My paper is finally finished and handed in, which is a relief. My class is almost over with. I'm a little sad about that as I had fun. (Really.) I've been so busy I haven't even been reading other people's blogs, so I am way out of the loop. It feels a little weird to be here again.
A few things I missed being able to talk about:
Dennis Kucinich was in East Lansing today, and I couldn't go. I am fond of Kucinich, but don't think of him as a viable presidential candidate. I do however think he'd be a great Energy Secretary. He'd be a big supporter of alternate energy sources, increased CAFE standards, fuel cell powered cars, public transportation, and anti-fossil fuel.
My House Rep., Mike Rogers, is a corporate whore. I wrote him a letter (as I'm sure some of you others did out there too) protesting the proposed changes to the Clean Water Act. He wrote me back saying "EPA officials have announced that President Bush and his aides are currently drafting their own plan to rise the Total Maximum Daily Load program in a way that would give the states much more responsibility in implementing their own TMDL plans. Rest assured that I will keep your thoughts in mind should this come before me in the U.S. House." Yeah, right. That's total crap, and we all know it. If we give individual states the right to decide what their own clean water standards are, it will result in a big mess. Here's a hypothetical example: say Michigan and Wisconsin (just two random Great Lake states) both draft their own Clean Water standards. So what happens if Michigan has much stricter standards than Wisconsin? Michigan will be on the receiving end of a lot of Wisconsin's pollution (as will other states and possibly Canada too). The idea of states having separate standards is so boneheaded it could only have come out of the Bush administration.
[Damn! I just had an idea I should have put in my paper. I hate it when that happens!]
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