1. Professor Kiryun Choi (see Green Enertopia blog of yesterday) indicated to me that he leaves home every M-F morning at 7AM, and does not return until midnight...every night. There are academic/social/business obligations that are kind of required. [Which is one reason he is gaining too much weight, so in December, during the school break, he will be participating in an annual ritual--three weeks of fasting, meditation, water, vegetables, meditation at a Buddhist temple--for three continuous weeks. He lives there during this period.] He always has campus meetings on Saturday mornings, and wedding/funeral/etc. duties in the afternoon. On Sundays he treks. He said most of his active colleagues pretty much do likewise, and so do his Japanese associates. I don't know of one American professor with this schedule. Of course, this has been continuing for many, many decades, and the USA still seems to be doing okay. Chapter 3 of SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Humanity (which is currently being serialized in this blog), identifies our universities as the reason for our success.
2. The highest one day casualties in two years occurred yesterday in Iraq. Two car bombings killed 150 and wounded more than 700. America also suffered one of it's deadliest days ever yesterday in Afghanistan, as 16 were killed, 14 in what appeared to be unrelated helicopter crashes not inflicted by the enemy. Bring them all home. Democracy can wait for another generation or two or more. Just make sure Israel has all the necessary intelligence and first strike nuclear capabilities.
3. When the dust clears, and that should be this year, the health plan to be passed by our Congress will have a public option. Without this club, we might as well not bother with any legislation. The rich will just pay extra to private insurers in order to cut in line and get better service.
4. No matter what they say, climate change legislation will wait until next year, and won't amount to much unless the summer of 2010 turns out to be a killer. On global climate change, John Learned sent a "Layman's Guide to the Global Warming Debate."
5. On the matter of furloughs in Hawaii, why can't K-12 and university teachers take them during the school breaks so education is not compromised? It's going to happen anyway. I guess the only union bargaining point is to hurt students, which is a hell of an attitude.
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The Dow Jones Industrials dropped 104 to 9868, while world markets were mixed. Crude oil slipped further to $78/barrel and gold sunk $16/toz to $1039.
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Neki is mostly gone, but another disturbance popped up south and west of Hawaii. It's a little unnerving that these storms are now initially forming close to Hawaii.
Oh, oh. Another disturbance showed up east of the Philippines, will strengthen into a Category 3 typhoon around Thursday, and, at this time, appears headed in the general direction of Manila.
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I reviewed the Commonwealth of the Bahamas on June 27. Grand Bahama is an island of the Bahamas, and is only 55 miles from Florida.
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