To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
The blogger pin-up Erika Herald talks about faith-based initiatives.
I am all in favor of them. Instead of government-funded programs, not as government-funded programs. They’re effective because they have extensive contact with the people they serve, and because people serve to salve their souls, not to maintain six figure salaries and to keep themselves in conference-in-exotic-locale tans.
Detective McDonald is warming to his speech and is doing well, too.
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Who the heck is Dana Glover?
What, was Danny busy?
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George P. Bush, one of the little brown ones, does well enough. Diversity in the GOP? Hell, there’s diversity in the Bush family, for crying out loud.
When he cuts to Spanish at the end, it reminds me of watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture dubbed in Spanish during a high school Spanish class. A stream of Spanish dialog until someone refers to a character by name, when the original actor’s voice breaks in with the very American pronunciation, “Spock.”
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Cut away to the Bush twins, facing each other, leaning closer….
Oh, yes.
Now, if their grandmother would get out from between them. She’s ruining the effect.
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Elizabeth Dole goes into the wilderness and returns with some meat for her tribe.
How family values is Liddy? Her husband was senator from Kansas, and now she’s senator from North Carolina. Ladies and gentlemen, the Doles slept in separate beds in separate states. Either that, or Liddy is a carpetbagger.
But she’s our carpetbagger, so that makes it all right?
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An attorney has sued over use of so-called as an adjective modifying his profession and his practice thereof:
Elderly Schenectady (NY) lawyer Romolo Versaci has filed a $100,000 defamation suit against Diane C. Richie, an unemployed social worker and widow with two children. Versaci claims — and Richie admits — that she called him a “so-called attorney” on a SchenectadyNY.info message board. …
I wonder if I can get in on some of the action.
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Where did these guys learn how to write?
“America today has used all its force, as well as the help of others, to fight Islam under the so-called war on terror, which is nothing but a vicious crusade against Muslims,” the statement said.
Oh, we can guess.
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Ann Althouse doesn’t care for the Rubes in Paradise theme I touched on I mentioned last night–except she’s talking about the extra condescending, non-Republican sponsored asides provided by media commentators.
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McCain rocks. My wife is done with her Dance Dance Revolution on the den television for the night. I am watching Giuliani on cable. T1 passes in a pinch, but it’s not cable television yet.
Good night.
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The mission was necessary, achieveable, and noble.
Was?
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Boo to you, Michael Moore.
I would like to point out that I personally supported McCain before Bush in 2000. I think he’s crazy enough to carried the war to the terrorists in 2001 and beyond. Also, McCain as president, there would have been no McCain-Feingold. There, I said it.
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John McCain, who cannot comb his own hair from hanging and torture in POW camps in North Vietnam, says this is the challenge of our generation.
His, and ours. It’s the continuing challenge of all American generations.
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Lindsey Graham? I never would have guessed from his vocals on “Big Love” that he had a southern accent.
United America? I daresay not. We are the United States of America, you politico. We shall not dissolve the electoral college, nor will we let the majority of Americans rule this country.
I thought they said you were from North Carolina. Sounds like a Washingtonian sentiment to me.
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Spare me the Rubes in Paradise interviews with people from the rest of the country who’re in NYC for the first time.
I’ve never been to NYC, and I’m no worse for wear. No less sophisticated, no less educated, and Hillary Clinton is not one of my senators.
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Sometimes a Cocoon allusion just feels right.
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This is opening night of the festival? Kerik, police officers, fire department union members in Milwaukee, Zainab Al-Suwaij, and then the crescendo of McCain and Giuliani?
Who said the GOP had no star power? If this is foreplay, I am a dead man!
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I like
Coverage on CSPAN
Texas hard rock bands
Devious Karl Rove plans
And twins.
Leaders who are Dicks
Hot conservative chicks
Moving Reagan pics
And those twins.
(I think I shall have to learn to appreciate the comfort of the sofa this evening with my less-than-latent fixation.)
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That giant blue elephant on the video screen behind the podium would be a whole lot better in 3D, ainna?
Whoa! Look out for that trunk!
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A man, diagnosed with HIV in 1996, discovers it was an error. Relieved? Happy? Thrilled with his reprieve? What are you thinking?
Earlier this month, Malone, 59, was summoned to his doctor’s office. He listened as the doctor delivered the stunning news: He is HIV negative. The doctor acknowledged the error, writing in a letter dated Aug. 4: “As his primary care provider, I take full responsibility.”
“He told me, ‘We made a very big mistake. We did not do our job,’ ” said Malone, who is gay and has lost friends to AIDS. “I said, ‘You mean to tell me that all you have to say is you are sorry? Sorry that I lived for all this time believing I was going to die?’ “
How about “Sorry” and “You can keep the free parting gifts” which included:
His rent was paid in part by a county health program. Project Open Hand delivered free meals. A nurse visited him at home every two weeks.
Undoubtedly, he’s more relieved than the story presents, but then the article goes into a riff about:
His misdiagnosis is rare but undisputed and shows the far-reaching damage wrought by medical mistakes and the potential for flaws in burdened health care systems.
Who’s responsible? Well, since Malone’s a vet, it’s an example of government efficiency in health care:
Officials at the Oakland Department of Veterans Affairs’ outpatient clinic where he was treated admit the mistake and have launched an investigation into what went wrong and how the error was perpetuated year after year. VA officials were taken by surprise by the Aug. 4 letter in which the doctor accepted blame and admitted the error. Malone’s physician, Dr. Richard Karp, was not available to comment as the case is under investigation.
Karen Pridmore, a spokeswoman for VA’s Northern California Health Care System, which has eight clinics and a medical center and serves more than 65, 000 patients, said Malone had arrived at the clinic in 1996 with lab results from an outside testing firm in Southern California. Those results showed he was HIV positive. The VA did its own confirmatory HIV test on Malone and found he was negative.
Will this albeit anecdotal evidence silence calls for socialized medicine, which I don’t doubt the San Francisco Chronicle supports?
Of course not. Undoubtedly, they would have the rest of the government do it better, by….Well….Erm….
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I cannot fathom why John Kerry chose this Vince Lombardi in Green Bay:
In arguing for different budget priorities than Bush’s tax cuts, Kerry quoted legendary Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi as saying: “Who you are depends on what you do with what you have.”
Help me while I try to keep the universe from imploding from the sheer paradox.
Kerry should have instead quoted, “Winning isn’t everything, winning is the only thing.”
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