Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
– Mahatma Gandhi
– Mahatma Gandhi
Thanks for putting up the Bucket the last few days, Knox. 🙂
Thanks for putting up the Bucket the last few days, Knox. 🙂
Yahoo/AP
Hmm… do you think this might be considered a related story? ABCnews
And in case you weren’t aware of just how much of an impact Viagra has had:
Interesting that this issue has been brought up since 2000, yet I’ve never seen a warning in the Viagra tv ads…
…And they say that ADHD is an illness concocted to sell drugs. There aren’t enough obnoxious commercials in the world to convince me that “erectile dysfunction” is anything more than a ploy to sell lots and lots of drugs to men who want more sex. I’ll say that it’s the ultimate party drug, and it’s about time someone noticed. It fries me that insurance companies are paying for these sex drugs. What a racket.
Totally off subject: I’m finally finished with my technical difficulties as of last night. I’ve got a new (decent) Service Provider with a one way satellite hook up and it’s working like a dream, so I’m baaaack. 🙂
Yaay! Nag’s back!
I guess you can tell be the length of my comment how much the Viagra thing pisses me off…and apparently Pfizer has nothing new and actually medically noteworthy in their research pipeline, or they wouldn’t be laying all those people off and closing research centers.
You might have told me that Dostinex was going to make me horny. Now if the price of it would just stabilize, I have to compete with old men who want to be horny to get my meds…….but it makes both men and women horny. It is an equal opportunity horny provider.
You learn something new every day: Bumblebees, unlike most insects, are warm-blooded. They can heat their bodies, and can remain active at cooler temperatures than many other insects. To achieve optimum conditions for their young, bumblebees rely on nest thermoregulation, actively raising or lowering temperature. Because they are well adapted to cooler and temperate climates, bumblebees are important pollinators of a number of food crops including blueberries, cranberries, huckleberries and greenhouse-grown tomatoes, peppers and eggplants.
A team of researchers has uncovered a subtle chemical pathway by which a normally inoffensive algae can suddenly start producing a lethal toxin. The discovery could resolve a long-standing mystery surrounding occasional mass fish kills on the East Coast.
But the big news, as often happens, is climate change:
Human-caused global warming is here and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week. “The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table as we speak,” said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who reviewed all 1,600 pages of the first segment of a giant four-part report. “The evidence . . . is compelling.” The first phase of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is being released in Paris next week. This segment, written by more than 600 scientists and reviewed by another 600 experts and edited by bureaucrats from 154 countries, includes “a significantly expanded discussion of observation on the climate,” said co-chair Susan Solomon, a senior scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She and other scientists held a telephone briefing on the report Monday.
Killer whales are migrating farther north as the Arctic Ocean’s ice cover melts, threatening the livelihood of the native Inuit who traditionally depend on fishing for their food, researchers said Saturday.
President Bush’s staff promises that his pronouncements tonight on energy and climate will “knock your socks off” and score headlines “above the fold.” If he wants to show real leadership, let’s see something like this: A decision on whether to impose mandatory limits on the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by new car models will be made by the European Commission on Wednesday. The move follows the failure of voluntary targets. The European Union’s Environment Commissioner, Stavros Dimas, would like to see a new EU law requiring European, Japanese and Korean car makers to keep emissions from new passenger cars to an average of 120 grams per kilometer from 2012. Different sized cars will have different targets. Cars [in the EU] currently emit an average of 160 grams of greenhouse gases for each kilometer they travel.
Conservation biologists are seriously debating “assisted migration” to help species avoid extinction from the effects of climate change.
This didn’t take long: Already there are reports of dissent in the Democratic Ranks over Speaker Pelosi’s bold moves on climate change.
Mining heat stored in rocks in the Earth’s crust could meet a growing portion of US electricity demand, replacing aging nuclear and coal plants with an environmentally friendly alternative, researchers say. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study said the mining of thermal energy could be done on a far larger scale than conventionally known, reducing spiraling oil import bills and strengthening US energy security.
Finally, Finally!
US Industry demands mandatory cap on carbon emissions in Union address
a direct challenge said to upstage Bush as ‘a mere bystander’
Don’t know if KP covered this:
Linky thing
I did not know that rainforests could exist in non-tropical areas. Shows how much I know about rainforests. This is wonderful news. I hope the Canucks start a trend.
This is according to a letter written by Gonzales and Chertoff, sent two days prior to Day’s meeting w/ Chertoff and prior to Gonzales’ grilling by Leahy.
See globe and mail link for news art and pdf of letter.
I heard Arar’s US lawyer, Maria LaHood, on the CBC radio last night, and she says that the admin will not remove Arar from the list b/c of the pending lawsuit. Removing his name would show they were wrong.
Here: JAN. 22, 2007 – As It Happens
Program snippet: “To watchlist” may not be a real verb. But it can have real meaning, especially when transformed into a gerund. Consider a letter, made public earlier today by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It’s from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. And it informs Canada’s Public Security Minister, Stockwell Day, that the “watch listing” of Maher Arar isn’t about to end any time soon. Maria LaHood is one of the Kamloops man’s American lawyers. We reached her in New York.
As BooMan front page diary notes Bush is at 28%
Interestingly a worldwide poll finds Bush Continues to Unite the World… Against Him Where is Karen Hughes?
There was a meeting, says Steve Clemons via Gideon Rachman at The Financial Times, that’s stokingly more like the a summit before the guns are fired. Go read,
Israelis, America and Iran
Filed under Shock and Awe: Blackwater USA, the mercenary firm, sues the Attorneys for families of murdered employees
He’s like the global Saddam uniting people of different ethnicity and faith by being a mutual enemy who is total disgusting bottom feeding pig.
the National Geographic documentary on the Hired Guns of Iraq and he tried to watch it last night. We got 15 minutes into it and he asked if I minded if he turned it off and I didn’t. He said that the documentary was attempting to turn the mercs in Iraq into heros, it wasn’t what he had expected from National Geographic and it was making him sick.
Heard this bit last night:
Duncan had very strong words about this. Take a listen if you can. Link here: JAN. 22, 2007 – As It Happens
And a snippet from timesonline:
If we refuse to join the world court how is it that we believe we can take the whole world to court? Is there really nothing common about common sense?
Big Brother to take the form of giant space blimps:
just what you’d expect from these gasbags…more hot air
John McCain: The truth.
Just In: After months of investigation – Ha’aretz reporting,
Israel’s Attorney General decides to charge President Katsav with rape and obstruction of justice
“The sexual assault charges relate to the claims of four women who worked for Katsav during his terms as president or as a cabinet minister.
Mazuz’s office issued a statement Tuesday saying that it had collected enough evidence to support an indictment against Katsav on charges of rape, harassment, sexual relations involving the abuse of power, obstruction of justice and illegally accepting gifts.”
Not allowed to board a plane because of t-shirt