Lesson learned?

Obama wanted stuff in the infrastructure bill that would make Republicans support it.
All the Republicans voted NO!
That’s a good lesson and I hope Obama & the Democrats will take it to heart.
Don’t write your bills like the Republican idiots want them. They won’t participate anyway.

Better late than never?

No.

Mental lapse

My Palm Zire went pffft! actually one day it worked and the next day it didn’t. What a shame. I dug out my Handspring Visor and took 4-5 hours to kluge my way through the Linux apps that talk to it – Linux has apps for Anything, including my old 640×480 Agfa digicam – so I didn’t lose my mind after all (well, maybe 2 days worth at worst).
There must be a really cheap version of that old PDA on sale today. Maybe KMart has something on its bargain shelf.

McConnell

Mitch McConnell. Nah, we don’t torture, and “enhanced interrogation techniques” are a good thing, and Gitmo can never be closed, and there’ll be no bipartisanship where labor unions are involved. Etcetera.
I think if McConnell is a typical Republican, there’ll be no way to include them in an America where there’s a Constitution and the Rule of Law.

Republicans seem to think their philosophy, which gave us Gitmo, Iraq, the Twin Towers (i.e. ignore information you don’t want), and the collapse of the American economy, should continue to “guide” America.

I’d rather it did not.

Very taxing.

A question is, should a 62-year-old man play table tennis for three hours after he’s taken a month off?
The answer is, no. And tomorrow will be worse.

I have to write to my President and my Senators. This tax reduction thing is eating at me. I think the Everything’s Free notion is what got us in this godawful mess anyhow. Maybe spending a trillion dollars we don’t have on roads and bridges and maybe windmills and transmission lines is a great idea; but to reduce taxes on top of that? Jeez.

Or maybe: why cut taxes for people who already have jobs when you could be spending more money to make jobs for more people? Yeah. I like that better.

The NSA

The NSA is doing what it always has done and it’s doing what it was set up to do, which is to monitor all electronic communications; maybe I’m limiting their mission too much. The fact is, that’s what it does. The problem piece is that human beings have control over just what gets closely examined, and how, and what gets retained. Without at least oversight from many or maybe all elected officials (not The President Alone), the NSA can be used as a terrible thing. With enough oversight the NSA can do what it was meant to do, which is, help catch the bad guys.

The fate of snowmen

There are a number of possible fates for snowmen.

When they survive assaults by humans, they suffer the indignities of dogs.

This snowman is quite old.

Miracle of America

A Christian Creationist can spend 8 years wrecking the nation and putting together all the pieces that would let him be President For Life, and when the time comes, in spite of everything, he flies away and the New President Moves in!
Now it’s hope for the best.

Yay!

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Now the work begins.

Happening.

Inauguration day!
I heard vp Cheney hurt his back and would be in a wheelchair, and the paranoic 3/4 of the brain kicked in. Would he be hiding in a bunker somewhere instead of attending, and why? Would something be planted in the chair? Maybe he just didn’t want to have to stand during the Oath? Yow. One hour 45 minutes left.
Soon it’ll be all better.