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wendy davis Commented on Hidden Constraints on Presidential Power by wendy davis

2009-11-26T01:05:16Z

I luvz babbies inordinately, bwak. Hugs back atcha!

wendy davis Commented on Hidden Constraints on Presidential Power by wendy davis

2009-11-26T00:09:13Z

I do hear you, Oleeb. What I have had to wonder though, is how many things are by his choice (as in politically expedient for re-election), or which decisions are made by Deciders with (pardon my verbiage) his Nuts in a Vice. I can imagine some of that, too. There is room for that wonder, after reading all of these links.

wendy davis Commented on Hidden Constraints on Presidential Power by wendy davis

2009-11-26T00:04:13Z

I couldn't get either link to waork, wendy. I thank you for good wishes. Our son is home, and our daughter and her family are due on the weekend. Babbies are the greatest antidote to death, eh? My life is full of quiet; my son cut down a tree I have come to loathe; it looks like it came out of Sleepy Hollow. It helped my spirits! Love to you, ww.

wendy davis recommended Mumbai, thanksgiving, and forgiveness by matyra

2009-11-25T16:38:08Z

wendy davis Commented on Happy Thanksgiving Cafe by destor23

2009-11-25T22:29:46Z

Somebody tell me the goddam celery joke??????

wendy davis Commented on Hidden Constraints on Presidential Power by wendy davis

2009-11-25T22:18:03Z

I had forgotten, Matyra. I read a discussion a decade or so ago about some actions or non-actions that the US chose, the reason for which being that we/they feared the US could be held liable for war crimes for the bombings.
Any answers, you all? It probably should be obvious, and my brain just forgets. One of the International bodies we didn't join? Or prosecutions we didn't advance for genocides?

wendy davis Commented on Hidden Constraints on Presidential Power by wendy davis

2009-11-25T19:59:34Z

So much evidence that he was actually bucking the CIA, ergo, he needed to be taken down. Go figure. It seems simply true that no one wants to buck the entrenched versions of history, or risk being labeled a whack-job.
My favorite story was all the top-secret October Surprise documents found in the Ladies' Room. Yikes. Oops.
Lee Hamilton can also kiss my ass.

wendy davis Commented on Hidden Constraints on Presidential Power by wendy davis

2009-11-25T19:53:31Z

Exactly. And he might have wanted to leave his family well-fixed. Although, there were college projects (I forget which) trying to suss out from the available evidence Deepthroat's identity, and I think I read some had guessed Felt. Probably google-able.

wendy davis Commented on Hidden Constraints on Presidential Power by wendy davis

2009-11-25T19:51:09Z

There you are, Richard! I owe you an apology! I read that Mary the Bloody Cheney finally admitted that she had not, in fact, read all of her Blessed Sarah Palin-in-the-Arse's book. I was so sure she would at least tell the truth about that; she is like Palin, in that she even lies about stuff that doesn't matter. eEveryone said it is a Very.Fast.Read, with lotsa pictures.

wendy davis Commented on Sean Penn encounters Joe Lieberman; Offers comprehensive critique of Lieberman's cagey performance as the "Senator from CIGNA" by SleepinJeezus

2009-11-25T18:58:49Z

Gaak! I had to boot up Firefox to watch, and I was just settling in to peel yams to Sean's rant. Two words!!!!!!!! Three Seconds!!!!!
Ya got me, jeezus. Happy
Thanksgiving, dear.

wendy davis recommended Sean Penn encounters Joe Lieberman; Offers comprehensive critique of Lieberman's cagey performance as the "Senator from CIGNA" by SleepinJeezus

2009-11-25T17:22:17Z

wendy davis Commented on Happy Thanksgiving Cafe by destor23

2009-11-25T18:53:42Z

Crikey, thanks Destor. It's an honor. If I do a good job, can you make me Queen, just for ONE little year?? Please?
Happy Thanksgiving to you, and all the TPm-ers and Cafe-ites.

p.s. I liked your choice to bolster your 'bipartisan bona fides.'

wendy davis Commented on Good News, Bad News, and Really Bad News by TheraP

2009-11-25T18:48:30Z

Good news on the Nuns. Go, Nuns!
Bad news on Bishop Tobin, to whose interview by Tweety Matthews I was just listening; it's about refusing Communion to Congressman Kennedy. Matthews tries to nail him on a few items, but what the Catholic Matthews simply can't say is: You have NO RIGHT to inflict your Catholic morality on non-Catholics, much less Catholics. Chris can only focus on the 'would you put womwn who had abortions in jail' and 'do you call abortion murder?'
What he leaves out of the argument is enormous, and very telling.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews#34116440

wendy davis Commented on It is not a theater, but a factory by Zipperupus

2009-11-25T18:14:38Z

"It can be hard to get used to how much Garay talks about money in church, one loyal parishioner, Billy Gonzales, told me one recent Sunday on the steps out front. Back in Mexico, Gonzales’s pastor talked only about “Jesus and heaven and being good.” But Garay talks about jobs and houses and making good money, which eventually came to make sense to Gonzales: money is “really important,” and besides, “we love the money in Jesus Christ’s name! Jesus loved money too!”

Poor Billy resisted, but in the end...
Thanks for the article, seashell; I bookmarked it.

wendy davis Commented on Hidden Constraints on Presidential Power by wendy davis

2009-11-25T16:27:29Z

Please let's hope it was an accident, oh pease lt us hope it was an accident, oh please...

wendy davis Commented on It is not a theater, but a factory by Zipperupus

2009-11-25T15:53:23Z

While I was re-reading this, zip, it occurred to me that Christianist Prosperity Doctrine was the final 180-degree twisting of Christ's message in the Bible: If you're cool in the Eyes of the Lord, you will be wealthy. (Corollary: not rich, not coolin the Eyes of the Lord?) And Pat Robertson gives stock tips.
Frontline's story on credit cards sure fits in with this concept.

wendy davis Commented on Hidden Constraints on Presidential Power by wendy davis

2009-11-25T14:59:15Z

Thanks. Sudden death is dislocating; I find my friend wiggling her way into my awareness here and there, but she is always laughing. We were not "close," as she didn't invite closeness. Bit still.

wendy davis Commented on Oabma's going to finish the job in Afghanistan? by tlees2

2009-11-25T12:36:43Z

I read some pretty damning info about Breszinski along the way for my blog. More re-cycling of "experts" who failed. Power seems to only accrue to these folks, not diminish, over time, no matter what crazy-ass events they construct.