Friday isn't the weekend anymore

fools leave too soon. built to fill roles and fall standing alone again distant and dissatisfied. these four years and how we say goodbye to these four years. it's a long goodbye with mixed emotions. just fragments of another life. well i'm not dead...yet (but the regrets are killing me).

Death special: How does it feel to die (in different ways -- like beheading, drowning, etc.) (newscientist.com)

Stand-off between pro-torture CIA chief and anti-torture CIA Inspector General to be refereed by notorious Bush crony. (tpmmuckraker.com)


Most American political activists keep their money at banks financing the activities they protest. But don't try pointing that out to them as you'll get nothing but a blank stare. (commonground.ca)

Shelling out: the origins of money (szabo.best.vwh.net)

Unprecedented: CIA Chief Launches Probe Of CIA Watchdog - AP Watchdog Was Investigating Detention, Interrogation Programs (nytimes.com)

Washington Post to Paul: "Are you too angry to be president"; Paul: "I certainly don't want to come across angry ... although I do get pretty annoyed when I see blatant abuse of the rule of law and blatant ignoring of the Constitution and that is annoying because I see the republic fading away" (newsandpolicy.com)

First US Soldiers On Scene Say Blackwater Fired On Fleeing Iraqis (washingtonpost.com)

Audience disgusted by Lynn Cheney on the Daily Show (reuters.com)

Americans Don't Believe in the American Dream. ( More and more working Americans are realizing that the game is rigged against them.) (alternet.org)

The United States is working on a multi-billion-dollar plan to depopulate vast swaths of coastline along the Gulf of Mexico (guardian.co.uk)

Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize (nobelprize.org)

You can kill a cop if he's trying to arrest you without justification: U.S. Supreme Court (caselaw.lp.findlaw.com)

The city of Atlanta has 121 days worth of water in it's reservoirs. There is no alternative plan in place to supply residents with water when they dry up. (wsbtv.com)

Insanely cool interactive periodic table. (dayah.com)

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 -- the scariest list in recent memory (fwweekly.com)

Banks Earned $19 Billion From Overdraft Fees This Year (consumerist.com)

Jenna Bush: "It's Not Even A Practical Question" To Ask Why I'm Not In Iraq (huffingtonpost.com)

Conservative National Review (generally hostile to Paul's candidacy): "I attended and spoke at the Second Amendment Foundation’s annual Gun Rights Policy Conference ...What I saw and heard there changed my mind about the viability of Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy, Paul is going to far outperform the expectations laid out for him" (newsandpolicy.com)

Human behavior linked to spontaneous brain activity (arstechnica.com)

Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a "disaster" for U.S (reuters.com)

What can animal can survive being boiled, frozen and even in space...it's a water bear of course. [PICS] (darkroastedblend.com)

M65 Recoiless Nuclear Rifle. Yes, the NUCLEAR rifle, it is real. (Youtube video) (youtube.com)

The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World (cracked.com)

Fucking brilliant article on the linguistic perspective of swearing (tnr.com)

Yet another massive frozen beef recall, yet the story doesn't appear on the front page of any major news source. I guess when China's not involved nobody cares about tainted food. (foxnews.com)

The Truth About Hunter S. Thompson (cnn.com)

A Meditation On Sitting In A White Room And What It All Means. (avanoo.wordpress.com)

Do Modern Women Want a Beta Male? (women.timesonline.co.uk)

In people with low-self esteem, rejection triggers a 'fight or flight response' (scientistlive.com)

Thursday's a boat show

Hello. What a miserable and melancholia day and week this most likely will be. Drinking is no man's friend and quite possibly could only bring problems. There is only one out there that delights me, but then she leaves me. They mustn't mind, they must let me go to find a site for my retire. Will this war capture your heart or more; and carry you down the shore?


