'Electroshock' Weapons Controversy & More for Friday, August 14, 2009

‘Exploding’ deficit imperils health bill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32413579/ns/politics-washington_post/

Commentary: 'Death panel' fears are false

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/blayney.death.discussions/index.html

Health Care Anger or Mob Think?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?id=8323841&page=1


Newsweek: 7 falsehoods about health care reform

http://www.newsweek.com/id/211981

NYT: ‘Death panel’ rumor has familiar roots

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32412764/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/

Fear for Obama's Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8324481&page=1

Ottawa must press for Khadr's return: Appeal Court

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/08/13/omar-khadr-appeal081309.html

Omar Khadr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr



Iran inmates 'tortured to death'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8200780.stm

Hong Kong emerges from recession

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8201056.stm.

Lockerbie bomber withdraws appeal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8201188.stm

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Megrahi

Taser International to challenge Braidwood findings

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/08/14/taser-challenge-inquiry014.html

Robert Dziekanski Taser Incident (Wikipedia Link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dziekanski

Braidwood Commission / Inquiry (Wikipedia Link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braidwood_Inquiry

Taser safety issues (Wikipedia Link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser_safety_issues

Lynndie England DC lecture canceled after threats

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090814/ap_on_re_us/us_abu_ghraib_england;_ylt=AvDUdvyoV3KAO_.yf_8yZims0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNscGhnM3ZtBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODE0L3VzX2FidV9naHJhaWJfZW5nbGFuZARjY29kZQNyYW5kb20EY3BvcwMxMARwb3MDNwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2x

Applying For Your Own Job, Hoping You Get It

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=8318647&page=1

Sony to support open ebook format

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8201093.stm

Appeal for anti-terrorist gadgets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8201130.stm

Internet filtering software optional, China says

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/14/china-green-dam-internet-software.html

Jet Blue's All-You-Can-Fly: Good Deal?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/14/earlyshow/living/travel/main5241908.shtml

Believe It or Not, You're Rich



http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=8314465&page=1

Global Rich List

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

The Perils of Short Links

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/13/tech/real_technology/main5241148.shtml

Study finds most Twitter posts 'Pointless Babble'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32408652/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

Tweeble or Twivel

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/tweeble-or-twivel.html

Babble

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babble

Drivel

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/drivel

Twilter

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/twilter.html

Filter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(software)

Twacker and Feinberg Meetings and More for Sunday, August 9, 2009

Video: Is stimulus money helping cities?

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China to keep credit flowing to buoy economy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32349138/ns/business-world_business/

No Longer Jobless, But Still Struggling

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/07/eveningnews/main5226035.shtml

Canada lost 45,000 more jobs in July

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/08/07/unemployment-july.html

Health Care Reform: How It Will Affect You

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/07/business/marketwatch/main5225682.shtml

Attacks on single blogger knocked out Twitter

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32336633/ns/technology_and_science-security/

Twitter hack gets everyone's attention

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/08/the-best-way-to-get-the-attention-of-a-classroom-full-of-rowdy-kids-is-to-turn-the-lights-off-and-the-best-way-to-get-the-at.html#posts

Twacker

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/twacker.html

Twusher or Twiorger

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/twusher-or-twiorger.html

Twither

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/twither.html

Iraq quizzes Iran over detained U.S. hikers

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/09/iran.americans.detained/index.html

Plane refused landing in China after bomb threat

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/09/china.plane.hijacked/index.html

Why Iran's Revolutionary Guards Mercilessly Crack Down

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=8275677&page=1

Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Guardians_of_the_Islamic_Revolution


Pay czar quietly meets with rescued firms

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32347737/ns/business-washington_post/

Kenneth R. Feinberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Feinberg

U.S. willing to hold direct talks with N. Korea

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32349036/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Ministers deny torture collusion

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8191450.stm

Briton in Iraqi custody after contractor killings

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32349032/ns/world_news-conflict_in_iraq/

U.S. prosecutors set to charge Madoff's long-time CFO

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/08/07/madoff-cfo-charges-ponzi.html

Frank DiPascali

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_DiPascali

Opium ravaging Afghan families

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32317823/ns/health-addictions/

Opium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium

Afghanistan expected to cost U.S. dearly

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32346408/ns/world_news-washington_post/

Russian crew ship 'disappears'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8192350.stm

