Wednesday, August 31, 2005 

Katrina Survivors Just Want to Get Home: "'They don't have no food, no water. It's about 300 people over there,' Graves said. 'Last night we built a wood fire, and this lady went to her house and got a bunch of hot dogs and we cooked them on the wood fire for the kids. The adults had crackers.'"

snip

"Gas and rumors of gas prompted evacuees to drive aimlessly for miles, wasting precious fuel. Stranded vehicles with empty tanks have been abandoned along the clogged road, forcing some to take drastic measures."

8/31/2005 04:47:00 PM | |

 

The evacuation of New Orleans - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com: "As we watch this story unfold, it is imperative to consider the history being made. Even when San Francisco was flattened and burned in 1906, large sections of the city were untouched. There were relocations across the bay to Oakland. Nobody said 'everybody's leaving San Francisco.'"

8/31/2005 01:39:00 PM | |

 

Pricing experts says $4 a gallon gas on the horizon - Aug. 31, 2005: "'There's no question gas will hit $4 a gallon,' Ben Brockwell, director of pricing at the Oil Price Information Service, said. 'The question is how high will it go and how long will it last?' "

8/31/2005 01:14:00 PM | |

 

fuck it....saigon is THE best rapper right now - Topic Powered by Groupee Community: "S is the extraterrestrial exorcist, grantin death wishes
a specialist, even the best can try to hold me
i spit petroleum hot as mexican guacomole
and we be in the club, spottin solely n****s rockin rolees
me, GP, and twenty nine other parolees"

8/31/2005 12:40:00 PM | |

 


Very sad picture.

8/31/2005 11:56:00 AM | |

 

Strain of Iraq War Means the Relief Burden Will Have to Be Shared

So after two very serious 'attacks' on American soil over the past two years by these extremely powerful storms I have to ask: when are we going to focus a war-like effort towards this issue?

8/31/2005 10:00:00 AM | |

 

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Cindy Sheehan to Congress: It's Time to Do Your Job | The Huffington Post: "''I watched 58,000 Americans get chewed up,' he said on Meet the Press last month, 'during a time when in fact we had a policy that was losing. And the members of Congress were interestingly silent and absent in asking tough questions. As long as I'm a United States senator, I will do everything I can to ensure that we have a policy worthy of these brave young men and women who are sacrificing their lives and doing the things that they do for this country. I don't think that policy is there today.'"

Go get em Chuck. Or, well, anybody.

8/31/2005 09:05:00 AM | |

 

A political hurricane is gathering force - Howard Fineman - MSNBC.com: "We have journalist Malcolm Gladwell to thank for the idea that every social phenomenon has a dramatic 'tipping point.' It doesn't always work that way. And yet Hurricane Katrina is just such a moment. We are a big, strong country - and New Orleans will, somehow, survive - but you do get the sense, as President Bush finally arrived here after a month-long vacation, that a political hurricane is gathering force, and it's going to hit the capital any day. "

8/31/2005 08:22:00 AM | |

 

Google Search: kenneth lay, enron

It hit me last night, when is this guy going to jail? How many years has it been?

8/31/2005 08:13:00 AM | |

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 

Guardian Unlimited | Life | Republicans accused of witch-hunt against climate change scientists: "A far-reaching inquiry into the careers of three of the US's most senior climate specialists has been launched by Joe Barton, the chairman of the House of Representatives committee on energy and commerce. He has demanded details of all their sources of funding, methods and everything they have ever published.
Mr Barton, a Texan closely associated with the fossil-fuel lobby, has spent his 11 years as chairman opposing every piece of legislation designed to combat climate change."

8/30/2005 05:07:00 PM | |

 

Salon.com News | The FCC's cable crackdown: "'Everybody should be frightened by the notion that this process could be hijacked by a very few people,' says Jim Dyke, a Republican who now leads TV Watch, a group founded by Viacom (CBS, MTV, Comedy Central), General Electric (NBC, Bravo) and News Corp. (Fox) to argue against new regulation. 'They are trying to make decisions about what our children can see.' "

8/30/2005 08:58:00 AM | |

 

Poverty rate at 12.7 percent, 4th straight rise - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com: "The nation�s poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday."

8/30/2005 08:31:00 AM | |

Monday, August 29, 2005 

Beautiful weekend out in Yosemite… I hope you didn’t miss it.

Back here on the home front I have been wondering more and more about my career direction. It seems not all that long ago that this software/internet thing held all the promise of the world. Now I am not so sure. I love working with technology and working with these types of people, but I have in the past built my career direction a little blindly using my dad as a blueprint. I am not sure that blueprint is even possible anymore under the shadow of outsourcing and slow growth.

So what else is there? Green construction? Taking advantage of rising fuel costs somehow else? I think it is the future. Maybe the time to start is now.

Mahalo.

8/29/2005 03:43:00 PM | |

 

Halliburton deal whistleblower demoted - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com: "A high-ranking Army Corps of Engineers official who publicly criticized the Pentagon's decision to award Halliburton Co. a no-bid contract for work in Iraq has been demoted, officials said Monday."

8/29/2005 02:38:00 PM | |

 

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - William Morrow, 2005: "As far as attributing his success to luck, I have never heard anyone else as indisputably accomplished attribute his or her success mostly to luck before or since. My own belief is that almost every successful person underestimates the contribution of luck to their success. (I've even seen lottery winners, if you want to call that success, go on the Today Show and talk about how skill is somehow responsible for their winning.)"

8/29/2005 01:33:00 PM | |

 

TIME.com: Is Global Warming Fueling Katrina? -- Page 1: "The people of New Orleans are surely not thinking about wind vortices, the coriolis effect or the dampness of the troposphere as they hunker down during hurricane Katrina this morning. They're mostly thinking about the savage rains and 140 mph winds that have driven them from their homes. But it's that meteorological arcana that's made such a mess of the bayou, and to hear a lot of people tell it, we have only ourselves -and our global-warming ways - to blame"

8/29/2005 11:59:00 AM | |

 

Almanac Warns of Temperature Fluctuations - Yahoo! News: "'Mother Nature seems to be in the mood for some amusement this winter season,' the almanac said in its 2006 edition, just off the presses."

