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Also, keep in mind that the plan isn't to use it to clean up all the oil. They just want to use it to help protect the Walton County shore-line in Florida. That's a very small fraction of the oil.

The country recently went nuts because Richard Gere kissed a woman on the cheek (face cheek, mind you) going so far as to issue an arrest warrant for the actor:

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/3522

Zimbra baby! Even Bill Gates talks about it http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articleArchive/nov2006 /zimbramicrosoft.php

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Maybe Oil companies should be encouraged to get into the space game. Exxon Mobil earn $4.7 Million in profit per HOUR between April-June 2006; $10.4 Billion profit for second quarter 2006. Source

It would seem they have the cash on hand for space exploration. I don't think space tourism is going to interest them but resource "mining" might.

That being said, I did a whole lot of "evil" writing about a teacher, at 16 in school. It was for creative writing class, in the journal she had us keep. She would review the journals periodically.

She never said anything to me, or my family, or principal until it came time to get the next year's classes in order. Not wanting to take idiot classes, my only option to fill out credits seemed to be her class again next year.

That's when I found out she felt threatened. We had this whole discussion with the counselor and principal (still no parents) whereupon I ended up in "consumer english." She didn't like the nasty things I wrote about her, so didn't want me in her class again.

(This all stems from my incredulity at her insistence there was no contribution to literature from science fiction, refusal to allow a book report on Edger Allan Poe[!] and the countless times I caught her spewing provably incorrect garbage as 'instruction.')

The main difference between me and this case is not columbine, but the Media: despite declining incidence of youth violence, coverage of "local" events in national press is increasing creating a distorted view of real threat potential. For example this case is a local issue, but it's not doubt wormed its way into various other outlets.

Pile on top of that the current trend to consider anyone under 30 as a possible violent actor, the permeation of the word "terrorist" for any crime violent or otherwise, and the general feeling of mistrust of all youth.

The shame isn't the parent's excuses, over-reacting school, pussy teacher or dumb kid that should have known better. It's the hypocricy of the culture in which we now live. We are constantly told to talk out our differances, to find a diplomatic way, but in the end, those that hold the upper hand in diplomacy go to war because they're too scared to act like grown-ups.

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Previously there was a gap between ancient and modern species of birds, and "Gansus fits perfectly into this gap," added Jerald D. Harris of Dixie State College in Utah.

"Gansus is the oldest example of the nearly modern birds that branched off of the trunk of the family tree that began with the famous proto-bird Archaeopteryx," said Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania, a co-author of the paper along with Lamanna, You and others.

The remains were dated to about 110 million years ago, making them the oldest for the group Ornithurae, which includes all modern birds and their closest extinct relatives. Previously, the oldest known fossils from this group were from about 99 million years ago.

The fact that Gansus was aquatic indicates that modern birds may have evolved from animals that originated in aquatic environments, the researchers said.

Gansus is an additional "link in a long chain of intermediate forms between Archaeopteryx, the oldest known bird from the late Jurassic, and modern birds," said Sues, who was not part of Lamanna's research team.

In the end, there is probably a long list of "responsibilities" which the librarian is supposed to execute. I'm curious about the fact that Bushee had child pornography in his possession when arrested... did he print that at the library?

I don't know Sue Martin, but it seems to me there HAS to be more to this story than what the ALA is reporting. Was she reprimanded before for lack of supervision of the computer area? Is she an outspoken proponent for the library causing waves locally? We probably won't know until much later.

I'll spend some time digging through the local rag http://www.nwfdailynews.com/ but this time I didn't make it past the poll about the Indian names of local high schools. Sheesh...

This story from the Northwest Florida Dailynews tells the story of a teacher that wishes Bush died in the terrorist attacks on September 11 and a suspension for using school computers for pornographic content.