October 26, 2004
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TUESDAY POLITICS October Surprise
All along I’ve been wondering if the Bush folks would pull Bin Laden out of a hat at the last minute. Looks like whether they do or not there are a couple of surprises nobody planned: namely the Big Bang coming to a neighborhood possibly near you because of those missing explosives, and then the illness of Judge Rehnquist raising the specter of all those rights we’ve fought for being erased by whomever might replace him should he have to step down. And here we are in the very last week before Election Day and it still looks like a total squeaker in spite of all the crucial issues involved. Here’s an article from my hometown paper.
Deep Thought: “It’s easy to sit there and say you’d like to have more money. And I guess that’s what I like about it. It’s easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money. “
Today I am grateful for: Not having to ride the bus to work
Guess the Movie: “Well, judgin’ from his tracks, he’s about six and a half feet tall. He eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch. There’s a long, jagged scar that runs all the way across his face. His teeth are yella and rotten. His eyes are popped. And he drools most of the time.” Answer: To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962.
Polls Today: No change from yesterday. EVP: “Supreme Court news: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 80, has thyroid cancer and had an emergency tracheotomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital according to a report in today’s Washington Post. Thyroid cancer has several forms, but all are difficult to treat in older patients according to medical experts. Rehnquist is not the only member of the Court to have been diagnosed with cancer. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 71, had colon cancer, Sandra Day O”Conner, 74, had breast cancer, and John Paul Stevens, 84, had prostate cancer. This latest occurence of cancer once again spotlights the age of the current justices and the fact that the next president is almost certainly going to have multiple vacancies to fill, probably including the Chief Justice. With respect to judicial apppointments, it is harder to imagine two candidates whose judicial appointments would differ more than Bush and Kerry’s. Will the next president appoint Justices determined to reverse Roe v. Wade or to reaffirm it? What about teaching of creationism in schools, separation of church and state, medical research using stem cells, and so many other issues on which the candidates differ? Ultimately, practically all of them end up in the Supreme Court. Ten years from now the war in Iraq will be over (hopefully), but the justices the next president appoints will still be on the Court making decisions that affect many aspects of life in America. Think carefully about this issue before voting next Tuesday.”
End of Day: 8:01 pm
+ = Found out there won’t be any changes to my job right away – timeline hasn’t even been set yet to turn web pages over to outside vendor.
- = Tomorrow morning have to get crown lengthening surgery done on two teeth which will probably take 2 hours and the dentist is crabby, so think of me.
Comments (10)
Good link! ..Except that it calls the story a “leak” when it shouldn’t have been covered up in the first place.
How can you lose 380 tons of anything?
Alot of people have been speculating if Bin Laden will pop out of nowhere to give Bush the push he needs. Either way, I’m moving to Australia.
The fact that Bush is still on the radar screem with the constant flow of disastrous news: The missing 380 tons of explosives, the slaughter of Iraqi soldiers, the cover up of the CIA report blaming Rice and Bush for 9/11, the job loss picture, the gas/heating oil price disaster, is just an indication of how clueless the Bush voters really are, and what a brilliant job of brainwashing Karl Rove and his propaganda ministry have done.
Great article..thanks for sharing it..
I don’t trust anything Republican these days…
Lionne, would you keep a black cat inside the house on Halloween? If you have, how many days prior to Halloween would you keep it inside? I took cyrus inside during Halloween last year but maybe one night isn’t enough.
What bothers me about this election stuff is the fact that no matter who wins in the popular vote, the outcome is still chosen by the electoral college. Living in Texas, even if I voted for someone other than Bush, he’d still carry the state, and that really stinks.
I need to work on my ballot today. We have a lot of measures. I just wish the language was a little easier to understand.
Dick Cheney being called on the carpet by a grandmother in a wheelchair can not help him…
Nobody guessed the movie! Or did I miss it?
Interesting fact about the judges, I did not realize that. Hope your dental work goes well. ryc on my site – I don’t have any really close friends that are where I live now. It seems I just didn’t have the time to cultivate close friendships after I was focused on my children, or is it just that way for me?