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Last night i left work later, faced a double duration commute and complained about the UNFAIRNESS OF IT ALL -- oh, woe -- as next week's additional commutes will all be rain sodden.
Christine and i went out to eat, partly because i will be absent many evenings next week and will at least have one company dinner out. We went to Armadillo Willies, a carnivore haven, where i broke my wheat fast on onion rings and fish tacos. I don't expect any observable physical response.
Home with a brief game of suduko, a donation to my friend's project in Haiti, and to bed.
This morning finds me plowing through a ton of email. Three day/two night tours around California's water ways learning about water management? I wish i justify it. Fantasy me, the one who is a citizen water expert, would love to go: http://www.watereducation.org/toursdoc.asp?id=821 The real me wonders how much resources that fantasy me should get. The tours remind me that the Moffett Field Advisory Board met last night, so i read up on the meeting. It was, of course, overwhelmed by Hangar One discussion ("Think of the windows!") which i can respect but also makes me crazy. I did find an environmental question to pursue, but i'm not sure how to get it asked.
The other thing i'm preoccupied with this morning is this report from the BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8459744.stm - which documents Senators Lieberman and Collins writing the Pentagon with the advice that the US military should train soldiers "from enlisted personnel to commanders" to recognise and report "the warning signs of violent Islamist extremism." What bugs me is that Christian extremism in the US military has been a growing albeit long term problem.
This July 2009 letter (pdf) (to Lieberman and others) from the Southern Poverty Law Center documents reports from both the SPLC and the FBI and Homeland Security about Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist extremists growing in presence in the military. This sentence, "Since 1994, the military has discharged more than 12,500 servicemembers simply because of their homosexuality," in contrast with the description of a man flaunting his neo Nazi beliefs on his own web page was "not sufficient to remove him from the military" is maddening -- especially having read recently the story of an invisible military partner who couldn't express her goodbyes in public due to DADT.
The request to just focus on Muslim extremism plays right into Christian Extremist calls to purge the military of all Muslims.
Ugh. The second half of the morning spent reading about the long list of right wing terror attacks in the US, the continuing armed standoffs with various folks who believe they are called spiritually to arm themselves to the teeth....
Christine and i went out to eat, partly because i will be absent many evenings next week and will at least have one company dinner out. We went to Armadillo Willies, a carnivore haven, where i broke my wheat fast on onion rings and fish tacos. I don't expect any observable physical response.
Home with a brief game of suduko, a donation to my friend's project in Haiti, and to bed.
This morning finds me plowing through a ton of email. Three day/two night tours around California's water ways learning about water management? I wish i justify it. Fantasy me, the one who is a citizen water expert, would love to go: http://www.watereducation.org/toursdoc.asp?id=821 The real me wonders how much resources that fantasy me should get. The tours remind me that the Moffett Field Advisory Board met last night, so i read up on the meeting. It was, of course, overwhelmed by Hangar One discussion ("Think of the windows!") which i can respect but also makes me crazy. I did find an environmental question to pursue, but i'm not sure how to get it asked.
The other thing i'm preoccupied with this morning is this report from the BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8459744.stm - which documents Senators Lieberman and Collins writing the Pentagon with the advice that the US military should train soldiers "from enlisted personnel to commanders" to recognise and report "the warning signs of violent Islamist extremism." What bugs me is that Christian extremism in the US military has been a growing albeit long term problem.
This July 2009 letter (pdf) (to Lieberman and others) from the Southern Poverty Law Center documents reports from both the SPLC and the FBI and Homeland Security about Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist extremists growing in presence in the military. This sentence, "Since 1994, the military has discharged more than 12,500 servicemembers simply because of their homosexuality," in contrast with the description of a man flaunting his neo Nazi beliefs on his own web page was "not sufficient to remove him from the military" is maddening -- especially having read recently the story of an invisible military partner who couldn't express her goodbyes in public due to DADT.
The request to just focus on Muslim extremism plays right into Christian Extremist calls to purge the military of all Muslims.
Ugh. The second half of the morning spent reading about the long list of right wing terror attacks in the US, the continuing armed standoffs with various folks who believe they are called spiritually to arm themselves to the teeth....
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