Open Thread

20 Comments

1. 

   wolverine writer on October 30, 2005 at 9:12 am

   Good morning, Boo.  Beautiful day to you.

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     BooMan on October 30, 2005 at 9:14 am

     Hey.  I loved your post from last night.  Keep writing when you have time. </shrink&gt

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     katiebird on October 30, 2005 at 9:15 am

     {{Good morning}}

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     katiebird on October 30, 2005 at 9:19 am

     I should have said that, wolverine writer your comments were so moving, so open, it felt like you were talking in my living room.  

     This is where the limits of our virtual relationships are frustrating, someone last night said they wished they could mow your lawn, or bring a meal, hugs of course — but we can’t do that.

     I’m very sorry.

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     Indianadem on October 30, 2005 at 9:50 am

     Wherever you go today, our hearts and strength are beside you.

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     catnip on October 30, 2005 at 10:35 am

     Good morning, WW.
     huge hugs

2. 

   sbj on October 30, 2005 at 9:30 am

   From Juan Cole via Salon via Truthout, an excellent piece on the Cheney cabal here.

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     canberra boy on October 30, 2005 at 9:38 am

     Well worth reading.  Thanks for drawing attention to this.

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   deano on October 30, 2005 at 9:39 am

   also mentions Social Security:

   In the coming decades, the network of social entitlement programs, particularly Social Security, will generate a further squeeze on other federal spending programs. If defense budgets remain at projected levels, America’s global military preeminence will be impossible to maintain, as will the world order that is secured by that preeminence. Source (pg. 83)

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   BooMan on October 30, 2005 at 9:52 am

   some insiders say they are not sure if Mr. Bush fully grasps the degree of the political danger he faces and the strength of the forces arrayed against him.

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     Janet Strange on October 30, 2005 at 10:28 am

     And his failure this year to persuade Congress to go along with his plan to overhaul Social Security – an effort that was supposed to be the centerpiece of his second-term agenda – is a reminder to Mr. Bush of the difficulties of persuading elected officials to inflict pain on their constituents even in the service of an ideologically attractive idea.

     Funny how we object to the possibility of living under a bridge and eating cat food in our golden years to serve delusional and homicidal ideology, isn’t it?

     There have been signs that Mr. Bush’s sway over his party in Congress is weakening.

     Rats. Ship.

     Representative Thomas M. Reynolds of New York, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, dismissed the notion that the week’s events had long-range political significance. The midterm election, Mr. Reynolds said, “is 12, almost 13 months away. All of this week will be forgotten in a year. It will be forgotten in two months.”

     La la la I can’t hear you . . . .

     No it will not, Democrats said. They argued that Mr. Libby’s indictment would stoke voters’ doubts about the administration’s rationale for the war in Iraq. “They are watching,” said Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island. “They can connect the dots.”

     Oh please, oh please. See From Terri to Treason by cskendrick, across the road.

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   Oui on October 30, 2005 at 10:52 am

   .

   WASHINGTON Oct.30 — Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Sunday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should apologize for the actions of their aides in the CIA leak case.

   

   Reid, D-Nev., also said Bush should pledge not to pardon any aides convicted as a result of the investigation into the disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity.

   Go check out this link over at TPM
   TalkingPointsMemo by Josh Marshall

   “Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
   For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

   ▼▼▼ READ MY DIARY

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   BrendaStewart on October 30, 2005 at 11:30 am

   Good Morning all.  Well now that the time has changed, do I feel better that I got an extra hours of sleep!!??  

   I have been working in Memphis for th epast 4 months dur to extra circ. deeming I do my job there.  I worked the area at the Med. and boy was I tired ladt night!  Worked so shorthanded, so I stayed with my son over night and drove on home this morning after I got up.  I felt better for doing this, anyhow.

   I basically have been out of the news loop for most of this stuff happening.  I did get on line and read what you all posted on Fri night.  I listened to Al Franken repeat from Friday, on my way home on Air America.  I can tell you there are two so very different stories out there in America!  Why is it that the Republicans simply do not get it!!??  

   I got home this morning to get to listen to TMP and I can tell you Russert is boo coo dinky dow and he is also living in nonreality.  Why is it this way?  They are simply not seeing the nose ont he front of their face!  God they are so stupid.  

   Does the Republicans not really get the fact that this administration fixed the intel to fit the policy to go to war!  BTW, I still think Bolton was the one who outed VP.

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     BrendaStewart on October 30, 2005 at 11:31 am

     PS: plus they lied to Congress..ie withoheld things from them that they needed to report…that in and of itself is so bad…

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     S2 on October 30, 2005 at 11:49 am

     that they make reality.
     and in a way, they do.

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   S2 on October 30, 2005 at 11:47 am

   …the sun is exploding again!

   In any case, Mars is pretty close to our fragile and beautiful Earth right now.  

   And while Karl Rove is trying to find a way to exploit this news to frighten and distract, a moment to reflect on the amazingness of all things may add perspective to the immediacy of here and now.

   star date

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   ATinNM on October 30, 2005 at 11:53 am

   Beta came ashore this AM as a Class 2 after briefly up-ing the ante as a Class 3. The computer models are predicting Beta will move across Latin America to the Pacific.

   There is another system trying to get its act together and conditions are favorable for development.

   WHeee!  This season just gets better and better!  (Not)

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   Time Waits for no Woman on October 30, 2005 at 12:14 pm

   I am doing my weekend shopping over at the Powell’s site (accessed from here–does that register with them?)  Don’t tell anyone, but I research the books on Amazon–I like their readers’ reviews–but buy them from Powell’s.  I have a long wish list there of cool science fiction books–for cheap.

10. 

    janinsanfran on October 30, 2005 at 12:34 pm

    I went precinct walking in Oakland yesterday against Gov. Arnold. Very encouraging — if people bother to vote! That is going to take a lot of work.

    

    Wanted to be cheered up: full photo essay here.

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      chocolate ink on October 30, 2005 at 2:20 pm

      Thanks for getting out and those pictures were great. I suspect we’ll have a very low turnout-not much new about that but hope that all us anti-arnold people are really out in force.

      So Arnie I didn’t vote for you in the recall and I’m telling you now that ‘I’ll be back’ to vote against your crappy props also and if your stupid enough to run for governor again-‘I’ll be back’ to vote against you again. My own just say no campaign.  I see he was boohooing the other day about unions not liking him-duh!