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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Lanx Satura [Sat-ahyuhr]: (Wet) Dreams of A Comedy Central Roast—Newt Gingrich | A2Politico
Newt insists he is a moral man. He firmly believes that marriage is between a man and woman who doesn't have cancer.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Article: roio » Blog Archive » THE LINCOLN PARK MARK COLLECTION: BOB DYLAN - HAMBURG 2011
roio » Blog Archive » THE LINCOLN PARK MARK COLLECTION: BOB DYLAN - HAMBURG 2011
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=940
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Article: Occupy Together | POSTERS & MATERIALS
Occupy Together | POSTERS & MATERIALS
http://www.occupytogether.org/downloadable-posters/
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USA TODAY: Editorial: Revisionists point fingers at Fannie, Freddie
Check out this article that I saw in USA TODAY's iPad application.
Editorial: Revisionists point fingers at Fannie, Freddie
http://usat.ly/tZv956
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http://usatoday.com/ipad/
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Article: 50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For
50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For
http://lifehacker.com/5862252/50-free-apps-were-most-thankful-for
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Beta blockers - MayoClinic.com
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/beta-blockers/HI00059/NSECTIONGROUP=2
Beta blockers aren't usually prescribed until other blood pressure
medications, such as diuretics, haven't worked effectively. Your
doctor may prescribe beta blockers as one of several medications to
lower your blood pressure, including angiotensin-converting enzyme
(ACE) inhibitors, diuretics or calcium channel blockers.
---SPSmith
USA TODAY: Chrysler's Thanksgiving TV ad is all about poetry
Check out this article that I saw in USA TODAY's iPad application.
Chrysler's Thanksgiving TV ad is all about poetry
http://usat.ly/sVSyjw
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To learn more about USA TODAY for iPad and download, visit:
http://usatoday.com/ipad/
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Article: Online "Best of 2011" Book Lists
Online "Best of 2011" Book Lists
http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2011/11/online_best_of_7.html
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a catastrophe
The desktop benchmark scores for AMD's new Bulldozer architecture didn't make happy reading for fans of the chip company, with the new design sometimes failing to beat AMD's own predecessor architecture, let alone Intel's comparable offerings. Hope still persisted, however, that the processor's architecture might fare better when tasked with server workloads. With the release last week of AMD's first Bulldozer server processors, branded the Opteron 6200 series and codenamed "Interlagos," a host of such benchmarks have arrived from AMD and others.
---SPSmith
The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/20/the_roots_of_the_uc_davis_pepper_spraying/
depraved casualness of the officer's dousing the protesters' faces
with a chemical agent
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Lessig: How Gingrich changed Washington
Hey, check this out from CNN:
Lessig: How Gingrich changed Washington
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/19/opinion/lessig-gingrich-change-washington/index.html
Lessig: How Gingrich changed Washington
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/19/opinion/lessig-gingrich-change-washington/index.html
---SPSmith
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Article: Titanium Flask
Titanium Flask
http://www.snowpeak.com/tableware/flasks-bottles/titanium-curved-flask.html
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Article: Best Science Books 2011: Amazon.com Editors
Best Science Books 2011: Amazon.com Editors
http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2011/11/best_science_books_2011_amazon.php
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Believe Me, It's Torture | Politics | Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens200808
Since Cain and Bachman don't believe waterboarding is torture, let's
us it in the next GOP debate.
---SPSmith
Friday, November 11, 2011
Article: JoePa has an answer
JoePa has an answer
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/11/11/joepa-has-an-answer/
"As you know, the kids that were the victims, I think we ought to say a prayer for them,"
And there, in that one sentence is the very heart of the grotesqueness of religion, the very core of what I have raged about, fought against, and endeavored to put a face on for these many years all summed up nice and tidy by a disgraced coach.
PRAYER?? Say a PRAYER for the child victims? You self righteous sanctimonious jerk… some of those kids are victims partially because you failed as a man. You relinquished your responsibility as a human being. Your hubris and self interest over shadowed those victims interest. But, now, NOW you'll implore us to mumble words to a nonexistent thing in the sky as though that will fix things? As though those kids' lives will be repaired by words to a deity when your own misbehavior, self-serving actions, or apathy was a causal factor for their pain?
