Dick "Last Throes" Cheney gave the debate over an Iraqi pullout timeline yet another swirlie yesterday. Yawn. I've come to expect that His Supreme Evilness will never acknowledge the validity of opposition to his plans. But the way Mr. "Big Time!" went after all of us pussies yesterday before the American Enterprise Institute begs a brief rejoiner. The quote that made all the newsy replays began with The Big Bypass asserting that his opponents should answer a few "simple questions" that were impossible to answer since they were utterly hypothetical. Kinda like, "if suddenly the sun stopped shining, wouldn't those people advocating solar energy look silly?" Yet beyond the daily revisionism from the Veep, the following chestnut stuck out as a new level of denial - "I repeat that we never had the burden of proof; Saddam Hussein did." So one should extrapolate that The Dark Overlord ain't gonna cooperate with the Congress' new attempts to investigate the misuse of intellegence in the lead-up to our Iraq Crusade. Double yawn. But the lengths to which he'll go to re-assert his unswayable rightness in the face of unassailably valid questions is pretty historic, even if only as a tragedy.
I don't usually pay much attention to the USAToday, but their story on nearly 7000 people still missing after Katrina deservedly caught not just my eye this morning. It led me to the National Center for Missing Adults, which is trying to gather info on the Katrina victims. One should assume that plenty of people have purposely gone missing or that many are mistakenly identified as such. But there's got to be some additional victims, the tally of which stands at 1306 currently. Some coverage of the cleanup is ongoing, yet we've all mostly moved on. I'm not surprised. Just occasionally shocked and saddened by thoughts of how much needless damage could have been prevented.
Another blast from the recent newsy past will blow through around the TurkeyDay news cycle. Cindy Sheehan's group is prepping for another protest gathering in Crawford. The key difference now being the passage of McLennan (not McClellen) County ordinances about gathering/camping along the roadside that are entirely friendly to Crawford's most famous too-often resident and family. Watch for mass arrests. Sizable press coverage. And lots of mountain biking by Dubya.
I watched the Packers get embarrassed yet again last night on Monday Night Football with one of my Vikings fan friends who now lives in San Jose. Both teams are horrible in their own disgracefully incompetent ways. And the always lovable Brett Favre is looking more and more like a Branson Missouri-quality trip down memory lane with each passing game. For anyone that appreciates the history of the Pack, one moment on the sideline shone through brilliantly admist all the dreck. Ex-QBs Jim McMahon (played there two seasons at the end of his career, including the Super Bowl victory year) and Don "The Majik Man" Majkowski were hanging out, looking ready to hit up the adoring ladies at the buffet at Fuzzy Thurston's bar as soon as they could duck out of the game. My Viking friend, Sockie, derisively acknowledged how nice it was that I got my requisite dose of Packer history, probably mandated by a League that still has a permanent set of lips on the butt of the Green Bay "Acme" Packers. And then the Pack lost the game on yet another last second field goal. I hope the entire coaching staff and team are sent packing at season's end. Coat Favre in bronze and ship him to Louisiana. And let's move on, people.
We're off to Santa Barbara tonight for the TurkeyDay holiday. Plenty of pics of Maya should be expected. Speaking of Her Majesty, I'm being summoned for a midmorning snack. Hope all your own orders are equally enjoyable to fill. Rock on.
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The Packers are dun, dun, dun, done. Farve is getting to be as predictable as Bulger is--you just have a feeling that at some critical point of a game, he will throw a ball, and it will be picked off.
I'm with you--Sherman is outta there at the close of the year, especially if they do not find the time to put Aaron Rodgers in the mix. Because, now is the time--there's nothing left to save except a .500 season, and even that won't do the Packers any good. Get Rodgers some playing time, and stop apologizing for Favre; it's over.
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