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Hard to believe that my high school graduation was 20 years ago. And yet here I am, back at my mom’s house — the one I grew up in — and headed to my reunion this evening.
They had an ice cream social in my hometown yesterday evening, just like they do every year to raise money for the local volunteer fire department. I saw a lot of the folks that I went to school with who are in for the reunion, several of whom still live here. That was very fun. The Peanut had a blast on the slides and swings at the city park — and that was even more fun.
It was striking how the kids who were running around the social who were our high school age were the same as when we were kids. The flirting, the little cliques, the crushes…it was all still going on. Kids still have hormones, and sometimes it shows, I suppose, but it was reassuring nonetheless that my Norman Rockwell-esque hometown was still pretty much the same.
Ran into my high school government teacher — he’s still a rabid Republican, and we got into a conversation about the state of the world and the country. (Newsflash for George Bush: If you’ve lost Mr. Anderson, you are really tanking. And…well…you’ve lost him.)
We came back home from the city park and The Peanut and her grandma played outside for a bit with our dachshund, PJ. Poor little short-legged doggie was running around at their heels and barking at the robins that were trying to forage for worms, and stay just out of reach of my four year old whirlwind.
It’s going to be a relaxing day of more playing with The Peanut, and then an evening of catching up with folks I haven’t seen in forever and a day. Things are crazy in the world, and really irritating more often than not…but every once in a while, it’s good to remind yourself that there is a lot of wonderful stuff, too. And today, I’m going to savor some of that good stuff.
What’s up with you this weekend? Doing anything fun? Pull up a chair…
PS — For all the Harry Potter readers out there, today is the big day. In honor of the arrival of the large tome — for which there will be NO spoilers posted anywhere on this blog until I get home to read it, thank you very much — I give you one of the funniest SNL sketches of all time. Mwahahahaha. (Sure, it’s juvenile breast enhancement humor at Lindsey Lohan’s expense. But it cracks me up anyway, so have a laugh. “Beat a couple of bludgers.” Mwahahaha.)
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Mornin’ Redd. What are we supposed to say here these days?
Zed
Good morning Christy!
Do all those folks know how famous you are?
Missed it again. Mornin’ Redd.
Thanks for the SNL sketch. That was hilarious.
‘Morning, Christy. Was just at a planning meeting this week for our 30th next year. Too funny how some things don’t ever change — like the classmate recently divorced, calling every single/divorced female classmate during the course of the meeting. Would have done exactly the same thing in high school.
And my subconscious played a wicked trick on me — or him — because I slipped and called him by the wrong name. Heh. I wouldn’t have called him by his given name in high school, either.
I no longer hear anyone defend this president or this war. Most ‘good’ republicans that I know are staying silent (ie not criticizing him openly) but no one is coming to his defense.
DOJ is deciding how to respond to the court’s order that they share their evidence with the defense lawyers in Gitmo. Which I’m guessing means that they won’t share the evidence.
DOJ says it’s OK for the CIA to torture again.
DOJ says it won’t persue contempt citations against anyone involved with covering up wrong doing in the White House.
AG is supposed to testify before Congress next week, but I see no reason why he shouldn’t get the Executive Priviledge letter that Miers got excusing her. After all, he’s in control of the agency that would have to enforce the contempt that he would be committing.
President Bush has said in very clear terms that if Congress wants him to comply with the law, they will have to impeach him. He must think that it will be so politically unpopular that the Dems won’t do it. But I see nothing – NOTHING – wrong with impeaching Gonzo. The guy needs to go.
Morning all.
As for summer fun….I just got back from spending a few nights on the Jersey shore. We fell in love with Cape May. A beautiful, beautiful Victorian beach town. It has the most gorgeous old Victorian homes that are now mostly B&Bs. Loved it.
Good morning Redd et al,
In my house we are now on moving day countdown. Settlement date on the new house is Aug. 9, moving on the 13th or 14th, selling date for our current house Aug.17.
In between now and then is YearlyKos TO WHICH I AM GOING anyway. So I am up to my ears in boxes and color coded labels and setting up utilities etc. We are in full organizing mode here and will be for the next month or so. Which means I will be on the threads once in a while, but not nearly as much as I want to be.
So much for this summer having relaxation built into it. But the good news is that if all goes well, our house is sold (awaiting next Fri. when the purchase and sales agreement and hefty deposit are cast in stone). At that point we will mildly celebrate while we continue to pack boxes.
Though it is all a real pain at the moment it feels like a really good move. Those of you in the Philly area, here we come! I hope we can find ways and times to get together. I have treasured the FDL friends I have made in MA and hope to do the same there. And I look forward to making connections with Sestak’s office and Casey’s and working my tail off to get rid of Snarlin’ Arlen when his time comes.
And on top of it all, it will be much closer to DC for the occasional trip for exciting hearings or protests or whatever. There’s plenty of room for guests at Chez Rev. too.
EPU’d
Boston1775 says
July 21st, 2007 at 5:47 am
…dashes back from the kitchen…
everything’s chopped except the sausage
hummingbirds are fed
ccmask’s recipe copied
the kid’s caddying
Cheney’s president
Waccamaw’s baited the crab pots
What a great letter, Arnie
my eyes are getting a little blurry
…thanks for the help with the kale and the…
there’s a terrible storm pickin up
“Aunti Em! Toto!, the storm cellar…”
my house, my house is beginning to twirl…….
Morning everyone — checking in from mom’s house. T-: you know, I don’t think of myself as famous, so I’m sure none of the rest of them do either. *g*
Down here in south Central Texas is another dreary, rainy day. It has been raining almost continuously since yesterday noon and the flash flood warning is once again in effect with the ground already saturated.
Christy,
Enjoy your 20th! I was told once that the 20th is really the first reunion you should go to as that’s the one where all the cliques have dissolved and folks will mostly relate to each other as humans.
I didn’t actually graduate from my hometown HS since my mom taught at a nearby military school. But one of the nice things about small towns is I was accepted at the hometown reunion since I had been a member of the class through elementary and junior high. Of course, I was a bit pushy and had my cousin who was in the class tell them I was coming but no one said anything. And ther were other in attendance who also had been members without graduating so I think it was expected.
RevDeb — Once you get to Philly, I have a restaurant rec or two for you. But I’ll leave you with this one: White Dog Cafe.
Went to my 10th. Skipped my 20th. But on a happier note, I’ve reconnected with my college roomie now that we have both discovered email. Plus, not having to tend to kids anymore frees up some time.
Early this morning I planted a whole bunch of wildflower seeds, in honor of Ladybird. The whole front of my house will look so cool. I’m already looking out the window for signs of life, which is nerve wracking for me. Here’s a little snip wrt Billary:
First Lad?
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa: Bill Clinton charmed crowds in southern Africa this week, mingling Friday with barefooted children and joking with peasants in Malawi — showing the diplomatic skills he could put to use if his wife becomes America’s first woman president.
Hillary Clinton has said she would make her husband a roaming ambassador, using his talent to repair America’s tattered image abroad.
Guests at a function Bill Clinton attended Thursday in Johannesburg for former South African President Nelson Mandela’s birthday wanted to know if the American was ready for a role reversal.
