So i was wrong, and as such I offer my apologies to Maryfly.Â

the world trade center will be replaced with the freedom tower.

Construction has begun.

SO last night was the christmas party for the firm. I don’t know why i go to these things, i’m about as anti-social as a gaming geek should be. Last night was even worse because i was getting sick. My purpose at the party, was to congratulate an associate who was brought back into the firm as a member (partner). He is an awesome attorney, and any way you look at it if a business goes out of their way to get you re-hired and promoted to the highest position within the firm it is all good news.Â

I’m sick btw. While i was at the party being the usual un-interactive individual i am, I began to notice my throat was begining to hurt. I left and wandered around lower NYC, debated watching the pursuit of happiness, wandered more when i decided not to go, then went home-> woke up three times with the worse sore throat i’ve ever seen.

halls are my best friend.  work sucks today. wish i could go to sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp!

glad i didn’t drink, i’d have not been able to get out of bed to come here. Then again maybe the orange juice would have healed my throat with all the acidic fluid.Â

So yesterday two things happened, and i firmly believe that when you look for circles you will find them btw. Here are the circles i’ve found.

First i had my review. I was well rewarded for the work i do, but some things came out exactly like i thought they would. All of this comes to a point that I have been having problems lately agreeing with the kind of job i perform, and the product that i produce. So this has a bunch of additional difficulties.

Secondly a friend of mine, who i will refer to as B, passed away back in Louisiana. I was told his lungs just gave out. B was 28 years old. The obvious questions are raised, and we can all manifest our own answers. When i review the evidence i think it resulted from an occupational Hazard. I worked with B for a long time at an industrial warehouse that specializes in the production of Liquid Mud. B worked on a daily basis with several chemicals that would be used in the creation of LM. Several of these chemicals were dust form. B and I used to get into small arguments regarding proper protective clothing. He would often forgo certain things because he was young and invincible. It is a tregedy that the above statement wasn’t an accurate portrayl of reality.

B is survived by one young daughter and a wife.

Back to work for me.

I was reading this article that references an article and speaks to the issue of worry. This topic has been on my mind for a long time as I’ve had several moments in which ideas that i can’t alter/control have crossed my path.

Draw your conclusions as you may, but i think they are accurate as to their conclusions. I’m trying to figure where global warming fits into the situation. I want to argue lumping it into the “avian flu” category is an incredible mistake, because that assumes there is nothing we can do to solve the situation. But yet there isn’t much I can do about the situation, because doing something puts an incredible strain on my survival and the effects of which would only be used to support arguments that we shouldn’t do anything. (if the effects can be measured at all)

So i continue to go grocery shopping in my car that has horrible emission standards, I utilize my electrical devices to maintain a comfortable living space, and I still read dispose of trash at the same quantity as ever.

“a glacier could erupt out my ass and i would still be concerned about the pattern of today’s weather” -dsb date: december 7th, 2006

 Someone was listening, a glacier just erupted out my ass. It is 19 degrees, but feels like 1 degree according to weather.com.

I’m still worried about climatelogical data and what it means regarding global warming, but i’m that kind of person. I see interpretations of data by various scientists that are not considered “outside” their scope of expertese and think wow they seem to be right, our growth in cultural emmissions seems to mark a change in the average temperature of the world, and it is a drastic change. Not to mention there seems to be a serious correlation between the amount of carbon dioxide in the air and the average temperature. Interesting, i hope our government takes this into account and begins to regulate coporate actions.”

but i’m silly like that.

The news reports you’ve read are accurate. I do in fact turn 26 this weekend. Saturday in fact. It is odd. I couldn’t wait till i turned 25, and now i’ve continued to 26. Is there anyone who can stop this rollercoaster, or has the momentum caught up. Will i be thrown to the wolves?

Friday i’m going out. I don’t know what i’m going to do, but i will be wandering the streets of manhattan trying to find something interesting to do. I’m sure i can sniff out something worthwhile to do. Mary has plans with Weatherly, and even before those plans were made, she had made plans with me on Saturday.

What were those plans? Well you see she asked me what i would like to do and i was stumped. There are tons of things i want to do in New York, but they cost a good bit of money though. Then it hit me that i would enjoy seeing what Medieval Times is like. So we will be going there. The rest of the day is either hidden from me, or open for interpretation. There was some talk about multiplayer wii games, but I do not think we will be able to find an additional wii controller for such festivities.

So i’ll be 26. Pretty soon i’m going to demand people start calling me Sir and Mr. because that is how one gets respect.

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So i watched an Inconvenient Truth trying to link things together with my past, which is interesting because reality caused me to mirror scientific argument. Â

 I seem to go through cyclical events.Â

When i was in college, I took several classes regarding our environment and how our species reacts to the environment. I always argued with a majority of the class because of their use of rhetoric to support their arguments. “The world has a consciousness and humanity is a disease that the world is trying to purge itself of.” True quote, i kid you not.Â

They were freaks.Â

And exactly true to form they were and have been ignored by the populace at large. The however extreme and prejudicial their argument may be, it is simply a product of their reaction to a body of research that is uncontroversial.Â

The case stands that our society does have a very short sighted vision of reality. We do what we must to survive now, and tend to neglect long term survival. This is most prevalent in how we take care of our elderly. Our youth seem to have lost any admiration and love that was once held for the older generations. Our society moves at such a quick pace that grand parents are being left behind. Of course i could continue and add to the fact that since humanity’s life expectancy is growing longer and longer i can only see the problem getting more and more relevant, but this was initially an example of an idea, not an idea in and of itself.

So we are facing the fact that our “universe” must include a lot more then simply our neighborhood, city, and even our nation. The problem is that whether or not we are causing global warming is irrelevant, it is happening and our addition to the activity is not assisting the problem. All the same, our society is noticing that there is a problem and that maybe humanity isn’t as helpless as it seems.

1. The first link i want to share is of our Supreme Court. I’m hopeful when I read about this case, because it isn’t very often that you see states bring a lawsuit against a federal agency.
2. Of course then there is the business aspect of our society. I wonder if there is ever going to be an age in which corporations are looked at as responsible progressive entities, other then constructs created for personal gain and exploitation. This is a good start.
3. On the effect side of the situation, there is this little tidbit. Not exactly a great source, but interesting none the same. I’m thinking that nothing the article offers is controversial, and also it is a probe into a phenomenon that will begin popping up on the news more frequently. Tomorrow the hurricane season ends and we are very pleased to admit that it was an exceptionally peaceful season.

just a couple ideas.

Because Democrats won the last election, they will be blamed for whatever effects Iraq has on our county.Â

1. If we withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible, the country is going be destabilized and I believe that the resistance will gain control of the government.Â
2. If we stay, people will blame the democrats for every death that occurs from this point forward.

So I sit and contemplate what other strategies are involved. I think any anti-american terrorist organization is going to have strong support in the middle east, more support then ever before regardless of our actions at this point.

So what do we do? This is what i’m concerned about from now on. We have entered into a state of cyclical violence, one that occured not to long ago between Ireland and England. Violence justifies more violence in our current progression. They blow up our towers and we decimate their homes.

Retribution.

Is America going to allow their officials to be tried and found guilty in another country? (whoa i really did fuck some grammatical structure there)
Does america honor extridition treaties to germany? lol

Iraq is really fucked up. I don’t know what to think at this point regarding this situation.Â

Isn’t there a program of protection for academics in dangerous sections of the world? I heard about it on NPR when the Iraq war began. They work to get academic professionals who have spoken against the government out of the country when the country gets f-d up.

just saying iraq is f-d up now.