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I am regrouping

on Oct 18 2008 at 12:02 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized

Today is bracketed by soccer, and my husband and my daughter are having a vocal exchange about the finer points of math.  Somehow I just don’t feel like blogging now. You can therefore consider this an open thread.

I do want to remind you again, though, that I’ll be embarking on a new schedule this coming Monday, which will change my posting times.  No more leisurely mornings in front of the computer processing the news.  My blogging will start in the afternoon, I think, and continue into the evening and night.  I’m hoping that the quality and quantity of my posts is more or less the same.

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12 Responses to “I am regrouping”

  1. on 18 Oct 2008 at 1:57 pm 1ConnectTheDots

    Sara’Cuda is supposed to appear on SNL tonight, and the nutroots at the HuffPo are up in arms. Do you think Sarah will get a fair shake, and will she put the beatdown on Tina Fey? Tune in to find out.

    HuffPo Lefties seem to thing they have the market cornered on politics at SNL. Fat chance — apparently, Lorne Michaels and one of the longtime writers are conservative.

  2. on 18 Oct 2008 at 3:33 pm 2suek

    >>No more leisurely mornings in front of the computer processing the news.>>

    I hope your afternoon and evening plan works for you. Personally, I’ve always found afternoon and evening a total loss when it comes to my individual time.

    That’s ok – whatever comes. You have to have your priorities straight, and much as I enjoy the blogging you do and the discussions that ensue, I suspect we will all survive until your schedule permits a return to you regularly scheduled programming…!

    Hang in there!

  3. on 18 Oct 2008 at 3:55 pm 3suek

    Something to consider as you vote…however you choose to vote.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html

  4. on 18 Oct 2008 at 4:17 pm 4suek

    You can see this link is a comment – but there are imbedded links to the New Party archives that are interesting. If some can “capture” them, it would probably be a good idea. If they get any real exposure, they’re likely to disappear..

    http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/joe-the-plumber-vetted-more-than-obama-the-presidential-candidate/#comment-17651

  5. on 18 Oct 2008 at 5:25 pm 5suek

    This one is shocking…

    http://contributors.blogsome.com/2008/10/18/destroyed-from-within/

  6. on 18 Oct 2008 at 6:16 pm 6Danny Lemieux

    Now this is interesting – just heard from some of my French family (NOT in Paris, NOT among the chatteratti) that Sarah Palin is a big hit among ordinary people over there. Apparently they really love her plain speaking. Don’t think that I’ll be able to read about it in the MSM, though.

  7. on 18 Oct 2008 at 7:26 pm 7rockdalian

    Additional food for thought,

    Fighting a Cold Civil War

    As far as I’m concerned, the differences are irreconcilable. One part of the country wants a socialist, European-style country. The other part wants a country based on free-enterprise and the Constitution. One side has disdain for orthodox Judeo-Christian faiths, whereas the other side embraces or at least tolerates those beliefs. One part believes that if we just let down our defenses, everything would be peace and lovebeads. The other part knows we live in a dangerous world and that defense is essential.

    http://lilacrose.nu/archives/2008/10/fighting_a_cold.php

    This seems as good a way to phrase things as I’ve seen.

  8. on 19 Oct 2008 at 7:14 am 8suek

    The first link is astounding – from the view that the press is absolutely worthless.

    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/10/holy-crap-obama-and-ayers-shared-office.html

    This link has no redeeming value…it’s just funny!

    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/10/investment-advice.html

  9. on 19 Oct 2008 at 7:16 am 9suek

    Please check the “spam” box or whatever…got a comment “disappeared”…!

  10. on 19 Oct 2008 at 8:39 am 10Mike Devx

    How about a constitutional amendment that limits the years of employment as a civil servant? Now THAT would be earth-shaking.

    For me personally, watching the entire State Department get cleaned out via such an amendment would be the highlight of a lifetime. I would die happy.

  11. on 19 Oct 2008 at 12:39 pm 11Gringo

    Helen:
    Oh come on, Bookworm, “up until Johnson’s Great Society, African-Americans were ever so slowly “making it.” Good grief. I am shaking my head.

    Percentage of African Americans in poverty:
    1959 55.1
    1966 41.8
    1969 32.2
    1996 28.4

    1966 would have been too early to have seen results from the Great Society, as legislation for that wasn’t passed until 1965 or later. Progress in getting out of poverty from 1959-1966 was much better than from 1966-1996. Those are the numbers.

    Helen, do you still want to shake your head ?

    2008 Statistical Abstract of the US.
    Table 689. Persons Below Poverty Level and Below 125 Percent of Poverty Level
    by Race and Hispanic Origin: 1959 to 2005

    http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/income_expenditures_poverty_wealth/poverty.html

  12. on 19 Oct 2008 at 12:43 pm 12Gringo

    Off the top of my head, I believe that the illegitimacy rate that the Moynihan Report cited for blacks in the mid-1960s was around 25 %. By the 1990s it was in the area of 65%-70%. Since then, it has leveled off and perhaps decreased a bit.

    Great Society?

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