“You bet!” Bill Clinton said, sitting next to a chuckling Mandela.
My weekend plans are wide open. I’ll watch the tour de france time trial (stage 13) this moring, go to the gym, cry about what Cheney and Bush have done to our democracy, and then sit down with the college alumni magazine, which arrived yesterday, for a read about what’s what with classmates – we had our 25th reunion in June.
Reunions always make me feel my age so I thought I throw that in there (my 25th college reunion) in case Christy is having the same thoughts about time passing. Yes, I had my 25th college reunion last month, she is having her 20th high school today. That Christy is a young wippersnapper.
As much as I love my college class, my high school class is even more fun to see. The college crew is an admirable group of people -for who they are and what they’ve accomplished – the high school class are always suprising because (I see them rarely and) they’re all grown up, which I swore would never happen for many of them.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 16
Looks yummy. And good for the soul too! Looking forward to your list and perhaps sharing the experience if you come up our way. But I will be seeing you in Chicago before all that.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 14
If they’re like my high school class, none of them would know the heavy lifting you’re doing to save their democracy and the only thing they’re impressed with is if you were rolling on a S500 and threw around a bunch of cash. Pretty much a representative slice of America.
Coming to a campaign near you: HRC does a reprise of SNL for the Washington press corp. We are run by boobs.
Morning Christy and all -
FITZ alert. The “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” NPR comedy news show on which Fitz appears as a guest will be broadcast on Chicago Public Radio at 10:00 a.m. and 9:00 pm Central time today. It will be live on the web at those times at Chicagopublicradio.org and wbez.org. I do not know what other NPR stations broadcast it, but apparently podcasts are available from that site. Enjoy!
T- at 21 — I’ve never understood the whole judging status by a car. For one thing, you can always rent one — so an unscrupulous person who wanted to boost their status could just rent a beemer for the weekend. Beyond that, though, honestly, if someone is going to judge me by what I’m driving, they are not the sort of folks I’m likely to hang out with anyway, ya know? What a weird country sometimes…
Today is a good day to go to the store and buy a piece of poster board and a 4ft garden stake.
Print IMPEACH on the posterboard.
Display proudly in your front yard.
We must change the national conversation and we must introduce our product to the people in August. We just can’t wait until September.
Cheney Doomsday video. Don’t miss this one Christy…
g’mornng all!
check this out, first from christy;
and then think progress tells us this;
so not only did he loose mr anderson, he’s lost brooks too!
so I have som information to give mr brooks since brooks says “I have no clue on what to do”
first thing, get a plan into place which will facilitate safest passage home for our weary soldiers
second thing, impeach the moron that invented information so he could have some war profiteering
third thing, get the other morons that hate government our of government positions where their only goal is to undermine succesful programs
Christy Hardin Smith @ 16
Just went there on Christy’s recommendation. What a hoot!
And the bookstore right around the corner is dangerously wonderful.
Loved my 20th because everybody was so forgiving and just happy to see each other.
A simple answer to a simple question- It Is Potter Day. Screw george, screw dick, screw the war-IT IS POTTER DAY!
Years ago – my 40th is next year – my then-guy went to his 20th … in a (rented) Ferrari Testarossa. He said it was worth it to see people looking at it, then at him, because he’d been the class geek. (It didn’t fool his mother, but what does?)
My 20th started by walking in and having someone say ‘Hi’ by name, when I hadn’t seen them since leaving. Also my 10th grade English teacher was there, and she died a few years later (way too young).
Christy Hardin Smith @ 24
Or purchase anything with cash money made from ill-begotten means.
bill @ 29
but but but…that’s celebrating warlocks isn’t it?
hey, wait a minute;
wasn’t moses a warlock since he could turn sticks into snakes and part the sea?
wasn’t Christ a warlock since he rose from the dead?
I’m just asking
Recoveringlurker: Thanks for reminding me. When it starts, can you post a link again to remind me again, if you can?
So, why do you think Bush is still so unbothered by the problems of the world? He’s given the whole world an ulcer and he blathers on about how peacefully he sleeps at night. Truly detached from the upheaval he’s caused.
ccmask @ 26
is that a must see for christy only or for me too?
High school was the only school I ever liked. Elementary school was boring, college (Wellesley) was populated by white upper class workaholic young women, and graduate school was just a grind.
My high school was large (2000), in an industrial city at the peak of the industrial economy. It was marvelously heterogeneous-1/4 Black, 1/4 Jewish, and the rest was the motley mix of humanity. We had the best atheletes and the best academic achievers. It was the first place I met a group of kids who shared my values and my interests.
Many of us intuited that the industrial economy was not the future, despite how robust it was at the time. Most graduates moved away.
We had a large bash for our 40th a few years ago; about 150/300 who were still traceable attended. There’s a small annual picnic for those who still live in the Buffalo area. I’ve scheduled a family duty so that I can attend on 8/11. I’m looking forward to it.
CHS, have a great time at your reunion.
solai @ 34
Because Bush is all about money and he apparently has billions now. If you think he sat back and watched Halliburton make cadzillions and him nothing, then we are crazier than him. He spends his nights dreaming of clearing brush and going to Paraguay to start his own little colony.
His mother should have named him George Clearing Bush
Of course, I meant Christy & Perris. Sorry:))
My 20th was the first (and so far only) reunion I went to, and I had a blast. I had no trouble recognizing the girls, but the guys…
In 1978, when we graduated, the guys didn’t just have hair, they had HAIR. At minimum it reached their chins; most grew it down to their shoulders.
perris @ 34
so cheney is going to be president for a few days
let’s be serious here;
doesn’t he get to write “executive orders”?
couldn’t he say, write;
“I am now the president even when Bush comes out of the hospital”
he is “unitary executive” after all, who’s to stop him?
no, seriously, cuz that’s what the president does with his executive proclamations, so the “temporary” president could do the same thing.
no…really
ccmask @ 33
will do.
I’m going out with my niece and great niece to take photos today. Great niece is pregnant and her mom wants some pictures of her.
Reunions rock. I’ve been to my HS 20th and 25th and my college 15th and 20th and had a blast every time. (skipped law school though….bleagh)
Plus….I have run into classmates from both my HS and college classes right here on FDL! Hey, Redshift and Chris!
Chris and I graduated from Hunter College High School in NYC, also the alma mater of Steve Gilliard.
And here’s a huge hat tip to Chris, and a great idea for anyone who wants to get/stay reconnected with former classmates — start a listserv group on Yahoo or someplace like that. Chris did that for our 20th and it was one of the best communication networks I have ever experienced.
And now, I gotta get a 12 year old off to sleep away camp for 2 weeks…..
And now for your delectation, here’s something that happened almost a year after I graduated High school — way back in March 3, 1965
perris @ 40
Reminds me of my everlasting puzzle about the three wishes daydream. Why wouldn’t everyone wish for 3 more wishes on each last wish?
from downstairs -
cc –
Would love to know how long that story’s been making the rounds.
