Jan 4 -7,2008 My Opera

4 January - Blogroaming
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/05/4-january-blogroaming

Friday Night in the Blogs

TomGram: How Bush took us to the Dark Side
In-Sourcing the Tools of National Power for Success and Security
Why Musharraf lies about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Welcome to Pottersville
Friday Night Music Video Blogging
Give us ignorance or give us death Iowa
Some thumbtack impressions of the Iowa caucuses
"He will bring them death..." Cult of personality
And now, from the outrageous irony archives...
McClatchy: Bhutto distrusted Bush
What is a fucking caucus?
The unsilent minorities
BlueBloggin
Wall Street's not happy with Iowa winners
Amazing Iowa caucus
Iowa GOP screws up caucus
Some election thoughts from a new voice
Oil hits $100/bbl
Scotland Yard heading to Pakistan
Kenya's humanitarian crisis grows
Food as medicine 1/2
2/2

5 January - Afternoon BlogRoaming
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/05/5-january-afternoon-blogroaming

One thing I have been doing today was grabbing some links from A View from the Bridge at Clapsotronics blogroll. Now if Jerry could get back to blogging, so much the better.

Force Quit
From LOL cat Bible Translation Project
Managing your shared items Attack of the 20%'ers
Huckabee exposed as New World Order puppet
Seeds of Destruction: the hidden agenda of genetic manipulation "Rats fed GMO potatoes had smaller livers, hearts, testicles and brains,damaged immune systems, and showed structural changes in their white blood cells making them more vulnerable to infection and disease...thymus and spleen damage...enlarged tissues including pancreas and intestines, liver atrophy..."
"GM foods today saturate our diet. Over 80% of all supermarket processed foods contain them."
For freedom of expression
The Kings of England
Monbiot Hat Tip Earthpal, who has a post on a blogger protest Jan 6
I've been kicked off Facebook Robert Scoble ( He doesn't seem too worried )
Hat Tip Dave Lucas
Tesla was a bad dude Dec 18 ( I've posted this before : but as to if it's still up... )
Unknown writer
The credit ratings racket
I know what I saw
journey of the minds eye
Dandelion Salad
A drunken night in Baghdad, a soldier is left behind
There will be blood...but no justice for Iraq atrocity
Ron Paul TV ad: immigration
Ron Paul vs. John Edwards - the failures of sectarianism
Iowa Caucus Precinct 21
MIR: Assassination,politics as usual + Who stood to gain from Bhutto's death?
Lying about Mike Gravel
Tortured logic
Olbermann
It's the government's job to shake you down
The Shock Doctrine in action in New Orleans
365 Gay
Syphlis on rise in Europe
Obama accused of using preacher endorsements that were not made
Researchers: Gay men behave like women
Canadian program to ship AIDS drugs criticized
Growing number of Israeli cities recognize gay couples





6 January - PoliSci
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/06/6-january-polisci

I'm finally getting around to reconstituting a survey of political blogs that I've covered in the past. Consider this a samper, as it's far from complete. Tomorrow I'm on the road all day : so I don't expect to be online much - if at all.
I've plugged more entries into Google Reader. See if you can access my page through the feed. I'm already co-listing Len Hart's picks ( The Existentialist Cowboy ).

