tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56182512012-01-17T08:35:58.315-05:00The view from within, without, and otherwise.Robot Pirate Ninjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03642735304356170031noreply@blogger.comBlogger10911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618251.post-17108491900292479262011-02-24T20:33:00.000-05:002011-02-24T20:33:35.102-05:00

Gaddafi warns Libyans of chaos if protests continue: TVObama should just go ahead and take him out, I'm thinking.

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Nike to quit Chamber post in climate protest - Lisa Lerer -POLITICO.com#ixzz0SbUJW8Oe#ixzz0SbUJW8Oe#ixzz0SbUJW8Oe#ixzz0SbUJW8Oe: "Nikewill relinquish its spot on the board of directors at the Chamber of Commerce toprotest the business lobby’s opposition to climate-change legislation. 'We believe that on the issue of climate change the Chamber has not represented thediversity of perspective held

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Quick Update on the Iran "Situation"Posted using ShareThis

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The Illiteracy of Teabaggers and 9/12 ProtestersPosted using ShareThis

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Just another quick test post. The number of my blogs has ballooned a bit over the years, and now I'm trying to consolidate them back again.A couple cents here, a couple cents there, and I should be good to go...

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We'll begin with a bit of history regarding the Apocalypse. Note how often, throughout history, people have been wrong about the timing regarding it.Why is this imporant? Because more are predicting the American Apocalypse will come from stuff like this.TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday his country expects its uranium enrichment program to be ready by

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Let's start off with evolutionary morality.Primatologists like Frans de Waal have long argued that the roots of human morality are evident in social animals like apes and monkeys. The animals’ feelings of empathy and expectations of reciprocity are essential behaviors for mammalian group living and can be regarded as a counterpart of human morality. Marc D. Hauser, a Harvard biologist, has built

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This is a wonderful guide for talking to the irrational about the fact that we only have one planet, and should probably be kinder to her than we have been.Also, just to help you understand how fragile life can be and how quickly a "climate" can change, check out this story.Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite have spotted a stellar flare on a nearby star so powerful that, had it been from our

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NEW YORK, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. government and AT&T Inc (T.N: Quote, Profile, Research), fighting against a lawsuit accusing the telephone operator of illegally allowing the government to monitor telephones and e-mails, won the right to argue for dismissal of the case before a U.S. Appeals Court on Tuesday.In January, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a privacy advocacy group, sued

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This is what we call "rhythm".

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I have to say that I'm pretty damn happy about the election. It good to see that the age old adage still holds true; "You can fool all of the people some of the time [2004], some of the people all of the time [R], but you can't fool all of the people all of the time [2006]." Now let's get on to doing some real good.......and holding some serious investigations into what exactly these people have

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Many people have a hard time understanding why the U.S. has such a difficult time in making progess in the Middle East. It's really quite simple. Let me use two recent news stories to demonstrate.First up, the typical U.S. position.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday said it saw signs that Syria, Iran and Hezbollah militants were trying to topple the Lebanese government and

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Red wine might be VERY good for you. I always wondered why winos lived so long.--Dallas Morning News columnist Frank Shaeffer is leaving the Republicans because he is sick of their lying b.s. That b.s. is currently being used to try and retain the power they obviously don't have the responsiblity to wield.I'm a Christian, a writer, a military parent and a registered Republican. On all those

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note: mirrored on QP and HMKHO.--As something of an aperitif, I offer this Bjork video, which kottke loved so much.It's quite the story within a story about a story about a book....and stays accessible through it all.Before we get to the bashing, I just want to address the complaints of some about "bashing Bush" in general. They seem to think that actually laying out complaints is somehow

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Might I suggest a quick Fight Club refresher?Or maybe a horrid way to assure the loss of hearts and minds?OPEC has done all they can for Republican election efforts (i.e. lowering gas prices) and will now cut production.One analyst said some OPEC policymakers wanted to make deeper cuts in output but felt hamstrung by mid-term elections in the United States, where fuel prices are a political issue

