Monday's back in the saddle again

Hello and welcome to the first week of fall. I hope everyone had a delightful summer, as mine was one to remember. It is now autumn, my favorite month. We watch the warmth fade and fall into despair as the cold winter wraps her fingers gently around our throat. asphyxiation occurs and we relax into a slumber all winter, only to emerge with the exuberance of life striving throughout our veins. Yes, i love poetic manifestation. Now, on with the news!


Regarding Ahmadinejad in NYC: "The issue we see with Columbia is deeper than freedom of speech but rather the inconsistency with which university faculties choose to support it. If men like Richard Bulliet and Lee Bollinger, and women like Lisa Marie Anderson cared about freedom of speech, they might want to enable those who don't have it, rather than celebrate the men who have taken it away." (corner.nationalreview.com)

Ever since 1912, when US started invading Latin American countries, from Haiti and the Dominican Republic to Nicaragua, the military showed the same ample miscalculations with the same disastrous effects (theglobalist.com)

Am I dreaming? Are we spending 720 million dollars a day, more than 250 billion dollars a year on the Iraq war at the same time the President threatens to veto an additional 5 billion a year for children's health insurance? (huffingtonpost.com)

Breaking: The Pentagon authorized snipers to "bait" suspected insurgents with detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then killing any Iraqi who picks up the items (washingtonpost.com)

Ahmadinejad arrives for New York visit-Not building a Nuke and Doesn't Want a War With U.S. (news.yahoo.com)

Since 9/11, 100,000 Americans have been murdered – as many as we lost in Vietnam, Korea and Iraq combined. Yet, not one of these murders was the work of an Islamic terrorist, and all of them, terrible as they are, did not imperil the survival of our republic. (antiwar.com)

Seriously, the Most Spectacular Anti-Establishment Quotes Ever, Pass It On. (vagabox.com)

Al Gore up for a Nobel Peace Prize (reuters.com)

COPWATCHERS: New YouTube Page for Monitoring Oppression & Brutality (VIDEOS) (youtube.com)

Chasers War on Everything - The World According to Fox News (youtube.com)

Sigmund Freud died 68 years ago today, and it remains unclear whether he was a genius, a comprehensive absurdity or something in between (nytimes.com)

The terror-sponsoring Arab states of Qatar and Dubai have now gained control of the London Stock Exchange. As if this weren’t troubling enough, Persian Gulf states are also staging a takeover of the Nordic Exchange (news.com.au)

Overwhelming Evidence of Voting Machine Failure --Why is it Not Enough? (opednews.com)

A Fed panic and a massive bailout of American banks paid for by the entire world (infowars.com)

How to Avoid Being Enslaved by Consumerism (lifehack.org)

The Dark Side of Soy..: Is America's favorite health food making us sick? (utne.com)

I found out why Kucinich is far down in the polls. (democraticunderground.com)

Dick Cheney is absolutely evil. (news.yahoo.com)

Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation. (reuters.com)

The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about (msnbc.msn.com)

1797 US treaty opening:” "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion…” (talk2action.org)

'Bridge to Nowhere' finally abandoned; Alaska pockets the $200 million in federal funds: "Thanks, suckers!" (cnn.com)

"For the first three years" he explained " you enjoy torturing people but then it wears off and someone else takes over. But most of the time you do it because you enjoy it." (news.bbc.co.uk)

Why we are where we are now. The answer says it all really. (youtube.com)

How the Falling Dollar Affects Americans (csmonitor.com)

This document that was leaked to the NY Times back in 1992, explains in detail the Neocon wet dream of world domination (crooksandliars.com)

Furniture with a Brain - Creepy or Cool? (twodeco.com)

The Giant's Causeway: Fourth greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom. [with Pics] (oomsa.com)

10 Natural Ways to Cure a Case of the Blues (pickthebrain.com)

Lack Of Sleep Doubles Risk Of Death... But So Can Too Much Sleep (sciencedaily.newscri.be)

Strange but True: Less Sleep Means More Dreams (sciam.com)