Checking the documents at FAS, I found this one from 1998, A National Obligation: Planning for Health Preparedness for and Readjustment of the Military, Veterans, and Their Families after Future Deployments. I’ve not yet had time to read it, but I will. Here is the first paragraph from the Recommendations:
The Federal Government has an unwavering […]
Today’s shocking news revealed that, if you believe Libby’s account, Cheney (with Bush’s approval) had authorized Libby leaking CIA National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) data to a reporter.
This act appears to be a political vendetta against Joseph C. Wilson IV for questioning one of the major “reasons” for going to war in Iraq. The leak […]
Living on a flood plain is dumb. I know, I did it. When we moved to British Columbia, our first priority was to find a home with a dock. (Don’t ask - just see my pages on boats.) We decided to live on Vancouver Island and went searching for property. We found a place on […]
This week we found that Cheney has the authority to classify documents; he did not respond to the question of whether he could declassify them. Can he? Did he? The NY Times reported on February 15th:
“There is an executive order that specifies who has classification authority and obviously focuses first and foremost on the president […]
Last Monday, after almost 10 years without a problem, the family cat, Scruffy, scratched me and the scratch led to a lymphedema incident. It was in the evening that I noticed I was cold and my left arm was itching. Upon checking, I found red striations and swelling. Damn. I knew those signs only too […]
All Saints has been a vocal parish for decades. In the 50s or early 60s, Pasadena was heavily split between liberals and the John Birch Society. That split extended to the Board of Education where two members (one from each side) became so hostile that the then Rector of All Saints refused them communion until […]
In Scientific American today is a news note on two research groups that have been able to identify what image a subject was looking at based upon the MRI data. In the first experiment, there were eight possible visual stimuli composed of stripes in various directions. The researchers were able to tell which one of […]
Wow! Blogrunner really gets it. And, I like the breakdown for feeds by topic and the feeds by author.
Blogging and the uses for blogging is exploding so rapidly that I was glad to see a bibliography or as phrased, a Webliography on Weblogs, on Kaironews.
I am collecting peer-reviewed documents from online libraries, but these are still comparatively few considering the output of bloggers. Kaironews’ collection will keep me busy.
Sky Ear just blew me away!
“Sky Ear shows both how a natural invisible electromagnetism pervades our environment and also how our mobile phone calls and text messages delicately affect the new and existing electromagnetic fields.”
It has been demonstrated in Europe — but here???
The earthquake(s) and tsunami in Southeast Asia have created unimaginable damage and loss of life. There were no tsunami warning systems in the area that could have saved lives. Why? Tsunamis are rare (perhaps historically unknown) in that area. So much for risk assessment; it is, in this case, a huge failure.
Could the tsunami […]
Not related? UCLA physics professor, Didier Sornette, has found an interesting correlation. Using the Epidemics-Type Aftershock Sequence model, he found information about a book travelling to potential buyers in two manners: exogenous and endogenous. The exogenous shock is steep and has a fast decay; it is initialized by outside sources like newspapers. The endogenous shocks […]
The Privacy Commissioner of BC has released his final reporton the privacy issues raised by this act. Basically, if a Canadian company or government entity should subcontract any personnel records to a US company, the US government can data mine the information under the PATRIOT Act. The BC government is in the process of amending […]