---SPSmith
Article: In Which I Select a Current GOP Presidential Candidate to Vote For
In Which I Select a Current GOP Presidential Candidate to Vote For
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/11/11/in-which-i-select-a-current-gop-presidential-candidate-to-vote-for/
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Corporations Hate Regulation, Until They Love It | Mother Jones
…"Here's the key word in the rules: 'exemption,'" former Senator Ted Kaufman, Democrat of Delaware, told me. "Let me tell you, as soon as you see that, it's pronounced 'loophole.' That's what it means in English." Mr. Kaufman, now teaching at Duke University School of Law, earlier proposed a tougher version of the Volcker Rule, which was voted down in the Senate. "We've been through this before," he said. "I know these folks, these Wall Street guys. I went to school with them. They're smart as hell. You give them the smallest little hole, and they'll run through it."
This is probably the biggest reason that no one should take too seriously Republican complaints about burdensome regulations strangling the economy. The truth is that most reformers preferfairly simple rules. In the tax world, they'd prefer to simply tax all income. In the environmental world, they'd prefer to set firm limits for pollutants. In the financial world, they'd prefer blunt rules that cut off risky activity at its knees.
But businesses don't like simple rules, because simple rules are hard to evade. So they lobby endlessly for exemptions both big and small. This is why we end up with tax subsidies for bow-and-arrow makers. It's why we end up with environmental rules that treat a hundred different industries a hundred different ways. It's why financial regulators don't enact simple leverage rules or place firm asset caps on firm size. Those would be hard to get around and might genuinely eat into bank profits. Complex rules, conversely, are the meat and drink of $500-per-hour lawyers and whiz kid engineers. If the rules are complicated enough, smart lawyers can always find ways around them. And American corporations employ lots of smart lawyers.
---SPSmithCheck out: 'Perry Does Letterman’s Top 10 "Oops" Jokes' on Slate
I thought you might find this Slate article interesting:
Perry Does Letterman's Top 10 "Oops" Jokes
By Josh Voorhees
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/11/rick_perry_does_david_letterman_s_top_10_oops_jokes.html?wpisrc=sl_ipad
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Richard Dawkins plans to arrest Pope Benedict XVI during his state visit to Britain ‘for crimes against humanity’
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2010/04/12/richard-dawkins-plans-to-arrest-pope-benedict-xvi-during-his-state-visit-to-britain-for-crimes-against-humanity/
Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: "This is a man whose first
instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover
up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence."
---SPSmith
Income disparity and U.S. political economy | WBEZ
http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-11-09/income-disparity-and-us-political-economy-93898#
He proposes a new branch of government, a "people's council," that
could try government officials for war crimes and abuse, veto and
propose legislation, and ultimately keep government accountable to the
masses. His ideas stem from research into ancient systems such as Rome
and Athens, where plebeians held high positions in government
alongside elites.
---SPSmith
Article: Does Penn State Actively Condone The Rape Of Children?
Does Penn State Actively Condone The Rape Of Children?
http://freethoughtblogs.com/physioprof/2011/11/09/does-penn-state-actively-condone-the-rape-of-children/
The pedophile pope on penn state
---SPSmith
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Article: The Tuesday Birthday Problem : EvolutionBlog
The Tuesday Birthday Problem : EvolutionBlog
http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2011/11/the_tuesday_birthday_problem.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&utm_medium=rss
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Sunday, November 06, 2011
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
Article: AMD to cut workforce by 10 percent, invest savings in emerging markets and the cloud
AMD to cut workforce by 10 percent, invest savings in emerging markets and the cloud
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/03/amd-to-cut-workforce-by-10-percent-invest-savings-into-emerging/
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Article: In Religious Divisions They Trust
In Religious Divisions They Trust
http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/11/03/in-religious-divisions-they-trust/
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The Corporatocracy is the 1% | Common Dreams
Corporations don't care about helping America succeed. Corporations as they exist now exist solely for profit, not public good. If the government stands in the way of their profit potential, they can legally purchase new politicians through unlimited, undisclosed campaign donations.
---SPSmith