Folks, I am really liking the Chu pick.

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[lonestarnot]

1. Who's Chu. Sorry I missed that one. Solis! woohoo!

:hug:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Energy Secretary nominee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu

[lonestarnot]

12. I love!!!! the sounds of him!

Thanks for the wiki link. :applause: Chu!

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6. Solis also. Yes. Hi, lonestarnot. Solis is a very good choice.

There's some serious motivational energy in this new Cabinet.

[TayTay]

7. I am loving the Chu pick myself

Imagine a Nobel Prize winner in that office. Wow!

[saltpoint]

8. Hey. didn't know you were in the neighborhood but the neighborhood

just got even better.

Yes. Chu. I am loving it.

[TayTay]

10. And energy secretary who believes in the pursuit of science

I love it.

And it's always great to drop by the neighborhood, have a cup of tea, get a cookie now and then. Makes you feel like you belong and are among friends.

[saltpoint]

11. If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a cake.

Chu brings the white-hot nobility of knowledge into Present Obama's Cabinet meetings and policy decisions.

It has been a long and dreary 8 years of the absence of that under Dubya.

I agree with lonestarnot that Solis is a peach of a pick. And with Chu, there is the distinct chance also of undoing the damage Bush has done to our national life.

[TayTay]

15. And this appointment is not bad either

John P. Holdren, Heinz professor of environmental policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is to be nominated as the White House science adviser by President-elect Barack Obama, according to several news reports.

http://harvardmagazine.com/breaking-news/professor-holdren-be-nominated-white-house-science-adviser

(Ah, yeah, *that* Heinz. That chair is endowed by the Heinz Foundation.)

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18. Ah -- THAT Heinz.

Talk about a stream with snow at its source.

[cynicalguy1111]

38. hes a smart guy according to wiki

didn't know he was that smart tho

[BlooInBloo]

2. He's not gay. Therefore Obama is a bigot.

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid68852.asp



EDIT: Corrected the worst misspelling of "therefore" I've ever seen.

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3. I'm pretty sure he's a boy.

Not that I've CHECKED.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Ooopsy - thanks!

[AlCzervik]

9. yah, science!

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13. Yes. Science, real and actual, and honored.

[AlCzervik]

14. it's back baby!

:7

[Rowdyboy]

16. Chu and Hilda Solis make me very happy....

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17. Hey there. Welcome of the night of the Solstice.

I think that first meeting of Obama's White House Cabinet and staff is going to be a very good one.

I can't attend it but I'd love to have a transcript.

Chu and Solis in particular are just stopping me in my tracks.

[Rowdyboy]

19. I read that winter starts at 6:04 am CST tomorrow....I'm ready....

And I would love to be a fly on the wall at that first cabinet meeting....

I always love to read your threads. I need upbeat friends!

[saltpoint]

22. You're one of the good guys, Rowdyboy. You're right on the

beginning of winter, although for some of us it's already kicked in pretty good. I'm in longjohns and snowboots just to get to the grocery store.

[Blue_In_AK]

20. OC, did you see my post about the NOAA lady?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8014983&mesg_id=8014983 I'm thrilled about science coming back.

[saltpoint]

21. Hi, Blue_In-AK -- thanks for providing the link to your thread --

I missed it and had not heard of Lubchenko, but my god she sounds excellent.

I just posted on your thread and kicked that sucker. The pro-Science tilt to Obama's administration is under-covered in the press. What a pleasure that Science matters after 8 years of being dismissed under Bush.

[yowzayowzayowza]

23. All Obamaz technical picks have been impeccable. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

24. I had listened to one of his speeches and came away impressed as hell.

Clearly Obama made a good choice

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25. Hi, opihimoimoi. Yep. I plugged into some of those interviews and addresses

and came away as impressed as you were.

Chu cuts a wide swath, IMO.

[opihimoimoi]

26. The man is cutting edge on energy....a bit more than Sarah is, LOL

Somehow, I would like to make contact with him...can we do that??

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27. I imagine he has a Stanford office, although I'd have to hunt it down."

"a bit more than Sarah" ! LOL!

I bet his monthly clothing budget is a good deal less, too!

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His department contact info is:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/contacts.html

Stanford University Physics Department
Main Office, Varian Physics room 108
382 Via Pueblo Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-4060
Receptionist/Information: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

[opihimoimoi]

28. Thank you very much...I will make contact and see what happens

If ya wish, I will share correspondence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaHa_9d2y5s&feature=related

russel watson nella fantasia

[saltpoint]

29. Great. Would love to hear it.

:thumbsup: :hi:

[opihimoimoi]

31. rgr that :o)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. I'm really liking him too, my dear Old Crusoe...

K&R

:patriot:

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34. Hey there California Peggy.

:hi:

[opihimoimoi]

32. KnR....just thought of something...his bio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu

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35. Thank you.

I want a wall poster of Steven Chu. And a lunch box. That's where I'm at in the phase of sycophancy.

[opihimoimoi]

36. John P Holdren Link to Lecture

http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/17661/global_climate_disruption.html

Hope ya like him....brilliant..

[cascadiance]

33. This is a good pick by Obama! But still needs choices to limit corporate influence in government...

Chu, though helping us start getting more intelligent policies in energy, etc., still won't directly confront the corporate lobbyists that is so sorely needed in government now.

Obama still needs to stop appointing more DLC choices and at least get some folks in strong positions that will start tearing down the institutionalized bribery system that is so corrupting our government that corporate lobbying represents. DLC folks on his cabinet aren't going to do this.

Chu will help us with more intelligent energy policy. Other choices (and perhaps SCOTUS choices) will perhaps protect women's rights to choose, and work on focusing democratic activism towards other social issues that don't directly threaten the corporate lobby influences.

Though we should cheer choices like Chu by Obama, and pat him on the back for it, we shouldn't allow his selection to distract us from the sore need to completely reform our government from corporate influence, which is why this country's middle class and its very economy is on a precipice now. The sooner they realize that they can't distract us with other issues that they've been doing so much over many years, the sooner they'll realize that in order to get reelected, they will need to deal with this and do something that helps the people vs. the corporate agenda.

[cynicalguy1111]

39. which scotus nominee would u elect to protect women's rights?

i always thought hillary clinton would be a good scotus

[cascadiance]

40. The issue is that SCOTUS nominee should BOTH protect women's rights AND lose corporate personhood...

as well as be quizzed on how he/she would use the constitution to govern their decisions (so that we can make sure the laws on torture, posse comatatus, habeus corpus, etc. that this administration has destroyed get restored the way they should be in a constitutional way.

That's what I mean that we should look at the larger picture and not just get lead into focusing on a few emotional issues at the expense of others, no matter how important those emotional issues might be to us, and ones we should still demand to be protected as well.

Someone like Erwin Chemerinsky I think would make an excellent SCOTUS judge, who's VERY well versed in law, and one day I think could make a very good candidate for chief justice if we could ever see Roberts being replaced. Margerie Cohn thinks so too and has said so on a number of shows as well.

We need to stay focused on the big picture.

Steve Chu is a good nominee, and we SHOULD celebrate his nomination, but we still aren't tackling the big problems of wresting congtrol of this government away from those that would work against the will of the people yet. That still needs to be done quickly to really turn this country around. Obama needs to be made to see this through our lobbying efforts.

I think it would also be bad form to nominate Clinton as a judge shortly after giving her Secretary of State. Let her work at that for a while first.

[Skittles]

37. I had to research but

I have to agree :)

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41. - - - -

:hi: