oldephartte(in training): 1 - 4 Mar 2008 My Opera

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1 March Surfing Safari

Sunday, 2. March 2008, 00:31:55

Something BIG is cooking in the Middle East
Ominous signs point to a new and deadly phase in Darfur fighting
Judge reverses his ruling disabling web site ( Wikileaks. The judge has clued in to the fact no practical enforcement exists : that it should not hasn't percolated through yet )
Galactic survey reveals a new look for the Milky Way
UW students help El Salvadoran towns build wastewater system
A Roguish Chrestomathy ( To err is humorous )
Thumbstrips ( for Firefox )
Tips for savvy medical web surfing Hat Tip Lifehacker
Eidolon A.I. talks about the Singularity, Judgment Day, TLP
The Intention Experiment ( Jack Chalker fans should relate : Well of Souls & Flux and Anchor series )
Lack of imagination in older adults linked to declining memory Hat Tip Lily 2112
Children with autism may learn from 'virtual peers'
Rights groups renew bid to halt detainee transfers
Israeli force in Gaza is 'excessive' - UN's Ban
( Note the UN assessment is casually dismissed )
More Amercans turn to web for news
BlogMonks
Why Ontario keeps sending patients South
( As long as the idea is not floated that the US is to be emulated : there are far better models available. I see the government received a sizeable discount ! )
In New Media world - everyone is sounding like a beltway insider
TechPresident
It's time to demilitarize US policy in Africa
Also : US among harshest for sentencing children
Teaching boys and girls separately
Frogs could croak if global warming not fixed
Did a Big Bang in our own solar System create Venus as we know it ?
Bottled Water Hat Tip cwlodarczyk
Telus completes wireless network
Something to Digg
Mothers lobby for midwives
Antidepressant study shakes up medicine
Those touched by cancer on Alberta reserve tell stories at legislature
( Except it may not be just oilsands : uranium causes cancer )
Study questions diabetes threshold
Bad patents, evil corporations and the rise of intellectual imperialism
West Antarctic glaciers melting at 20 times former rate
Lessons on Iraq from a founding father
Blue Girl Red State
Nightowl Newswrap
Mukasey won't enforce contempt citations ( That's to the point of being no surprise : law is not enforceable today in the USA )

What Samedi has found - a look at some finds in Del.icio.us

Sunday, 2. March 2008, 06:53:01

Blogs Politics Links

Dragging back into my WordPress experience, I was known to more than a few WordPress bloggers. Samedi shared Del.icio.us links : I had his link earlier today. Sunk without a trace.

A hostage situation
( Deja vu, anyone ? Look at the date )
A state of misery
Digby : Bloggers are part of a revolutionary particpatory democracy
Mowser
The Ratings Mirage
Cave entrances found on Mars
Beyond a 'speed limit' on mutation, species risk extinction
Semidi's Nodes

http://chenzhen.wordpress.com/ decided to list WordPress political blogs. How's that for a link summary to brighten your day ?

Evidence : Patrick Leahy statement on FISA legislative process

Executive Order
Strips responsibility for reporting illegal activity

The Democratic Candidates and Civil Liberties

And I even have a 'geek news source' at I Started Something with some Windoze news

Sunday 2 March - First Notes from the Web

Sunday, 2. March 2008, 16:31:29

news views

Mar 19 Iraq War Blogswarm
war without comment
Gates urges limits on Turkish raids
( Looking ridiculous without even trying : "Do as I say, not as I do". Which isn't the same as saying it's a bad idea. )
The World According to American Goy
Ordinary Men : Reserve Police Batallion 101 and the war in Iraq
The truth about mutual funds "Funds that impose no cost to purchase have outperformed those that brokers pay themselves to find for their clients." Fool.com
Scott Ritter on the Israeli lobby influence on the United States
Wexler is still working to impeach Cheney
Project to resettle Iraqi allies
Hat Tip Rubber Hose
Health 08 Org
New asbestos exposure limit for U.S. mine workers
Invisible Opportunity
Bush Administration ignores 48,000 messages to protect Baca National Wildlife Refuge
Oil wars Pentagon policy since 1999
Deaths halt diabetes study
Fascism : You really think it'll be this obvious ?
Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic : Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don't
....Seeds of Destruction book notes
You Think You Are Free ?
70 mpg ?
( I would have quipped at "The Trick is not to mind it" post - but TypePad acted up. Amanda's "The Price of Right" - which she took time out from blogging to write - should include "Moving the Overton Window" ; making the outrageous seem reasonable. Fallacies should be recognized by the victim of those techniques as well. Propaganda and Mind Control work best on the unprepared. )
Home Schooling at risk in California
( The state has such a wonderful record in raising orphans : the stats for criminal activity for the adults who were state wards as children is quite a jump over being raised in a family atmosphere. Hitler Youth, however, must be 'programmed' and deprived of the knowledge which leads to informed choice. ) Hat Tip Breaking News
9/11attacks made up, says French actress, Oscar-winner

Sunday 2 March - Surfing Finds

Sunday, 2. March 2008, 22:55:30

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Needlenose
Reversing the partisan prism of authenticity ( identity politics )
framing goodness
Chronicle of Lost Liberties
TruthHugger
The nature of our beast is greed
30 years of pride Down Under
democracy cannot stand another 9/11
GAO : a critical challenge facing our nation
Gaza issues toxic water warning
Losing a Voice
Military Religious Freedom Foundation
Last Left Turn B4 Hooterville
"Say it Loud - I'm Liberal and I'm Proud" ( Alicia on one of her too-rare "tell-it-like-it-is" rants : Obama's 'triangulation' getting her p.o.'d about the frame. )
Think Progress
CBS News ignores Iraqi refugee crisis
Rove : Iraq redeployment would cause oil prices to shoot to $200 a barrel
( Don't just read the headline : comments are vital )
Flashback : McCain repeatedly lobbied FCC on behalf of campaign contributors
Credit card market a potential disaster in waiting
DoJ refuses to enforce contempt citations
Visas halted for Iraq and Afghan translators
Gender Buzz
Keeping your ride can be safer
Texas farmers enlist Asian cockroaches to protect crops
The Zoo
Middle East Turmoil
The fat lady sings