Thursday is still at War

Hello, more and more war continues to arise. There will never be peace, will there.



War is unleashed in Lebanon [worldnews] (cnn.com)

Obama's credibility on the world stage is already rising: Rebel groups in Nigeria are calling for Barack Obama or Jimmy Carter to help negotiate a cease-fire with the government. [worldnews] (theseminal.com)

McCain: "I'd rather lose an election than lose a war." This line represents everything wrong with the Bush years. It says McCain is willing to win at all costs. It's more stupid cowboy bullshit. [politics] (theseminal.com)

Cindy McCain: I Will Never Release My Tax Returns [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Boos From the Crowd as Clinton Carries On [politics] (nytimes.com)

Daily Show America's Most Respected News Source: For Real [worldnews] (whatsrequiredky.com)

The Five Mistakes Clinton Made [politics] (time.com)

'NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years.', any ideas? [science] (nasa.gov)

Neocons ADMIT that "War On Terror" Is a Hoax [worldnews] (georgewashington2.blogspot.com)

S Korea Surging Ahead In The Sciences. While college becomes too expensive for Americans ninety percent of all Korean kids go on to college [science] (rense.com)

Some China firms outsourcing to USA to cut costs [business] (latimes.com)

They Stood Up to Monsanto and Won [environment] (celsias.com)

India has successfully tested a nuclear-capable missile that can hit targets deep inside China [worldnews] (afp.google.com)

Concerning the Entire World - An Excellent Case for the Next Nuremburg Trials have been Carefully Documented [politics] (texscience.org)

Scientists warn Smith over cannabis reclassification [worldnews] (guardian.co.uk)

John Hagee: deviant theology, dangerous foreign policy - "John Hagee’s end time theology transmogrifies Christianity into little more than a death cult ..." [politics] (onlinejournal.com)

The Reason Bush is squirming is because some of the Prisoners Bush Tortured Died [politics] (youtube.com)

Forget everything you've heard about airlines and CO2 emissions. The news is much worse than anyone thought. [environment] (blog.wired.com)

The September 11 television archive. Pick an hour, pick a channel, watch it as it happened [politics] (archive.org)

"Green" Banana Farming Gains Industry Appeal [environment] (news.nationalgeographic.com)

Coming very soon: $3900 turns your current car into a hybrid! [environment] (autobloggreen.com)

The Sweet Smell of Vegetable Oil in your car [environment] (celsias.com)

A 17-year-old Ottawa high school student invents way to identify and cure the flu. [science] (icantseeyou.typepad.com)

Look what came in the US mails today [offbeat] (membracid.wordpress.com)

17 Eating Habits To Avoid For a Healthy & Happy Life! [science] (healthwatchcenter.com)

Sitting straight is bad for your back. [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

UK anti-porn law passes, welcome to "Victorian britain II" [pornography] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Electromagnetic signals from cell phones can change your brainwaves and behavior. But don't break out the aluminum foil head shield just yet. [science] (sciam.com)

'Burpless' Grass Cuts Methane Gas From Cattle, May Help Reduce Global Warming [science] (sciencedaily.com)

Wednesday is a beta

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)

Behold: beta.reddit.com (beta.reddit.com)

Tuesday's melancholy?

Hello, especially to you Indiana and North Carolina. We are counting on you to knock Hill out.



Press here if you've read so much stuff online that you're drifting away from a common worldview with friends and family (self.reddit.com)

Waterboarding uncle Sam. [Pic] (bartcop.com)

Indiana "a whopping 1,134,427 voter registrations have been cancelled" [politics] (democraticunderground.com)

Momentum: Obama has picked up more than six times the number of supers Clinton has since super tuesday (88 to 13) [politics] (firstread.msnbc.msn.com)

US Tops the List for Human Rights Violations [worldnews] (yourthreecents.com)

Cheney:"when the history is written, it'll be said that we lived in a safer country, and a more hopeful world, because George Bush was President of these United States" (businesswire.com)

Look who voted against a bill prohibiting the confiscation of firearms during emergency (senate.gov)

Clinton In 2005: 'I Agree With McCain' On Long-Term Iraq Presence [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

By the late 1920s, America's elite had found a way to defuse the dual threat of stagnating economic growth and a radicalized working class in what one consultant called "the gospel of consumption" [business] (orionmagazine.org)

Think Big Oil doesn't own the US Government? [politics] (nytimes.com)

Democrats Prepare Sell-Out on Telecom Immunity: House Leaders to Give White House a Blank Check to Spy on Americans [politics] (inteldaily.com)

South Africa lifts 13-year ban on elephant killing. Poachers Encouraged. [technology] (ap.google.com)

230 Economists, Including 4 Nobel Prize Winners, Sign a Statement Blasting Clinton and McCain Gas Tax Plan [obama] (blog.washingtonpost.com)

For decades the federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that would override the Constitution in the event of a terrorist attack [politics] (informationclearinghouse.info)

Investment Banking Will Cause The Great Depression of the 2010s [business] (kitco.com)

OptiSolar Plans on Erecting Largest Solar Farm in the World [environment] (goodcleantech.com)

The human genome is mapped - time to figure out the "Diseasome" [cool interactive graphic] [science] (nytimes.com)

More than 80 percent of the world’s population depends on rice as a staple food [environment] (sciencedaily.com)

Americans are giving their pay raises to the health care system ... it's only insurance until you actually need it, then .. poof! [politics] (nytimes.com)

Pay Monsanto or Starve - prepare to get very angry [environment] (celsias.com)