Insect Robot Spies Spotted at Political Rallies (washingtonpost.com)

Jimmy Carter: I Don't Think It. I Know It Certainly. The Bush Administration Tortures. (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)

Giuliani: Worse Than Bush (rollingstone.com)

Our Drinkable Water Supply Is Vanishing: Thanks to global warming, pollution, population growth, and privatization, we are teetering on the edge of a global crisis. (alternet.org)

Pelosi on the 1st Amendment and Protesters: "And if they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering. But because they have 'Impeach Bush' across their chest, it’s the First Amendment..." (weblogs.baltimoresun.com)

Breaking: The State Department may phase out or limit the use of private security guards in Iraq, which could mean canceling Blackwater USA's contract or awarding it to another company in line with an Iraqi government demand, The Associated Press has learned. (news.yahoo.com)

The most powerful microscope in the world has recorded the highest-resolution images ever seen of individual atoms (primidi.com)

European Parliamentary Assembly officially opposes Creationism and intelligent design. Props for Europe! (assembly.coe.int)

"Same team": Both Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich have their unpopular views, but when it comes down to righting the wrongs of the Bush administration, they would do what's right. (en.wikipedia.org)

Only now, the full horror of Burmese junta's repression of monks emerges (news.independent.co.uk)

Kucinich Warns Democrats That if They Don't Use their Congressional Majority to Force Bush to Immediately Withdraw US Troops From Iraq "then they're just as responsible as the President for continuing this illegal and immoral war" (newsandpolicy.com)

Breaking: Democrats might just have some guts after all - Presidential wire-tapping blocked, Congress refuses to grant immunity to telcos (news.yahoo.com)

Ron Paul: "I am also the prime sponsor of HR 300, which would negate the effect of Roe v Wade by removing the ability of federal courts to interfere with state legislation to protect life. This is a practical, direct approach to ending federal court tyranny which threatens our constitutional republic and has caused the deaths of 45 million of the unborn." (ronpaul2008.com)

On Thursday the Times reported that the Bush administration had conspired to circumvent several laws—domestic and international—and provide their henchmen with the legal cover to perpetuate barbaric interrogation techniques. The rest of the mainstream media hardly picked up on the story, and average Americans went about their lives. Where was the outrage? (theseminal.com)

In America, they would have sent in Homeland Security, armed to the teeth, prepared to kill everybody. But in Canada, they sent in a firefighter, an electrician, an admistrative employee and just two policmen. (breitbart.com)

Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who chairs the Senate committee responsible for government oversight, says he has no plans to investigate Blackwater and other Iraq war contractors accused of potentially criminal wrongdoing. (huffingtonpost.com)

Notice a trend: Whenever a Republican gets into office, they charge the national credit card. Big time. They borrow, and borrow, and borrow........... (huffingtonpost.com)

Majority of GOP candidates: The President possessed the the authority to attack Iran, if it posed an imminent threat, without Congressional approval. Ron Paul: "Why don't we just open up the Constitution and read it! This is just war propaganda." (thenation.com)

Bush hands brother Jeb's company questionable $27 mill Katrina pump contract (chron.com)

Remember that Gulfstream II that crashed in the Yucatan two weeks ago? It has real tail numbers (N987SA), was owned by a real company (Donna Blue Aircraft Inc), with real (empty) offices. With six unmarked police cars parked out front. (madcowprod.com)

"Dear Abbey" says: "There should be gay marriage. I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em," (examiner.com)

we now arrest one American every 38 seconds on marijuana charges. And we do so at a staggering cost in law enforcement expenses, lost tax revenues, and staggering profits for criminal gangs. (alternet.org)

Ron Paul Pushes Bill (Social Security Preservation Act, HR 219) to Ensure Social Security "Trust Fund" Has Real Assets and to Force Government to Make Honest Accounting on the Fund (newsandpolicy.com)

The Evolution of Language: What Songbirds, Dancing, and Knot-tying Can Tell Us About Why We Speak. (seedmagazine.com)

Desmond Morris: The Clitoris, A-Spot, G-Spot and U-Spot (heretical.com)

Tuesday's closure

The final frontier. The reconciling foreclosure. The depressing fate of us all lies in the hands of our forefathers. May peace come on to all of you, for there will be no closure for this pilgrim. I am forever at your fate's mercy. May he who created us forgive me for my sins, and reclaim the peace within.


