Town Topic: Kansas City, Missouri | A Hamburger Today

Aug 14, 8:19pm 1 review cooking, food, dining, burger, kansas-city
http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2007/01/town_topic_kansas_city_missouri.html

The best goddam burger KC MO has to offer.

Middle East: Top Assad aide assassinated at Syrian resort | World news | …

Aug 4, 6:49pm 1 review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/05/syria.lebanon?gusrc=rss&feed=netw...

One distinct possibility is that the killing may have been an internal settling of scores. A Syrian with high-level contacts inside the regime linked it to a power struggle between Assad and his military intelligence chief, Assef Shawkat, set off by the Mughniyeh killing.

Jesus General: The troops on the ground

Jul 30, 6:56pm 1 review christianity
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2008/07/troops-on-ground.html

This was ruled a suicide:
Despite the bruises, scratches, teeth imprints and burns on her body, Lavena was found completely dressed in the burning tent. There was a blood trail from outside a contractor's tent to inside the tent. She apparently had been dressed after the attack and her attacker placed her body into the tent and set it on fire.

YouTube - Bush - &Wallstreet was Drunk&

Jul 22, 8:06pm 1 review politics, video, bush, economy
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=xvclygckon

Wall Street got drunk, and now it's got a hangover.

Rendering public opinion irrelevant - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Jul 21, 4:00pm 1 review politics
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/20/israel/index.html?123123

so many of the Government's most consequential actions are concealed behind a wall of secrecy and thus not subject to public debate. Meanwhile, those policies which are publicly disclosed are kept off-limits from any real debate and, even when they are debated, public opinion is almost completely marginalized in favor of the minority elite consensus (see, for instance, the endless Iraq war even in the face of long-standing, overwhelming support for its end).

Southwests 7 secrets for success - Aviation- msnbc.com

Jul 21, 3:13pm 1 review aerospace
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25644111/

Why the airline industry does not need federal handouts.

Miley Cyrus, A Wet T-Shit, Another Scandal - EON

Jul 17, 5:55pm 1 review activism
http://www.eontarionow.com/entertainment/2008/07/14/miley-cyrus-a-wet-t-shit-...

Bad headline

Released calls put police on edge | Philadelphia Inquirer | 07/13/2008

Jul 13, 9:19am 1 review law, wiretapping, 4th-amendment, search-and-seizure, illegal-search
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080713_Released_calls_put_polic...

Finally, people are starting to understand what the 4th amendment is supposed to protect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeTssvexa9s?IDLink=3730470

Jul 11, 8:44pm 1 review evolution, video, intelligent-design, creationism
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=68ter5nyb7

Truth is not a democracy.

The 11-year-old Romanian schoolgirl raped by her uncle tells her moving story ab…

Jul 11, 8:16pm 2 reviews sexual-health
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/article-1034497/The-11-year-old-Romanian...

So she and her daughter set off on the harrowing journey that would lead them to King's College Hospital. Initially refused a termination in Romania because abortions are not permitted there after 14 weeks, Florina's mother realised her daughter faced the horrifying prospect of giving birth to a baby conceived by that most taboo of crimes, incestuous rape.