Monday, June 21, 2010

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39 comments:

  1. Howard Dean knows which way to go and thus is first!

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  2. BIll, I left a message for you on the last thread. Susan and puddle too.

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  3. BP sure doesn't know which way to go. The gov't isn't much better.

    Wildlife*Biologist*Son called on Sunday to wish Hubby a Happy Father's Day; so we got an update on the Gulf project. They originally told him the project would begin July 1st and he told them strongly that that's too late, as the birds will soon be done with nesting and leaving. So banding them (an important part of what he needs to do down there) would become impossible. (This is because the only known methods of bird-banding involve using a decoy during mating season to get the attention of birds. Put a decoy out after mating season and they'll just ignore it or make friends.)

    So, guess what. He has been told that it will take until mid-July to get things together...as they need time to hire people and have them sign the usual agreements, etc.. I say BALONEY! Birders know how to rally swiftly, given the chance!

    BAH!

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  4. I'm beginning to think the govt is almost as useless under Obama as it was under Dubya. I donno. Maybe it's just the nature of the beast.

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  5. Mum thinks the next Democratic ticket should be Hillary/Howard. The very idear gives me the screaming heeby jeebies! Now, if there were some way to elect Howard...

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  6. Still on my Engelbert kick, or is that jag. I expect it'll be ending soon. Found a few songs today I never heard by him before, but keep returning to the old favorites. I ended my you tube session with "The Last Waltz." I mean, you might as well do a thing properly if you can.

    Do hope I can kick myself out of this depression or whatever it is I've been in for several weeks. Got stuff to do. More productive stuff than spending hours on end listening to music. Oh well, need to go to bed now. Did I mention that I've been reading the Dark Is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper? I've reached the fifth and final book, Silver on the Tree It's a lovely series, engaging yet uncomplicated. Rather better in my current frame of mind than adult books.

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  7. Bill Thomasson6/21/2010 01:01:00 PM

    Cat ~~ Yeah, nature of the beast in this case. Any sufficiently large organization has procedures in place to keep people from going off on their own and doing stupid or corrupt things. That's called "red tape." Cutting through the red tape is a major operation in its own right.

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  8. Another beautiful June day. Maybe a bitter warmer than I'd wish, but not going to complain. Nope, not going to.

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  9. Sounds EXACTLY like our day. puddle! :-)

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  10. Got to share this post from FB, since it gave me a great big smile.

    Adam-Troy Castro thinks the absolutely perfect time to go to sleep is when you have just enough energy to approach the foot of the bed and sway unsteadily before collapsing face down on the mattress, terrifying the cats.

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  11. Bill Thomasson6/21/2010 07:44:00 PM

    Yes, indeed. Well, it sounds almost like a receipe for smothering. Maybe save enough emergy to turn over on your side or back.

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  12. wonder how I got from little to bitter?

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  13. 'Fraid I'm gonna have to get to that stage tonight. I'm exhausted, but too wired to sleep.

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  14. I'm having a hard time over Joe Trippi coming back to Vermont and working on the campaign of my favoured candidate. I want so much to work for this candidate, and have promised to help with mailings, yet I cringe at the thought of running into Trippi there. I not only don't feel resolved about his part in Howard's campaign's decline, but I also feel concern about his influence in this campaign. Should this candidate not be our next Governor, it's likely to be another Republican. The stakes are high.

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  15. I grok that. It's a crummy state to be in.

    Would maybe a nice, hot shower help, or a nice cool shower, if your weather is as hot and sticky as ours? The water itself is soothing, and I myself always find washing my hair relaxing.

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  16. I agree, Cat. Even better is having my hair washed by someone else.

    BTW, a dear friend told me recently, at age 96, that she had gotten her nails done for the first time in her life. The next time she went, she had them do her toenails too.

    You're never too old.

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  17. I don't know what to tell you, listener. If it were me, I'd back out of volunteering. If your candidate picked Trippi I'd have to question why. Trippi thinks he's a whole lot better than he actually is, and also seems to think he can override his candidate on campaign matters.

    If Trippi is going to endanger your candidate's run there's nothing you, as a volunteer, can do to save the situation.

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  18. Works okay much of the time, but given that this response is already two months late, they need to make some exceptions. For example, since they hired the company my son works for, why not sign an agreement with the company and let the company do the internal red tape themselves. They've already checked out my son before hiring him (in fact, they've worked with him before then in various capacities, so he's KNOWN to them). The Gov't needs to get experts in the field FAST! If they don't get down there before the birds begin to migrate it will be too late. And he told them this.

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  19. That's got to be hard to listen to; still, don't worry, Cat, unless Mom joins the DLC.

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  20. I say if you're depressed but can listen to music, good for you and you're doing okay, all things considered. ♥

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  21. listener, I wish I knew something intelligent and helpful to tell you. Instead, all I can urge you to do is to go with your heart, or perhaps your instincts. Think deeply and thoroughly about this matter, and decide what you believe to be the right thing to do. And then do it. If it means facing Trippy, I know you're brave and strong enough to do that.

    Has no one protested Trippy's introduction into the campaign? Surely we aren't the only people who can see what a loser and more than that a jinx he is. Maybe the people who are uncomfortable about him should get together and speak to the candidate?

    Don't know how to phrase this: I, well, I have sympathy and compassion for the position you're in. I'll hold you in the Light.

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  22. Thanks, Susan. I still wish I could save the situation.

    And I don't want to back out; there's the rub. I just want this candidate to win.

    I guess, to me, having Joe in the works is a wild card and lends anxiety right up to election day.

    I don't know why my guy, who is good and intelligent, hired Trippi.