Boston -
Six crabs boiling up on the stove as I type. Pickings have been slim lately b/c supposedly they’ve moved further upwater due to lack of rain. The friends who let me tie off at their dock had two traps in several years ago and over a 24-hour period got close to 30 crabs. I have the same number of traps and my best day only resulted in about a dozen. The ‘ol “gut tells me” mucking around with the environment has negative effects *everywhere*. :-(
For everyone -
If you’ve not seen this week’s hearing on the FEMA trailers & formaldehyde, C-Span1 is supposed to re-run at 10:00 a.m. ET today. It will make your blood boil; Mr. Henry is at his best……don’t know how long his BP is gonna withstand the sh*t he’s uncovering. Paulison is as bad as “brownie” except w/credentials which makes him even more of a/n ___________ [insert your preferred terminology] than the twit he replaced, in my book.
Morning Christy and doggies.
Sounds like a great day ahead Christy.
You’ve earned it! Have a blast! Does Mr. Redd go to these things, then have to stand there kicking his toe in the carpet while you flirt like a teenager? Still thinkin’ about those hillarious “cleavage” comments from yestidie.
You be a good grrlll now, wink wink…
Enquiring minds want to know: when you get your very own personal HP copy home, are you going to peek at the last chapter, or read all [600pp] 1st?!
AND
How come Amazon already has used copies available? Whut’s up wid dat? (i know, i know, figured it out pdq meself – jus’ sounds funny, heh.)
Mornin’ Redd and Gang,
Whoa. The twentieth. I was one of the token smart geeks of a largish in-crowd (band geek, to boot) at a highschool of 2100 grades 10-12. The only highschool for the town. The twentieth was quite interesting. Reunions with lots of people and the ones I had lost touch with were still interesting and the ones who were obsessed with themselves and their inner cliques were pretty much the same.
My saving grace was my husband who knows how anxious I get and entertained me by pretending to have graduated from our school and pulling the wool over many of their eyes to the point they were pi$$ed off at 2:00 in the morning when they found out the truth. Bless his heart.
The worst was when we went into a bar after the football game and I whispered to him sotto voce, “uh oh, there are a bunch of a$$holes who are full of themselves in here.” Next thing I know he is saying to one of my friends from highschool (so, are you one of the a$$holes who is full of himself?). Fortunately I know this guy well and played tennis with him and was in all the same classes, unfortunately he was the class clown and repeated it loudly to the whole bar. Thanks honey! Fortunately, he was still messing with people’s heads like crazy with the “I went to school with you” bit and I was dying laughing. There were only two Korean guys (brothers) in our class in highschool and neither was there so he was pretending to be both of them.
Especially for those who are at HS reunions. Reaching back. Have a gooood time. Where did the years go? From Lahoma and me to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwQ66BgkwjE
Adie @ 47
I won’t skip to the end in mine. Of course, I am dying that the UPS site doesn’t have the package “out for delivery” yet. I’m fortunate that a 600 book shouldn’t take me more than 2-4 hours to read depending on other factors (interruptions by 4 year old peanut).
Used copies??? Crazy.
Christy,
Are you driving home tonight or will you have to wait until tomorrow for the Potter Party?
Have a great time at the reunion!
ccmask @ 38
I see his preznitial library featuring a giant-size conveyer belt of shrubbbbbbery marching forth a la “I Love Lucy”’s candy factory, & a coin-operated georgieporgie that whacks away at it with abandon-ment.
Good Morning!
just lurking.
don’t want to tell my reunion stories and I’m not reading Harry Potter.
For the Los Angeles firedogs, KPCC has ‘Wait Wait’ Saturdays at 11am and Sundays at 1pm local time.
Christy,
Sorry for being slightly OT but are you familiar with The Hunger Site? It is a site where folks can go once a day and click the big yellow button and the sponsors provide food to those who are in need. The front page explains the purpose (scroll down a bit in your explorations).
There are five other companion sites with the Hunger site. After you click the yellow button, they take you to the Thank You page. If you scroll down a little, there is an update of the amount of food provided today. Then there are five more buttons before an update of the total amount of food provided yesterday.
You can click on each button in turn and will be taken to the associated site where another big button is waiting for a click. After the click you get another thanks page.
The other sites are:
The Breast Cancer Site (pink button) that provides free mammograms for poor women.
The Child Health Site (blue button) that provides health care to poor children.
The Child Literacy Site (red button) that provides books
The Rainforset Preservation Site (green button) that saves rainforest land.
The Animal Rescue Site (purple button) provides food for shelter animals.
It takes about a minute to click through all the buttons once a day (on broadband – dial-up can take a little longer obviously) and the small actions can help many others. I do it myself first thing each morning after checking my e-mail. I hope others will join me in making this a regular part of the day.
It is finally sunny here. We’ve had weeks of rain and gloomy cool/cold days(where I’ve had to close all the windows to stay warm!)
I confronted somebody yesterday that was ranting in a bookstore about how glad he was the Pentagon “stood up to Clinton” and called her a traitor because she wanted to bring the troops home immediately. And then insinuated that she was the cause of Kusinich(sp.?) food poisoning.
I’ve never done it before, but I could not listen to a lie and calmly rebutted everything he said.
He actually back away, which surprised me.
It felt good and I will continue to do it.
I also wrote to Secretary Gates this AM and asked him to fire Mr. Edelman because of his poor response to Senator Clinton.
I learned a great lesson from Bill O’reilly this week.
I can and will make a difference! But for good of course!!!!
I am a taxpayer and I have a say in what goes on and how my money is being spent.!
BTW,
I am sitting here amazed that Redd is 3 years younger than I am and has accomplished so much. There are so many wonderful, brilliant people at this site that I am comforted on a daily basis.
Was I the only one who rushed to the Lake for comfort when I found out that Dick Cheney would be pres during the colonoscopy today?
Hubby swears that when he was in med school he knew a GI guy whose name was Dr. Ramsbottom.
Citizen Jane @ 51
omg, the toobz ‘r gonna crash fer sure today, wit all you guys & gals tracking yer shipments.
God-Speed Mr. OUPS!
Christy Hardin Smith @ 16
I’ll second that on the White Dog. Judy Wicks the owner is a local legend for her passion and commitment to social activism.
Elliott @ 54
you’re not alone.
maybe we should form our own club… *g*
Here’s one more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUQZ0vcO5OI
dakine01 @ 55
Thanks for the tip. I just did it…It is very painless. What a great idea.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 24
Or worse, borrow money for something you cannot afford, while cutting corners on things that matter, you know, like your kid’s education, or those people with signs that say they’re hungry (and the ones with no signs as well).
Good morning all. Have a great day.
In case you haven’t seen this pic it will give you a little snicker…
http://www.democraticundergrou…..id=1394669
I went to my 20th reunion last fall. It was the first one I’ve been to, at all, and the most amazing thing was that somebody had body-snatched all the assholes I went to school with and replaced them with perfectly nice people.
All I could think was, if we had been like this 20 years ago, it would’ve been a very different experience.
Has anybody seen Piffle recently? She often times shows up on Sat. a.m. but can’t remember hearing from her in the last little bit.
mrsmarks @ 39
Heh. That was funny, wasn’t it? and all the guys that had HAIR had NONE by 20th. I couldn’t recognize them, either.
Of course, I’ve gained about as much weight as they’ve lost hair. Used to be a tiny thing and now I’m twice the woman I was. At least I have a year before I have to see the rest of the class of ‘78…better sew up my mouth and get some new running shoes this week.
