So fucking ridiculous…. CNN story here

We are having a “Tamra is home and fuck everything else” Party tonight, which I am quite excited about. I think it is going to be pretty low key with games and stuff, but it will be nice to have everyone together again. It is amazing how after all these years we still are friends I have known Kristi and Meghan since 5th grade, and Renee since 6th. Of course, I met Tamra on the first day of High School I am glad that we can remember that.

I wish that we would be able to find that video tape that we lost of when Tamra’s mom lost her diamond earring in the backyard and we were outside in the dark while David was making a grid on the lawn out of string and everyone was searching squares in the grid, while I was interviewing everyone on the gravity of the situation, haha.

I have not done anything today really. It has been yucky out. I started working on setting up a new Blog that will not be personal. It is called HEALTHYLiving. I am kind of excited. Hopefully it will get lots of web traffic.

Make sure to check out my music links and click on people who you have not heard of or have not heard their music, because they are good.

ALSO, VERY IMPORTANT: Make sure to watch the presidential democratic debate in NH on Sunday at 7pm, and the republican debate on Tuesday at 7pm. Both will be on CNN.

Yay for New Hampshire!

Nothing really exciting is going on today. I have to take a test online, but that’s about it. It looks like it’s going to be a fairly nice day, so I may try to do something outside.

I am glad it’s summer and that everyone has more free time to hang out, but at the same time I am ready for fall semester to start. I can’t wait to feel busy again. It’s been awhile.

Tamra comes home today

My song of the day = Chemical Party (Stripped version) – Gavin DeGraw

Bye bye,
CJD

by Andrew Gumble

George Bush on global warming is one of those marriages of speaker and subject that can’t help but generate its own peculiar brand of spectacular bullshit. The president’s speech to the United States Global Leadership Council today was no exception. In fact, it generated enough hot air to create its own microclimate — of obfuscation, double-speak and rank insincerity. For those of you who prefer your political messages in plain English, here is a translation of some of his choice remarks.

BUSH: In recent years, science has deepened our understanding of climate change and opened new possibilities for confronting it.

TRANSLATION: In recent years, my refusal to acknowledge the reality and seriousness of global warming has turned me into a laughing-stock and contributed to my record low poll numbers. So now I have to look like I’m interested.

BUSH: The United States takes this issue seriously.

TRANSLATION: Al Gore takes this issue seriously, his movie was a big hit, and it’s causing me no end of grief.

BUSH: The new initiative I am outlining today will contribute to the important dialogue that will take place in Germany next week.

TRANSLATION: The new initiative I am outlining today will put the brakes on the much more robust proposal the Germans are putting forward at the G8. As long as the dialogue continues, we won’t have to abide by any binding decisions.

BUSH: By the end of next year, America and other nations will set a long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gases.

TRANSLATION: By the end of next year, I’ll be weeks away from the end of my presidency and then this can be someone else’s problem.

BUSH: To develop this goal, the United States will convene a series of meetings of nations that produce the most greenhouse gasses, including nations with rapidly growing economies like India and China.

TRANSLATION: We’re going to look as busy as we can without actually doing anything.

BUSH: Each country would establish midterm management targets and programs that reflect their own mix of energy sources and future energy needs.

TRANSLATION: Nobody will actually be obliged to take any painful decisions.

BUSH: Over the past six years, my administration has spent, along with the Congress, more than $12 billion in research on clean energy technology.

TRANSLATION: But we’ve spent a lot more molly-coddling my buddies in the oil and gas industries. Not to mention Iraq…

BUSH: We’re the world’s leader when it comes to figuring out new ways to power our economy and be good stewards of the environment.

TRANSLATION: But we’re also the world’s leader in allowing our political decisions to be determined by the power of energy industry lobbyists.

BUSH: America makes a compact with developing nations. We give aid, and in return they agree to implement democratic reforms, to fight corruption, to invest in their people — particularly in health and education — and to promote economic freedom.

TRANSLATION: We reserve the right to tell them what to do, while continuing to act however we please.

BUSH: We’re spending a lot of money on clean, safe nuclear power.

TRANSLATION: The nuclear power industry has Dick Cheney’s ear, and mine too.

BUSH: We are a compassionate nation.

TRANSLATION: Until the bombing begins.

MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — Russia’s test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile this week was in response to U.S. steps that have sparked an arms race and undermined world security, Russian President Vladimir Putin says.

“Our American partners have left the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) Treaty. We have warned them then that we will come out with a response to maintain the strategic balance in the world,” Putin told a news conference Thursday.

“We conducted a test of a new strategic ballistic missile with multiple warheads, and of a new cruise missile, and will continue to improve our resources.”

“We are not the initiators of this new round of the arms race,” said Putin. “(Our partners) are stuffing eastern Europe with new weapons. A new base in Bulgaria, another in Romania, a site in Poland, radar in the Czech Republic . . . what are we supposed to do? We cannot just observe all this.”

Russia test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday featuring multiple warheads that senior officials said could pierce any missile defense system, including the planned U.S. shield in Europe.

Russia says the U.S. missile defence shield is a threat to its security and will change the strategic balance in Europe, but Washington dismisses such fears, saying the shield is intended to counter “rogue states.”
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**This is because Bush is an idiot, and after 30 years of the U.S. being a part of the ABM, he decided in 2002 to remove the country from the treaty. Way to give the rest of the world more reason to hate us.**