42.2 Cents of every tax dollar spent on the military tops the list

Quoted: How Your Tax Dollars Are Spent

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The iphone rap video has arrived

Quoted: Hit me if you want me baby I'll be on my iphone.

German guy abducted from Germany by U.S. using CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program and held in Kabul for 4 months where he claims he was tortured. Turns out the CIA got the wrong guy and now he wants $75k in compensation. Supreme Court rejects hearing the case without comment and say "state secrets" would be revealed if either the Justices themselves or the court were given access to the information for which the hearing would be based.

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Quoted: The state secrets privilege arose from a 1953 Supreme Court ruling that allowed the executive branch to keep secret, even from the court, details about a military plane's fatal crash... Three widows sued to get the accident report after their husbands died aboard a B-29 bomber, but the Air Force refused to release it claiming that the plane was on a secret mission to test new equipment. The high court accepted the argument, but when the report was released decades later there was nothing in it about a secret mission or equipment.

Mathematical proof for existence of Parallel Universes by Oxford scientists.

Quoted: Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists described by one expert as "one of the most important developments in the history of science".

To my roommates at calTech, I told you so.

A vote in the US Senate fell four votes short of what was needed to restore habeas corpus — the fundamental right of individuls to challenge government detention. Here is the record of the vote on the Cloture Motion to restore Habeas Corpus. Article 4 of the US Constitution states that habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless in cases of rebellion and invasion when the public safety may require it.

Best Beef Jerky. I thought I would share this with any jerky lovers out there. Enjoy

The Forbes 40

Quoted: We looked at 40 of the largest urbanized areas in the country and judged them on culture, nightlife, job growth, the cost of living alone, ...

Scientists have suspected for decades that exercise, particularly regular aerobic exercise, can affect the brain. But they could only speculate as to how. Now an expanding body of research shows that exercise can improve the performance of the brain by boosting memory and cognitive processing speed. Exercise can, in fact, create a stronger, faster brain.

You knew this was going to happen. Politicians don't do jail time.