Bush sends staff back to ethics class
Memo: Staff should adhere to 'spirit' of all rules
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With his chief political aide under investigation as part of a probe into the public unmasking of a CIA operative, President Bush is sending his staff back to school -- ethics school.
Bush is requiring his executive office staff to attend refresher courses on ethics and handling classified materials, according to a White House memo.
Staff members with security clearances will attend mandatory sessions next week, and those without security clearances will attend mandatory sessions the following week.
The refresher course comes as Bush's top aide, Karl Rove, is under investigation and as Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, faces indictments in connection with the outing of a CIA operative.
Bush has declined to talk publicly about the investigation. On Friday, he deflected questions about Libby and Rove at the Summit of the Americas in Argentina.
Arrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Edited to add -
McCain to add anti-torture rider to all legislation
WASHINGTON - Girding for a potential fight with the Bush administration, supporters of a ban on torturing prisoners of war by U.S. interrogators threatened Friday to include the prohibition in nearly every bill the Senate considers until it becomes law.
Speaking from the Senate floor, McCain said, "If necessary - and I sincerely hope it is not - I and the co-sponsors of this amendment will seek to add it to every piece of important legislation voted on in the Senate until the will of a substantial bipartisan majority in both houses of Congress prevails. Let no one doubt our determination."
The ban would establish the Army Field Manual as the guiding authority in interrogations and prohibit "cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment" of prisoners.
The Bush administration has sought to exempt the CIA from the ban.
Opponents of the McCain language contend that setting no-torture ground rules would signal to prisoners that they have little to fear during interrogations, discouraging them from providing information.
The prisoners "can, apparently, be treated inhumanely," McCain said. "This means that America is the only country in the world that asserts a legal right to engage in cruel and inhumane treatment."
Showing posts with label Katrina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katrina. Show all posts
Saturday, November 5, 2005
Friday, November 4, 2005
George Bush will not apologize.
Q Hi, Mr. President. Thank you. Did Karl Rove tell you the truth about his role in the CIA leak case? And do you owe the American people an apology for your administration's assertations that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby weren't involved?
THE PRESIDENT: We're going through a very serious investigation. And I will -- have told you before that I'm not going to discuss the investigation until it's completed. And we have got a -- my obligation is to set an agenda, and I've done that. And the agenda is fighting and winning the war on terror, and keeping the economic vitality and growth alive, dealing with the energy problem, nominating people to the Supreme Court that adhere to the philosophy that I can depend on -- Judge Alito being such a person. I noticed today that they've got a date. I'm disappointed in the date, but happy they do have a firm date for his confirmation hearing. We've got to recover from the hurricanes. So I've got a lot to do, and will continue to focus on the people's business.
A- No.
B.War on Terra
C.Economy
D.Over turn Roe v. Wade
E. Hurricanes
He Said NO. He does not "owe us an apology". It is not part of his agenda.
from White House.Gov
Q Hi, Mr. President. Thank you. Did Karl Rove tell you the truth about his role in the CIA leak case? And do you owe the American people an apology for your administration's assertations that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby weren't involved?
THE PRESIDENT: We're going through a very serious investigation. And I will -- have told you before that I'm not going to discuss the investigation until it's completed. And we have got a -- my obligation is to set an agenda, and I've done that. And the agenda is fighting and winning the war on terror, and keeping the economic vitality and growth alive, dealing with the energy problem, nominating people to the Supreme Court that adhere to the philosophy that I can depend on -- Judge Alito being such a person. I noticed today that they've got a date. I'm disappointed in the date, but happy they do have a firm date for his confirmation hearing. We've got to recover from the hurricanes. So I've got a lot to do, and will continue to focus on the people's business.
A- No.
