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From the WaPo this morning:
In the Senate, Rove and associates believe, a Democratic victory would require the opposition to "run the table," as one official put it, to pick up the necessary six seats — a prospect the White House seems to regard as nearly inconceivable. (emphasis mine)
I do not think that this word means what they think it means.
(H/T to Peterr for spotting the WH WaPo article, and the amusing Princess Bride snark. Note to Karl and Ken and Shrub and Dead-Eye: Delusion does not make for good PR — it just reinforces that whole "state of denial" meme. Erm…heckuva job. Had enough?)
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Good Morning, Egregious
Mornin’.
Wapoo headline “Bush, Rove ‘almost inexplicably upbeat’ in face of widespread GOP panic over midterm elections”
Widespread panic…I like that in an opponent! Bring it on, baby.
President Fece Face really annoys many of us when he claims “that just isn’t gonna happen” about a dem takeover. He’s one annoyin fucker.
On the other hand, it is ALMOST true that dems will have to run the table to take the senate.
There are are seven gooper seats in play (countring Virginia that is now a tie according to recent poll). Dems need to take six of the seven and hold ALL of their own seats including New Jersey which is also a virtual tie- but if the wind is blowing strongly in their direction- this IS conceivable.
There are two possibilities; either they’re totally disconnected from reality on the loss-of-congress issue, or not.
If so, then they’re right in line with the rest of the issues that they’re disconnected from reality on.
If not, then they have a REASON for not being concerned about losing Congress. That reason, on this alternative, should be a topic of discussion and investigation for us, BEFORE it actually (hypothetically) comes to pass – not *after*.
rw at 5 — I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and again and again: let’s all get up and get out there to get out the vote. I’ll be making calls in my district this evening — had to chase down my local Dem group to find out how I could lend a hand, and I belong to them. We HAVE to do a better job with this but, at the moment, we all need to just be DOING the job. Between now and November 7, getting our vote out is the primary mission for all of us. Period.
But making fun of GOP delusions? I couldn’t help myself. *g*
Let’s just hope Diebold hasn’t already handed him the results
DEPU’d. If the Repubs are losing CINCINNATI……hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
egregious @ 87
But it doesn’t mean a thing it we fail to GET OUT THE VOTE.
FIGHT BACK!! MAKE IT HAPPEN!!
Just so long as, come November 8th, we’re not the ones saying, “They didn’t fall? Inconceivable!”
Anyone heard about the Dutch, and their problems with election vote rigging? Seems like they’ve done it right: http://politics.slashdot.org/p…..1239.shtml
I mean, a systemwide audit, international inspectors… how’s that work, exactly? Are they really trying to make sure no one rigs the damn thing? How undemocratic of them!
Ambush: How one interview blew apart Blair’s disastrous foreign policy
Does this at all help to make you want to get on board the peace plane, Hillary?
“Other well-placed figures suggest that the interview had been a genuine attempt by the incoming head of the armed forces to reconnect the Army with a public sickened by years of government spin.”
http://news.independent.co.uk/…..873836.ece
U.S. House of Representatives
Most Competitive & Closely Watched Races
http://www.pollster.com/house.php
Neat. Pollster.com has just recently added this
“Inconceivable”… or “unacceptable”?
Howie Klein @
8
We’ve been using Diebold Accu-Vote optical scan machines here for almost ten years. As some may know, the Alaska Dems sued the state to release their data files on the 2004 elections after incredible anomolies showed up on the state Division of Elections web site. I doubt we will get the info we need before the election – everything the state RELUCTANTLY releases brings up more questions than answers – but I did notice that ALL of the touchscreen Debold machines had been removed from our local precincts for our October Borough elections.
Diebold does ATM’s too.
Ed*ard Teller @ 14
One of our local America Votes organizers was talking bout how the Republicans couldn’t afford to risk any Diebold shenanigans now that more people are on the alert for them. But considering what might be uncovered by Democratic congressional investigations, they may decide they can’t afford *not* to.
Consider, they were scared and desperate enough for Rove to pressure a KNOWN SEXUAL PREDATOR to run for re-election in a red district when he wanted to retire.
Am I glad Ms. ET and I dug up all our carrots and beets yesterday afternoon. It is 18 degrees F here on a beautiful Alaska morning. Sun’s coming up.
