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Hello, and welcome to the world. We have our democratic nominee and its NOT hill-dog.




Obama has 1,592 pledged delegates to Clinton's 1,419. There are 217 delegates remaining to be pledged. Of those 217, Clinton would need to win 196 to beat Obama, or a victory of 90 % to 10 % [politics] (afterdowningstreet.org)

Hillary Clinton: The Psycho Ex-Girlfriend of the Democratic Party (madatoms.com)

George McGovern Urges Clinton to Drop Out, Switches Endorsement to Obama [politics] (mentalmasturbator.com)

Good Sign: Hillary Clinton just canceled her morning show appearances. (politico.com)

North Carolina superdelegate says she told Clinton camp: 'I know I didn't hear you imply that my vote was for sale' [politics] (rawstory.com)

Bush-McCain Challenge: Quick quiz to see if you can tell the difference between Bush and McCain [politics] (bush-mccainchallenge.com)

Obama's flag, invisible to the naked eye, is the Jolly Roger of a politician thinking for himself. [politics] (washingtonpost.com)

Premeditated Torture is always a Capitol Offence & Bush Jr Can really be Hanged for it. (hrw.org)

FBI agents raided the Office of Special Counsel in Washington (npr.org)

Robobug goes to war: Troops to use electronic insects to spot enemy 'by end of the year' [technology] (dailymail.co.uk)

The Pentagon vs. the U.S.: How Americans Have Become Targets of Their Own Military [politics] (alternet.org)

UK government recriminalises cannabis, against expert advice [worldnews] (news.bbc.co.uk)

What are the secrets of Toyota's success? Here's one: Japanese companies get a hundred times as many suggestions from their workers as U.S. companies do. [business] (msnbc.msn.com)

Newsweek finally wakes up to the reality that "Al-Qaeda" is largely a myth designed to generate "billions for government contractors" [politics] (newsweek.com)

The RIAA is going to have to answer the charges of extortion, trespass, conspiracy, unlicensed investigation, and computer fraud and abuse [technology] (recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com)

3000 years ago, the Lapita people colonized a third of the globe - by sea - with stone-age technology - and no one knows how they did it [science] (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)

Russians to operate computers by power of thought [science] (english.pravda.ru)

Researchers Target Tumors With Tiny 'Nanoworms' [science] (sciencedaily.com)

The Worst Natural Disasters Ever [offbeat] (livescience.com)

10 natural ways to save your teeth! (featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com)

Music Reduced to Beautiful Math [science] (livescience.com)

91 Blogging Terms How Many do You know? [technology] (generalmarketingblog.com)

Awesome series of free books with *everything* you ever wanted to know about electric circuits and applications [science] (ibiblio.org)

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