Memnison Journal

I’m just so looking forward to a grownup in the White House.  I think most of us are.

Lord God, I thank you for letting me live in this time, in this place, in these circumstances, among these good people, and within this beautiful and extravagant creation!
- jeff Duntemann

I’m noticing that a lot of my friends-list and others online - and the few I talk to on the phone (man, I am so housebound) - are going to take the holidays easy, cheap and local this year.  Our household will, as usual, trot out to Susan’s aunt Marlyce’s house and do the holiday [...]

So here’s my ideas, half-baked:

Make the deal comprehensive, and mostly a take it or leave it scenario.  This sucker has been a political football for decades, and this ends here right now.
All three companies essentially go into a central, nationalized receivership corporation.
The equity in these businesses is pretty much gone, in any event.  [...]

I’m actively interested in your poisition on this matter.  Feel free to sound off inside *politely*.
My own struggles on this:

…on the phone, that is.  Site that specializes in how to sort through a computerized answering systems for Some Big Corporation and get through to a real person.

Susan and I took advantage of the federal holiday (but not one for the elections people) to go for the first day of early voting.  We have to, because we’re election judges.  The ballot was light - only a scattering of races, and in our heavily red area, a lot of the more local stuff [...]

An interview with Elizabeth Edwards, who is throwing herself into health reform.
A random act of kindness by a stranger - you’re at the airport, and you’re overseas from your new spouse, wanting to get home so bad it hurts.  The airport staff at check-in tells you that your suitcase is way overweight, and that you [...]

MAY I SUGGEST

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Susan Werner
May I suggestMay I suggest to youMay I suggest this is the best part of your lifeMay I suggestThis time is blessed for youThis time is blessed and shining almost blinding brightJust turn your headAnd you’ll begin to seeThe thousand reasons that were just beyond your sightThe reasons whyWhy I suggest [...]

This is to note that I’m taking a major break from the political posting and so on.  Mostly, it’s a matter of either real or percieved time, due to Fafiation.  (Right now, It’s 5:45 am, and my back is still killing me from sleeping on it wrong last night.)  I have a blue ton of [...]

Going back to my response posts,  I want to stress that I never assume that anyone voting against Obama is a racist, or that Republicans are racists, or that either on the Republican ticket is a racist.  I know better.
I’ve lived with serious racists, had racism and sexism used against me and mine (you do [...]

…I write as much as I do on political subjects, the answer is simple - because I care.
My view, for as long as I can remember, and has been ever since, is to see the long run, the big picture.  My focus and education was directed at the synthesis of the world around me - [...]

How often do you change the backgrounds on your computers, and what sort of stuff do you usally have there?
As for me:
WORK:  picture of Meredith roller skating from last May
LAPTOP: Picture of the twins from last year, looking very much like themselves…
HOME UBUNTU:  Comet McNaught over a sunset, with lots of dark, layered clouds.  (I [...]

From Balloon Juice, a regular-read blog on my political list:
I am not a Democrat because I am some sort of crazy liberal who believes in all sorts of left-wing causes. I am a Democrat because in a two-party system, when one party is abso-damn-lutely corrupt, immoral, incompetent, and, well, evil, you have to do what [...]

Very good article that explains the real limits of Chinese power down the road.  Here’s a mix of his points and some of my thoughts on the matter:

Cheap labor and fair access to markets is about their main strengths.  Quality is not as important if the manufacturers can slide by.

Labor is starting to [...]