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The exectuive summary speaks for itself.This article is a first simplistic (but comprehensive) assessment of World Oil Exports, here defined has the total amount of liquid hydrocarbons that are surpluses in producing countries. This assessment is made by projecting in to the future fixed change rates that reflect current trends in liquids production and consumption in countries where presently

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Industry self-policing doesn't work. I thought Enron taught us that. Here's the latest example, and this is damn near straight out of Fast Food Nation.While officials praised a Salinas company Monday for voluntarily recalling potentially contaminated lettuce over the weekend, consumer advocates said the case raises more questions about whether the produce industry should be policing itself.A

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Some more skeptical analysis for the North Korea nuke test earlier this week. Essentially the point is that this was either a small test (smallest ever...by a large factor), thick bedrock in NK, or something else. More coming later.There is lots of data floating around: The CTBTO called it 4.0; The South Koreans report 3.58-3.7.You're thinking, 3.6, 4.2, in that neighborhood. Seismic scales,

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Ummm...ouch?A WOMAN has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at home when lightning struck the building. She said: "I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building. I don't remember much after

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This is sooo much better a better use for liquid fuels than ICBMs.CNN) -- Spectacular new images of Mars could reveal clues about tens of millions of years of the red planet's history.NASA has just released photos taken from above the planet by the spacecraft Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing the rover Opportunity perched next to the enormous Victoria Crater. Four or five football stadiums

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It's certainly something, all right.

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This is as easy as shooting sexual predators in Congress (i.e. fish in a barrel).Read the thread for the pwnage.BTW, I've run into these jackholes before...detailson quantumphilosophy.net...which is still frickin' down...grrr...

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This is as easy as shooting sexual predators in Congress (i.e. fish in a barrel).Read the thread for the pwnage.BTW, I've run into these jackholes before...detailson quantumphilosophy.net...which is still frickin' down...grrr...

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Do Not Switch to Beta Blogger unless you just want to play around. It will switch ALL of your blogs over, take away your ability to post, break most compatability...and there's no way back.If they had even warned of ONE of these things when asking, I never would have hit the button. Now all my shit is busted.

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They Want Your Soul - 720x480 High-Res - Google Video This is a pretty wild sci-fi/conspiracy theory mash-up. It goes from 9/11 through the WoT™, through a bunch of speculative/prototype military/tracking tech, and then takes it home with the "hive mind", "transhumanists", and quotes from Revelation.Personally I'd say it makes for a pretty good outline of a sci-fi story. The only way it will/

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Click the play icon to start the video.Please be patient while your media loads.Great example of how Pink Floyd synchronized 'The Dark Side of the Moon' with 'The Wizard of Oz'.Having watctched this before, and read a bit about Floyd, I'd say it is fairly likely the ablum was designed this way.

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APOD: 2006 September 27- Earth from Saturn"Explanation: What's that pale blue dot in this image taken from Saturn? Earth. The robotic Cassini spacecraft looked back toward its old home world earlier this month as it orbited Saturn. Using Saturn itself to block the bright Sun, Cassini imaged a faint dot on the right of the above photograph. That dot is expanded on the image inset, where a slight

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Microsoft Media Player shreds your rights"THINK DRM WAS bad already? Think I was joking when I said the plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then turn the thumbscrews? Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and the rights get chipped away a lot more. Get used to the feeling, if you buy DRM infected media, you will only have this happen with increasing rapidity.One of

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Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Who wanted to "cut and run" from Somalia?The facts, as they were."President Clinton's response was refreshingly aggressive because the premise of the question is so patently and outrageously false. Clinton responded: 'They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day after we were involved in 'Black Hawk down,' and I refused to

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The Capital TimesThere is a quote that always jumps to my mind* when Western culture accuses Islmamic culture of being too violent."Dear Editor: Bishop Robert Morlino's defense of the pope's recent comments on the Muslim religion (Sept. 16) insisted: 'Killing the innocent and violence are contrary to reason, and God, who never acts contrary to reason, would never authorize that.'Has Bishop