More on 'Gating Dr. Gates' & More for Thursday, July 23, 2009

We know we shouldn't be flip, but having viewed TDS too many times, we can't resist. To have kept things interesting (and flip)during Mr. Obama's press conference on health care he just needed to say two words: 'Medical Marijuana'. And the resultant sales tax on the sales of the same would in itself pay for most of healthcare. Of course, most Americans are opposed to legalizing the medicinal use in all 50 states. Which is true, we just can't have half of the population high on medical marijuana half the time - it is just too dangerous. Also, it is too comical. Can you imagine characters like Jay and Silent Bob (from the Kevin Smith movies) on almost every street corner - or storefront - in America. Or worse, Harold and Kumar stereotypes. Or - much worse - Cheech & Chong stereotypes in every college town in America. Gosh, its kind of sad, isn't it? Reducing the nation's health care reform to this kind of ridiculous portrayal. Will the health care reform have to go the way of the medical marijuana sales tax to pay for itself? Probably not. However, the sales tax on beer, wine, liquor, spirits, tobacco, pornography, sugar, fast foods and other pleasures will probably be raised to help pay for the reform. Oh, or raise taxes on the rich to help pay for the reform? Huh? What did you say? You changed your mind to legalizing medical marijuana to pay for the reform? We thought you would give in.

Anyway, regarding the political firestorm growing out of the Gates' arrest (and Obama's outrage), see the links below. Also, see our posting of yesterday (which was published before the press conference...don't worry, our prescience does not make this a 'Blog of Note'...): 'Gating Dr. Gates'.

Oh, and don't panic, but check out the links to the latest on the H1N1 Pandemic. Medical marijuana probably won't be helpful here - except to reduce any levels of panic.

Oh, and check out Arnold wielding a 2-foot knife on the internet.

And the unemployed may have no reason to fear drug testing for medical marijuana, because

Many unemployed giving up

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1104441

Black scholar arrest angers Obama

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8164862.stm

'THE POLICE ACTED STUPIDLY': Obama Jumps Into the Race Debate

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8153681&page=1

Obama: Police 'acted stupidly' in prof's arrest

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/22/harvard.gates.interview/index.html

Obama says police acted 'stupidly' in arrest

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_harvard_scholar;_ylt=Ana29zX4t6zXW1jpUWlllAkEtbAF

Gates’ Daughter Speaks Out (CBS)

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5181954n

Cop: Obama remark disappoints

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32092715/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/

Gating Dr. Gates

http://americanpoliticalhandbook.blogspot.com/2009/07/gating-dr-gates-and-more-for-wednesday.html

Obama defends healthcare reforms

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8164177.stm

Obama turns health push into a snoozer

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/23/2005548.aspx

Feds bust mayors, others in huge N.J. graft sweep

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32103250/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

The Ann Arbor News hits the streets for last time

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_us/us_ann_arbor_news_goodbye;_ylt=AiYoefTXw.4rJxuFAsBbVhis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlNDVqY21sBHBvcwM3MARzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawN0aGVhbm5hcmJvcm4-

US pessimistic on Iran overtures

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8165265.stm

Iran opposition leader's brother-in-law arrested

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election;_ylt=AkFx_E1qo4XB1hkG0uP8J6ys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFicmtxcWtmBHBvcwM1NgRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3dvcmxkBHNsawNpcmFub3Bwb3NpdGk-

Bin Laden son 'believed killed'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8164763.stm

Saad Bin Laden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saad_Bin_Laden

Mumbai suspect trial to proceed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8164279.stm

Ajmal Qasab

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajmal_Qasab

Wall Street jacks up pay after bailouts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32099693/ns/business-washington_post/

Schwarzenegger wields knife, touts cuts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32099641/ns/us_news-life/

Karadzic asks for DNA from graves

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/07/23/karadzic-war-crimes.html

Radovan Karadzic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radovan_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87

Atleo wins AFN election

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/07/23/afn-national-chief-vote-ballot752.html

Shawn Atleo

http://www.shawnatleo.com/

This Article Will Self-destruct: Tool To Make Online Personal Data Vanish

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721113309.htm

Vanish Paper & Prototype

http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/

New Statistical Tool Identifies Predictable Economic Variables

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721091824.htm

How To Maintain The Integrity And Accessibility Of Research Data

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090722120830.htm

Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12615

Artificial Noise Saves Energy For Computer Network Providers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090624093734.htm

RIM warns Mideast customers of spyware

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/23/rim-uae-spyware-blackberry.html

B.C. Taser inquiry to issue report

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/07/23/bc-braidwood023.html

UK space sector 'to double value'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8164776.stm

Tamiflu-resistant swine flu case found in Canada

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090722/ap_on_he_me/cn_canada_swine_flu;_ylt=ApO6b87pQdQjX5BOprQ5Ki.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkMHNuaTdzBHBvcwMxNTUEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA3RhbWlmbHUtcmVzaQ--

Flu infects 100,000 in past week (BBC UK)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8163930.stm

Swine flu fears prompt Hajj curbs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8164535.stm

Hajj

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj

Biodiesel On The Wing: A 'Green' Process For Biodiesel From Feather Meal

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090722110903.htm

China Earthquake Redux and CLieA and More for Friday, July 10, 2009

Updated/Revised Saturday, July 11, 2009:

400,000 Displaced in China after Quake

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/10/world/main5148730.shtml

Newsweek: Panetta orders internal CIA probe

http://www.newsweek.com/id/205958

Rep. Holt on Countdown on CIA Witholding Info for 8 years

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#31837896

Howard Fineman on Countdown on CIA Witholding Info for 8 years

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#31837903

CLieA

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/07/cliea.html

CWhyA

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/05/cwhya.html

CQA or C?A

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/05/cqa.html

Lawmaker: Panetta terminated secret program

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31849628/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

Jan Schakowsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Schakowsky

Leon Panetta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Panetta

G8 pledges to boost food supplies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8143566.stm

G8 warning on Iran crackdown

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8144611.stm

Iranian police fire in air to disperse protesters

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5684gs-us-iran-protests/

Protesters in Iran met with tear gas, batons

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/09/iran.protests.anniversary/index.html

Chinese police break up Xinjiang protest

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre569070-us-china-xinjiang/

Uighurs defy Xinjiang mosque ban

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/07/10/china-uighur-mosque891.html

Geithner: Derivatives crippled the economy (...ummm, we think Mr. Geithner is right on this one, remember the fiscal disaster - related to derivatives - in Orange County?...)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31846531/ns/business-us_business/

Derivative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_(finance)

CNNMoney: AIG in cross hairs of new bonus rage

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/10/news/companies/aig_bonuses/index.htm?postversion=2009071009

Experts: Iraq invasion harmed historic Babylon

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31842219/ns/world_news-conflict_in_iraq/

Babylon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon

Credit card firms try a new squeeze play

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/07/when-james-received-a-great-credit-card-offer-two-years-ago-a-499-percent-interest-on-balance-transfers-for-the-life-of.html#posts

GM emerges from bankruptcy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8144434.stm

July 2009 Cyber Attacks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_cyber_attacks

Ripjack Request or Ripjack Program

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/07/ripjack-request-or-ripjack-program.html

Computers in U.S. Linked to Cyber Attack

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/10/world/main5148748.shtml

PCs could be hit next in Web attack

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31849331/ns/technology_and_science-security/

PCs could be hit next in Web attack: South Korea

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre56709e-us-korea-south-internet/

South Korea blocks IP addresses spreading computer virus

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/10/southkorea-websites.html

Debate over possible responses to cyber attacks

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31836856/ns/technology_and_science-security/

Experts work to untangle cyber attacks

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31837148/ns/technology_and_science-security/

Griditration or Gridthreat

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/04/griditration-or-gridthreat.html

Bristol's ex talks about Palin's resignation

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31846807/ns/politics-more_politics/

Levi: Palin Quit To Cash In On Fame

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/10/politics/main5149480.shtml

Was Money Palin’s Real Motivation? (MSNBC Countdown)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#31857316

$palin

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/07/palin.html

$pale

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/07/pale.html

SA miners hold bosses underground

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8144448.stm

Pair jailed for web race crimes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8144366.stm

Nestle dough’s E. coli doesn’t match outbreak

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31836583/ns/health-food_safety/



Concern over Ebola virus in pigs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8143823.stm

Ebola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola

India toxic alcohol toll tops 100

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8144023.stm

Americans value science, but not all of it: survey

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre56901o-us-survey/

How much CO2 does this article produce?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/07/10/green.internet.CO2/index.html

Bisphenol A traces found in baby food: Health Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/07/10/bisphenola-bpa-baby-food-bottled-water-health-canada.html

Bisphenol A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A


Jackson foul play 'not ruled out'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8143756.stm

MySpace 'suicide bully cleared'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8131797.stm

Smoke alarms, tea kettles, basketballs recalled

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31838066/ns/today_home_and_garden/

Withdrawal Syndrome After Consumption Of Designer Drug 'Spice Gold'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709072911.htm

Spice (*drug*)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_(drug)

B.C. time warp blamed on power transmission problems

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090709/K070911AU.html

From Thursday, July 9, 2009

Iran police disperse protesters

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8141873.stm

Iranian police use tough tactics to quell new protests

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31828921/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

House Democrats say CIA lied

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31808054/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

Local governments face harsh choices

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31686981/ns/us_news-the_elkhart_project/

Rio worker 'stole state secrets'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8141766.stm

Rio Tinto (Wiki Link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_Group

Police to probe UK phone hack claims

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8142047.stm

New 'cyber attacks' hit S Korea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8142282.stm

'15-year high' for rhino poaching

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8142180.stm

World’s First-hydrogen Powered Yacht With A Fully Integrated Laboratory Will Study Mediterranean Pollution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619125909.htm

Some Particles Cool Climate, Others Add To Global Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619125905.htm

Regulation And Oversight Of Gun Sales Reduces Trafficking To Criminals, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090707111749.htm

Moore tackles financial meltdown


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8142017.stm

Michael Moore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moore

Mystery surrounds Jackson burial

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8141894.stm