Hey ET–
How are things with Benson? Did you talk with Howie about getting the Had Enough Video to use in her campaign?
ET — yowch!! 18 degrees? That means I’ve only got about 3-4 days to get all the yard work done. Might have to suggest to my peeps that we advance our walking plans for literature drops to evenings this week rather than next week.
Still working hard to raise money for Diane Benson-D, Alaska to defeat the odious Don Young. Young heads the committee in charge of forced abortions and forced labor in the Marianas.
We’re up to $2,475 at last check. Let’s get all these Abramoff/Marianas people out. It takes a lot of travel money for her to cover the state, the whole state is one Congressional district.
and I was so hoping for the actual “inconceivable” video clip!
this one is good too.
Rayne at 19 — I hear ya — I’m thinking I may have to get those daffodil bulbs in the ground sooner rather than later here. Eeep.
“You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’”
Rdd- Yep. Unfortunately I don’t have a local race to work. Bilray is goin to coldcock our soccer mom candidate again and I’m not moving off the couch to help her this time around- she fucked it up too badly last time.
DiFi is a shoe in so there’s no point in that race either.
The senate comes down to four seats, Virginia, Missouri, New Jersey, and Tennessee. Dems need to win three our of four from that clutch. Hardly impossible. Guys make three out of four passes at the craps table regularly at Vegas.
Apparently out of 53 congressional seats in California- NONE will change party this year. That’s a testimony to the deal the dems made with Rove that he would settle for twenty safe seats and dems could do whatever they wanted with the other 33.
California politics is therefore a major yawner.
egregious @ 18
check your e-mail! I’m working with Howie on this – he’s WAY busy today, even more than usual. Also trying to finish my Young-Abramoff ties timeline, which should be the most comprehensive yet.
I’m struck that no newspapers have ever directly focused on Young’s statutory responsibility over welfare of the citizens and residents of the CNMI (Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands) while he was chair of the U.S. House Resources Committee from 1996 to 2002, when the sweatshops and slave labor-like conditions began to get, uh, egregious…..
bush seems to be waiting for Nixon’s Silent Majority which got Nixon elected despite widespread protest (my God bush thinks he’s Nixon without the brains). Maybe Nixon stole that election like bush will try with this one but wasn’t it James Baker (who has reapeared on the political scene again) one of the guys who after the election convinced Tricky Dick to resign before he was impeached? Is history repeating itself. We ignored the lessons of Vietnam (Powel Doctrine), and seem to be repeating the fiscal mistakes of the seventies (excesive spending) and Poor middle east diplomacy which leads to war and higher oil prices (thank you Henery Kissenger) Why Harvard hires such failures as Kissenger to teach makes me wonder about our elite schools.
“California politics is therefore a major yawner.”
Perhaps so. I am interested if Arnold can go back to making his oscar winners though.
Bush- Nixon with LESS moral restraint.
Christy #22 — watch the jet stream (although Weather channel doesn’t do as good a job of covering the expected jet stream trend). I think you have until Thu-Fri for above freezing weather, but it’ll depend on elevation from the looks of the forecast map at Weather Underground.
Oklahma
Arnie appears to be a shoe in. Dems should have run Barbara Streisand
rwcole @ 24 and 25:
Those safe seats are courtesy of the state legislature and its redistricting (read: gerrymandering)policies. Why do you think it only take eight or ten of those guys to create gridlock in Sacramento?
rwcole @ 29
What I was thinking.
Scary.
PJ–Yep- there was a pretty good article about the situation today (LA Times I think). The state Leg made a deal with the devil (Rove) and this is the outcome.
Unpossible!
;>)
OT: e.Greg, sometime I would really appreciate some tips on what to say to someone who is either really manic or really depressed.
I suspect my little bro is undiagnosed.
he’s pretty much able to maintain – he’s a gardner at a big public garden and can really hide out when he’s feeling low. when he’s manic, there’s no hiding it (he came, drunk, to Dad’s funeral in ragged cut-offs and flip flops and proceeded to film the service from atop the pipe organ, until he toppled off, onto the alter. We are a, erm, colorful family).
He’s in denial but I need to know what to say to him (and to you, dear one) when he needs it most. What gets your attention? What makes you feel better? Even if true, do you reject it because you think people are simply trying to make you feel better? Feel free to email me a crayon52 at earthlinkdotnet, but I also think folks here might make use of the info some day.
