Thu, Nov 5th - 8:33AM

Durant's Rousseau and Revolution, p. 606
240.2 miles
windy!!!

Well, that little trip gained me 5 pounds. I guess it'll take a lot longer to lose them again.

99 recordings of 46 types.

Rasmussen: -11 approval index and 49/51 ratio.

The heater company was supposed to come make their inspection and bring the registers for the back today sometime between 8 and 10. There were delays, delays, and finally Rich called them and told them forget it.  Then we went out to the vet and picked up our animals.

This was definitely the most expensive part of the trip. Spooky was screaming so loudly he could be heard for miles.  Abby just hid in the back of the carrier. Pharaoh was thrilled.  Abby's eyes are clear: we have some medicine for the next time they start to ooze. At home she went under the bed and didn't come out for about 6 hours.  Spooky forgave us right away.

How government works.

John Bolton, Our ditherer in chief:

Beyond the disquiet (or outrage for some) prompted by the president's propensity to apologize for his country's pre-Obama history, Americans increasingly sense that his administration is drifting from one foreign policy mistake to another. Worse, the current is growing swifter, and the threats more pronounced, even as the administration tries to turn its face away from the world and toward its domestic priorities. Foreign observers, friend and foe alike, sense the same aimlessness and drift. French President Nicolas Sarkozy had to remind Obama at a Sept. 24 U.N. Security Council meeting that "we live in the real world, not a virtual one."

Examples of weakness abound, and the consequences are readily foreseeable.

Sanjita Chakraborty: We've had the deadliest month in Afganistan that we've had since the war began in 2001 because this man won't make a decision...because all he cares about is power and doesn't give a damn about this country, its people or its military. Yes Bush spent a lot of money and could've done a better job but look at some of the big ticket items he spent it... Read More on: 9/11, Katrina, Rita, Tsunami...so yes, he HAD to spend the money. Don't get me wrong, I think there was still wasteful spending but NOTHING like we see now. And why are we looking back anyway...we are where we are now and let's move forward and FIX stuff. If he thinks Bush was in the wrong with everything, DO something about it to FIX it, stop wasting time and energy pointing fingers. This man makes me so angry that I want to turn off the news and stop reading anything about what's going on...at the same time I need to stay informed because he's a liar...Mr Obama...YOU LIE!

Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America.

The Post-gracious President.

I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way:

A noble and altogether proper sentiment, made somewhat less so by (a) reports of how much golf he’s been playing and (b) the inconvenient truth that there are troops in the field being endangered by the lack of reinforcements.

Ma Bird: Obama, speaking to troops, said "I won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary. If it is necessary, we will back you to the hilt". (unless you're in Afghanistan---he also vowed same day not to be rushed into Afghan decision)

Dr Zero:
 "Every available dollar has been taxed and spent, and not one single problem the Left demanded the sacrifice of our wealth and freedom to address has been resolved. Not one of their programs has worked, and none of their cost estimates have been accurate, to within an order of magnitude."

Panic button: "In the recent past, we have watched the White House and its branch offices gaze glassily past Iran, the Taliban, North Korea and Moscow in hot pursuit of their real enemy, which appears to be the dissenting media."