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U.S. to relax air travel restrictions - Yahoo! NewsI think somebody left out the "stupid" in front of "air travel restrictions" in that title."WASHINGTON - The government is partially lifting its ban against carrying liquids and gels onto airliners, instituted after a plot to bomb jets flying into the United States was foiled, an administration official said Monday. A Homeland Security Department

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Middle East TimesThis is what it looks like when the people one is purporting to help believe one is lacking in credibility. "The state-run paper said the US president portrayed the region as enjoying stability due to the help of his administration, but mentioned Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian territories, and Sudan as points of concern. The newspaper insisted that Bush failed

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Crooks and Liars » Dennis Miller’s H&C lame “Real Free Speech”This has to be the worst comedic performance I've seen since Strom Sturmond did his take on Dave Chappelle's "Nigga Family" sketch.Dave's original is below...----

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran's proud but discreet JewsThe more you know..."Although Iran and Israel are bitter enemies, few know that Iran is home to the largest number of Jews anywhere in the Middle East outside Israel. About 25,000 Jews live in Iran and most are determined to remain no matter what the pressures - as proud of their Iranian culture as of their Jewish roots. It is dawn in the

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Caerphilly Castle - HDR, originally uploaded by MerthyrGuy. Nice HDR (high dynamic range) castle photo.My personal introduction to HDR came through Half-Life 2, but I have to admit...it looks pretty cool IRL as well.

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U.S. Army defends Raytheon contract amid storm - Yahoo! News"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Raytheon Co. mini-missile defense system at the heart of a U.S. Army weapons-buying storm was clearly the best choice under the circumstances, a top general told Congress Thursday. Army officials opted in April to forego a rival Israeli system to boost combat vehicle protection from rocket-propelled grenades and

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Informed CommentOn the current "mission" in Iraq. BTW, have many people realized that the Generals are already assuming that beating the insurgency is impossible for U.S. forces? And that our "mission" now is to train Iraqis to fight...Iraqis. "The US Department of Defense has done some opinion polling that indicates that 3/4s of Iraqi Sunnis now support what the Pentagon calls the 'insurgency'

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TIME.com: The Devil and Hugo Chavez -- Page 1"When a Mexican reporter asked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a question during a press conference at the United Nations this afternoon, Chavez beamed and told the room that he was a great fan of the Mexican Revolution hero Pancho Villa. 'Especially the part,' Chavez said, 'when Villa invaded the United States.' True to his boisterous style, Chavez

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U.S. official questions regulatory scrutiny of Apple - washingtonpost.comWelcome to Bizarro Washington."WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. antitrust official on Wednesday urged foreign governments to think twice before interfering with popular new technologies, singling out overseas scrutiny of Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL.O) iTunes online music service as an example of misguided

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Defensive barrier planned for Baghdad | Chicago TribuneRiiight...a wall/moat around the city. That'll work."BAGHDAD -- In the latest proposal to curb the seemingly unstoppable violence in Baghdad, the Iraqi government is planning to build a defensive barrier around the city to keep out terrorists and militants who might be planning attacks.Iraq's Interior Ministry said Friday that the government

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Thai army declares nationwide martial law | Top News | Reuters.com"BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai army declared martial law nationwide in the early hours of Wednesday after a coup to dismiss Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a coup spokesman said in a televised address.He also ordered all soldiers to report to their barracks and banned troop movements unauthorized by the coup leaders.The army took

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Gmail - Re: [#74636997] Non-spam review and verification request: http://kewpie.blogspot.comHello,Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so thatit will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger andsign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for yourpatience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.Sincerely,The

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Pew Research Center: A Diminished Public Appetite for Military Force and Mideast OilGood to see America slowly returning to rational mode."Five years later, Americans' views of the impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have changed little, but opinions about how best to protect against future attacks have shifted substantially. In particular, far more Americans say reducing America's overseas

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Pope remarks reveal harder stance"The furore over the Pope's remarks about Islam has left many Catholics inside and outside the Vatican shaking their heads in disbelief. Aides of Benedict XVI are dismayed that a quotation used to illustrate a philosophical argument should have provoked such anger from Muslims. But for others, the row has highlighted their concerns about the