Unfortunately I am a hundred miles (one way) from Springfield, MO and Claire, the nearest race that needs help. So I will monitor a poll on election day and keep sending small donations when I am able.
We had our first frost last week so stacking wood, moving bulbs, planting turnips and now doing a little baking on what is turning into a rainy day. With the amount of rain expected our mountains will soon be full of oyster and bear claw mushrooms, perhaps a rare jelly leaf for a special tempura night! Does anyone know if peonies or bleeding hearts need separation like iris and daffodils do? Sorry for the OT but I don’t know who else to ask.
rw- Cheer up amigo.
Just to unsettle your nerves:
American citizen. Held by American military forces. Who take him to an Iraqi court and demand his execution. “But there’s no evidence against him,” says the Iraqi magistrate, who would have dismissed the charges. The American military take the magistrate into the back room, away from the defendant, his attorney, and public view. Time passes. They come out. The Iraqi magistrate orders the American citizen’s execution. No trial had taken place. [via Making Light]
I’m wishing for the ghosts of the dead to haunt Bushco and in particular anyone in the military who had anything to do with this. Ghod knows what they threatened the judge with.
Maybe the standard dress for political events in this country should be a burqa, so attendees are less identifiable by the secret police we’re about to get.
I think dems will win New Jersey and lose Virginia- which means the senate comes down to Mioouri and Tennessee- two red states.
It’ pretty easy to see that the dems ain’t a gonna put together a lasting majority without turnin a few red states blue in the “upper south”.
Arkansas, Missouri, Virginia, and Tennessee are targets.
It takes bible totin dems to win down there.
rw @ 34:
Given that this has been going on for a lot longer than Rove has been involved, I wouldn’t blame it on him. The parties have been doing gerrymandering at least as far back as the 1972 redistricting, when they redrew McCloskey’s district in hopes of getting him out.
Eureka
Actually I’m VERY cheery. I think we’re gonna take the house and MAYBE the senate- and if we do- this will be followed by a giant gooper circular firing squad with GW Clusterfuck serving as target in chief. This is shaping up as a good dem year. (just not in my congressional district).
Shoo ins. Sometimes yuk. It’s all about how the shoo-ins go about being a shoo-in.
PJ– Oh sure- but apparently the 33-20 deal involved Rove according to the Times story.
rwcole @ 41
Republicans scapegoating Dubya is all well and good, but it is imperative that the Democrats attach his taint to whoever the GOP runs for preznit in 2008. If they run a Senator (i.e., McCain) and the Democrats can’t hold him accountable for all the times he supported Dubya’s every whim, they probably deserve to lose.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 28
EW, have you seen him lately? I don’t think there’s enough pancake makeup to make him look pretty again. Not that I ever thought he was.
A friend and I once tried to keep a tally of how many people were blown away in one of his movies (the only one I ever saw in a theatre). We gave up about 1/3 of the way in – about 30 minutes – 75 dead, countless wounded.
He was red-faced and sweaty during the recent debate with Angelides. I thought he was going to have a stroke. I think his years of steroid use are coming home to roost. Seriously. Aren’t there physical changes years later? Don’t people start to look like they’re being taken over by wood from the inside out?
Our next door neighbor in S. Land Park owned the pony rides and the amusement park in Land Park, but not Fairy Tale Town, my fave. Every year at Halloween, he gave out tickets to his attractions instead of candy. Kids lined up outside his house to get theirs and he was never stingy.
Eli
Well said. The dynamics of 06 will not translate to 08.
I don’t think that either party has a candidate worth a shit for 08.
OT-several earthquakes in Hawaii this morning.
USGS info.
Hartford Courant
How’s that knife feel in your back, non-triangulated Democrats?
…And it looks like Joe Klein’s succumbed to Obamania!
Hoo boy
;>)
darkblack @ 48
What a pissy, spiteful little man.
Lieberman’s a jerk- but his current behavior is dictated primarily by his need to attract the gooper vote- without it he’s dead.
When ya put the food underneath the toilet- that’s where the cockroaches go.
Politicians are just somewhat less sophsticated cockroaches with the same survival instincts.
