My Thoughts on Changes

… Reality may be stranger than fiction.
So, you are telling me that if A: beef eats humans; B: We eat beef; therefore, as simple set math show: C. Human eats human… Nice… I think I’m turning vegetarian…
Theory links mad cow disease to funeral rites. 02/09/2005. ABC News Online

Theory links mad cow disease to funeral rites
Dead bodies washed ashore in India may have contaminated animal feed that was exported to the United Kingdom, triggering mad cow disease, scientists say.
The human remains would have floated downriver as part of Indian funeral ceremonies, the scientists write in The Lancet journal.
The cause of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which infected an estimated 2 million cattle during an epidemic, in the UK is unknown.
It is thought to have resulted from cattle being fed material containing remains of sheep infected with the disease scrapie.
But Professor Alan Colchester of the University of Kent says it may have been caused by the tonnes of animal bones and other tissue imported from India for animal feed.
He says the feed would have also contained the remains of humans infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

… is still a rose. And so are terrorists. Finally, something smart to do, if and when they actually do it.
Herald.com | 08/30/2005 | Posada may be Venezuela-bound

Posada may be Venezuela-bound
The U.S. government has agreed that Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles be deported to Venezuela if he loses his plea for asylum and other protections.

Ever wonder why the continent is so behind the ball and power and resources are so tightly controlled by a few? Here is an example:
CNN.com – Report: Swazi princess whipped for loud music – Aug 28, 2005

EZULWINI VALLEY, Swaziland (Reuters) — The king of Swaziland’s daughter was whipped by a palace official at a party of teenage virgins ahead of a festival where more than 50,000 maidens are available to become her father’s 13th wife, media said on Sunday.

Mind you, I’m all in favor of tradition, but, I’m more in favor of reason and logic.

I feel proud of this woman. I wish many more mothers of sons and daughters in the military had the drive and the common sense to protest against a war that only makes sense in the minds of the current administration.
Sheehan Vows Her Cause Is Just Beginning – Los Angeles Times

CRAWFORD, Texas — The mother who pitched a tent near President Bush’s property three weeks ago and watched her antiwar campaign gain momentum said Thursday that her efforts would not end, even if Bush granted her the face-to-face meeting she has been seeking.

I am laughing my ass off!! Thanks Terranova!!!

This is by far the best recent article I’ve read about the stupidity of the current U.S. policy towards Cuba. It appeared, of all places, in our local newspaper, “Today’s Sumbeam”. I have a new respect for the paper that is deemed  “conservative” by most. Just click on it to read it.

I just confirmed what I suspected about about Pat Robertson: He is A Crazy Mother Fucker

I’m not fan of Chávez –I think he’s anachronistic within the current context of South America– but he is the leader the people of Venezuela democratically voted for, twice. Since when is a Christian Voice entitled to call for assassinations of world leaders? Is that “Christian”? Why does he feel with the right for that? And don’t tell me that he has a red phone kind of direct line with Jesus. Sure, is a free country and free speech is guaranteed. Hey, here is my piece of “free speech”: When is the current U.S. government end that arrogant policy of thinking that they are a global police force?

Stay the fuck out of South America. For your fucking record, Mr. Robertson, the place is overwhelmingly Christian; so, don’t be waving Christian flags at the place. That Crusade was won when the Conquistadores colonized the place.

CNN.com – Robertson: U.S. should ‘take out’ Venezuela’s Chavez – Aug 23, 2005

(CNN) — Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him “a terrific danger” bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas.

Woohoo!! One of the first 500 members of Attention Trust Darn it! One of the first 300’s… Watch that space, it will be something cool and big in the future. Darn it,! again, it is cool already, it will be huge in the future.

Research | AttentionTrust.org

Attention is the substance of focus. It registers your interests by indicating choice for certain things and choice against other things. Any time you pay attention to something (and any time you ignore something), data is created. That data has value, but only if it’s gathered, measured, and analyzed. Right now, you generally lack the ability to capture that data for yourself, so you can’t benefit from it. But what if you could? And what if you could share your data with other people, who were also capturing their own data, or if you could exchange your data for something of value with companies and other institutions that were interested in learning more about the things that interested you? You’d be in control–you would decide who has access to what data, as well as what you’d accept in exchange for access to your data.

A layman’s explanation by PC4Media.

As we use the web, we reveal lots of information about ourselves by what we pay attention to. Imagine if all of that information could be stored in a nice neat little xml file. And when we travel around the web, we can optionally share it with websites or other people. We can make them pay for it, lease it, scream for it “show me the money”, barter for it, whatever. The important point is that we get to decide who has access to it, how long they have access to it, and what we want in return. And they have to tell us what they are going to do with our Attention data. But, the possibility of having all of that information within our control and being able to share it with anyone – is huge. It opens up the marketplace to anyone with the right product. It gives marketers the ability to plug into this data and serve us better. It gives new startups with clever algorithms the ability to bust out onto the scene.

Thanks to Mademe L for bringing that to my attention (no pun intended)

Sometimes I think he never left the drugs behind. Geeze,! at least Clinton didn’t inhale… (insert big tongue in cheek here) But, seriously for whom consumption is that speech? It must be for the troops, as they have no real choice as to where they are sent. Well, pardon me, Mr. President, but you are not Alexander The Great, leading your troops by example…
IOL: Bush: Troops in Iraq protect US from terror

“Our troops know that they’re fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere to protect their fellow Americans from a savage enemy,” Bush said in his weekly radio address.
“They know that if we do not confront these evil men abroad, we will have to face them one day in our own cities and streets, and they know that the safety and security of every American is at stake in this war, and they know we will prevail,” he said.

Finally, a rare find: self-conscious lawyers… In the wrong place and time, mind you…
New York Daily News – Breaking News – Officer: Army unit blocked from sharing 9/11 info with FBI

Shaffer said Able Danger identified Atta and three other Sept. 11 hijackers in 2000, but that military lawyers stopped the unit from sharing the information with the FBI out of concerns about the legality of gathering and sharing information on people in the U.S.