October 13, 2007
Game Two tonight
The Baconator takes the mound for the Sawx. Post-Game Yawns! From Robbo: Stayed up waaaay too late to see that happen....
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October 12, 2007
Ted Kennedy Recovering
From surgery for blocked carotid artery. Doctors say he is fine and "eating ice cream".
Which is their euphemism for saying he's sipping Chivas in preparation for the Red Sox-Cleveland playoff game. How is it that all his brothers get struck down in their prime yet the runt of the litter always manages to take a licking and keep on ticking?Posted by: Gary at 04:17 PM | Comments (26) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
For Gary
Hopefully, this will make up for all my Nelson Muntz-ing about the Mets' Historic Collapse:
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Nobel Prize Jumps the Shark
with Gorebot.
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Desperately Seeking Ronnie
Two excellent articles in National Review Online today look at the attempts of Republican voters to find (and the GOP Candidates attempts to be) the next Ronald Reagan.
Jonah Goldberg's "Gipper's Glass Slipper" reminds us that Reagan was a man who was right for his time. But he left office twenty years ago and times have changed. Rich Lowry looks at the current field of candidates and reminds us "Yes, This Is It." I have a great appreciation for the achievements of Reagan (a far greater appreciation than I had when he was President). But I have to agree with Messrs Goldberg and Lowry - it's time to get over it. He was great. He should be remembered. But now he's gone. To hold aspirants to the Oval Office to that standard every four years is getting tedious. And bitching that there isn't an "ideal" candidate nowadays is childish. It is what it is. Determine what's most important to you (for me it's more dead terrorists and low taxes), vote for the candidate that you think is the best person to lead the country (not just the party) in 2009 and vote. If he doesn't win the nomination, support the one who does. He may not be "ideal" but guaranty he'll be a lot better than the alternative. Democrats have spent the last forty years looking backwards - for the next JFK. That's gotten them nowhere. It's time to look forward - towards America's future. Because, frankly, that's what the Gipper would have done.Posted by: Gary at 02:27 PM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Yer Friday Timewaster
It's the paper airplane game. Just grab and toss. My best score is 88.725 m. (No, I'm not at the office today.)
Two things about this game, tho. First, it is sponsored in part by Microsoft's latest Flight Simulator game. Incredibly, there's no link through the sponsorship thingy at the bottom of the page. Had there been, I'd probably have bought the simulator game on the spot. Bill Gates' crew is getting lazy. Second, once you've let go of the plane, there's nothing more you can do except watch it fly. Too bad it's not more like our old friend the Hamsterpault (personal record still at 1445 ft.), which lets you manipulate the flight. (Oh, yeah - snuck that second link in, didn't I?) Yips! to Dave Barry. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!! UPDATE:
Start out low to the floor.
"HE TASKS ME. HE TASKS ME! AND I SHALL HAVE HIM!" UPDATE: 106.313 m, big boy. Dunno how to do the screen grab thingy, so you'll have to take my word for it. Posted by: Robert at 10:27 AM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Too Good Not To Use This Morning
That is all. UPDATE: Some heh-inducing reactions: The Colossus - "I'm beginning to think that Alfred Nobel's greatest contribution to humanity may have been dynamite, after all." Rachel at Tinkerty-Tonk - "There is a silver lining, though: Bill Clinton must be absolutely steaming." UPDATE DEUX: And all I can say is God bless Vaclav Klaus for noticing that Emperor ManBearPig is buck nekked:
"The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct," [Klaus] said. "It rather seems that Gore's doubting of basic cornerstones of the current civilization does not contribute to peace."
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HRCR = ER?
While skimming through the WaPo's trashing of Elizabeth:The Golden Years this morning, the Missus, who generally does not make political observations, said, "You know, the only reason another Elizabeth movie is coming out now is to get the country used to the idea of having Hillary as president by reminding us of another strong first woman ruler."
