What’s the latest outrage?
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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.
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That I was forced to slave away over a hot grill to get some dinner. And then I was thisclose to almost setting up our swimming pool just we could be comfortable. All I can say:
I don’t think you’re going to get much sympathy around here, especially from our northern friends…
It’s now pratically freezing and I’ve had to put on shoes AND socks and hoodie. My goal before the sun goes down is to try to get a fire going in the hole I dug out last summer.
right. “practically freezing” to a californian means <60.
Well, Booman, your post about Ickes gave me that last nudge I needed to finally write something for Buckeye State Blog: Why THIS woman will never vote for Hillary Clinton.
That’s more blog exertion than I’ve done for a while. Think I’ll find something mindless to watch for the rest of the evening. I’ve earned some down-time.
Yeah, I had an epiphany myself…
I was just going to comment on BooMan’s story, but my comment sort of got out of hand and turned into a diary.
Buffalo Bills fans feel betrayed that the team is moving to Toronto, Canada (they’ll need to flash a passport to go watch the games) while Canadians are not rolling out the welcome mats; an NFL franchise will kill the Canadian Football League (CFL).
The other side of the outrage: “ticket prices are not confirmed but some are expected to cost less than $100 but most to be double that and all eight games over the next five years must be purchased together.”
“We’re going to charge high rates and we’re going to have all the seats sold,” said (billionaire) Rogers
ya know, someone is gonna lose a shit-pile of money.
Washington’s Gov. Gregoire and BC’s Premier Campbell got together and championed what is basically an enhanced ID card/driver’s license. It costs way less than a passport (about $40) and supposedly will get you across any border in North America. It has been approved by the people who approve such things and our family will be getting ours fairly soon so we can travel to Canada when we feel like it.
The reasons Gregoire and Campbell gave for wanting to implement the EDL/ID were that cross-border traffic, and therefore cross-border business, would suffer hugely if people were forced to get $100 passports to be able to cross the border. I would think those same arguments could be made by the people of Ontario and New York.
The rest of that stinks, though. I don’t know if it will kill the CFL, but it won’t do it any favors. Who knows, maybe people will decide to stay with the CFL rather than the overpriced scam they’re trying to perpetrate on Bills fans.
ya know, l just cant get up for onther outrage right now, so l’m going to relax and indulge myself reading some really bad fiction with The 2007 Bulwer-Lytton 2007 Awards:
with a potent beverage, or two…….ahhhhhhhhhh
Hah,
I followed your link and discovered the true identity of our own Family Man 😉
My problem with the Bylwer-Lytton contest is that they reward people who cram an entire story into one sentence. That isn’t the point!!!!!
The point is to craft an opening line (one sentence!!!) that is truly awful, yet so compelling that you’ll read the next 1200 pages (the rest of the story!!!).
So, the above sentence about Hiram was fairly bad, but what else is there? We have the entire story from introduction, catastrophic event, denouement, and epilogue. No more to the story and no reason to read further.
The first year of the contest indeed featured a few opening sentences. After that it was all bad puns and complete tales, completely going off track. If all that gets published is short but shaggy dogs, why don’t they rename the contest? THAT would be the honest thing to do.
In any case, I don’t buy and don’t read these books. There is plenty of hilariously bad fiction, such as opera librettos, already published, with entire stories tumbling along the rutted tracks. Example: tomorrow I’ll see the live broadcast of Manon. It will take her FIVE acts of singing at the top of her lungs to die of “consumption”.
:snicker:
I mentioned this in a thread this morning but it got no reaction. Charles Barkley is my new hero with his “fake christians” talk. Just watch:
I had the Wisconsin Dinner thing on in the background to listen to Hill and Barack. He added a new section. At least I’m pretty sure it’s new, I haven’t heard it before. He started quoting things and then would say – just words?
“I have a dream. Just words?”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Just words?”
“We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. Just words? “
And then he said “Don’t tell me that words don’t matter!’
It was one of the most effective moments I think he’s ever had.
Pakistan votes on Monday. This could be pretty messy.
I just entered that into my list of things to look up tomorrow. Now I don’t have to!
heard that Hagel and Kerry went to observe the rigging of the votes:
McClatchy: Elections rigged. Tape caught Pakistani attorney geneeral saying vote will be rigged
I guess it’ll be a messy outcome.
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Congrats BooMan … 15,000,000 page views!!
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JB16Ak05.html
Bush’s Iraq legacy
But the Bush administration’s priorities lie elsewhere. It is highly unlikely to pay heed to Iraqi public sentiments. There is precious little time left for the Bush administration in the White House. But it’s not just pork-barrel politics, either. There is also the aspect of the legacy of the Bush administration. With the Iraqi “surge” having proved a success, Bush is undoubtedly gearing up for the epitaph to his Iraq odyssey.
Big Oil deals in Iraq form the core of Bush’s strategy of creating a legacy for the US in the Middle East that may run for decades. Big Oil needs the assurance of a near-permanent US military presence in Iraq. And Bush is determined to provide that assurance. He is convinced that no serious American politician would defy the wishes of Big Oil. By logic, therefore, Bush is creating a historical legacy of an Iraq that will remain under American control for decades to come.
Therefore, the Op-Ed in The Washington Post on Wednesday jointly authored by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is extraordinary for its thumb sketch of what Bush’s Iraq legacy is going to look like. The two top officials have written that a “crucial phase” is about to begin with the US negotiating a basic framework agreement with the Iraqi government aimed at “normalized relations”.
By the end of this year, the Bush administration proposes to altogether dispense with the fig leaf of the current requirement that the United Nations must authorize on an annual basis the presence and role of the US military in Iraq under the relevant UN resolutions. Rice and Gates argue that the Bush administration “would rather have an arrangement that is more in line with what typically governs the relationships between two sovereign nations”. Period.
The US-Iraqi framework agreement to be negotiated seeks to establish “a strong relationship with Iraq, reflecting our [US] shared political, economic, cultural and security interests”. In other words, Washington will have ensured that US policies in Iraq are sequestered from the purview of the UN once the US-Iraqi