Put any in Lieberman’s situation and they’d all pick about the same roach trail.
This WH has believed they control reality. Sane people know differently.
Nov 7th may shake the R’s from their dreamworld. That’s what we’re all working for!
The interesting quesion about Lieberman is not why he’s doin what he’s doin now- that’s pretty obvious- it’s why he did what he did last year and the year before. Why didn’t he stay inside the safe cocoon of mainstream dem thnking.
I suspect that he had a brain dead presidential strategy rattling around in his pea brain- He would be the new Scoop Jackson and win the White House.
rwcole @
46
dang it, rw, yew ort not to talk like that. find somebody. Russ Feingold is the tallest man standing, anywhere, right now.
Dems are startin to figure out that they can out “Jesus” the goopers in border states. Could turn some elections into prayer meetings. Funny as hell. Watch Ford in Tenn. for a good lesson.
Mommybrain @ 45
I used to cruise Land Park of a Sunday afternoon with my sweet thing in my new GTO. I’ve got pic’s Mom took of me in that little amusement park in Land Park before Fairy Tale Town was even there. Back in the day. Lots of picnics and b’day parties in the park, and Sunday afternoon whatevers. And there’s Freeport, and the rest of the Delta too. And water skiing on the Sacramento River. And the zoo, too.
Fahr
I like Russ- but he isnt likely to ever be president in my opinion.
Consider, they were scared and desperate enough for Rove to pressure a KNOWN SEXUAL PREDATOR to run for re-election in a red district when he wanted to retire.
Does anyone find that weird? They NEVER would have lost that seat. It’s 70% red. Which leaves me to believe that they didn’t find anything really wrong with Foley hitting on pages.
rwcole @
25
Do you not see any chance for Charlie Brown or the Dem against Pombo? I thought they were either ahead or withing striking distance?
Impeach
Yeah it IS weird.
Maybe Rover knew that once Foley retired he would come out of the closet and create a big fuckin mess for goopers.
OT, but…. Magnitude 6.3 quake: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15278030/
Call me crazy, but I think Bush & Rove are counting on their friends at Diebold. I’d be interested to see the math — where they think they’ll keep the seats compared to Diebold deployments.
Scarecrow- That race is reasonably close I think- Cook has it as “leans republican” and the Doolittle race too. Dems could pick one or both up- but the odds seem against it at this point.
RGJoe’s an outsider fighting those damn DeeCee politicians!
It’s inconceivable that an 18-year incumbent can run on this platform and not get called on it every time. Dude, you are the problem, not the solution.
rwcole @ 56
I so with you rwcole. And I hear from ‘people who know’ that Gore is going to announce his candidacy.
How do we feel about Gore? Can he win? Again?
Impeachment Happens @ 57
Recall that Palm Beach was Ground Zero in 2000. The butterfly ballot was designed by a high school classmate of Foley’s. There’s more here than hitting on pages. Two-way blackmail, imho.
Impeach
Gore’s still Gore. He can win with the wind at his back- but not facing a stiff breeze.
What it means is that they plan to steal this election also. The races they can’t steal at the diebold voting machine they will to steal by going to court and claiming voter fraud.
Irony huh?
rwcole @ 56
we’ve had this discussion before, and i still agree that you may be right, but i want to see what happens. the primaries will tell. i want to push him as far as he can go. sometimes things turn out better than we expect. it seems to be that people are rewarding straightforwardness and courage more this time. we certainly need some of those qualitites. being totally idealistic is a fool’s game in politics but i think he’s worth at least a try.
Impeachment happens @ 57-
Exactly! Foley could have announced his retirement in early ‘06, a new GOP face would have run for his seat, and most likely won in that R-leaning district. The GOP staffers/aides/whatever, wouldn’t have felt the need to get these emails out if he was stepping down. Rove forced their hands, so it’s all his fault.
I imagine the soon to be new Speaker of the House, Pelosi, can make it a bit tough on the old Terminator and his weird buddies if he’s still around in 2007.
darkblack @ 35
Awesome, db!
TheGris @ 61
Agree completely. I’ve been watching all of this election cycle with dread. Since my congressman and senators are not “in play”, have enjoyed reading from all of you about the races that are. Dubya and Rove seem a little too smug about the elction…too smug even for them. I’m not usually a tinfoil hat kind of girl, but am nervous about this.
