnbc.com
PA Mulls Teen Sexting Laws That Would Outlaw Explicit Pictures, Texts (Republican: thrown them in prison, that'll teach 'em)
BBC News - Web attack knows where you live
Apple Security Breach Gives Complete Access to Your iPhone ("Your?" + but Macs don't have viruses!!!)
The recovery disc rip-off | News | PC Pro
Official Google Blog: Update on Google Wave We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. (buried the lede on that one, didn't you)
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U.S. Congressman Calls For Execution Of Wikileaks Whistleblower Congressman Mike Rogers (R.MI) (you see, we're in a "time of war")
BBC News - Wikipedia and FBI in logo use row (you might think they are Wikipedia, or something)
F.B.I. Challenges Wikipedia Over Use of Its Seal - NYTimes.com
3 Lebanese soldiers, journalist killed in clash on Israel-Lebanon border - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
What I learned about Hugo Chávez's mental health when I visited Venezuela with Sean Penn. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine (he's insane)
Obama signs order to close Guantanamo Bay facility - CNN.com "restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war, even in dealing with terrorism." (1//22/09: he lied)
Mayor Bloomberg Delivers Teary-Eyed Defense Of Ground Zero Islamic Center
ADL's Ground Zero Mosque Opposition Prompts Pushback
The Anti-Defamation League's Ground Zero Mosque Hypocrisy - The Daily Beast The Anti-Defamation League's opposition to building a mosque at the site of the 9/11 attacks betrays its own founding principles (Abe Foxman at work: anti-defamation against Jews only league)
Seriously, Anti-Defamation League? | Attackerman : Spencer Ackerman
Ground Zero Mosque Site Denied Landmark Status
The Republican campaign against a Ground Zero mosque. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine The Republican campaign against a Ground Zero mosque.
Daily Kos: State of the Nation "To Bigotry No Sanction." Couldn't Be More Clear. (George Washington, talking about Republicans)
J Street’s Blog» Blog Archive » Statement on Cordoba House Controversy (neo-con Foxman increasingly isolated)
U.S. Puts Oil Spill Total at Nearly 5 Million Barrels - NYTimes.com
Reason Foundation - Illegal Immigrants are Paying a Lot More Taxes Than You Think ($50Bn/yr into Social Security, the program we have to cut because it costs too much +see Bernie Sanders below)
Illegal? Better if you're Irish - latimes.com There are an estimated 50,000 Irish illegal immigrants in the U.S.; 30,000 of them are thought to live in New York City.
Think Progress » McCain pledges amnesty for 50,000 illegal Irish immigrants. (they're white and they "work hard")
Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty | Mother Jones GOP Rep. Bob Inglis slams Republican demagoguery, bemoans anti-Semitic tea party conspiracy nonsense, decries Sarah Palin’s ignorance, and looks for a job. (teaparty: insanity a requirement, critical thinking is a deal-breaker)
"Tea party" activists drawn to Williamsburg and its portrayal of Founding Fathers (idiots)
Democratic Surge In Polls Is Just Noise (Dems tanking)
WashPost TV critic doubles down on his Amanpour smear as Taliban sympathizer | Media Matters for America Amanpour simply said, "We remember all those who died in war this week." And from that, Shales suggested the ABC anchor was mourning the Taliban dead? (Tom Shales wanks for the Republican war-machine)
The Facebook posts Palin doesn't want you to see. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine
Jesus' General: Mexicans Seize Branson (will Obama act? or will he cede Missouri to Mexican Muslims?)
Burn the Confederate Flag Day
Consumer Spending, Incomes Flat in June; Saving Up - CNBC
Eschaton Learn Something Useful, Losers (Geitner's NYT op-ed: no mention of jobs or foreclosures)
If You Cannot Sell Your House, You Cannot Move « The Washington Independent (your ruling elite at work)
Political economy: Look on the bright side, please | The Economist Given the choice between a party asking voters to be patient and a party promising action (however ill-defined and ill-advised) there is no choice.