BROOD XIII: Facts about the billions of periodical cicadas now emerging from underground [science] (news.nationalgeographic.com)

Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not cut crime, says police chief. (timesonline.co.uk)

Before Moving to Europe (transitionsabroad.com)

The superhydrophobic properties of rose petals [science] (arstechnica.com)

The Price of Intelligence and why more animals aren't smarter [science] (nytimes.com)

Let your light shine on me…Spiders "talk" to potential mates using a type of light humans can’t see. [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

World Of Waste: America's Mass Consumption In Images [pics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Bacteria Eating Uranium [img] [pics] (eyeofscience.com)

LSD and Hofmann - A Psychedelic 'Problem Child' Comes Full Circle [science] (nytimes.com)

Crazy ways people are spending their stimulus checks [business] (howispentmystimulus.com)

104+ hypermiling tips for people looking to save gas and money [environment] (ecomodder.com)

Monday the cinco de mayo

Happy day.

Pay Attention, This is How They'll Sell War With Iran [politics] (dmiessler.com)

Approved in writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods even proposed blowing up a US ship, hijacking planes and killing innocent people as a false pretext for war. [worldnews] (wanttoknow.info)

Very Interesting: Interactive Graph of American Spending [business] (nytimes.com)

Shameful Days: Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal? [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Warren Buffett says worst of the credit crunch has passed for Wall Street and the Federal Reserve averted chaos by rescuing Bear Stearns [business] (bloomberg.com)

"There was a time when journalists would expose the sheer incompetence or evil of the Government, now instead they condemn comedians as irresponsible for doing just that" [worldnews] (botlbrush.com)

Would Americans be pissed off enough to do something about Iraq if they knew the invasion was intended to *raise* oil prices, not lower them? [politics] (alternet.org)

Was Hillary Clinton Wrong on the 2 Big National Security Issues of Our Time? [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Fox News Sunday - Howard Dean explains bluntly why Democrats have been avoiding Fox News [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Hillary Clinton has a Shell Oil lobbyist speaking on behalf of her gas tax plan [politics] (blogs.abcnews.com)

Investigation uncovered cases in which US soldiers wounded in Iraq are suspiciously diagnosed as having a personality disorder, then prevented from collecting benefits by the Army [worldnews] (thenation.com)

Obama proposes windfall profits tax that could cost Big Oil $15 billion a year [business] (bloomberg.com)

Shell Pulls Out of Big Wind Farm Project [business] (businessweek.com)

Biggest Worry of 2008: The Bush Administration Refuses to Turn Over Power [politics] (tencartrain.com)

McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants (and 7 Yucca mountains) costing $4 trillion [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

The All-White Elephant in the Room [politics] (nytimes.com)

They're Global Citizens. They're Hugely Rich. And They Pull the Strings. And They Have Little in Common with You. [politics] (washingtonpost.com)

CBS/NY Times: Voters Approve of Obama's handling of Wright, Now Leads McCain by 11 [politics] (dailykos.com)

U.S. Beats War Drum as Iran Dumps the Dollar [worldnews] (politicallore.com)

Under the Bush Administration's watch, according to French intelligence, Bin Laden was treated in an American hospital in Dubai for 10 days in July 2001, where he was visited by a CIA agent. (media.www.ntdaily.com)

Hitler Youth or Homeland Security High: Delaware gets first Dept. of Homeland Security charter school (ledgerdelaware.com)

FAIL (Conflict of Interest) FDA approved bisphenol A (BPA) based on research provided by the American Plastics Council [business] (scienceprogress.org)

People no longer die of tasings, instead die of "excited delirium" [politics] (azcentral.com)

Investigation uncovered cases in which US soldiers wounded in Iraq are suspiciously diagnosed as having a personality disorder, then prevented from collecting benefits by the Army [worldnews] (thenation.com)

Who Will Tell the People? - New York Times (nytimes.com)

Sustainable BioFuels - An Oxymoron? [technology] (triplepundit.com)

The oh-so innocent sounding Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007 establishes a national database of newborn DNA (capitolhillblue.com)

When countries around the world subsidize oil, everyone loses. [business] (newsweek.washingtonpost.com)

Underwater "deserts" are emerging in tropical oceans as the oxygen vanishes from seawater [environment] (telegraph.co.uk)

Solving Our Water Problems - Desalination Using Solar Thermal Power [environment] (theoildrum.com)

Just imagine how accommodating our government would be if they thought that the general population were just as dangerous, when provoked, as the very people they are telling us to be terrified of? [politics] (populistamerica.com)

Study shows no link between heavy use of marijuana and lung cancer -- can we stop wasting billions of tax dollars on possession arrests? [politics] (theseminal.com)

"Chevolution": How Che's Face Wound Up On All That Stuff... [worldnews] (salon.com)

Palm Oil and its horribly destructive impact . What do we do if we don't want to keep supporting the companies that keep doing this ? [environment] (celsias.com)

Air pollution c*ckblocks bees. [offbeat] (washingtonpost.com)

What We Know (and Hate) About Consciousness [science] (livescience.com)

Probably the most intelligent website on the internet [science] (askphilosophers.org)

New Ocean Current Discovered [science] (sciencedaily.com)

Alcohol & Tobacco worse than Marijuana and Ecstacy (lolegag.com)

10 Things Your Airline Won't Tell You [business] (finance.yahoo.com)

Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art (discovermagazine.com)

Thankful for her doggedness, the ever righteous users of the web aggregator site Reddit decided to send her over $3,000 worth of flowers [politics] (blogs.independent.co.uk)