Franco @ 64
liked the title of the paper
Skipped all my reunions.
Where I’m from is not where I am and was only a negative deciding factor.
dakine01 @ 55
I do the rounds everyday, first thing so I won’t forget my good deed for the day. (Click on my name.) Then it’s here to FDL to see what went on last night.
BTW ~ Who’s Harry Potter? *wink
btw Bob Geiger’s Saturday cartoon roundup
David Ehrenstein @ 44
Wow David. How neat!
Lou Costello @ 70
Leaving myself open to attack, the only thing I find more boring than Harry Potter is baseball.
Oh! And shopping at The Hunger Site and the companion sites also seems to help the cause!
My wife’s 20th HS reunion included name tags for people with their yearbook picture on the tag.
I picked up a tag for someone who hadn’t showed up, a guy who looked like he had been on the non-college prep track, and walked around the party saying hi to folks.
They were quite astonished to find out that I was now an attorney practicing corporate law in Boston.
After a few minutes I realized it was a little too cruel and I took the tag off.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 24
I’m bettin’ you’ll have no such problems, and that you’ll be queen of the reunion. Seriously, does Mr. Redd get to take your arm for the festivities? Have a terrific time.
I was suprised at my reunion into how we fall back into our old patterns…with a few exceptions.
I still really like the people I liked in high school, and people that I didn’t (not many, but a few), I found I still didn’t care for. It’s funny that you can go back and be comfortable and friendly with people you haven’t seen in 20 years.
I didn’t subject my spouse, he would have hated it, for me it was like a family reunion, for him it would have been a wedding where he didn’t know anyone.
eCAHNomics @ 73
As a lifelong lover of baseball, I won’t say anything (much). But the slow pace is part of the charm. George Carlin’s comparison of baseball to football is still one of the classic comedy/truth bits.
My 30th is next year.
Further dating myself, a new rumor has Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck reuniting with McCarty and Dreja this fall for a Yardbirds tour. No info on the vocalist as yet.
Perhaps the New Yardbirds can morph into a Zeppelin reunion?
You know, if there’d been such a thing as a Goth back in 1977-1978, I’d have been one.
Or I might have been close to a Heather Mooney.
Except for the thing for Sandy Franks and cigarettes.
I wonder what my daughter will be like in five more years when she graduates; I suspect she will be a lot more like me than her father, more geek than jock (he was more jock than geek, even for a future engineer).
ccmask @ 37
Forbes 400: The 400 Richest Americans
Please note that none of the Bushes appear in the Forbes 400 list.
As for Halliburton, its shareholders’ equity as of December 31, 2006 is about 7 billion dollars. Although it is a Fortune 500 company, ExxonMobil dwarfs it.
I know it’s a nice Saturday morning and all, but there was some serious dumpage yesterday, esp. regarding the DOJ, that makes me sick. Torture is legal if the CIA does it. Contempt is legal if the President says it is. Guantanamo inmates are again given rights by the courts only to have them taken away again by the DOJ. And Cheney is President today!
dakine01 @ 78
Despite my utter disregard for the sport (or any spectaor sport for that matter), my son is a maniac fan (Yankees-even went to Boston for a Y-RS game). So I felt obliged to go to a few games with him when he was little. At about his age 8, I told him that after he graduated from high school, I’d never go to another baseball game in my life. He replied, with a real sad look: Not even if I come home from college and I want to go with you?
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 81
Bush says a lot of things that are lies. He sleeps well because he takes his wife’s vali*m. This whole, “Bush is living in a bubble” bullshit is just a cover for the fact that he is LYING.
eCAHNomics @ 73
I haven’t read it either, but we’ve enjoyed all the movies. And I do get the most delicious pleasure out of witnessing the excitement and fun one of our good friends has, reading those books together with his kids. Randy, if you’re lurking, you’re an absolutely terrific dad!
I found it interesting that Georgie is being treated to full anesthesia for his procedure whereas typically patients are given a local and a relaxer.
Remarked to my husband last night: “So Bush gets to sleep through the whole thing while everybody else has to take it up the wazoo.”
To which he replied: “That about sums up his whole presidency, doesn’t it?”
GeorgeSimian @ 82
And impeachment is off the table.
eCAHNomics @ 83
I still love and follow MLB (Cincy fan first, then the BoSox), but I love to go to minor league games even more. Buy a scorecard, get a hodo, chips and a soda and just lean back and relax. No timetable, nothing being forced, just letting time slide by.
GeorgeSimian @ 82
We can have fun together and we will, at the same time, stay on guard – always – because
of these wicked people. On multitask mode for the forseeable future…
Gotta list of things to do. See you later.
MSNBC is showing Potter-mania. Must admit, I love seeing all those happy kids enjoying reading.
My biggest pleasant shock was one of the hard core stoners who barely passed high school (mostly attendance issues) who got an advanced degree and is very successful.
One friend stayed true to form and was unbelievably proud to be appointed to a decent position in Ashcroft’s Justice Department. I hope I never see her face up there with Monica Goodlings, but I won’t be suprised.
Morning all. It’s a gorgeous day in the heartland of the Great Lakes. Visited the local farmer’s market from some organic goodies. Stopped at the local (only) bookstore/coffeehouse for a little treat. Gardening, cooking, and a bit of blogging later. Have a great one. Glad to hear Mr. Anderson came to his senses.
A couple of stories from today’s NYTimes:
Fitz On The Air
Interior May Reverse Decisions by a Disgraced former aide
What do you all think Cheney is doing right now?
My vacation is almost over, but this weekend here in Flagstaff, AZ, we are having the 8th Annual Celtic Festival, and many of my old musical chums are involved. That means plenty of bagpipes, drums, pennywhistles, fiddles, dancing, and general high spirits.
The weather has been good, which for Flagstaff (at 7000 feet on the Colorado Plateau in northern AZ) means it is monsoon season, thank God, so we’re getting afternoon rain that is desperately needed, although occasionally disruptive. Temperatures have also been mild– afternoon clouds block the sun, so the heat of the day isn’t too hot.
On Sunday, I’ll go to my old church, and see old friends there. That church is undergoing change, too, with a new priest, the old choir director retiring, but it will be good to see everyone, and then have lunch with some of them afterwards. Then I get to pack up and head down to Phoenix, for a Monday morning flight back to Hawaii, just in time for Cyclone Cosme(?).
CTuttle, we’re expecting a weather report from you!
Bob in
HI WIAZIs Wait Wait don’t tell me on after Car talk?
Bobschatt: I just bought the DVD Celtic Woman. It is great.
Dakine, I clicked thru the Hunger Site and affiliated ones. This just could not be easier. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
On the downside, Fact Free Fred strikes again
AnnieW @ 91
Amazing, isn’t it, what time does to some of us?
At least one of our classmates has had a gender reassignment; I don’t know that they will attend, didn’t attend the 20th. I wish they could, because we have good shared memories even if there are many painful ones — and that’s archetypal, the human condition.
Other classmates have come out; they were lovely people in high school, and we already suspected they were gay, but we had to preserve that illusion for the world by ignoring the topic. Would be nice to have a talk with them without having to pretend or keep up one’s guard, just once: Lou, didn’t you have a crush on Chris? Yeah, me too!!
