Durant's Rousseau and Revolution, p. 669 36.2 miles. cloudy, rain at night
108 recordings of 27 types.
Rasmussen: -12: The bounce is fading. 46/53.
I met Rich when he was 21, and by the time of his birthday, we were seriously dating. I planned a surprise birthday party. We had a date, and I asked everyone to come before we were due back. My cousin even swept the walk so there wouldn't be suspicious tracks. They were so good at hiding I thought we were back to the house too early, and drove off to "run another errand." But 15 minutes later we were back, I unlocked the front door and in we came... everyone shouted "surprise!" and Rich suddenly realized his fly was open.
I'd really attempted a fancy cake, a tiered chocolate cake. Every layer, however, was convex, so when I put it all together with the candles on each tier, it looked at bit like a castle with guns pointed out all around. Oh, well.
On his 23rd birthday, Rich was in Texas at OTS. He'd left in mid-January, made it back to see me once, and then came into Laramie right after a huge snowstorm that had snowed us in, September 23. Until he turned 50, I didn't have another real party for him, just family. As I did tonight.
Durant's Rousseau and Revolution, p. 669 36.2 miles. gray, cold, rain
105 recordings of 30 types.
I went for my physical today: first time with the new doctor. He turned out not to be the guy they told me on the website, but a nice civilian, a youngish Czech doctor. My blood test indicates OK glucose but high cholesterol (although the HdL is OK) so he gave me a new prescription for a different statin. We'll see. I see on the prescription notes that I shouldn't have a LOT of grapefruit juice (like a quart!!!) which seems to say that if I get a small glass every other month or so, it won't kill me. Yay!
My mammogram isn't due till October and I never need another Pap smear yay yay yay. On the other hand, I had TWO shots, for pneumonia and for shingles. That last one hurts a lot, and I was hoping that having had chicken pox as an adult I could skip it. No such luck. Oh, well. I have to have another blood test in a month, but otherwise I'm free till October.
Paul Smith 12 hours into the early release of the prisoners in Sacramento one is re-arrested for attempted rape. Folks if you live or come to Sacramento bring a gun from now on.
Dems Haunted by Revived Stereotypes. 'Reagan framed the Democratic “choice” as one for “liberal policies of tax and spend, economic stagnation, international weakness, accommodation, and always, always blame America first.”'
Durant's Rousseau and Revolution, p. 669 36.1 miles. sunny
112 recordings of 38 types.
Bernadette wanted to be with Gareth the first time he went to the Zoo, so it seemed today would be a good day. (The Zoo is opening its giraffe platform with a members-only event next week, but they wouldn't let her come at the same time.) So we drove down to Elk Grove and picked them up. Gareth smiles at me but really lights up at Djadja!
The first thing we did at the zoo was get lunch. Then we started looking at the animals. Gareth was thrilled with the tigers, then he was moderately interested in other stuff, till he zoned out. We took him to the playground where he had a good time. He's not *quite* ready to walk on the frog's tongue, but he did brave the spider web. Then he was completely zonked. We were there 2+ hours, about twice as long as I expected. Now I can take him any time to the zoo.
Rasmussen -6: 50/49
…AND HEAD STRAIGHT TO SENSITIVITY TRAINING The name Mohammed is actually useful for a good hijack test. It works very much like in An American Carol. Whenever I get on a plane these days, I hold up my cell phone and say, “Call for Mohammed!” If more than four guys stand up, I get off the plane. ---Barry Jones
Why did decline prove so pleasant in Europe? Because it was cushioned by American power. The United States is such a perversely non-imperial power that it garrisons not ramshackle colonies but its wealthiest “allies”, from Germany to Japan. For most of its members, “the free world” has been a free ride. And that, too, is unprecedented. Even the few Nato members that can still project meaningful force around the world have been able to arrange their affairs on the assumption of the American security umbrella: In the United Kingdom, between 1951 and 1997 the proportion of expenditure on defense fell from 24 per cent to seven, while the proportion on health and welfare rose from 22 per cent to 53. And that’s before New Labour came along to widen the gap further. ... But, as Charles Krauthammer said recently, “decline is a choice.” The Democrats are offering it to the American people, and a certain proportion of them seem minded to accept. Enough to make decline inevitable? To return to the young schoolboy on his uncle’s shoulders watching the Queen-Empress’ jubilee, in the words of Arnold Toynbee: “Civilizations die from suicide, not from murder."