I wouldn't be the least surprised. Not that I plan to see the film anyway. I simply don't trust Hollywood to get anything historickal right. Furthermore, I find Cate Blanchett to be thoroughly loathsome. And as far as screen Elizabeths go, I do not believe any power in the 'verse could come up with an equal to the superb Glenda Jackson, whose Elizabeth R (available from Netflix) is the absolute Gold Standard in Tudor drama, IMHO. Here's an intriguing thought: How would Jackson have done in the role of Galadriel?
"And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!" Mayun, I could see it.
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October 11, 2007
Asshattery of epic proportions
This is getting funnier by the day. Notice the salivating tone of The Guardian (not to mention the numerous factual errors):
Anger over Iraq and Bush prompts calls for secession from the US for VermontSalmon P. Chase, you magnificent bastard. Groovy Vic, you and your compadres know the one true way to handle this in the YouTube era....
By Leonard Doyle
Published: 05 October 2007
Along the Appalachian Trail, the 2000-mile ribbon of wilderness stretching from Vermont to Tennessee, the leaves are putting on their annual display of dazzling yellows, gold and vermilion. And like the autumn leaves politics turns quicker in Vermont than elsewhere in the US. The self-styled Green Mountain state has always had a doggedly independent streak. It opposed slavery long before other states. Vermont people are fiercely proud of the way they run their affairs through "town hall meetings" at which everything from school budgets to planning applications are thrashed out in public. In 2004, Vermont elected its first socialist congressman Bernie Sanders, it almost sent the maverick Democrat Howard Dean to the White House, and was the first state to approve same-sex civil unions. Montpelier is the only state capital in the US to have no McDonald's restaurant and Vermont has kept Wal-Mart superstores out of its cities far longer than any other state. Vermont has some of the toughest environmental laws in the country. In a landmark case, it recently won the right to set tougher pollution standards on car makers than federal law demands. And in the stores of its cities, T-shirts bearing the slogan "US out of Vt!" are big sellers. Because Vermont is now home to a growing movement agitating for outright secession from the United States. In Vermont's rural air, there has always been a whiff of rebellion. One of Vermont's founding fathers, Ethan Allen, was an early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader who fought with his Green Mountain Boys for Vermont's independence in the American Revolutionary War and for the establishment of the Vermont Republic which lasted from 1777 to 1791. The modern independence movement campaigns with a mixture of whimsy and brass-neck maintaining that the United States has lost its moral authority. They argue that the "US empire" is unsustainable and have tapped into a growing well of anger over the war in Iraq, fears for the global environment and anger at the administration of George Bush. In 2005, activists held their first convention in the golden-domed statehouse in the state capitol Montpelier where passionate arguments were made for Vermont to quit the union. The gathering, sponsored by a group called the Second Vermont Republic, was the first statewide convention on secession in the US since 1861, when North Carolina voted to leave. Founder Thomas Naylor set out the case for independence in a Green Mountain Manifesto published in 2003 and subtitled Why and How Tiny Vermont Might Help Save America From Itself by Seceding from the Union. Naylor, 70, a retired professor, was a management consultant to Russia during the breakup of the Soviet Union from where he derived some of his inspiration on the future break up of the United States. Much of the rest of America sees Vermonters as closet Canadians. Naylor sees Vermont as a state of small towns, small farms, local government, grassroots democracy and green activism – not unlike a Switzerland of North America. Naylor and his followers proudly claim the support of 8 per cent of the population of Vermont for the separatist path. They want fellow citizens to vote on the matter at a Town Meeting Day next March, a ballot which they say could eventually persuade the state Legislature to declare independence. This week, however, the eccentric left-wing scholars and retired busy-bodies behind the campaign took a more controversial step which is puzzling some of its die-hard supporters. They travelled the 2,000 miles to the other end of the Appalachian Trail to sit down with an equally academically-minded group from the south also pushing for secession from the United States. Unlike the delegates of the Second Vermont Republic, the League of the South wraps itself in the flag of the Confederacy and has been widely denounced as a racist hate group. Organised by a the left-wing Middlebury Institute of New York, the secessionists from opposite ends of the political spectrum have been meeting for two days in a Chattanooga hotel discussing how they might break away from the United States of America by peaceful means. The League of the South proudly displays a Confederate Battle Flag on its banner and campaigns for