Hard for me to believe the number of people drawing parallels, direct or indirect, between the Third Reich and George W. Bush’s America (blogs.iht.com)

Once upon a time, it was the United States that urged all nations to obey the letter and the spirit of international treaties and protect human rights and liberties. American leaders denounced secret prisons where people were held without charges, tortured and killed. And the people in much of the world, if not their governments, respected the United States for its values. (nytimes.com)

Should Che Guevara be an icon? (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)

Rockefellers in Their Own Words (infowars.com)

Private intelligence company notifies the Bush administration in advance of an al-Qaeda information release, on condition it be kept private. Bush administration leaks it to the media within hours. Al-Qaeda's internet communications system goes dark. "Years" of intelligence work "are now ineffective and worthless" (washingtonpost.com)

How often do television reporters break stories these days? Almost never. Most of them are actors reading the news pretending to be real reporters. (opednews.com)

72% US Soldiers In Iraq Think US Should Pull Within A Year... (huffingtonpost.com)

WWII veteran Nazi interrogators denounced Bush & His Torture techniques (crooksandliars.com)

Fear of giving offence is killing our culture (timesonline.co.uk)

Intelligent conversational grey parrot passes away. His last words: "You be good. I love you." (ap.google.com)

"Buddhism Is Not Religion. Buddhism Is Science Of Mind." (BBC Documentary) (filmtalks.socialka.net)

Due to glacial acceleration, the rise of sea levels can no longer be discussed in centuries: it should be decades or perhaps even single years. (agonist.org)

Hey Giuliani, 9/11 is Over! (nytimes.com)

Iraq wants Blackwater to pay $136 million compensation (reuters.com)

Newfound ancient African megadroughts may have driven the evolution of humans and fishes (physorg.com)

Marijuana and the Brain: How do people who consume enormous quantities of marijuana suffer from few or no obvious ill effects? The human body places natural limits on the effects of THC (marijuanalibrary.org)

Levitron - The Amazing Anti-Gravity Top Videos (sciencetrack.blogspot.com)

Little Known Ways To Drastically Improve Your Learning (ririanproject.com)

Little Known Ways To Drastically Improve Your Learning (ririanproject.com)

Chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. Fresh cut grass. Your spouse's natural body odor. Smells can invoke memories, sexually arouse people, or even drive you mad. (reuters.com)

Sex in space hasn't happened yet. But someone, sometime soon, has to inaugurate it. in the interests of science - and survival (technology.timesonline.co.uk)

MIT Students Generate Electricity from Bacteria and Grass Clippings (dailytech.com)

Blowing Up the Sears Tower for Fun and Profit (huffingtonpost.com)

Why Ron Paul & Mike Gravel are "risking" their lives to FIGHT for the People (wakeupfromyourslumber.com)

Bush’s torturers follow where the Nazis led (timesonline.co.uk)

General Petraeus says Iran stoking Iraq violence. The drums of war slowly grow louder. (washingtonpost.com)

Man's circumnavigates globe using only human power. His journey "included hiking, kayaking and hiking." (news.yahoo.com)

Follow in 385,000 yr-old human footsteps (reuters.com)

Absolutely horrific: "They are done to destroy women." (nytimes.com)

"It was 115 years from Columbus to the Jamestown colony. It will take about that same span of time for a new generation -- ours is too bound to Earth -- to go out and not look back." (townhall.com)

How to isolate and extract DNA using nothing but the stuff in your kitchen (null-hypothesis.co.uk)

Reporter smacks man with shovel to demonstrate new shock absorbing material [Video] (youtube.com)

17 year old Bianca Passarge dances on wine bottles (beautiful vintage PIC) (news.bbc.co.uk)