Holy Rusted the other Republican Leader might be in shit too!!!!!!

This might just be the best day of my life. No, not because all these republicans are scumbags, but because it's finally coming out that they are scumbags. Exactly what I've been saying all along.

Turns out that conveniently Mr. Bill "cat-killer" Frist made somewhere between $2 and $6 million by selling his HCA holdings just before the stocks plummeted due to a bad earnings report.

Let's compare this to Martha, shall we. She made a mere $50,000 off her insider trading.

Holy Crap

I never thought it would happen, but Tom DeLay has been indicted!

A Travis County grand jury today indicted U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on one count of criminal conspiracy, jeopardizing the Sugar Land Republican's leadership role as the second most powerful Texan in Washington, D.C.

The charge, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years incarceration, stems from his role with his political committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, a now-defunct organization that already had been indicted on charges of illegally using corporate money during the 2002 legislative elections.

School

I'm thinking of not staying at UT. I'm not sure my heart's in it. I'm looking for other things I can do. Any suggestions?

WOW

Wow...that's all.

Evolution Schmevolution

Okay, so I've been in the Geology department for a couple weeks now. I have to say, I think I like it. I am surprised at the difference between this and atmospheric sciences.

In atmospheric sciences people could cling to whatever beliefs of the world they have, pretty much. Anything having to do with the past doesn't have an impact on the weather tomorrow unless you're studying climate or something.

But here, people actually laugh at people who think the world is younger than 4.5 billion years as well as people who think evolution is a load of crap. The world we live in today is so crazy. People who don't agree with science try to make it look like the scientists are debating it. But let me tell you, there is no debate. (Yes, there are debates on the specifics, but as far as evolution as a whole goes, it is widely accepted in the scientific community)

I love the class I'm teaching because one of the main points the professor is trying to get across is the difference between science, nonscience, and nonsense. So basically he's trying to show them what goes into coming up with a scientific theory, and how other ideas such as intellegent design aren't actually science.

And as one last disclaimer, I'm not attacking religion here. I, for one, don't believe that evolution and creationism are necessarily mutually exclusive. Something could have still been created in the beginning, and then evolved. Although I will say that evolution does make it so that genisis can't be taken literally, at all. But yeah, I'm gonna go with science over blind faith any day.

America's Battered Wife Syndrome

There are so many funny people in the world. I really wish I was one of them.
*sigh*
But seriously, this article is so true...

href="href="http://12thharmonic.com/wordpress/index.php/2005/09/07/americas-battered-wife-syndrome/">America's Battered Wife Syndrome

Kids say the darndest things...

"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005 (Source)

Update

Well, I've been really busy and haven't posted in a while. I'm still really busy and don't have too much time to post.
Danny and I got married. The wedding went well. A few glitches, but overall I think people enjoyed themselves. Our honeymoon was great. We're now back in Austin. We're working on setting up our house, and I've started school at UT. Overall things are pretty good right now. Just extremely busy.
Okay, back to work though, just wanted to post to say I'm alive. :)