Oof. I’m awake, it’s Saturday night, what’s going on?
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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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Saturday night? Is that supposed to have some special meaning? Maybe you could refresh my memory.
How are you doing Booman?
Hopefully Saturday night means that you don’t have to work tomorrow so you can be bad tonight.
I feel like I’ve just gone 12 rounds with a heavyweight boxer. But, I’m okay. Just need to clean up the place and get used to the big emptiness hear.
I hope you are coping with all your difficulties. I know you have a lot on your plate.
Getting used to the “emptiness” after losing a beloved pet is difficult.. There are days when, even 12 years after, the pain comes back because I miss my sweet kitty. I wish there was some way to take away a bit of the pain you must be feeling this evening, Booman..
thank you. All of us pet owners have to deal with these feelings. As I was telling Larry last night, I wish all the 101st keyboarders and Bushistas had to feel the pain of losing a loved one…we’d have a lot less warmongering in Washington.
Having been to a few funerals for people that I loved, I can say that the pain is no different. I also can say that I don’t understand why we don’t allow people to die with the same dignity as we allow our pets to die with. There is no reason to force people to lose every last shred of dignity, not to mention every last dollar, just so we can uphold some false respect for the sanctity of life (while we take it wantonly in far off lands).
The pain and grieving process is the same, but if the end is acknowledged with love,dignity and compassion, the journey to healing healing is easier.
You did the right thing, difficult as it was.
Be well Martin, eventually you will remember the love, not the sadness.
Peace and Blessings
You know Booman, that is the first thing I said to the vet after Norman passed. It was so quick and painless. I watched my mom die a horrible death and begged the doctors to take her off a ventilator but they refused for over a week.
Allow yourself to grieve and know that we grieve right along with you. We will dearly miss our Mascot.
How sad. I’ll chant for his transition.
I hear Elvis crooning, “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” in my ear.
I’ve been hearing “Bluer than Blue.” I don’t know if you remember it. It was a bittersweet song from the late seventies about a breakup. The guy counts off the good things that are going to happen — “After you’re gone, I’ll have a lot more room in my closet,” “And when you’re gone I can run through the whole house screaming / and no one will ever hear me” — and the chorus goes
We’re here for you.
OMG. Did anyone else read Markos’ column in the post about Hillary Clinton?
My god! What happens to genuinely decent people like Markos when they’re given opportunities to work within the mainstream media?
How can ANY honest liberal who knows anything about the democrats losses over the past several elections reserve all of the blame for Bill Clinton, a wildly popular president, and NONE for a mainstream media (cough – washington post – cough) which was MOST responsible for said losses, by way of their outrageously biased coverage – a series of one invented “scandal” after another, starting from the beginning of his administration, lasting throughout, and culminating in the political assassination of Al Gore in campaign 2000?
And THEN Markos goes on to even REPEAT one of the same stupid mindless uninformed smears – this one used against John Kerry (“voted for the 87 billion before voting against it”) – a smear that helped Bush gain control over the Whitehouse again!
Now usually I love Markos (it’s his community that’s horrible). But this column clearly shows that Markos is unfortunately catching the illness that infects his community.
when Hillary-handlers finally get hip.
Still, his complaint seems to be that Hillary leads the wing of the Democratic Party that disdains us.
A “same to you” to Hillary.
She can ignore DailyKos, but not the Post.
MyDD (http://mydd.com/story/2006/5/6/154310/0753#67) is asking readers who the netroots should support financially. I found out about this a bit late, but please hurry and write a supportive comment about Chuck!
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for speaking out against U.S. policy towards Iran.
TV grab from Sky News shows a British soldier standing in front of British Warrior armoured fighting vehicles set on fire following the crash of a British helicopter in central Basra. AFP/SkyNews PhotoSee also my news diary on Basra hotspot ::
Troops Lost In Two Heli Crashes: Kunar Province and Basra, Iraq
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
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WASHINGTON (NYT) May 7 — The choice of Gen. Michael V. Hayden of the Air Force as the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency is only a first step in a planned overhaul to permanently change the mission and functions of the legendary spy agency. .. to focus the agency on its core mission of fighting terrorism and stealing secrets abroad. General Hayden, who will be nominated to the post on Monday, is currently Mr. Negroponte’s deputy, and he is regarded as an enthusiastic champion of the agency’s adoption of that narrower role.
.. Even as it turns its focus to intelligence collection, through the spying operations overseas that are run by the C.I.A.’s new national clandestine service, the C.I.A. faces a challenge from the Defense Department, which is expanding its own spying operations abroad.
.. Mr. Negroponte himself has had a difficult year trying to bring the Pentagon’s vast intelligence operations under his control. Historically, the Pentagon has controlled more than 80 percent of the nation’s intelligence budget.
.. General Hayden would bring political influence that might be welcomed by the battered managers of the C.I.A., but some officers might resent him as an outsider, a military man and a representative of Mr. Negroponte, according to former agency officials. General Hayden would face the aftermath of a long list of problems that marked Mr. Goss’s brief tenure.
Mr. Goss’s team of brash former Congressional staffers stirred bitter resentment, and the C.I.A. director found himself cast as second fiddle to Mr. Negroponte.
WaPo – Hayden Faces Senate and CIA Hurdles if Named
Porter Goss: Director of the Central Harrassment Agency
By Steven C. Clemons
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