I sure hope our kids don’t have to go through as much painful fakery as we did, pretending to be somebody we weren’t because of social pressure.
I’ve got to go for awhile. Hummingbirds are getting nasty. Can’t blame them. It’s cold today. Yikes what a summer(!)
Yesterday in their tussling around the feeders, one little bird got her “bell rung” and I found her spraddled out on the ground, looking dazed. Turned out she wasn’t injured seriously. I had some special moments, though, cuddling her, admiring her iridescent plumage, letting her sip nectar out of a cup as she gathered her wits, and then setting her safely on a tiny twig near the feeders.
She promptly flew like a lazer-beam up high into our birch tree.
That was my little-bitty good deed for YESTERDAY.
Today she says if I don’t get that feeder refilled, she’s gonna bust in here and drag me out to do my duty. I think I’m in love. *g*
egregious @ 98
You’re quite welcome! It’s all the little steps that we take that add up to the big accomplishments…
solai @ 94
plotting
ccmask @ 97
yes, at least it is in Chicago.
Thinking of Cheney: I must tell this story. My husband manages a car dealership (everyone is probably groaning). Anyway, he once had an assistant manager who was a real ass. Napolean complex. During my husband’s vacation, the ass was in charge. One year, while we were vacationing, the ass fired 3 people. We got home to a million messages on our answering machine from scared, confused (former) employees who didn’t know whether they were really out of a job. Hubby had to rush to work before any paperwork went through, get everyone back to work and ’speak’ to the asst. mgr.
So, what do you think Cheney’s doing?
Oh,ok. Me too, I guess. Thanks
As for me, I have to sort through the latest practical joke the universe is playing on me. I’m trying to see the humor in it.
Last year I quit my job to move. I spent a year and half planning it to the last detail. I was going to have the summer of my lifetime, drive across country, something I always wanted to do, arrive at a new destination and seek out the next chapter of my life.
Instead, the plan and my life got shattered at every level, including my health, starting 2 days after I quit.
I’ve been doing the lemonade from lemons thing. Now my old firm has positions open out west at the same level I was working. They are interested in talking to me about taking one. I wouldn’t have the experience described above, I would however have a job in San Fransisco, with considerably less financial resources because the last year or so has been such a drain.
I would have an opportunity to get me out west. (I was going to move to northern WA state.) I wasn’t considering San Fransisco because of the cost of living. It’s a great city, I love it. I’m gay so in essence it would be like moving to the mother land.
I’m off to float in the ocean, and hopefully get some clarity.
solai @ 106
don’t leave us hanging!
recoveringlurker @ 104
In n.e. OH, WKSU has it at 3:00p.m.EDT.
Christy: I always envied people who liked any/some of their classmates enough to go back. Me, I graduated, got the heck away from those people, and never looked back.
For fun this weekend….my 5yo nephew is competing in a greased pig contest this afternoon. *big grin*
I think the family’s more excited about it than he is, which is hard to do. He might be the only kid with his own 20-person entourage, and he’s definitely the only one with theme music, courtesy of his 17yo cousin. LOL
Around our house, it’s packing time — getting ready to move from the Bay Area back to the midwest. (Medium longish story, there, which I won’t go into here.)
But I had to laugh at TexB’s story last night about today’s plans at her house:
Millineryman @ 108
that’s a lot to think about, floating on the ocean’s probably the only place to do that. enjoy the shore! :)
Elliott @ 109
See 106. I fixed it.
solai @ 114
thanks!
Wake up Democrats in DC. So this is Saturday; so what. You all have it too easy, and too much time off. Today we in this house start tutoring elementary kids in math and spelling. Getting them ready for what’s ahead. Many times we have to do this out back, because there are so many of these little guys. Our school district cannot afford summer school. We don’t get paid for this, but we like the work. And work it is. School starts here in one month. So get out of bed Demos. Get to work!
solai @ 106
that’s a good question, knowing what we know now, I wonder what sort of things Cheney did the last time he was in charge.
Good morning, firepups. It sounds like you’re having a wonderful weekend, Christy.
I would no more go to a high school reunion than vote for a republican. I didn’t have a good time. But it’s nice to hear about people who did.
We’re having a rainy weekend here, which is a blessing. It’s been so dry for so long. I’ll be going to the post office to pick up my copy of Harry Potter, and then enjoy the rainy day with a book.
Ah. The ones i graduated with a good 12 years ago? I’m not sure i’d go. I skipped out on my 10 year HS reunion because i was already booked on a flight to Toronto. I wasn’t passing that up to see a bunch of people i wasn’t all that excited about seeing.
I considered myself a fringe dweller. Not a teacher’s pet, not a jock, but a music geek (earned my varsity letter in choir) with a penchant for books and reading. I was the one with a novel in hand or sheet music at a table where Magic: The Gathering was played daily, as was Euchre. *grins* I still read Shakespeare for fun to this point. The music is still in my head too, as a streaming DJ online. I think the thing that would suprise some is my full out self confidence. I had just started to rebuild that when i graduated, now it’s a reality.
my high school graduate daughter is going to the funeral of one of her classmates today in our norman rockwell town….OD on prescription drugs and alcohol….its a charming new tradition here in middle america.
A number of my classmates came out. It was pretty funny the amazed reactions. There were a few that were pretty obvious when they were in school so no suprise. But the promiscuous cheerleader and the one the popular “party” guys shocked us all. The cheerleader came back with a crew cut and wearing a men’s suit (later I saw her making out with another of our cheerleaders in the parking lot). The popular guy was wearing leather and chains.
It pleased me..to quote Crow.
dakine01 @ 74
I’ve purchased several items from this site. They have really nice jewelry. I’ve loved everything I’ve gotten from there and never had any problems. It’s great for Christmas presents!
dakine01 @ 100
Yea, my blood pressure went through the roof when I read it earlier this morning….but most of the comments seem to be calling him out on it.
Soothing post Christy. I agree it is important to remember the good things. Have fun at your reunion, with Peanut and the rest of your family.
Everyday I wake up being thankful for breathing, my children, family, friends, and the beautiful enviroment that I live in. The skies are clear here in southeastern Ohio and the air is crisp with a temperature of 60. The golden daylillies, daisies, blackeyed susans, chicory, Jo Pai Weed, golden rod, purple bergamot, Milkweed, pleurisy root (butterfly weed) and so much more grace our fields and roadsides. Lushes tomatoes, green and red peppers, basil, green beans, squash, beets, chard and kale are bountiful in my garden.
Today I will attend a brew fest on the streets of Athens called “Boogie on the Bricks” and later go help some young folk who have recently bought a farm, a work party of sorts. Athens is a wonderful community filled with students, and 50 somethings who moved to the country after attending college here and then buying the old farms and settling in the area, old and established farm and coal mining families, professors and University employees and administrators. it is a diverse community. I am grateful for this community and to be alive.
But somehow I am unable to fully enjoy those blessings due to the state of our country and what we have done to the people and the country of Iraq. This catastrophe seems to bother me more now than anything negative that our country has participated or fomented before during my lifetime. I have been politically involved since the age of 15, (the Notre Dam nuns made sure we were aware and participated in civil rights issues.) After that like so many people my age protested against Vietnam, Apartheid, Central American issues yada yada yada, I am now 55)
Sometimes I wish I did not have a conscience, or would make a solid move on my dream to get out of this country to live elsewhere. Accept the reality that our system is not just and never will be. A harsh reality.
