Pollywogs!

> Plame was an undercover agent of the CIA. She and her team where
> assigned to detect and foil terrorists and rogue nations trying to
> obtain nuclear weapons by infiltrating organizations (in the documents
> obtained from the Times it would appear Karl Rove was fully aware what
> she was doing, as he specifically revealed her connection to CIA work
> regarding “WMD”).
>
> However her husband Wilson had been sent by the White House to Africa
> in order to investigate claims that Iraq was trying to obtain uranium
> though Nigeria. His investigation reported that the claims where false
> and that the documents that suggested it where obvious forgeries.
> However Bush went ahead and used the “yellowcake” claim in his State
> of the Union address to convince Congress to let him send young
> Americans into harms way in what is the Iraq war.
>
> In response to the White House lying to Congress and the American
> people, Wilson went public with his information. As the facts where on
> Wilson’s side, the White House went for character assassination
> instead, ultimately leading to Rove, during time of war, giving aid
> and confort to the terrorists that threaten America by exposing his
> wife as a CIA agent as political payback.
>
> The result was that Plame, along with the rest of her team, had to
> immediately pull out to avoid being killed by any of the groups they
> where investigating, destroying years of work in preventing WMD from
> falling into the hands of terrorists, and making it impossible for her
> or any agent she was in contact with from working undercover again.
>
> When the investigation started the White House rejected claims that
> Rove was the leak as ridiculous and made grand promises to fire anyone
> caught leaking such information. Now that Rove has been caught the
> White House response has become that they won’t talk about an active
> investigation, like the one that where so happy to talk about when
> there wasn’t enough evidence to convict Rove.

From Michalson @ http://www.gamedev.net

One of the best overviews I’ve ever read.

Hello!

I just wanted to say how much I like your TV and radio stations and how ‘balanced’ I feel public broadcasting (radio in paticular) is currently.  Sometimes NPR and other public programming is critical of the government, but public media should always be critical of the government, regardless of who’s in charge.  The last thing I want is a mouthpiece pumping propaganda directly into my head.  I want both sides of the issues, but I want it from an independent source.  The thing they say about people who want positions of power is that typically they are the least likely you can trust with that power…regardless of what ideology they court to get there…

“Don’t trust the government.”  I do NOT want Kenneth Tomlinson having anything to do with public media sources.

Worst.  Idea.   Ever. 

There are enough lies fed to people as ‘truth’ from ‘people they trust’ because they read, hear or watch these people:  “If they said it on TV, it must be true’:  (you can’t see it but I am shaking my head, head in hands, sobbing at the thought)

Thank you for your time,
Garrett

Since U been gone, Behind these Hazel Eyes…I don’t know what her
producers did to her, but I think Avril has really turned a corner!

…

If peltiers created movement of heat with the application of
electricity, it seemed like ‘it should just be’ that you could generate
electricity from the movement of heat (and it turns out to be a lot more
common than I suspected!):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltier-Seebeck_effect
the direct science behind how the two ‘movements’ are related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTG
a practical application of how the Seebeck Effect is used in the real world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermocouple
and, finally, it was under my nose the whole time. shame I spend so
much time with RTD’s and practically none with Thermocouples, maybe I
would have noticed this sooner. I believe we do have a number of
thermocouples laying around…maybe I can make something happen

Thanks to
http://www.teamdroid.com/archives/2005/07/08/seebeck-effect-powered-fan/
for helping me to see the light.

Isn’t Wikipedia the bomb…

…when its this hard to get into Canada…

Didn’t someone once say that we can’t change how we live and work, or
the terrorists have won?

Congratulations Terrorists!

Also, congratulations to those who were in danger of losing their
livelyhood with the end of the cold war…