Continuing to push a wildly unpopular health care bill, which directly led to Democratic defeats in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, all in an attempt to differentiate yourself? You are succeeding beyond your wildest expectations, Mr. President.
I mean no offense to the clueless.
Ben Hart: I'm more pointing out the double standard with how Bush was treated on Katrina compared to Obama on Haiti. Bush was a model of competence and efficiency compared to what we are seeing here.
[This after they went in with great fanfare saying how much better they were than Bush in N.O.]
JACOB SULLUM: They’re Not Necessarily Jobs, and They Weren’t Necessarily Created or Saved, but We Gave These Guys Money, and They Gave Us Some Numbers.
Durant's Rousseau and Revolution, p. 669 35.1 miles. cloudy, slight drizzle
February 2: Country Roads
99 caches of 30 types.
Today we went to the area north of Sacramento, west of Roseville. It's 11 miles away, and what with all the zigging and zagging we did on the country roads, we ended up driving 80 miles in total.
Rich bought the geocaching app for the iTouch and then it didn't seem to work. We read the forums and it appears it doesn't work if the cache name is with the file. So I tried with an old one, Benicia, and it came on up. Rich at first thought it didn't come up if it is still zipped, so I was about to try to run Davis unzipped, but then it worked. So I re-did the pocket query for the country roads, just for the iTouch, and it worked!!!
He'd printed out the map of the area so I had an idea what order I wanted for the cache hunt, but then we had a lot of trouble getting to the start. There are new houses which didn't show on the map, and the iTouch map (which is more up-to-date) didn't quite get over there. However, we finally located the way. Back and forth we went. We had 17 finds, 4 DNFs (three in a row, probably gone. That road was unfortunate.) There were two.. one on the aforementioned unfortunate road... we didn't try for. That one hasn't been found in a year. The other we didn't go for would have involved getting our feet wet.
There was one I thought would involve climbing a tree and I told Rich on the way that I didn't really feel like it... but then when I saw it it looked easy enough, so this 65-year-old was up a tree, twice, again. Winded, but chuffed.
Along the way we saw these snow geese. All in all, a great day!
Rasmussen: -7 (the SOTU bump is over although 50/49 is the first positive I've seen in months.)
Apparently NOW feels this commercial is an inappropriate message for America to see for 30 seconds, but women in bikini selling beer is the right one. I would like to meet the genius at NOW who made that decision. On second thought, no, I wouldn’t. ... NOW doesn’t want people to have hope; they want women to buy abortions, and this ugly response has made that crystal clear.
Has 0bama spent two whole consecutive days in Washington DC? Today it was New Hampshire, and he was on TV, *again*.
Dorothy Rantala Clark Just goes to show you who really is in charge and how He protects us. I do think that political people are brought to power for reasons beyond our comprehension. If McCain would have won, we would still be on the slow slippery slope to socialism, but BO was a cold slap in the face. Each day more and more people are waking up and more and more corruption of the Democratic party is being exposed.
"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. Give her sperm she will make a baby, give her a house she will give you a home, give her groceries she will give you a meal, give her a smile she will give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what she is given. So if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit." - Karen Uhl Ortiz, radio princess.
Since taking office, Obama has continued to see the presidency as the perfect perch from which to campaign for a job he already has. The solution to every problem the White House runs into is “more Obama.” Much of this stems from Obama’s own arrogance.
Mr. Obama's self-regard, and his reading of his mandate, overwhelmed all restraint. The age-old American balance between a relatively small government and a larger role for the agencies of civil society was suddenly turned on its head. Speed was of the essence to the Obama team and its allies, the powerful barons in Congress. Better ram down sweeping social programs—a big liberal agenda before the people stirred to life again. ... Kennedy was an ironist and never fell for his own mystique. Mr. Obama's self-regard comes without irony—he himself now owns up to the "remoteness and detachment" of his governing style. We don't have in this republic the technocratic model of the European states, where a bureaucratic elite disposes of public policy with scant regard for the popular will. Mr. Obama was smitten with his own specialness.
"As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials." --Newt Gingrich
Michael Yon Obama is making a mistake by cutting space research. On the scale of things, it costs peanuts and returns huge benefits.
Joel Klein obviously doesn't listen to Beck, accuses him of being a birther.
“Posterity (to all future generations) you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” —John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
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