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In another display of bipartisanship our glorious US Senate has approved a FISA bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecom companies that illegally and profitably provided private customer data to the US government during the last couple of years.在另一个显示两党合作的光荣美国参议院已经批准了一项法案，其中包括FISA追溯豁免权的电信公司，非法获利和私人客户提供的数据，美国政府在过去的几年。 See this report by Glenn Greenwald for more details on this issue.见本报告的格伦格林瓦德有关详细信息，在这个问题上。

Our government needs to have the means available to protect its citizens from foreign and domestic threats.我们的政府需要有可利用的手段保护其公民免受外国和国内的威胁。 No one denies this point.没有人否认这一点。 But the circumvention of checks ... Continue Reading »但是，规避检查...继续阅读»

Mrs. Clinton’s senior campaign staff will be going without pay this month, due to fundraising problems.希拉里的高级竞选工作人员将去无薪假期的这个月，由于资金问题。 Meanwhile Barack Obama seems to be doing ok.同时奥巴马似乎不错。 His latest fundraising numbers can be found here .他最近的筹款数目可以在这里找到。 As already predicted , the duration of the campaign which certainly surprised Mrs. Clinton will be detrimental to her ability to compete financially, given that Hillary Clinton’s ... Continue Reading »正如已经预言 ，会期的运动，当然感到惊讶希拉里将不利于她的竞争能力，财政，因为希拉里的...继续阅读»

It turns out that Hillary Clinton "loaned" her Presidential campaign $5 million from her own private funds to be able to compete with Barack Obama.事实证明，希拉里“借给”她的总统竞选五百点零零零万美元从她自己的私人资金，以便能够与奥巴马。 Reportedly the Clintons are considering making further "loans" of up to $20 million to Hillary’s campaign to stay competitive in the Democratic primary contest.据报道，克林顿正在考虑作出进一步的“贷款”高达2000万美元，希拉里的竞选中保持竞争力的民主党初选竞赛。 Fundraising is turning into a problem for Hillary, as most of her donors are wealthy and her donor base is small, compared to that of Barack Obama.筹款正在变成一个问题希拉里，因为大多数捐助者都富裕她和她的捐助者基数小，相对于奥巴马。 Given that there is an upper limit for individual contributions of US$2500 or so and that many of Hillary’s contributors ... Continue Reading »鉴于有一个上限，个人的贡献，美国$ 2500左右，许多希拉里的捐助者...继续阅读»

There was a chance (let’s call it hope, in my case) that Barack Obama would score a decisive victory in yesterday’s Presidential Primary Elections.有机会（让我们称之为希望，在我的情况下）认为奥巴马将评分了决定性的胜利在昨天的总统初选。 That did not happen.这种情况并未发生。 Neither did the opposite.也没有相反。 The remaining state primary contests favor Barack Obama.其余的国家主要竞赛支持奥巴马。 Thus I expect that he will pick up some more delegates along the way, adding to his existing lead in so-called pledged delegates.因此我希望，他将拿起一些代表前进的道路上，增加了其现有导致所谓的承诺代表。 These exclude the so-called Super-Delegates (mostly Democratic party big-wigs).这些数据不包括所谓的超级代表（主要是民主党大假发） 。 The TOTAL delegate count at this point favors Hillary Clinton, due to her advantage in the Super-Delegate count.总代表数在这一点上有利于希拉里克林顿，因为她的优势在超级代表数量。 But these Super ... Continue Reading »但是，这些超...继续阅读»

What do you think is the most important thing that we’ve learned by studying nature?你觉得是最重要的事情，我们已经学会了学习的性质？ Is it that matter is composed of identical, indivisible subunits called atoms?难道这个问题是由相同的，不可分割的亚基称为原子？ Is it Plate Tectonics?是板块构造？ Or maybe the insignificance of earth in the incomprehensibly vast cosmos?或也许是微不足道的地球在宇宙费解广大？

In my book it is Evolution.我的书是进化。 The fact that every living thing on this planet evolved from microbial life is far and away the most influential concept that we’ve learned so far.事实上，每一个生活在这个星球上的事从微生物的生命远远最具影响力的概念，我们学到了迄今。 This fact is so surprising that a majority of us still can not accept it.这一事实是如此令人惊讶的是，大多数我们仍然不能接受。 You don’t hear many people doubting the correctness of atomic ... Continue Reading »你不会听到许多人怀疑是正确的原子...继续阅读»

Today is the day of the Democratic and Republican primary elections.今天是天的民主党和共和党初选。 Although I favor Barack Obama’s nomination on the Democratic side, a sense of realism tells me that Hillary Clinton will probably win a majority of votes when averaged over the 20 or so states that hold primaries and caucuses today.虽然我支持奥巴马的提名民主的一面，现实感告诉我，希拉里克林顿可能会赢得多数票时，平均20个左右的国家举行初选和选举会议今天。 It will be interesting to see how things will turn out in California, where until recently Mrs. Clinton enjoyed a large double-digit lead that has shrunk to almost nil in the last couple of days.这将是很有意思，看看事情会变成在加利福尼亚州，在那里，直到最近，克林顿夫妇享有大型两位数的领先优势已经缩小到几乎为零，在过去几天。 Exciting times.激动人心的时刻。