8/29/2005 09:06:00 AM | |

 

National parks being hijacked, group claims - Environment - MSNBC.com: "An association of retired National Park Service employees on Friday accused Bush administration political appointees of hijacking America�s national parks, saying a leaked Interior Department document shows a move to stress recreation and resource development over park preservation."

8/29/2005 08:54:00 AM | |

Friday, August 26, 2005 

The Blog | Arianna Huffington: Ambassador Bolton's Very Exclusive Reception | The Huffington Post: "So John Bolton had a reception at the U.N. ambassador's private residence in the penthouse at the Waldorf Astoria last night. The Washington Times, Fox News, and various other conservatives were invited, but some of the people who weren't included Colum Lynch from the Washington Post and Warren Hoge from the New York Times, both of whom cover the U.N. for their respective papers. If you thought the Bush administration's cowardice about facing anyone not completely on board was confined to Crawford and the campaign trail, think again."

8/26/2005 09:10:00 AM | |

Thursday, August 25, 2005 

Rolling blackouts cut power to about 500,000 Edison customers: "High temperatures and the loss of a key transmission line Thursday forced power officials in Southern California to impose rolling blackouts, leaving as many as half a million people without power for an hour at a time, officials said."

Enron is that you? Does this mean that we get a new governor too?

8/25/2005 04:59:00 PM | |

 

The New Yorker: Fact: "The reason the United States has forty-five million people without coverage is that its health-care policy is in the hands of people who disagree, and who regard health insurance not as the solution but as the problem."

8/25/2005 04:38:00 PM | |

 

Are we in a quagmire yet? - Howard Fineman - MSNBC.com: "Comes the question, raised by Sen. Chuck Hagel: Is Iraq 'another Vietnam'? By that I assume he means a brutal, costly and pointless war that tears America -- and the presidency of a Texan who loves his ranch -- to pieces. The answer to the Hagelian question: Iraq is Vietnam, but only sort of, and more so over there than over here. Let's review. "

8/25/2005 01:35:00 PM | |

 

ESPN.com: Page 2 : Get out of your car: "I ask you: What's a better show of real patriotism -- cutting foreign oil consumption by occasionally riding a bike or slapping a flag sticker on your SUV that gets 11 miles to the gallon?"

Good points from Jim.

8/25/2005 10:51:00 AM | |

 

Of Criminals And CEOs - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com: "'A narcissist, who breaks new ground, can be the optimal, innovative business personality,' says Michael Maccoby, author of 'The Productive Narcissist.'"

Mr. Larry Ellison anyone?

8/25/2005 10:27:00 AM | |

 

A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed - Los Angeles Times: "But a close examination of events inside the White House two summers ago, and interviews with administration officials, offer new insights into the White House response, the people who shaped it, the deep disdain Cheney and other administration officials felt for the CIA, and the far-reaching consequences of the effort to manage the crisis."

8/25/2005 09:55:00 AM | |

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 

Things are running through my head this hump day.

I wonder what is going on with Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Rove.

I think about those stuck in foreign lands when they just want to be home. Though, to be honest, I think of them less as this mess has dragged on. I am not proud of that.

I thought about how terribly bad the Giants were the other day when they blew a 4 run lead in the ninth. I have moved on since.

I read this Dime Mag article about Dwayne Wade that made me like the guy even more. Ultimate warrior.

I read a submission by Paul Shirley into Sports Guys’ column that was bad. I wrote the Sports Guy about it. I want my money back.

I became a project manager for this pretty cool project here at work. I feel like the Apprentice. Except I don’t get any more money or notoriety. Or a nicer place to live. Or a cool hair piece to hang out with.

I don’t drink as much tea during the summer.

I am looking forward to Yosemite again. I hope I don’t get so drunk this time and I actually do make it to the top of Half Dome.

I hope the cables have not been taken down as rumored through my derelict friend.

I wonder when they are going to call. CALL DAMMIT.

I wonder, if Venezuela’s president is going to sell oil cheap to poor people does that mean me? I mean, I ain’t poor, but I do live in the fucking Bay ‘You want that two bedroom house where is my million dollars?’ Area.

I am a bit tired of work today.

I was tired of work this morning.

I got jealous of my angel last night cause she was at a baseball game and it sounded like she had a dude in her lap.

Then I remembered she was at a Giants game.

8/24/2005 03:57:00 PM | |

 

CNN.com - Chavez offers cheap gas to poor in U.S. - Aug 23, 2005: "'We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States,' the populist leader told reporters at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba."

8/24/2005 01:29:00 PM | |

 

Panel Sees Growing Melting Arctic Threat - Yahoo! News: "The rate of ice melting in the Arctic is increasing and a panel of researchers says it sees no natural process that is likely to change that trend.

Within a century the melting could lead to summertime ice-free ocean conditions not seen in the area in a million years, the group said Tuesday."

8/24/2005 12:42:00 PM | |

Tuesday, August 23, 2005 

Daily Kos: Cue up slime machine!

8/23/2005 03:56:00 PM | |

 

Pat Robertson: Kill Venezuela's president - Americas - MSNBC.com: "'The ball is in the U.S. court, after this criminal statement by a citizen of that country,' Rangel told reporters. 'It's huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that country, there are entirely terrorist statements like those.'"

8/23/2005 01:30:00 PM | |

 

"Terrific Danger" | MetaFilter: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Also, please share your vengeful death-ray of love with Hugo Chavez and one of the lefty supreme court justices. TIA."

8/23/2005 11:05:00 AM | |

 

The Politics of Dance | MetaFilter

8/23/2005 10:35:00 AM | |

 

Chinese, Russian Troops Join War Games - Yahoo! News: "Nearly 9,000 Russian and Chinese troops began a mock assault on the beaches of northern China Tuesday in the final stage of unprecedented joint war games between the two former Cold War rivals.

The live-fire exercise, dubbed 'Peace Mission 2005,' involves about 7,000 Chinese troops and 1,800 Russians, along with warships, warplanes and amphibious tanks."

Via Drudge.

8/23/2005 09:45:00 AM | |

 

The Blog | Randall Robinson: The Dying American Soul | The Huffington Post: "Yesterday, Reverend Pat Robertson, the influential American religious leader and former presidential candidate, said that the United States should kill President Chavez for spreading 'communism.' Yes. Our ultimate Christian said that we should kill the man dead.

