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Baby Boomer nostalgia
Rather than focusing on the good, though moot, objections to invading Iraq, or useful strategies for withdrawal, Anna Qunindlen writes her variant of the standard column comparing Iraq to Vietnam. Needless to say she doesn’t mention the American occupation of the Philippines as another, more accurate comparison.
There’s no need to read the column, it’s just like all the other baby boomer nostalgia pieces. One telling part was
They should remember one of the most powerful men the party ever produced, Lyndon B. Johnson, and how he was destroyed by opposition to the war in Vietnam and bested by those brave enough to speak against it.
At least Johnson had the good sense to be heartbroken by the body bags. Bush appears merely peevish at being criticized. Someone with a trumpet should play taps outside the White House for the edification of a president who has not attended a single funeral for the Iraqi war dead.
Two Comments
- If Johnson was destroyed by opposition to the war in Vietnam, then how was he followed by two terms of Richard Nixon? Wouldn’t a peacenik have been elected instead?
- Funerals are for family, friends, and people who knew the deceased. They are not photo ops, political opportunities or anything else. Were Bush to attend one it would be dominated by the media and Secret Service and ruin a special sad moment.
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Predictions
Michael Barone (and me) think that there will be no indictments in the Plame case. We should know this time tomorrow.
It’s too bad. A nice big scandal could winnow off the weak republicans and make them a much more worthwhile bunch while at the same casting Washington into happy gridlock. It would be especially funny if the indictments were for perjury.
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A link to remember
Patrick Fitzgerald’s new site, where presumably reports will be available for download soon.
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Voting on Miers
The Truth Laid Bear has a pretty cool tracking page for Harriet Miers. I oppose the Miers nomination. But all of you probably knew that.
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Thank you Mister Walton
Late last night my old D-Link router died. What was I to do? No electronics store opened before 10:00 AM and I had a full day planned with projects due.
I know (I thought), I’ll just head over to the Wal-Mart off of Memorial Drive. Then I remembered, the Avondale City Council decided that they preferred an abandoned building to a useful store.
So I had to drive to Dunwoody to find one that was open at 6:00 in the morning. They did have a nice Linksys Wireless G with 4 ethernet ports for a very good price.
That’s been my day so far. Fighting the good fight against zoning.
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Rise of the Zombies
People and their free time
“What do we want? BRAINS! When do we want it? BRAINS! “Here’s a photo set of one rally.
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New Photo Gallery
Mark and I were out driving around and got the photos for this new gallery entitled Pumpkins and Pigs.
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Interesting
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Global warming is coming right at us!
I read this article Greenland ice cap thickens slightly with it’s winning quote
However, they said that the thickening seemed consistent with theories of global warming, blamed by most experts on a build-up of heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars.
and laughed. So, global warming produces more ice?
Then I read this article in Wired Grim Outlook for Africa’s Future. The article is unremarkable with the following sentence standing out:
The potential consequences of global warming could be devastating for the world’s poorest continent, yet its nations are among the least equipped to cope.
Money buys things, primarily health and safety. If they weren’t the poorest continent,
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Words you don’t expect to ever see together
From Mark Steyn, who has an eye for vivid prose
If you’re going to be attacked, it’s best to be attacked by a relatively advanced enemy. Compared with being force-fed Grandfather Smurf’s genitals, having his village strafed in some clinical air strike is about the least worst option for Baby Smurf.