Twilight of the Psychopaths
If I posted this before on 'Interrupted' - apologies - don't miss this article
The British Library
UK living standards outstrip U.S.
China's farms struggle to meet growing demand ( First 'bon mot' of the day )
Heathlander
Onwards and onwards
B'teslem: annual Israeli report on human rights in the occupied territories
Policy to starve the inhabitants of Gaza en masse
Qassam missiles killed 2 Israelis in 2007
June-Oct Palestinians fired 400 Qassams and 510 mortars towards Israel,injuring 75, killing none
Israeli forces killed 142 Palestinians and injured 293 in the same period
30 December "Death zones" in Gaza
Brig.Gen. (res) Zvika Fogel
"No doubt about it,that nut's a genius"
How to become popular on YouTube without any talent ( No public service announcement )
Drug industry spends nearly twice as much on marketing than on research and development
( What until someone collates the trash they do work on. Government funds useful work. )
IOWA
CIA obstructs 9/11 investigators
Ron Paul not allowed
Doctors say placebo use common
Very telling ( the geek does an interesting backstory here )
Politics 'n Poetry
Chalk River - a disaster waiting to happen
My Obama bubble burst
This was the moment
Nuke news - operation resume at Rabbit Lake
Rolfe Schmidt
Did you really get a raise?
My Supernatural World
Gotta love the campaign calls
Video: Alex Jones' Endgame : Blueprint for Global Enslavement "...plan to eliminate 80% of the world's population"
Reporter Benjamin Fulford interviews David Rockefeller about Illuminati and Asian opposition
Great example why you simply can't believe cellphones and WiFi devices are safe
U.S. dollars no longer accepted at Indian tourist sites
Remedies for Harmful Effects of Chemtrails
Pets abandoned as foreclosures rise
Scholars & Rogues
Star medical examiner's compassion a lesson to splatter film fans
Saturday Video Roundup
School, mall and workplace shootings, why so many? No. Why so few?
Louisiana's wetlands are being lost at the rate of a football field every 38 minutes
Peugeot plans car plant in Russia
Suzie-Q
Bill Moyers: on the Iowa caucus
Bush may claim privilege in CIA case
Lobbying to be partners in crime....errr...leadership
Dumb and dumber playing with national security?
The Spi,I'm in! No fighting; tribute!
Welcome Vet Voice!
It's the war! says Iowa to Hillary - and a Happy Blue Year to all!
McCain flip-flops again! Wants to stay in Iraq for 1,000 years...
Two body blows to the political establishment
Ten Percent
I'm guessing Mrs. Musharraf 'runs' into a lot of 'cupboard doors' ( give it a moment )
Projection Bush to try to keep 'aggressive ambitions' in check ( no, not his )
Lockdown, Class War flavour: Bahrain
The Border and Immigration Agency is not fit for the purpose ( DHS syndrome )
Racists, idiots, authoritarians
Brown rejects No 10 Website Petititon for enquiry into 7/7 bombings ( Not that much anti-Tony )
Immigration Service vs. Adedoyin Fedairo...a 3 year old girl
Corporate Noozzzzzz ( News insider's comments on lack of journalistic integrity )
Droning on : Targets of opportunity
Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal prediction - it's over and Obama will win it all
Organic farming in Vermont
Blogging in Nepal
Overview of Nepal from the BBC
White Coat RantsThey're Heeere ( flu )
Tough Lesson
How long? before schlepping to ED ?
White Noise Insanity
Bill O'Reilly and Obama's Secret Service protection got in a tango tonight in New Hampshire
Maine snowfall ( pictures . I wish I some of our old eye-poppers were around. )
Hillary Clinton gets booed twice in New Hampshire at the same dinner
Glenn Beck bitches about America's healthcare system ! ( Did we just have a blue moon ? )
Will gas reach $4/gal this winter ? (It's close to that here now : and this is where oil comes from. And I was using a 3.74 liter gallon, not a 4.55 liter Imperial )
Why Organic
The reason Huck won
The main reason McCain can't win the general election
You're in your world now

6 January - BlogRoaming
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/06/6-january-blogroaming

250,000 Kenyans driven out of homes
Vomiting bug to get worse
Econ bloggers survey results
Best economics prank evar
Political Compass
Hat Tip Religicritics
Check the PDF link there - The Miracles of Jesus - are they for real? and the post UnChristian
Terrorism
( Looking at the slogan - these are 'eating' acorns )
Tree houses ( Article one today. Enjoy the yuk. Not an unconscious soul though,I guess - see 'Nother meme". )
Military experience for Presidential Candidates no longer an issue?
( Look at how it 'helped' John Kerry )
Trying not to lose my religion
The levees are failing, the levees are failing
Hard rain gonna fall
Michael Greenwell
Left for dead by New Labour, liberal Britain must urgently fight back
2008 : The Year of Garbage
Building interactive economic models in Excel
Zero Carbon Britain 

 

7 January - A few mixed links
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/2008/01/08/7-january-a-few-mixed-links

 

Citizen J has some nice links
Electronic Iraq
Corp Watch
Center for Media and Democracy
Hey. There are more.
BigSight aims to become White Pages of web, pulls data from Facebook
Keeping an eye on Gradma over the Internet
( Sounds like a redo of "The Prisoner" )
NSW natural disaster zone widened ( as in Oz )
Fun and Games
Cool Avatars
Intute: Social Sciences
Federal report calls for carbon tax, trading in Canada
Sexually active gay men no longer allowed to donate organs
( The incursion of nutzoid Nazi proclamations blossoms in Canada )
Tiny nerves rewire themselves in mice
Neanderthals stitched too little, too late
Smiling you can hear it in the voice
( A basic of voice coaching )
Cocaine vaccine in the works
Lose the blocked Windows Startup dialog
YouTorrent, your new favorite BitTorrent site
Naps may help memory
( DeFragment ? )
WWF Latest NewsSumatra
American Leftist
Obama's success divisive
Book Review: The Whisperers: Private Life in the Time of Stalin
Benedict: Abortion,Birth Control and Same-Sex Marriage a threat to world peace
( Not to mention religious syncophants aligning with tyranny )
AfroSpear
200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the U.S.
Obama win doesn't mean racism lost
January Carnival: The true state of human kind
Blue Girl Red State
A pitiful sight to behold - Clinton campaign coming undone
Red State woes
Michael Scherer does his part to 'dumb down' the national dialog
And so it begins
If this is true, it is earth-shattering ( Hard on self-imposed blinders, too )
Members of the Bar call for investigations into Bush-Cheney
Get that man an ITMFA bumper sticker!
Iraqi soldier turns his weapon on American soldiers, killing two and wounding three