Hey, I can wait a long time if I think the end is coming. And the thought of the new grand jury possibly wrapping up around the same time next year makes me smile.
I’m just worried about the next war they want to start in the meantime.
I think they’ve backed off from Iran, and that “suicide” in Syria has me feeling suspiscious.
I hope Scooter’s indictment is enough to make the rest of the Repugs think twice about voting to support another war. Assuming they don’t just do it, and call it part of the Iraq war to avoid having to get approval of the Congress…
something really needs to be done about Iran. Not necessarily military. And I’m not sure it can wait until 2009 when we get some adults back in the White House, but that’s got to be a better strategy than letting the neocon death cult do anything.
Just wanted to remind everyone that for November, we’re doing Thanksgiving recipes in the Friday daytime cafe; please share yours!
Week of 11/4: Veggies and side dishes
Week of 11/11: Desserts
Week of 11/18: Turkey and stuffing
Week of 11/25: Post-holiday story exchange (can be happy or “OMG, where did these relatives come from?” type stories)
Happy hour will feature the usual cafe selections…
I believe I’ve encountered conclusive evidence that the FBC is virtual crack: I have put these dates on my calendar. Mind you, my next doctor’s appointment is not on my calendar, but these were added before I finished coffee.
Please vote for this interesting and challenging book.
I’ve read the first chapter but I’ve been holding off continuing so I can read the rest with you.
My friend at work says it is one of the most powerfully written novels that he’s ever read.
As I said when I first made the suggestion that we read it:
I’ve just started reading this strange and fascinating novel (so it
fits into the let’s read it together theme). It covers topics
that are a natural for our group. It’s fiction. And an
award winner. And one of the main characters is a librarian.
And the first chapter is terrific! And my friend at work
says it gets better and better right through to the end.
Read the two reviews below. Could we do any better?
Summary
A masterfully crafted literary and philosophical tour-de-force that
moves from the poetic to the hilarious to the dreamily apocalyptic,
this novel from the 2003 PENUSA Award winner imagines the small foibles
and grand moral negotiations of the “genius” A-bomb scientists.
Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Review
What if Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, the
primary physicists from the Manhattan Project, returned to contemporary
America to survey their atomic legacy? That question forms the heart of
Millet’s excellent fourth novel, in which the souls of the three take
earthly form in the present-day Southwest. Ann, a New Mexico librarian,
spots the reincarnated Oppenheimer and Fermi at a restaurant near her
home; Szilard soon joins them; Ann persuades her garden-designer
husband, Ben, to take them all in. Subsequent trips to Los Alamos and
(with the help of a rich UFOlogist) Japan to view the monuments at
Hiroshima persuade the three to work for disarmament. Army surveillance
ensues; at one rally, shots are fired; and Christian Fundamentalists
try to take things in a more rapturous direction. It takes considerable
talent to pull off a conceit like this, and for the most part Millet
makes it look easy, drawing full-blown, dead-on portraits of the three
scientists that don’t diminish their characters or their work. Her
threads on weapons buildup, the topsy-turvy mosaic of contemporary
American political culture and the difficulties of marriage feel
realistically motivated and nicely argued. Millet gives a whimsical
conceit real depth, and the result, if a bit pious in spots, is a
superb, memorable novel. (July) Copyright 2005 Reed Business
Information. Appeared in: Publishers Weekly, May 16, 2005 (c) Copyright
2005, Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
It’s because my kids are never around anymore! Waaaa! The thing is that you spend your whole life picking up crap that someone else has left behind and then they leave more crap. Then one day you pick it up and it stays clean and you like it for like 10 minutes and then it just makes you sad. Well, me.
Andi, every day you amaze me with these photos more than the day before. um, I’m so tired I can hardly make a sentence, but you know what I mean! Thanks for this.
Thanks for the kind remarks. I’ve been out here 26 years and yet I continue to be amazed at and thrilled by how the forest constantly changes — things grow, things die, the ground erodes or builds up, the light filters through differently, the winds changes direction or dies down.
We used to have a “grill” we made out of extruded metal and some pipe pounded into the ground. One time one of the dogs took a steak right off it. Not sure why but that seemed to dampen a lot of people’s desire to come over here for cookouts.