a breakaway 'anglo-celtic' state. It has, however, been branded a hate group by the authoritative Southern Poverty Law Centre which monitors such groups. Mark Potok, said the League of the South "has been on the centre's list close to a decade". "What is remarkable and really astounding about this situation is we see people and institutions who are supposedly on the progressive left rubbing shoulders with bona fide white supremacists," said Mr Potok. Many Americans may not realise it but there are, in fact, several secessionist movements afoot across the country. There are groups in Alaska and Hawaii still bitter over their annexation half a century ago, as well as secessionist groups in Texas, California and even New York City. Separatist groups with diverse causes share the view that the US government has grown too big and too powerful. They want to restore America's lost liberty by strict obedience to the Constitution, and maintain that the federal government long ago overstepped its constitutional powers, leaving secession as a valid and legal recourse. Since the Civil War, most Americans have taken their lead from Abraham Lincoln who viewed secession as a tyrannical threat to the principle of democracy and an unlawful act of rebellion by the slave-holding Confederate States. The Vermont secessionists argue that secession is a continuing theme from America's formative years and that far from saving the Union, Lincoln was a racist warmonger intent on strengthening federal authority. This is what makes this week's marriage of convenience between them and the League of the South so puzzling for outsiders. Unfortunately for the secessionists, they face a hurdle in a Supreme Court decision which as far back as 1868 barred the road to disunion. The case of Texas vs White, issued a judicial coup de grâce to secession. Despite Texas having been an independent republic before joining the union in 1845, the Supreme Court ruled that it had no right to secede. "The Constitution in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States."
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What I want for Christmas
Much MUCH cooler than a Red Ryder BB Gun:
The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it had closely guarded for 700 years. A reproduction of the minutes of trials against the Templars, "'Processus Contra Templarios -- Papal Inquiry into the Trial of the Templars'" is a massive work and much more than a book -- with a 5,900 euros ($8,333) price tag. "This is a milestone because it is the first time that these documents are being released by the Vatican, which gives a stamp of authority to the entire project," said Professor Barbara Frale, a medievalist at the Vatican's Secret Archives.Of course, I'd shoot my eye out.
"Nothing before this offered scholars original documents of the trials of the Templars," she told Reuters in a telephone interview ahead of the official presentation of the work on October 25. The epic comes in a soft leather case that includes a large-format book including scholarly commentary, reproductions of original parchments in Latin, and -- to tantalize Templar buffs -- replicas of the wax seals used by 14th-century inquisitors. Reuters was given an advance preview of the work, of which only 799 numbered copies have been made. One parchment measuring about half a meter wide by some two meters long is so detailed that it includes reproductions of stains and imperfections seen on the originals.
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Words fail me.
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Big Papi Speaks Truth To Steinbrenner
David Ortiz says the Yanks would be foolish to let Torre go:
“This is the way I see it,” Ortiz said. “Every organization is like the human body. You have a head that, if you mess around with it, everything just goes down at the same time. I think Joe Torre is the head of that organization right there.” Ortiz recalled how the Yankees started the season with a 21-29 record and said Torre provided “the magic of keeping those guys together” and guiding them into the postseason. The Yankees trailed the first-place Red Sox by 14 ½ games on May 29, cut the deficit to 1 ½ in the final week and finished second in the American League East. Ortiz said that Torre, who has helped lead the Yankees into the playoffs for 12 straight years, might have done his best job this season because he prevented the Yankees from “falling apart.” “There’s no doubt about it, he’s one of the best managers in baseball,” Ortiz said. “It’s because the way they played the first two months and going through injuries and going through everybody apart and end up being in the playoffs, you got to give him a lot of credit. You need to have a good head to keep the body together that way. And I think he did.” The Yankees are not expected to make a decision on Torre until they hold organizational meetings in Tampa, Fla. Ortiz said that the Yankees “need to give the man respect” in how they deal with Torre’s future.A classy thing to say. And I agree. And however irrational it might be, I took hearth in the fact that Torre wasn't handed his own head before he got out of Yankee Stadium the other night. Perhaps, perhaps, this means that Herr Steinbrenner is actually, you know, thinking things over before doing something rash.
