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No Nanny State - Molon Labe!
There has been a lot of talk from Treasury Secretary Paulson lately about a bailout rescue plan for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. I’ll try and shed a little light on what Freddie and Fannie do, how they got in trouble, and why there is all of this concern about these two companies.

Casaubon’s Book » Blog Archive » Everything You Need to Know, In Order
A student in my class asked me for a list of skills we need to get ready for peak oil, prioritized. I admit, it took me about a day after she asked to stop thinking “Holy Crap, how do I figure that all out!” But it is an interesting question. And while it isn’t all just about food preservation, I thought I’d take a shot at it. I will, of course, be relying on my fearless readership to point out gaps in my thinking.

Paul Proctor — Nowhere To Hide
You see, in my Google Earth search for memorable places from my past, I found, out in the middle of nowhere, a little trailer my dad bought back in the 60s that he had moved to a wooded hillside overlooking a pond on a friend’s 8000 acre ranch in west Texas where we used to hunt and fish when I was a kid – a rather remote place miles from the nearest farm-to-market road where, even to this day, there are no telephone lines, no paved roads or even an address to receive mail.

Newsmax.com - Chinese Find No Links Between Bus Blasts, Olympics
Chinese police investigating two deadly bus explosions in a southwestern city have not found any links between the blasts and next month’s Olympic Games, officials said Tuesday.

The explosions Monday on two public buses in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, had heightened fears of terrorism with less than three weeks to go before the opening of the Beijing games.

“We have not found evidence that links it to the Beijing Olympics but we continue to make efforts to find out the truth,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said.

Off-Grid - life unplugged: solar, wind, hydro, architecture, smallholdings, free stuff » Calculating Possible Energy From A Stream
There is abundant supply of streams and rivers that criss cross the US making micro-hydro power feasible. That is especially true in remote wooded areas where other natural energy, such as solar or wind, would be harder to integrate into the existing environment.