Wednesday before Europe!

The time is coming. I'm leaving tomorrow for my european vacation with my baby. This will be the last post for awhile, and I will leav you with the good words of pres. Obama



Obama Speech: A More Perfect Union [politics] (youtube.com)

Obama Speech In Full: A More Perfect Union [politics] (drudgereport.com)

Obama's speech will test our collective maturity level. He took the stage and essentially said: "It's time to sit down and have an adult conversation about race in America." [politics] (ablogistan.com)

New York Times Editorial: Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage (NYT says Obama is like Lincoln, FDR, and JFK in times of crises). [politics] (nytimes.com)

10 candidates for Congress launched a plan to withdraw from Iraq now, end warrantless wiretapping, & make sure this never happens again. They are sticking their necks out. They deserve our support. [politics] (theseminal.com)

JPMorgan buying a dying company to help curb a recession? Sounds really familiar... [business] (en.wikipedia.org)

France calls for a boycott of the Olympics ceremony over Tibet [worldnews] (iht.com)

Pentagon's cyborg insects all grown up: One step closer to zero privacy [science] (blog.wired.com)

"America’s wars against Afghanistan and Iraq have been red ink wars financed by foreigners...who purchase the US Treasury bonds that the US government issues to finance its red ink budgets" [politics] (informationclearinghouse.info)

This latest assault on the integrity of the American way of life can only best be described as a conspiracy by the Banking, Insurance and Mortgage Industry to defraud the American people. [politics] (populistamerica.com)

New Hampshire House Approves Bill To Decriminalize Pot [politics] (wmur.com)

Cheney is STILL linking Iraq war with 9/11 [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Numerous Countries Have Recently Dropped The Dollar as Their Reserve Currency [politics] (georgewashington.blogspot.com)

Federal Reserve Cuts Federal Funds Rate by 75 Basis Points, from 3.00% to 2.25%; 1% Drop was Expected [business] (hosted.ap.org)

Obama believes that Americans want to engage an elevated and more noble type of politics than the depressing garbage spewed by Rush Limbaugh and Fox News - Glenn Greenwald [politics] (salon.com)

Legalization! It is estimated that the legalization of marijuana in the U.S. would lead to a $7.7 billion drop in law enforcement costs and generate $6.2 billion in tax revenue [politics] (babeled.com)

"Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries..." [business] (washingtonpost.com

Top 10 Outdoor Survival Tools [geek] (blog.wired.com)

Former Head of the NSA: Al Qaeda WANTS US to Attack Iran [politics] (thepeoplespeakradio.net)

Can quantum antiferromagnets reveal secrets of bosonic supersolids? [science] (physorg.com)

The Big Organic Questions - What Is Organic Food And Is My Food Really Organic? [science] (scientificblogging.com)

Four Online Telescopes [science] (wired.com)

Baby sand dollars clone themselves when they sense danger. [science] (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

Games Girls Play [happy] (forbes.com)

Tesla Motors Starts 'Regular Production' of Electric Roadster [environment] (treehugger.com)

Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing [science] (newsvine.com)

The downside of a good idea (eurekalert.org)

The Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org)

Time Travel and Paradoxes -- Interesting Discussion (plato.stanford.edu)

Quantum-Dot Leap: Tapping tiny crystals' inexplicable light-harvesting talent (for those interested in learning about nano-photovaltics) [science] (sciencenews.org)

History has shown that all empires eventually crumble under a worthless currency and with an exhausted military [politics] (house.gov)

The Story of Stuff. The hidden environmental and social costs in consumer purchases. [environment] (thestoryofstuff.com)

Long-Distance Wi-Fi - Intel has found a way to stretch a Wi-Fi signal from one antenna to another located more than 60 miles away. [technology] (technologyreview.com)

Now CCTVs put in UK schools to spy on teachers [worldnews] (telegraph.co.uk)

Disfigured woman loses fight to die [worldnews] (telegraph.co.uk)

Air-Powered Car Coming to U.S. in 2009 to 2010 at Sub-$18,000, Could Hit 1000-Mile Range [science] (popularmechanics.com)

10 Deadliest Legal Drugs [science] (health.msn.com)