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October 25, 2006
The Gulls Next Door
Since the fall foliage is such a disappointment this year, the most interesting subjects for photos on the lakeside are the sea gulls. Thank heaven for little gulls -- without them what would little buoys do?
Comments
One word: Bliss
Posted by: CountryGal | October 25, 2006 02:46 PM
Beautiful pictures, Loretta. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Posted by: Nadine | October 25, 2006 03:23 PM
Nice pics of the loons, er gulls, by the lake.
Posted by: Vet4Bush | October 25, 2006 09:08 PM
Hi Loretta. Haven't had time to look at mistfitting for ages. Great pictures, but would love to see you really get a debate going re voting on November 7th.
Posted by: Luanne | October 25, 2006 10:57 PM
Hi Luanne! Nice to see you.
I was thinking of doing a little "Countdown" of my own starting 10 days before the election or 7 days before, or however many I can manage.
Stay tuned!
Posted by: loretta | October 25, 2006 11:09 PM
Great Gulls!
Posted by: vero | October 25, 2006 11:48 PM
You are a really good photographer, Loretta. The pictures are simply stunning.
Good job!
And, good morning to all the Misfits.
Posted by: Mgt | October 26, 2006 03:21 AM
Good morning!
Troops petition to leave Iraq:
Posted by: loretta | October 26, 2006 08:09 AM
These pictures are really lovely. You are inspiring me to get out with the camera. Not that we have anything in the way of fall foliage here, but we have been having some pretty skies.
Posted by: vero | October 26, 2006 08:47 AM
The weather is quite mild here. Other than the unpredictable rain, it would be quite pleasant.
Sigh!
Posted by: Mgt | October 26, 2006 08:48 AM
Hi everyone!
Great shots, Loretta. I especially like to the one with the bridge. You've got Ring-billed Gulls and Herring Gulls for sure. Want me to try to ID any other species?
(I can't help it. I'm a birder!)
Posted by: Vix | October 26, 2006 10:13 AM
While I was not pleased with Matt T's article in Rolling Stone about the 9/11 conspiracy movement (it was poorly researched, erroneous, and juvenile), this article on the 109th Congress is rather good:
As a student of politics and someone who has worked in it a little, this article really shocked me. And, I am not easily shocked.
Posted by: loretta | October 26, 2006 11:51 AM
have a good day, everyone!
Posted by: Mgt | October 26, 2006 12:42 PM
Sorry I missed you, Mgt. I haven't been able to check in when you're here for awhile. Hope your weather there stays nice for you.
Loretta, I have a feeling a lot more troops will be signing that petition to leave Iraq.
I can't wait to see the current administration leave office in 2008. It can't possibly come soon enough.
Posted by: Nadine | October 26, 2006 03:33 PM
The "Throw the Bums Out" campaign is working.
"I don't care if I vote for Happy the Clown, just so it's not who's there now," said Mary Nyilas, 51, an independent voter from Cologne, N.J., who said she would do everything she could to "vote against the powers that put us in this situation" in Iraq."
The disillusionment is vast.
Posted by: loretta | October 27, 2006 08:22 AM
Loretta, may I keep a couple of your gull pics? I promise I won't use them for anything commercial. LOL! I love pics of wheeling gulls.
Posted by: vero | October 27, 2006 10:21 AM
Have a Happy Halloween, everybody. I just hope the weather stays mild.
Ciao, ciao!
Posted by: Mgt | October 27, 2006 11:48 AM
From an Eleanor Clift article in Newsweek:
QUOTE:
"His strategy in this election is to vote against incumbents. He thinks Congress is a joke. “I can’t believe the guy chasing pages was a member of the Committee for Missing and Exploited Children,” he says, laughing at the absurdity of the Mark Foley scandal. Rice lives in Virginia, where he’s the regional manager of an information-security company. He doesn’t have anything against his state’s Republican incumbent, Sen. George Allen. He even met him once when Allen was governor. But he’s part of the in crowd, and Rice wants him out. “I’m voting for [Democrat] Webb because I’m not voting for Allen,” he says. Rice isn’t sure who represents him in Congress, but he’s voting against him. This election is about disrupting the comfortable lives of those in power. He’s read “Fiasco” and “State of Denial” about Iraq, and he’s appalled by the inside accounts of how Bush and company have botched the war. “Shouldn’t there be some accountability for that?” he asks. “Something has to happen in this midterm election—it has to.”
