Gonna miss this guy.

Because of the lyrics of the song "Don't go" by Jon Tarifa, Spiros Lena was inspired to make a tribute video for the coolest President the world has ever seen!

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Hoorah

If you know me, you know I'm politically on the left.  Not only do I live on the Left Coast, I'm a Democrat.  I love this video.  Hoorah!

Be well and do good,

GOP presidential debate

 

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Agenda

Could Representative Peter King have a hidden adgenda, with his House Homeland Security Committees'  plan to investigate the threat of Islamic "radicalization" in the U.S.?  King is pro-IRA terrorist , but anti-Islamic terrorist.  It seems he's anti-Muslim, period.  The hearings are scheduled to begin today.

In today's New York Times, Noam Cohen deconstructs King's novel Vale of Tears, a "barely veiled 2004 thriller about a congressman, King's alter-ego, who must thwart a planned 'dirty bomb' attack by Qaeda operatives working in Brooklyn and on Long Island."

Cohen notes some fictional prescience in the story: "On the final page, when you think tragedy has been averted, it is the congressman who gets the call to say the ringleaders have gotten away--off to Yemen. And perhaps a sequel."

Perhaps he's hoping the hearings will ramp up interest in his sequel.

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Looking forward

Election Day

The Political ads have me aghast,
Will Tuesday finally be the last?
The air has been filled with bricks and with dirt,
With insults and slurs intended to hurt.
How nice it will be to once again see,
Dull repetitions for endless prescriptions.

Jim Foley


I am SO looking forward to next week.  This year's election hoopla has really gotten to me; I don't remember such negativity, ever.  As Jim says in his poem, I'm ready to get back to DULL.

misc.

There was an article in the LA Times this morning about the lost items at Coachella . The only thing mentioned that was different from the Lost and Found at the bookstore was the cameras. The festival had 42 cameras turned in, and many more registered as found. We get all the same things, plus tons of baby things, but no cameras; keys, cell phones, SHOES!, makeup, wallets, sunglasses, prescription glasses, drivers licences, notebooks, school assignments, Medicare cards, credit cards, cash, CLOTHING, but no cameras. What do we do with all this "stuff"? I personally sort out all the trash, shred the credit cards and other plastic cards, and give the rest to Goodwill.

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Rant: political, so you may want to skip it.

I'm not happy about the AZ profiling law. That's how I see it, as profiling. My ancestors came to America in the late 1600's, on the Davis side of my family, and the early 1800's on the Sorenson side of my family. I'm white as can be. Growing up, I lived in a very mixed neighborhood, Westside Long Beach, until I was married. Half of my neighbors were Caucasian, the remainder were either Hispanic, mostly Mexican, or Japanese. Some of my Japanese neighbors lived in the "camps", during WWII, and never complained or talked about it. These last two groups were recent immigrants to America. Under the new AZ law, they would have to carry proof of citizenship at all times I wouldn't, they would. How can this be fair, or American.

Another thought that entered my head regarding this law, is there are plenty of new illegal Caucasian immigrants in our country, maybe even in AZ, but I bet they would never be asked to tender documents. Shame on AZ.

Yeah for Bill

From the NY Times:

Bill Clinton's Novel Role: the Spousal Envoy

“For all Bill Clinton's experience sitting down with world leaders, his trip to North Korea to negotiate the release of two American journalists is an intriguing deployment of the spouse of a sitting Cabinet member. But it is not without precedent in the delicate sphere of foreign diplomacy.”
— Derrick Henry

I have to say, great job bring our girls home.