You nailed it – I remember Chomsky put the number around 23% for America – but obviously there are some coming out of the closet – or maybe – the number is really 3%, and each of them voted 9 times (wishful thinking?)!

That’s the problem – if Authoritarians (sounds like a church) fear they will have to make their own decisions – no “der fuehrer” to direct their blood lust (or tell them which Wal Mart aisles the specials are on – they get all “hollow” inside – and no amount of Faux News or Mexican Viagra can change it!

Peace

His reward for being a faithful Bush cronie was this post to the UN. Bolton has no qualifications for this job. He should not be confirmed.

Today, the re-nomination hearings for John Bolton to the post of US Ambassador to the United Nations was scheduled to occur this morning. However, something happened on the way to the hearing

Harry Potter and the Chalice of Slander

jayt at 119 — I don’t think you can do a back-toback recess appointment for the same office. Once you have received one, there must be a vote in the Senate to continue, so I think it’s either a vote or he’s done. But I’m not positive on that — if anyone has worked on the Hill or knows for sure what the regs are, I’d appreciate it if you could chime in on this one.

I recall hearing one of the talking heads say that they could give him a recess appointment again, but it would have to be without pay. That should be confirmed, though, since I don’t recall who said it. (I was probably watching Washington Week or something like that.)

First of November, fifty-five!
This morning the parson takes a drive.
Now, small boys get out of the way!
Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay,
Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay.
“Huddup!” said the parson. — Off went they.

The parson was working his Sunday’s text, –
Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed
At what the — Moses — was coming next.
All at once the horse stood still,
Close by the meet’n’-house on the hill.
First a shiver, and then a thrill,
Then something decidedly like a spill, –
And the parson was sitting upon a rock,
At half past nine by the meet’n’-house clock, –
Just the hour of the earthquake shock!

What do you think the parson found,
When he got up and stared around?
The poor old chaise in a heap or mound,
As if it had been to the mill and ground!
You see, of course, if you’re not a dunce,
How it went to pieces all at once, –
All at once, and nothing first, –
Just as bubbles do when they burst.

End of the wonderful one-hoss shay.
Logic is logic. That’s all I say.

(from “The Wonderful One Hoss Shay” by Oliver Wendell Holmes. A nice visual aid by which to view the demise of the gooper party.)

*xyz @ 2

There is a poll up at MSNBC asking for your opinion about the ABC “Path to 9/11″ mocudrama.

Here’s a link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14715386/

Just followed the link – top of the page has “Breaking News: Blair Will Resign as Prime Minister Within a Year.”

Yep, and I heard that he’d been promised a position with (oh hell, i can’t remember the name but it is the “something” group). CARLISLE! That’s it.

Just so. I wrote this a year ago as part of a response to a HuffPo post by “liberal hawk” Jaron Lanier:

There is only one incivility that matters here, and it is the supreme incivility of a war of aggression. People who supported such a war have no standing to lecture those who tried to prevent it about civility, however urbane and collected the former and however loud and unruly the latter.