Sunday, October 17, 2004
beer, the perfect breakfast food
Yesterday couldn't have been much better. Got up at my usual time a couple of hours before dawn with the temperature dropping down to 44 degrees before the sun rose. All kinds of nice after a truly miserable summer but definately time to consider putting up the cut-offs and kerryboots for the moment. Got a bunch of outside stuff done then pre-flighted Rustbucket for my first serious attempt at grocery shopping since 8/29. The attempt was successful, even came back with a fresh spindle of CDR's to patch my cobbled files (eventually). Got everything unloaded and put up, then back to the appointed tasks thinking how nice it was gonna be having something other than bean sandwiches and bean soup for supper! Made a monster trash omelette with homemade hash browns, then rattled away on the keyboard with a couple of interesting (to me) observations made in town before picking up my present book, a kinda history of Edwin Paul Wilson, then fading into a coma with the 'X-Files' on the teevee.
Woke up with missing parts as expected. Kinda out of shape and certain bits wouldn't work per original specs. Made tea (first in over a week, outa everything), morning rituals, then took the cuppa to the 'puter. A wheel on the chair broke, spilled tea. Good start. Email consisted of 1 newsletter, 2 Nigerian cons, and a phish 'from citibank'. Yeah. No Lileks to brighten my morning on Sunday so perused the various bits of news and found this bit of boot scrapings:
Kerry Says Bush Plan Could Lead to Draft
Oct 15, 12:59 PM (ET)
By The Associated Press
(AP) Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., second from left, and his running mate...
There is a "great potential of a draft" to replenish U.S. forces in Iraq if President Bush wins a second term, Democratic challenger John Kerry said on a campaign stop in Iowa.
Bush said in the second presidential debate that there would be no revival of the military draft under any circumstances if he is re-elected. "We're not going to have a draft, period," the president said.
However, Kerry told The Des Moines Register, "With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft." The interview was published Friday as Kerry was leaving for Wisconsin and a speech on the economy.
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I don't know what they are smoking up in the DNC these days but I sure don't want any. Do they realise that H.R.163 - Universal National Service Act of 2003 is entirely sponsored and co-sponsored by dems?
Bills HR 163 and S 89 have been introduced, prior to the War in Iraq by Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Ernest Hollings (D-SC)respectively.
CO-Sponsors of HR 163:
Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 1/7/2003
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 1/28/2003
Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 5/19/2004
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/28/2003
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 1/7/2003
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/28/2003
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 1/28/2003
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 7/21/2004
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/28/2003
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/7/2003
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 1/7/2003
Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 1/28/2003
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 1/7/2003
Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 1/28/2003
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] - 1/28/2003(withdrawn - 6/21/2004)
The bill went down 402 - 2 with only Stark and Murtha (D- PA) voting yea.
Isn't Kerry the one that wants to generate a couple of additional battalions so he can 'deal' with the 'nuisance' of all those misunderstood, pesky non-members of the UN with his non-supporting French and Germans?
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Next pass maybe I can indulge in some good DNC stuff, like the desire for something to be true regardless of the facts. Right now, the chainsaw calls.
Woke up with missing parts as expected. Kinda out of shape and certain bits wouldn't work per original specs. Made tea (first in over a week, outa everything), morning rituals, then took the cuppa to the 'puter. A wheel on the chair broke, spilled tea. Good start. Email consisted of 1 newsletter, 2 Nigerian cons, and a phish 'from citibank'. Yeah. No Lileks to brighten my morning on Sunday so perused the various bits of news and found this bit of boot scrapings:
Kerry Says Bush Plan Could Lead to Draft
Oct 15, 12:59 PM (ET)
By The Associated Press
(AP) Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., second from left, and his running mate...
There is a "great potential of a draft" to replenish U.S. forces in Iraq if President Bush wins a second term, Democratic challenger John Kerry said on a campaign stop in Iowa.
Bush said in the second presidential debate that there would be no revival of the military draft under any circumstances if he is re-elected. "We're not going to have a draft, period," the president said.
However, Kerry told The Des Moines Register, "With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft." The interview was published Friday as Kerry was leaving for Wisconsin and a speech on the economy.
* * * * * *
I don't know what they are smoking up in the DNC these days but I sure don't want any. Do they realise that H.R.163 - Universal National Service Act of 2003 is entirely sponsored and co-sponsored by dems?
Bills HR 163 and S 89 have been introduced, prior to the War in Iraq by Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Ernest Hollings (D-SC)respectively.
CO-Sponsors of HR 163:
Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 1/7/2003
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 1/28/2003
Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 5/19/2004
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/28/2003
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 1/7/2003
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/28/2003
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 1/28/2003
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 7/21/2004
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/28/2003
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/7/2003
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 1/7/2003
Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 1/28/2003
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 1/7/2003
Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 1/28/2003
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] - 1/28/2003(withdrawn - 6/21/2004)
The bill went down 402 - 2 with only Stark and Murtha (D- PA) voting yea.
Isn't Kerry the one that wants to generate a couple of additional battalions so he can 'deal' with the 'nuisance' of all those misunderstood, pesky non-members of the UN with his non-supporting French and Germans?
* * * * * *
Next pass maybe I can indulge in some good DNC stuff, like the desire for something to be true regardless of the facts. Right now, the chainsaw calls.
