Convicted on Charges of Lying to Congress

Developments in the Abramoff corruption case should be making Gonzales sweat

Italia Federici was fined $250,000 and sentenced to Five years in prison for lying to the Senate.

Very well researched piece into a very complicated topic and it goes back to the origins of the Abramoff investigation -- ie John McCain starting it to take down some enemies of his that trashed him in the 2000 election. Except wait, he had to slow down and stall and coverup for Bush if McCain ever hoped to inherit Bush's mantle.

Like all house of cards, this one is starting to fall as the wind starts to blow.

*jumps up and down*

Heeeeeeeeee!!! Finally managed to assimilate the papers I need to handwave enough to explain some "inconsistencies" in my data.

Heeeeeeeeee!!! Okay, now I can write this paper without the big lump in my stomach that felt like I was overinterpretting or trying to force the data to fit my model.

*dances*

*face palm*

Yes, that's a very frequent subject lately.

My flist tends to think of me as math-gifted. However, I've frequently told them that I fail at basic math due to my brain thinking backwards. This also severely affects my ability to do physics.

Case in point: Over the past three years, I've tried to convert the amount of a specific reagent that I use from nanograms to the more conventional Unit style (because different batches can have different activities based on ng measurements). Invariably, I do the calculation a variety of ways and end up with fifty different answers.

You'd think I'd never grokked stoichiometry in chemistry class, but nay, that I excelled at. It's the damn basic math.

Today, I decided to tackle it again because I'm going to NEED it.

I nailed it on the first try and know it's right.

*face palm*

I tell you, sometimes the backwardness of my brain amazes even me.

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Okay, results section is done and I'm hoping I can just leave out the RNA because it's just distracting from the message I think. *brain very numb*

Introduction and that's it. I don't think I'm going to have time today (or brain power) to rework the intro to the other paper. Sometime later this week. *handwaves*

siigh, i want chocolate but I don't want to bake.

Priceless...

Having MS Word flag a word you know you typed right, only to discover that another paper that used it spelled it wrong. And they don't have any excuses of being a brit or a canadian since they're from NJ.

*shakes head*

Of course, I think I'm just getting a little punchy and easily amused.