WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and three former Environmental Protection Agency officials from the Clinton administration.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Steven Chu to be energy secretary. Just kidding: Bush to be president for 4 more years!
It's completely unreal. We're witnessing changes so monumentally different than the status quo and so exponentially closer to the direction we should be going that it's like we're living in some kind of Aaron Sorkin film. Either that, or it's all fake...
The Nobel Laureate is Steven Chu, who received the Nobel Prize in 1997 for atomic physics, is the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (which, under Chu, has been working to develop alternative energy sources), and is a professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology. This feels unprecedented. We're going to have people up there who like science.
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I'm voting for parallel universe due to that whole Hadrom collider thing. Something went down, or up..possibly sideways, through a wormhole. And you know what? Right on.
And of course by Hadrom I mean Hadron.
I agree this is amazing.
It's a sign scientists employed by the federal government may actually be able to report the conclusions of their research.
The FDA might actually approve drugs if clinical trials show they are beneficial and have no significant side effects. In contrast to W's FDA, which long refused to approve the morning after pill even though the agency's own scientific advisory panel said it was safe enough to be sold without a prescription. It took the FDA three years to approve the pill - and it only acted after Hillary Clinton and another female senator blocked confirmation for Bush's FDA comissioner nominee.
Bye bye Bush!
I'm positively giddy at the prospect of someone actually qualified to do the job being appointed to a cabinet-level post. But my goodness, look how little it takes to make us happy. During the transition period, I'm going to pee myself every time someone not retarded gets appointed, but wonder how quickly I'll be able to get my expectations back to "regular" after the inauguration.
I am sad to say that I'm in in agreemence with Pone. But I guess it isn't like there's a new technology discovered that revolutionizes everything fast forwarding us into the future we fantasize about (I mean, that sort of happened with personal computers, and that certainly went south in a lot of ways, despite all the rad things we can do we're still obsessed with how well we can capture boobies on our megapixel cameraphones...)
I mean This socio-politico-cultural revolution is sort of long overdue, isn't it? Sheesh. The more I think about it, the more it feels like we were in an eight+ year coma.
Why are you sad to agree with me!?! EFFF YUUUUUUUUUUU!!
"The more I think about it, the more it feels like we were in an eight+ year coma." -Galspanic
Amen.
I'm always sad when we agree Pone. It happens so frequently that I am bored silly by all the agreeing that goes on. Its like a dump in my mouth every time you finish a sentence for me.
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