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| Maya wanted to put on a dress after she got home from school today - pretty common, really. After she got it on, I was sorta overcome by how cute she looked, and told her so.
ME: Maya, I don't love you because you're pretty... but I love you very much, and you're very pretty.
MAYA: I love you too, Daddy.
ME: But would you love me if I weren't pretty?
MAYA: No.
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| So, I read this article today, and it sorta blew my mind a little. Not that it should.
The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature... Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country. Mr Kildee said he will concentrate on 50 cities, identified in a recent study by the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington think-tank, as potentially needing to shrink substantially to cope with their declining fortunes. Most are former industrial cities in the "rust belt" of America's Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis. ... "Much of the land will be given back to nature. People will enjoy living near a forest or meadow," he said. Mr Kildee acknowledged that some fellow Americans considered his solution "defeatist" but he insisted it was "no more defeatist than pruning an overgrown tree so it can bear fruit again".
Wow. As much as sprawl bothers me, I have to admit that I find this unnerving, which speaks exactly to the type of mindset that Kildee is talking about.
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| ... I will like in bed and imagine that this girl is singing to me.
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| Jebus.
"We fail to recognize the fact that we're alone out there in terms
of trying to achieve the objective of forcing the Iranians to give up
their nuclear weapons," Cheney said at a dinner following the Intelligence Squared debate,
in which Elizabeth Cheney and former Coalition Provisional Authority
spokesman Dan Senor debated former diplomat Nicholas Burns and Mideast
scholar Ken Pollack on the topic of negotiations with Iran. The former Vice President characterized the Iranian goal in
negotiations on ending that country's nuclear program as mere stalling
for time, and the Europeans as trying to "restrain the U.S." from
military action.
"Everybody's in a giant conspiracy to achieve a different objective than the one we want to achieve," Cheney said.
Your former vice president, ladies and gentlemen.
H/T TPM.
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| Linking to alicublog, because I can't bear to link to the original. Roy gives this the fisking it deserves.
I think one of his commenters hits it on the head - for a bunch of people who claim to be fighting an encroaching nanny state, they sure are patronizing.
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| This is a couple weeks late, but I feel I should point out that it's this kind of thing that makes my wife the bomb. Because Picasso and the Easter Bunny are the two great tastes that rumble festus bicycle.
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| I swear, this meme keeps getting funnier.
Last night, MSBNC’s David Shuster took Fox News — and particularly Neil Cavuto — to task for so relentlessly pushing the tea parties, noting that “the teabagging is not a spontaneous uprising“: The people who came up with it are a familiar circle of Republicans, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, both of whom have firm support from right wing financiers and lobbyists…Then there is the media, specifically the Fox News Channel…But most amusing of all is Neil Cavuto…Cavuto, defending his network’s promotion of tea bagging said, “We are going to be right in the middle of these teabaggers because at Fox we do not pick and choose these rallies and protests. We were there for the Million Man March.” […] Of course the Million Man march occurred, as newshounds.org points out, almost a year before Fox News was on the air. We can only speculate why widespread tea bagging made Cavuto think of the Million Man march, unless he got them confused with Dick Armey. And in Cavuto’s defense, if you are planning simultaneous tea bagging all around the country, you’re going to need a Dick Armey.
I can't handle much more of this. I'm serious. This had me laughing so hard I thought I might throw up. And I'm at work.
Wait - oh god, I missed the "spontaneous uprising" part the first time. Oh god... can't breathe...
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| Wow. Speaking as a pro-choice heathen, I can't help but thinking that Pat Buchanan just got pwned.
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| So Keet has this thing for Martin Van Buren. I try not to be jealous, since he's been dead for a long time and was only the 8th President of the Mother [redacted] United States of America, bitches. Plus, how can you hold a grudge against this guy? Seriously now.
I think it started a few years ago when we visited Keet's sister and her family. We went to an antique store not far from their house, and there was this blue plate there with the head of Van Buren emblazoned on it. We bought it, and now whenever Keet feels the need to eat some dessert or another with some degree of ceremony, she shouts, "Bring me the head of Martin Van Buren!" Sometimes she's even sober when she does it.
Anyway, I'm at work and I feel myself succumbing to the siren song of the vending machine. The smallest bill I have on me is a five, so I slide it into the bill slot and hear the thunk of three dollar coins hit the coin return. "Dammit," I think, "they're using dollar coins again. I hate that." When I go to take them out, I squint. What the hell are these, laundry tokens? They're too clean.
But then I see that handsome face staring at me and I realize who it is, and I think, "Sweet. Keet is gonna be jealous. I'm gonna show her these, and she's gonna be all "Oh man, where did you get those?" And I'm gonna say, "Never you mind, sweet thing. You know I am your Van Buren connection." And if she ever gets lippy with me, I'll say, "Bitz! You better show me some respect, or your Van Buren supply is cut off! You hear me? I'm the Van Buren man up in here!""
Or something like that.
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| Check it.
Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music have announced that as the date for the release of the entire original Beatles catalogue, digitally remastered. That includes all 12 Beatles albums in stereo, with track listings and artwork as originally released in the UK. The package will also contain the LP version of "Magical Mystery Tour" (initially released as a double-EP in Britain, though available on CD since 1987) and the collections "Past Masters Vol. I and II" combined as one title
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| Home sick today with a fever and feeling generally crappy, but this just about made my day.
Watch for the theremins to show up at the break.
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| Maya and I are playing picnic with some toy plastic food. I am voicing a frog toy she got from IKEA. The following is an abridged record of our conversation.
FROG: I am Obseepeebah, king of the Dalesford bullfrogs.
MAYA: Oh. Would you like some food?
FROG: I would. Do you have any flies?
MAYA: Sure. (Pretends to feed one to FROG.)
FROG: Yum. Thank you.
MAYA: (sees me reading the label) What does that label say?
FROG: It is a history of my people, telling of how my ancestors wrested control of the swamps of Dalesford from the scurvy toads of Strafford.
MAYA: Oh. Well, I have pizza.
FROG: Yum. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Just in case you missed this on CNN the first time around. I know I did.
HOST: Is Michelle Obama's tendency to wear sleeveless dresses improper? I sure don't think so! Let's consult our panel of experts.
EXPERT 1: Nope.
EXPERT 2: I love it.
HOST: Well, not so fast! Let's see what they have to say on The View!
THE VIEW, COLLECTIVELY: We love it!
THE ANNOYING ONE ON THE VIEW: Even I love it!
HOST: Well, there you have it!
I really gotta watch CNN more often. How am I getting by missing stuff like this?
update:
Just in case you think I'm making this up: Michelle Obama fashion fury. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
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