Friday the Holiday

Hello, and welcome. This will be the last post before the holiday. At 5 o'clock tonight I will be a free man for the rest of the year. A long needed vacation- See you all in the new year!!


An incredibly long list of Bush administration scandals. This is painfully enraging. (netrootsmass.net)

The List of Bush Scandals--60 Ft. Long and Growing (firedoglake.com)

"George H.W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group" according to WSJ [politics] (globalresearch.ca)

Top 10 Most Curious Stories of 2007: quirky stories, some that might not have made the headlines, but deserve attention (timesonline.co.uk)

Map of the new U.S.A., with a hole in the middle. [politics] (users.dma.ucla.edu)

Cheney, is an oil man with a direct, personal interest in the tens of billions in profits to be reaped from the oil fields of the Middle East [politics] (pww.org)

White House Headed to Court over CIA Tapes, Faces Hearing Over their Destruction [politics] (rawstory.com)

"Daily Show" and "Colbert Report" To Return In January — Without Writers (huffingtonpost.com)

The most meaningful 404 page *ever* [politics] (un-america.com)

1 in 75 chance of Asteroid hitting Mars on January 30, 2008 [science] (examiner.com)

Flying car? Terrafugia's "personal air vehicle." can take to the sky as easily as the road. It is about the size of a large SUV and features innovative folding wings [science] (blog.wired.com)

Plantic: Plastic you can eat [science] (triplepundit.com)

Red Planet Still Packs Surprises: an Active Glacier and Unusual Greenhouse Effect [science] (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

The Complexity of Credit Card Fees: How we're all being ripped off. (braintreefinancial.com)

Whole Foods computers weren't working. What'd they do? Gave away their groceries for free. (courant.com)

There is an Inexplicable Shortage of Sex [science] (overcomingbias.com)

In Islam, it is a grave SIN for a woman to be alone with a male colleague in the same room... Unless she BREASTFEEDS HIM? (islam-watch.org)

Thursday is a Fire

It's time to get out of work and celebrate the holidays~~!


Fire at Old Executive Office Building at White House (npr.org)

"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America" - Native American state of 72,000 people declares independence from the US - 'claim legal under treaties with Government' (afp.google.com)

The best indicator of how seriously this White House is involved in a political scandal may be how emphatically it refuses to comment. [politics] (washingtonpost.com)

Lets call the destruction of CIA tapes what it is: an attempt to cover-up the truth and keep damning information out of the hands of the press. [politics] (whitehouser.com)

CNN Has Joined With Fox News In Disseminating Propaganda And Betraying America [politics] (opednews.com)

The American Empire might be one of the worst kinds, because its citizens tend to view themselves as free and, hence, its coercive actions as benevolent [politics] (strike-the-root.com)

Iraqis take back the streets: Shias join Sunnis in Neighbourhood Patrols to Tackle Militants & Reunite Communities in Baghdad [politics] (guardian.co.uk)

Food prices soaring in America (money.cnn.com)

Blackwater: a summary of what Americans are paying for with their tax dollars [politics] (chycho.com)

Engineers Develop Technology To See Through Walls [science] (sciencedaily.com)

2-D Invisibility Cloak For Visible Light Created [science] (sciencedaily.com)

Goldman Sachs Shorted subprime Paper it Was Selling (nytimes.com)

Virgin or Slut: Pick One (alternet.org)

NASA - Christmas Eve is the brightest, highest-riding full moon until the year 2023. [science] (science.nasa.gov)

Mars had large oceans. [science] (msnbc.msn.com)

It's Time to Legalize Drugs: Rhetoric Should Not be Driving Drug Policy. Legalization would strip addiction down to what it really is: a health issue. [politics] (alternet.org)

Moon is younger and more Earth-like than thought [science] (space.newscientist.com)

Missing Link to Sea Mammals Found [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Man's Skin Turns Dark Blue (spluch.blogspot.com)

Li-ion battery capacity increased 10x by Stanford researchers with nano-wire based anode: Paves way for electric cars & 20-hour laptop batteries (sciencedaily.com)

Wednesday is back to normal

You heard it here first folks, no more lyrics. Back to the regular boring greeting, or long winded verbal assult on a certain topic. As for today, a simple greeting will do just fine. It's good to be back in the saddle again. (I really wish that quote didn't relate to Steven Tyler...)



White House confirms the following records destroyed in the 3rd floor fire: [politics] (dailykos.com)

Is Bush Sr. Admitting That His Son Screwed-Up America? [politics] (opednews.com)

Ron Paul slams Huckabee's use of the cross in TV ad: 'When fascism comes it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross'... [politics] (newsandpolicy.com)

How Internet Activism Stopped Telecom Immunity - Including a "Thank You" from Chris Dodd [politics] (salon.com)

Life the universe and everything - Take the time to read this amazing article. (cosmosmagazine.com)

Monsanto wants to own the DNA of the food you eat, making the seeds you buy sterile. They have taken steps in court and law to give them ownership through the twisted ideas of privatization [politics] (opednews.com)

The Filibuster Is Over…And Dodd Won! [politics] (theseminal.com)

