Tuesday in termoil

Hello and welcome. Today is a frustrating day along with the fact that there isn't much interesting news today. Whats up with that? Well, you decide for yourself whether or not todays news is worthwhile, I mean it is posted on my blog..



We're outsourcing our investigations of Blackwater to Blackwater. (talkingpointsmemo.com)

A single Blackwater security contractor costs the government $1,222 every day to guard U.S. civilian personnel, or $445,000 per year. That's six times the cost of getting a U.S. Army soldier to perform the same function. (tpmmuckraker.com)

Blackwater: Did we defeat the British in 1783 only so we could create our own army of brutal Hessians? (salon.com)

"Before Bush, myself and my fellow Marines got all this training on how torture enrages your enemy" "Then, after 9/11 all that talk about torture just kind of ... vanished." (reddit.com)

Why must the GOP nominate Ron Paul? Because the alternative is 8 years of President Hillary Clinton. (chattanoogan.com)

Your tax dollars at work: Senate passes mammoth 648 billion defense bill (news.yahoo.com)

Israel admits that it carried out a strike on a Syrian military installation last month. (news.bbc.co.uk)

Sixty years after they became separate nations on August 14-15, 1947, India and Pakistan — for the first time — on Monday allowed trucks to carry goods into each other’s territory marking a milestone in direct trade between the two countries. (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

A coalition of eight states — New Jersey, Maryland, Arizona, California, Illinois, New Hampshire, New York and Washington — have sued the Bush administration over SCHIP (chron.com)

If a worker is paid with gold or silver coins, his taxable income (if any) can only be the face value indicated upon the coin money paid -- i.e., $1.00 for a circulating silver dollar or $50 for a circulating gold U.S. coin. (wethepeoplefoundation.org)

Four Myths Government and Media Use to Scare Us About 'Dictators' (alternet.org)

If it should become necessary for We the People to rise up and cast out the tyrants that are suborning our nation, it shall come to pass. The real enemies of the Constitution are proving to be domestic, not foreign. (populistamerica.com)

Let's face it: When you feel you must censor the acceptance speech of a Liberty Medal recipient, something is seriously wrong. (smirkingchimp.com)

New one-way quantum computer design offers possibility of efficient optical information processing (physorg.com)

The Best Places To Travel On A Weak Dollar (foxnomad.com)

One Saturday morning in May, Eduardo Arias did something that would reverberate across six continents. He read the label on a 59-cent tube of toothpaste. (nytimes.com)

Neuroscientists examine religious fundamentalism's effects on the brain (tikkun.org)

Why Less Medical Treatment May Be Good For You (health.usnews.com)

String theory smackdown (wired.com)

The Bong that you could smoke while lying in a MRI Scanner (mindhacks.com)