Three days left at Fluke Networks.
Whew.
Wow! I can not wait! hooo hoo hooooooo!
I am so looking forward to the freedom and the challenge of life on my own. It will be so interesting!
Today, there was a farewell lunch with some of my colleagues. I sat next to Irina, who’s responsible for much of my traveling inspiration, and across from Dan. We had some decent food. Sat outside on a deck overlooking Silver Lake. It was nice. Clint made an announcement and toast to me, thanking me again and praising me for the contributions I’ve made. I thanked him and smiled. Then they asked me for my plans and I made them all envious! 
Tomorrow is another busy day. So many loose ends to tie up.
From today’s press briefing:
Q: Tony, not to bring up last week’s news, but the issue of whether embryonic stem cell research is murder came up yesterday on “Meet The Press.” You said, I believe, last week that some people regard this as murder and the President is among them.
MR. SNOW: Yes, well, I –
Q: Does he believe this is murder?
MR. SNOW: I overstepped my brief there, and so I created a little trouble for Josh Bolten in the interview. And I feel bad about it. I think there’s concern. The President has said that he believes that this is the destruction of human life.
Then Mr. Snow blabs for a bit, and delivers the kicker:
But the President certainly does not oppose the promise of pluripotency. The President certainly does not oppose stem cell research. But he does find—he does have objections with spending federal money on something that is morally objectionable to many Americans. I will go ahead and apologize for having overstated—I guess, overstated the President’s position.
So, if, according to our genius president, an embryo constitutes “human life”:
It’s NOT OK to allow the use embryos for research beneficial to humans. But, it IS OK to allow the US Military to maime, wound, torture and kill thousands of innocent Iraqis? What about that is not the destruction of human life? Already living and breathing human life, rather than embryos that could potentially (but not definitely) become a human life. We spend billions and billions on the war and American soldiers are dying! What’s not “morally objectionable” about that?
How many Americans find the FEDERAL MONEY he is spending on this failure of a war morally objectionable? I would assume there are far more people who morally object to the war than who morally object to stem cell research. But that doesn’t matter, not in Bush’s democracy.
Ah, poop. Everybody does it! Including the animals so many people don’t even think about eating.
Vegetables of Mass Destruction – Everyone Poops
Originally published on DailyKos by OrangeClouds115
So gross. So, so gross. Yet another reason I’m vegetarian. Until I grow my own cows and know the gut-yanker at the slaughterhouse personally, I will not eat meat. At least not meat that is processed. So, I can see maybe eating chicken. You can, at least, get the whole thing, skin and all. Though, I’m sure the majority of chicken farmers have questionable practices. Like those chickens advertised as “free range” are mostly distorted:
“Rosie the free-range chicken from Petaluma in fact lives in a shed jam-packed with 20,000 other Rosies and eats corn-based feed (albeit from certified organic corn) just like a regular industrial chicken.”From a Seattle Times press clipping, from an article about Michael Pollan’s new book “An Omnivore’s Dilemma.”
And the whole thing with the CAFOs and their shit lagoons, polluting rivers with massive amounts of shit, directly poisoning people, much less the wildlife in and around rivers, lakes and streams, and getting away with it – simply amazing that our wonderful politicians allow this kind of practice to happen. Well, I guess saying “our” politicians isn’t accurate. I didn’t vote for any of the Republican assholes in office right now.