B.War on Terra
C.Economy
D.Over turn Roe v. Wade
E. Hurricanes
He Said NO. He does not "owe us an apology". It is not part of his agenda.
from White House.Gov
Thursday, October 6, 2005
Gold Digger re-mix
Remember when I said I heard this rap on the radio in the cab the other morning? and I thought it was kewl? Well, I found the lyrics. It s remix of GoldDigger, which due to the fact I am too old and too white, and in a Clear Channel hell, I had never heard until Kayne West was the musical guest on SNL last week. Anyway, go here to listen to the remix.
Remember when I said I heard this rap on the radio in the cab the other morning? and I thought it was kewl? Well, I found the lyrics. It s remix of GoldDigger, which due to the fact I am too old and too white, and in a Clear Channel hell, I had never heard until Kayne West was the musical guest on SNL last week. Anyway, go here to listen to the remix.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
8/30 changed everything?
Proving that even peer pressure has gone corporate:
Northwest Airlines files for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11, a spokeswoman announced.
The nation's third-largest airline, Delta Air Lines, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The last time I flew Northwest (admittedly,6-7 years ago) they served real food on real plates and gave us real table ware and that was in coach - Good customer service like that can not possibly go unpunished. Delta, on the other hand crashed two planes at DFW maybe three years apart. No justice.
Proving that even peer pressure has gone corporate:
Northwest Airlines files for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11, a spokeswoman announced.
The nation's third-largest airline, Delta Air Lines, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The last time I flew Northwest (admittedly,6-7 years ago) they served real food on real plates and gave us real table ware and that was in coach - Good customer service like that can not possibly go unpunished. Delta, on the other hand crashed two planes at DFW maybe three years apart. No justice.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
All we need now is,fire?
Reality TV bites, 82% say in poll
and
Bush: 'I take responsibility' for federal failures on Katrina
As much as I like those, I would like more to see headlines like, say:
100% of humans think Reality TV should be banned from the airwaves
and
Bush genuinely apologizes for being a shit.
What I think headlines with the words "Bush" and "Takes" and "Responsiblity" and "Adults Think Reality TV Sucks" are really saying to us is:
The Vogons Are On The Way
Reality TV bites, 82% say in poll
and
Bush: 'I take responsibility' for federal failures on Katrina
As much as I like those, I would like more to see headlines like, say:
100% of humans think Reality TV should be banned from the airwaves
and
Bush genuinely apologizes for being a shit.
What I think headlines with the words "Bush" and "Takes" and "Responsiblity" and "Adults Think Reality TV Sucks" are really saying to us is:
The Vogons Are On The Way
Finally...
President Bush says he takes responsibility for the federal government's failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina.
His advisers told him that The Base and Black Republicans (6 of which were scheduled to step down from the Black Republicans Club pr whatever today) would forgive him if he stepped up and admitted guilt. "It takes a strong man". Blah, blah, blah.
President Bush says he takes responsibility for the federal government's failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina.
His advisers told him that The Base and Black Republicans (6 of which were scheduled to step down from the Black Republicans Club pr whatever today) would forgive him if he stepped up and admitted guilt. "It takes a strong man". Blah, blah, blah.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Saturday, September 10, 2005
My Hero
David Gregory . Read the exchange. It's good to see some one in the press treating Scott McClellan as the pinyata, before the inevitable return to the Kool Aid table by the White House press corps.
David Gregory . Read the exchange. It's good to see some one in the press treating Scott McClellan as the pinyata, before the inevitable return to the Kool Aid table by the White House press corps.
Friday, September 9, 2005
And they say Bush doesn't care about polls...
FEMA director Michael Brown being sent back to Washington; Homeland Security Director Chertoff to announce new leader for on-the-ground Katrina relief efforts, senior administration official tells CNN. Details soon.
from CNN.com
FEMA director Michael Brown being sent back to Washington; Homeland Security Director Chertoff to announce new leader for on-the-ground Katrina relief efforts, senior administration official tells CNN. Details soon.
from CNN.com
Making sure the Volk don’t roll
Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today.
The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.
The U.S. Park Police will have its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty and along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.
One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to three enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall.
