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Washington - President Obama decided this week to raise the stakes in this fall's election by making the choice about something instead of nothing but anger.

In the process, he will confront a deeply embedded media narrative that sees a Republican triumph as all but inevitable. Paradoxically, such extravagant expectations may be the GOP's biggest problem -- by raising the bar for what will constitute success, and by discouraging necessary strategic adjustments should our newly combative president begin to alter the political battlefield.

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My wife is planning on cheating on me with a woman. We talked about a threesome with a woman years ago but she said she wasn't even remotely interested after we discussed it.

A few days ago, she let me use her phone's browser to look something up. I saw a Google search for "lesbian sex" and asked her nonchalantly about it. She said she didn't do it, but I knew she was lying and pointed out that nobody had used her phone but her. She admitted that she was looking into doing something with me and other women but wasn't sure. I told her that lying wasn't okay but told her that I'd be up for it as long as she was honest about her approach.

Well, this morning I had some time to kill and long story short, via a google search, I found my wife's e-mail connected with a lesbian dating site. It didn't bother me until I saw the following line, "My husband will not be involved".

I know that she casually browses Craigslist personals, so my first instinct was to check there to see if she had posted anything. And lo and behold, there's a posting from her under the W4W section. I confirmed that this is indeed her. Just trust me on that. At the top it said "My husband knows I'm doing this and is okay with it, and he will NOT be involved."

It goes on to describe her likes and dislikes, what she's looking for and says that she wants to "get to know" the person before doing something. "I'm looking for someone I can be attracted to physically and mentally", it goes on to say.

I do not know that she's doing this and I would be okay with it if she was searching for someone for a threesome or to spice up our sex life. But that's clearly not the intention. It looks like she's looking to do some outside experimenting herself. This is NOT okay.

We've had our issues in the past with infidelity on her end with another man, but it was dealt with and we moved on from it.

I have a few options that I'm considering:

1. I can confront her about it now, but seeing as how I don't have any more information than I do, she could lie about it to seem like she's looking for a third wheel.

2. I can let it play out and keep a close eye on the situation without saying a word about it.

3. Respond to the craigslist ad myself under an assumed identity and see what her true intentions are. I am highly against doing this, but right now I feel this would be the only way to get her real intentions out.

Obviously if she's planning on cheating for a second time, the marriage is over. We do have children, a house, and the whole nine yards. Any advice would be appreciated.

<b>EDIT 1<b> Gathered up all the information I have. Took screen shots of the posting, the profile on the website, etc. I won't bring up the fact that she browsed lesbian porn on her phone, as that's not admissable in court. I do know her e-mail password but WILL NOT be snooping in it. I won't bring myself to that level. Will post updates as they come.

EDIT 2: On the outside I am calm and normal, however, on the inside I am still too irrational. I have several thoughts and feelings that, if I confront her tonight, it might become a very bad argument. I'm going to wait until tomorrow, when there are no children around, and then present her with what I have. I will go from there. I'd like to thank every single one of you for your input. This is why I love reddit. I've contacted my lawyer and she says that calmly talking about it is the right thing to do, as I already have the documented evidence if this turns ugly. I have an apartment lined up if things get shady, I have the money issue already resolved. I'm ready to confront this in the AM when I'm more rational thinking. Will update. Thanks guys.

The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine caused massive flooding in northern Texas on Wednesday, killing at least one person and much of the city of Arlington under water.

Don't worry. They'll let you know.

The Federal Reserve is proposing another round of "quantitative easing," although the first round failed to reverse deflation. It failed because the money went to banks, which failed to lend it on. To reverse deflation, the money needs to be funneled directly to state and local economies. The Fed may not be authorized to "monetize" state bonds, but it COULD buy bonds issued by state-owned banks.

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The White House released the following remarks on the economy that President Barack Obama delivered this afternoon in Ohio.

Good afternoon, Ohio. It's good to be back.

In the fall of 2008, one of the last rallies of my presidential campaign was here in the Cleveland area. It was a hopeful time, just two days before the election. We knew that if we pulled it off, we'd have the chance to tackle some big and difficult challenges that had been facing this country for a long time.

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Pastor Terry Jones just held a press conference outside his Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville to announce that he plans to go forward with the Koran burning on Sept. 11.

