Gimli has settled in very well indeed. Tasha doesn’t mind him, grumpy old lady Tina only hisses at him when he gets in her face. Tommy stopped hissing at him after about two days and now they play and groom each other a lot. Here’s a sample:
He’s taken to stealing the dish and hand towels off their racks and dragging them all over the house, which is pretty funny to watch. I have some pix of that too but need to get them developed.
Happy Labor Day weekend to all!
A quadruple bypass is not a walk in the park. I’m sending President Clinton & his nearest & dearest some good energy today.
Update – I’m also sending a get-well card – like anyone who’s been sick, I’m sure he’ll appreciate the support. If you’re of like mind here’s a mailing address:
The William J. Clinton Foundation
55 West 125th St.
New York, NY 10027
This president sees America as we think about a 10-year-old child,
So said White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card.
I suspect Card was trying to express how much Bush loved America when he chose that phrase. But the way it came out, it sounded grossly paternalistic and insulting to the intelligence of Americans.
And to me, this is a classic example of what’s wrong with the crew in the White House. They really do think they know better than the rest of us, and that this justifies their actions.
2 months to Election Day. Bring it on.
I was wondering if Kerry was ever going to step up to the plate and do something about the vile smear campaign BushCo is running against him. Tonight he did:
“For the past week, they attacked my patriotism and my fitness to serve as commander in chief,” Kerry said. “We’ll, here’s my answer. I’m not going to have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have and by those who have misled the nation into Iraq.”
Indeed.
I know you wanted to just relax and enjoy life but I’m glad to see you back. Otherwise I might have missed this gem from the dirty tricks book:
It seems that a Republican polling firm is conducting push polls in Wisconsin that explicitly use the accusation of the Swift Boat Liars for Bush in their misleading questions.
Unfortunately for them, they called the wrong guy: A democratic activist who jotted down their questions, and signed an affidavit confirming all of it.
They also made a boo boo by trying that in Wisconsin, which has a state law requiring any polling firm to reveal who is paying for a poll if asked. Naturally, the gentleman asked the caller who was paying for the poll.
Just as naturally, they clammed up.
What really pisses me off is that the SCLM just lets this stuff slide 99.99999% of the time. Without the Blue Blogosphere we’d be in even deeper doo-doo than we already are.
I realized this morning that yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of my blog’s existence. Some 260 posts later, here I am, still blogging away.
In looking through my Technorati links and SiteMeter referrals, I’ve noted that over time I’ve gotten listed in a handful other people’s blogrolls. That’s of course gratifying to my ego, but when I see myself listed as being a “Progressive” blog it also makes me feel a little like I’m there under false pretenses. With my recent increase in spare time and the heating up of the political front, I’ve posted a lot about politics, but Fiat Lux was not meant to be a political blog as such. And I do not consider myself a “Progressive” – which seems to be the label people adopt when they believe the Democrats aren’t sufficiently to the left.
When Howard Dean said, “I’m from the Democratic wing of the Democratic party” that had a lot of resonance for me. I’m a 3rd generation Democrat and proud of it. That said, I also voted for Giuliani and Pataki when I lived in New York City. I felt they were the better candidates for the job at the time. I’d vote for a Republican again if I honestly felt that s/he was the better candidate and more closely matched my policy beliefs. The way things are today, I don’t think that’s very likely though.
America, in my mind, is a grand social experiment. We’ve tried for 200+ years to build a better society, one that is a standard of success for the rest of the world. Problem is we’re human and we don’t always get things right. The industrial revolution brought some dramatic changes to the role of labor in people’s lives. I think a lot of the social programs that have been introduced during the 20th century were various attempts – some more or less successful – to try to bring some balance to the equations that had been changed but the new modes of work. Some have been more successful than others; and of course the world is still changing. We may never get it right – but we cannot stop trying.
In short, I consider myself a firm Democrat and more centrist than far left, although others may not see me that way. And Fiat Lux is a blog that talks a lot about politics, but is not confined to it.
Happy anniversary, Fiat Lux! Let’s see what the next year will bring.