some environment horror stories about the bush admin: tuna fish, lead in paint, pollution, oil

from the national resources defense council, nrdc.org/onearth.

Bush's Stealth Attacks
by Laura Wright
Industry "experts" give the environment an ugly makeover

Every day the federal government receives a vast amount of scientific advice from appointed experts and advisory groups who help manage the technical complexities of our public affairs. Almost 1,000 official advisory committees guide scientific policy at the federal agencies alone; the Department of Health and Human Services has more than 250 such groups. Although we have laws -- most prominently, the Federal Advisory Committee Act, or FACA -- intended to protect the integrity of that process, they have been shamelessly flouted under the current administration.

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mnnnng?

i did NOT get enough sleep last night.  i want to curl up with my puppy and have dreams about wax_jism, but i have to work five and a half hours, starting in forty-five minutes. 

fuck.

maybe i can go see poa again tomorrow.  i AM going to be checking today.  checking is boring, yet somehow fun.  i don't know, maybe it's the computer.  mmmhcomputers.  i kinda wish it were more complicated!

i've eaten thai hot & sour rice noodle soup for breakfast, but am still rather hungry. i hate it when my body does things like this.  whyyyy, whyyyy can't you be satisfied?

in other news, GARY OLDMAN.

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clemence poesy as fleur delacour. 

cool.

harry/snape rec

older, wiser, sadder by astolat, pg, nearly gen.  shortish harry/snape, sort of wistful and quiet postwarfic.

it smells like an old drain.

catholic church considers firing employees who marry their same-sex partners (in mass, where it is newly legal).  warning:  this will piss you off.  gacked from ninglor.