Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Wednesday brings more Palin scandal

Hello, and welcome to the day! It's not surprising that we find Ms. Palin at the center of the gossip gauntlet. Finally the media has backed off of Obama because there is new meat in town. The RNC support has quite a comical outcome as compared to the DNC of last week . .



|US politics|

In 57 days all of our internet activity, phone calls, text messages, email and VOIP will be monitored and stored for 12 months. Here is a manifesto for how we stop it. (redditorial.com)

President Bush praised Senator John McCain on Tuesday for his strong support in sending additional troops in Iraq, saying he “helped change history,”. (ompolitics.blogspot.com)

Rough review from Time Magazine: Palin's time as mayor is defined by religion, book banning, corruption and cronyism (time.com)

New York Times SLAMS McCain on Palin Pick (nytimes.com)

McCain Goes Vindictive On CNN, Cancels Larry King Live Appearance...not happy that Tucker got questioned on specifics detailing Palin's experience..."CNN went over the line" (huffingtonpost.com)

Sarah Palin supports secession of Alaska from the US! (Goes to show McCain's inept judgement and incompetence in VP vetting....) (blogs.abcnews.com)

If Palin succeeds in "normalizing" her daughter's pregnancy, will other teen girls look at this and say what is the problem with having a baby? (alternet.org)

Palin cut off money to help teenage mothers learn to raise children on their own (voices.washingtonpost.com)

Do you think the Republicans would lay off of Obama if his 17 year-old daughter had gotten pregnant out of wedlock? (huffingtonpost.com)

Thousands rally at Ron Paul convention while the RNC sucks (cnn.com)

Ron Paulians Swarm Minneapolis! There are paleocons, radicals, Constitutionalists, left-libertarians, right-libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, classical liberals, plenty of Rothbardians (lewrockwell.com)

There is a remarkable and palpable fear abroad in this land - not a fear of terrorism, but a fear of speaking up, a fear of being labeled as "different" or as a "troublemaker." (populistamerica.com)

Rage Against the Machine show at RNC stopped by cops; march and tear gassing ensues (blogs.citypages.com)

U.S. State Department Warns Corporations: “Never confront the protesters…most of them know what their rights are” (greenisthenewred.com)

Senator Barack Obama's Speech Transcript from the DNC 8/28/08 (demconvention.com)

Obama on O Reilly Factor Thursday (billoreilly.com)



|world politics|

Message from Russia: "America needs to acknowledge the reality of the post-American world and start adapting to it." (reuters.com)

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has threatened to dissolve parliament and call elections after the collapse of the country's ruling coalition. (news.bbc.co.uk)

A girl filmed Israeli soldiers' brutality. Since then, her family has been the victim of revenge attacks. (counterpunch.org)

The Dutch have recalled a spy from Iran citing a U.S. plan to attack Iran with unmanned aircraft within a few weeks. An Israeli news source confirmed preparations for a military strike against Iran. (translate.google.com)

U.S. Is Set to Announce $1 Billion in Aid for Georgia (nytimes.com)




|environment|

Arizona gets US$3 million for algae-to-biofuel project (scitechsensation.blogspot.com)

Indiana Pipeline Project Makes Unintentional Historic Find (msnbc.msn.com)

Major ice-shelf loss for Canada (news.bbc.co.uk)

Meatpacker wants to test all its cows for mad cow. US preventing it so other meatpackers aren't forced to begin the expensive testing themselves. Just WHO is our government protecting? (usatoday.com)

Climate change could release unexpectedly huge stores of carbon dioxide from Arctic soils, which would in turn fuel a vicious circle of global warming, a new study warned on Sunday (reasonpad.com)



|science|

It turns out that about 8 percent of the human genome is made up of viruses that once attacked our ancestors. The viruses lost. What remains are the molecular equivalents of mounted trophies (washingtonpost.com)

USC's 'print-a-house' construction technology (physorg.com)

Loss Of Sleep, Even For A Single Night, Increases Inflammation In The Body (sciencedaily.com)

Stanford's autonomous helicopters teach themselves how to fly, by observing other helicopters...and they can replicate stunts too. (news-service.stanford.edu)

Bad Science: The Medicalisation of Everyday Life (badscience.net)

How Friendly Bacteria Avoids Immune Attack To Live Happily In The Gut (sciencedaily.com)




|economics|

For economies to work best, institutions must be allowed to fail. (bloomberg.com)

"This could be the worst winter ever for low-income folks," (money.cnn.com)

The great college textbook racket & five ways to spend next to no money on textbooks (robpitingolo.blogspot.com)

The poor used to work far longer hours than the rich - now it is the reverse. Why? (nytimes.com)

If home ownership is truly the American dream that so many realtors profess, then the ongoing collapse in home prices will actually be a dream come true. (contrarianprofits.com)




|fun/geek|

Busheviks (kirktoons.com)

Is this really part of Chrome? If so, I'm sticking to Firefox. (tapthehive.com)

Google Chrome: And why not? (jgroome.com)

Wanna learn music production secrets? The Music Engineer's Handbook (books.google.com)

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