What is to become of our society?"

8/23/2005 09:26:00 AM | |

 

The Rap on Kanye - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com: "he raps about the parallels between bad drugs and bad hip-hop: 'We invested in that. It's like we got Merrill Lynched and we been hanging from the same tree ever since.'"

8/23/2005 09:20:00 AM | |

Monday, August 22, 2005 

ESPN.com: Page 2 : One more SummerSlam: "Meanwhile, my two pooches (Dooze and Rufus) just had their own wrestling match in the TV room, culminating in Rufus triumphantly humping Dooze while holding a stuffed monkey in his mouth. That's Roofie's thing -- if he's humping someone, he needs a stuffed animal in his mouth. And you know what? We don't judge in our house."

8/22/2005 05:02:00 PM | |

 

What They Did Last Fall - New York Times: "In his recent book 'Steal This Vote' - a very judicious work, despite its title - Andrew Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, provides the best overview I've seen of the 2000 Florida vote. And he documents the simple truth: 'Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election.' "

8/22/2005 04:03:00 PM | |

 

Bush Compares War on Terror to World Wars - Yahoo! News: "Bush had not left the ranch since Aug. 13, when he attended a Little League regional championship game in nearby Waco. He chose two Republican-friendly states in Utah and Idaho to re-emerge and make his case for continued war. People lined the streets of his motorcade route in Salt Lake City, many cheering and holding up signs such as one that said, 'Honor the dead. Support President Bush.'"

It is a weird world when you have trouble distinguishing irony from reality.

8/22/2005 03:32:00 PM | |

 

Vietnam=Iraq?

We are seeing more and more of that equation these days are we not? What might be the difference though? Maybe a more educated populace? For without a draft and without increased taxes (actually the exact opposite) we are all ready starting to tire of a defense industry war. And we are making sure to take it to the doorstep (thank you Cindy) of the decision makers and/or their puppets and not the poor soldiers stuck in this terrible mess.

We are a smarter nation and industry may be soon learning this not just in terms of this elective war, but in other areas as well (e.g. corporate profits not being funneled to employees anyone?) Welcome to the new world order.

8/22/2005 10:37:00 AM | |

 

-THE CUNNING REALIST-: Moments Of Clarity: "It's time for us conservatives to face facts. George W. Bush has pissed away the conservative moment by pursuing a war of choice via policies that border on the criminally incompetent. We control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and (more-or-less) the judiciary for one of the few times in my nearly 5 decades, but what have we really accomplished? Is government smaller? Have we hacked away at the nanny state? Are the unborn any more protected? Have we really set the stage for a durable conservative majority?"

8/22/2005 10:20:00 AM | |

 

Think Progress Bush: Less Popular Than Nixon During Watergate: "George W. Bush's overall job approval ratings have dropped from a month ago even as Americans who approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president are turning more optimistic about their personal financial situations according to the latest survey from the American Research Group. Among all Americans, 36% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 58% disapprove. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy, 33% approve and 62% disapprove."

8/22/2005 10:09:00 AM | |

 

GOP Senator Says Iraq Looking Like Vietnam - Yahoo! News: "A leading Republican senator and prospective presidential candidate said Sunday that the war in Iraq has destabilized the Middle East and is looking more like the Vietnam conflict from a generation ago. "

8/22/2005 08:40:00 AM | |

 

Are sharks in danger of extinction? - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com: "Gruber's sentiments have become increasingly common in recent years among a growing number of marine biologists, who find themselves studying species in danger of disappearing. For years, many scientists and regulators believed the oceans were so vast there was little risk of marine species dying out. Now, some suspect the world is on the cusp of what Ellen Pikitch, executive director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science, calls 'a gathering wave of ocean extinctions.'"

8/22/2005 08:12:00 AM | |

Friday, August 19, 2005 

Iraq insurgents plan wave of attacks - Nightly News with Brian Williams - MSNBC.com: "At the same time, some Pentagon officials now acknowledge that the two-and-a-half-year insurgent war has turned Iraq into a terrorist training camp."

Ugh.

8/19/2005 05:19:00 PM | |

 

The Blog | Deepak Chopra: War on Terrorism? OR Winning the Peace? - Part 2 | The Huffington Post: "So I ask myself if carrying out acts of hatred on behalf of haters makes you a hater. If I helped kill Jews in Nazi Germany without myself being anti-Semitic, what is my status? Am I not a hater in some de facto way? The notorious Adolf Eichmann, who personally managed the extermination camps, stated over and over that he wasn't anti-Semitic and didn't hate Jews. In what way do actions speak louder than words?"

8/19/2005 10:18:00 AM | |

 

SI.com - Photo Gallery - NFL's Most Controversial Players: "In 1974, Dobler viciously punched Jim Pietrzak in the throat after the Giants rookie wished him good luck in the playoffs. "

8/19/2005 09:11:00 AM | |

Thursday, August 18, 2005 

AOL News - Senators Attest to Alaska Climate Change: "ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Anyone doubting the effects of human activity on global climate change should talk to the people it affects in Alaska and the Yukon, U.S. Sen. John McCain said Wednesday.
Fresh from a trip to Barrow, America's northernmost city, McCain said anecdotes from Alaskans and residents of the Yukon Territory confirm scientific evidence of global warming.
'We are convinced that the overwhelming scientific evidence indicated that climate change is taking place and human activities play a very large role,' McCain said."

8/18/2005 08:43:00 AM | |

Wednesday, August 17, 2005 

10 mph : Segway : America Dream : Documentary

8/17/2005 05:15:00 PM | |

 

Eminem seeks treatment for exhaustion - RAP/HIP-HOP MUSIC - MSNBC.com: "'Eminem is currently being treated for exhaustion, complicated by other medical issues. The shows are not expected to be rescheduled,' the statement read."

Dude, love ya and hopefully you are all right, but you are sounding a bit Diva-ish with this shit Ms. Carey. Hahaha. Get well soon Mr. Mathers.

8/17/2005 04:28:00 PM | |

 

Pacific Coast waters swing back to normal - Environment - MSNBC.com: "The northerly winds that sustain the Pacific Coast's marine ecosystems have returned, but their arrival came too late for fish and birds that couldn't survive the unseasonably warm waters."