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Let's hear it for the "Throw the Bums Out" party!
Posted by: loretta | October 27, 2006 06:55 PM
And Vero, help yourself to any pictures you like, of course.
Posted by: loretta | October 27, 2006 06:57 PM
Excellent article in the "Stone", Loretta. I must say, though, I'm not shocked. If what trickles down to us in the way of information is that bad, I think we can accurately assume that it's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Look what we have become.
Posted by: TheVillageWench | October 28, 2006 01:59 PM
I just hope everyone votes, and votes well.
Posted by: Nadine | October 28, 2006 03:05 PM
Separated at birth?
Keith Ablow:
Jeff Gannon:
They both look like those head-shaved guys from the cult "The Arena."
heh
Posted by: loretta | October 28, 2006 09:22 PM
Independent candidate in Oklahoma running for Congress:
Send Matt a buck. He's not going to win, but he's bringing the 9/11 truth movement to the campaign.
Gutsy move. I sent him $5.
Posted by: loretta | October 28, 2006 10:15 PM
Swelleanor is just a skank for Hitlery Clintoon. The Dimrats have no plan for success except cut and run. Such a plan! Webb is an opportunist who dreams of pedophilia and homosexuality and writes about monkeyfaced Asian women who smash bananas.
Posted by: Vet4Bush | October 28, 2006 11:59 PM
Huh?
What are you smokin', Joe?
Posted by: loretta | October 29, 2006 12:12 AM
I love to smoke cigars when I'm directing field artillery at the moonbat loonery.
Posted by: Vet4Bush | October 29, 2006 01:32 AM
'Morning,
Politics and election: election day, here in Brazil. Presidential.
Bahhh, right now, I am helpless, impotent, and mad. All the polls point out Lula's re-election.
This is really BAD. After all the ethical scandals (corruption, unaccounted money and other strong suspicious acts), looks like it had little or no effect on the lower classes.
The other candidate (G. Alckmin) did an excellent job as Governor of Sao Paulo, the main State, and is recognized by it. He was re-elected for 2 mandates, since the first mandate he assumed after the death of the Governor (he was Vice-Governor).
Alckmin is ahead in Sao Paulo State and has a large advantage, but he lacks charisma to conquer other States votes in the same proportion of Sao Paulo.
Out for voting. See'ya later.
Posted by: Anne | October 29, 2006 06:59 AM
Good morning. Hope everyone remembered to set their clocks back. I see Joe set his back to another era.
I'm still reading State of Denial. Have to take breaks because it's hard to take all that arrogance and stupidity in one sitting.
Posted by: CountryGal | October 29, 2006 11:33 AM
Interesting montage of Li
mbaugh's disgustingly frequent verbal faux pas:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/27/AR2006102701475.html
Posted by: TheVillageWench | October 29, 2006 12:03 PM
Good Gawd, Captain Joe. "Loonery" is right.
I think someone's laced your cigar.
Posted by: Nadine | October 29, 2006 02:41 PM
Anne, I hope your Presidential choice wins the election.
It's so disappointing when the worst candidate wins, as you say, due in part to "charisma". Some of the most charismatic politicians turn out to be the worst in office.
They're very adept at charming the voters but don't make the grade at making a positive difference once in office.
Posted by: Nadine | October 29, 2006 02:49 PM
"We've never been 'stay the course,' " Bush told an interviewer. The concept will not die that easily, though. On Friday night, Vice President Cheney told reporters traveling with him on Air Force Two that "the United States' ability to stay the course and get the job done is a very, very important piece of business."
LIARS!
Posted by: CountryGal | October 29, 2006 03:19 PM
I've gotten to the point (along with many other Americans, it seems) of not being able to trust anything those two cook up.
Posted by: Nadine | October 29, 2006 04:15 PM
Here is something to think about - take all the taxpayers dollars spent on the campaigns and the war in iraq and give a refund back - how much would you get????
