recent study from the University of British Columbia finds that while most men can regulate their physical and mental sexual arousal to some degree, the men most able to do so are able to control their other emotions as well.
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33431954/ns/health-mens_health/
[ but sex and emotion are disconnected in men, right? interesting how many of the common views about men are convenient - if sex and emotion in men are decoupled, then women need not attend to their own emotional baggage - just make their bodies available and check out emotionally/spiritually - self-confrontation is avoided. ]

Navy testing two pricey, super-fast warships - 50-mph vessels use steerable waterjets instead of propellers and rudders
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33431534/ns/us_news-military/

Rocket propellant has barely changed in the more than 50 years since the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik. But a new mixture of nano-aluminum powder and frozen water could make rocket launches more environmentally friendly, and even allow spacecraft to refuel at distant locations such as the moon or Mars.
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33422312/ns/technology_and_science-space/

repubs: 7 Months After Stimulus, 49 of 50 States Have Lost Jobs - America Now Over 6 Million Jobs Shy of Administration's Projections
- http://www.republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=150826
[ will there be any follow-up or consequences for the admin? only those forced on them by their enemies - our political parties are the contrary of self-regulating ]

( links for 10-23-09 pt 1 )

randian chef? Ducasse is not only interested in his guests' satisfaction. - "Every day, my objective is to take a pleasure, my pleasure," he said. "I'm very, very, uh, egoist to finish. That's my pleasure first - first as a cook is personal pleasure, before the pleasure of a guest. That's clear."
- http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Platelist/alain-ducasse-means-gourmet-culinary-success/story?id=8840142

Obama/Baucus-care meets its test of 10-year budget neutrality by increasing the Social Security surplus and then spending it all on the health care plan - leaving the government that much more in debt for entitlements. Ah, but the increased debt for entitlements is "off budget" - so it doesn't count in their 10-year budget calculation.

- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Scrivenernet/~3/XJPK6KdHokg/obamabaucus-care-as-classic-raid-on.html

links to: http://andrewgbiggs.blogspot.com/2009/10/would-baucus-health-plan-raid-social.html

stossel on ostrom: A Nobel Prize for Showing That Freedom Works
- http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=f1b97478-e377-4a62-9580-0b113f1579e5&t=c

Victor Davis Hanson: The Kitty-Cat Who Roared - President Obama keeps roaring out deadlines like a lion - only later to meow like a little kitty. - Remember, for example, how he bellowed to cheering partisan crowds that he would close down the detainment facility at Guantanamo within a year? - The clock ticks -- and Guantanamo isn’t close to being shut down. It once was easy for candidate Obama to deplore George W. Bush’s supposed gulag. Now it proves harder to decide between the bad choice of detaining non-uniformed terrorist combatants and the worse ones of letting them go, giving them civilian trials, or deporting them to unwilling hosts. - Going back further to September 2007, candidate Obama postured about Iraq that he wanted “to immediately begin to remove our combat troops. Not in six months or one year -- now!” - That “now!” sure sounded macho.
- http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGM2MzM0NTYyOTlmNjBiODdkNjVkYjdmNTAyNTkwYmM=

government medicine: Longest hospital trolley stay - Tony Collins from the UK spent 77 hours and 30 minutes on a hospital trolley waiting for a bed at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon, UK( links for 10-23-09 pt 2 )

orgnic farming inreases hard labor for low pay: Farming has always been messy and painful, and bloody and dirty. It still is. This is something the critics of industrial farming never seem to understand.
- http://www.american.com/archive/2009/july/the-omnivore2019s-delusion-against-the-agri-intellectuals
c/o http://level-head.livejournal.com/434925.html