James K. Galbraith Calls for Expanding Entitlement Programs - The Daily Beast While seers from Wall Street proclaim a "deficit crisis," obviously the capital markets don't take that talk seriously. (your ruling elite, etc)
America's Incredible Shrinking Safety Net - a campaign to reduce the deficit impact of further spending almost entirely through slashing the safety net. (your ruling Republican elite: you don't need no steenking safety-net) )
Stanford engineers' new solar energy conversion process could revamp solar power production
'Just Say Now': Left-Right Coalition Launches Campaign To Legalize Pot
Thirty Books Everyone Should Read Before They’re Thirty - DivineCaroline
New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say | AdGrok
Obsessive Internet Use Linked with Depression in Teens - time
Most Internet time now spent with social networks, games
Google begins rolling out multiple account sign-in
How to Get Started with Usenet in Three Simple Steps (but can you tweet on it?)
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Obama: 'Our Commitment In Iraq Is Changing' (mission accomplished, sorry about the electricity)
Where Did the Money to Rebuild Iraq Go? - Boing Boing (94% just, well ... disappeared!)
A Benchmark of Progress, Electrical Grid Fails Iraqis - NYTimes.com (not here, for sure)
The Republican campaign against a Ground Zero mosque. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine The Republican campaign against a Ground Zero mosque. (the new gay marriage)
Think Progress » Texas mosque and educational center vandalized with offensive graffiti and fire, causing $20,000 in damage.
Giuliani: The Cordoba Mosque Is A "Desecration" - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (Mayor 911 adding to the flames)
New North Korea Sanctions Target Suspected Financiers Of Nuclear-Weapons Program
Pakistan summons British envoy after Cameron's remarks - CNN.com less than a week after British Prime Minister David Cameron criticized the country's handing of terrorism.
Peres denies calling Brits anti-Semitic President had been quoted as accusing MPs of pandering to Muslims. (same old game)
Israel to expel 400 children native-born children of non-Jewish foreign workers to help safeguard the country's Jewish identity. (did he just say "racial purity?")
Dutch troops withdraw from Afghanistan
BBC News - In pictures: Famine-beating farming in Niger
Key WikiLeaks Figure Detained, Phones Seized by US COil Spill Legislation Passes House - "In typical Democrat fashion, this bill overtaxes, over-regulates, and costs American jobs" (said Republicans, who want American taxpayers to underwrite out-of-control oil companies)
Waters That Look Clear of Oil Can Be Deceiving | 13WMAZ.com | Macon, GA (what oil?)
Feds Dramatically Increase Oil Spill Estimate, Making BP's The Worst Oil Accident In History
Gulf Dead Zone The Size Of Massachusetts
AP: High court trims Miranda warning rights bit by bit
Miranda Rights Trimmed Down By Supreme Court You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you're remaining silent. (+short shelf-life on your non-right right))
WashPost TV critic smears ABC's Amanpour as possible Taliban sympathizer | Media Matters for America Post critic Tom Shales can't stand Christiane Amanpour and has what is now officially a creepy obsession with belittling her work (Shales is a wanker and a sick neocon puppy)
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Graham fears left, right in ‘unholy alliance’ on Afghanistan « - Blogs from CNN.com
Arizona was once tolerant of illegal immigrants. What happened? - latimes.com Analysts suggest it was a perfect storm of demographic shifts, a scary criminal element, the recession and a new governor (Republican scare-mongering and the new "Western Strategy")
Virginia Health Care Reform Lawsuit, First Before A Judge, Clears Legal Hurdle (lazy bums shouldn't have health care)
Jon Kyl Backs Republican 14th-Amendment Repeal Effort To Deny Citizenship To Immigrants' Children (Republicans going all full-blown race wars)
Wash. Post hides the holes in Rep. Ryan's proposed budget | Media Matters for America
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - RNC cancels Breitbart fundraiser « - Blogs from CNN.com (just temporary)
Reid expected to table Medicaid extension - The Hill's Healthwatch (or, Repubicans hate jobs)
Wyoming and Mississippi Labeled Most Conservative States - Newsweek
Abreast of the Market: Big Investors Fear Deflation - WSJ.com Bill Gross Among Those Bracing for Possible Decline in Prices: 'It's Happening'
Cantor Admits Bush Tax Cuts Will Add To Deficits | TPMDC (deficits that make us rich are fine)
Op-Ed Columnist - Defining Prosperity Down - NYTimes.com last week Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, argued that the Fed bears no responsibility for the economy’s weakness, which he attributed to business uncertainty about future regulations — a view that’s popular in conservative circles, but completely at odds with all the actual evidence (they were worried Americans would elect a socialist Pres, Greenspan and Bush had nothing to do with it)
'Double Dippers' could enable what they fear - Politics - msnbc.com Politicians, economists who see back-to-back recessions are vocal minority (they're lookin' at you, Paul: it's all your fault)
Few in U.S. move for new jobs, fueling fear the economy might get stuck, too (no jobs, no equity, no health insurance: just like our rulers planned)
Cash-Strapped States Pushing Back Retirement Ages For Workers (new Republican plan: work 'til you die)
Intuit Still Lobbying Hard To Stop Governments From Making It Easy To File Taxes | Techdirt
Incoming! The Sun Unleashes CME at Earth : Discovery News (will impact Earth on 8/3)
Nasa scientists braced for 'solar tsunami' to hit earth - Telegraph The earth could be hit by a wave of violent space weather as early as Tuesday after a massive explosion of the sun, scientists have warned.
Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter : NPR
Cooking Up Bigger Brains: Scientific American Our hominid ancestors could never have eaten enough raw food to support our large, calorie-hungry brains, Richard Wrangham claims. The secret to our evolution, he says, is cooking
Review: Feast by Martin Jones | Books | The Guardian Tom Jaine whets his appetite with Feast, Martin Jones's social and evolutionary history of our eating habits
Undersea river discovered flowing on sea bed - Telegraph Massive underwater rivers that flow along the bottom of the oceans have been discovered by scientists.
Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts - CSMonitor.com The research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys.
Scientopia (the new science blogging site)
Back in the Saddle « Brian Switek New York Times writer Virginia Heffernan on the recent Pepsi-induced exodus from ScienceBlogs entitled "Unnatural Science." (really stupid and unconsciously-biased Virginia "I've never heard of climate denialism" Heffernan says a lot about the NYT +""I was nonplussed by the high dudgeon of the so-called SciBlings")
Two Sick Boys and a Deadly Medical Mystery
Putting "One Medicine" into action : Worms and Germs Blog we are not a population of people living with dogs, cats, horses etc. - we are a population of animals.
Clinical Trial Results Demonstrate Copper Reduces MRSA & VRE In Hospital Rooms
Huge rise in 11-year-olds on the pill - Telegraph The number of 11 and 12-year-old girls prescribed the pill by a family doctor has soared five-fold in the past decade, according to figures.
Forecast Weather Without Gadgets [infograph] | GeekFill
Affirmative Action Ban Upheld By California Supreme Court
Sidney Harman Buys Newsweek Harman's wife is California congresswoman Jane Harman.(he's 91)
Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age - NYTimes.com (ctl-c/ctl-v, done!)
All Creative Work Is Derivative (Minute Meme #2) | QuestionCopyright.org
Are Cameras the New Guns? | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty
Goodbye to All This: On Leaving True/Slant - Mark Dery - Doom Patrol: Annals of Our Age - True/Slant - "chief product officers" and "a turkey baster for injecting content into the user’s brain"
Android may now be largest smartphone platform in US | Electronista
Apple blocks Time, others from running iPad subscriptions | MacNN (Jobs wants his Apple-tax)
FOSS Patents: Western civilization runs on the mainframe
Apple starts patenting mobile app ideas » Unwired View
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Afghans protest civilian deaths, American presence and NATO bombardments
Targeted Killing Is New U.S. Focus in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com (just kill everyone who wants us to leave, then we can leave)
Op-Ed Columnist - Kiss This War Goodbye - NYTimes.com
Cordoba House - New York City | Cordoba
Statement On Islamic Community Center Near Ground Zero (and what about the Muslims who died at Ground Zero? What about their pain?)
Crossword Bebop Archives: How Many Muslims Died In The 9/11 Attacks? A Few More Found...
Jewish Group Opposes Muslim Center Near Ground Zero - NYTimes.com (but Abe Foxman and the ADL have joined forces with Sarah Palin against this un-Amercian travesty - "an influential Jewish organization")
Paladino for the People : About Carl - "As Governor of New York, I'll stop the Ground Zero Mosque with eminent domain."