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Missing Fla. Boy's Mom Commits Suicide - Examiner.comWhat a horrid story."LEESBURG, Fla. - Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: 'Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you

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Partition Debate Splits Iraq - World Opinion RoundupThe White House is wrong...again..."Last month, the White House dismissed the idea that Iraq should be divided into three countries as an impractical scenario that most Iraqis don't want. But the biggest Shiite party of the Iraqi parliament is calling for the creation of autonomous regions in Iraq, sparking a debate in the war-torn country's

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Banker's Killing A Blow For Russia - Forbes.com"The assassination of Andrei Kozlov, Russia's second-ranking central banker, provides a political test for President Vladimir Putin and a test of nerves for foreign bankers and investors who have started to put more faith in a successful outcome to the country's transition from financial lawlessness to a modern economy."

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STLtoday - News - ColumnistsVery nicely put "apology"."After reviewing all this material, I feel obliged to say: I'm sorry Karl Rove . . . still has a job.With respect to the specifics, Armitage or no Armitage:"Read the linked article for the facts behind the b.s.

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USATODAY.com - FDA whistle-blower Graham blasts new Merck arthritis drugThe arthritis drug that Merck has developed to compete with Celebrex may be as risky for the heart as Vioxx, writes Food and Drug Administration whistle-blower David Graham in an editorial posted online Tuesday by a medical journal.In considering whether Arcoxia should be approved, 'the FDA, academia, and the medical research

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Apple CommercialsA bounce through computer memory lane.

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The sad state of American broadbandI can't imagine why we'd be flagging in this regard... "Three groups, the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union (responsible for Consumer Reports magazine), and media policy group Free Press, have released a joint report (PDF) called 'Broadband Reality Check II.' A follow up to a similar report issued last, the year, the picture it paints of the

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BBC News | Enlarged ImageNice to see where from we have come."In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data."

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Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Rich Lowry, Serious Foreign Policy Expert, announces his serious plan for victory in IraqGood work here by Greenwald is utterly destroying Rich Lowry of the National Review. The vast majority of pundits, particularly on the right, have been so...insanely wrong, so many times, it is just a wonder they still get any air or print time at all. I don't

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Whiskey Bar: The Sixteen Acre Ditchbillmon goes off, again. What have we learned, indeed. "You can learn a lot about a country in five years.What I've learned (from 9/11, the corporate scandals, the fiasco in Iraq, Katrina, the Cheney Administration's insane economic and environmental policies and the relentless dumbing down of the corporate media -- plus the repeated electoral triumphs of the

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Obama Gets HIV Test, Fights Kenya StigmaObama rocks."Sen. Barack Obama and his wife took HIV tests before a crowd of thousands Saturday at a clinic in Kenya in an effort to battle the fear and social stigmas that have slowed progress in fighting the spread of AIDS. Thousands of people gathered around the tiny mobile clinic in Kisumu, western Kenya, to see Barack and Michelle Obama tested for the

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Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places In The United States: 1790 to 1990 (kottke.org)Very intersting info, via kottke.

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Instant Expert: Human Evolution - 24 August 2006 - New ScientistThis is what the new Bible should look like.

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MaxSpeak, You Listen!: DEPRAVITYWarmongers fail classes in both morality and mathematics.

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Spy agencies ripped on Iran intelThis should scare you. Essentially, the intelligence agencies are being yelled at for not finding what they have been told to find."WASHINGTON - A key House committee issued a stinging critique of U.S. intelligence on Iran Wednesday, charging that the CIA and other agencies lack 'the ability to acquire essential information necessary to make judgments' on

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Informed CommentI wonder if this will get as much airplay as the (mistranslated) "wipe Israel off the map" comment. "Ahmadinejad: We are Not a Threat to Any Country, Including IsraelBelieve it, don't believe it, that's up to you. But at least we should know what exactly he said, which is not something our US newspapers will tell us about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech on Saturday:Kayhan reports

