Bush has declared that he will veto any bill allowing any kind of medical research regarding cloning including non-reproductive cloning. While I can understand some people’s position in being against reproductive cloning (breeding humans to be used for body parts and creating “designer children”) but for him to get in the way of medical research that could save thousands of lives is ludicrous.
Did I ever mention I don’t like politics? I think I have.
When I have some more time, I want to check this site out more.
When it comes to what’s going on right now in the Middle East, my views are based on what I learned growing up in a Jewish society. I’m sure if I grew up going to Arabic School instead of Hebrew School, I would have learned things with a different perspective.
I’m not saying I have any realistic solution as to how to bring peace to the Middle East, but I believe that if people stop justifying things by saying, “My God told me it’s true, and since my God is the real God and yours is not (because He told me so), I am right and you should die for believing otherwise,” and by trying to determine boundaries based on religious beliefs (like in the Middle East and Southeast Europe), people might be able to better live in harmony.
Today is (arbitrarily) the ten-year anniversary of the day I began using my signature emoticon (known at the time as a “smiley”):
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But, it is true. A college professor with some time on his hands has found a way to help people out little by little, and he is gaining the attention of people willing to help him to help people.
What do my roommate and New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg have in common? Here’s your first hint… the mayor was approached about the fact after a “joint (ahem) press conference.”
The New York Post must really love those ironic puns.
It’s beautiful outside today. I think I deserve a long lunch break. On top of that, the next couple of weeks look good for some fun events in the city. Woohoo! Getting out of the apartment once in a while is a good thing.
Comcast Online is really starting to piss me off. I call up their customer support number, and I get a message that I should stay on the line and someone will be with me shortly. After that, sometimes I get the familiar “hold music” and other times I get silence. When I get the silence, who knows whether they line is connected. In the rare occasion I get the hold music, I’m on for a pretty long time, and if I’m lucky, I’ll eventually get a recorded voice that tells me to continue holding. And then the message is looped, so I keep hearing it until eventually the phone connection just drops. It’s really starting to get ridiculous.
On top of that, the storage facility, whose services I no longer need and would like to stop being charged for, does not pick up their phone.
Why does the world always want to get in my way when I’m trying to get things done?
I am now officially sans auto. Over the weekend, I sold my car for $1 to my father, who wanted the fun of putting an ad in the papers and selling it for some price better than $1. Hopefully, we’ll get enough money for the car to pay for the remaining payments. Now I can cancel my car insurance and save thousands of dollars this year. On the other hand, being without a car makes it almost impossible for me to visit people unless they’re willing to put in some effort (such as meeting me at a train station or coming up to visit me).
It’s a good thing I get along with my roommate.
I always seem to miss the Tartan Day festivities. On the other hand, I’m not sure if I’d be so interested in seeing Sean Connery lift up his kilt. I guess I’m glad I missed it this year.