Wednesday, July 04, 2007

posted by: copernicus on 7/04/2007 01:32:00 PM
Damn. If anyone still checks this thing, sorry.

I haven't used it in forever. Feel free to visit my Myspace for posts, pix and whatever.

myspace.com/copenhagen_interpretation
Thursday, February 22, 2007

posted by: copernicus on 2/22/2007 05:34:00 AM
Siouxbaroo like snow. Snow fun.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

posted by: copernicus on 1/02/2007 06:47:00 PM


An airplane, perhaps?
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

posted by: copernicus on 12/06/2006 12:10:00 PM
--AUSTRALIA OVERTURNS CLONING BAN--

Australia's first laws on stem cell research were passed in 2002,
Australia's parliament has lifted a ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research, despite opposition from the prime minister and other party leaders.
The House of Representatives approved the legislation by a vote of 82 to 62. It was passed by the Senate last month.

It will clear the way for researchers to engage in therapeutic cloning.

Scientists hope stem cell research will lead to treatments for conditions including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, as well as spinal cord injuries.

Members of parliament were permitted a conscience vote - meaning they were not bound by their party's policy - following heated debate.

I don't think the science has shifted enough to warrant the parliament changing its view

John Howard

Despite strong support for the bill, both Prime Minister John Howard and new Labor leader Kevin Rudd made impassioned speeches against repealing the ban.

"I think what we're talking about here is a moral absolute and that is why I cannot support the legislation," Mr Howard said.

"I don't think the science has shifted enough to warrant the parliament changing its view, and for that reason I'm going to vote against the bill."

Future treatment

Australia's first laws on stem cell research were passed in 2002, allowing scientists to extract stem cells from embryos left over from IVF programmes, but banning cell cloning.

The new legislation will allow therapeutic cloning - the splicing of skin cells with eggs to produce an embryo from which stem cells (capable of forming human tissues) can be taken.

The cloned embryos cannot be implanted in a womb and must be destroyed within 14 days.

The senator who drafted the bill, former Health Minister Kay Patterson, said the law would be introduced in six months after health and science authorities drafted guidelines for egg donation and research licences.

"This work's being done in Sweden, England, the United States, in Japan... I didn't see how we could accept any treatment derived from this in the future if we didn't allow the research here in Australia," Ms Patterson said.

She said she believed the legislation could be made more liberal and that it must be reviewed after three years.
Thursday, October 05, 2006

posted by: copernicus on 10/05/2006 03:09:00 AM


That's right, SLUTLOG.

What?
Friday, September 29, 2006

posted by: copernicus on 9/29/2006 01:52:00 AM
44 stories over Times Square
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

posted by: copernicus on 8/09/2006 11:59:00 PM
August 6th & August 9th, 1945. A man named Harry Truman from my hometown of Kansas City joined the ranks of Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and the Catholic Church as the Worst Mass-Murderers of Human History.



Nagasaki is the 1st pic. Notice all the buildings trees and grass completely wiped away. No structures or landscape or even soil left. Two cities of 150,000 people each raised to the temperature of 7000 degrees Farenheit, incinerated and the ashes blown away by a 1000 MPH wind in a matter of seconds. All that's left is a big flat patch of irradiated dirt.

Innocent citizens, clothes catching fire as they tried to run, melting where they stood and turned to ash. Truman crossed that line so that the whole world would fear us, and would make America unstoppable; free to spread like a virus, infecting the globe, raping and pillaging the Earth throughout the 20th Century.

Hiroshima is the second pic. If I can find a good before and after pic, i'll replace this one.
Friday, July 21, 2006

posted by: copernicus on 7/21/2006 09:38:00 PM
I would like to lay some thanks & praise on Dr. Quagliata, Leslie, Renee & Audrey of the West Village Veterinary Hospital @ 705A Washington St. New York, NY. 10014 and my man Dr. Doolittle for the outstanding care & compassion they gave our baby girl Spider.



Sure, she likes to eat the leather strap of my necklace off of me while I'm sleeping and ends up with a severe case of gastritis and a possible bowel obstruction requiring surgery, but she sure is cute, isn't she?
Saturday, July 01, 2006

posted by: copernicus on 7/01/2006 07:41:00 PM
I promised my Saturn that she would be the only post until a successor was named.

Well, it's been a month and the torch has been passed.



Everyone: Meet Soo-baroo. She's brand new, just 69 miles old and she's freakin' sweet.

All-Wheel Drive, 173 Horsepower, 30 MPG, power everything and a 100,000 mile bumper-to-bumper warranty.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006

posted by: copernicus on 5/30/2006 10:36:00 PM

She was a good car.

She served me VERY well.

She lasted 7 years and 93,000 miles.

She took me on round trips from:
-Kansas City to Miami
-Miami to Savannah
-Miami to Key West
-KC to Denver
-KC to New York City
-NYC to Southern Connecticut 3 times a week for 8 months
and
-NYC to Western Mass every weekend for 3 months

She was reliable and true. She never had a major problem until this recent disaster, and that was at the hands of another.

Now I have to find something that will get good gas mileage, be reliable and tow a trailer 1/2 way across the country in November.