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The New York Observer's MondoWeiss: Chris Matthews Should Talk About the Israel Lobby Because It's All He Thinks AboutThis is finally getting some air. Note: unsubstantsiated accusation of anti-semitism will be the standard response."I have a fantasy about Chris Matthews. It's the 1980s and the height of the violent 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland, and Hardball is on. Matthews goes to political

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | US probes Israel cluster bomb use"The US State Department has launched an inquiry into whether Israel misused US-made cluster bombs in Lebanon during the recent conflict. Cluster bombs spray large numbers of bomblets over a wide area - which can remain unexploded and endanger civilians long after they are fired. US-made weapons have been found at many of 300 sites in

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IAU-PlanetVote- Planetary News | The Planetary SocietyGotta love the science."Pluto got the boot today when 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) annual meeting in Prague voted on a resolution that aims to define exactly what a planet is.What this means is that Pluto has been ejected from the planetary brotherhood. It is no longer considered a planet,

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Crooks and Liars - Scarborough: "Fake News Versus FOX News"This includes some funny clips (hey, free content for Scarborough) but Joe's points are pretty weak, IMHO. The only reason people are talking about this is because The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are getting great ratings."Scarborough seems to think that Stewart gets a free pass because he is left of center. Anyone who watches TDS

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Bush acknowledges war's strain on US - The Boston GlobeSo long, Mr. President, has been too long."WASHINGTON -- President Bush, acknowledging that the war in Iraq is ``straining' the national psyche, nonetheless vowed that US forces would remain there ``so long as I am president' and warned that pulling out early would have disastrous consequences for other critical US foreign policy goals.``

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CNN.com - Judge drops Padilla terror charge - Aug 21, 2006So far, this guy has gone from someone about to use a dirty bomb (right in time for the 2002 election) to some dude who talked to guys who might someday do something."MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A federal judge in Miami on Monday dismissed a terror count against Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen once identified as a 'dirty bomb' suspect and

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ohnotheydidnt: The Celebrity Nursing Home YearbookThis is gold. "The Celebrity Nursing Home YearbookI came across a website that is holding a contest for the best photoshop skills in making celebrities look like sagging senior citizens. "Somebody needs to hold onto these for 40 years and see how the predictions turn out.

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bits & bytes & pixels & sprites - Coca-Cola GTA commercialNice play on a great game."A suprisingly inventiveand funny commercial that�s inspired heavily by Grand Theft Auto. It certainly appeals to a specific demographic, since most non-gamers would completely miss the point. With all the negativity surrounding GTA these days, I give them credit for coming any where near the subject matter"

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THE ARCHITECTS OF WAR: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?"President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded - not blamed - for their incompetence."

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Slashdot | War Declared on Caps Lock KeyWar, it's the only way to be sure."'I've launched a campaign to rid the world of the caps lock key. Sure, there are more serious problems to solve but please, think of the children! How am I going to explain to my kids why some of the most valuable keyboard real estate is squatted by a large, useless key that above all you must not press! Our campaign

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Salt Lake Tribune - Is it art or the one-finger salute?Great story. Gotta love neighbors."RIVERTON - Maybe it's a hand flipping the bird - or it could be a cactus. For three families, it's just another dispute in a yearlong battle over a house being built along Reeves Lane in this southwest Salt Lake Valley community. Owner Darren Wood described the vent covering placed Monday as decorative '

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Salt Lake Tribune - Is it art or the one-finger salute?Great story. Gotta love neighbors."RIVERTON - Maybe it's a hand flipping the bird - or it could be a cactus. For three families, it's just another dispute in a yearlong battle over a house being built along Reeves Lane in this southwest Salt Lake Valley community. Owner Darren Wood described the vent covering placed Monday as decorative '

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FBI: No terror tie to Dallas-area phone salesmenEverybody panic!!!!"DALLAS - The three Dallas-area men arrested in Michigan on state terrorism charges are well-known to cell phone wholesale and retail shops here, where managers said Monday they are part of a brisk trade in buying phones from Wal-Mart and other discount stores and reselling them to smaller shops.In Michigan, meanwhile, the FBI

