Bully Boy Comes To Town

Bully Boy comes to town . . .

Couple days after the Hurricane hit. Lot like 9/11, lot like Hurricane Katrina, lot like everything else he does. Not the brightest even in his own family. He's the kind of guy who's always handing out belated birthday cards.

Power? We've got the generator. That means standing in the gas lines.

But he was all over the radio yesterday telling us how good we got it.

We got it so good that over 1/2 of us without power when the hurricane hit still don't have power.

We got it so good that "good news" is P&L thinks everyone will have electricity by . . . Thanksgiving.

Bully Boy said something like "Soon more and more houmes will have power. Their life will get back to normal."

But he doesn't seem overly concerned. Hear he got some nice photo ops out of it.

Meanwhile, people stand in line for ice and water.

Guess he has other things on his mind with the whole Harriet thing blowing up in his face and rumors that Patrick Fitzgerald will indict someone today?

He came. He spun. He left.

I think the third thing's the only thing to cheer about.

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Quick jot

Right now we have power for a few hours thanks to the generator.

Do I sound like Riverbend?

Well say a prayer for Florida, while the rest of the nation lives under only one Bush, we live under two and you can really tell that with the incompetence displayed at every level in the wake of Hurricane Wilma.

Will we get any news today in Plamegate? Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts contains the news I'm hoping for.

Not much of a Jot, I know but we're on the generator and I don't want to use too much electricity. C.I.'s told me on the phone that everyone's been thinking of my family and me. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. We're fine, just without electricty most days.


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A Bug's Lie

With Wilma headed here, my mind's elsewhere this morning so I'll just post Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts. (Thanks to C.I. for explaining how this weekend.)

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Libby, Rove and Somerby

Libby and Rove may have conspired together! Shocking. No doubt ego maniac Rove's grumbling about who gets top billed.

Some people are waiting to see what Patrick Fitzgerald will do. Some are attacking Joe Wilson.
Attack the victim?

The site that's not my site's namesake launched yet another attack on Joe Wilson yesterday and wants us all to think it's about "the truth."

Bob Somerby's been absent for the lead up to the invasion and he's been absent for the occupation. He can scold and attack but the truth is he sleeps on the job like an "old geezer" (using one of his words). Is he too shame faced to own up to it?

Laugh as Bob turns himself into a pretzel to continuously scold that "This is not a story!" Chuckle as he plays fast and loose with the facts to attack Joe Wilson. Mourn the death of once great voice.

Question to ponder for the weekend: Why do some people trash their own work and legacy?

Harriet gest a do over

Harriet Miers gets a do over. She didn't make a goal but instead of benching her, the Senate's going to give her a do over. If she's confirmed, will the Court implement a do over policy when she still can't get her act together?

Will majority opinions begin with, "Barring any do overs, the Court finds . . ."

Will good come from this? Will they drop the misguided "three strikes and you're out" policy due to a defense attorney arguing to the Court that his or her client wants "one of those Harriet Miers do overs?"

Harriet Miers ... possibly qualified for the Court ... if she can have a do over.

Now for a self-plug. Mike has an interview with a smart, funny, guy ... me! For the hour, Mike, for the hour!

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Harriet Miers: Woman of Mystery

Yesterday began with news of Harriet Miers' challenge: "No one knows how I'd vote on abortion." As though the country had found the dead body in the library, with a candle stick holder but not sure which character had done the deed. By mid-day even the worst Clue player could tell you about the 1989 survey she answered giving her pledge to pursue the anti-choice agenda.

The mystery of Miers remains a mystery only to those as bright as a post hole digger. But she wants you to keep playing. Which may explain her own intellectual capabilities.

Musing on Dexter Filkins

Dexter Filkins goes all spaz and spaztic while reporting on the rumors of ballot stuffing in Iraq. Maybe he feared that a look into ballot stuffing might prompt one into crotch stuffing as well? Never did understand that. If you're looking to get with someone, really get with someone, how do you explain when the pitching mound is suddenly an ant hill?

Maybe Dexter Filkins can explain that in his next op-ed "live from the Green Zone!"?

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What did her parents tell her?

We get told, growing up, work hard, apply yourself, and maybe someday you'll make something of yourself, even maybe become president.

Or most of us. Did Harriet Miers' parents tell her, "Harriet, you kiss enough butt, don't do anything spectacular or special, just kiss that butt, and some day you could be a judge on the Supreme Court!"

Where's the damn Daily Jot?

I'm trying to see if I have this figured out. C.I. just returned my message and before the week started I wanted to figure out how to do posts by e-mail. When we were setting it up last night, we set it up for that.

Already have Beth busting my chops with "Where's your Sunday post?" :)

What happened there was I ended up early this morning and i.m.ed Mike who said, "Get your butt over to The Third Estate Sunday Review!" So I ended up helping out with their CD thing. And then just talking and shooting the breeze.