Frog smiles for the news….productivity should be marginal today….back at work, fever broke yesterday and I feel great, indictments will make me happy and smiley!
An autumn morning view of the saltwater swimming pond at the Oak Harbor city park, with the Naval seaplane base and Cascade Mountains in the background.
The never ending stream of conflicting reports on indictments has me clinging to the ceiling. Fortunately we have an imaginary giant spatula that we keep for just such occasions. The first time it was used was for an attempt to peel my friend Sara’s mother off the ceiling on Sara’s wedding day. We knew she was on the ceiling because she didn’t notice that when we arrived at her house I was wearing my full formal kilt rig without the kilt because I hadn’t wanted to sit on the pleats for the long drive to the site. So I had on black tie etc. plus bike shorts. She just smiled, welcomed us in, and went back to worrying. I finally had to resort to muppet ballet* to get her mind off the wedding for thirty seconds.
*muppet ballet is a routine that a theater group I used to be a part of used back stage to blow steam. The idea is to do ballet jumps and steps with your legs while moving your arms as though you were Kermit the frog.
Does anyone know which Washington DC street cam we should be watching to see the when PFitz arrives? (I don’t even know if there is a cam that covers where this historic moment will happen?)
Sources question whether or not neocons really have a plausible allibbi in the war on terror.
(Sorry for the spelling errors in advance…)
It has also been reported that the reason Libby has been seen on crutches lately is because of visits from Bush and Cheney associates discussing strategy and how Libby should testify in the future trial.
A source close to the Bush family said that “If he knows what’s good for him’n his family Libby’ll keep his mouth closed tighter than a Young Republican when a military recruiter is askin’ for volunteers. Bush’n Cheney is like family, see? An’ we always take care of family.”
My call to the WH this morning regarding FEMA and Drownie and kick to Bush’s nutsack with some early morning snarkisms.
Morning! Hubby goes in for his pee test. Weird that employment can hinge on the ability to get human waste product from one part of the country to another. ….
Well, I love giving the WH comment line some shit. I really do. I’m no Mike Stark and his calls to Rush/O-Rielly, but it’s … you know it is good “ventage”. Nice release. And I think if enough call, it does do something.
But I’m grounded as I go to RubDMC’s diary all the time. I even go to it to see what others write during the day. So.. grounded… well as about as grounded as this strange chick can be 🙂
on filling the cup…hope he was able to specify what legal drugs he takes — got to watch out for “false positives”. (My spouse is subject to random testing, which sucks but fortunately he’s a relatively good boy…)
Tired and cranky today — the “I told you so” crowd seems to be out in force. Just because we didn’t get Rove and Cheney and Bush, the whole “investigation” is nothing but a crock of Bushit. Well, it ain’t over yet…and there’s enough talk show fodder to keep Tweety and Russert and Wolfie and the other talking heads musing well into the next election cycle, and it’s Republicans that are going to be taking the heat. Oh, and let’s not forget the cast of characters outside of the investigation: DeLay, Frist and any other Abramoff “pals” that are lurking in paneled halls of Congress.
I’ll try to get in a better mood…I’ll think about finally seeing a hockey game at HP Pavilion tomorrow night, yeah, that’s the ticket… 🙂
I was wondering with all this drug testing… what do they do if someone is taking medications for a mental challenge? I don’t think that employers should know that beforehand. It could rule a candidate out. I mean, we even try to be discreet about having a disabled child when interviewing… imagine if a person had a disability themselves – especially one that required some form of medication… ACK
I know the ADA is supposed to protect us from such discrimination… but I’ve heard of employers hiring the candidate without kids/spouse over one that does due to insurance and liklihood of missed days due to child schedules etc etc… land of the free?? My ass.
HOCKEY! tonight, too. You should come by that one hockey site.. 🙂 It’ll make you feel better.
NAMI’s done some work in that area — NAMI is the National Association on Mental Illness. The in-laws are fairly active with the group (they pay their dues, get the newsletter, and take letter-writing actions when necessary), due to the spouse’s brother being bipolar with mild schizophrenia. Dad-in-law went through a huge fight to get SSI for their younger son, and I know they have a special needs trust to take care of him after they’re gone. It’s a problem though, especially with companies bitching about health care costs…universal health care would go a loooong way towards helping the problem, but only if mental health is equally covered with “physical health”.
You go right ahead and stay on that Soapbox. It is my soapbox, too, and there is plenty of room up here on it!
We definitely need parity for mental health coverage. There’s been a steady cut-back in mental health services since Reagan entered the Whitehouse, with only the tiniest uptick during Clinton’s administration. Our country should be ashamed.
As to drug testing, typically testing is done for a very narrow set of things – to do a wider screening takes more money. So screening is usually very specific to, say, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, etc. Businesses and insurance want it cheap. This is one of the few instances where that helps people who are on medications that they want to keep private, e.g. anti-psychotic, anti-depressants.
Okay I know that everyone is anxious and stressed and hopeful… but My Brain takes a leave of absence and I start wondering and pondering other matters. Like with FEMA up above…
Earlier this week I thought on something else. Now.. please do not get mad or offended. But I was just wondering….
How come no one else, but me, realizes that these two are one and the same???
Certainly didn’t offend me…and I thought from the day he was picked as Pope that he looked like a creepy old man who had molested lots of little boys/girls..he’s just scary looking and he also seems to be taking the church back to the dark ages on top of it.
OK, so yesterday I was sitting in the school gym waiting for parent teacher conferences (we go in, sign up, and then wait to run the gauntlet for five minutes with each teacher). Behind me were a man and woman and I heard him giving a little lecture to her. It was the purest compilation of wingnut talking points on the Plame burning I have heard yet. Now I bring them to you, for your edification:
(1) Plame was not a real agent. She was a map analyst.
(2) There was no endangering of national security in outing a map analyst.
(3) These investigations waste a bunch of money for no reason. No harm is done by outing a map analyst.
(4) What they really should investigate is how a mere map analyst was able to get her husband the job of going to Niger.
Yes, he said “map analyst” over and over – first time I’ve heard that term. Yes, he said that this investigation is a waste of money, but an investigation into Joe’s glorious vacation to the garden spot of Niger would not be a waste of money. Yes there are people who are so in the tank they really believe this nonsense. 🙁
My daughter is doing great in middle school though. 🙂
I have an unfortunate compulsion to turn into an asshole when I encounter people like that, so I likely would have put on my best fake smile and expression of fascination and then engaged the guy, “Seriously? How did you find out she was a map analyst? You have a line in to who does what for the CIA? How impressive. Can I have your cell number so I can call you up whenever I have Secret Agent Man type questions? In fact, maybe we should distribute it to all the parents, you know, for the sake of the children’s safety.” Then I’d peer around with mock-nervousness and stage-whisper, “We have to make sure the terrorists can’t take advantage of security weaknesses in the CIA to use Hollywood to force the homosexual agenda into our schools.”
We can probably all agree it’s a good thing I don’t have any children.
Actually Indy I think you’d be a great role model for those middle schoolers (and for me too! I always think of the right thing to say, too late.) I know mine would love to see you in action.
Thanks for the kind words, Lil. Actually now that I think of it, I was already this much of a wise-ass in junior high school but was able to use my good grades to deflect any punishment for it, so maybe I would be a good role model! ::uses foot to surreptitiously shove a bunch of bad role model stuff under the bed::
my husband never wants me around his school because I would have said something like “You mean ‘wasting money’ like the republicans did on investigations of Clinton’s blow jobs?”
We are the people about whom our mothers always said “I can’t take you anywhere” but our friends always wanted to take us everywhere because the trouble we caused was so much fun.
My husband doesn’t cringe, but he makes jokes about subscribing to the Weekly Standard. I think that he just wants me to keep perspective, not get to bent out of shape and stay positive.
If you had one, and if I wasn’t afraid the cell phones were going to give me brain cancer, I’d be happily involved in a reciprocal speed-dial relationship with you, DJ. 🙂 Especially because I suspect you’d occasionally send me random phone pictures of Tim Curry in fishnets and f-me pumps.
I get a kick out of watching my wife cringe everytime she hears my son making a wise ass remark that makes him seem even more like of a chip off the ol’ block than his cheesy grin does! lol
That’s interesting — I never heard the “map analyst” bit before, either. I wonder where he got that information? Emma Anne, I hope you don’t mind my asking — in what part of the country is the school?
. CNNi will do a new documentary on U.S. Involvement in Iraq during the month of November. I was delighted in the flashes of the video trailer, twice to see a picture of Cindy Sheehan, at least once in the Washington DC March on Sept. 24.
Great to see her image so prominent on a MSM daily broadcast.
CNNi calls the program:
And I just got back. With nearly 100 positive reviews linked at RottenTomatoes.com I thought it might be overhyped.
But it wasn’t at all, it was powerful and moving — really astonishing. Great performance by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. And the editing (of course) was flawless.
I’m a wee bit disappointed that we’ll have to wait for another to see Karl indicted, but glad the investigation is continuing!
(Thanks to Cho for today’s frogmarch photo!)
Patience has served us well up to this point. We’ll just have something to look forward to on another day.
Hey, I can wait a long time if I think the end is coming. And the thought of the new grand jury possibly wrapping up around the same time next year makes me smile.
I’m just worried about the next war they want to start in the meantime.
As am I. Where will it be, Iran, Syria or…?
I think they’ve backed off from Iran, and that “suicide” in Syria has me feeling suspiscious.
I hope Scooter’s indictment is enough to make the rest of the Repugs think twice about voting to support another war. Assuming they don’t just do it, and call it part of the Iraq war to avoid having to get approval of the Congress…
something really needs to be done about Iran. Not necessarily military. And I’m not sure it can wait until 2009 when we get some adults back in the White House, but that’s got to be a better strategy than letting the neocon death cult do anything.
wouldn’t it, because adults simply have no access to command in the United States.
just think of it as multiple orgasms that lasts for weeks on end
is a creature of much beauty and dignity!
Why, thank you. I love those Willimantic frogs!
Just wanted to remind everyone that for November, we’re doing Thanksgiving recipes in the Friday daytime cafe; please share yours!
Week of 11/4: Veggies and side dishes
Week of 11/11: Desserts
Week of 11/18: Turkey and stuffing
Week of 11/25: Post-holiday story exchange (can be happy or “OMG, where did these relatives come from?” type stories)
Happy hour will feature the usual cafe selections…
I believe I’ve encountered conclusive evidence that the FBC is virtual crack: I have put these dates on my calendar. Mind you, my next doctor’s appointment is not on my calendar, but these were added before I finished coffee.
Hi, my name is IndyLib, and I’m a Frogaholic.
You gotta have your priorities… 🙂
Yeaaaaa! Stories for Friday #4. Now I have to choose a goodie.
Help choose the next book HERE!
Since katiebird isn’t hear to say it, I’ll say it for her: But vote ONLY for “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”!
Please vote for this interesting and challenging book.
I’ve read the first chapter but I’ve been holding off continuing so I can read the rest with you.
My friend at work says it is one of the most powerfully written novels that he’s ever read.
As I said when I first made the suggestion that we read it:
I’ve just started reading this strange and fascinating novel (so it
fits into the let’s read it together theme). It covers topics
that are a natural for our group. It’s fiction. And an
award winner. And one of the main characters is a librarian.
And the first chapter is terrific! And my friend at work
says it gets better and better right through to the end.
Read the two reviews below. Could we do any better?
I already voted for it! Anyone else want to help us out?
when you REALLY need them?
Come On, everyone! Constant Gardener is getting plenty of attention because of the film.
Let’s give Oh, Pure and Radiant Heart and Lydia Millet the attention it and she clearly deserves!
Since I’m the only freaking vote for Cry of the Peacock, can I switch to Oh Pure and Radiant Heart?
kansas said she isn’t going to be around today so I’ll email her and let her know you’d like to change your vote.
Thanks! As usual, I seem to have backed the “unelectable” candidate. 🙂
After all, I’m still smarting over being the only person in my county to vote for Barry Commoner for president.
But I love Dennis Kucinich, I mean, that book! 🙂
When oh when can I unglue myself from this seat? I think me and Chris Matthews are legally married in 12 states.
I keep telling myself, “must be patient, must. be. patient.”
At least we can (ha!) forget about it until noon or so…
He would be an ideal husband. You could just turn him on and off at will with your remote.
your house is so nice and clean??? damn!!!! I’m always bending over picking up crap someone else has left behind…
Can I come live with you???? Pwease! I make really good hot chocolate and daiquiries… and manicotti.