No Primate Left Behind: Monkeys Perform Arithmetic As Well As College Students (scientificblogging.com)

American Psychiatric Association unanimously backs medical marijuana (frostfirecube.com)

Modern Uses For The Cannabis Plant (torontohemp.com)

A handful of companies control most of what we see, hear and read every day. They own our TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, cable channels, movie studios, music labels [politics] (stopbigmedia.com)

Let's not forget that Giuliani was officially blamed for 7 WTC collapse on 9/11 [politics] (presscue.com)

The size of China's economy is overestimated by some 40 percent based on most current measures, but is the world's second largest, the World Bank said Monday. [business] (news.yahoo.com)

Green tea may halve prostate cancer risk: Japanese study (news.yahoo.com)

Of Mice And Men: New Male Contraceptives Successful In Rodents And Humans (erectile.wordpress.com)

Micro spy planes on long missions will recharge by clinging to power lines (technology.newscientist.com)

Police Brutality Cases on Rise since 9/11 [politics] (truthnews.us)

Nanosolar Shipping Inexpensive Panels: Solar Now Cheaper than Coal [politics] (nytimes.com)

Chicago police ask you to report people using maps or taking notes in public [politics] (boingboing.net)

Dennis Kucinich's brother found dead. [politics] (newsnet5.com)

Mammoth tusks found with micrometeorite holes burned into them; Mammoths were blasted by a meteor that exploded above them (dsc.discovery.com)

Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research and Behavioral Modification--joint hearing before the U S Senate, 1977 transcript [politics] (scribd.com)

China passes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter (guardian.co.uk)

Mastering Your Own Mind (psychologytoday.com)

Did the laws of physics create the Universe? Or was it the other way around? (nytimes.com)

Is a New Solar Cycle Beginning? (science.nasa.gov)

Soon, humanity may face an existential shock as the current list of a dozen Jupiter-sized extra-solar planets swells to hundreds of earth-sized planets, almost identical twins of Earth (dailygalaxy.com)

Brazil Makes World’s Biggest Oil Discovery in 30 Years [reddit.com] (nextenergynews.com)

Monday is a Mountain

Climbing over your mountain baby, stuck in the alpine. Focusing on the transition, of relating to me. I've been carrying some weight now honey, over time. I'm ready to drop the baggage, but its stuck on my mind. The peak is in view, with no direct path. I'm avoiding your crevasse in fear of getting stuck. I'm edging around your lifestyle without a belay. I'm looking up your headwall, the climb is full of scree. For now all I can do is traverse your walls, hoping not to glissade. I don't want to fail you baby but your weather’s rough. I'm climbing but I feel as though I'm stuck. I just want to please you, hope I’ve got enough, love.



YOU Did It! (Over) 50,000 Signatures Calling for Immediate Cheney Impeachment Hearings Collected in 1 Day! [politics] (opednews.com)

The U.S. has become precisely the kind of surveillance state that we were always told was the hallmark of tyrannical societies (salon.com)

“What he saw, was decisive evidence that within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans’ phone usage.” [politics] (nytimes.com)

Underwater Urban Archeology: 7 Submerged Wonders of the World [PICS] [science] (yourscienceblog.blogspot.com)

Ron Paul Tea Party $$$ Now More Than The Nov 5 Money Bomb. Eight Hours Left. [politics] (ronpaulgraphs.com)

Uhh....just to let you know....Bolivia is falling apart. Literally. (cnn.com)

Some Tips for Americans Living or Visiting in London (iconocla.st)

101 things to do before you leave London - Features - London - Time Out London (timeout.com)

London's "Booze Bus" (a.k.a. "The Vomit Comet") (news.bbc.co.uk)

Inside the CIA's Notorious "Black Sites" [politics] (salon.com)

Only 6 states opposing ID cards. Welcome to 1984 America. [politics] (usatoday.com)

Electrical current can now be delivered through optical fiber [science] (spectrum.ieee.org)

'Oldest human being' dies at 116 [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

"I'm a black man turning white on television and people can see it," (usatoday.com)

Sheehan: Impeach Pelosi for collaboration with Bush administration on torture [politics] (opednews.com)

Huckabee's son did WHAT? [politics] (dailykos.com)

The Fact of Evolution (For those of you who don't know much about evolution, educate yourselves) [science] (freethoughtpedia.com)

Northern Lights energy source discovered. [science] (cnn.com)

Superseded scientific theories: just a reminder that we don't know everything yet. [science] (answers.com)

Researchers at Berlin's Humboldt University may have discovered something new in ancient amber: the oldest known carnivorous fungus [science] (spiegel.de)

The Giant Magellan Telescope - the first of a new generation of ground based telescopes that will produce images up to 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope [science] (ponderabout.com)

Superfluid helium defies gravity and passes through glass [science] (geeksaresexy.net)

Japan and US crack clone-free stem-cell technique [science] (euronews.net)

The Neurochemistry of Psychdelic Experiences [science] (sci-con.org)

Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms [science] (washingtonpost.com)

Don’t call the aliens,they might not be friendly [science] (timesonline.co.uk)

1500 (!) Sexy Album Covers (rateyourmusic.com)