People, let us please work very hard to make sure this doesn't happen or get worse next year. Please!

8/17/2005 04:20:00 PM | |

 

To Eddie:

'10. He is a man of his word'

This is perhaps the funniest thing I read on your list.

Let me break it down for you as I see it: George W. and Arnold Schwarzenegger may actually both be the most truthful people in the world, but the machine that is behind them (that spent ~$4Billion on the last election) does not allow many good, truthful personal traits in their puppets. George W. and Arnold I could care less about (frankly I feel a little sorry for these Pinocchio’s) but I do wonder about the machine that ousted Warren Buffet from Arnold’s campaign after he said the plain truth about Prop 13 (that it is ruining the state and our education system).

So I would say, root for the people if you must, but question the machine that spent the $4billion. What are they getting for this money? Why perhaps can Bush not face Ms. Sheehan? Maybe it is because he can’t come to grips with the decision and plans that were made long before he was a candidate?

8/17/2005 02:14:00 PM | |

 

Please watch the video. Before all the lights and cameras showed up. Via.

8/17/2005 01:55:00 PM | |

 

The Huffington Post | The Blog: "I want to share this story with you in the hope that it will inspire you and help you in your journey of healing. "

8/17/2005 10:07:00 AM | |

 

Officer Says Military Blocked Sharing of Files on Terrorists - New York Times: "WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 - A military intelligence team repeatedly contacted the F.B.I. in 2000 to warn about the existence of an American-based terrorist cell that included the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a veteran Army intelligence officer who said he had now decided to risk his career by discussing the information publicly.

The officer, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, said military lawyers later blocked the team from sharing any of its information with the bureau."

8/17/2005 08:10:00 AM | |

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 

3.14

They wonder whether the digits contain a hidden rule, an as yet unseen architecture, close to the mind of God. A subtle and fantastic order may appear in the digits of pi way out there somewhere; no one knows. No one has ever proved, for example, that pi does not turn into nothing but nines and zeros, spattered to infinity in some peculiar arrangement. If we were to explore the digits of pi far enough, they might resolve into a breathtaking numerical pattern, as knotty as "The Book of Kells," and it might mean something. It might be a small but interesting message from God, hidden in the crypt of the circle, awaiting notice by a mathematician.

The brothers have lately been using m zero to explore the number pi. Pi, which is denoted by the Greek letter , is the most famous ratio in mathematics, and is one of the most ancient numbers known to humanity. Pi is approximately 3.14 — the number of times that a circle's diameter will fit around the circle.

-snip-

Pi goes on forever, and can't be calculated to perfect precision: 3.1415926535897932384626433832 795028841971693993751.... This is known as the decimal expansion of pi. It is a bloody mess. No apparent pattern emerges in the succession of digits. The digits of pi march to infinity in a predestined yet unfathomable code: they do not repeat periodically, seeming to pop up by blind chance, lacking any perceivable order, rule, reason, or design — "random" integers, ad infinitum. If a deep and beautiful design hides in the digits of pi, no one knows what it is, and no one has ever been able to see it by staring at the digits. Among mathematicians, there is a nearly universal feeling that it will never be possible, in principle, for an inhabitant of our finite universe to discover the system in the digits of pi. But for the present, if you want to attempt it, you need a supercomputer to probe the endless scrap of leftover pi.

It is a fascinating thing to me, that number. Or rather: that theory, that story, that thing. The number may never be knowable, but the story is as old as most anything I can think of.

I got to thinking of it as we were discussing religion and God at lunch today. Is this the number that offers us a glimpse into ‘Gods’ mind? Is this our key? Will we ever find the keyhole?

Imagine if you told Archimedes around 200 B.C., when he estimated Pi, that we would advance over the next two thousand years to understand that Pi goes on for trillions of digits. That it may in fact be the one thing that we know of that, as best we understand, goes on forever.

Physicists have noted the ubiquity of pi in nature. Pi is obvious in the disks of the moon and the sun. The double helix of DNA revolves around pi. Pi hides in the rainbow, and sits in the pupil of the eye, and when a raindrop falls into water pi emerges in the spreading rings. Pi can be found in waves and ripples and spectra of all kinds, and therefore pi occurs in colors and music.

It is in your cells and in your body. Everywhere you look, a little piece of infinity. Even when you look inside, a little piece of God’s magic.

8/16/2005 03:03:00 PM | |

 

Bush makes history - a five-year streak without saying 'no' | csmonitor.com: "'There is unusual coherence between Republicans in Congress and the president,' Professor Mackenzie adds. 'So there's very little getting to his desk that hasn't been pre-approved by the Republican leadership.'"

What could be joining them together so tightly? Ah, of course I ask in irony. Perhaps maybe Mr. Jack Abramoff knows.

8/16/2005 02:16:00 PM | |

 

My Way - Celebrity Gossip - New York Post

And how I hate celebrity gossip unless it involves Eminem. I am such a hypocrite.

8/16/2005 01:57:00 PM | |

 

CNN.com - Bush neighbors seek limits on demonstrations - Aug 16, 2005: "WACO, Texas (AP) -- Some of President Bush's neighbors asked county leaders Tuesday to prevent large gatherings near the Crawford ranch like the ongoing anti-war protest led by a mother of a soldier who died in Iraq.
Several residents have complained of blocked roads and traffic jams in the last week since dozens of people joined Cindy Sheehan's protest by pitching tents off the winding, two-lane road leading to Bush's ranch."

Yes, let's limit constitutional rights due to traffic.

8/16/2005 12:19:00 PM | |

 

NATURE. Video Clip | PBS

Ok I have been trying to view this video of an Octupus vs. a Shark for a week plus now and it still is not working for me. Please let me know if you know of a mirror anywhere or anything.

8/16/2005 11:55:00 AM | |

Monday, August 15, 2005 

Independent Online Edition > Americas : app6: "Something strange is taking place deep in the heart of Texas, where the President of the United States is holed up at his Prairie Chapel ranch, a few miles from the town of Crawford. There, in the space of a few days, a middle-aged Californian, whose soldier son died in Iraq, has become arguably the best-known woman in the US. "

TCR's post on this was great and reading in another spot about how she really is the lone leading voice in this currently mad land called America I wanted to write in as well. To say: Go Cindy. We have been looking for a leader like you for a while.