Posted by: Luanne | October 30, 2006 12:02 AM
Good morning all!
It rained last night but we have a warm breeze this morning. Quite pleasant in fact.
We are head for heavier taxes in the UK. Air travel and gas-guzzling cars are going to be targeted first.
For a change those earning minimum wage will not be the first hit (they usually up the petrol price, first).
Hopefully this is to fight Global Warming and not Iraq!
Posted by: Mgt | October 30, 2006 03:22 AM
Good morning, Mgt.
Luanne, I don't pay income tax. Not because I'm a scofflaw, but because I get it all back as a refund at the end of the year because I have so many deductions.
However, there has been at least $1 billion squandered by contractors in Iraq that the House knows about; I'm sure it's much more than that.
Maybe if we THROW THE BUMS OUT, we'll get some accountability.
Posted by: loretta | October 30, 2006 08:41 AM
I'm all for that, Loretta.
Luanne, you're right. The money squandered on the Iraq war could (and should have) been spent on other things.
Posted by: Nadine | October 30, 2006 11:48 AM
Prisoners are being kept in police station cells. Her Majesty's Prison service is overcowded.
Build more!
Posted by: Mgt | October 30, 2006 11:54 AM
Have a good day, everyone. Ciao!
Posted by: Mgt | October 30, 2006 12:03 PM
This alarms the beejeebus out of me.
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/06/10/28/1934208.shtml
Posted by: TheVillageWench | October 30, 2006 12:06 PM
Forgive my lack of manners, if you would. Good morning, 'fits. I'm an angry Wench.
"THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!!"
Posted by: TheVillageWench | October 30, 2006 12:08 PM
An aside to the venerable Capt.: Each and everyone of us lives our latter years with the results of the decisions we made in life. No one escapes that reality, it's just that some of us have prepared for those extenuating circumstances better than others.
Posted by: TheVillageWench | October 30, 2006 12:16 PM
Thanks for that link, VillageWench.
This is just ridiculous. No room for gross abuses of this law.
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For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.
The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of a trumped-up "immigration emergency" and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration.
Posted by: Nadine | October 30, 2006 12:30 PM
Well, there goes another $500-plus-billion.
Posted by: Nadine | October 30, 2006 12:34 PM
With that much at stake, how can we ever expect free elections again? I sure hope people wake up soon before we are all under martial law.
Posted by: loretta | October 30, 2006 12:37 PM
It has become clear in recent months that a critical mass of the American people have seen through the lies of the Bush administration; with the president's polls at an historic low, growing resistance to the war Iraq, and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term elections, the Bush administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly worrying that President Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare himself dictator.
Posted by: Nadine | October 30, 2006 12:50 PM
It's time to start writing letters to our members of Congress.
Here's a great site to check out. Find out more about each member of Congress, including contact information.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/power_rankings/index.tt
Posted by: Nadine | October 30, 2006 12:57 PM
We found out about the prisons being built last Spring, around the same time we learned that Rumfeld stood to make a heck of a lot of money off Tamiflu.
Speaking of which, what have we heard about Bird Flu lately?
I hate it when my worst-case scenario starts to come true!
Posted by: vero | October 30, 2006 01:19 PM
Now that you mention it, Vero, I haven't heard anything about the Bird Flu lately. Or flu shots, even.
We've had plenty of terror threats to keep us busy worrying about that, though.
Posted by: Nadine | October 30, 2006 01:26 PM
Oh, and don't forget about the E-coli scares every couple of days now.
Posted by: Nadine | October 30, 2006 01:27 PM
That distracted us quite nicely from noticing the sneaky signing of the Torture Bill.
Posted by: Nadine | October 30, 2006 01:36 PM
It was Foleygate that did that.
Posted by: vero | October 30, 2006 01:47 PM
Bingo, Vero.
Posted by: Nadine | October 30, 2006 01:54 PM
Looks like Dewine will kick taxcheat Brown's a$$ in Ohio.
Posted by: Vet4Bush | October 30, 2006 04:40 PM
I hope not. I think Sherrod will win.
Posted by: loretta | October 30, 2006 04:51 PM