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silveradept...but then things appeared. Like lunch with the family, And then social events. Now that I’m actually back in, I have about enough time to compose a journal entry before sleeping. Tomorrow, there will be work involved. Because I have to have everything in order for Monday, when I turn most of it in.
Plus, there’s still some reading to be done.
A columnist in Iran says that Iran is not hostile to the U.S. - but they will defend their country to the last person if attacked. Which makes policy decisions that aren’t based on what people actually think in Iran disasters if executed. Yet another reason not to expand an already overstretched military. P! has published a letter of apology to the peoples of the Middle East and Asia for past, present, and future actions that the Bush administration may take in pursuing their policies to the point where it destroys them. It’s kind of an echo of “Sorry, world. Even though 51% of the people voted for the other guy, he got elected.” that appeared after the Bush administration began waging its campaign against the world. The letter of apology is too narrow in scope, for me - it should be an apology to everyone. The people who get shot and the people who get sent over to shoot them. The vets who see services cut, the people who have to shoulder the reckless spending, everyone deserves an apology from the people who have permitted and encouraged all the bad things to continue. It’s more probably we’ll see people who protest jailed than an administration admitting to actually having done wrong and trying to fix it.
Wanna know what’s going into the rivers of the country? Well, if it's the Potomac, there are chemicals that could end up changing your sex. A significant number of the bass in the river are displaying intersex features. The endocrine disruptors were in pesticides, flame-retardant chemicals, and personal care products that all were in the bass and in the river. Perhaps it’s not so long in front of us that we’ll be seeing Simpsons-style three-eyed fish.
We knew this was going to happen, but Hillary finally made it official. Hillary Clinton has decided to run for the Democratic presidential nomination of 2008. My uninformed opinion is that she will lose because the country does not feel comfortable electing a woman candidate for president, much less actually letting her try to win it.
Two articles on video games - one about the ability to turn a Wii console into a portable gaming machine - no plans yet, but they are apparently coming. The other talks about the differences in style between Western and Japanese games - and why hit games made in one country may flop totally in the other.
Getting into the habit of apologizing for misleading material - new information appears that says the PEER release about National Park Service Employees being pressured to not be totally scientific in their work is false. Or at least, uncorroborated and generally bringing in a skeptical atmosphere now, according to the Huffington Post. So as quickly as the blogosphere can disseminate things, hopefully, it can then correct them. Mea culpa on parroting, and hopefully this better information serves you in a more effective capacity.
Anyway, I get to get up early tomorrow to see one of my cousins play basketball. So tomorrow’s work will probably have to wait until after that.
Plus, there’s still some reading to be done.
A columnist in Iran says that Iran is not hostile to the U.S. - but they will defend their country to the last person if attacked. Which makes policy decisions that aren’t based on what people actually think in Iran disasters if executed. Yet another reason not to expand an already overstretched military. P! has published a letter of apology to the peoples of the Middle East and Asia for past, present, and future actions that the Bush administration may take in pursuing their policies to the point where it destroys them. It’s kind of an echo of “Sorry, world. Even though 51% of the people voted for the other guy, he got elected.” that appeared after the Bush administration began waging its campaign against the world. The letter of apology is too narrow in scope, for me - it should be an apology to everyone. The people who get shot and the people who get sent over to shoot them. The vets who see services cut, the people who have to shoulder the reckless spending, everyone deserves an apology from the people who have permitted and encouraged all the bad things to continue. It’s more probably we’ll see people who protest jailed than an administration admitting to actually having done wrong and trying to fix it.
Wanna know what’s going into the rivers of the country? Well, if it's the Potomac, there are chemicals that could end up changing your sex. A significant number of the bass in the river are displaying intersex features. The endocrine disruptors were in pesticides, flame-retardant chemicals, and personal care products that all were in the bass and in the river. Perhaps it’s not so long in front of us that we’ll be seeing Simpsons-style three-eyed fish.
We knew this was going to happen, but Hillary finally made it official. Hillary Clinton has decided to run for the Democratic presidential nomination of 2008. My uninformed opinion is that she will lose because the country does not feel comfortable electing a woman candidate for president, much less actually letting her try to win it.
Two articles on video games - one about the ability to turn a Wii console into a portable gaming machine - no plans yet, but they are apparently coming. The other talks about the differences in style between Western and Japanese games - and why hit games made in one country may flop totally in the other.
Getting into the habit of apologizing for misleading material - new information appears that says the PEER release about National Park Service Employees being pressured to not be totally scientific in their work is false. Or at least, uncorroborated and generally bringing in a skeptical atmosphere now, according to the Huffington Post. So as quickly as the blogosphere can disseminate things, hopefully, it can then correct them. Mea culpa on parroting, and hopefully this better information serves you in a more effective capacity.
Anyway, I get to get up early tomorrow to see one of my cousins play basketball. So tomorrow’s work will probably have to wait until after that.
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That was me
Date: 2007-01-21 08:51 pm (UTC)Re: That was me
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Date: 2007-01-22 01:53 am (UTC)Here's a link (http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=estrogen+fish+sex+change) to Yahoo on the general topic, and I think this is the original article (http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2001-08-09/news_full.html) that I first read. Or maybe not, as I think it was more recent than 2001.
Re: That was me
Date: 2007-01-22 02:03 am (UTC)Re: That was me
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Date: 2007-01-22 05:52 am (UTC)(source: Wikipedia and news report (http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=4701335))
And it's possible that estrogen lingers in the fish tissue, i.e. the mutagenic effect is cumulative, though this statement is speculation on my part.