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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Not A Day Of Rest
Spent 6 hours cleaning the stove at the other house. And it's still not clean. I can't believe how some people live: it's not exactly slovenly, it's more like delusional carelessness. Of course, there's always the possibility that I'm a clean freak. On the other hand, millions of food spatters allowed to congeal over time doesn't require a clean freak, just the occasional sponge.
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Saturday, July 28, 2007
Friday, July 27, 2007
Still Summer
It's still summer, but already a tree across the street is turning brown; its leaves, crisp and dull, accumulate around our front steps. There's a layer of fine dust on the outdoors, as if stillness had form. Still, the second burst of blooms are on the cane: not as abundant but, certainly, as beautiful.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Mirror, Mirror
First day in Vancouver. Arrived @5:30. Went out for burgers and now my stomach is upset. Yikes!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Before the Flight
Getting things together before a trip is so complex; especially when there's the possibility of several kinds of weather. And, of course, I love to take various kinds of toys: books, tech, decks. Of course, if I forget something I can always get it when we get there.
Anyway, despite this, I'm looking forward to the trip.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Monday, July 09, 2007
Enough!
Enough!
enough
negativity
enough
putdowns
I've had it with anarchy
I want lemonade and iced tea with
sugar
in the bottom of the glass
and a sprig of mint
sticking to the ice cube like my bangs stick to my forehead on a hot day
I want the few chic items of a Parisian closet
I want the table set simply on a bare wood table
I want to talk about peaches, mermaids, and Pan's Labyrinth
enough
let's forego the urge to snark about dresses or the clueless or the profoundly middle class
enough is enough
and I have enough to live on if I don't buy anything
enough
negativity
enough
putdowns
I've had it with anarchy
I want lemonade and iced tea with
sugar
in the bottom of the glass
and a sprig of mint
sticking to the ice cube like my bangs stick to my forehead on a hot day
I want the few chic items of a Parisian closet
I want the table set simply on a bare wood table
I want to talk about peaches, mermaids, and Pan's Labyrinth
enough
let's forego the urge to snark about dresses or the clueless or the profoundly middle class
enough is enough
and I have enough to live on if I don't buy anything
Social Networking
Social networking is a big topic among the social networkers. For those not involved, it's another arcane part of the internet designed to mystify or appall them. Try as I might, not even my best gearhead friend is interested in such networking. Is it because most of the people using social networks, not including students, are in the tech business or in the business of business?
It would be easy to get discouraged. For example, pretty much nobody visit or posts to this blog. Neverthess, I plug away because I find that maintaining the blog is itself an inspiration. As a result, I keep tabs on Twitterers and Powncers, check Jaiku now and then, to find the answer to the question, "what are you doing, now". I keep up my photography projects. I read other blogs.
It's all good.
It would be easy to get discouraged. For example, pretty much nobody visit or posts to this blog. Neverthess, I plug away because I find that maintaining the blog is itself an inspiration. As a result, I keep tabs on Twitterers and Powncers, check Jaiku now and then, to find the answer to the question, "what are you doing, now". I keep up my photography projects. I read other blogs.
It's all good.
Impeach Cheney, Now!
H. RES. 333
Summary:
Impeaches Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sets forth articles of impeachment stating that Vice President Cheney: (1) has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, to justify the use of the U.S. Armed Forces against Iraq in a manner damaging to U.S. national security interests; and (2) has openly threatened aggression against Iran absent any real threat to the United States, and has done so with the U.S. proven capability to carry out such threats, thus undermining U.S. national security.
Summary:
Impeaches Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sets forth articles of impeachment stating that Vice President Cheney: (1) has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, to justify the use of the U.S. Armed Forces against Iraq in a manner damaging to U.S. national security interests; and (2) has openly threatened aggression against Iran absent any real threat to the United States, and has done so with the U.S. proven capability to carry out such threats, thus undermining U.S. national security.
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Summer Is Here
The Mozart Festivals are in full swing. Lovely music to listen to on a warm Sunday afternoon.
