Cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting | Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/29/us-usa-war-idUSTRE75S25320110629

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Silver Oaks Ranch Hawaii Vacations

http://www.silveroaksranch.com/

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Intel’s Cloverview scheduled to hit around the same time as Windows 8, will go up against ARM devices | This is my next...

http://thisismynext.com/2011/06/27/intel-cloverview-scheduled-hit-time-windows-8-arm-devices/

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Michele Bachmann talks 'flake' flap, John Wayne gaffe - latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-bachmann-fox-flake-20110628,0,1253274.story

First we had the flake Palin, now Bachmann, who thinks God talks to
her and she can't tell the difference between a movie star and a
serial killer.

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Germany’s season of angst: why a prosperous nation is turning on itself - The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/germanys-season-of-angst-why-a-prosperous-nation-is-turning-on-itself/article2075253/page3/

postwar Germans – who, owing to their modern country's near-total reinvention, the erasure of its awful past and the American-led construction of its current institutions
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Article: BioLogos argues that religious claims don’t require evidence

BioLogos argues that religious claims don't require evidence
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/biologos-continues-reviewing-my-response-to-biologos-argues-that-religion-cant-be-judged-by-science/

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Psych Your Mind: Four ways to buy happiness

http://psych-your-mind.blogspot.com/2011/06/four-ways-to-buy-happiness.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PsychYourMind+%28Psych+Your+Mind%29

Dunn, E., Gilbert, D., & Wilson, T. (2011). If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21 (2), 115-125 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcps.2011.02.002

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Article: Quote of the Moment: The Catch

Quote of the Moment: The Catch
http://unreasonablefaith.com/2011/06/21/quote-of-the-moment-the-catch/

I've finally found something that annoys me more than hearing an overpaid jock thank Jesus for helping him score a touchdown. Here's NY Giants Superbowl hero David Tyree:

Tyree is best remembered in his career for his miraculous late-game catch in Super Bowl XLII against the Patriots, trapping the ball against his helmet while being pulled down by New England safety Rodney Harrison.

[...]

"Perhaps God orchestrated that play to give me a platform for what I'm doing here today: To urge political leaders all over our nation to reject same-sex marriage," he said.

Oy.

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Check out: 'Goodbye, Genetic Blueprint' on Slate

I thought you might find this Slate article interesting:

Goodbye, Genetic Blueprint
By Christine Kenneally
http://www.slate.com/id/2296986?wpisrc=sl_ipad

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Check out: 'The Liberty Scam' on Slate

I thought you might find this Slate article interesting:

The Liberty Scam
By Stephen Metcalf
http://www.slate.com/id/2297019?wpisrc=sl_ipad

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Blood, Bones And Organs: The Gruesome 'Red Market' : NPR

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/10/136931615/blood-bones-and-organs-the-gruesome-red-market

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Ten Charts that Prove the United States Is a Low-Tax Country

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/low_tax.html

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Check out: 'Happy 10th Birthday, Bush Tax Cuts!' on Slate

I thought you might find this Slate article interesting:

Happy 10th Birthday, Bush Tax Cuts!
By Annie Lowrey
http://www.slate.com/id/2296578?wpisrc=sl_ipad

So, to recap: The Bush tax cuts were followed by low GDP growth, negative median wage growth, and little job growth. Even before the Great Recession, growth in the Bush business cycle was the weakest since World War II. And the cuts cost about $2.6 trillion between 2001 and 2010,according to the Economic Policy Institute—adding to a debt future generations of taxpayers will pay for, plus interest.

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Alan Gewirth, 1912-2004, rational ethicist who challenged Golden Rule

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040517.gewirth.shtml

Thus Gewirth's own golden rule: "Agents must act in accord with the generic rights of others as well as their own

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Emotion, reason and policy: Thinking liberally about feeling | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/05/emotion_reason_and_policy

The "Deliberative Public Justification Principle" states, more or less, that a moral rule has teeth only if each of us has good reason to accept the rule as binding—to see it as something that applies to us, something that makes sense for us to take on board and be guided by. Something in the neighbourhood of Mr Gaus' principle of public justification specifies what it means to take liberty and liberalism seriously. If some of us think it would be a good idea to limit others' choices, we owe them an argument thatthey have good reasons to abide by these limitations, and if they really can't see it, if they have reasonable grounds on which to reject such a limit on their liberty, we owe it to them back off.