C.I. and Ava were trying to get their TV review completed but they were up against a clock because C.I. had signed up for volunteer work this weekend. So the point came where the review wasn't completed. Jim said don't worry, we'd all work on the editorial this evening and people could consider it two editions instead of one with the 2nd one having the editorial and the review.

The whole evening/night/morning was a train wreck for the guys because in the middle of the news review, Jim checks the e-mails and finds an article Martha's e-mailed by the guy she hates. (Community members know who I am talking about.) He's ripped off C.I. no credit, no nothing.

C.I. is able to handle that. I'd be screaming my head off, breaking something and wanting to go punch the guy out. And that was everyone's reaction pretty much so the whole edition got derailed.

Jess told me C.I.'s the one who put it back together and he feels real bad about that because there it was C.I. being ripped off and C.I.'s stuck with making everyone else feel it's okay. So Jess feels bad about that.

When finally the review started back up, it was late and the rip off was something that people just kept going back to. Jess said C.I. didn't and kept saying, "We need to focus on what's in front of us." Jess blames himself because he fed into the rage and he doubts that was helpful to C.I.

So that's what was going on there. After C.I. had to bail and get ready to start volunteering, we probably all stayed on the phone for about two or three hours just shooting the sh-t. (I'll try to keep this site clean because I know a lot of members use work computers. I've got a filthy mouth though so I may slip. Remind me if I go into the gutter.)

I'll start The Daily Jot stuff proper tomorrow. Now I'm going to see if this will send and if it does, I'll add links. I should have used my yahoo account and I could have put links in. Next time I'll remember that.


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The Daily Jot

Thank you mucho to C.I. of The Common Ills. Mucho grande.

I'm Common Ills community member Wally and I toss out things every now and then to that site. This is just a brief background or bio.

I think my older cousin Will turned me on to The Common Ills. A lot of people were talking about it but Will's the one I listen to. There was a thing on a story in The New York Times about Florida and football and that's how Will got me to check it out. I discovered the other community sites and I have to do a shout out to Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude. I've got C.I. on the phone so I'm trying not to do too many links. C.I.'s talking me through the mechanics but I have to give a shout out to Rebecca. We'd read her and C.I. for class my last year in high school. And I have to do a shout out to my buddy Mike because if he hadn't stayed on my case, this site wouldn't be starting. Mike blogs at Mikey Likes It!

Everyone's great but I'll sit on my lazy butt and not try to hunt down links since C.I.'s kind enough to "hold the phone" while I figure out what to say. Elaine, Cedric, Betty, Dona, Jim, Ava, Jess, Ty, Kat and Seth are all people who do great work worth reading.

Guess what? You ain't gonna find nothing like that here!

I'm a college student and I'm hyper busy. What I'm hoping for is to do a "daily jot" at least five times a week. C.I.'s helped me create or whatever the option where you can e-mail a post to your site and, cross those fingers, that will help me always be able to blog.

My daily jot is going to be a thought or two. I'm not doing a run down of everything.

It'll be like a thought for the day. Nothing spiritual or deep, more of a smart ass kind of thing coz that's the kind of man I am!

This may be the longest post you see here.

But Mike's talked about the need for members of the community to toss stuff out there and so this is my way of doing that.

Again, big thanks, mucho mucho, to C.I. for being on the phone with me. I'm about to learn how to post these damn things. At some point, probably on winter break, I'll add more to my blog roll but I wanted the community sites up there, Democracy Now! and Pop Politics because Christine's someone that really spoke to the community at Ms. Musing and let me talk a second there.

Christine did Ms. Musing over at Ms. I don't know how long. I know that after I found The Common Ills, I'd go check the links. Lot of good stuff up there but Christine really made me think about stuff. I bet she didn't expect for some high school jock (male) to find her writing to speak to him but they did. I don't know why Ms. Musing stopped and nobody asked my opinion on it, but if they had, I would've told them big mistake. There were times when I disagreed and times when I agreed and always I went back to read more. I'm trying to remember to check Pop Politics but it's still new to me and I'm a creature of habit like anybody else. But she's doing her work at Pop Politics with a lot of other interesting people and it's on my blog roll so try to check it out.

I don't think a community member could start a site without noting Democracy Now! because it's so important to the community. I think Pop Politics is pretty important too and I hope me putting it up there makes you want to give it a look.

In fact, this'll kind of be like a real short version of what Christine does. She does these wonderfully written things and don't expect that. And she's on top of pretty much everything and don't expect that! LOL. But I'll just toss out an opinion or two here and maybe you'll agree or disagree but maybe it'll make you think.

I need to get this up before The Third Estate Sunday Review starts publishing because that way they can add me to their links. I hemmed and hawwed forever and 20 days. But I said I would start something and this is it. Hope you find something here but no promises.

Now C.I.'s going to talk me through tags quickly because Rebecca will never speak to me if I don't learn tags. For community memer Shirley I'll put in the e-mail address "for this site" which is thedailyjot@yahoo.com. Name's Wally and I probably should have started with that.
Kat always says, "It is what it is."

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