Having Lieberman alone prevail would make me ill about the election. However, am very concerned aboout any state or district where there’s Diedold equipment. These guys don’t care about eventually getting caught. They just want as much power and to inflict as much pain as they can while they can.
rwcole @ 66
If he runs as Angry Gore, Unafraid To Tell It Like It Is, he will kick all kinds of ass.
If he says, “Oh shit, now that I’m running for president, I better tone it down so I don’t scare people away,” he will lose.
TheGris @ 61
That was my first thought when I read those articles too but then it went on to explain that they’ve got that 72 Hour Blitz that they do and they’ve pinpointed repug voters in districts where they need them and literally DRIVE THEM TO THE POLLS AND WAIT FOR THEM TO VOTE AND DRIVE THEM HOME.
They take GOTV to a whole new level and have made it a science which is ironic since they don’t believe in science. And whereas it’s much easier for me to believe they rigged the voting machines – it’s very sobering to think that they won because Mehlman brought his marketing genius to the campaigns.
Eli @ 73
I agree.
Gore/Feingold!
I too read this article this morning and thought, “this is how they prepare the masses for a stolen election.” Make the sheeple believe it’s close. They can’t afford NOT TO because they will lose a fair election and they will face huge problems under a Dem. congress. They have knowingly broken the law, many laws, and they cannot be investigated.
Bottomline: they will attempt to steal it. I’ve asked this before: what will it take for the American people to truly believe election fraud/theft has occured? And what will their/our reacton be? We need to be ready for it.
GOTV.
fahr- sure it’s worth a try- and there should certainly be a credentialed progressive in the primaries.
What’s interesting about current politics is that “moderates” of both parties are having a hell of a time. They’re almost extinct in the gooper party and aren’t healthy in the dem party either. Peculiar since most people consider themselves moderats.
“The fat but unappreciated middle”
Steve Harrison Video
I really love a good David and Goliath story. Steve Harrison is grossly outfunded by his Goper rival, Vito Fossela is another one of those Republicans who has the word Republican nowhere on his website. He’s “An independent fighter for you!”
Fossella was reluctantly roped into five debates and Harrison keeps Vito tightly tied to Bush’s failed policies. He may not have the money, but with Clinton and Spitzer at the top of the ticket we’re hoping for good coattails.
Check out the video at Steve’s website!
http://www.harrison06.com
Eli @ 73
My Pro-Gore friend ASSURES me that he ran on that “Better not scare people away” platform because his daughter was running his campaign and THIS time, she’ll be kept very far away from strategy meetings.
My sense is that Gore/Clark would be an unbeatable combo for 2008. Of course there are other good Democratic match-ups.
ifthethunderdontgetya @
71
Thanks, thunder… Have a cigar.
:)
rat bastahd @ 76
Hang on a second….
Didn’t I read somewhere about an unkerned rumour that KR suffers from hexadactyly?
Inigo?
.
Impeachment Happens @ 79
Also, in 2000 he didn’t really have anything to be angry *about*.
P J Evans @
40
After the ‘80 census, the Dems in CA threw all the state polling data onto the computer for the first time. Instructions to the data entry minions included making sure that this neighbor or that neighbor was included in a particular district. It was petty and banal how some of the boundary decisions were made. They used the massive database to gerrymander us into a long slumber.
I’m sure they thought it was a good idea at the time, but the end result – unintended or maybe not, – was to take much of the excitement out of politics for the voters. Lots of people have simply gone to sleep.
And that’s just how the political class likes it. Pesky voters.
Gore tried to get a good mad up several times in 2000 and during one debate he probably went a little too far in demeaning poor Clusterfuck who actually got some sympathy vote out of bein called an idiot on national teevee. (in effect).
The trouble with Gore is that a lot of people don’t relate to him on a personal level- and that’s probably not going to change.
McCain- on the other hand- looks ready to die- which isn’t likely to give him a big advantage (wait a minute- would we like Clusterfuck better if he looked like he was about to die? I might.)
Also, if Gore goes for it, I’m thinking he will NOT be timid. The man knows this will be his last hurrah. He learned from 2000, big time. Gore’s largest obstacle to becoming president might be Hillary. Senator Clinton is not going to like a Gore run one little bit. But Gore is no Tasini, Hill.
