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March, 2006
March 17th, 2006
The last couple of weeks, I’ve been revamping my website, tweaking things here and there, and most recently I’ve been going through and adding technorati tags, which interestingly enough has given me an interesting look back through the way back machine.
It’s kind of a weird deja vu, kind of a “haven’t I seen this tree before”?
What I’ve come to realize is that a year ago we, meaning bloggers, Democrats, Republicans, this country, etc., were all doing pretty much all of this same bullshit but in last year’s fashions and with last year’s technology.
Basically the White House and Bush
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Tags: 2006 election, politics, blogs
March 17th, 2006
Technorati has been acting a bit on the odds the last month or so and I’ve been getting really weird incoming links at random. Yesterday, I got this one, which I had to search the whole page to find the reference to my own website which was last Fall sometime.
Looking back at that, I vaguely recall the whole affair. There was a whole uproar in the blogsphere about “The A-List” which I didn’t get and I still don’t get. In fact, I still haven’t figured out what the “A-List” is and who’s on it. In fact, shortly
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Tags: blogs, anxiety, hopeless, paranoia
March 16th, 2006
Well, this has kind of slipped by with little hooplah, but while everyone was arguing about whether or not to censure President Bush over warrantless wiretapping and whether or not Democrats are spineless cowards (which they are), the Senate voted 52-48 yesterday to raise the limit on the national debt to $9 trillion so the U.S. Treasury wouldn’t default for the first time ever. In case you’re wondering, “$9 trillion represents about $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States.” [“Senate votes to raise debt limit” (ABS News)] Of course, it’s all up
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Tags: Senate, Congress, George W. Bush, politics, national debt, taxes, Federal budget
March 16th, 2006
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
–Voltaire
Without going back and digging through my own posts about Cindy Sheehan, I’m sure when she first arrived on the scene last summer in Crawford, Texas, I thought she was kind of nifty. I figured as long as she was participating in peaceful, anti-war protest she was doing a good thing and I pretty much backed her.
I’m all for Freedom of Speech. I mean, I have my limits of what’s good taste and what’s appropriate. I’m from the “harm none”
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Tags: Merrilee Carlson, Cindy Sheehan, politics, Freedom of Speech, anti-war, pro-military, Iraq, grieving mother, Minnesota Families United, Democrats
March 15th, 2006
This is a great post by The (liberal) Girl Next Door:
Someone recently told me that it’s not quite time to panic, that things in this country may be bad, but we haven’t yet reached the point of no return. So I’d just like to toss out the question. When is it time to panic? When does mere concern turn urgent, and will we all recognize the signs in time?
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Or is it time to panic when, as Patricia Goldsmith suggests, there is no opposition left? It has long been the case that our two party system is nothing more
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Tags: politics, George W. Bush, Impeach, Freedoms, liberals, Sandra Day O'Connor, voice of reason, dictatorship, Nazi Germany, propaganda
March 15th, 2006
I took this photo in the stairwell of a parking garage on my way to work. He was definitely drawn on though I’m not sure how permanent as I’m a little too germ-a-phobic to actually touch the walls in there. I haven’t found the other Spy yet, but I’m keeping my eye out.
(I appologize if it looks a little blury. I’m still recovering from my cold and I still can’t decide if it’s the camera or the cold.)
Tags: Spy vs. Spy, photo, graffiti
March 15th, 2006
With everything going on in the blogsphere, in national politics, in women’s rights, in the Middle East, in Iraq in particular, in the world in general, I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed the last few days. Politics in particular has made me particularly restless the last three or four days. I’ve been debating a personal rebellion, a political mutiny. However, what I’ve come to realize is that it’s hard to defect from a party when you don’t belong to one. You just can’t up and flounce out of the room with a dramatic slam of the door behind you if you weren’t in there in the first place.
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Tags: Congress, George W. Bush, Russ Feingold, politics, Bill Clinton, 9/11, Democrats, Republicans, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Afghanistan
March 14th, 2006
More Spying on Americans just for exercising their American rights…
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) -FBI anti-terrorism agents spied on a peace group simply because it opposed the
Iraq war, part of an “unprecedented campaign” to spy on innocent citizens, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Tuesday.
FBI documents acquired under the Freedom of Information Act and provided to reporters show the FBI conducted surveillance of the Pittsburgh-based Thomas Merton Center for Peace & Justice at anti-war demonstrations and leaflet distributions in 2002 and 2003.
One of the FBI documents, unveiled at a news conference by the two groups, carried the headline “International Terrorism Matters” and
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Tags: FBI, politics, anti-war, protest, spying on Americans, Freedom of Information Act, Thomas Merton Center
March 14th, 2006
From the 1968 Finian’s Rainbow by Francis Ford Coppola:
Sharon: It would seem to me that this law could not be a legal law.
Senator Rawkins: Of course it’s legal! I don’t know where you immigrants get these foreign ideas.
Sharon: From a book the immigration officer gave us - called The United States Constitution. Haven’t you read it?
Senator Rawkins: I don’t have time to read it, I’m too busy defending it!
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Tags: Quote of the Day, The U.S. Constitution, Finian's Rainbow, Francis Ford Coppola
March 14th, 2006
Just a reminder that the New Orleans Library still needs books.
If you think you live too far away to collect books and mail them, let me just point out that I’ve collected several large piles of books thanks to generous souls in my writing group and at work and in a test mailing last week, I discovered that mailing books at the media rate through the post office is really quiet cheap. When I think that someone else could be making good use of those books rather than having them collecting dust on my overcrowded bookshelves, it makes
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Tags: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Public Library, relief
March 14th, 2006
- Media Girl put together a montage of complaints about a disappointing shift in the Democratic Party
- Echidne of the Snakes has written two articles about polygomous-type relationships: marriages and harems.
