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Even though I was doing reserach in the biological and biochemical sciences, I FOUGHT for particle physics funding, the most basic of all sciences. And frankly I believe an attack on any of the sciences, medical, biological, chemical OR physical is an attack on all the others, because frankly, today is an attack on physics, tomorrow chemistry and the day after biological…

And I for one will NOT encourage young, intelligent students to go into scientific research, unless of course, they want a piece of shit of a life that I have had…

And I want to be quoted on that one…simply unethical…

Even though I was doing reserach in the biological and biochemical sciences, I FOUGHT for particle physics funding, the most basic of all sciences. And frankly I believe an attack on any of the sciences, medical, biological, chemical OR physical is an attack on all the others, because frankly, today is an attack on physics, tomorrow chemistry and the day after biological…

And I for one will NOT encourage young, intelligent students to go into scientific research, unless of course, they want a piece of shit of a life that I have had…

And I want to be quoted on that one…simply unethical…

@Saul I was just talking to a friend yesterday about the world view of Americans. We just had some traveling students from Germany and Sweden stay with us and I am glad that got to see that we all don’t eat McDonalds while watching football or Fox News all night.

@Saul I was just talking to a friend yesterday about the world view of Americans. We just had some traveling students from Germany and Sweden stay with us and I am glad that got to see that we all don’t eat McDonalds while watching football or Fox News all night.

The 2 Democratic senators from Illinois certainly fumbled in not protecting the future of Fermilab and Particle Physics in the US.

Durbin’s excuse for dropping the ball – “…we were left with stark choices – reduce funding for high-end physics or cut money for veterans; reduce spending at Fermilab or eliminate funding for rural hospitals” is a total insult –there are 9 billion dollars (2% of the bill) of almost 10,000 earmarks (average of almost 20 for each of the 535 senators and representatives) –and I’m sure that very few has anything to do with veterans or hospitals. He must think we are ignorant sheeps.

One would assume that this is an unintentional fumble by these 2 ambitious and supposedly sharp senators –but there will be some who think this is deliberate –after all, Fermilab is not situated in heavily Democratic Chicago, but in heavily Republican DuPage and Kane county–and in recently departed former Republican House speaker Hastert’s district.

So, Particle Physics, the crown jewel of American’s Scientific dominance in the last 70 yars–responsible for dozens of US Nobel prize winners, and such important advances as the World-Wide-Web (though that invention was developed at Fermilab’s sister lab in Eurpoe, CERN), might fade into the sunset from the US landscape.

The 2 Democratic senators from Illinois certainly fumbled in not protecting the future of Fermilab and Particle Physics in the US.

Durbin’s excuse for dropping the ball – “…we were left with stark choices – reduce funding for high-end physics or cut money for veterans; reduce spending at Fermilab or eliminate funding for rural hospitals” is a total insult –there are 9 billion dollars (2% of the bill) of almost 10,000 earmarks (average of almost 20 for each of the 535 senators and representatives) –and I’m sure that very few has anything to do with veterans or hospitals. He must think we are ignorant sheeps.

One would assume that this is an unintentional fumble by these 2 ambitious and supposedly sharp senators –but there will be some who think this is deliberate –after all, Fermilab is not situated in heavily Democratic Chicago, but in heavily Republican DuPage and Kane county–and in recently departed former Republican House speaker Hastert’s district.

So, Particle Physics, the crown jewel of American’s Scientific dominance in the last 70 yars–responsible for dozens of US Nobel prize winners, and such important advances as the World-Wide-Web (though that invention was developed at Fermilab’s sister lab in Eurpoe, CERN), might fade into the sunset from the US landscape.

If you cut a budget by 83% you can’t end up with 83% of the initial value. :)

If you cut a budget by 83% you can’t end up with 83% of the initial value. :)

Despite how messed up our department of education is, I think the choice to take from it vs. the war is an easy one. One of the few things worse than an education bureaucracy (and there are only a very few) is an illegal war that makes the world hate us.

Despite how messed up our department of education is, I think the choice to take from it vs. the war is an easy one. One of the few things worse than an education bureaucracy (and there are only a very few) is an illegal war that makes the world hate us.

No, I don’t think the government should be that limited. I think there are functions that are best suited to be handled by a responsible, truly representative democratic republic system.

But I don’t know where the line is — especially since the line changes according to how sophisticated the population is. In other words, if everyone were highly educated and highly moral, I’d be a hardcore libertarian. But since they’re not, I’m not.

A completely private society with no centralized standards, in today’s world, would create even more chaos and inequality than we have now — despite that being a very high standard.

No, I don’t think the government should be that limited. I think there are functions that are best suited to be handled by a responsible, truly representative democratic republic system.

But I don’t know where the line is — especially since the line changes according to how sophisticated the population is. In other words, if everyone were highly educated and highly moral, I’d be a hardcore libertarian. But since they’re not, I’m not.

A completely private society with no centralized standards, in today’s world, would create even more chaos and inequality than we have now — despite that being a very high standard.

You can pull money from any number of bloated programs that you don’t agree with. Just because you don’t like the war does not really make your point any more valid. For instance, President Bush is requesting $56 billion for education in ’08. The $372 mil is less than one percent of that. I don’t like the education department for the most part. I think it is a failed program. So I advocate taking money from the education program just as you advocate taking from the war.

Merry Christmas,

Michael

You can pull money from any number of bloated programs that you don’t agree with. Just because you don’t like the war does not really make your point any more valid. For instance, President Bush is requesting $56 billion for education in ’08. The $372 mil is less than one percent of that. I don’t like the education department for the most part. I think it is a failed program. So I advocate taking money from the education program just as you advocate taking from the war.

Merry Christmas,

Michael