With or without Torre, the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry will continue. But, if Torre goes, Ortiz said that would favor Boston. “I tell you what, if he doesn’t come back to the Yankees, they’re going to feel that next year somewhere,” Ortiz said. “I’m telling you that right now. The guy, he knows what he’s doing. To tell you the truth, he plays to win.”
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"Rise of the Machines" Watch
Dead Man Relaxin'
With steely arms sprouting cables and wires, the WAO-1 robot looks nothing like a relaxation device. But researchers at Tokyo's Waseda University hope the contraption will soon be deployed to hospitals and spas across Japan to give therapeutic facial massages. The WAO-1 robot, which stands for Waseda Asahi Oral Rehabilitation Robot 1, is being developed initially for patients with jaw-related medical problems who require facial massages as part of their treatment, according to project leader Atsuo Takanishi. The robot's arms are fitted with ceramic spheres the size of golf balls, and the spheres roll over the skin. The arms' movements are controlled by a complex set of algorithms designed to emulate massages, while six sensors at the base of the arms measure and adjust the pressure applied by the spheres, Takanishi said. The technology has to be more refined than those in electric massage chairs because the facial bone structure is much more fragile than back or spine bones, he said. Another research team member, Ken Nishimura, said the robot could be adjusted to give beauty and relaxation massages. "This technology can be applied very widely," Nishimura said. "I'm looking forward to a time when this robot will give beauty facials at spas."Yeah? Well I'm not looking forward to the day the signal is given and the sooper-sekret pneumatic ram function in these gadgets is activated, causing those golf-ball sized ceramic spheres to create a couple golf-ball sized holes in the skulls of all those spa customers. When the machines finally strike, we're not even going to know what hit us..... Flashback Update: Here's what I had to say a while back about the Cylon campaign to seduce us with GPS technology. I tell you truly, friends, there's a pattern here.
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Happy Birthday To The Missus!
42 years young today (which makes her a cradle-robbing 18 months older than me). And she doesn't look a day over 41. (cue rim shot)
Actually, she doesn't look her age at all and people are always shocked when they find out I'm the younger one. So, not to get all mushy, but, let me send a big ol' kiss out to the girl (and a smack on the bum to go along with it). Beside the 'afore mentioned Mr. Young, she shares her birthday with (in order of birth year):
Eleanor Roosevelt
Daryl Hall
Steve Young
Joan Cusack
Luke Perry (also turning 42)
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Back in the 'box
Yours truly is back at Forward Operating Base LMC from my R&R leave. Suffice it to say, my leave was great-the outpouring of support from my family, friends, and co-workers meant more to me than I will ever be able to adequately express.
A few random notes:1. The support from average Americans is staggering. A middle-aged fellow came up to me at the airport, pressed a $20 bill in my hand and said: "Please, have a beer on me." He walked away with my protests falling on deaf ears. Bless his heart, but we cannot consume alcohol while travelling on Big Army's dime, and even if we could, we are covered by federal rules prohibiting all but the minor of gifts. It is the thought that counts and I hope he understands when I say his twenty ended its travels in the collection jar in the Atlanta airport USO. They will put it to good use.
2. Speaking of the Atlanta USO, it was manned last Sunday by a crew of volunteers who seemed to be largely from one of the local synagogues. These volunteers were having a merry time pushing sandwiches, soft drinks, and conversation on weary travellers. One was a retired federal judge.
3. Books read on the flight back and while cooling my heels in Kuwait and BIAP: Longitude (a biography of the man who invented the first clocks accurate enough to be used for navigation); Jefferson's War (Barbary pirates--1801-1805); My Grandfather's Son (Clarence Thomas' autobiography), and about 60 pages of The Federalist Papers. I recommend all of them.