And I know how to replace the toilet paper roll when it’s empty or NEAR empty.
It’s because my kids are never around anymore! Waaaa! The thing is that you spend your whole life picking up crap that someone else has left behind and then they leave more crap. Then one day you pick it up and it stays clean and you like it for like 10 minutes and then it just makes you sad. Well, me.
Hey…. how about you take my kids into your home every… oh let’s say… ten minutes 🙂
((((((((Second Nature))))))))) take care hon!
Here’s to a “happy” end of that long and winding road.
The another part of my driveway.
Andi, every day you amaze me with these photos more than the day before. um, I’m so tired I can hardly make a sentence, but you know what I mean! Thanks for this.
Thanks for the kind remarks. I’ve been out here 26 years and yet I continue to be amazed at and thrilled by how the forest constantly changes — things grow, things die, the ground erodes or builds up, the light filters through differently, the winds changes direction or dies down.
Mercy sakes alive! What a beautiful place. Can we all come over for a cook-out?
We used to have a “grill” we made out of extruded metal and some pipe pounded into the ground. One time one of the dogs took a steak right off it. Not sure why but that seemed to dampen a lot of people’s desire to come over here for cookouts.
Frog smiles for the news….productivity should be marginal today….back at work, fever broke yesterday and I feel great, indictments will make me happy and smiley!
Now I’m off to vote for the next book!
Here’s to feeling better!
Just a few more hours…
Hey that froggy looks like it’s watching a skinflick or something! 🙂 Look at his face! 🙂
Oh, he’s watching Fitz! Yay! 🙂
Feel better and mo’ better Sally 🙂
Click for full size view.
An autumn morning view of the saltwater swimming pond at the Oak Harbor city park, with the Naval seaplane base and Cascade Mountains in the background.
The never ending stream of conflicting reports on indictments has me clinging to the ceiling. Fortunately we have an imaginary giant spatula that we keep for just such occasions. The first time it was used was for an attempt to peel my friend Sara’s mother off the ceiling on Sara’s wedding day. We knew she was on the ceiling because she didn’t notice that when we arrived at her house I was wearing my full formal kilt rig without the kilt because I hadn’t wanted to sit on the pleats for the long drive to the site. So I had on black tie etc. plus bike shorts. She just smiled, welcomed us in, and went back to worrying. I finally had to resort to muppet ballet* to get her mind off the wedding for thirty seconds.
*muppet ballet is a routine that a theater group I used to be a part of used back stage to blow steam. The idea is to do ballet jumps and steps with your legs while moving your arms as though you were Kermit the frog.
Today’s tea: A green, Dragonwell (Lung Ching)
Glad you’re ready to peel folks off the ceiling today! I think I’m going to be hearing the theme to the Muppet show in my head all day now…
I bet my son would like your tea today (he’s reading Eldest by Christopher Paolini while he’s home sick).
If Rove is indicted, you MUST post a short video of this online!
I don’t know if my knees are still up to it, but my motivation would be good.
Does anyone know which Washington DC street cam we should be watching to see the when PFitz arrives? (I don’t even know if there is a cam that covers where this historic moment will happen?)
Breaking Dyslexic News:
A Libby arrested for ties to Al Qaeda
Sources question whether or not neocons really have a plausible allibbi in the war on terror.
(Sorry for the spelling errors in advance…)
It has also been reported that the reason Libby has been seen on crutches lately is because of visits from Bush and Cheney associates discussing strategy and how Libby should testify in the future trial.
A source close to the Bush family said that “If he knows what’s good for him’n his family Libby’ll keep his mouth closed tighter than a Young Republican when a military recruiter is askin’ for volunteers. Bush’n Cheney is like family, see? An’ we always take care of family.”
Merry Fitzmas!
Indict Damnit! Every stinking one of them…
Spiderleaf’s diary that inspired my evil side yesterday and this morning.
http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2005/10/27/103918/87
My call to the WH this morning regarding FEMA and Drownie and kick to Bush’s nutsack with some early morning snarkisms.
Morning! Hubby goes in for his pee test. Weird that employment can hinge on the ability to get human waste product from one part of the country to another. ….