Opponents of the Freedom Walk took issue with the way the Pentagon is staging the event. When the walk first was publicized, participants were required to submit their names, ages, e-mail addresses and home addresses. After some groups accused the Pentagon of using the registration as a recruiting tool for the military, the requirements were changed.
Washington Post
Just a reminder,The Good Guys are sponsoring a rally at the White House on September 24.
Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today.
The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.
The U.S. Park Police will have its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty and along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.
One restricted group will be the media, whose members will not be allowed to walk along the march route. Reporters and cameras are restricted to three enclosed areas along the route but are not permitted to walk alongside participants walking from the Pentagon, across the Memorial Bridge to the Mall.
Opponents of the Freedom Walk took issue with the way the Pentagon is staging the event. When the walk first was publicized, participants were required to submit their names, ages, e-mail addresses and home addresses. After some groups accused the Pentagon of using the registration as a recruiting tool for the military, the requirements were changed.
Washington Post
Just a reminder,The Good Guys are sponsoring a rally at the White House on September 24.
Twilight Zone Weekly
I was reading my Entertainment Weekly and it was jarring. It was so carefree and happy and celebratory – the new TV season is starting and they are all excited about all the crappy shows premiering and they write such positive, uplifting things about them and their chances, all the while, you know they are all ready wrote the cancellation blurbs about Hells Kitchen, Doogie Howser Esq and The Ghost Whisperer - because they are total cancellation bait. Cancelled and not Brilliant.
With the new season starting comes the second season of Desperate B-Listresses so EW can finally stop exhausting themselves coming up with increasingly moronic excuses to cover of Eva Noreasontoknowhernameia every week.
Hey, look! She’s reminding us of what a great rack she has and that her tits are 15 years younger then the other Housewives’ tits and she is really cool about not being nominated for an Emmy™ by bravely joking about how she didn’t want one anyway! And look at her rack!
Here’s one of her picking her nose at a stop light! She is so real!!
Now, this one is really special! Look! She’s wearing a bathing suit! In Public! At an Awards Show! In Miami! During a Hurricane! What a sense of humor! She is so edgy! And what a trooper!
Here she is at the opening of an envelope! What a professional!
Whatever. Why hasn’t Terri Hatcher used one of her skeletal shoulder blades to puncture Longernamererias giant head?
But other then Eva Gonorrhea’s unfortunate bathing suit, there was no real mention of the hurricane or New Orleans or the rest of the Gulf Coast or the death toll or the shocking realty of American Refugees/Evacuees/Survivors or what celebrities think about the hurricane or the destruction of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and the shocking reality of American Refugees/Evacuees/Survivors. It went on the whole issue with out once mentioning we should give to the Red Cross (try watching or reading anything now with out a mention of The Red Cross) It was so unreal. I mean, nothing had happened yet. I felt like I did reading my little entertainment rags that arrived 9/10. They seemed to be about a world that was so different than the real one, I kind of liked the “fake” world. Everyone was so happy. But then, like now, I hated them too, for being happy and ignorant. It pisses me off that they aren’t shocked and horrified like the rest of us. How dare they be smiling when all I want to do is cry.
I never thought about how the the publications we use to catalogue our world are so often out of date. Something traumatic happens and they don’t cover it for a week. They are perpetually out of sync. It isn’t just my lamo entertainment mags that are lagging and out of sync. My New Yorker seems to be about food this time around, not a mention of devastation or presidential malfeasance, or national mourning and shame. It’s hard to read these and feel like they are not at all relevant. I looked at it and wanted to say “What are you talking about! How can you be going on about restaurants at a time like this?” Last week everything was so normal. Reading those issues today is like reading an old, old magazine you might find for sale at 1000 times its cover price at an antique shop, everything they covered seems so cute and naïve and fluffy. It’s the same Twilight Zone version of the world where Shrub can blather nostalgically about WW2 and VJ day like nothing else was going on.