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It's Time For Him To Go
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --
Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
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Shrub and his cronies have done great harm to this nation. He has allowed our treasury to be looted by those to whom he owes his office. He has attempted an unconstituional branch of government in the office of the Vice President. He has refused to put into effect laws passed by the Congress. He has deemed both himself and his office to be above the law. He has created a Gulag without check on his powers to detain and imprision citizens and non-citizen alike. He has squandered the repuation of this country in vain and meretricious military excursions and by engaging in acts condemned by civilized society. He has suspended the right of habeus corpus. He has placed upon the highest court of the land those who will ensure that his corporate patrons will prosper while denying redress to individuals harmed by those same patrons.
IMPEACH BUSH!
Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
***
Shrub and his cronies have done great harm to this nation. He has allowed our treasury to be looted by those to whom he owes his office. He has attempted an unconstituional branch of government in the office of the Vice President. He has refused to put into effect laws passed by the Congress. He has deemed both himself and his office to be above the law. He has created a Gulag without check on his powers to detain and imprision citizens and non-citizen alike. He has squandered the repuation of this country in vain and meretricious military excursions and by engaging in acts condemned by civilized society. He has suspended the right of habeus corpus. He has placed upon the highest court of the land those who will ensure that his corporate patrons will prosper while denying redress to individuals harmed by those same patrons.
IMPEACH BUSH!
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Talking Heads
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Once in a Lifetime
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And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
wife
And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here?
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right?...Am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
MY GOD!...WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Once in a Lifetime
-----------------------
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
wife
And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here?
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right?...Am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
MY GOD!...WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Emborránchense
Emborránchense
"Hay que estar siempre borracho. Todo está ahí: es la única cuestión. Para no sentir el horrible fardo del Tiempo que te rompe los hombros y te inclina hacia la tierra, hace falta emborracharse sin parar.
Pero, ¿de qué? De vino, de poesía o de virtud, de lo que quieran. Pero emborráchense.
Y si alguna vez sobre las gradas de un palacio, sobre el pasto verde de un foso, o en la soledad melancólica de sus cuartos se despiertan, la borrachera ya atenuada o desaparecida, pregúntenle al viento, a la ola, a la estrella, al pájaro, al reloj, a todo lo que se escapa, a todo lo que gime, a todo lo que rueda, a todo lo que canta, a todo lo que habla, pregúntenle la hora; y el viento, y la ola, y la estrella, y el pájaro, y el reloj les van a contestar: "¡Es la hora de emborracharse! ¡Para no ser los esclavos mártires del Tiempo, emborráchense sin parar! De vino, de poesía o de virtud, de lo que quieran".
___Charles Baudelaire
"Hay que estar siempre borracho. Todo está ahí: es la única cuestión. Para no sentir el horrible fardo del Tiempo que te rompe los hombros y te inclina hacia la tierra, hace falta emborracharse sin parar.
Pero, ¿de qué? De vino, de poesía o de virtud, de lo que quieran. Pero emborráchense.
Y si alguna vez sobre las gradas de un palacio, sobre el pasto verde de un foso, o en la soledad melancólica de sus cuartos se despiertan, la borrachera ya atenuada o desaparecida, pregúntenle al viento, a la ola, a la estrella, al pájaro, al reloj, a todo lo que se escapa, a todo lo que gime, a todo lo que rueda, a todo lo que canta, a todo lo que habla, pregúntenle la hora; y el viento, y la ola, y la estrella, y el pájaro, y el reloj les van a contestar: "¡Es la hora de emborracharse! ¡Para no ser los esclavos mártires del Tiempo, emborráchense sin parar! De vino, de poesía o de virtud, de lo que quieran".
___Charles Baudelaire
Friday, July 06, 2007
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Talkin' 'Bout Revolutions
Keith Olbermann tells Bush and Cheney: "Resign."
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has a very special comment for viewers tonight in the wake of President Bush's decision to commute Scooter Libby's sentence: On the MSNBC site he puts it in one word: "Resign."
