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Americans' new craving: Diet drugs
Monday, April 29, 2002
Let's see, tens of millions of us eat horrible high calorie diets, rarely exercise and we still think we deserve an instant cure for weight gain. How about eating less and exercising more instead of pill popping? It's a hell of a lot more difficult, but better for you in the long run.
Dull Men's Club
Monday, April 29, 2002
From the FAQ:
Are dull men the same as boring men?
No. Dull men accept their dullness.
Boring men are dull men who actually believe that they are interesting. Dull men tend to be introverts. An extroverted dull man is a boring man.
This page includes so fascinating stuff as an international survey of airport carousel rotation and dull events of the month.
I see nothing wrong with reveling in the mundane. Does that make me dull?
House committee approves Nevada nuclear waste site
Sunday, April 28, 2002
Their new state motto? Nevada: First in Radioactive Waste!
The House moved closer Thursday to endorsing President Bush's decision to put a nuclear waste site into Nevada as a committee advanced the measure despite concern about transporting the waste.
The congressional resolution, which would overrule Nevada's protest of the waste site, was approved 41-6 by the Energy and Commerce Committee, prompting supporters to predict overwhelming approval' by the full House in the coming weeks.
Congress Hears "Shocking" Evidence Against Yucca Mountain
Congresswoman Shelley Berkeley, a Democrat from southern Nevada, expressed "the outrage felt throughout Nevada" about the Yucca Mountain project.
Berkeley fears that an accident or terrorist attack during transport of the waste by road or rail would expose between 10 and 16 million people living within half a mile of transportation routes to highly radioactive material. "At the peak of the DOE's shipping schedule somewhere in our country a nuclear waste shipment will leave a reactor every four hours," she told the committee.
Nevada lauds article on Yucca science
Allison Macfarlane, who directs the Yucca Mountain Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Rodney Ewing, a geologist at the University of Michigan, wrote that a Yucca nuclear waste repository may be feasible after further study, but they said to make a decision "without first addressing the outstanding scientific issues will only continue to marginalize the role of science and detract from the credibility of the (Energy Department) effort."
They say the Energy Department's plan is "based on an unsound engineering strategy and poor use of present understanding of the properties of spent nuclear fuel."
Also see: yuccamountain.org
First quarter of 2002 is "warmest for a millennium"
Sunday, April 28, 2002
As The World Burns:
In 2002, the planet Earth experienced its warmest first quarter since records began over 140 years ago, according to UK scientists. Analysis of the proxy temperature record contained in, for example, the rings of ancient tree trunks suggest it is the warmest start to a year for 1000 years.
Columbian Drug War: It's the IRA's Fault!
Sunday, April 28, 2002
Republicans try loony pro drug war strategy propaganda:
House Republicans, seeking to boost American military aid for the Colombian government's battle against leftist rebels and drug traffickers, sought to tie the struggle in Colombia to the US war on terrorism yesterday by charging that the Irish Republican Army was training the left-wing insurgents there.
Protesters march against U.S. military aid to Colombia
A Republican with common sense on the Drug War?
Could it be?
Nevada high court OK's police monitoring devices on cars
Sunday, April 28, 2002
More fun with the Police State:
In a 5-2 decision, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police can hide electronic monitoring devices on peoples' cars -- without a warrant and for as long as they want.
Oil, Gas Drilling Put on Fast Track
Saturday, April 20, 2002
Environmentalists take note, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling threat was likely nothing but a feint.
With President Bush's proposal to drill in Alaska's Arctic wilderness blocked in the Senate, the administration is pushing ahead with the Western drilling and with other plans that don't require congressional approval. The administration's action will boost energy and pipeline companies prepared to work the area.
It's payback time for all of Bush's corporate backers and open season on Western wildlands.
Rocky Mountains drilling study expedited
An yet, there's still not word one about conservation from Bush/Cheney/Norton or the U.S. Congress.
I'm afraid that Counterpunch has called it correctly:
The Big Green groups are likely to capitulate on everything from the Everglades (witness the recent sell-out by National Aubudon Society on Jeb Bush's developer-friendly plan) and Superfund to ancient forests and the Endangered Species Act. But they will not relent on the Arctic Refuge. Why? Easy: it's the biggest fundraiser they've ever come across and they'll fight to the death to keep it.
It's the classic bait and switch. I suspect that most of the big environmental organizations are patting themselves on the back for their great victory, but are oblivious to the fact that they've probably been duped.
Winning a big battle doesn't mean that you've won the war.
The classic U.S. solution to any problem is to throw lots of money at it, bury our collective heads in the sand and pray fervently that it goes away. I would like to remind everyone that environmentalism, like politics, is local. It's up to you to change things for the better in your own community.
Fire Ashcroft
Saturday, April 20, 2002
Keeping an eye on the Attorney General, so you don't have to.
Keep up the good work, Patrick. Don't be one of those weblogs that disappears after a few months! We need a well updated source to keep an eye on Ashcroft's malfeasance and his radical right wing agenda.
I've thought of starting a weblog on Interior Secretary Gale "Corporations Before Conservation" Norton, but she seems to be lying low because of her contempt trial.
I may still do so at a later date.
The Tiki Bar Review Pages
Saturday, April 20, 2002
Who doesn't like to imbibe lush tropical drinks in a cheesy faux Polynesian environment? I know I do. Some of the reviews are pretty darned funny.
You thought I was dead, didn't you? More on that later!
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