It’s a little shocking to not read about the admins blunders in The New Yorker a whole news-ish magazine with out any reference to the admins shocking mishandling of the catastrophe. They did mention the never ending vacation but they were still joshing the admin because it wasn’t over yet.
And because I didn’t mention it in yesterdays post, George W. Bush is evil.
I was reading my Entertainment Weekly and it was jarring. It was so carefree and happy and celebratory – the new TV season is starting and they are all excited about all the crappy shows premiering and they write such positive, uplifting things about them and their chances, all the while, you know they are all ready wrote the cancellation blurbs about Hells Kitchen, Doogie Howser Esq and The Ghost Whisperer - because they are total cancellation bait. Cancelled and not Brilliant.
With the new season starting comes the second season of Desperate B-Listresses so EW can finally stop exhausting themselves coming up with increasingly moronic excuses to cover of Eva Noreasontoknowhernameia every week.
Hey, look! She’s reminding us of what a great rack she has and that her tits are 15 years younger then the other Housewives’ tits and she is really cool about not being nominated for an Emmy™ by bravely joking about how she didn’t want one anyway! And look at her rack!
Here’s one of her picking her nose at a stop light! She is so real!!
Now, this one is really special! Look! She’s wearing a bathing suit! In Public! At an Awards Show! In Miami! During a Hurricane! What a sense of humor! She is so edgy! And what a trooper!
Here she is at the opening of an envelope! What a professional!
Whatever. Why hasn’t Terri Hatcher used one of her skeletal shoulder blades to puncture Longernamererias giant head?
But other then Eva Gonorrhea’s unfortunate bathing suit, there was no real mention of the hurricane or New Orleans or the rest of the Gulf Coast or the death toll or the shocking realty of American Refugees/Evacuees/Survivors or what celebrities think about the hurricane or the destruction of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and the shocking reality of American Refugees/Evacuees/Survivors. It went on the whole issue with out once mentioning we should give to the Red Cross (try watching or reading anything now with out a mention of The Red Cross) It was so unreal. I mean, nothing had happened yet. I felt like I did reading my little entertainment rags that arrived 9/10. They seemed to be about a world that was so different than the real one, I kind of liked the “fake” world. Everyone was so happy. But then, like now, I hated them too, for being happy and ignorant. It pisses me off that they aren’t shocked and horrified like the rest of us. How dare they be smiling when all I want to do is cry.
I never thought about how the the publications we use to catalogue our world are so often out of date. Something traumatic happens and they don’t cover it for a week. They are perpetually out of sync. It isn’t just my lamo entertainment mags that are lagging and out of sync. My New Yorker seems to be about food this time around, not a mention of devastation or presidential malfeasance, or national mourning and shame. It’s hard to read these and feel like they are not at all relevant. I looked at it and wanted to say “What are you talking about! How can you be going on about restaurants at a time like this?” Last week everything was so normal. Reading those issues today is like reading an old, old magazine you might find for sale at 1000 times its cover price at an antique shop, everything they covered seems so cute and naïve and fluffy. It’s the same Twilight Zone version of the world where Shrub can blather nostalgically about WW2 and VJ day like nothing else was going on.
It’s a little shocking to not read about the admins blunders in The New Yorker a whole news-ish magazine with out any reference to the admins shocking mishandling of the catastrophe. They did mention the never ending vacation but they were still joshing the admin because it wasn’t over yet.
And because I didn’t mention it in yesterdays post, George W. Bush is evil.
Thursday, September 8, 2005
George W. Bush was born with a silver spoon up his ass
UN hits back at US in report saying parts of America are as poor as Third World"
(ya think they are a little pissed about Boltons appointment?)
The U.K Independent coverage of the U.N Report goes on to say:
-The infant mortality rate in the US is now the same as in Malaysia
- Child poverty rates in the United States are now more than 20 per cent
- Blacks in Washington DC have a higher infant death rate than people in the Indian state of Kerala.
Further, "The report is bound to incense the Bush administration as it provides ammunition for critics who have claimed that the fiasco following Hurricane Katrina shows that Washington does not care about poor black Americans.