We'll have the whole transcript up after the show, but here's the excerpt they sent us earlier today:
Our generation's willingness to state "we didn't vote for him, but he's our president, and we hope he does a good job" was tested in the crucible of history, and earlier than most.
And in circumstances more tragic and threatening.
And we did ... that with which history tasked us.
We enveloped our president in 2001.
And those who did not believe he should have been elected -- indeed those who did not believe he had been elected -- willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of non-partisanship.
And George W. Bush took our assent, and reconfigured it, and honed it, and shaped it to a razor-sharp point .. and stabbed this nation in the back with it.
Were there any remaining lingering doubt otherwise, or any remaining lingering hope, it ended yesterday when Mr. Bush commuted the prison sentence of one of his own staffers.
Did so even before the appeals process was complete...
Did so without as much as a courtesy consultation with the Department of Justice...
Did so despite what James Madison -- at the Constitutional Convention -- said about impeaching any president who pardoned or sheltered those who had committed crimes "advised by" that president...
Did so without the slightest concern that even the most detached of citizens must look at the chain of events and wonder:
To what degree was Mr. Libby told: break the law however you wish -- the President will keep you out of prison?
In that moment, Mr. Bush, you broke that fundamental compact between yourself and the majority of this nation's citizens -- the ones who did not cast votes for you.
In that moment, Mr. Bush, you ceased to be the president of the United States.
In that moment, Mr. Bush, you became merely the president ... of a rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party.
And this is too important a time, Sir, to have a commander in chief who puts party over nation.
-- Joan Walsh
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has a very special comment for viewers tonight in the wake of President Bush's decision to commute Scooter Libby's sentence: On the MSNBC site he puts it in one word: "Resign."
We'll have the whole transcript up after the show, but here's the excerpt they sent us earlier today:
Our generation's willingness to state "we didn't vote for him, but he's our president, and we hope he does a good job" was tested in the crucible of history, and earlier than most.
And in circumstances more tragic and threatening.
And we did ... that with which history tasked us.
We enveloped our president in 2001.
And those who did not believe he should have been elected -- indeed those who did not believe he had been elected -- willingly lowered their voices and assented to the sacred oath of non-partisanship.
And George W. Bush took our assent, and reconfigured it, and honed it, and shaped it to a razor-sharp point .. and stabbed this nation in the back with it.
Were there any remaining lingering doubt otherwise, or any remaining lingering hope, it ended yesterday when Mr. Bush commuted the prison sentence of one of his own staffers.
Did so even before the appeals process was complete...
Did so without as much as a courtesy consultation with the Department of Justice...
Did so despite what James Madison -- at the Constitutional Convention -- said about impeaching any president who pardoned or sheltered those who had committed crimes "advised by" that president...
Did so without the slightest concern that even the most detached of citizens must look at the chain of events and wonder:
To what degree was Mr. Libby told: break the law however you wish -- the President will keep you out of prison?
In that moment, Mr. Bush, you broke that fundamental compact between yourself and the majority of this nation's citizens -- the ones who did not cast votes for you.
In that moment, Mr. Bush, you ceased to be the president of the United States.
In that moment, Mr. Bush, you became merely the president ... of a rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party.
And this is too important a time, Sir, to have a commander in chief who puts party over nation.
-- Joan Walsh
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Picnics
This isn't about picnics: it's just that tomorrow is the 4th of July and it seemed an appropriate title. I just want to sleep in, drink lemonade, and read The Order of the Phoenix.
Perhaps we can see a movie tomorrow. That would be a good way to spend the 4th.
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Perhaps we can see a movie tomorrow. That would be a good way to spend the 4th.
Monday, July 02, 2007
What's New?
.ʍoN .ǝuıɔǝpǝɯ ʎɯ ǝʞɐʇ :op oʇ .sɥʇuoɯ uı ǝuo ʇsɹıɟ ǝɥʇ :ǝuıɐɹbıɯ ɐ ɟo sbuıuuıbǝq ǝɥʇ ɥʇıʍ dn ǝʞoM
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Sunday, July 01, 2007
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