Thoughts of Dan

After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II. "Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing on into conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses came against the US and Russia; however considering their entire body of work--including an incredibly tough Strength of Schedule--our computers deemed them worthy of the #1 ranking." Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States the BCS commissioner stated "The US only had two major victories--Japan and Germany. The computer models, unlike humans, aren't influenced by head-to-head contests--they consider each contest to be only a single, equally-weighted event." German Chancellor Adolph Hitler said ...

Obama has won. He wasn't my first choice, but neither was McCain. I'm happy to see the will of the people fulfilled. The country is unified and I'm hopeful that Obama will be able to accomplish 4 things that could only be done by an enormously popular president: 1) Line Item Veto . This will end earmarks. It weakens the power of the legislature, but it is CRUCIAL to restoring fiscal sanity. The Republican congress gave Clinton the line item veto in 1996, and the economy took off and government spending was SIGNIFICANTLY cut. However Rudy Guiliani, then Mayor of New York sued, claiming that the constitution does not allow the president to alter legislation proposed , only sign or veto. The case went to the Supreme Court where SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in favor of Guiliani -- thus ending the line item veto. in 2006 Bush asked for a new version of the Line Item Veto, where the president could ask congress to veto lines of a bill independantly, thus getting around the seperatio...

I wrote to my congressman, John F. Tierney to ask him to vote against the bailout. Not only did he do so, but he wrote me back and has earned my respect. I thought I would share his reply to me and my response to him. Here is his considered response to my request on him website to vote against the bailout: ----- Original Message ---- From: Congressman John F. Tierney To: fishdan@yahoo.com Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:17:34 PM Subject: A Message From Congressman Tierney September 29, 2008 Mr. Daniel Fishman Beverly, MA 01915 Dear Mr. Fishman: Without getting into the fine details, I thought I would let you know that I voted against the so-called Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (H.R. 3997) when it was brought to the House floor earlier today. There were compromises made in this version of the bill, ostensibly to gain bipartisan support. Unfortunately, such compromises were made at the expense of key priorities -- investment in helping hom...

The Clark Rockefeller story has been captivating people, especially with his unwillingness to reveal his actual background.   It is also coming out that Clark has had many identities in the past.  One more has recently been revealed, and with it, possibly the reason for his desperate attempts to shield his identity.  In examining the photo's below, it is clear that Clark Rockefeller (left) is also former Black Mesa employee, Dr. Gordon Freeman (below).  Dr. Freeman was responsible for the resonance cascade failure that destroyed Black Mesa in 2001.

Here's a quick synopsis since FVS: I wrote the original version of this to reconnect with Ken Chow (who I just saw in SF in May), so don't think I'm crazy, and wrote it all "just for you" There are plenty of better reasons to think I'm crazy :) 1985-86 St. Bees, UK -- exchange student 86-89 UT Austin majored in PoliSci minored in Lacrosse, failed out in 3 years 89-96 Special Ed. teacher, varying populations. I started off with emotionally disturbed and ended with severe Autsitic 1994 left Austin (which I loved) and moved to Boston with/for live-in gf of 4 years. Thus we split a year later. At that age I was just TERRIBLE at being alone, so jumped into another relationship immediately. In 1996, I thought I might get married and start a family, and (I felt) I could not provide for a family in the way I thought I should on a Sp.Ed. teachers salary, so I went back to school. Of course the relationship that I thought was leading t...

Where is fishdan.com? We recently moved, and I ran fishdan.com our of my house. For the moment, I'll point the DNS here to keep my fan updated. I'll do my best to write a thing or 2 about the new placem, the move, etc.