kirk sent me an email that purported to give the schedule that the irs will follow when mailing out the stimulus checks this spring.
did i say spring? i did. more on that later.
so the email said that they would mail on a schedule according to the last two digits in your social [...]
…so i can vote for steve novick, who opens a beer with his hook hand in his campaign commercial. now there’s a politician i can get excited about.
plus oregon has great weather, lots of organic vegetables, and is a great place as long as you don’t leave portland or eugene.
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it’s been a while, so here are a few short takes:
» kirk was in the hospital overnight on wednesday for some tests. he’s had dizziness, general fatigue, and chest tightness for a few weeks now, and our doctor wanted to rule out the big stuff — heart problems, blood clots, lung problems, etc. [...]
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the genesius theatre in reading, pa., where kirk first learned stagecraft, had a benefit at the end of february 2008. it was called “he sang…she sang” [...]
the media has gotten obama to denounce the last uppity black man in his life. now maybe they’ll be satisfied and move on to things of consequence.
like, say, health care, the economy, the middle east, iraq, and iran.
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from the article:
In his harshest criticism yet of his former minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama said he was “outraged” by Wright’s comments at the National Press Club Monday, and “saddened by the spectacle.”
personally, i’m guessing that wright chose to fall on his sword to a degree — to get out there and make comments [...]
from swampland, a blog at time.com, via the washington post, comes a story about the decision to torture detainees:
Nineteen of those documents were withheld from disclosure specifically because the Bush administration decided they are covered by a “presidential communications privilege,” according to the filings, made in federal court in Manhattan. Some were “authored or solicited [...]
kirk and i spent three nights at ricketts glen state park in north central pennsylvania this past weekend through tuesday.
what an incredibly awesome place. we’ve been before, but this time we especially enjoyed every minute of the peace and quiet, especially on monday night, when we were the only campers in the park. [...]
had dinner at salvatores of soho on friday night. the name’s a bit misleading — the restaurant isn’t in soho. it’s in riverdale. maybe salvatore is from soho, and he came to riverdale to open a restaurant. not sure.
anyway.
they have excellent basic red-sauce italian food. great pizza. a well-planned [...]
had dinner last night at orsay, in new york city on 75th st. and lexington avenue.
i’m usually not one to venture onto the upper east side of manhattan. the transportation is awkward if you live on the west side, which we do. the extreme upper west side. but last night, kirk chose [...]
from an obama/clinton story on talking points memo:
“Blocking revotes in MI and Fla.” Lol! I just love this mindless talking point.
Where did he acquire the power to stop the Michigan and Florida legislatures from passing laws and/or the state parties from submitting workable delegate selection plans to the DNC? Is this like a legal power [...]
i love reading wonkette.com. the attitude is a perfect antidote to boring and conventional political coverage
here’s an excellent example of why.
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i’ve wailed and moaned for obama to get tougher. it seems that he has.
the last couple of news cycles have seen a steady ramp-up of stories about how hillary clinton outright lied “misspoke” about her trip to bosnia with sinbad and sheryl crow.
a clinton obfuscating a prevarication? who knew?
nice to note that the [...]
last i checked, i was musing about obama getting control of his message. not sure it’s gotten any better.
first we have the whole “rev. wright” business. an astute politician, or a worthy adviser to that politician, should have seen this coming a mile away. and should have worked in advance to negate [...]
from the speech:
This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.
what a beautiful turn of phrase. isn’t that what our goal should be?
a more perfect union?
slam him all you want for being vapid. we need someone uplifting about now.
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i’ve lived long enough now to have seen the economy rise and fall a few times.
and i’ve seen relatively isolated crises averted. a mostly contained sector of the economy, as with the savings and loan crisis. or one large company, as with the long term capital management hedge fund collapse.
but this latest business seems [...]
kirk and i have been paying way too much money for bally gym memberships for years and years. when we go, which is sporadically at best, the only machine we really use is the elliptical cross trainer. sometimes some weight machines, but generally just the cross trainer.
we have to go to the gym [...]
so if spitzer resigns, as is expected, david a. paterson is next in line.
seems like a good guy with a long record of accomplishment who might not otherwise have gotten a chance to show his chops in an arena like this.
maybe this all works out for the best. here’s hoping that david paterson surprises [...]
not much.
i’m just transferring money via shell accounts so that i’ll have a credit balance with the madam that runs my hooker.
what’s up with you?
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enjoying my stouffer’s lean cuisine grilled chicken caesar for lunch today, looking at the box, and reading the ingredients, when i see this:
let me zoom in for you:
putting aside the misspelling of tilapia, it’s not very appetizing to use fish gelatin for the pasta (not sure why pasta needs gelatin anyway?) in a dish of [...]
