So, yeah this is more a blogging for the sake of blogging and so that I don't have to remind myself that it's been 10 days since I posted anything and over two weeks since I really posted anything. Well, not too much to report. The trip to Texas was good; the pizza place is starting to take off and get consistently busy. Got out to play golf twice, which is enjoyable even though I'm not very good. Saw a couple movies while we were there (The Dark Knight and Wall-E); both of which were excellent. Now this week I'm just trying to get back into the swing of things work-wise and starting to count down the days till my next vacation (a trip to Vegas in September for my friend Shoma's wedding).
This weekend we are going to yet another Cubs game; our 2nd and final trip of the year to the bleachers. Pending today's outcome, hopefully we will be seeing the Cubs go for 7 in a row with Zambrano on the mound. I am a bit leary because they are playing the Pirates. I have personally attended three Cubs/Pirates games where the Cubs blew the game in the 9th and lost. Of course, I also have seen the Cubs pummel the Pirates in Wrigley and I was there in 2003 the day they swept a double-header from them to clinch the division. Other than that, should be a pretty relaxing weekend, especially since I have Monday off.
On another note, next weekend is the half marathon and . . .well, I'm thinking I'm not running it. The two main motivations I had when I signed up were 1) getting Christy motivated to do it; and 2) giving myself a goal to train for rather than just running for the sake of running. Well, motivation #1 went out the window in early June, and motivation #2 went out the window 3 weeks ago when I stopped running. So now, considering I already ran the half last year, I can't really think of a good reason to try and squeeze a month's worth of training into a week just so I can have the pleasure of waking up at 4:00 in the morning next Sunday to run 13.1 miles on what will likely be a sweltering day. So, all in all, looks like that was $100 well spent for the both of us . . .
One brief foray into politics; I was happy to read this in this week's Economist: "A few year's ago, no politician would have been seen with a book called 'The Post-American World'. Mr. Obama has been conspicuously reading Fareed Zakaria's recent volume."
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I've waited two weeks for this? Nothing about Obama whipping out his big race card? Nothing on how he seeming has no ability to say John McCain's name without first saying "Bush"? Nothing about economic news? Nothing about Ted "Series of tubes" Stevens? Not even a comment on little Caylee?
Just one mention that Obama seems to be reading a book?
That is weak.
How about the story that broke today that the White House forged documents to mislead the American public into supporting a war in Iraq?
...oh wait, we've known that for years.
Weir, do you wish to re-word that post? You know, to make it ACCURATE?
Never mind. So a book was published, and it claims that the CIA forged a document. This really should be investigated, and if there is any evidence of this accusation being true then the parties responsible absolutely positively need to answer for their crimes.
If, after the investigation, the claims put forth by Ron Suskind are found to be false, Ron should be required to turn over all profits from his book sales to the GOP and distributed to republicans running for office throughout the country.
That sound fair to you?
OK, well then if that's the model I'll go ahead and write a completely slanderous book about Obama so that when all my claims are found to be false I can give all the profits to the DNC. Libel has consequences; however, funneling money to the opposite political party is not and should not be one of them.
I've seen Ron Suskind interviewed a number of times and he's always seemed to me to have approximately the credibility of Kevin Trudeau. That doesn't make what he's saying here false, but it makes me not really care. Especially considering that it doesn't change the fact that the main offenses of the Bush administration pertaining to Iraq (that they were completely wrong about Sadaam having WMDs and links to Al-Quaida and that they horribly mismanaged the war for at least the first 3 years) far outshadow any of this. It's like hearing that someone brutally raped and murdered 10 people and then a story breaking later that they may have also killed a dog.
Nothing good ever seems to come from the relationship between the executive branch and the CIA/FBI. They either fight horribly at the expense of the country's security or they get along too well and corruption runs rampant. But I think the main story with the Bush admin has always been incompetence, not corruption.
"The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy is bullshit"
- Lars-Erik Nelson
Wow John, I've never even heard of Kevin Trudeau. But Suskind also has that award that he won that one time. But it was just a Pulitzer. Nothing important.
Also, he says (haven't read the book yet, so taking his word here from his Countdown appearance) that all of his scandalous quotes come from high up sources and that he has all of the interviews on tape. So, if that is true, it wouldn't be his libel but someone else's slander.
And John, you say that the important thing is that the government f'ed up about links between Iraq and Al-Quaida, but that is EXACTLY what the story is about. That the people at the highest levels of government KNEW that there was no link, but didn't care. They wanted their war so they forged it.
I've only read a little bit of the story through various reports, but I thought the timeline was that the accusation was that they forged it in December of 2003; meaning that once they got into Iraq and found out that no link existed they forged documents to make it seem like there was. Maybe I've got it wrong though; like I said I haven't read that much about it.
I didn't know he had won a Pullitzer; that does indeed take his credibility up several notches (though by no means makes him infallible). I was just giving my impression of him from what I've seen in interviews. I don't know what it is about him, but he just came off as slimy and untrustworthy. Pure conjecture on my part, though.
Oh, and for Mike,
Lets bring out my insensitivity here and announce to the world (or the 3 people here) that I don't give a damn about Caylee. It is one little girl. I just don't have the time to care. Seriously, everyone knows what happened but the news networks dedicate 6 hours a day to this freaking story. The mother waited 31 FREAKING DAYS to report her missing. You know what that means? Mommy kidnapped the kid. Simple. Case close, story over. I really don't even care if she is dead of alive right now.
Seriously, the Olympics start tonight(/yesterday), there is a presidential campaign going on, and RUSSIA JUST BOMBED GEORGIA (the country, not the state, I imagine more coverage if they had bombed Atlanta.) And yet the first thing I see when I turn on the news this morning was an update that Caylee's mom was out whoring it up during those 31 days. With pictures. I don't care. I didn't care about that little Jean Benet Ramsey either.
they say that in kidnapping cases the first 48 hours are the most important. THIS GIRL HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE JUNE!
Allright, someone else take the soapbox now.
Yeah, I don't really care about that story either, but it would have been better than Oprah's, I mean OBAMA's book club.
OK, I would not mention that Obama was reading "a book". However, given that I already went on record as saying that The Post-American World was one of the best books I've ever read and I think it has some of the wisest and most prescient takes on the global world, I would hope that it would be clear why I would think it worth mentioning that the candidate I support for President is reading it.
Just teasing John :-)
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