WTF Is It Now?!?

The hot 'n' humid holiday weekend found me at the BF's family's place at the beach. It should've been relaxing, but between all the brownouts due to the weather, and AOHell being slower than _______ (fill in name of your favorite BFEE member!) at an ethics roundtable, trying to use the computer was an exercise in futility. Plus the AC blew up during one of the power surges caused by the brownouts, the 2-year-old started screaming at 6:00 every morning, the older dog spent all night every night panting her fool head off, and the damn green flies were all over you every time you tried to go outside. I need a vacation.

I can't believe how big the kittens got in only four days! The friend who took care of them for us said they ate like piglets. Catrina goes to her new home today : ( , and the news on Elsa is that she's doing well and won't stop purring : ) .






Quotes

"The problem that Bush has is that, I think, to some extent he wants to be the anti-Clinton, but he's not....he doesn't believe in anything and he hasn't made a strong stance." - as told to Matt Welch by a republican strategist, in the National Post.

"This nation is reeling from shock at the dishonesty and greed of so many of its corporations, and the stock market is taking a beating because people are no longer trusting anyone's information. That's nothing compared to the shock we all should share: that our vaunted 'watchdog press' is all too often a lapdog that, whether for political or budgetary reasons, or from stupidity, fails to bark when there's an intruder." - Alice Cherbonnier, in the Baltimore Chronicle.

"As we learned all too well in Korea, Vietnam and Somalia, it is dangerous to present Congress and the American people with a fait accompli on important matters of foreign affairs...I have not seen such executive arrogance and secrecy since the Nixon administration, and we all know what happened to that group." - Sen. Robert Byrd.

"When I survey the current crop of journalists, I see a fawning herd of patriotic but stupid stenographers, decorating White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer's fantasy prose with red white and blue bunting. The pressroom flag flappers dutifully report the Generalissimo's 'great victory over evil' in Afghanistan, as if something had actually been accomplished, something besides the replacement of one gang of warlords with a more pipeline friendly team of tyrants." - GeorgeLewandowski, @ YellowTimes.org.

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." - Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II.