While maybe some of our greatest minds or most influential people have been distracted by money or by greed or by something else America has lost her way. We are feeling a lack of true personal leadership as we have handed the reigns over to multi-national monopolies. We sit by as a reporter for NBC says that they are owned by GE (a defense contractor) and thus, the lack of critical analysis of the war. It happened so quickly didn't it? So quietly.

And here we sit. Led by a woman who recently lost her son. Led by a woman with one question: Why?

Go Cindy.

8/15/2005 04:48:00 PM | |

 

Bears to bring in Blake after Grossman hurt - NFL - MSNBC.com: "BOURBONNAIS, Ill. - The Chicago Bears agreed to a one-year deal with veteran quarterback Jeff Blake on Sunday, two days after Rex Grossman broke his left ankle.
Grossman, expected to be the starter, was scheduled for surgery Monday afternoon and will miss three to four months. The injury occurred during the second quarter of Friday's preseason game at St. Louis, when he was flushed from the pocket and twisted to the turf by the Rams' Trev Faulk."

Brutal dude. It has been a hard 20 years for da Bears.

8/15/2005 01:46:00 PM | |

 

U.S. lowers expectations for Iraq - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com: "Barbers post signs saying they do not shave men, after months of barbers being killed by religious extremists. Ethnic or religious-based militias police the northern and southern portions of Iraq. Analysts estimate that in the whole of Iraq, unemployment is 50 percent to 65 percent."

8/15/2005 09:42:00 AM | |

 

: "Fathauer said the temperatures are unusual for this time of year.
'This is for real,' Fathauer said. 'It's not a meteorological practical joke.'"

8/15/2005 09:05:00 AM | |

Friday, August 12, 2005 

Hello Mr. Yon,
Great recent piece on your experiences in Mosul – you are an amazingly gifted writer. I also respect and admire how many risks you and our amazingly brave soldiers are taking over there. My admiration is boundless. I almost peed myself a couple nights ago just having a detailed dream of being over there in Iraq. Please let all the soldiers there know that I personally care very much, for whatever that is worth.

In your post you write, ‘we are winning.’ I, without any bullshit or irony, do wonder what you feel that we are winning there in Iraq. I know that winning and losing can be such arbitrary things in this game of life, for it isn’t basketball, but would appreciate your personal opinion on this. I thought the proud smile from an old insurgents mother might, to my own thinking here in safe America, belie us winning, but would appreciate your thoughts.

Keep up the good work. Gods speed.

8/12/2005 04:21:00 PM | |

 

Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Jungle Law

Probably not going to help with my fucking Iraq dreams, but amazing post.

8/12/2005 03:52:00 PM | |

 

Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere August 2005 Part 4: Spam and Fake Blogs

Ah, more about spam blogs. Pay attention.

8/12/2005 03:37:00 PM | |

 

Violent Collision Hurts Two Mets Outfielders - New York Times

This was a fucking hit ladies. Warren Sapp, pay attention.

8/12/2005 03:07:00 PM | |

 

Idaho confirms rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob case - More Health News - MSNBC.com: "Investigators so far have not been able to pinpoint any thing that may have caused the disease and are looking at such factors as the victims' diets.
'It is not related as far as we know to eating any infected beef,' Shanahan said."

Ummmm... yea.

8/12/2005 01:36:00 PM | |

 

New Scientist News - Climate warning as Siberia melts: "Kirpotin describes an 'ecological landslide that is probably irreversible and is undoubtedly connected to climatic warming'. He says that the entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region has begun to melt, and this 'has all happened in the last three or four years'."

8/12/2005 11:59:00 AM | |

 

The Webshite :: George Bush's Spin Doctor Speaks

8/12/2005 11:51:00 AM | |

 

'Vanity Fair' Rips Media 'Conspiracy' in Covering Up Role in Plame Scandal: "And their source was no Deep Throat, not someone with dirt on the government -- the source 'was the government.'

So in the end, he concludes, 'the greatest news organizations in the land had a story about a potential crime that reached as close as you can get to the president himself and they punted, they swallowed it, they self-dealt.' And why did they do it? Well, 'a source is a source who, unrevealed, will continue to be a source.'

Even after the news first emerged last month that Rove had leaked to Cooper, the media still waited days to even ask the White House press secretary about it. It was a story, 'in full view, the media just ignored.' "

8/12/2005 11:45:00 AM | |

 

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: August 07, 2005 - August 13, 2005 Archives: "That's an interesting approach."

Thats an interesting post.

8/12/2005 10:16:00 AM | |

 

SI.com - Writers - Don Banks: Like it or not, T.O. and Eagles are stuck with each other - Thursday August 11, 2005 3:07PM: "Said one veteran club executive of Owens Thursday morning: 'He's got no value in the league right now. There's no one who will take on that problem. He's got nowhere to go. After that performance yesterday, in his driveway, no one's going to make a move to get him and then have to give that guy more money. He's Philly's problem.''"

That interview last night was BRUTAL. Jeezuz, this guy needs to go to Michael Jordan's school of 'how to present yourself.'

8/12/2005 08:59:00 AM | |

Thursday, August 11, 2005 

AOL News - Mother of Slain GI Maintains Vigil Near Bush Ranch: "'I felt compelled to come and tell her I support her,' said Delaney, a self-described hippie from Sly Park, Calif. 'The way they were bad-mouthing a mother whose son was killed in the war is un-American.'"

I am not sure if it was because of all this news or if it was a symbol of something else, but I had very vivid dreams that I was in Iraq last night. I suppose a great majority of my dreams and what I imagine it being like there now are those videos and things that I saw on the Frontline special about the war.

One part of my dream though was very weird. We drove up to a very large hotel where insurgents or possibly simply Iraqi's had hung hand made signs from the roof. Before I knew it I was sitting down with my company for dinner just one or two stories below the top of the hotel out on a veranda. I would try and hide underneath the table when I thought perhaps an insurgent/Iraqi was looking down on us. The company stood firm. Finally I started to show a little more guts (taking my cues from the company) and heard the insurgents/Iraqis say to us that they were going to blow up a nuke of some sort tomorrow (I remember feeling like they were talking about a 'dirty' bomb).