Gore timid in 2000? I don’t rembember that. Boring- yes- timid “no”.
The late night TV satires of his “lockbox” speech are probably the best representation of his campaign.
(Of course Gore was RIGHT about the lockbox- but ya don’t get credit for bein right).
TheGris @
61
As you know, there were “special” Diebold deployments in ‘02 and ‘04 (Georgia and elsewhere), later uncovered, that turned a couple of key races.
The Dems need a Diebold bureau, a mole or someone sifting through trash every night, to get wind of them in a more timely manner in ‘06 and ‘08. Is anyone aware of more proactive measures toward Diebold than poll monitoring?
The image of McCain embracing Bush is forever now imprinted on my brain. Kinda like The Kiss.
I have to calm myself by saying “They are not human these people. They are not like us. They are different. They are scary. They are to be eventually purged from the system or they will cause us great harm.”
Mommybrain @ 89
Can’t we just find better hackers than the repubs? Or am I just being very old fashioned?
Curious in Central Texas — thanks for the heads up. Called my folks; Dad has family near the epicenter. Tsuanami threat looks low. Thanks goodness for the internet.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 87
I’d be happy to support Gore in 2008. Most of the antiGore spam you hear was generated by inside the beltway pundits who have been proven wrong, over and over, since 2000. People like Dean Broder.
rwcole @ 88
My impression WAS timid. But then I can be a bare knuckles kind of guy. Whatever. Gore is not timid today, or for that matter boring. And that’s what counts.
I’d vote for Gore if he’s the guy. Edwards has the best personality of the dem bunch- he’ll have to live down voting for the war though.
Kerry was the guy who probably ran overly timid- but those were timid times as the nation was still suffering from 9/11 paranoia.
Face it– 9/11 gave Clusterfuck a totally undeserved second term- and because of it- he and Rove got labeled political geniuses.
Mommybrain@89 & Impeachment Happens@91
How about instead of better hackers, if we could do some hack prevention? For example, if voters could create their own paper trails. “Count your own vote” so to speak. In this scenario (described at the link) a voter would create a photo record of their vote on the e-voting machine, upload to the web, and you’ve got a receipt. The problem of course is that not everyone is handy with a cell-phone camera and Flickr.
Another method would be an 800-line. Think American-idol voting. You call in after the vote and record who you voted for. This way, voters could have a 3rd party record of who voted for whom, in case of a lot of curious 51-49 scenarios.
If anyone thinks this will stick, let me know..
rwcole @ 88
I dunno. I thought he was timid.
If the choice is between Hillary and Gore, please let it be Gore. I could vote for him. I can’t imagine any circumstance where I could vote for Hillary.
It’s a little lonely at the new thread…come on over!
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..-snark-18/
Albert is a smart, decent man. I talked briefly to him at a meet and greet, and it seems that he does not like politics that much, and lacks that basic charm that so many other politicians have. Of course, I’ll take smart over charm any day, but I’m not sure everyone thinks that way.
When americans are scared, they want a “tough guy”. When they are not scared- they want a “nice guy”.
The next president will be the product of the american psyche at the time.
I remember him saying something very similar on Election Day 2004 or the day before. I interpreted it as meaning the fix is in.
What do you think about Arianna Huffington’s dismay at Lamont’s campaign? Arianna says: Help Save Ned Lamont: Write His Concession Speech Today
Do you think that Lamont has softened his campaign since winning to fit the consultants’ advice? That he has become gun-shy and does not sufficiently stand up against Joe?
Arianna thinks we should write Lamont’s concession speech now.
This is important. Also see Krugman (via Kos) on Krugman: Lieberman & Party Affiliation
Do you agree with Arianna that Lamont is blowing it? If not – why!?
Agreed, MS. Lamont is running too cautious. He’s not attacking Lieberman and calling Lieberman out for what he is — a lying, Bush Republican.
Lamont’s gone soft, and if he doesn’t change, fast, he’s going to lose.
Your Inconceivable! title reminded me of the anti-war march in September 05. As we walked along, we kept noticing a man & wife and the man looked so familiar. Several of us kept wondering where we had seen him. Finally figured out that it was the guy from the movie, Mr. Inconceivable himself! (Sorry, don’t recall the actor’s name.) Just an interesting little aside…