( hate to act as the devils advocate here, but does Europe really treat their religious and ethnic minorities all that well? Rigid, highly structured, institutionlized class systems anyone? We suck hard, but we do not suck alone.)
But the 370-page document is critical of American policies towards poverty abroad as well as at home. And, in unusually outspoken language, it accuses the US of having "an overdeveloped military strategy and an under-developed strategy for human security".
You know the international community has had enough of us when we suffer an enormous tragedy and we still get spanked and its Bushs' fault, we get it. Bush is doing wonders for the U.S internationally.
UN hits back at US in report saying parts of America are as poor as Third World"
(ya think they are a little pissed about Boltons appointment?)
The U.K Independent coverage of the U.N Report goes on to say:
-The infant mortality rate in the US is now the same as in Malaysia
- Child poverty rates in the United States are now more than 20 per cent
- Blacks in Washington DC have a higher infant death rate than people in the Indian state of Kerala.
Further, "The report is bound to incense the Bush administration as it provides ammunition for critics who have claimed that the fiasco following Hurricane Katrina shows that Washington does not care about poor black Americans.
( hate to act as the devils advocate here, but does Europe really treat their religious and ethnic minorities all that well? Rigid, highly structured, institutionlized class systems anyone? We suck hard, but we do not suck alone.)
But the 370-page document is critical of American policies towards poverty abroad as well as at home. And, in unusually outspoken language, it accuses the US of having "an overdeveloped military strategy and an under-developed strategy for human security".
You know the international community has had enough of us when we suffer an enormous tragedy and we still get spanked and its Bushs' fault, we get it. Bush is doing wonders for the U.S internationally.
The Blame Hearings
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A bipartisan joint congressional committee will review the response at all levels of government to Hurricane Katrina, the leaders of the House and Senate said Wednesday.
Frist told reporters during a brief appearance that the new committee will be composed of senior members of Congress, with Republicans in the majority.
A high-ranking House Democratic aide said lawmakers from his party had not been contacted yet.
CNN.com
So. The rethuglicans are going to investigate wrong doing on the part of other rethuglicans? Yeah. I see a lot of answers coming out of this. I see the whole and total blame for this catastrophe being laid at the feet of the Democrats, the storm and everything. The weather will magically be under the control of Nancy Pelosi and Moveon.
The Senate and House Dems? will bravely stand up and totally take the blame because somebody has to and there is nothing our elected Dems do better then take the blame, the public needs some one to be punished for this and the Dems bending over for the RNC, will help them feel like they are "doing something" or "getting involved". And because the Dems doesn't have its own FAUX News for disseminating Dem friendly information - Air America and Gore TV do not count, they are not even close to relevant and they are not yet accepted by the general public as news sources. There will be no way of getting out from under this for the Dems. The rethuglicans literally got caught drowning babies and old people and they will walk away scot free.
Place bets now, it will be the Dems fault, no matter how many Rethuglican leaders have blood on their hands how much proof of their wrong doing, how much testimony there is naming names and pointing at the GOP leadership It will as far as the commssion is concerned, ultimately it will be the dems fault.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A bipartisan joint congressional committee will review the response at all levels of government to Hurricane Katrina, the leaders of the House and Senate said Wednesday.
Frist told reporters during a brief appearance that the new committee will be composed of senior members of Congress, with Republicans in the majority.
A high-ranking House Democratic aide said lawmakers from his party had not been contacted yet.
CNN.com
So. The rethuglicans are going to investigate wrong doing on the part of other rethuglicans? Yeah. I see a lot of answers coming out of this. I see the whole and total blame for this catastrophe being laid at the feet of the Democrats, the storm and everything. The weather will magically be under the control of Nancy Pelosi and Moveon.
