Some links to news stories

Mostly posting these for zoe_me . These are sme of the articles I was talking with you about last night.

The views expressed in the following links are not necessarily mine, so don't yell at me. = ]

Homeschoolers' setback sends shock waves through state

It's interesting to me how much prejudiced derision the scientific community seems to have against folks of the Vaccines can/do cause Autism crowd. Some are almost more spiteful about the "Antivaccination Movement" than Creationalists.
The new strategy of the antivaccination movement: Autism is a "misdiagnosis" for mitochondrial disease

This one is cute.
Elephant that Paints Other Elephants

These ones are neat:
3,000-Year-Old Tomb Found on Greek Island
Six New Prehistoric Bat Species Discovered in Egypt
Traffic jam emerges for no reason at all

This one gets an eye brow raise.
Hillary again endorses McCain over Obama, in 3 more TV appearances. As zoe_me replied to me last night regarding this, "Guess she doesn't want to be Vice President."

Oh now this has me curious

Warning spoiler for Heroes Season 3

Interesting turn of events...

Schwarzenegger denounces 'outrageous' homeschooling ruling

Weight for it...

so the first week of the bet is over. I have chosen to work with the low carb (not gonna do the no carb that a friend suggested) and low fat diet.

At some point I will work in exercise I swear...really. I did 15 min's on the Stairmaster this morning; that's a start.

So today's weight in for day 7 is 283.2 pounds. I am skeptical of the numbers so far though. I suspect a false reading some where. I mean 10 lbs in the first week? Though the first week of dieting/eating changes do tend to be dramatic for me. I remember in WeightWatchers I lost an insane amount the first two weeks but it was more like 5 or 6 pounds.

Next week will be the real test I think, if for no other reason then to see if I can stick with it. = ]

So the math, 8.8 pounds lost.