Adie @ 104
reading Harry Potter and cheering for Voldemort.
“That goddamned meddling Potter kid should go F^%# himself!”
What’s ticking me off is the interpretation of the polls irt congress. An MSNBC banner read ‘Support for Dem Congress sinking’. They don’t mention that most Americans agree with the Dems but are frustrated that they aren’t stopping BushCo.
Millineryman @ 107
Made me think of a Zen-like adage…Life’s a journey, enjoy the ride. ;-)
Sometimes we are given gifts that don’t look like gifts; they come in messy, painful wrappers. I genuinely believe the cosmos conspires to get us what we want from life, but it often can’t deliver it with a big shiny bow and an explanatory gift card, and certainly not in the time frame we want, let alone need. There might even be a few catches or baggage that come along with the gift because it was the only way the cosmos could deliver the present.
You have been presented with an opportunity to move west, Millineryman. Go west, young man! And once you’re there, ask carefully for another gift.
have fun at your reunion, Christy!
Breaking…..5 polyps found.
Mornin’ Christy & pups.
My dad is in town from Vancouver Island, and we are enjoying a weekend of sport & culture. LA Phil Thursday at the Hollywood Bowl, Mets (yay!) at Dodgers last night, a Gershwin one-man show Sunday afternoon. Also got to see James Blake beat Vincent Spadea at the Countrywide Tennis Classic yesterday afternoon – it’s been great. So that’s my weekend.
Christy, you’re right – people don’t defend Bush anymore, and it does take it’s toll. My girlfriends brother is a cop in Maryland, and used to be a Republican, but now calls himself an independent. I don’t think he’ll be voting for Hillary any time soon, but those defections take their toll.
As for HS reunions, the cheerleader on whom I had a big cruch way back when (and whom I took to a John Denver concert – I was young) came out.
And, of course, all the kids who hadn’t quite fit in way back then were the most interesting.
We’re taking our Belorussian girls to the historical-recreation Colonial farm, and afterwards to swim at a friend’s house on a lake (I forget which one.) Then tomorrow there’s a big picnic at the county water park with the Belorussian embassy staff, after which we leave them with their first host family for the evening and go off to the county Dems JJ dinner (Barney Frank is the guest, and I hope to get a chance to talk to a certain potential candidate about Blue America!) Whew!
We have to avoid Potter spoilers for a week because Ms. Redshift is getting the book as always in the original English (amazon.co.uk), and it’s not supposed to arrive before the 27th at the earliest. 8-(
janda @ 123
Dan Shore on NPR this morning said that the debate on the war was a PR setback for the Dems. Nothing about the Republican fillibuster and obstructionism. NPR and Daniel Shore continue their spiral to irrelavancy. Shore was at his prime during Watergate and know he’s seems a mere shadow.
“Ran into my high school government teacher — he’s still a rabid Republican, and we got into a conversation about the state of the world and the country. (Newsflash for George Bush: If you’ve lost Mr. Anderson, you are really tanking. And…well…you’ve lost him.)”
I met a lot of “Mr. Andersons” before the invasion (lots of older WWII and Korean Vets that I talked with) who were right where Mr. Anderson finds himself now. I met quite a few Republicans at the anti-war protest. I think there were thousands of Republican’s who had very serious questions before, after and to this day about this fiasco. I met Republicans at the Kerry rallies who had dropped from the party. They knew that those in the Bush administration did not represent the “real” Republicans. They knew that the Republicans party had been hi-jacked by the middle east regime change zealots.
Pat Buchanan, Buckley, Carl Ford, Flynt Leverett, Zinni, Swarzkopf, I even heard Robert McNamara on NPR before the invasion share his misgivings about the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq.
solai @ 129
The start of the polyponnesian wars.
solai @ 129
Early detection made possible because Cheney’s puppet hand was so far up Bush’s, well, you know.
Democrats. I want the Republicans and especially George Bush and the rest of ‘those guys’ to get this message from us: We’re coming for you and we are out for political blood. And by the way, just exactly who are ‘those guys?’
solai @ 129
Only 5? What are their names? ;-)
My parents moved me and everything else to a new state when I was in high school.
Like some here have expressed, I counted the days until I was done at the new school and have never once looked or gone back.
I also attended and was welcomed at the reunions (20 and others) from the first high school. These were wonderful experiences; growing up together really does connect us.
MSNBC Breaking – Cheney no longer President.
Rayne @ 67
Hey Rayne, I’m a high school ‘78 too. I weighed about 150 then, 210 now… but I’m one of the lucky guys whose kept his hair!
Mutant Poodle @ 135
Heck, that’s probably what caused the them.
Seriously, colon cancer KILLS.
get your check-ups, each and everyone of you.
NO exceptions.
solai @ 95
Playing Risk™.
Using the Football instead of dice.
Redshift @ 137
harriet, alberto, condoleezza, tony, donald
solai @ 129
more than we needed to know…
whut about the one on toppa his neck?
that’s the one that most worries me.
Those weren’t polyps, those were Cheney’s fingers.
Waking-up Music
Bouncing Around the Room – Phish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dULgjQ-nWgg
Hey pups. One more thing.
It strikes me an awful lot of “us” are travelling this and next month.
Safe trip all! ;->
Elliott @ 142
Sage advice for those that have health coverage. For the 46-48 million that don’t, roll the dice.
I want to see my party campaign on a platform of diplomacy, education, health care, jobs, the environment and re-distribution of wealth. These are the issues which will win. And win big. And after the win I want my party to walk the talk.
Morning everyone. I have Bruce on as I edit on the back porch; “Glory Days” is now on (H.S. memories). A few minutes ago it was “Born in the U.S.A.” makes me wonder where on the radio one can hear protest-types songs today. Alas, with the corporate media take-over now complete there is no fear that such music will intrude on our social well-being.
Balrog @ 79
I saw Page when he toured with the Black Crowes. What a show! My date was pissed, they played 18 Zeppelin songs and 3 Crowes songs. I was in seventh heaven. We’re no longer together.
Physical Graffiti was the first album I ever bought. It was a transformational experience for me. Regretfully, I never saw them in concert, except on DVD.
well, he’s finally got a claim to the Reagan legacy.
Bluetoe @ 149
;0)
egregious @ 134
I think you mean polyPUNesian wars . . .
Oklahoma kiddo @ 150
I just love readin’ your talk!
Morning Firepups:
Late to morning coffee and conversation.
Why spoil a lovely morning with Bush and Cheney assholicry?
Here’s a germ of an idea: every day after you click through the Hunger Site, click over the The Gavel – the Speaker’s Website, and leave a message: Impeach Cheney/Bush now! Share the plea to send a daily message to five others. In no time, The Gavel will be full up with impeachment demands from we, the people, and the Hunger Site will be feeding many more people. Win, Win, Win!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 150
Sounds great. Have to capture the imagination of the public and give them a vision they can believe in other than a philosophy that says everyman/woman for themselves.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 150
those are good platforms, I have a “framing” edit for ya
“redistribution of wealth” should read “return wealth which was redistributed from the middle class to people already wealthy”
wordy but more accurate and more on point for aggreable
The SNL clip so funny “Tame my dragon”..