Anyway, this is a long way of saying, I am a pussy even in my dreams. I truly respect what the soldiers are having to do over there and hope that we do right by them and their families. I pray for the very best resolution to this currently ongoing mess.

8/11/2005 09:30:00 AM | |

 

Europe's big cities feel the heat of climate change: WWF - Yahoo! News: "GENEVA (AFP) - Summer temperatures have risen sharply in most west European capital cities over the past 30 years, adding to evidence of the accelerating impact of climate change, the environmental group WWF said.

WWF International blamed most of the warming on pollution from power stations rather than road traffic and urged the European Union to set tougher targets for emissions of greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide."

Via Drudge.

8/11/2005 09:05:00 AM | |

 

THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH: Another Ineffective Counter-Insurgency Operation: "Step aside and let new blood in the building. Your departure would be a short term propaganda victory for the insurgents, but a mid-term plus for the war effort likely. For you sir, are a failed War Secretary. Let me repeat: you have proven a failure. Step aside without delay! "

8/11/2005 08:57:00 AM | |

Wednesday, August 10, 2005 

The Huffington Post | The Blog: "'It is dire. I mean, frankly, it is worse than my greatest fears... Those that advocated the war on the basis that Iraq would be a blow against terrorism have made an immense blunder for which we will be paying the price for a long time to come.'"

8/10/2005 05:44:00 PM | |

 

DoD News: Rumsfeld Announces America Supports You Freedom Walk

Oh God. I hoped it was a hoax.

8/10/2005 05:20:00 PM | |

 

The Twilight Era of Petroleum: "The jitters over China's purchase of Unocal show politicians and industry are beginning to wake up to the fact that oil is finite."

8/10/2005 02:43:00 PM | |

 

Time for a major Vijay-Tiger duel - Golf - MSNBC.com: "It could be so classic. Woods is the man driven by history, animated, often profane and sometimes petulant. Vijay is the man driven by the sweet feel of a ball perfectly struck, the man who hits fairways and greens with metronomic regularity, oblivious to the world around him, as communicative as a flag stick but without the personality."

8/10/2005 01:36:00 PM | |

 

The Rude Pundit: "Public relations-wise, this is an easy one, isn't it? If you're the President, you meet with Sheehan. You invite her in. You give her some lemonade. You listen. You say you're sorry. And then you let her go back out. PR problem over, no? Fuck, while she's talkin', you can have monkeys dancin' in your head. But doesn't this seem like a no-brainer?

Unless, of course, you don't give a shit. Unless, of course, you think of yourself as unquestionably right and, frankly, you couldn't give a happy monkey fuck what the opposition says. And, of course, Bush doesn't.

So often symbols of protest are created by the power of the opposition. Right now, Bush is making Cindy Sheehan into a more powerful figure than he could ever imagine. Than he could ever wish for himself. In the end, if Sheehan indeed becomes a new Rosa Parks, then, like the war itself, the President will only have himself to blame."

Cindy, I am personally sorry for your loss. I wish this misadventure had never happened.

8/10/2005 12:14:00 PM | |

 

Attytood: The death of a contender: "He was just two weeks away from finishing up his six-year stint in the Guard when he was told that his tour of duty was being extended and that he would serve in Iraq for at least a year, maybe longer. The news could not have come at a worse time for Pellegrini. He was training for his first pro fight, newly engaged to be married, and settling into his job as a Philadelphia police officer, just like his dad."

8/10/2005 11:16:00 AM | |

Tuesday, August 09, 2005 

The Big Picture: Real Estate Begins to Cool

8/09/2005 05:08:00 PM | |

 

TheDenverChannel.com - Automotive - Van Bought From Sheriff's Auction Contains Pot Stash: "The used minivan came with an unexpected option -- about 100 pounds of pot."

8/09/2005 05:02:00 PM | |

 

So y’all see these folks spamming blogs? Damn ridiculous. I ‘spose that telemarketers need something to do with their time until they overturn the whole ‘do not call’ law.

Along that point I want to let you know: Do not come to my door and try to sell me things. Do not come to my door and start talking about religion. I am not sure if you have heard of it – oh wait, you have – but there is this internet thing and if I want something or want to find myself a new way to express spirituality I will research it on the web 2.0 ok? Thanks. No! I don’t want a coupon book!

Actually, I take it all back – if you do really need to come to my door to sell me something make it an electric fence or perhaps a really menacing dog that I can leave on my front porch and probably forget to feed a few days here or a few days there (I am a bit absent minded).

Thank you, Nathan.

8/09/2005 04:29:00 PM | |

 

Snow Concedes Economic Surge Is Not Benefiting People Equally: "Treasury Secretary John W. Snow acknowledged yesterday that the fruits of strong economic growth are not spreading equally to less educated Americans, as he and the rest of President Bush's economic team prepared to meet today to discuss wages and income distribution in an otherwise surging economy."

8/09/2005 03:50:00 PM | |

 

The Rolling Stones call George W Bush 'full of shit' - NME.COM

Maybe a bit more direct and permanent than a Drudge link.

8/09/2005 03:16:00 PM | |

 

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005: "'It is direct,' Mick Jagger says with a laugh to fresh editions of NEWSWEEK."

8/09/2005 03:12:00 PM | |

 

Skin cancer nearly triples for women under 40 - - MSNBC.com: "The incidence of two types of skin cancer has nearly tripled among women under age 40, a sign that tanning is still popular among the young despite warnings about the harm it can cause, researchers said Tuesday."

8/09/2005 02:40:00 PM | |

 

Carl Pope: Taking the Initiative - Sierra Club: "For the people of Bombay, the unwillingness of my own government to act responsibly is, literally, a matter of life and death. I sometimes wonder why they are so nice to us."

8/09/2005 02:24:00 PM | |

 

The Huffington Post | The Blog: "Vidal, of course, was from the very beginning a passionate critic of the war -- what he called 'the unfinished Iraq tragedy' -- and our discussion turned to how every assumption about Iraq and the war on terror is collapsing around us. Forget the obvious ones like WMD and flowers being thrown at our feet, even the central definition of our enemy has had to be revised."