Paris - After weeks of rumours sparked by the leaking of a draft World Bank position paper on so-called land grabs in poor countries, the international financial institution has officially released its report on the surge in farmland purchases and leasing which have elicited controversy for over two years.

Acquisitions of vast tracts of fertile land in Africa by foreign governments and companies eager to secure affordable food resources

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There's a difference between being paranoid and being suspicious. Paranoia is mental disturbance; suspicion is a rational deduction.

For example, if you suspect that America's economy, politics, government, media, judiciary and practically every other system has been wired to favor corporate interests over every other interest in our country, you're deducing, not hallucinating.

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(Editor’s Note: This story was originally published March 9, 2010)

While the rest of the world was waiting around for that better mousetrap, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a startling breakthrough in battery technology.

A nanotube

A team led by Dr. Michael Stano has designed minuscule “nanotubes” coated with a chemical fuel that can act as a power source with 100 times more electrical power by weight than conventional batteries.

Strano is the senior author of a paper detailing the discovery that appeared Sunday in the journal Nature Materials. The lead author is Wonjoon Choi, a an MIT doctoral student in mechanical engineering.

Dr. Stano

The paper was posted online at MIT News.

The team coated their microscopic nanotubes with a chemical fuel known as cyclotrimethylene trinitramine.

“One property that nanotubes have is that they conduct heat very, very well along their length, up to a hundred times faster than in metals,” Dr Strano said in an interview with BBC News.

“We asked what would happen if you perform a chemical reaction near one of these, and the first thing we found is the nanotube will guide the reaction, accelerating it up to 10,000 times.”

A nanotube

The key ingredients in the recipe are the carbon nanotubes, submicroscopic hollow tubes made of a chicken-wire-like lattice of carbon atoms. These tubes, just a few billionths of a meter (nanometers) in diameter, are part of a family of novel carbon molecules, including buckyballs and graphene sheets, that have been the subject of intensive worldwide research over the last two decades.

Nanotechnolgy and Development News, a department at the Meridian Institute, explained the process:

“The team found that when a carbon nanotube is coated with a layer of reactive fuel, and then ignited, the result is a fast-moving thermal wave traveling the length of the nanotube. The heat produced by the combustion will then push electrons along the tube, creating an electrical current.

“The energy produced by this novel system puts out energy, in proportion to its weight, which is about 100 times greater than an equivalent weight of a lithium-ion battery. (Strano said) the phenomenon “…opens up a new area of energy research, which is rare.”

Ditto

Because this is such a new discovery, Stano said in an MIT press release, it’s hard to predict exactly what the practical applications will be. But he suggested that one possible application would be in enabling new kinds of ultra-small electronic devices—for example, devices the size of  grains of rice, perhaps with sensors or treatment devices that could be injected into the body. Or it could lead to “environmental sensors that could be scattered like dust in the air,” he said.

In theory, he said, such devices could maintain their power indefinitely until used, unlike batteries whose charges leak away gradually as they sit unused. And while the individual nanowires are tiny, Strano suggested that they could be made in large arrays to supply significant amounts of power for larger devices.

Thermopower waves

High speed reaction footage: Joel Abrahamson/Strano Research Group; additional editing: Melanie Gonick.

A reaction wave travels across a centimeter-long bundle of carbon nanotubes in 100 ms, consuming the energetic fuel with which they are coated. The reaction is initiated by a pulse of heat at the right side, in this case a small butane flame.

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Last year, Glenn Beck and a variety of right-wing organizations and corporate front groups exploited the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks to stage a protest of President Obama. This year, many of the same groups are planning yet another rally with the same themes as last time.

But in addition to using September 11th as a launching pad to score political points, the right is now using the day to rake in cash. A sampling of the 9/11 profiteers:

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It's a go. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva just signed an agreement to build the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River. It will be large: 3.75 miles of hulking concrete and 11,000 megawatts of power, enough energy to power 23 million homes. It will be the third-largest dam in the world, and is the very clear Brazilian answer to the question: Where will the 21st century's energy come from? Dams are boasted as the best, cleanest, most sustainable response to that question, a far better option than decapitating the Appalachians, turning the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia and the Cumberlands of Kentucky into wastelands.

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