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Bush is blocking the bloated, crappy farm bill. It would be so nice if we were able to use the high agriculture prices to kill farm subsidies once and for all.
Earlier in the day, Bush had renewed his call to reduce such subsidies, saying the "massive, bloated" bill would do little to stem rising food costs. Negotiators met with Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer soon afterward.
Link to AP story.
Wow, this is why someone needs to start paying attention to McCain.
On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. It contained within it the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate for the presidency in 25 years. Yet almost no one noticed.In his speech McCain proposed that the United States expel Russia from the G8, the group of advanced industrial countries. Moscow was included in this body in the 1990s to recognize and reward it for peacefully ending the cold war on Western terms, dismantling the Soviet empire and withdrawing from large chunks of the old Russian Empire as well. McCain also proposed that the United States should expand the G8 by taking in India and Brazil--but pointedly excluded China from the councils of power.
I love the daily show.
This guy is well over the two year mark.
Krikalev was the Commander of Expedition-11 which launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 14, 2005 aboard Soyuz and docked with the ISS on April 16, 2005. Following 8-days of joint operations and handover briefings, they replaced the Expedition-10 crew who returned to earth aboard Soyuz. During their six-month stay aboard the station the crew continued station maintenance, worked with scientific experiments, and performed a spacewalk in Russian spacesuits from the Pirs Airlock. The Expedition-11 crew in their Soyuz spacecraft landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan on October 10, 2005. In completing this mission Krikalev logged 179 days and 23 minutes in space including an EVA totaling 4 hours and 58 minutes.In completing his sixth space flight, Krikalev logged a total of 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes in space, including eight EVA's.
According to this article from the NYTimes Nalgene is going to stop making water bottles with the chemical bisphenol-a. I've been speaking up about this for about a year now. Bisphenol-a mimics some hormones and could be particularly damaging for infants. We'll see where this goes.
While the chemical makers are claiming that not enough study has been done, it's clear that we should stop using the chemical until we know it is safe. There are plenty of alteratives - both plastic and stainless steel.
What I didn't know before reading this article is that soda cans are lined with an epoxy that contains bisphenol-a. Bummer. I guess I have to stop drinking soda from cans. That's okay, most of the soda I like comes in glass bottles.
Great article in the chronic today:
In the pantheon of well-intentioned governmental policies gone awry, massive ethanol biofuel production may go down as one of the biggest blunders in history. An unholy alliance of environmentalists, agribusiness, biofuel corporations and politicians has been touting ethanol as the cure to all our environmental ills, when in fact it may be doing more harm than good. An array of unintended consequences is wreaking havoc on the economy, food production and, perhaps most ironically, the environment.