Sister Susie

He looks like Jerry Orbach and Sylvester Stallone had a child. Who could say non to that?!

Sorry, I’m just not feeling the Sarkozy Surge. Besides I could never vote for him - he holds his canoe paddle like a tourist. I bet he also affects that foppish wrist-up Euro reverse thumb-index left handed finger grip on his Gaulloises. Mr. waterfowler may want to weigh in on this topic, but I’d wager he’s against Sarkozy, too. If nothing else, because Sarkozy is a wee “frog”, as Jackie Stewart used to call the French on the international Formula One TV broadcasts, shortly before he was canned.

Today’s tally on mailings following my daughter’s minor bump up on Saturday night:

Ambulance Chasing Lawyers - 8
Chiropractors - 3

hedera, okay, I take your point. At least he had the good taste to not be traipsing around the US in nothing but some God-Awful purple, lime-green and white striped yahoo pair of swim trunks. Oh…. wait….

I would however, vote for his wife. She seems to have a thing or two figured out. Faking illness to get out of spending the afternoon with the Bushes is definitely my kind of dodge.

Just to differentiate from David @ 2, although I’m not really angry at the moment, just appalled by the gall of President Devoid of the Capacity for Shame who not only went to Mississippi to “commemorate Katrina,” but also angrily declared that he and Laura were there to show that they had not forgotten the Gulf Coast. All hail the Dreck in Chief.

Definitely Sarcoma ‘08, le nouveau chien du lap.

Hey Susie!

Yep. That’s me waving from the back in the lurkers lounge.

Sorry for not getting up from the couch. I’m just not felling very sprightly today.

As for ‘08 hopefuls I wish I had a candidate I wanted to draw little hearts around. I’m a public radio junkie and listen to endless discussions about who slighted who, who’s got more money, who will win the gay, bespectacled, union vote, etc. But none of that tells me much about who I want to be president. Why doesn’t the media discuss the content of the candidates ideas?

Or am I being naive that the candidates actually express ideas?

Susie, a whisper of a welcome from another lurker… can you hear me ok from out here?

Sorry to bring you all down, but any ‘08 hopefuls seem hopeless. I’m not hearing any real “vision thing” and I’m afraid Edwards’ haircut guillotined his chances for me.

I’m hoping we topple the “Evil Empire”, but Queen Hillamidala and Obama-One Baracka don’t have the brightest light sabers.

Sigh…

(It seems I sigh in all my entries.)

Hopefully, Ken Doll will be the Repoopiecan nominee, thus cancelling out Edwards’ haircut as an issue. Edwards has articulated some pretty compelling stands on various critical issues. Problem is, of course, actual analysis of candidates’ policy positions, especially if it requires any mental effort, has been pretty much out of the question for swing voters, at least in recent memory. And as JFK, I think it was, said, perception is everything. To that I would add the tendency of people to graft whatever policy stands they take onto whatever candidate they decide they like. It still amazes me that friends I thought were beyond such things have said they just don’t like Hillary, never mind the causes she champions or the stands she takes. I could understand being pissed over her votes, and recent comments, regarding Iraq, but acting like some vague sense of liking or not liking a candidate is a definitive consideration for what I thought were thinking voters…

And then there’s that whole primitive, tribal charisma thing, like it’s going to lead to wisdom or sound leadership for the common good, rather than just getting elected, getting laid, and getting a fat commission check.

On Iraq, the champion of champions, Wesley Clark, is not running this time. But I’ll take Edwards, I’ll take Obama, and I’ll damned sure vote for whoever the Democratic nominee is, then raise particular hell if our next president is a Democrat who still doesn’t get it regarding Iraq. Repoopicans can ignore us, Democrats cannot and do not. In fact, LBJ, a hero on the domestic front, finally had the decency to quit politics over his fucked up Viet Nam policy. Compare that to Nixon, who upped the carnage, including on neighboring countries, and Cheney/Bush, who are determined not only to defy public opinion and good sense, but are also bound and determined raise the debacle ante in the Middle East exponentially.

Dammit, Sister Susie, you had to go and raise the issue of the ‘08 election. That’s like waving corn bread, collard greens, catfish, cole slaw, and the local microbrew in front of me, with real, honest-to-Lobster key lime pie for desert.

