Wed, Nov 4th - 11:01AM

Durant's Rousseau and Revolution, p. 606
240.2 miles
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I got up in time to see Carol off. Rich was up early enough to see Ed for awhile. He claims he might come visit next spring. I'll believe it when I see it.

I tried to upload all the pictures I'd taken to Flickr, but it was taking forever and I finally put them in a flash drive. This is all to avoid the stupidity of two years ago when I deleted them before I'd copied them. There were family pictures and all. Once I gave up with Flickr, we had enough time to dash back to where the reunion had been and pick up the cache there. It was the furthest away on my circle of 100 nearby caches, but we hadn't even thought to look when we were going to the parties, so it was niggling at me.

About 3 we went off to the airport. Got gas, turned in our car, turned over our bags, went through security.  The airport charges for its wi-fi.  Grumble. This was a bit early to eat, maybe in Detroit.

Or maybe not.  The plane was late taking off, and then the taxi-ing in Detroit is crazy long.  Our plane was the other side of the airport, up and down escalators and about a mile of moving sidewalk.  We arrived just in time to get on our plane.  Rich worked in a bathroom break, but I didn't. Oh, well, maybe we'll eat in Minneapolis.

Or maybe not.  We were something like #17 for takeoff and had to circle Minneapolis before landing. We arrived just before 9 and they were closing the place down. We got vending machine sandwiches and made do with the trail mix and beef jerky Rich brought and the peanuts they gave out as snacks. At least we had a long enough layover (and were at the next bay in the same terminal) so I could go to the bathroom.  This was the long leg. We arrived just before midnight, and were home just before 1.  A very long day, and Detroit is a nightmare.

0bama, Carter, Reagan .

Irate and Independent

Laura Ingraham slams Charlie Gibson

0's embarrassment.  He promised to reform the world the last time he was in Berlin, and has delivered... nothing. So he won't go to the celebration of the fall of the Wall.

The Guardian wipes Israel off the Nobel Prize map.

Ann Althouse wonders about the Copenhagen conference, and why people would fly to it.

Why 0bama has such a thin skin :

Obama is a man-child from the worst side of the 60's hippie/Marxist counterculture, a 40 something adolescent in the thrall of a political and moral philosophy unmoored from any burden like reality or responsibility. This Emperor is completely naked, sans clothes and not mature enough yet to shave.

Mark Tapscott .
0bama's Minions are Ingrates . [It's almost like they're not serious about governing, only about scoring political points.]

Bishop calls Patrick Kennedy "ignorant."

Clintonian Defense of our Nixonian President.

What if he can't govern?

Having no substantive achievement in his life other than his own political career, Obama's claim to the throne was that he claimed the throne. Much like the proverbial dog chasing the car, now that Obama has caught the throne, he doesn't know what to do with it....
When it comes to governance, what if the One who campaigned on the theme of "yes we can," just can't?

Rasmussen has 29/41 on health care, -12 approval for 0bama and 47/52 approval index.