- Pesky Apostrophe has been doing a series on obscure women who should be more notable during National Women’s Month.
- With the recent discovery of a Mad Cow in Alabama, I thought I’d toot my own horn with a post from the way back when machine on Mad Cow Disease.
Tags: blogs
March 14th, 2006
I swear to each and every one of you that I looked around for a visual representation of Republican pride or protest or something but to be honest, the liberals are much more visually “vocal” — particularly in this area of the country.
So, here’s this week’s. Someone is using their front door as a billboard to make a statement in this quiet neighborhood.
Tags: politics, photo, Freedom of Speech, George W. Bush, Worst President Ever
March 14th, 2006
I am taking steps against the Bush Administration’s handling of the Iraq War and its warrantless wiretapping. I am going to need you to stand with me in fighting for accountability.
Join me to demand the creation of a Special Committee to investigate impeaching the Bush Administration for its widespread abuses of power.
I have sought answers from the administration to questions arising from the Downing Street Minutes, the Valerie Plame leak, and scores of other abominable abuses of power that pervade the activities of this White House. 121 Members of Congress and many citizens like you have joined me in
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Tags: politics, John Conyers, HR635, George W. Bush, Impeach, Iraq, warrantless wiretapping, Censure
March 14th, 2006
I know you men like to think that when women get together you’re the first topic that gets brought to the table, but it just itsn’t so.
However, this past Sunday, was one of those rare occassions where I ended up in one of those “I need a man” conversations. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve been in one of those in quite a while. Maybe not even since I left New Orleans. Huh.
Anyway, I wasn’t even the one who said it. O.K. I repeated it but I was repeating it in more of a silly “I need a gay man” kind of way.
The truth is that it’s hard to meet men these days. It’s not like it was in my mother’s day. By my age, my mother was married and was planning my seventh birthday party. From what I understand from the stories of the golden era my mother had a kind of Gidget high school dating life without the steady boyfriend. She had lots of admirers and even made the mistake of having two dates in one night. There were parties every weekend and dances and meet-ups at the drive-in and the soda fountain. Most of it was just groups getting together and hanging out and having a swell time.
But, let’s face it, it’s not the 50’s and 60’s anymore and the women and men who are looking aren’t just teenagers and colleged aged anymore. There are a lot of late 20-somethings and up who are single and looking and they just don’t know where to look and there aren’t a lot of healthy, safe places for the older crowd to look.
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Tags: men, love, couples, bachelorette, online dating
March 13th, 2006
I always listen to NPR when I’m getting ready in the morning. I’d much rather be able to watch the news in there but there’s no cable in the bathroom and no t.v. So, since moving to Maine, I’ve formed a bond with NPR, which is probably much more intellectual than the one I’d formed with the two redneck hicks who hosted the Country station’s morning show in New Orleans.
Anyway, by the time I get around to getting dressed on Sunday In Tune by Ten Sunday Morning with Sara Willis is usually on. Most of the time,
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Tags: NPR, Cannibal Sea, Garden Ruin, Lizz Wright
March 13th, 2006
Susie @ Suburban Guerrilla has a link today to firedoglake where they’re organizing support for Senator Russ Feingold’s censure yesterday. They want everyone to call their senators, Republican or Democrat, and ask them where they stand on the matter. The idea is two fold: First of all, it lets the Senate know just how many people care and support this resolution even if their representative is a line-stepping Republican (like here in Maine) and it gives those of us out here in America an idea of what the intial reaction in the Senate
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Tags: Russ Feingold, Censure, George W. Bush, Impeach, Senate, Republicans, Democrats, politics
March 13th, 2006
Well, I’ve an update on the whole 1930 Census mystery about my grandmother. I’ve gotten verification from my mother that my great-grandparents were living in Tampa at that time and they were separated in 1930, not divorced as I previously thought. They had joint custody and since they were living as boarders at those residences, that explains why my grandmother shows up as a resident at both places and their names are mispelled. (They did have oddly spelled names.)
So, I had been going on some assumptions that my great-grandparents had married in Tennessee, but I’m not
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Tags: genealogy, 1930 census, dysfunctional family
March 12th, 2006
My mother tells me that her crazy con-artist brother has a new plan to start a new business. He apparently called her up yesterday and asked for $300 to start this new business — he apparently is always asking for money and she gives it to him; this is why I am coming out at the good relative in the family.
Anyway, so she’s explaining the plan to me and she says the he wants to buy stuff off of eBay–
Yup. I really should have stopped her right there. Remember, I was sick. My head was all
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Tags: dysfunctional family, scam
March 12th, 2006
Senator Russ Feingold, one of the few Democrats in Washington who actually does what he says and stands for something anymore, appeared on ABC’s This Week today and announced that tomorrow he’s introducing a very special resolution to the Senate. The resolution would censure President Bush for authorizing an illegal warrantless domestic surveillance program, something many Americans on both sides of the political fence have considered within impeachment territory. Certainly, it brings up some unanswered questions and it displays once again President Bush’s nose-thumbing at the U.S. Constitution and the laws he’s supposed to uphold as our top-most
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Tags: Russ Feingold, Censure, Democrats, warrantless wiretapping, The U.S. Constitution, George W. Bush, politics, Senate
March 12th, 2006
I don’t know if I’m bored or curious, but I decided I wanted to know what I’ve actually been listening to. Really, I’d try to blame the fact that I’ve been coming down with a full-on head cold complete with cold sores, sneezing, stuffy ears, and not breathing since Friday night and I can’t seem to focus on what really concerns me for very long, but I was looking at various iTunes plugins before that.
So, without further delay…
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Tags: music, iPod, playlist, recently played, iTunes
