You know you visit a someplace too often...

When you go into a food establishment and they ask if you really need menus.

Humans Bad

Well, like most of what we already knew. Humans are helping speed up Global Warming. The question is there anything we can do about it??? 7 billion people create alot of waste.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/07/21/global.warming.ap/index.html

What is even worse is this quote, "Just three senators -- David Vitter, R-Louisiana, Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, and Ted Stevens, R-Alaska -- were at the hearing. All three shared concerns about coastlines disappearing."

Unless, the powerful care nothing can or will be done.

New Supreme Court

Well, at first blush I think the new supreme court nominee will be an interesting change. He has a lot of business background, which means that the Supreme Court will probably weigh in more on labor and business issues. I am not entirely sure that is a good thing. I fully expect to see a challenge to Roe v. Wade in the next term as one of his first test cases. I think it will be overturned. We might also see an end to collective barginning if it hits the courts.

I am sad to O'Conner go cause I think she cut her path and was a good Justice. Sadly, I think we will never again have a Court like that had Marshall; Frankfurter; Bremer or other highlights. None of them could survive the nomination process. I can hope that they will mature into it, because once you are on the bench it is near impossible to get you off so they might have a mind of their own after the process is done.

I think the timing of the announcement makes good cover for Rove, which is what Bush wanted. Bush needs to keep his word and fire Rove even if he made mention vaguely. We should not allow people with that casual disregard for those folk who routinely gather needed intelligence to serve in the White House.

Ken MacLeod's blog

Ken MacLeod is one of my favorite science fiction authors. His works are very well written. He blends politics; science and history to make an interesting world. He recently posted an opinion about the bombings in London that I thought was priceless. You can check out his blog here.

Saturday, July 09, 2005
Posted 11:24 AM by Ken
Revenge of the nerdsIt's cold comfort, but the London bombings could have been much worse. With exactly the same resources, far more people could have been killed and more lasting structural damage done. The opportunity of a Madrid-scale massacre was dissipated in a headline-grabbing bid for 'Al-Qaeda attacks across London'. The lesson is that the war against jihadist terrorism is being won. Respect is owed to the emergency services, to the people of London, and to unknown spooks and cops; solidarity and support to the victims; and to the perpetrators of the atrocity, contempt. We spit on their manifestos, their deluded boasts, their claims to be Muslims, and their pathetic inadequacies.

Imagine creationist electrical engineers taking up abortion-clinic bombing. That's the level of people we're dealing with here. The Sekrit Jihad Organization of Al Qaeda in Europe most likely consists of speccy, spotty nerds whose sole reading is the Koran and computer manuals, whose only chance of getting laid is an arranged marriage, and who don't even allow themselves a wank to ease their zits. In a better life they would have found science-fiction fandom.

One area where the self-professed followers of the Carpenter have shown some superiority over those who abuse the name of the Prophet is in the creativity of their terrorism. Christian terrorists have invented or perfected the car bomb, the no-warning bomb, the false warning bomb, the secondary bomb, the proxy bomb, the VCR-timer bomb, the dump-truck bomb, the fertiliser bomb, the litter-bin bomb, and the on-camera hacksaw beheading. Even the airliner hijack was invented by (presumably Papist) Cubans. The world record for suicide bombing was until quite recently held by the Tamil Tigers, who are godless communists raised as Episcopalians. In terms of bang-for-a-buck and political effectiveness, the Christian fascist terrorist McVeigh accomplished more at OKC than Osama achieved at the World Trade Centre.

Osama, who fancies himself the Che Guevara of the counter-revolution, must be turning in his cave at the incompetence of his European admirers. Admittedly, the haiku elegance of fly airliners into skyscrapers was a hard act to follow, but, you know, come on. We're talking London here - multicultural melting pot, global capitalist centre, imperialist metropolis, Babylon incarnate - the ultimate target-rich soft target.

And they blow up the fucking Tube?
They can go to hell.

My apologies in advance if I have violated some unwritten rule, but I loved this post.

Update

Well, I keep wanting to get back to this, but it never seems to happen.

Things have been busy. I had a great vacation to Alaska. The rugged beauty up there was amazing. It is something I will always remember.

Work has been busy too. Since one of the Marketing folks left, I have helped pick up the slack.

Weight loss has been so so. I am now recommiting myself to it. I will lose the weight. I have come to far to fall off now. One source of pride for me is that I have kept fairly stable even with the cruise. So I am adjusting to the way my body is now.

Personal life has been okay. I am lucky that I have some great friends that I can count as family. I worry about them and have hopes for them, but it is all good. My relationship is great. I am blessed with a fantastic partner and friend.

Watch this space for more as I get back into this.