Little Finn has decided that today is the day that he wants to get serious about this walking thing. He’s really just doing what they call “cruising,” but he wants to move on to the next step. This means that I have to serve as his spotter. If I try to do anything else I am quickly reminded that we’re working on a project and I need to get with the program. It’s pretty fun, but not conducive to blogging. I guess he’s a bit of a late walker, but he combines tremendous will-power and determination with a basic sense of caution. As a parent, I prefer that to recklessness or lack of drive. Anyway, he’s trying to close my laptop and do this walking thing again, so I gotta go.
Let me know if anything happens with the government shutdown. I’m having flashbacks to sixteen years ago. What were you doing sixteen years ago?
I was a year away from my degree at UMass, working as a cook, living with my girlfriend, and playing hippy music.
I should scan my college ID, you’d laugh your head off.
I was 6 years old, so I don’t remember it. I do remember supporting Bill Clinton in the 3rd grade, though.
History repeats! I was in second grade during the election of 1952 and I remember being punched in the nose because I said my Dad was voting for Stevenson, while everyone else liked Ike. Republicans haven’t changed much, and only for the worse.
Apparently, Obama is saying he is going to balk at the Republican’s latest effort to kick the can down the road once again and is threatening a veto.
White House threatens veto of GOP-backed one-week funding bill
Of course, Cantor is playing the “Obama hates the troops” card. Like he or anybody in his caucas gives a flying f&*%k about the troops in this budget battle.
It’s “caucus” you moron.
Spell check is my friend…..spell check is my friend….
With that deal the Repugs would let the government shutdown until September. Funding only defense is a Repug wet dream.
This is what they seem to fear: Planned Parenthood
Where did I read that every HIV infection costs $100,000+ in medical costs? Preventing disease not only benefits the patient but the whole system. Prevention is good! The Repugs are rotten, selfish shortsighted idiots!
By and large, their base still believes that HIV is their gods punishment for mans wicked ways. Why wouldn’t they want “those kind of people” to suffer and die with no help or assistance? Those are the wages of sin in their book.
I was crying my eyes out because I didn’t get into my first choice for college.
16 years ago at the gov shutdown there was a giant snowstorm (that was the olden days) in NY. A neighbor and I stood on a giant pile of snow (scale of snow piles in the olden days) and laughed at the pic of Newt on the cover of the Daily News (wasn’t it at the shutdown that the Daily News printed the pic of Newt in diapers throwing a tantrum?). since it’s the olden days and this is oral tradition I may have conflated 2 incidents, as happens with tellers of tales
you mean this cover.
YES!!! thanks
Well, in 1995, like everyone else, I was suffering through those traumatic and horrible Clinton years.
5.6 % unemployment rate, that oppressive 39.6% maximum tax rate, rising home values, ever-growing retirement funds, a continually shrinking national debt. One might say the future, indeed, looked very rosy.
Little did I know that we were a short five years away from the most awful President in history, who would bring to fruition the disaster that all his conservative cronies were dreaming about at the time. Also at this time a little group called Project For The New American Century had drawn up a policy document and agenda and had printed it on the internet. Little did we know the long running disaster that this would herald in the coming years, and still continues today.
I’ll always treasure The Onion‘s headline on GWB’s inauguration: “Bush: Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Over.” They nailed it.
Have you ever read it post-Bush? It was eerily prescient.
If an article this accurate was ever written by a religious figure prior to actual events and been as accurate as this one turned out to be, they would be deemed a prophet and a saint.
It is well worth a read.
Yes. See, when I ask Christians to tell me what “prophesies” that the Bible has predicted, they’re never entirely clear, and spin some random-ass Bible-quote that could be taken to mean anything.
When you make predictions like the ones that this Onion Article made and have them come true, maybe I’ll think twice about this whole God stuff.
/During the 40-minute speech, Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.
“You better believe we’re going to mix it up with somebody at some point during my administration,” said Bush, who plans a 250 percent boost in military spending. “Unlike my predecessor, I am fully committed to putting soldiers in battle situations. Otherwise, what is the point of even having a military?”
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LOL!
When you make predictions like the ones that this Onion Article made and have them come true, maybe I’ll think twice about this whole God stuff.
Well, let’s not carried away to far, now. 🙂
For the most part, I view Biblical prophecies in much the same vein as horoscopes and fortune cookies. they are so vague that you can always find a random event somewhere in history that makes them seem prescient. We are pattern-seeking creatures. For virtually all of recorded time, we have seen good and evil in simple cloud formations and the shifting of the winds. It is just an unfortunate product of our evolution, though it also has its benefits.
In the category “Close Enough to Steal”, the clerk of the elections office of Waukesha County, WI, has suddenly found over 14,000 votes that mysteriously weren’t counted Tuesday night. That puts Prosser ahead by over 7000 votes (out of automatic recount territory).
What a coinkydink.
I hope you see it happen, Boo. My youngest grandson was late walking too. He was crawling around our family room, then crawled to the wall, put he palms against the wall and shakily rose up. Then, still shakily, he turned with a big grin and started walking. He two year older brother burst out wiyj an astounding, “He walking! He walking!” It’s somthing you’ll always remember.
What I was doing in ’95? Almost too painful to remember. I was a well paid well regarded computer professional with a job I loved, and money in the 401K. I’d send every whore on R street to the White House if I could only have that man back in White House. I didn’t like everything he did, but I sincerely believe he tried to do the right thing and God! he had style. Bring back yesterday.
Apologies for the many spelling/grammar errors. My wife was yelling at me to come to supper.
Sounds familiar. Do you get the, “You love that computer more than you love me!” guilt trip thing as well?
OH YEAH!
Very exciting about little Finn finding his legs! Can you get one of the CBs to play videographer?