So, I was a big chagrined to find out that John McCain is a fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dexter, and The Wire (and Cindy is a fan of Big Love; I bet there’s an interesting story there). I guess it just goes to show, every asshole has his good points (I’ll leave it up to you decide who’s the asshole – McCain or me).
It’s interesting to be spending all this time alone (as alone as you can be with two dogs playing biteface around you wherever you go; with all the growling, it’s like having Linda Blair from The Exorcist following you around – minus the pea soup). I haven’t had to say more than a few words to anybody since last week (my “roommate” at work has been on vacation, so I’m on my own there, too). Of course, I talk to myself and the dogs a lot. And the cats, too, but they don’t count, since they don’t really understand what I’m saying.
Mostly, I’m just trying to keep the dog out of the cookie jar (aka, litter box).
Oh well, whatever. Time to start getting ready to seek personal fulfillment through my career. Have a good one.
Women’s water polo final from Beijing:
USA 12
China 11
Four goals for Natalie Golda, three for Kami Craig!
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The Chinese team members are all under 21 and were not supposed to be this good. Home-water advantage, I guess. Not to mention a little assistance from the officials.
Still, the game had me on the edge of my seat the entire time I wasn’t standing up yelling.
Next up: Italy tonight, NBC shows it tomorrow morning. The Italians are defending gold medalists, so it should be another nail-biter.
It’s taken me awhile to figure out what’s going on in Georgia and who did what. Here’s a quote from a story about their bush-aligned president that told me everything I needed to know.
“We have an idiot president,†said Marika, 40, a physician, who wouldn’t disclose her surname. “He ruined our country and that’s his idiotic politics.â€
Comment by artnorton
And just to prove Art’s point:
Bush administration officials, worried by what they saw as a series of provocative Russian actions, repeatedly warned Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to avoid giving the Kremlin an excuse to intervene in his country militarily, U.S. officials said Monday.
But in the end, the warnings failed to stop the Georgian president — a Bush favorite — from launching an attack last week that on Monday seemed likely to end not only in his country’s military humiliation but complete occupation by Russian forces
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/47631.html
The hawks like to play, just like the dogs and cats. Lincoln has pics of a hawk (Palemale?) playing on a lawn in Central Park.
If John Edwards hadn’t lied about his affair, Putin would never have invaded Georgia.
Sweet Tuesday Morning
If we can fly back the Georgian ‘coalition’ soldiers to help fight the Russkies, can we fly back some of our National Guard to fight some of our domestic calamities now?
It was funny how that invasion and the Edwards story breaking coincided with the Friday news cycle (dump) and the Olympics opening.
Also interesting all this Clintonista stirring so close to the convention and when O’Bama is on his vacation in the exotic foreign land where his grandmother who cannot travel lives. They seem determined to undermine him any way they can as if their 2012 campaign has already begun but I am sure it is just a coincidence. (1)
I don’t think many people are actually paying attention. Of course, I don’t think many people are ever really paying attention. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have the preznit we currently have, and John McCain wouldn’t be anything more than a laughing stock.
If only that goddamn Oprah hadn’t backed Obama…. It’s all her fault.
doing some time in socko land while my dancing friend has surgery.
Interesting how this site is blocked on the hospital wifi.
Good thing I have my phone. :knit2:
Is it? I wonder why? Maybe we don’t pass the dirty word filter.
No more f-bombs, ya bastids!
This Atlantic article on the Clinton campaign meltdown by Joshua Green is pretty interesting (as are the complete list of internal memos referenced in the article).
So, I’m thinking maybe it wasn’t all Oprah’s fault after all. Just a crappy campaign run by a bunch of idjuts.
Thanks for the article, pj.
Makes you hope she doesn’t raise the money to pay these fooks.
Wonder if they can peddle their wares to McGrumpa?
Probably too late for that.
You know, it’s a damn shame it’s impossible to have a campaign that’s designed to let us know where the candidates stand on the issues that are important. But it never is. It’s all about idiot political consultants, and “gotcha” and the “serious” Beltway insiders over analyzing meaningless minutiae about somebody’s haircut or pantsuit or choice of vacation site or or whether they “look French” or are “too smart” or, yes, even whether they had a freakin’ affair that has absolutely nothing to do with anything….
Instead we get people paid to run campaigns into the ground so some idiot fake cowboy or “wrinkly old white haired dude” wind up running the whole damn country into the ground.
Bastids.
Deep Cokie
Maybe The Hag is a strict 48 stater. Her daddy disappeared in Alaska in ’72.
As Majority Leader, Boggs often campaigned for others. On October 16, 1972, he was aboard a twin engine Cessna 310 with Representative Nick Begich of Alaska, who was facing a possible tight race in the November 1972 general election against the Republican candidate Don Young, when it disappeared during a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. The only others on board were Begich’s aide, Russell Brown, and the pilot, Don Jonz;[2] the four were heading to a campaign fundraiser for Begich. (Begich won the 1972 election posthumously with 56 percent to Young’s 44 percent, though Young would win the special election to replace Begich and has won every election to the seat since then.)
So is Gore gonna get any love at the Dem Convention or have the Clintons taken all the prime slots? I’d rather see Al than Bill to be honest with you but there must be some Edwards time available now.
This background on the Georgia/Russia conflict is from the LA Times:
Who is fighting whom?
Russian air, naval and ground power versus the Georgian military. Georgia, south of Russia on the western shore of the Black Sea, was part of the Soviet Union but has a history of troubled relations with Moscow.
Where are they fighting?
The bulk is around two pro-Russian enclaves, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It appears to be expanding toward western Georgia, where Russia captured a military base yesterday. There were also conflicting reports whether a main road had been cut near the city of Gori.
What is the background to the fighting?
Moscow has viewed itself as the protector of the two enclaves. In 1990, Georgia abolished South Ossetia’s autonomy and by 1991 the ethnic antagonists were fighting. In 1992, Georgia and Russia signed a peace treaty and Russian troops began patrolling the South Ossetia border. That year, Abkhazia also declared independence from Georgia and another war was fought, ending in 1994 with a treaty between Russia and Georgia. Russia then began patrolling that enclave.
What touched off the latest fighting?
Georgia launched a surprise operation last week to seize control of South Ossetia. Russia sent its military into the breakaway republics and bombed Georgia proper.
Was this confrontation expected?
Yes and no.
Many western experts have predicted Russia would stage some military action after Mikhail Saakashvili was elected president of Georgia in 2004. As part of his platform, he wanted to reincorporate the enclaves into Georgia. Experts agreed Russia would respond with force if that happened.
Does the U.S. have any special interests in the area?
Saakashvili is a U.S. ally and sent troops to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. The United States has strongly backed Georgia’s effort to join NATO. Russia fears former Soviet partners and satellites will look to Europe and form a pro-Western ring, curbing Moscow’s arena of diplomatic action. Georgia is also a major conduit for oil flowing from Russia and Central Asia to the West.
Dear Blue, if you don’t mind me asking, :love: how are You? :knit:
Knit any grenades lately ? :rofl2: :knit:
How fares your a’dancin’ friend…? :banana:
:dancers: :dancers: :dancers:
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Wow! Le Ms. Shearer gets her Condi on.
Soupy
Ink Spots
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Walking in “the surf” again, are ya… 😉 . Finally, some women get a bit of eye-candy … :bee: “have” :hubba: :rofl2: … I miss an ol’ part of the coast