Long, exausting, but essentially okay day. Member meeting at Proximity We spent not enough time wrestling with too many issues and weren't able to come to consensus on much of anything. But we are slowly [very slowly] millimeter by millimeter building community.
After only 5 hours sleep last night, and given that I have a very cranky 3 year old with a very sore and infected big toe, I will have no time to blog anything of depth. But in reviewing the news I saw these three articles of interest:
Hagel: Bush's Credibility At Stake [excerpt]
Well I am relieved by the fact that some Republicans are calling for an investigation. It's a relief to see that partisan politics will not trump truth for some folks.
(AP) The question of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction has left a cloud over the Bush administration's credibility that won't be removed until Americans know whether the administration was straightforward with them, a Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday.
At the same time, the committee's chairman and its senior Democrat said it is too early to say whether prewar weapons intelligence was manipulated or hyped before the U.S.-led invasion in March, as some Democrats have suggested.
The committee began last week an inquiry into the use of intelligence by President George W. Bush's administration to justify the invasion, specifically assertions that President Saddam Hussein had thriving programs to develop chemical and biological weapons and had tried to obtain material for nuclear arms.
Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican, said the administration is cooperating with the committee hearings, and he expects the cooperation to continue.
"This is a cloud hanging over their credibility, their word," said Hagel. "They need to get that dealt with, taken care of, removed."
Hagel, in a televised interview, said: "The world — certainly Americans — must have confidence in this administration. ... And to resolve this issue is certainly in the interests of this administration."
Depression Solutions On Horizon - What most interested me here was the possibility that in the future we may have diagnostic tests that would indicate which medication is best for each individual. One of the scariest aspects about accepting that I needed medication to help me, was the fact that my own subjective experience was the only way to determine which medicine at which dosage was working for me. Depression is such an insidious, slippery foe. It impacts how you think as well as how you feel. So it is hard to trust one's own appraisal of one's state. So the prospect of the following is heartening.
Doctors say eventually they may be able to do a PET scan, an MRI scan or perhaps a blood sample to match genetics with antidepressant drug to make a patient feel better.
Israelis, Arabs Attend Business Forum - this may be the best news I've heard out of the Mid East in quite awhile. I can rant passionately against global capitalism as well as any other liberal, but you have to admit sometimes it's useful to have the pragmatic drive for profit override ideology.
Peace.
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