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Videotaping the Opponent Pays Off for Democrat -- 08/15/2006This one is funny, if only because it's like a guy being bit with a snake he keeps around the house for fun."The Webb campaign is now offering an online video clip of Sen. Allen making 'repugnant' comments about S.R. Sidarth, the volunteer cameraman. 'This fellow here over here with the yellow shirt, Macaca, or whatever his name is. He's

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Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Defeatism and attacks on the Commander-in-Chief during a time of warGreenwald does a good job of collecting all the quotes from the defeat-i-cans after the Israel?Lenanon peace accord. These people are actually pissed because now it doesn't look like we get to invade Iran, which is what they all want to happen. "In the wake of the Bush administration's

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Slashdot | Stephen Colbert vs The Hungarian Government Read down the thread a bit. I made a funny. Yes, that's the same "wah"."I believe Colbert's straight-talking sensibilities have earned him far more than just a bridge in whatever continent Hungaria is in. Instead I think we should consider renaming one of our lesser used states as an honor more appropriate to his grippy contributions to

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MiamiHerald.com | 08/11/2006 | How investigators pieced together the plot to killI was a bit suspicious about the timing of the arrests in this case. Now those suspicions have been confirmed."Investigators eventually pieced together enough information from a blizzard of stakeouts, tips and wiretaps to make clear that something big was in the works and that the plotters' preparations were nearing

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Lieberman Seizes on Terror Arrests to Attack Rival - New York TimesMilitarism doesn't get more debased than this."If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England," Mr. Lieberman said at a campaign event at lunchtime in Waterbury, Conn. "It

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Dependable Renegade: I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation"I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for the GOP choosing to make Howard Dean look like Hitler on its official website."Umm, projection?

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MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered PoliticsThis is good snark."Even though Ned Lamont didn't win last night, and watching Lieberman's victory speech was incredibly painful and upsetting, the progressive movement took a big step forward. We challenged a sitting incumbent, the VP nominee of the party in 2000 and the popular vote winner, and a credible Presidential challenger in 2004 who

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This post starts with the amazing victory in the Senate Democratic primary in Connecticut (the Nutmeg State) by Ned Lamont over Joe Lieberman. This has truly been an amazing event, not only because it was driven by people leveraging teh intarweb, but because it has been the first popular revolt against the rampant militarism the Neocons have now woven into the fabric of our culture.Before I

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FARK.com: (2220924) Britain may have to "modify" its freedoms to deal with terrorists using and abusing them. Scary British dystopia trifetica in playThis is just too apropos not to post."2006-08-09 01:18:03 PMpakfish Jeebus not more drunken prattle from frightened children.Its time to put down the bottle and wake up people.Figures are as of Jan 2004* 9/11 death toll: 2,976* UK Death toll from

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Doctors' refusal might ring knell for death penaltyThe death penalty in the U.S. will die the death of a thousand small cuts. And good riddance, IMHO"ST. LOUIS (AP) - The death penalty in the United States might be hitting a roadblock: the Hippocratic Oath.Condemned inmates in three states have successfully challenged lethal injection as cruel and unusual. For the first time, judges have sided

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Informed CommentJuan Cole has just discovered the "Neocon Imperial Militarist" (google hypothesis I expounded upon back before the '04 election. "The wholesale destruction of all of Lebanon by Israel and the US Pentagon does not make any sense. Why bomb roads, bridges, ports, fuel depots in Sunni and Christian areas that have nothing to do with Shiite Hizbullah in the deep south? And, why was

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Duncan Bremer's BlogGuess what anyone who call for a "Peaceful Islam" [in quotes] is? Hint: it rhymes with spigot.And how, pray tell, are religious extremists, such as yourself, Mr. Bremer, going to see the light and convert to the religion of the people they believe to be the epitomy of evil? Please, enlighten me. BTW, this quote below is supposed to be an apology for something else he said.