I loved your transcript…I bet you feel all happy inside now!
Well, I love giving the WH comment line some shit. I really do. I’m no Mike Stark and his calls to Rush/O-Rielly, but it’s … you know it is good “ventage”. Nice release. And I think if enough call, it does do something.
But I’m grounded as I go to RubDMC’s diary all the time. I even go to it to see what others write during the day. So.. grounded… well as about as grounded as this strange chick can be 🙂
on filling the cup…hope he was able to specify what legal drugs he takes — got to watch out for “false positives”. (My spouse is subject to random testing, which sucks but fortunately he’s a relatively good boy…)
Tired and cranky today — the “I told you so” crowd seems to be out in force. Just because we didn’t get Rove and Cheney and Bush, the whole “investigation” is nothing but a crock of Bushit. Well, it ain’t over yet…and there’s enough talk show fodder to keep Tweety and Russert and Wolfie and the other talking heads musing well into the next election cycle, and it’s Republicans that are going to be taking the heat. Oh, and let’s not forget the cast of characters outside of the investigation: DeLay, Frist and any other Abramoff “pals” that are lurking in paneled halls of Congress.
I’ll try to get in a better mood…I’ll think about finally seeing a hockey game at HP Pavilion tomorrow night, yeah, that’s the ticket… 🙂
Have a great day, everyone…
I was wondering with all this drug testing… what do they do if someone is taking medications for a mental challenge? I don’t think that employers should know that beforehand. It could rule a candidate out. I mean, we even try to be discreet about having a disabled child when interviewing… imagine if a person had a disability themselves – especially one that required some form of medication… ACK
I know the ADA is supposed to protect us from such discrimination… but I’ve heard of employers hiring the candidate without kids/spouse over one that does due to insurance and liklihood of missed days due to child schedules etc etc… land of the free?? My ass.
HOCKEY! tonight, too. You should come by that one hockey site.. 🙂 It’ll make you feel better.
NAMI’s done some work in that area — NAMI is the National Association on Mental Illness. The in-laws are fairly active with the group (they pay their dues, get the newsletter, and take letter-writing actions when necessary), due to the spouse’s brother being bipolar with mild schizophrenia. Dad-in-law went through a huge fight to get SSI for their younger son, and I know they have a special needs trust to take care of him after they’re gone. It’s a problem though, especially with companies bitching about health care costs…universal health care would go a loooong way towards helping the problem, but only if mental health is equally covered with “physical health”.
Ooops, better get off the soapbox…
You go right ahead and stay on that Soapbox. It is my soapbox, too, and there is plenty of room up here on it!
We definitely need parity for mental health coverage. There’s been a steady cut-back in mental health services since Reagan entered the Whitehouse, with only the tiniest uptick during Clinton’s administration. Our country should be ashamed.
As to drug testing, typically testing is done for a very narrow set of things – to do a wider screening takes more money. So screening is usually very specific to, say, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, etc. Businesses and insurance want it cheap. This is one of the few instances where that helps people who are on medications that they want to keep private, e.g. anti-psychotic, anti-depressants.
Okay I know that everyone is anxious and stressed and hopeful… but My Brain takes a leave of absence and I start wondering and pondering other matters. Like with FEMA up above…
Earlier this week I thought on something else. Now.. please do not get mad or offended. But I was just wondering….
How come no one else, but me, realizes that these two are one and the same???
The Pope!
Darth Sidious!
Pope Sidious!
Certainly didn’t offend me…and I thought from the day he was picked as Pope that he looked like a creepy old man who had molested lots of little boys/girls..he’s just scary looking and he also seems to be taking the church back to the dark ages on top of it.
One hour and 34 minutes. I hope I don’t scare Andrew when I cheer and “dance.” It looks more like a seizure, but I call it dancing.
OK, so yesterday I was sitting in the school gym waiting for parent teacher conferences (we go in, sign up, and then wait to run the gauntlet for five minutes with each teacher). Behind me were a man and woman and I heard him giving a little lecture to her. It was the purest compilation of wingnut talking points on the Plame burning I have heard yet. Now I bring them to you, for your edification:
(1) Plame was not a real agent. She was a map analyst.