Reminds me of Halloween here in Athens when 20 thousand people fill the streets. Young women will go up on the upper floors of main street buildings and stand in the windows and expose their breast. Throngs of young and old men will stand below begging for the young women to pull up their shirts. Almost all of the men below stand with their eyes focused and their mouths hanging wide open as they await to see boobs. Have you ever seen 2000 mostly men all with the same expression and mouths hanging open? It as if they have never seen breast in their entire lives.
It is oh so obvious that testosterone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone rules and they are thinking with their other heads.
This a.m. already sent off a letter to the editor and an email to my Republican Congressman asking for his position on Bush’s executive priviledge trumping Congressional oversight. Can’t wait for the reply.
In the You Can’t Make This Stuff Up department:
Gates Mediates in Clinton-Pentagon Row
Sort of like “Bush Intervenes in Powell-Cheney Dispute”.
I saw Page when he toured with the Black Crowes. What a show! My date was pissed, they played 18 Zeppelin songs and 3 Crowes songs. I was in seventh heaven. We’re no longer together.
Physical Graffiti was the first album I ever bought. It was a transformational experience for me. Regretfully, I never saw them in concert, except on DVD.
1. I envy you!
2. Physical Graffiti is the best of the best. I, too, never got to see them on stage. I can remember by dad saying something along the lines of: “It’s not the tragedy of your life that you can’t go to a rock concert.”
solai @ 95
I’m not sure what psychopaths do when they are alone or with their families.
Plan to fan the flame of hatred and destruction that they have cultivated I guess!
FITZ ALERT – repeating as requested:
The “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” NPR comedy news show on which Fitz appears as a guest will be broadcast on Chicago Public Radio at 10:00 a.m. and 9:00 pm Central time today. It will be live on the web at those times at Chicagopublicradio.org and wbez.org. I do not know what other NPR stations broadcast it, but apparently podcasts are available from the above site. Enjoy! http://www.wbez.org
Good morning, Christy. Got me some internets back, after way too long without. Living in a canyon is real hard on all kinds of reception.
Have fun at your reunion. I almost went to my 35th, but didn’t at the last minute. As it turned out the person I most wanted to see had flown to NOLA to help rescue horses and the people I would have been hanging with, since Gigi wasn’t there, all got stinking drunk and one of them fell down the stairs. Sigh. Some things never change.
I am celebrating, in my small way, another clean mammogram and sending prayers and light to Jane. It may seem like a minor thing but see: I’ve got my mom beat (diagnosed at 40) and my grandma (stroke at 54). Keep on truckin’ is what I propose to do.
Just got Pillip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy and am gonna start it today. I’m not even gonna think about John Craig Roberts’ comment on Thom Hartmann’s show about how, this time next year, we’re gonna be in a full-blown dick-tatorship. Nope, not even gonna think about it. (whistling, hands in pockets).
MSNBC: Bush reclaims power after colonoscopy
Christy Hardin Smith @ 24
Sometimes?
don’t forget to tell them you invented Post-Its
OT But….Bush just got his powers back from Cheney. INTERESTING TO NOTE HOWEVER…Bush had prodedure done at Camp David. I guess he was too afraid to have it done at Walter Reed or Bethesda Naval Hospital. He didn’t want to run into soldiers who had their legs blown off while he was worried about his asshole. Or does Bush have something more serious and they want to keep it hush hush. Just how much did it cost to have this procedure done at Camp David? I know that no expense is too great for our fuhrer.
solai @ 129
Polyps are not unexpected, and lots of things can cause them. The vast majority of the time, they’re benign.
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 167
You know most Americans consider Bush an ass, but somehow I don’t like thinking about his ass.
Hi Christy!
My upcoming thread has my guess for HP-DH, but I put them in white font so people can skip right on down to the comments section without seeing them unless they actually highlight the mysterious white space. ;-)
mrsmarks @ 163
My first album was Zoso IV. Graffiti soon became my favorite.
Saw Zep in ‘77 in St. Paul. Monstrous!
Wait wait on
Loud and unexpected knock at the door, the kids go running in a dither…who’d knock on the door like that, thumping on a Saturday morning in our quiet neighborhood??
Ah. There’s a familiar brown van in the driveway, and a man in brown at the door.
It’s Harry Potter, of course.
I snuck off and read the Epilogue while the kids were still dancing around the room, while the brown van was still making deliveries down the street.
Bushco must be using that new fangled Rovian math: LINK
Mommybrain @ 166
Yes Yes Prayers and light to Jane!
India elects a woman
http://rawstory.com/showarticl…..909979.stm
Phoenix Woman @ 171
When Reagan was shot, I was working at the Naval Telecommunications Command in DC, a civilian in the personnel dept. My desk was the hub of the office -in the center of this huge, white, highly- linoleumed room – and when the petty officer skidded to a stop outside our room and shouted, in great shock, “The President’s been shot!” the first question was “Is he dead?” “NO” and just about then I (thought I) muttered “Aw, damn.”
But it wasn’t a mutter. In the sudden silence, it was an expletive, live and loud, like a gunshot. Everyone heard me. I heard gasps and then dead silence. No one spoke to me for the rest of the day but eventually some of them admitted I had uttered what was on their minds, too.
I don’t think I need to worry about it too much here, when I say, with all my Catholic upbringing and good person-ness, and considering the fact that I don’t kill even the snails who eat my garden: I hope they are malignant.
GeorgeSimian @ 9
Dayam, Dude, it looks like what we have here is that we have ourselves a Conspiracy to Defraud the United States of America:
The above is from: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eous…..m00923.htm
Elizabeth de la Vege
ccmask @ 18
Yup. Both Bill and Chelsea would be good at that. During the last half of her father’s time in office, Chelsea was still a teenager and serving as a goodwill ambassador to Southeast Asia and India, where they loved her because she’s a vegan.
Koch Bails on Bush and Iraq
http://rawstory.com/showarticl…../5038.html
Rayne @ 176
The USPS is doing the deliveries in our area — alas, I had it set to go to my office and I couldn’t change that in time!
Alice B @ 170
Camp David has a full OR suite, and the president’s medical team – who travels with him everywhere – has a surgeon, anesthesiologist, two critical care nurses, and someone who is trained as a surgical scrub/assistant. They have a full OR set up on Air Force One, as well. I would expect that the WH also has a medical treatment area that’s pretty self-sufficient. The only thing required is to bring the colonoscope. No mere medical care for the prez.
[FWIW] checking arround this morning I noticed Authur Silber’s last post was quite ominous with health issues. [/FWIW]
OT ~ Source: Al Gore’s Son Had 140 Vicodin Pills ~ LINK
Too bad he doesn’t have any pull like Rush Limpdick.
Wanted to get this crossposted while Cheney’s still “The Man”.
War Supporters a Senatorial Threatened Species?
Do you suppose there are ten Republican senators who have pondered that, if they do not support impeachment, they will not get re-elected? Then, consider how many more of them already must realize their support of Bush’s “war” will cost them their chair.
