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This quote from The Guardian (7-10-04), concerning the Cheney-Edwards debate:
Cheney made no effort to hide his sense of unaccountability. ... His self-assurance in lying even when politically unnecessary revealed why he is the power in the vacuum. He could only exist with a chief executive self-absorbed in his resentments and narrow in experience and intellectual scope, who does not hold his vice-president accountable...
Nicely put!
I think my cynical hunch that there was some chicanery at work in the fact that voting for non-military US citizens living abroad is difficult wasn't so cynical. The Foreign Voting Assistance Program (.gov) website got too busy as so many people are desperate to vote by absentee ballot this time around, so they just shut it down for a couple of weeks. Crucial weeks as the deadline for registration for absentee ballots approached too. Guess who was pushing to get it back up and running - Democrats Abroad. The message on their website atm reads, 'George W. Bush won the White House by 537 votes. 7.1 million Americans live overseas.' The first sentence is arguable, if polite, but there's surely hope in the effort to get the overseas vote in this time! I hope.
The cat story is very sad. There were a few cats mooching around my mother's house who ended up being fed regularly by my mother and a cat-crazy neighbour. The 'couple', whom she (the friend) called Mildred and George, had a kitten. Presumably kittens but this is the only one who survived and definitely took ownership of my mother's house, the neighbour's house and all the cat food around. Smart little thing, and quite friendly (or maybe just demanding!) though he wasn't really tame yet. It took the two humans ages to trap the kitty to take him in to the vet for fixing, but they finally succeeded. The friend had just heard of feline AIDS, and asked the vet to test him for everything, and he turned out to have AIDS and had to be put down. They don't know whether he'd picked it up in a fight (he'd already been in one) or whether one of the parents had it, but presumably all the cats around are also at risk. I'm a little nervous to find out whether there's such a thing as canine AIDS, but at least Bell doesn't get into fights!
The Grand Tour (sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia) arrived today, and oh my, did everyone read Martha Wells' latest entry? Talk about mood enhancers! (Couldn't have a complete entry with no mention of books...)
Cheney made no effort to hide his sense of unaccountability. ... His self-assurance in lying even when politically unnecessary revealed why he is the power in the vacuum. He could only exist with a chief executive self-absorbed in his resentments and narrow in experience and intellectual scope, who does not hold his vice-president accountable...
Nicely put!
I think my cynical hunch that there was some chicanery at work in the fact that voting for non-military US citizens living abroad is difficult wasn't so cynical. The Foreign Voting Assistance Program (.gov) website got too busy as so many people are desperate to vote by absentee ballot this time around, so they just shut it down for a couple of weeks. Crucial weeks as the deadline for registration for absentee ballots approached too. Guess who was pushing to get it back up and running - Democrats Abroad. The message on their website atm reads, 'George W. Bush won the White House by 537 votes. 7.1 million Americans live overseas.' The first sentence is arguable, if polite, but there's surely hope in the effort to get the overseas vote in this time! I hope.
The cat story is very sad. There were a few cats mooching around my mother's house who ended up being fed regularly by my mother and a cat-crazy neighbour. The 'couple', whom she (the friend) called Mildred and George, had a kitten. Presumably kittens but this is the only one who survived and definitely took ownership of my mother's house, the neighbour's house and all the cat food around. Smart little thing, and quite friendly (or maybe just demanding!) though he wasn't really tame yet. It took the two humans ages to trap the kitty to take him in to the vet for fixing, but they finally succeeded. The friend had just heard of feline AIDS, and asked the vet to test him for everything, and he turned out to have AIDS and had to be put down. They don't know whether he'd picked it up in a fight (he'd already been in one) or whether one of the parents had it, but presumably all the cats around are also at risk. I'm a little nervous to find out whether there's such a thing as canine AIDS, but at least Bell doesn't get into fights!
The Grand Tour (sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia) arrived today, and oh my, did everyone read Martha Wells' latest entry? Talk about mood enhancers! (Couldn't have a complete entry with no mention of books...)
