I’m not just burned out, I am like burnt toast. I’ve had a trying couple of weeks and I’m just frazzled. I’ll be okay…probably I’ll be okay by tomorrow. But I’ve got nothing in the tank tonight. So, if anyone wants to take the reins for the next 24 hours, that’d be great.
About The Author
BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
l’m not taking the reins….no way
but here’s a rant worth reading: lance mannion They poison everything they touch a delicious class 5 rant, and dead on…
right the fuck on!!!
lTMF’sA
Folkin’ eh!
🙂
Ooooh! Ooooh! Can we offer you up on eBay to see how much we can fetch?
I could do a 24 hour marathon rerunning Painting Palooza’s crappiest moments. Whadya think?
here is a good burn out song
Well maybe it’s just me and my cynicism but I find this hystericaly funny. Almost as good as the guy in New Orleans who told Cheney to go Cheney himself.
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Rough night for decked-out Dems
War protest sent guests at Clinton event through field, under barbed wire.
By Kevin Yamamura – Bee Capitol Bureau
Inside a residence along the American River, some of Sacramento’s most prominent Democrats rationed lamb chops and wine without their guest of honor Thursday. Outside stood anti-war protesters, a flag-draped coffin and more than 100 guests in dinner attire, all waiting for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As a bomb squad examined the coffin serving as protest prop, the Democratic presidential candidate waited nearly two hours on the tarmac at nearby Mather Airport. Mainstream Democrats mixed with liberal activists in the street outside the home of developer Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis.
The host, a major Democratic fundraiser, was hardly amused. Not when she had to lead guests wearing high heels and loafers through a field path and then under a barbed-wired fence into her home. And certainly not when she discovered the delay caused some to leave without contributing, according to a letter The Bee obtained Monday.
“Of course, there were a few problems last night,” Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis wrote to Clinton supporters. “People took their contributions and left in frustration. Others were turned away after hours of waiting. I have people in pictures whose names I don’t know, and whose checks we haven’t received, and people who didn’t get pictures who contributed thousands of dollars.”……..
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/205907.html
Can I suggest something soothing for the troubled soul?
Take a drive. Like an eight hour one. Watch the scenery change and unfold. Watch the cities fade into towns fade into open spaces.
For me, that’s how I decompress when it all gets to be too much. Works like a tonic for the soul.
Take care and stay away until you are replenished, one way or another!
since it is an open- a thought – How about a lasting memory of Steve Gilliard- what about creating a yearly award – “The Gilli”- given to a recipient for continuing brilliance of writing political commentary?
calvin thinks that the reason for so few posts is obvious. BooMan has set the bar so high that we simply do not want to be exposed for what we are.
This’ll teach them nasty Ay-rab Terrorists!
“A couple in Roseville, California attempted to buy a treadmill from a home fitness store on a financing plan.
A representative from Wells Fargo, the bank that provided financing to the fitness store’s customers, informed the salesperson that because the husband’s first name was “Hussein,” the couple would have to wait 72 hours while they were investigated.
She further explained that the additional
scrutiny was required “because of Saddam Hussein.”
The customer’s full name did not match any name on the OFAC list, and his first name is an exceedingly common name among people of Middle Eastern origin or Islamic faith. Nevertheless, the couple could not complete the transaction until they were “cleared.”
In addition to the delay, they had to endure the stigma of being informed – in the presence of other customers – that the husband’s Middle Eastern name was the reason they could not make the purchase.”
SOURCE: “The OFAC List: How a Treasury Department Terrorist Watchlist Ensnares Everyday Consumers” by the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights
http://www.lccr.com/03%202007%20OFAC%20Report.pdf