October 2009
82 posts
“You know, you should never weigh your options, as Dick Cheney says. You know the...”
– Jon Stewart, on Obama’s dithering. via alcaniglia think4yourself apsies via robot-heart-politics
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Fight to allow weapons aboard Amtrak trains could... →
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adrifting:
Gun-rights advocates in Congress are pressing appropriators to keep a provision that would let Amtrak passengers check in handguns with their baggage. The provision, which calls for withholding $1.5 billion in Amtrak funding if the policy isn’t implemented before April, was inserted into the $68.8 billion Senate transportation and housing and urban development spending bill...
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Contraptor: open source DIY rapid hardware... →
One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's... →
Album of the year?
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via azspot)
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The Gold Scam Fear Merchants
Obviously all these new boiler room high pressure sales groups that used to be pushing sub-prime refinancings are now trying to convince the unsophisticated listeners of right wing talk that they better buy gold before the dollar becomes worthless because of Obama’s reckless spending. But how do firms like Goldline make money? Well it’s all there in the fine print of their sales agreement.
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British nuclear expert falls 120ft to his death in... →
ledgergermane:
The 47-year-old man, who has not been named, died after falling more than 120ft to the bottom of a stairwell.
He worked for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, an international agency charged with uncovering illicit nuclear tests.
A UN spokesman in the Austrian capital said there were no “suspicious circumstances” surrounding the man’s death, while a police...
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“Serious students of health care have known for a long time that the magic of the...”
– Paul Krugman -> azspot -> robot-heart-politics
Shifting the world to 100% clean, renewable energy... →
Most of the technology needed to shift the world from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy already exists. Implementing that technology requires overcoming obstacles in planning and politics, but doing so could result in a 30 percent decrease in global power demand, say Stanford civil and environmental engineering Professor Mark Z. Jacobson and University of California-Davis researcher Mark...
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Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on Capitalism, Healthcare, Latin American “Populism” and the “Farcical” Financial Crisis