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Cease-Fire Draft at U.N. Falters Amid Arab Criticism - New York TimesAfter reading the proposed resolution, I think these two paragraphs cover it. It gives Israel everything they want, and not much of Lebanon. The bombings will continue until morale improves. "She said she had spoken to Prime Minister Fouad Siniora of Lebanon several times on Saturday. "There are things the Israelis wanted and

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YouTube - HOWTO: Open A Beer Bottle With A Piece Of Paper: -----------

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DevilDucky - Gas GuzzlerWe won't make any real progess fighting this problem until people realize it is a moral issue.

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Matt Haughey Tells All at Like It MattersLearn from someone who knows, the first rule of knowledge."The first session at Webvisions is Matt Haughey talking about blogging professionally. Here are my notes from his talk.The challenge: finding an audience and revenue despite all the blogs out there.3 steps:follow your passionfind your audiencegain revenue"

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Apple - Trailers - The Fountain - Trailer 1 - LargeIf you enjoyed the black-and-white trip that was Pi or the downright-best-anti-heroin-commercial-ever that was Requiem for a Dream, take heart, Mr. Aronofsky has been hard at work...and with one hell of a budget, it would seem.BTW (and on a serious, mathematical tangent), "pi" is a relationship, not a number. This confusion has baffled science

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SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Sarah Boseley: on Bill Gates tackling poverty and disease in AfricaAs many issues as I have with Microsoft's monopolistic business practices, I have to hand it someone like Gates for taking this next step." 'We're not going to give up working on an Aids vaccine. Not in my lifetime.' And when I ask if he could reach a point when he will decide that too much money

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The Cellar Image of the DayThe Cellar IOTD is very worthy of a bookmark or two."'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' is the English name of it, and surely you've seen it; it's the prime example of pointilism, the technique Seurat came up with. You know, where the image is created by thousands and thousands of tiny dots. The technique copied in most types of photo reproduction and

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FOXNews.com - Lance Bass of *NSYNC Reveals He's Gay - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And EntertainmentAhh, sometimes, life is just so obvious you miss it."NEW YORK - Lance Bass, band member of *NSYNC, says he's gay and in a 'very stable' relationship with a reality show star. Bass, who formed *NSYNC with Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick, tells People

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Wired 14.08: Be an Expert on AnythingFrom Stephen Colbert, the expert on expertism. "GET YOUR OWN ENTRY IN AN ENCYCLOPEDIA. In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.USE THE WORD ZEITGEIST AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE. Ideally, you want to find words

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evhead: Massive, Tangled Up Tubes!Senator Ted Stevens, techno-super-stah.

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BREITBART.COM - 4 Killed When Israeli Bomb Hits U.N. PostThis is a rather horrible development."A U.N. observer post was hit by an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon Tuesday, killing four peacekeepers, U.N. officials said. A bomb directly hit the building and shelter of an Indian patrol base from the observer force in the town of Khiyam near the eastern end of the border with Israel, said Milos

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Internet '96This is a nice distraction for a couple of minutes. I made the transition from BBS to WWW in 1993-4, so these are actually pretty advanced examples compared to some of the "cutting edge stuff" I remember. Strange to realize I'm that much of an old-timer, but time waits for no man...as alll men (and women) have long since realized."In 1996, the Internet Archive began archiving the

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New Scientist Breaking News - China's GM cotton battles a new bugI think when we get to the chapter on the environment in my book, there's only going to be one word in it: Balance. Nature will always find a balance, because it abhors a vacuum and life will find a way. In order to be efficient, we need to find the kind of balances that can balance each other out. This won't be easy, but dang

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Crooks and Liars - Matthews on Imus: Pencil Neck Foreign PolicyI would highly recommend downloading this and listening to it. Basically Chris Matthews is finally acknowleding how the Neocons steamrolled Bush and now we're acting like freaking idiots. Essentially, he's reaching the same conclusion I did a couple years ago...the Neocons are fricking idiots and their ideology is so warped as to be

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The Blog | Jonathan Tasini: The DLC Won't Talk About Corporate Power | The Huffington Post After reading through the DLC's tepid program, it's easy to see why they are called "Republican-Lite." To pull another example, like the ones in the linked article, they are saying that everyone should have the right (and "responsibility") to be ripped off by pharmaceutical companies. "The Democratic

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