8/09/2005 01:25:00 PM | |

 

America, United States, Times Online, The Times, Sunday Times

Mohammed Atta and three other men who hijacked aircraft on September 11, 2001 were identified by the US Government as possible members of an al-Qaeda cell more than a year before the attacks, it was reported today.

A highly classified military intelligence unit prepared a chart showing likely al-Qaeda cells in the summer of 2000, which showed the names and photographs of the four men, according to The New York Times.

8/09/2005 09:53:00 AM | |

 

CNN.com - Chavez: U.S. will 'bite the dust' if it invades - Aug 9, 2005: "'If someday they get the crazy idea of coming to invade us, we'll make them bite the dust defending the freedom of our land,' Chavez said to applause."

Maybe this dude is just bat shit crazy and I would not doubt that was the case, but it is a sad state of affairs that we are now looked upon like this for whatever reason.

8/09/2005 09:13:00 AM | |

 

N.J. Farms' Latest Innovation: Solar Power - Yahoo! News: "'That is just brilliant,' said Carol Tombari, a senior project leader at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo."

8/09/2005 08:13:00 AM | |

Monday, August 08, 2005 

CIA leak case mutates again - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com: "A new break in the CIA leak investigation has once again turned the case upside down. U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted that nearly two years ago, he sat on the knowledge that the Justice Department had launched a criminal investigation.
Gonzales, who was a White House counsel in 2003, said when he was first informed about the investigation into the leak by the Justice Department he waited roughly 12 hours before informing the West Wing."

8/08/2005 01:54:00 PM | |

 

CNN.com - Soldier's mom digs in near Bush ranch - Aug 7, 2005: "'What you're seeing with that mom trying to meet with President Bush is echoes of Vietnam,' said Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat. 'Because no one is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.'
'I think the president ought to meet with this mother,' said Sen. George Allen, a Virginia Republican. 'What I would say to her is her son will always be remembered as a great hero and a patriot, advanced freedom in Iraq and the Middle East, has made this country more secure.'"

8/08/2005 08:52:00 AM | |

 

War Plans Drafted To Counter Terror Attacks in U.S.: "COLORADO SPRINGS -- The U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans.
The classified plans, developed here at Northern Command headquarters, outline a variety of possible roles for quick-reaction forces estimated at as many as 3,000 ground troops per attack, a number that could easily grow depending on the extent of the damage and the abilities of civilian response teams."

8/08/2005 08:22:00 AM | |

Sunday, August 07, 2005 

CBS News | Angry Mom Protests President | August 6, 2005 21:30:52: "'And I said if he does care, why doesn't he come out and talk to me.' "

Well, as I am sure you know, he doesn't. He is the perfect puppet. Where the puppet from the long ago tale wanted to be turned into a boy, this is a man who wants to be turned into wood. If for nothing else than to simply stop aging so quickly and showing all the lie wrinkles on his face.

8/07/2005 02:06:00 PM | |

 

Exclusive: CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com: "But in a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora - intelligence operatives had tracked him - and could have been caught. 'He was there,' Berntsen tells NEWSWEEK. Asked to comment on Berntsen's remarks, National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones passed on 2004 statements from former CENTCOM commander Gen. Tommy Franks. 'We don't know to this day whether Mr. bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001,' Franks wrote in an Oct. 19 New York Times op-ed. 'Bin Laden was never within our grasp.' Berntsen says Franks is 'a great American. But he was not on the ground out there. I was.'"

8/07/2005 01:41:00 PM | |

Saturday, August 06, 2005 

Free Internet Press - Astronauts See Earth Environmental Damage: "Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources."

Bothers me that the link in this post has changed so please refer to this one now.

8/06/2005 03:18:00 PM | |

 

-THE CUNNING REALIST-: Losing Our Heads: "Warren Buffett once said, 'It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.' Isn't it fascinating to learn about ourselves and how we react to adversity as a society?"

TCR is hitting the nail on the head.

8/06/2005 02:42:00 PM | |

 

-THE CUNNING REALIST-: The Pop Culture Indicator: "On his Thursday night show, David Letterman brought up the subject of Osama Bin Laden. During the pre-guest monologue, he recalled 'wanted dead or alive' and wondered why Bin Laden is still free. He said it flatly and did not intend it to be funny, and no one laughed. When he finished, the audience applauded for an uncomfortably long amount of time.

Note to President Bush: the needle on the pop culture meter has hit the red warning zone. It's time for you to say something."

8/06/2005 02:26:00 PM | |

Friday, August 05, 2005 

The Huffington Post | The Blog: "'If you don't want to work, become a reporter.
That awful power, the public opinion of the
nation, was created by a horde of self-complacent
simpletons, who failed at ditch digging and shoe
making, and fetched up in journalism on their
way to the poorhouse.'
Mark Twain
Connecticut Evening Dinner Club, 1881"

Been looking for a good Twain quote for the blog. This one is as good as any.

8/05/2005 03:56:00 PM | |

 

Today's News from MSNBC - MSNBC.com: "Bush not deterred by al-Qaida threat"

Wow. Big surprise eh? The man who is not deterred from 50-60-70?% of American citizens not liking him and in some cases hating his policies is not deterred from people halfway around the world bombing and spouting their own hate?

Well, maybe not that big of a surprise after all. He after all has the best security force in the whole world and doesn't even visit London without a protective bubble so why would he be deterred?

8/05/2005 10:21:00 AM | |

 

Canseco an unlikely catalyst for change in MLB - Baseball - MSNBC.com: "Or, maybe he is trying to get at the problem by revealing its deep roots in the game, as Saunooke says. When Canseco writes that he personally injected Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro with steroids (and then swears to it under oath in front of Congress), aren't those the kind of incidents that are impossible to forget? Obviously, somebody was lying in front of Congress that day, and who should we have believed? The accuser, or the one who had so much more to lose - not the least of which being his good-guy reputation? Or the one who kept avoiding answering questions by saying, 'that's in the past'."

8/05/2005 08:39:00 AM | |

Thursday, August 04, 2005 

LA Weekly: News: Bush's Energy Disaster

Do not miss. Something for everybody.

