I need one. Here is one of yours:
I’ve been assured Lily is doing fine, but she refuses to pee for Tammy.
At any rate, a shiny new thread for you. Because I care. Really, I do. And I will respect you in the morning.
Archives for 2009
Make It All Stop
Just had dinner in the hotel restaurant, and because God hates me, one of the tv’s had the always disgusting Sean Hannity on, prattling on with Marsha Blackburn about Keith Jennings. Fortunately the sound was off, but the graphics were great:
New Details Emerge about Safe Schools CZAR!
Land of Czars!
The last time I saw Marsha Blackburn, she was in whole hog on the Death panels bullshit.
It just never, ever stops with these people. Ever.
Faces of Health Care, Part Two
The folks at True Slant have the next round up:
Faces of American Health Care, Part 2: Former Pro Skater, Lee Bender from austin considine on Vimeo.
Make sure you stop by for the backstory.
Made It In One Piece
Got to the hotel in one piece, but I have to say I am a little pissed at some of you readers. How come never told me there is an all Dead channel on XM radio? Listened to an awesome show from Piscataway in 1981 which had a great Franklins/Estimate/Eyes. Nice way to spend the afternoon on the highway.
Another thing- really not sure why people rag on American cars so much- two weeks ago we had a Ford Focus, which was a little small for the two of us as we are both over 6’0″ and 200 lbs (an argument could be made we were two people away from a clown car), but it rode very well. This time, they did not have the kind of car we ordered from the rental place so we ended up with 2010 Buick Lucerne with 400 miles on it. The car was a great highway car- seemed to just eat up the highway, wasn’t boat, seats were comfortable, no road noise, great sound system, AC went all the way down to 60. And the mileage seemed pretty good. One of the nice rides I have had in a while.
I’m just not getting this whole “American cars suck” thing.
I know you are but what am I
Sully finds a great passage describing modern conservative rhetoric.
On the Road Again
I’m on a business trip until Sunday, so I’ll try to pop in an throw up an open thread every now and then. Lily is off to Aunt Tammy’s, and His Tunchness will have the run of the domain (like that is any different from any other day). Try to behave.
Also, vote for Bitsy:
She is over 1300.
Props To Our Law Enforcement
They seem to be getting it done:
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, senior government officials have announced dozens of terrorism cases that on closer examination seemed to diminish as legitimate threats. The accumulating evidence against a Denver airport shuttle driver suggests he may be different, with some investigators calling his case the most serious in years.
Documents filed in Brooklyn against the driver, Najibullah Zazi, contend he bought chemicals needed to build a bomb — hydrogen peroxide, acetone and hydrochloric acid — and in doing so, Mr. Zazi took a critical step made by few other terrorism suspects.
If government allegations are to be believed, Mr. Zazi, a legal immigrant from Afghanistan, had carefully prepared for a terrorist attack. He attended a Qaeda training camp in Pakistan, received training in explosives and stored in his laptop computer nine pages of instructions for making bombs from the same kind of chemicals he had bought.
And then there is this:
A 19-year-old Jordanian citizen is expected to make an appearance before a federal magistrate in Dallas this morning after authorities accused him of attempting to blow up a downtown Dallas skyscraper.
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested Thursday after he parked a vehicle laden with government-supplied fake explosives in the underground parking garage of Fountain Place, a 60-story tower in the 1400 block of Ross Avenue at North Field Street, authorities said.
These seem to me to be success stories, and real threats (unlike that one group of clowns in Queens a couple months ago). I also like how they are sort of taking it in stride and not having big, showy press conferences with Eric Holder trying to scare the shit out of us.