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Lawyers, Guns & Money

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/page/2

the question of whether you supported a war of choice against a weak and non-threatening country when a major terrorist act of mass murder for which that country bore no responsibility. and which had yet to be fully answered for, came down, in his mind, to: why don't you hate Saddam Hussein? It's a useful point of positioning for him, because, while Hitchens is often blatantly dishonest, devoid of empathy, and views any kind of nuance as a form of intellectual and moral corruption, he can always make a supremely convincing case for why you should hate someone.

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The hard truth about health care - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-hard-truth-about-health-care/2011/06/06/AG34XbKH_story.html

Republicans have a plan that has been tried repeatedly but that has never worked. Democrats have a plan that might work in theory, but it is untested at the scale they'll need for it to work in practice. And both parties are too scared to talk about the only plan that has worked.

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Why markets can't cure healthcare - NYTimes.com

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/why-markets-cant-cure-healthcare/

One of the most influential economic papers of the postwar era was Kenneth Arrow's Uncertainty and the welfare economics of health care, which demonstrated — decisively, I and many others believe — that health care can't be marketed like bread or TVs

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Rethrick Construction

http://rethrick.com/#waving-goodbye

Google's vaunted scalable software infrastructure is obsolete. Don't get me wrong, their hardware and datacenters are the best in the world, and as far as I know, nobody is close to matching it. But the software stack on top of it is 10 years old, aging and designed for building search engines and crawlers. And it is well and truly obsolete

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Weinergate: How Anthony Weiner and John Edwards lost control of their private parts. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/id/2296295/pagenum/all/#p2

In my time at Oxford, there still persisted a quaint survival from the Victorian era. A special part of the river bank set among the willows was reserved for nude male bathing, with membership restricted to dons and clergymen. Prominent signs and barriers prevented boats and punts containing females from approaching this discreet stretch. On one fateful Sunday afternoon, however, a recent flood had washed away the signs and weakened the barriers. A group of ladies was swept past the rows of recumbent and undressed gentlemen. Shrieks of embarrassment from the boat, while on the shore—consternation. Pairs of hands darted down to cover the midsection. All but one, the hedonist and classicist Sir Maurice Bowra, whose palms went up to conceal his craggy visage. As the squeals were borne downstream, and the sheepish company surveyed itself, Bowra growled, "I don't know about you chaps, but I'm known by my face around here."

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Stephen Elop Says MeeGo Was A Disaster, Highlights Points For Future Success

http://www.gizmodigit.com/stephen-elop-says-meego-was-a-disaster-highlights-points-for-future-success/

He had performed a detailed analysis of Meego by talking with several Meego experts within the company and soon realized that Nokia would only be able to bring out three Meego-based phones by the end of 2013. For a company that introduces up to a dozen new smartphones a year, the number was simply too small.

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Crimes of War – Torture: Finding our moral compass

http://www.crimesofwar.org/commentary/torture-finding-our-moral-compass/

Some people dismiss the Geneva Conventions as "quaint," and some believe "law" and "war" have no place in the same sentence; but few who make the military a profession hold such mistaken beliefs. Service members understand that war is hell and the law of war constrains the hellishness. It is a code of conduct developed by warriors over centuries on battlefields around the world.

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Sarah Palin Reveals Fascinating New Account of Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride -- Daily Intel

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/06/sarah_palin_reveals_fascinatin.html

He who warned, uh, the … the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringin' those bells and, um, by makin' sure that as he's ridin' his horse through town to send those warnin' shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free … and we were gonna be armed.

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Intel(R) IT Galaxy UK: Intel awarded 'Global Technology Innovator of the Year' award at the SAP Pinnacle Awards

http://itcommunity.intel.co.uk/community/uk/blog/2011/05/16/intel-awarded-global-technology-innovator-of-the-year-award-at-the-sap-pinnacle-awards

At the SAP Pinnacle Awards at SAP Sapphire Now in Florida this week, Intel has been announced as the winner of the 'Global Technology Innovator of the Year' award.  This was for the collaborative work between Intel and SAP on SAP's In-Memory Database Appliance (SAP HANA).  Intel engineers have been working in many areas with SAP to develop this ground-breaking technology that has been demonstrated to reduce the time taken to run a database query from 77 minutes to 13 seconds, a 355x improvement in performance, when run on the Intel Xeon processor.

 

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Major mobile players getting desperate thanks to Apple | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/major-mobile-players-getting-desperate-thanks-to-apple/2698

This has desperation written all over it, and the problem Intel has is they don't make actual products. They can produce all the reference designs they want but they have to get a significant number of hardware partners to actually build the things

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Check out: 'The Persistence of Hate' on Slate

Data on impact of cultural attitudes..

The Persistence of Hate
By Ray Fisman
http://www.slate.com/id/2295909?wpisrc=sl_ipad

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