The Senate and House Dems? will bravely stand up and totally take the blame because somebody has to and there is nothing our elected Dems do better then take the blame, the public needs some one to be punished for this and the Dems bending over for the RNC, will help them feel like they are "doing something" or "getting involved". And because the Dems doesn't have its own FAUX News for disseminating Dem friendly information - Air America and Gore TV do not count, they are not even close to relevant and they are not yet accepted by the general public as news sources. There will be no way of getting out from under this for the Dems. The rethuglicans literally got caught drowning babies and old people and they will walk away scot free.
Place bets now, it will be the Dems fault, no matter how many Rethuglican leaders have blood on their hands how much proof of their wrong doing, how much testimony there is naming names and pointing at the GOP leadership It will as far as the commssion is concerned, ultimately it will be the dems fault.
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
How about asking the hens?
Bush, Congress to investigate hurricane response
Heh.
Isn't this kind of like putting the wolf in charge of figuring out who raided the hen house?
Bush, Congress to investigate hurricane response
Heh.
Isn't this kind of like putting the wolf in charge of figuring out who raided the hen house?
Every little thing he does...
Even with all the other enormously horrible things going on in the world, I managed to find something else to lose my temper over and have a tantrum about today. Not my now daily,
WHYYWHYWHYWHYARETHEYARETHEY
LETTINHTHESEPEOPLEDIE?!!
"CULTUEOFLIFE"MYASS!!IHATTTEEEEGEORGEWBUSH!!!!!!AAAHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHH!
!BABYMURDERER!LITTLEOLDLADYMURDERER!AMERICANMURDERER!!!
SHRUBISATERRORIST!! tantrum
But a new tantrum. A totally trivial tantrum that even while I was in the midst of it I felt bad about it.
I asked for and got two very fab floor lamps for the Dark Hole Of Calcutta A.K.A. Camp Knotty Pine A.K.A. My second floor. The room has the proportions and feel of a small submarine. It's dark on the USS Knotty Pine, it's dark all the time. It sucks up artificial light at about the same rate that The RNC sucks up soft money from The Free Republic - It's dark all the time.
I like light. Light is good. Light makes it easier to find my way around. Light make it harder for me to bark my shins on the coffee table in the morning as well as making it harder for my shoes to successfully hide from me.
So the Birthday Faerie was summoned. I said Birthday Faerie, I need a floor lamp for Camp Knotty Pine" and the Birthday Faerie said "Dayum. You need two. A body could hurt themselves up there!"
So I got two kickin' floor lamps for Camp Knotty Pine.Those kickin' floor lamps don't put themselves together. Enter the trivial tantrum.
The instruction book that came with it does not have instructions. It came with pictures. The pictures do not say that you should put the lamp together in an air conditioned environment very different from Camp Knotty Pine so that as not to over heat yourself and sweat into your eyes because this can start the lamp put-er togther-er into having a tantrum. The pictures in the bookare lovely pen and ink drawings that are probably suitable for framing, so lovely are the drawings in the instruction book. Sadly, they are not instructive drawings. They clearly illustrate that you must remove the widget before you attach the shade, but there are no drawings illustrating what to do if the bulb will not screw in properly if the shade and the widget are in place. There is no illustration speaking to why the widget is not able to properly screw in if the shade is in place. The illustration about why the shade must hang limply and the illustration of why light bulb never actually tighten the way its supposed to is not included, either.
So. I stopped trying. I decided that it was wasteful and wrong on my part to have tantrums over something as minor and insignificant in the view of everything that is going on today. The lamps will be put together, it just won' be today and it won' be by me.
Speaking of things that make me crazy. I discovered I can not watch coverage of the hurricane. I can read coverage of it for hours, I can and have looked at photos, I have read pages of discussion of the coverage, I can memorize interviews about the mishandling of the rescue efforts... but I can not watch it for more then a few minutes before I get anxious and nervous and need to go check my email or chase a cat or something, anything but watch it on TV . I hadn't noticed that I had not watched any of it unfolding on TV. I've been stuck to my computer screen and CNN.com and hitting the refresh button over and over but I had not watched any telivised coverage.
