When Will America Heal Itself?
Sorry for my absence. I've been busy with various projects, chores, and other activities that suck up all of my time. I've even canceled my annual football pool because I've got so much to do before winter kicks in.
Alot has happened in the world since my last post. There's probably a dozen things I want to blog about but don't have the time. So today's entry will be brief.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard that Karl Rove is resigning at the end of the month. Now that the applause and cheers have subsided, people are wondering what he's up to. Well, he gave us all a hint on Sunday as he hit all the talk shows and blathered on about how Hilary Clinton has such a high unfavorable rating among voters. Yes, he's firing up the ol' evil campaign machine and launching the smears.
While I'm one of those people who has an unfavorable opinion of her, I don't need, or want, to hear the crap that assholes like him are going to spew all over us this greatly extended election cycle. His trashing of American politics has tainted all Republicans, good and bad (I know some of you are saying, "There are good Republicans?" Well, since they're all covered in Rove's shit, they're impossible to pick out). His divisiveness has set us against each other while this administration, with help from Congress, takes the Constitution apart piece by piece.
Will Rove take an active role in the '08 campaign? His resignation and recent chatter makes me think that it's very possible. But I also see him saving himself for the '12 election. Let the Democrats win now, blame them for their inability to clean up W's toxic mess, and re-take the White House and Congress in '12.
Short of him getting hit by a bus, we haven't seen the last of him.
So how do we neuter him? Explain to those who would be swayed by him, how he, Bush, Cheney and the neocons have betrayed conservative principles. Don't try to convert them to liberalism or the progressive movement. That'll just set off alarms and red flags and they'll slip into knee jerk reactionary defensive rhetoric. Author David Brin explains how to do it.
Me? I gotta get back to work.
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DED
Alot has happened in the world since my last post. There's probably a dozen things I want to blog about but don't have the time. So today's entry will be brief.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard that Karl Rove is resigning at the end of the month. Now that the applause and cheers have subsided, people are wondering what he's up to. Well, he gave us all a hint on Sunday as he hit all the talk shows and blathered on about how Hilary Clinton has such a high unfavorable rating among voters. Yes, he's firing up the ol' evil campaign machine and launching the smears.
While I'm one of those people who has an unfavorable opinion of her, I don't need, or want, to hear the crap that assholes like him are going to spew all over us this greatly extended election cycle. His trashing of American politics has tainted all Republicans, good and bad (I know some of you are saying, "There are good Republicans?" Well, since they're all covered in Rove's shit, they're impossible to pick out). His divisiveness has set us against each other while this administration, with help from Congress, takes the Constitution apart piece by piece.
Will Rove take an active role in the '08 campaign? His resignation and recent chatter makes me think that it's very possible. But I also see him saving himself for the '12 election. Let the Democrats win now, blame them for their inability to clean up W's toxic mess, and re-take the White House and Congress in '12.
Short of him getting hit by a bus, we haven't seen the last of him.
So how do we neuter him? Explain to those who would be swayed by him, how he, Bush, Cheney and the neocons have betrayed conservative principles. Don't try to convert them to liberalism or the progressive movement. That'll just set off alarms and red flags and they'll slip into knee jerk reactionary defensive rhetoric. Author David Brin explains how to do it.
Me? I gotta get back to work.
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DED
Labels: politics
posted by DED at 3:30 PM
7 Comments:
Hi ded, glad you're back.
Don't believe it for a minute. The devious Rove wants Hillary to get the nod. Clinton and Bush are the same. Rove knows how unpopular he is so he is hoping to use that to get Billary elected. He is cagey.
Obama should have paid Rove to dis' him. Billary likes the war.
Sure. If Hilary gets the nod, Rove's got all sorts of material he'll dig up to use against her. He thinks that he can rally the base to vote against her and for whomever the Republicans decide upon.
You staying clear of those floods in your state?
Hi ded,
Yeah, thanks for asking. I've never seen anything like it. A storm with an eye in it sat over central Oklahoma for eight hours. Torrential rain. They reported 5-6 inches here in town, but we had torrential rains for hours, my plastic bucket would argue that we got at least a foot of rain. Fortunately for me we live on a hill. This is the most rain we've ever had in a year since they started keeping records. We needed it, we had five years of drought before this year. Some would say we've had too much but those reservoirs were getting scary low, and we even have a hydro dam, so am I glad we are getting rain. They have the flood gates open now I tell you. The upside to all this? It was cool enough long enough to grow cucumbers and tomatoes. I hope all is well. Edgar out.
You're on a hill, good. Then I don't have to worry about seeing your house on TV float away with all the others.
Refilling the reservoirs is good news. I don't know how the soil is out your way, but ours is a rocky clay. If it gets dry for too long it actually becomes hydrophobic. When a deluge of water hits it in that condition, a good portion of it just runs off. It takes a slow, steady rain to break the soil out of that state.
I don't know how the soil is out your way...
Red clay mostly, with some sandy &/or rocky areas. The clay is funny. When it is dry water runs off, but when very dry huge cracks open up, then the water really penetrates. Quite the soil dynamic study.
Lake beds will get huge cracks when dry, 3 - 4 ft deep in some cases. We had good soaking rains at first, it was great. We can't do much when it comes to a flood except open the gates. I like to imagine some of that water penetrates to the aquifers through the sandy beds of the South Canadian, but I don't know if it works like that or not. It can't hurt.
There are actually quite a few reservoirs here, something Oklahoma can be proud of. Every time there is a drought Texas wants to buy our reservoir water and we're like, hey, you just had a flood two years ago, build a dang lake or two, sheesh!
Every time there is a drought Texas wants to buy our reservoir water and we're like, hey, you just had a flood two years ago, build a dang lake or two, sheesh!
After all the rain they had this year, they could probably create a small sea. ;)
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