Any Senator still supporting Bush’s “war” will become a very threatened species when The People get to vote again. And I would suggest, if you look at the signs, a lot of Senators have already realized it, and are just weighing their bully, Bush era Republican pride against their popular electability.
The longer they take to weigh their obvious and inevitable conclusion against that vain error, the more likely they will bear the weight of Bush’s burden at election time.
As for riots in the streets, and all our tinfoil-hats a-tingling lately, I believe, by now, we should have civilized ourselves beyond the need for mob response. We have so little influence on the timelines of this “war”, insurrection would never solve that problem.
To be brutally honest, I think we are trapped in the profiteer’s calendar, when it comes to the timelines we can demand, and only massive oil concessions from the Iraqis will satiate them.
And, except that we will numbly consume it all, we have no influence over that final oil contract, besides our opinions from afar. It will take another major U.S. election to weigh the balance fully against these lawless rogues, and ironically, that gives them their one way out, and I hope to God they do not even ponder creating any delays to that glorious day, because I do not want to die in the streets, fighting a Revolution my ancestors already won. Those election dates are the only way we can change this mess, and denying us for any reason is tantamount to a declaration of dictatorship.
But I expect that they will take their multi-trillion-dollar redistribution-of-wealth booty off to The Bahamas or Dubai and slobber over it happily. They already got what they wanted, we just have to hope it was enough.
I do hold out hope that some of their more egregious misdeeds (let me count the ways) will be put under the spotlight of unrestricted justice, soon after their Grand Protector, (that High Crimes addict,) has lost his pardon powers, which he fully intends to profane. Andy work we do before then should be purely for the purpose of thorough investigation. And no doubt, a Cheney Impeachment would provide the perfect privilege-free environment for it.
But we must wait until the next president to actually lay charges against the criminals, because by convicting them before Bush is gone, we give them a get-out-of-jail-free card. However, we can use this time, and the Democratic Party gavel, to gather in “The Truth” that has not been deleted or destroyed.
One last note; if something should happen that threatens those election deadlines we have come to trust, then I will rejoin you all in the streets, and we can start the civilized thing up again, immediately after they give us our elections back.
Wigwam Thank you
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eous…..m00923.htm
FITZ ON
Imaging results of Bush’s colonoscopy posted online here.
Mommybrain @ 180
Nah, because they might give us President Cheney for real.
I went to my 20th last year, and was also pleasantly surprised. There were a number of people who I wouldn’t have gotten a glance from during high school who seemed genuinely glad to see me. I was also amused to see that the women had all aged *really* well (and I’m hoping I was part of that trend–lie to me if I’m not), while the guys weren’t faring quite so well.
I was disappointed on one level, though–some of the folks I would have most liked to see didn’t show. So if Stephanie T from the University High class of ‘86 is out there, I hope you’ll consider coming to the 30th.
mental_equinox @ 190
This is more like it ~ LINK
It’s time to get Sirius!
Wish Upon a Dog Star – Satellite Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj3r2BT1yho
Phoenix Woman @ 184
Delivery might depend on how/where ordered; I signed up for Amazon Prime when I realized I was going to be ordering a LOT of books this year between research, the stepson’s college textbooks and FireDogLake’s Book Salon. So UPS it is this morning.
The UPS guy was like a rather smug elf, too, all smirky — likely the result of catching me in deshabille at the door, as much as his Christmas-in-July task. I wonder if he could hear the kids dancing and squealing “Harry Potter! HARRY POTTER!! WOOHOO!!” as he walked back to his van.
Good morning Christy! I had my 20 year class reunion last August and it was a blast. I’ve now connected with old friends again. Wonderful to have them back in my life! I missed them. :-)
Colonoscopy? No, it’s part of a Reid/Pelosi Conspiracy
…maybe they finally figured out where to track down Rove? Or maybe they’re looking for those WMD.
Maybe that’s where all the emails are hiding?
They have to be hiding somewhere!
And who’d a’ thought of looking there?
Phoenix Woman discusses he-who-must-not-be-named upstairs.
JEP @ 197
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if this procedure was done at Camp David to test the underground medical facilities to see how they worked in case of a ‘national emergency’. Maybe?
Good morning Chrisy, good morning pups!
Being a responsible adult and taking care of grown up things today.
Yet another soggy day in Central Texas, but it looks like the sun is trying to come out now.
I am not surprised about Mr. Anderson, the government teacher. My GOP cousins (from Missouri) are the same way. They are so GOP, they will not consider coming to visit us in California. (It is “too scary.”) Yet, they too — as far back as the last election, Nov. 2006 — didn’t like Bush.
So what? America supposedly still “isn’t ready” to removed him from office. I wonder how accurate these polls are, that say 35% of America still like him. And that half don’t want impeachment. Everything else from the MSM is a lie, yet no one questions these numbers. I am suspicious.
BREAKING NEWS! This explains everything. The doctor who performed the colonoscopy said his patient has an unusual condition, in which the patient’s colon is connected to both his brain and mouth, causing material that should be evacuated and discarded to affect both thought processes and speech. The doctor said the condition, which is not fatal to the patient but which can be fatal to others, is inoperable. Asked if he had ever seen such a condition before, the doctor said he had read about the condition in medical school in a text that stated such individuals are required to be kept under very close control by their parents.
greetings!
I am a refugee wildland firefighter (Raven)from Think Progress, this is my first appearance on a registered site.
Bear with me as I learn the ropes.
Thanks!
Welcome, salmo clarkii!! Come on in, the water’s fine…
thanks, I prefer cold, and well aerated, here’s hoping!
Hey salmo clarkii—
Welcome to the lake! Glad you are with us.
Tell us about yourself :)
Hi folks! Long-time lurker here, recently de-cloaked. I’ll be splitting my weekend between ‘Arry ‘Otter and packing up a holy-crap bag, as we’re expecting the newest Firepup (our first) any day now.
Alas, EPU’d…
As usual, I’m hopelessly EPU’d.
I tried to make the midnight Harry Potter party at the local bookstore. There were so many people there it wasn’t possible to move freely through the store. When the nice woman with the wristbands told me that we’d be lining up simply to pay for the book sometime after 1:00 a.m., I decided to go home. I’ll go back there to retrieve my book this afternoon, and Harry and I will spend the rest of the weekend together.
In the meantime, Christy, I hope your reunion is great, and it’s always fun to read about what The Peanut’s doing!
-S
solai @ 34
W – I can barely say his name – is not “unbothered,” he’s oblivious and numb I’d say.
jfaustus @ 207
Welcome, and congratulations!
solai @ 106
There’s an episode of The Office that is very much like this: Dwight is in charge of choosing a health plan for the office, and he “expands” his authority to try to fire people.
Rayne @ 176:
Bahahaha. We’re cut from the same cloth. We were returning from WV and stopped by an outlet mall. My daughter [college age] didn’t want to wait until we got home to pick up her copy of HP @ B&N, so she got one there.
She got tired of reading & took a nap in the back seat, so I grabbed the book & read the last 50 pages.
Evil Mom. But what can I say, I’m impatient.
I hope you enjoy your reunion, I missed my 50th a couple of years ago, but I still keep in touch with a few of my OLD classmates.