Monday, May 19, 2008

Monday for a start

Up and early today, folks. Here's some blogcereal


Olberman Lets Loose an epic smackdown on Bush [Video] [politics] (theofftopic.com)

Obama : "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," (afp.google.com)

McCain’s YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare [politics] (humanrightsamerica.wordpress.com)

Obama ignites crowd of 75,000 people in Portland: largest turnout yet. [politics] (blog.washingtonpost.com)

Chris Matthews completely destroys a right-wing talk show host (hilarious) [politics] (video.msn.com)

Chart of who "owns" the Federal Reserve [business] (newsfromthewest.blogspot.com)

China Perfecting Police State - Naomi Klein [worldnews] (rollingstone.com)

Rumsfeld On Tape: Terror Attack Could Restore Neo-Con Agenda (prisonplanet.com)

Evidence that Bush lied about giving up golf [politics] (washingtonpost.com)

Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed talking with Iran the very same day Bush attacked Obama for suggesting the exact same thing. [politics] (donklephant.com)

First President In History To Veto Benefits For Vets (waronyou.com)

The U.S. Government Database and Tracking System for Eight Million Americans Who Have Been Designated as Threats to National Security (cryptogon.com)

Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries. [politics] (corporations.org)

Highest birth rate in Europe + highest divorce rate + highest percentage of women working outside the home = the best country in the world in which to live. (guardian.co.uk)

15 Biotech Breakthroughs That Will Eventually Affect Your Life [science] (technutnews.com)

The Presidency of Al Gore, 2001-2009 [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Government economic data wildly at odds with reality~The inflation tax is the great thief of the middle class. [Economics] (marketoracle.co.uk)

Lori Drew Indicted On Federal Charges For Her MySpace "Joke" That Lead To A 13 Year Old Committing Suicide [technology] (howtosplitanatom.com)

Bisphenol A Controversy - A Deadly Illusion? [science] (pacebutler.com)

The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of Sexual Pleasure (sciam.com)

Heinz is breeding sweeter tomatoes to protect against the rising cost of corn syrup [science] (npr.org)

Bush's Grandfather arranged loans for Hitler and profited from concentration camp slave labor! [politics] (tinyurl.com)

Ron Paul publicly names Neocons [politics] (liveleak.com)

18 Of The Most Insane Journeys In Recent History [offbeat] (otbeach.com)

The war is going to end because it is politically unsustainable. Want Proof? Yesterday, about 100 House Republicans refused to vote for more war funding. [worldnews] (openleft.com)

Wildlife populations 'plummeting': Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970. [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

"Environmentalists" opposing off-shore MA windfarm turns out to be front for oil/coal/mineral companies [politics] (boston.com)

Q: Do we eat much corn in the United States? A: Holy fuck yes (graphics8.nytimes.com)

It Isn't Morning in America Anymore -- It's Dusk on Planet Earth [environment] (alternet.org)

How Pot Became Demonized: the Fine Line Between Good Medicine and 'Dangerous Drugs' [politics] (alternet.org)

My experiment with smart drugs [science] (johannhari.com)

The best argument I've seen for stem cell research. [video] [science] (youtube.com)

Billionaire Boone Pickens said today he's buying 667 wind turbines from General Electric to start what he expects will be the world's largest wind energy project in the Texas Panhandle. [business] (chron.com)

California Supreme Court OVERTURNS gay marriage ban (chicagotribune.com)

Japan, a country where recycling is practically a civic duty and saving energy – a national obsession [environment] (ibnlive.com)

Why guitar players spend half their time tuning and the other half playing out of tune: a rough overview of the physics of guitar tuning [Music] (ask-a-luthier.com)

15 Infamous Top Secret Bases & Compounds From Around The World [offbeat] (otbeach.com)

Anyone seen Bob? (Video) [videos] (youtube.com)

Free camera crew: band makes video performing in front of 80 of London's 13 million CCTV cameras, then requesting the footage via the Data Protection Act. [videos] (youtube.com)

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