Stuff I want to talk about
The New York Times
Socks for Grandmother
Fair-isle
That little gal who called me on a political poll last night
I’ll skip the NYT right now, cause I just don’t have the time, and it’s hard to be a good mom when you have allowed yourself to get full of venom first thing in the morning.
Mama asked me to make (more) socks for Grandmother. Well, she specifically stated I could use my scraps to do so. She has no idea how long it take to get enough scraps to make a pair of socks! And Grandmother is NINETY-FIVE. She shall have another pair of socks alright, but they will be from whole yarn, and they will be cast on today. Yep, my Grandmother gets to move to the head of the line, ba-bee.
Fair-isle:I think I have decided to practice on another hat. Last time I picked colors that were pretty close so that if I messed it up, it would not be so bad. This time, I am going to use contrasting colors, and an actual geometric pattern, which I will have to come up with, but I can guarantee it will be simple, like shapes.
Gal called me last night for a political poll. Unfortunately for her, I was hooked up to the pump. I had NOWHERE TO GO. Bwahahahahahahah. So, not only did I answer her questions, but I EXPLAINED my answers. In detail. With the reasoning behind them. But maybe it wasn’t so unfortunate after all, because she thanked me at the end, and not the trite thanks either. A departure from the script thanks. A thanks for the best call I’ve had all month thanks. A you taught me something thanks.
Ok, back to the times thing: One of the questions had to do with a local candidate promising to end “secret meetings” and if I thought that was a good reason to vote for him. And I answered “No”, and then I explained thusly: We are at war. We are at war and some secrets just have to be kept for now. Thank you very much NYT for telling the enemy everything we know about them. Really appreciate you!
I have more to say on that, but you get my drift, I am sure. And I do need to be kind to my kids today, after all.
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as for the NYT, you can probably credit them for outing a lot of the crap this administration has been doing. I havent read this article in particular, only heard about it, so while I’m for not giving up on particular information. I AM about transparent government…something the Bush administration has never been about. This is what a free press is for.. to keep checks and balances, if it were up to Bush, there would be no free press and we’d be no better than Russia, China, N. Korea and many more. In other words…a facist state.
They chip away at our freedoms, and want US to be transparent, but cocoon themselves in secrecy. Once the cocoon cracks open we’re witness to the 700 laws broken by the president, abuses of power, not to mention the mass corruption of GOP higher ups not only in congress but other areas of government as well. All the while pushing for silly social agenda items to “rally their base” or rather muster up the discriminatory faction of the party and completely ignore what their constituents really need. Living wage, clean air and water, health care.
By the way, we’re not at war. We’re occupiers. Iraq wants a timetable for our withdrawal too. Iraq never was about terrorism. I’ve told you before. I knew invading Iraq was going to happen long before 9/11. Neocons had been planning it for a decade. 9/11 was just a convenient excuse for them.
And while we’ve been bogged down in Iraq, 2500 of our own, and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis have died horrific, violent deaths… the Taliban has re-emerged.
Yeah.. I thought this was the war on terror… riiiiight.
Its the war for oil
Bunch of cowardly fat greedy oil pigs they are. Murderous greedy cowardly fat oil pigs.
Carla, can you take a moment to let me know how you really feel”?
lol
well, I admit, I rambled on a bit. I didn’t intend to take up that much space.
But.. I did go read a bit about the NYT’s article and its pretty much a non issue. The article discusses programs that everyone, especially terrorists already knew about.
Oh, well, that would explain why it was such big news. And why the NYT said it came from that classified briefing and all.
Really the only ones making a fuss about it are hardcore wingnuts, and most of them being rabid about it.
What I read about the NYT is that they discussed the entire story with the whitehouse for weeks before the story, as they have with previous stories, so as to be sure its publishing would not harm US Security.
The more clear thinking conservatives are siding with the left on this issue.. that once again the white house is looking to make the press into a scapegoat fore their abuses of power.