4. Mrs. LMC, post Chief of Staff and Final Authority on All Matters Concerning Popular Culture, received the additional titles of Civil Administrator and Director of Martial Law in recognition of the tremendous load she has carried alone for a year since my mobilization and subsequent deployment. She is better than I ever deserve.
5. Many thanks to KMR, Robbo and The Butcher's Wife, and everyone else who made the trek to Fort LMC to share a cold adult beverage.
6. Why does anyone listen to Chris Matthews? He had Ron Paul on Tuesday night talking about why there should be a congressional declaration of war before any attack on Iran's nuclear facilities should be attempted. Matthews agreed with him--I guess neither of them read: Jefferson's War.
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Happy Birthday, Dmitri Young!
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Gratuitous Bookshelf Posting
I generally read three or four books at a time and have come up with a little system for doing so.
The first book is my Metro reading, the one into which I bury my nose to escape the squash of the half-hour train rides back and forth each day between the closest station to my little corner of the NoVA suburbs and downtown Dee Cee. Because conditions are not exactly conducive to deep thought, I generally pick only either light entertainment (e.g., Wodehouse, Somerville & Ross, Thurber, O'Rourke, Chris Buckley) or old favorites (Wodehouse again, Waugh, Graves, O'Brian, Tolkien) for this. The second book is my after-dinner-and-odd-chunks-of-free-time reading. This is typically more serious, and can cover both nonfiction (usually history or music, but also odd subjects such as gardening) and what people like to call "serious liddashur". I say "book", although it is not unusual for me to have two or even three books in rotation in this second slot at the same time. The third book (or books) often is another entry from one of the first two classes, although recently this category has been filled up with studies for Catholic class - Scripture, the Catechism, the Vatican's cliffnotes to the Catechism (really!) and the odd essay or passage from one of the Church Fathers. I generally do this reading later in the evening, although I also try to get in a fair bit on my days off and once in a while at lunchtime. What keeps me from reaching the 27th Level of Master Dorkdom about this system is that my adherence to it is utterly arbitrary and inconsistent. For the metro, I recently started reading John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Reign of Terror, but found that I had to give it up. This is a novel-length post-9/11 Rumpole of the Bailey story in which Horace takes on the defense of a Pakistani doctor scooped up by HM Government on charges of terrorist activities. It wasn't many pages before I realized that the book had two problems, one substantive and the other stylistic. As for substance, I've long been aware of Mortimer's politics and generally not minded. Here, however, he is simply too shrill, using Rumpole as a mouthpiece to shriek and scold and blast the Brit government (and, by extension, Dubya). I could probably stomach this over teh course of one of his usual short stories (in fact, I have done so in Rumpole Rests His Case), but I don't see why I should have to plow through a couple hundred pages of it. As for the stylistic problem, Mortimer sets up the book so that while Rumpole narrates in the first person in the old usual way, alternate chapters are contributed by his wife, Hilda (known as She Who Must Be Obeyed). My experience of first-person narratives is that when the author starts introducing alternative points of view, they do nothing but disrupt the natural rhythm and flow of the story and distract the reader. Whatever such stunts may contribute to the story, I've never found them worth the annoyance. (Wodehouse experimented once with writing a Bertie and Jeeves short story from Jeeves' point of view. It was a dog and Plum never tried it again.) Finally, the truth of the matter is that John Mortimer is an old man (indeed, I was surprised to learn recently that he's still alive). He's been writing Rumpole stories for thirty-odd years now and, frankly, they're getting tired - hackneyed, predictable and, when not being used for ranting purposes, by the numbers. I'd much rayther go back and read the older stuff than bother with the new. So having taken the unusual step of throwing Rumpole overboard, I am now working instead on Dudley Pope's Ramage and the Drumbeat, one of about a zillion stories Pope wrote about the adventures of Lord Ramage, a young Royal Navy officer fighting the good fight against the Frogs and the Dons. (Pope was also a naval historian. I have several of his books on the period and find them well-written and informative.) I tried another of these novels some time ago and found it okay but uninspiring. The