As a man, if I could just read what Hillary says, I like her. Listening to her is not fun.
As a woman, I think Obama is just dreamy!
I like Mrs. Edwards better than Mr. Edwards.
I think all of the Republicans are stinky old white men.
Hey, and Larry got arrested in my state! Time for good news to come out of Minne-so-gay-ta!!

Hi, Susie! Fancy spotting you here!

That’s my own personal lake Sarko is stinking up with his lousy canoe technique. I do hope that wristwatch he’s sporting was very waterproof…he was staying in a high-traffic area, lotsa wake from all the tourists and Sarko-spotters.

Not to mention Marine Patrol and US Secret Service, or whoever was planning to pluck him out of the deep if he tipped over.

Great slide show.

Off topic–but (drum roll) they´ve finally found the weapons of mass destruction, and they´re in midtown! Phew, knowing that NY has WMDs but no oil I can rest assured that the US military will not be invading here.

Well it certainly is good to have him back from vacation.

Boy I hope we get a new post soon because every time I see that headline I immediately think “Brother John…” and then that damn Wings song is in my head for the rest of the day.

Thanks for sharing, dee. Now I’m earworm-infected.

Gee, Zee. Now I’ve got “Elvira” and the image of Trent Lott and John Ashcroft “getting down” stuck in my head. Thanks a lot, buddy.

8-31-07

Dear Diary,

What a week! Rove’s gone, Gonzo’s gone, Tony Snow is leaving, and Larry Craig won’t go. Well, NBC says he will resign tomorrow morning, effective September 30th. Why would he hang around another month after resigning in disgrace? Obviously, he’s bargaining for something from upper echelon Republican rainmakers. Whatever it is he wants, I guess we’ll know in time.

This truly was the week from Hell. As I told you last time, B.A. Bolten issued his dump-or-get-off-the-pot edict, making today the final day that members of the Administration could resign. After that, it is implicit that you will remain in your job until Jan. 20, 2009. I was really torn making that decision, initially favoring early retirement, but this Larry Craig foolishness has given me a wicked case of the fantods. What if I run into him on the streets of Boise? The possibility of that happening is too real and too sickening. I admit it, I froze and the shot clock ran out on me. Five o’clock came and went without my resignation, so now I’m stuck in this job until they run Bush and the rest of us out of town after the Inauguration.

Tom DeLay came by today to show me his limited edition of signed campaign buttons from all the Republican presidential candidates for 2008. The Jim Gilmore button is already valued at $500.00. Tom will be selling these on Ebay starting next week for $1595 a set and wanted to give me a chance at the Platinum Collection mounted on real, imitation masonite with the lexan cover for the good-buddy price of only $2300.00 - no shipping charges. I told him I’d have to clear it with Patricia. It was just too damned depressing to see how far Tom’s fallen. Marlene, my secretary from the Truman administration, is considering buying a set for her great grandchild. Fortunately, she’s scheduled for her annual physical and psychological work-up on Monday. I hate to see her getting fleeced by the likes of DeLay - maybe they’ll up her meds and she’ll come to her senses.

Back to DC on Sunday. Bummer.

Dirk

What Ben Franklin would have said, Susie, if he’d been from Bainbridge instead of Boston, is that fried catfish are proof that Lobster loves us and wants us to be happy (along with the beer, of course).

Dirk, aren’t you in the mix to be appointed the replacement senator from Idaho?

The number of Iraqis killed in August, according to Yahoo News, is 1,800. The purge is working.

Mr. Pope, how´s he going to get 150 footballs?

sorry- you’ll have to scroll down aways….

Sorry, Zee Man, Viacom has yanked the video for copyright reasons.

As for Dale’s WMD in Manhattan: I want to know how one “accidentally ships” PHOSGENE (of all things) to the U.N. instead of to the U.S. Army - and how the U.N., having got this perilous stuff, apparently filed it away and forgot about it for ELEVEN years!!

So true, Phosgene, so true - I’d temporarily forgotten about the 5 nukes…

It will be Hotter than Hell.

You can have him baby!