As Woolsey and Schultz put it, sounding like granola munchers on their way to Earth Day:

“A plug-in hybrid averaging 125 mpg, if its fuel tank contains 85 percent cellulosic ethanol, would be obtaining about 500 mpg. If it were constructed from carbon composites, the mileage could double, and, if it were a diesel and powered by biodiesel derived from waste, it would be using no oil products at all . . . What are we waiting for?”

8/04/2005 04:29:00 PM | |

 

Environmental damage on Earth seen from shuttle - Yahoo! News: "HOUSTON (Reuters) - Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.

Her comments came as NASA pondered whether to send astronauts out on an extra spacewalk to repair additional heat-protection damage on the first shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster."

8/04/2005 08:25:00 AM | |

Wednesday, August 03, 2005 

French Family Values - New York Times: "But the study also suggests that in this case, government regulations actually allow people to make a desirable tradeoff - to modestly lower income in return for more time with friends and family - the kind of deal an individual would find hard to negotiate. The authors write: 'It is hard to obtain more vacation for yourself from your employer and even harder, if you do, to coordinate with all your friends to get the same deal and go on vacation together.' "

8/03/2005 04:47:00 PM | |

 

Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs: "It was inside the sleeping bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs, lying on the floor beneath a U.S. soldier in Interrogation Room 6 in the western Iraqi desert. Two days before, a secret CIA-sponsored group of Iraqi paramilitaries, working with Army interrogators, had beaten Mowhoush nearly senseless, using fists, a club and a rubber hose, according to classified documents."

8/03/2005 03:49:00 PM | |

 

Chappelle's Show Is 'Done,' Murphy Says - Yahoo! News: "NEW YORK - Time to face the facts: Dave Chappelle's hit Comedy Central series isn't coming back, says one of its stars. '`Chappelle's Show' is over, man. Done,' comic Charlie Murphy told TV Guide. 'It took me a long time to be able to say those words, but I can say it pretty easy now, because it's the truth.' "

I am going to cry in my beer tonight with 'I'm Rich Bitch!' ringing in my head.

8/03/2005 02:52:00 PM | |

 

NAS Getting Married lyrics: "It's weird, though, I knew I'd get married"

8/03/2005 11:53:00 AM | |

 

Informed Comment: "' First there is Iraq. 'Things are not good there at the moment,' he says, acknowledging the strength of the terrorist insurgency. But he believes a new Iraqi constitution can be agreed by the deadline of the middle of next month. 'The more certainty you have on that, the more you can have a programme for the draw-down of troops which is important for the Iraqis,' he says. 'Because - unlike in Afghanistan - although we are part of the security solution there, we are also part of the problem.' '"

8/03/2005 09:31:00 AM | |

 

It seems the Cubbies didnt make much of a move like I might have hoped. In fact, they didn't make any move at all. Pretty pitiful. They only lose, essentially, 5 starters over different periods of time... why go out and try to get more talent?

Why do I continue rooting for this crappy cubbie team and organization?

Let it be known that I still have hope for them this year, but would like to see more dedication and drive from the org to win and win big. Not 'overachieve' anymore. I would just like to see 'achieve'.

8/03/2005 09:12:00 AM | |

Tuesday, August 02, 2005 

So had a dream last night. It was one of those where you wake up with a fully Boy Scout troop size tent pitched. Problem was, had to go to the bathroom – thus, the wake up.

Back in the day I understood from my buddy E that the idea was to swing the one leg over the porcelain and invert yourself so that you are looking at the bowl upside down. Hard to do when you are half asleep. My question that I ask now is: how does the method change over time? I imagine when I hit sixty, assuming I hit sixty and assuming I still have tent pitching dreams, it might be subtly different. Not only will I have to wade through the grey hair down there but perhaps employ a kneeling type technique? Please weigh in on this important issue.

Thank you.

8/02/2005 04:28:00 PM | |

 


We were up there this weekend. It was great. I will be there again in less than a month. How blessed we are to have such beauty so close. Unfortunately while we were gone the ol' roommate took my car out for a spin. Really actually not a huge deal (though it could have been if something had happened), but feels kinda shady. I hope things work out for the dude, but am pretty done living with the little brother (mine and Angel's).

8/02/2005 02:41:00 PM | |

 

FT.com / Home UK - World turning its back on Brand America: "The US is increasingly viewed as a 'culture-free zone' inhabited by arrogant and unfriendly people, according to study of 25 countries' brand reputations.

The findings, published online today, will add to concerns that anti-Americanism is hurting companies whose products are considered to be distinctly 'American'."

8/02/2005 02:29:00 PM | |

 

'Strange things' along Pacific Coast waters - Environment - MSNBC.com: "SAN FRANCISCO - Marine biologists are seeing mysterious and disturbing things along the Pacific Coast this year: higher water temperatures, plummeting catches of fish, lots of dead birds on the beaches, and perhaps most worrisome, very little plankton - the tiny organisms that are a vital link in the ocean food chain.
Is this just one freak year? Or is this global warming?"

8/02/2005 11:48:00 AM | |

 

Storm front: U.S. forecasts more hurricanes - Weather News - MSNBC.com: "'Although we have already seen a record-setting seven tropical storms during June and July, much of the season's activity is still to come,' Gerry Bell, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist, told reporters."

8/02/2005 10:42:00 AM | |

 

China's CNOOC drops bid for Unocal - Oil & Energy - MSNBC.com: "China's CNOOC Ltd. said Tuesday it has withdrawn its $18.5 billion cash offer for Unocal Corp., stating it considered raising its bid, and 'would have done so but for the political environment in the U.S.'
CNOOC's withdrawal frees the way for Chevron Corp. to clinch its $17.4 billion bid for El Segundo, Calif.-based Unocal."

They even managed to sway the Chinese. The oil folks are powerful eh?

8/02/2005 08:37:00 AM | |

Monday, August 01, 2005 

Soldier in Iraq Records Country-Music Hit - Yahoo! News: "'Time calling home was precious,' the soldier said. 'That's the last thing you wanted to talk about. Mom always said I wasn't telling her the truth, which I wasn't. I would tell her everything was just fine. Ashley, my wife, couldn't hear me talk about it. We just talked about anything else.'"

8/01/2005 12:52:00 PM | |

 


That picture just strikes me as odd.

8/01/2005 09:10:00 AM | |

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