(2) There was no endangering of national security in outing a map analyst.
(3) These investigations waste a bunch of money for no reason. No harm is done by outing a map analyst.
(4) What they really should investigate is how a mere map analyst was able to get her husband the job of going to Niger.
Yes, he said “map analyst” over and over – first time I’ve heard that term. Yes, he said that this investigation is a waste of money, but an investigation into Joe’s glorious vacation to the garden spot of Niger would not be a waste of money. Yes there are people who are so in the tank they really believe this nonsense. 🙁
My daughter is doing great in middle school though. 🙂
I have an unfortunate compulsion to turn into an asshole when I encounter people like that, so I likely would have put on my best fake smile and expression of fascination and then engaged the guy, “Seriously? How did you find out she was a map analyst? You have a line in to who does what for the CIA? How impressive. Can I have your cell number so I can call you up whenever I have Secret Agent Man type questions? In fact, maybe we should distribute it to all the parents, you know, for the sake of the children’s safety.” Then I’d peer around with mock-nervousness and stage-whisper, “We have to make sure the terrorists can’t take advantage of security weaknesses in the CIA to use Hollywood to force the homosexual agenda into our schools.”
We can probably all agree it’s a good thing I don’t have any children.
Actually Indy I think you’d be a great role model for those middle schoolers (and for me too! I always think of the right thing to say, too late.) I know mine would love to see you in action.
Thanks for the kind words, Lil. Actually now that I think of it, I was already this much of a wise-ass in junior high school but was able to use my good grades to deflect any punishment for it, so maybe I would be a good role model! ::uses foot to surreptitiously shove a bunch of bad role model stuff under the bed::
my husband never wants me around his school because I would have said something like “You mean ‘wasting money’ like the republicans did on investigations of Clinton’s blow jobs?”
Bingo!!! That’s about what I would have said, too.
My husband shits razor blades each time I step outside… He says I “have a mouth” on me. 🙂
Tact is a completely foreign language to me.
We are the people about whom our mothers always said “I can’t take you anywhere” but our friends always wanted to take us everywhere because the trouble we caused was so much fun.
My husband doesn’t cringe, but he makes jokes about subscribing to the Weekly Standard. I think that he just wants me to keep perspective, not get to bent out of shape and stay positive.
Fitzgerald’s was 90% cheaper than Starr’s.
Good come backs Indy!!!
I want YOUR cell number (even though I don’t have one a the time) in case I need any “verbal back up” 🙂
If you had one, and if I wasn’t afraid the cell phones were going to give me brain cancer, I’d be happily involved in a reciprocal speed-dial relationship with you, DJ. 🙂 Especially because I suspect you’d occasionally send me random phone pictures of Tim Curry in fishnets and f-me pumps.
and you thought I was the candy man 🙂
Heh. Well, I had a few remarks pass through my mind. But I figured Fitzy could respond better than I could – and he did!
No! It would be a good thing…
I get a kick out of watching my wife cringe everytime she hears my son making a wise ass remark that makes him seem even more like of a chip off the ol’ block than his cheesy grin does! lol
That’s interesting — I never heard the “map analyst” bit before, either. I wonder where he got that information? Emma Anne, I hope you don’t mind my asking — in what part of the country is the school?
I don’t mind at all (I’m on that mapping thing in fact). I’m in Boulder, Colorado, which is a blue community in a red state.
I’m guessing he was repeating talking points from someone. Rush, maybe?
Couldn’t get the whole marching band together, but these guys are on a roll…
WooHoo! Just the beginning…
Peace
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CNNi will do a new documentary on U.S. Involvement in Iraq during the month of November. I was delighted in the flashes of the video trailer, twice to see a picture of Cindy Sheehan, at least once in the Washington DC March on Sept. 24.
Great to see her image so prominent on a MSM daily broadcast.
CNNi calls the program:
CNN Presents WAR IN IRAQ – Voices From the Homefront.
Oui’s Life Span – According to A Report by CNNi – LOL
Click on video :: Shortage of Oui Ones
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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And I just got back. With nearly 100 positive reviews linked at RottenTomatoes.com I thought it might be overhyped.
But it wasn’t at all, it was powerful and moving — really astonishing. Great performance by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. And the editing (of course) was flawless.