Friday, February 16, 2007
We Broke it
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Well, that was fun but some of it may not have made a lot of sense. Not a good sign when your reaction to something you yourself wrote is, 'Huh?!' The recipe was ok. I should mention that I cook this in a covered casserole dish to prevent evaporation. Kootch ate all the watermellon.
Peering into the Pillars of Creation. The 16 second video places the pillars inside M-16 (The Eagle Nebula) and adds x-ray sources. You might remember 'the pillars' as the astonishing cosmic phallus symbols from Hubble some years ago. Curious about the Chandra x-ray observatory I brought up the 2006 images and found this amazing representation of The Cartwheel Galaxy. Can you figure out which of the small galaxies in the lower left was the probable culprit in the formation of the Cartwheel?
Today the House voted to rebuke the prez's most recent attempt to deny the undeniable. It is an interesting situation. Recall that 'Dubya' made the decision to spend the political capital from 9-11 - the immense political capital - on Iraq instead of Afghanistan. We were all with him on Afghanistan. Even most of the rest of the world including many Muslim Nations were with him, and us.
But unfortunately Afghanistan had no proven oil reserves, and the prez chose to expend that political capital on Iraq which did have such oil reserves. Afghanistan went begging, along with Pakistan. We focused on Saddam Hussein and Iraq in the most spectactular sleight-of-hand political play in all of history. The result was that we destroyed the very government that was best for the pathetic 'Iraqi people.' It was the very government they needed and deserved. And we broke it. We fuckin' broke it!
Well, that was fun but some of it may not have made a lot of sense. Not a good sign when your reaction to something you yourself wrote is, 'Huh?!' The recipe was ok. I should mention that I cook this in a covered casserole dish to prevent evaporation. Kootch ate all the watermellon.
Peering into the Pillars of Creation. The 16 second video places the pillars inside M-16 (The Eagle Nebula) and adds x-ray sources. You might remember 'the pillars' as the astonishing cosmic phallus symbols from Hubble some years ago. Curious about the Chandra x-ray observatory I brought up the 2006 images and found this amazing representation of The Cartwheel Galaxy. Can you figure out which of the small galaxies in the lower left was the probable culprit in the formation of the Cartwheel?
Today the House voted to rebuke the prez's most recent attempt to deny the undeniable. It is an interesting situation. Recall that 'Dubya' made the decision to spend the political capital from 9-11 - the immense political capital - on Iraq instead of Afghanistan. We were all with him on Afghanistan. Even most of the rest of the world including many Muslim Nations were with him, and us.
But unfortunately Afghanistan had no proven oil reserves, and the prez chose to expend that political capital on Iraq which did have such oil reserves. Afghanistan went begging, along with Pakistan. We focused on Saddam Hussein and Iraq in the most spectactular sleight-of-hand political play in all of history. The result was that we destroyed the very government that was best for the pathetic 'Iraqi people.' It was the very government they needed and deserved. And we broke it. We fuckin' broke it!
