Becuase Everything Else Sucks

The Daily Connect: 05/08/07

By SirJouge
Published Tuesday, May 8th, 2007, 1:13 pm
Filed under: The Daily Connect

  • It’s a well known thing you learn as a small child. If you dig down far enough, you’ll dig to china. But if you are in the Judean desert, you instead find the burial grounds of King Herod. Since the 1970s, Hebrew University archaeologist Ehud Netzer has been exploring Herodium, Herod’s believed resting grounds. Yesterday he believes his team might have found the sarcophagus of King Herod. Herod was the ruler of the Roman Empire’s Kingdom of Judea and known for creating the second temple of Jerusalem, but also the Murder of the Innocents as described in the New Testament of the Bible. Next, Netzer will attempt to find the remains of Jesus… Wait a sec? Didn’t someone claim that as well?
  • The Bush administration held its first and last “White Tie Event.” Just to think of this plain speaking Texan formally dining the with the Queen sparks the imagination. Especialy with the First Lady enlisting the services of the Secretary of State to help convince him. I would pay to hear that conversation, maybe something like… “Big boys wear white ties when important guests are invited” or in a super convincing tone, “The Queen will bring the cognac this time.”
  • Senator David Vitter (R) from Louisiana: “Once again the big drug companies have proved that they are the most powerful and best financed lobby in Washington” This quote came after a bill that was blocked in the senate allowing the importing of prescription drugs from cheaper foreign markets. The Dorgan Drug Act would open pharmaceuticals drugs from the less expensive markets of Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Most opponents of the bill site safety risks associated with drugs that don’t match up to protocol of the FDA. Doesn’t the American public know that all meds developed by American pharma undergo a magical malignant chemical reaction when exported out of America making them unsafe for just Americans?
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report on battling global warming. Siting technological innovation as way to combat economic decline, it also describes a solid target of concentrated gas concentrations at 445ppm by 2015. Leading global climate change opponents from China and the US have criticized the report for setting unobtainable future targets and goals to curb green house gas emissions while causing the world to slip into major economic decline. Maybe this will help: Do something now = approx. 3% of GPA spread over 23 yrs. Do nothing = 5-20% of GDP per year. How is that for economic decline?
  • Things don’t look good for Iraq war architect and member of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century Paul Wolfowitz. He is treading in deep waters while embarrassingly attempting to buy more time from being dropped from the World Bank like a bad habit. The Financial Times is reporting that inside sources to the World Bank believe this is the best time to step down before being censured or asked to resign. But if this old dog plays from the same bag of tricks as the rest of his neoconservative cronies then I would venture to guess that he won’t back down, especially to Europa. It took years for Rumsfeld to get the boot and here we are with Wolfowitz. The world is waiting… Oh, and just in case he leaves, the US retains the right to nominate the next president. In the running: Stanley Fischer, the governor of the Bank of Israel, who has joint US-Israeli citizenship, and Robert Zoellick, the former deputy secretary of state. What could go wrong?

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