    Of course, I still can't comprehend why such an intelligent person as Barack Obama hired R.E. as COS.

    It helps to talk it over here, because I really don't want to start dissing anyone, so I come here where y'all know me and WERE THERE in 2004. I appreciate it that you get it.

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  23. A good suggestion, Cat, but I have the strong feeling nothing much is going to help tonight. Just glad I'm retired and don't have to get up for a job tomorrow. Some family drama being played out that has me pretty twitchy.

    Well, that plus age. As I get older sleeping becomes more like something you have to *make* happen, rather than something that comes naturally. I don't get much sleep these days, usually five hours or less. Maybe that's why I'm as wrinkled as a raisin?

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  24. The details are slightly fuzzy, but I remember watching a documentary-type show on Trippi after he threw his temper tantrum and walked out on Howard.

    The most outstanding example of his extremely poor judgment (to my mind) was when the show revealed that Trippi is diabetic and had worked such ridiculous hours and not attended his health that he actually went blind for a short time. Was he trying to look self-sacrificing? I just thought it was the stupidest move in the world. To risk losing your sight or your life over one campaign, no matter who the candidate.

    I didn't think he was heroic, as we were apparently meant to, I thought he was moronic.

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  25. Susan, that is bloody incredible. Moronic is right. Talk about being a danger to oneself.

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  26. My guy (Edwin) not only liked Joe, I think he felt great sympathy for him. I'd say Edwin was both good and intelligent. As I've said before, I pretty much missed Trippi, so I never had much invested in him. Perhaps those that were pinning their hopes on him got more disillusioned? My view? Joe neither made nor broke Howard's campaign. *Everyone* was riding high in December. And no one was after Iowa. As I talked and sent letters, the Dean Scream more than any single other thing was the turn off. Even for many who were very politically active and astute.

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  27. A great many people liked Joe. Do you remember after he left he started a blog of his own? Quite a few Dean people followed him over there. He had a lot of fans and he really started to think better of himself than he deserved. But he was well-liked by many Dean people, and for some he was better liked than Howard. I just wasn't one of the "some". For me it was always all about Howard and the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party. I thought Howard was ill-served by Joe because Joe's ego and vanity got in the way.

    And the media super-hyped the "Dean Scream", which they manufactured. It wasn't until too late that people realized what had actually happened. The MSM no way wanted Howard in office because he'd said right up front that he'd break up the media monopolies. I believe he would have.

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  28. Bill Thomasson6/21/2010 11:51:00 PM

    Just had a truly impressivwe lightening flash -- even I could see the bolt -- and a huge clap of thunder. Now the rain is starting. Looks like I'd better close my office windows.

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  29. The Dean Scream is the classic example of media distortion of reality. And people believing that distortion is the classic example of how stupid, gullible and unwilling to think for themselves people are.

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  30. Today is the Summer Solstice, Midsummer's Day. I've been too out of things to realize it till seeing it just now on Flight Plan, the page on Rod McKuen's site that gets changed and updated every other day. What an idiot. Should have put something together for Arty. Poo!

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  31. Here's the link to Flight Plan:

    http://www.mckuen.com/flights/flight.htm

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  32. Hi! Unlaxing after a weekend at Mine No. 2. Thanks to the ER not being as busy as usual and that weird anti-snoring pillow I am recovering faster than "normal." Off to visit the sandman shortly. Oh, my; what group was it who sang the famous version of "Mr. Sandman" that was all the rage back about the late fifties?

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  33. THE CHORDETTES!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odcJ-vS22rI

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  34. Bill Thomasson6/22/2010 11:16:00 AM

    Susan ~~ Yeah, I find that sleep is no longer the easy, natural thing it used to be. Although I usually end up getting enough, at least when averaged over a few days. I typically have to get up to go to the bathroom after about 5 hours. Sometimes I can fall right back to sleep as I should. Other times I sort of fitfully doze for a couple of hours before really sleeping again -- or not. But if I don't get enough sleep one night I'll probably spend 10 hours in bed the next. And I often find myself sleepy in mid-afternoon. Tell myself I should take a nap. Sometimes I do. But more often I put it off until I've finished something, and by then I'm not sleepy any more.

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  35. Bill Thomasson6/22/2010 11:32:00 AM

    We don't seem to have a Tuesday thread, but Howard is first anyway.

    listener ~~ I missed most of this discussion when I looked last night. But I wasn't here in 2004 in the sense you mean. The Dean campaign in Illinois went it's own way from the very beginning, with very little actual contact with Burlington. Trippi didn't really figure in what happened on the ground here.

    In terms of campaign post mortems, I think there is plenty of blame to go around. Given my background, I'm inclined to put a lot of it on the shoulders of the Communications Director. She may have been fine for an asterisk candidate, but she clearly did not know what she needed to do for a front-runner. An aphorism I first heard at a DFA training but whose validity I immediately recognized from my professional experience, is: "Reporters don't find news; news finds reporters." She never seemed to grasp that the essence of her job was feeding reporters the news she wanted them to cover.

    As for Emanuel, I think he is exactly where he ought to be. He is an excellent organizer, and that is the essence of the COS job. Meanwhile, he is no longer in a position to distort things by his emphasis on winning at all costs. And the people of IL-05 have a better, more progressive Congressman.

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  36. Don't know where our leader is, but in the interim, have posted a new thread for ya'll's edification. . . . .

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  37. Bill Thomasson6/22/2010 11:39:00 AM

    listener ~~ Problem is that you have to cut red tape in order to cut red tape. At the very least, somebody very near the top has to take an hour or so signing off on the decision to by-pass normal procedures. And the demands on their time are horrendous.

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  38. Thanks, listener. Music always helps.

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