YouTube - Distance From Ground Zero to Cordoba House (45 Park Place)
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Polls, Reporting on "Ground Zero Mosque" May Mislead
On Faith Panelists Blog: Land of the free, home of the mosque near Ground Zero - Valerie Elverton Dixon
An Accurate Look at Timothy McVeigh's Beliefs on EthicsDaily.com (demolish all chruches in OK City)
Attention Bigots: There Is Already a Mosque Near the WTC Site
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: A Street-Level View of the "Ground Zero Mosque"
58% in New York Oppose Mosque Near Ground Zero - Rasmussen Reports™ (poll from you know who)
Polls, Reporting on "Ground Zero Mosque" May Mislead
NYC - Islamic Center Would Not Be ‘at’ Ground Zero - NYTimes.com
Interfaith Alliance Expresses Disappointment in ADL Statement on Islamic Center
Bad for the Jews - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Daily Kos: Those great patriotic Republicans who have been more than happy to use 9/11 victims and heroes as political props for years but when it comes time to do something for them, obstruction is more important.
Teaparty Jesus weighs in on the mosque
Temecula mosque proposal targeted in pending protest :: The Valley News (freedom of religion for Christians only)
ADL local leader fired on Armenian issue - The Boston Globe (ADL's sordid history)
Fire Foxman | Jewcy.com Denying the Armenian Genocide should be the last atrocity perpetrated by the ADL chief.
Tea Party Caucus members endorse Israeli attack on Iran | The Cable
Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 Country Narratives -- Countries N Through Z
Human Trafficking In The U.S.: One Woman's Story : NPR
How Avi Weiss’s Ordainment of the First Woman in Orthodox Judaism Sparked an Outrage -- New York Magazine When Avi Weiss ordained the first woman in American Orthodox Judaism, he didn’t spark the outrage some were expecting. Then he tried again.
Hullabaloo: digby: It's As If She Had No History At All - Sherrod’s rich and tragic 62 years makes it all the more embarrassing for Obama. Her father was murdered in 1965 by white men who were never indicted. (our Black Pres needs to pay attention during Black history month)
The American Conservative » Karl Rove Strikes Back
'This Week' Transcript: Pelosi and Gates - ABC News
Whiskey Fire: Hey, That's Our Word (the "mongrel" controversy cooked up by rightwingers: they forgot the white supremecy part)
Paul Craig Roberts: Let Them Eat Cake Chelsea's Wedding
Op-Ed Contributor - Four Deformations of the Apocalypse - NYTimes.com IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing (Republican David Stockman)
Krugman - The Third Depression - NYTimes.com (Republicans continue their world jihad)
FT.com / Reportage - The crisis of middle-class America (Republicans killed the middle class)
Matthew Yglesias » Dallas Fed Pushing Zero Inflation Agenda the view that the Federal Reserve should deliberately prolong economic downturns in order to ratchet the inflation rate down to ever-lower levels. It’s a crazy idea (legacy of the Chicago School of Randian Stupidity)
Memory's master switch: Molecular power behind memory discovered The key is GABA (?-Aminobutyric acid), a natural molecule that occurs in the brain
Guest Blog: Of two minds: Listener brain patterns mirror those of the speaker Uri Hasson, can project her own brain activity onto another person, forcing the person's neural activity to closely mirror that in her own brain. The process is otherwise known as speech.
Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New Yorker What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?
Potter County library faced protests over gay documentary | PennLive.com (teaparty homophopes and liars)
Glenn Beck and the Oakland shooter
Glenn Beck Seizes On Bell Salaries - Los Angeles News - The Informer
Talk To Action | Debunking "Beck U" -- Faith 102 with "Professor" David Barton (stupid or liars or stupid liars? you decide)
The Great Textbook War - WVPubcast.org Charleston native Trey Kay examines the 1974 textbook controversy in the radio documentary, “The Great Textbook War.” (people have different opinions on the shape of the earth +Heritage Foundation for lies and stupidity)
Sticky Business: The Ten Most Humid Cities in America - DivineCaroline
Cape Cod Shark Sightings: Another Great White Seen Off The Beach
Snapshots | Leaping Loon
Modesty Survey :: Main (1600 Christian/Taliban boys tell girls what to wear: no calves, try a burka!)
Guys on Immodesty, Lust, and the Violence of Women’s Bodies » Sociological Images
Starbucks Used Social Media to Get One Million to Stores in One Day
An Introduction to Cookies | Nettuts+
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