Please note the huge Red Cross link. Whatever you and I have donated thus far, we aren't done yet. We have to do more. It's not over. It's not going to be over. We must do more. Think about what you can do with out and go then go with out it and get used to it - donate the money saved to a charity of your choice. If you think can't afford to donate, think about bringing your lunch to work and donating what you would spend for lunch if you had gone out. The Red Cross can take donations of $5, everyday you don't eat out, donate the price of that skipped lunch.
Even with all the other enormously horrible things going on in the world, I managed to find something else to lose my temper over and have a tantrum about today. Not my now daily,
WHYYWHYWHYWHYARETHEYARETHEY
LETTINHTHESEPEOPLEDIE?!!
"CULTUEOFLIFE"MYASS!!IHATTTEEEEGEORGEWBUSH!!!!!!AAAHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHH!
!BABYMURDERER!LITTLEOLDLADYMURDERER!AMERICANMURDERER!!!
SHRUBISATERRORIST!! tantrum
But a new tantrum. A totally trivial tantrum that even while I was in the midst of it I felt bad about it.
I asked for and got two very fab floor lamps for the Dark Hole Of Calcutta A.K.A. Camp Knotty Pine A.K.A. My second floor. The room has the proportions and feel of a small submarine. It's dark on the USS Knotty Pine, it's dark all the time. It sucks up artificial light at about the same rate that The RNC sucks up soft money from The Free Republic - It's dark all the time.
I like light. Light is good. Light makes it easier to find my way around. Light make it harder for me to bark my shins on the coffee table in the morning as well as making it harder for my shoes to successfully hide from me.
So the Birthday Faerie was summoned. I said Birthday Faerie, I need a floor lamp for Camp Knotty Pine" and the Birthday Faerie said "Dayum. You need two. A body could hurt themselves up there!"
So I got two kickin' floor lamps for Camp Knotty Pine.Those kickin' floor lamps don't put themselves together. Enter the trivial tantrum.
The instruction book that came with it does not have instructions. It came with pictures. The pictures do not say that you should put the lamp together in an air conditioned environment very different from Camp Knotty Pine so that as not to over heat yourself and sweat into your eyes because this can start the lamp put-er togther-er into having a tantrum. The pictures in the bookare lovely pen and ink drawings that are probably suitable for framing, so lovely are the drawings in the instruction book. Sadly, they are not instructive drawings. They clearly illustrate that you must remove the widget before you attach the shade, but there are no drawings illustrating what to do if the bulb will not screw in properly if the shade and the widget are in place. There is no illustration speaking to why the widget is not able to properly screw in if the shade is in place. The illustration about why the shade must hang limply and the illustration of why light bulb never actually tighten the way its supposed to is not included, either.
So. I stopped trying. I decided that it was wasteful and wrong on my part to have tantrums over something as minor and insignificant in the view of everything that is going on today. The lamps will be put together, it just won' be today and it won' be by me.
Speaking of things that make me crazy. I discovered I can not watch coverage of the hurricane. I can read coverage of it for hours, I can and have looked at photos, I have read pages of discussion of the coverage, I can memorize interviews about the mishandling of the rescue efforts... but I can not watch it for more then a few minutes before I get anxious and nervous and need to go check my email or chase a cat or something, anything but watch it on TV . I hadn't noticed that I had not watched any of it unfolding on TV. I've been stuck to my computer screen and CNN.com and hitting the refresh button over and over but I had not watched any telivised coverage.
Please note the huge Red Cross link. Whatever you and I have donated thus far, we aren't done yet. We have to do more. It's not over. It's not going to be over. We must do more. Think about what you can do with out and go then go with out it and get used to it - donate the money saved to a charity of your choice. If you think can't afford to donate, think about bringing your lunch to work and donating what you would spend for lunch if you had gone out. The Red Cross can take donations of $5, everyday you don't eat out, donate the price of that skipped lunch.
Saturday, September 3, 2005
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