Catching up
Oct. 8th, 2004 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumI slept last night. Not the best sleep, but sleep... lots of it, and no pressure facing me today (no wondering what new pile of crap we were going to have to turn into Russian, in no time at all... I think I had terrible dreams, but can't recall them. I do know that I passed out in the truck, when we ran an errand, and woke up, more than three hours later, parked in the driveway).
So I've been catching up on e-mail, and politics (it was interesting... of the 12 of us working the pit [we had two guys attached to Col Shev'chuk, and COl Johnson, they were in their own sort of purgatorio... fluent speakers, but doing simultaneous translation for 10-14 hours a day... ye gods and little fishes] we were, with 2 exceptions, Anti-Bush. Some weren't pro-Kerry, but none of us has any interest in Voting for Bush... one of us hates to see the news, because he was a recruiter for years... so far only one of the people he enlisted has been killed, but it has to weigh on him; more than my training people to interrogate weighs on me. I just got them jobs more likely to be sent to the Box, he's the one who got his people in).
So I was pointed to this today. Lew Rockwell. The description that went with the referrral was, "
Charlie Reese writes for the Orlando Sentinel. He's a Conservative
Republican who is anti-abortion, anti-tax-and-spend, loudly critical of
legislation by the judiciary, doesn't think much of multiculturalism or
secularism, has suggested Clinton "turned the Oval Office into a
whorehouse," thinks Ronald Reagan is the greatest thing to come down the
pike since canned beer, and voted for Bush in the last election. So, take a
look at his article which follows.
It's worth reading...
On other fronts, Orcinus has the last of his three part series on The Rise of Pseudo-Fascism here in the U.S.
And the report on Iraq said what I've been saying for years (it feels good, in a sad way, to have this confirmed) Hussein was pretending to have weapons because such a pretense made him look good to his supporters, and fearsome to his detractors, but the reality of it was he had none, and wasn't doing anything to get them back.
I still think he expected a rational policy on the part of the U.S., and was willing to let inspectors in, if forced, and then planned to say, "See, I told you I had nothing but you wouldn't believe me."
What he got was the present Administration, and he could have given Cheney, and Rice and anyone they wanted to bring along, a guided tour of the entire country, and we'd still have invaded.
The rest of the usual suspects are doing their usual good work, and the poll results at are encouraging.
If the lies Cheney told, and the way Edwards called him on things keeps being the things remembered from that debate, and if Bush reacts to the Town Hall one, the way I think he will, there is reason to hope for a victory, perhaps even a substantial one.
So I've been catching up on e-mail, and politics (it was interesting... of the 12 of us working the pit [we had two guys attached to Col Shev'chuk, and COl Johnson, they were in their own sort of purgatorio... fluent speakers, but doing simultaneous translation for 10-14 hours a day... ye gods and little fishes] we were, with 2 exceptions, Anti-Bush. Some weren't pro-Kerry, but none of us has any interest in Voting for Bush... one of us hates to see the news, because he was a recruiter for years... so far only one of the people he enlisted has been killed, but it has to weigh on him; more than my training people to interrogate weighs on me. I just got them jobs more likely to be sent to the Box, he's the one who got his people in).
So I was pointed to this today. Lew Rockwell. The description that went with the referrral was, "
Charlie Reese writes for the Orlando Sentinel. He's a Conservative
Republican who is anti-abortion, anti-tax-and-spend, loudly critical of
legislation by the judiciary, doesn't think much of multiculturalism or
secularism, has suggested Clinton "turned the Oval Office into a
whorehouse," thinks Ronald Reagan is the greatest thing to come down the
pike since canned beer, and voted for Bush in the last election. So, take a
look at his article which follows.
It's worth reading...
On other fronts, Orcinus has the last of his three part series on The Rise of Pseudo-Fascism here in the U.S.
And the report on Iraq said what I've been saying for years (it feels good, in a sad way, to have this confirmed) Hussein was pretending to have weapons because such a pretense made him look good to his supporters, and fearsome to his detractors, but the reality of it was he had none, and wasn't doing anything to get them back.
I still think he expected a rational policy on the part of the U.S., and was willing to let inspectors in, if forced, and then planned to say, "See, I told you I had nothing but you wouldn't believe me."
What he got was the present Administration, and he could have given Cheney, and Rice and anyone they wanted to bring along, a guided tour of the entire country, and we'd still have invaded.
The rest of the usual suspects are doing their usual good work, and the poll results at are encouraging.
If the lies Cheney told, and the way Edwards called him on things keeps being the things remembered from that debate, and if Bush reacts to the Town Hall one, the way I think he will, there is reason to hope for a victory, perhaps even a substantial one.
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Date: 2004-10-08 10:44 pm (UTC)Just a thought.
Thanks for the links; and the encouraging news about Guard translators...
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Date: 2004-10-08 11:30 pm (UTC)And such a love... adding a real-time Myriad to my list of activities (and I've yet to see aspec copy to get me started again... Drop me a line and I'll send you the present address).
Off I go, to add that to my list of things... if I could just get a redirect...
TK