Watching the election results last night and the elation and speeches that came after, I found myself moved. I did not think words had the power to do that for me anymore. And though the ugly face of bigotry, hidden under the clever guise of Christianity, has once again reared its nastiness in the most liberal of places, I take great solace in ( Read more... )

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i have been in san diego for a little more than 8 months now and the weather is starting to perk up once more. my new lab overlooks the ocean and it is all very surreal. i wonder how much longer i will subject myself to school and when i will finally take the plunge into the realm of mediocrity that is the american life...

So I am all moved into my Apt at UCSD. It is a nice little place, very empty at present however. Waiting on funds to start (in october eek!) as moving across the country and paying rent at 2 apartments for 3 months has rather wiped me out! In other news... UPS shattered my sony plasma that I shipped through them, fighting with them to pay the claim ( Read more... )

Yup I was first in line today at the AT&T store and I got an 8gb iPhone. It is a totally awesome phone, great looks, great GUI. Fast menus, way faster than any windows mobile phone I have used in terms of displaying menus/photos/screens. WiFi works great, edge is not too bad, but expectedly slow. My biggest issue with it  is the ringtones! You can ( Read more... )

Sarte once said that Terrorism is a terrible weapon, but the oppressed poor have no others, I can not help but look at the world today and lament that these words spoken nearly 4 decades ago still ring true. Our lives, our country, our view of the world so drastically changed on 9/11 as to warrant an unparalleled discourse in humanity. Now, I ( Read more... )

So, aidensocal, your LiveJournal reveals...


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There was once a time when people took the time to think about the world around them; how that world affected them and how they might effect change in it. A time when people were collectively outraged at atrocities and worked deligently to expose and combat them. This time saw the rise of the passion of an emerging group of activists, the gay males ( Read more... )

So the number 3 at the justice department, the woman that resigned over the attorney firings, Monica Goodling has some amazing credentials. Apparently this woman, charged with overseeing all 93 US attorneys at the ripe old age of 33 got her law degree at Regent University School of Law. This a a tier 4 school, the lowest tier in national rankings, ( Read more... )

To date, 83 % of all US deaths in Iraq are due to IEDs, improvised explosive devices, blowing up under Hum Vs.

When US delegates, ie John McCain etc, visit Iraq they ride in Cougars, armored vehicles with heavy under armor in a V shape the deflects explosions away from the vehicle. These are virtually impervious to IEDs.

It would cost $8.4 billion to ( Read more... )