reason for this is that I've been so horribly spoiled by Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels that the adventures of all other fictional heroes of the time (including both Horatio Hornblower and Richard Sharpe) seem pale, flimsy and cardboard by comparison. I promised myself to keep this bias in mind and check it this time, although I don't know if I'll be able to do so. As for my evening book, I'm back in Civil War mode again. Having just polished off John J. Hennessy's excellent Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas, I've gone straight on to Stephen Sears' Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. I have read Sears' very good account of Chancellorsville, in which he points out that "Fighting Joe" Hooker's main fault was not tactical (his manouver across the Rappahanock to the west of Lee's defenses at Fredericksburg was, in fact, brilliantly pulled off), but a loss of nerve at the critical moment, so am truly looking forward to this account. So far, Sears is covering the same ground as Hennessy (which is hardly surprising, given that Second Bull Run was the immediate strategic predecessor to Antietam), namely the incompetance of poor John Pope in letting Lee and Jackson utterly out-manouver him, the swinish and calculating incompetance of George McClellan's dithering around in the Peninsular Campaign, and the baffled frustration and fury of Lincoln and members of his Administration in having no choice but to deal with "Little Mac" after the pig's-breakfast Pope left them in front of the Washington defenses. I've yet to read a modern history or biography of McClellan that didn't paint him as a tactical boob and a political bastard, and I already get the distinct impression that this book will be no different. Nor should it be.Posted by: Robert at 10:01 AM | Comments (18) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Terrorist Scum Give Rudy Thumbs Down
Giuliani not popular with Palestinian terror group.
"If I had the occasion to meet him (Giuliani), I would hurt him," said Ramadan Adassi, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group in the West Bank's Anskar refugee camp. "For the sake of the American people, Giuliani shouldn't be elected. He is a disgusting guy and I think Americans must think very hard about their future and their soldiers who will be killed when they come to elect their leaders." Adassi was one of several terrorist leaders quoted threatening Giuliani in the new book, "Schmoozing with Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans – to a Jew!," by author and WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein. Klein asked dozens of senior terrorists from several groups to sound off on U.S. politics and whom they prefer to see in the White House. Multiple leaders of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades had harsh words for Giuliani, who in 1995 famously booted Arafat from an invitation-only concert at New York's Lincoln Center celebrating the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. Arafat attempted to crash the event, and when Giuliani saw the PLO leader and his entourage making their way to a private box seat near the stage, the mayor immediately ordered Arafat off the premises, calling him a murderer and a terrorist. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the declared "military wing" of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization, was founded by Arafat. The Brigades, together with the Islamic Jihad terror group, took responsibility for every suicide bombing in Israel the past three years and for hundreds of shootings and rocket attacks. Ala Senakreh, chief of the Brigades in the West Bank, is quoted in "Schmoozing" stating Giuliani "doesn't deserve to live or even to be mentioned."I had forgotten about that little incident. Makes him a better potential President as far as I'm concerned.
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Random Commuter Observation
Ah, crisp fall weather returns to Dee Cee. Now that's what I'm talking about.
Now if only we could get a bit of...um....er...what is it called? Oh, you know, when water comes out of the clouds? Shoot - it's on the tip of my tongue, but it's been so long that I've forgotten the word.Posted by: Robert at 08:40 AM | Comments (18) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
October 10, 2007
Please, Please, Please...Oh, Please!!!
136,000 have already signed an online petition. Realistically, though. I don't see this happening. Not if the DNC and SWMNBN have anything to say about it. Yips! from Robbo: There was a flurry of punditry recently that suggested if the Gorebot bags the Nobel Peas Prize, that might give him sufficient energy of activation to jump in. Ooooh, I hope so - Al and Hill: Two candidates enter, one candidate leaves. UPDATE:The MSM is getting all tingly!!!!!!
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