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First U.S. marijuana cafe opens in Portland
Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:01 PM EST (Reuters)
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - The United States' first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration's move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.
TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:59 PM EST (Boing Boing)
The TSA says you can't carry a snow-globe onto a plane, even if it fits in your freedom baggie, because they can't measure how much liquid it contains, and therefore it must contain more than three oz of potential explosive, um, water.
Funding an illegal police state, one (innocent) person at a time
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:51 PM EST (detnews.com)
Local law enforcement agencies are raising millions of dollars by seizing private property suspected in crimes, but often without charges being filed -- and sometimes even when authorities admit no offense was committed.
Why It's Wrong When Wrongdoers Are Allowed to Admit No Wrongdoing
Seeded on Mon Nov 9, 2009 11:36 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
So no wrongdoing admitted, and time to move on to the next lucrative money-printing scheme. How tidy. This is what passes for justice on Wall Street these days. If you commit a petty crime and hammer out a plea bargain, you'll have to admit wrongdoing as part of the agreement.
Report: 237 millionaires in Congress
Seeded on Mon Nov 9, 2009 1:51 AM EST (Politico)
As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress.
Top Bailout Recipients Spent $71 Million On Lobbying In Year Since Bailout
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 2:11 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Twenty-five top recipients of government bailout funds spent more than $71 million on lobbying the federal government in the year since they were rescued, an extensive review of lobbying records by the Huffington Post reveals.
Rep. Alan Grayson: How the Republicans Failed to Cut Off My Health Care Speech
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 2:09 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Last night, the House Republicans tried, and failed, to squelch a speech that I gave on health care last night. I intend to vote for the health care bill, because that bill saves lives.
Obama orders top US firms to slash bosses' pay
Seeded on Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:14 PM EDT (metro.co.uk)
S companies that received massive government bailouts last year have been ordered by Barack Obama's administration to slash the salaries of their top executives by up to 90 per cent.
Zooming In on the Year's Biggest Hoax
Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:46 PM EDT (Truthdig)
The people I want to know more about are the superrich who expect to be rewarded for their failures, like the folks at Goldman Sachs who will receive $16.71 billion in bonuses—an average of $530,000 per employee—this year after their company did as much as any to bring the wo …
Kill a Kid? Take the Day Off.
Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:40 PM EDT (ScienceBlogs)
Here's another appalling story of how the police get treated one way and civilians quite another. Dallas cop does 70 in a 40 mph zone without his lights or sirens on, hits a kid on a bike and kills him. His punishment: A day off from work.
Are they traitors? Why do they hate the US? 10 Big Businesses That Have Moved Their Headquarters Abroad to Pay Less U.S. Taxes.
Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:36 PM EDT (focus.com)
Some call the practice of moving a company abroad to avoid taxes "corporate inversion," while others deem these businesses "expatriate corporations." Whichever term you prefer, the fact is that several successful American companies have moved their headquarters overseas in re …
TARP deadbeats
Seeded on Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:37 PM EDT (Reuters)
Thirty-three TARP recipients missed a scheduled dividend payment to taxpayers last month, according to the Treasury Department, including 18 banks that missed a payment for the first time. It's a powerful indication that the U.S. banking system remains troubled.
The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting
Seeded on Fri Oct 9, 2009 8:47 PM EDT (Slate)
We actually resemble nothing so much as those legendary lab rats that endlessly pressed a lever to give themselves a little electrical jolt to the brain.
Joe "You Lie" Wilson Voted To Provide Taxpayer Money For Illegal Immigrants' Healthcare
Seeded on Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:34 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
On Wednesday night, Rep. Joe Wilson [R, SC-2], shouted "You lie!" at President Obama when he said that the healthcare bill would not cover illegal immigrants.
Lawmakers' inside advantage to trading
Seeded on Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:00 AM EDT (marketplace.publicradio.org)
Company executives are forbidden from trading stocks using insider knowledge, but no such law exists to prevent members of Congress from doing so.
When millions of Americans protested the Iraq war, the media ignored it. 70,000 lunatics protest healthcare, they got hours of commentary. When a couple went to a Bush rally wearing anti-Bush t-shirts, they got arrested. Guys at Obama rallies openly carry
Seeded on Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:55 PM EDT (Reddut,cin)
When millions of Americans protested the Iraq war, the media ignored it. 70,000 lunatics protest healthcare, they got hours of commentary. When a couple went to a Bush rally wearing anti-Bush t-shirts, they got arrested. Guys at Obama rallies openly carry guns and get interviews.
Anti-Choice Floridians Peddling Constitutional Amendment to Criminalize Birth Control Pill
Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:18 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Yes, the state that brought you Bush v. Gore, the sex offender colony under the bridge, and the shoot-first-ask-questions-later legislation known as the "Stand Your Ground Law" has another idea up its sleeve.
Is Happiness Catching?
Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:30 AM EDT (The New York Times)
By analyzing the Framingham data, Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors — like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy — pass from friend to friend almos …
Who took the picture of Joe Wilson? And how?
Seeded on Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:18 PM EDT (psychologytoday.com)
So here's what I don't understand.
School refuses Obama speech, but will bus kids to see Bush
Seeded on Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:19 PM EDT (Raw Story)
A Texas school which refused to air President Barack Obama's live classroom address is planning to bus students to see the president. Did school officials reverse course after realizing Obama's speech wasn't political, as conservatives had claimed? Nope.
Who Lied? "Uranium is being sought from Africa to be used to produce nuclear weapons by Saddam Hussein to be used against America."
Seeded on Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:14 PM EDT (intershame.com)
Joe Wilson: The case has been made.
Fifty Questions on 9/11
Seeded on Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:31 AM EDT (atimes.com)
It's September 11 all over again - eight years on. The George W Bush administration is out. The "global war on terror" is still on, renamed "overseas contingency operations" by the Barack Obama administration. Obama's "new strategy" - a war escalation - is in play in AfPak.
Are Games Too Much Like Work?
Seeded on Mon Sep 7, 2009 2:08 PM EDT (gamasutra.com)
Video games are at a crossroads. Despite what the hardcore call "dumbing down", many video games are "too much like work" for too many people. If we're to make video games as ubiquitous as movies, what can we do about this?
Obama's Speech to America's Students -- Read the full text from the official White House press release
Seeded on Mon Sep 7, 2009 1:15 PM EDT (Welcome to the White House)
So, was the tempest in an tea cup worth the spilled ink?
The First-Person Immersion Myth
Seeded on Sat Sep 5, 2009 1:33 PM EDT (gamasutra.com)
What most of us do is identify with the character -- and how can you identify with a character you can't see, a character who usually doesn't even talk or have any opinions about the horrible things going on around him? This goes back to the "silent hero" dilemma that has …
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