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Things accomplished yesterday:

1) Net! I have a connection from home! It was the damned modem all along! The guy at Comcast looked at the one I turned in, quipped, "Oh we've gotten a lot of these back in." and I barely contained a primal scream. If only they'd just given me a new one last week. *sigh*

2) Bought two new pairs of jeans that fit and found the sweatshirt I need to complete my Starbuck costume for the con. One pair of the jeans are tight and hug my legs like gloves. Not the most comfy things to sit around in all day, but if I ever should go out again at night sometime that's what I'm wearing.

3) Made it through all the Dr. Who episodes my sis sent and made copies, go me! Came to the conclusion that this incarnation of the Doctor is so hawt that I can actually imagine him and his companion snogging like bunnies. No, more than that, I actively want them jumping each others' bones. And oh my god there was a shirtless torture scene...happy birthday to me :) Hmm, wonder if I can track down a screencap of that. Ahem, anyway, I'm going to be so very sad to see him go, he's so intense, so adventurous, and yet so incredibly vulnerable at the same time. And I love that every alien they meet assumes he and Rose are a couple, of course if even a Dalek can pick up on the vibes between them they'd be foolish not to act on them. The only downside is that I got to see the scenes for the one Simon Pegg is going to be in, but not the episode itself. Though he did do the voice overs on all the "Dr. Who Confidential" eps that were included, which was cool.

4) Laundry!

5) Talked to the family and got some interesting news which I need to wait to confirm before announcing here, if it turns out to be true then it is surprising and wonderful and I'm going to be beaming for months.

Also got another gift from the family, a hand made Wiccan rosary, it's gorgeous! I'm wearing it today because I could not resist, some things simply must be done.

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via Attaturk

In today's attempt at an ass-saving do-gooder lecture, Friedman, while admitting indirectly that the decision to go into Iraq was a disaster waiting to happen continues the "clap louder" defense of saying "it can still be saved".

His opening paragraph ...

Conservatives don't want to talk about it because, with a few exceptions, they think their job is just to applaud whatever the Bush team does.

Fair enough, but then this:

Liberals don't want to talk about Iraq because, with a few exceptions, they thought the war was wrong and deep down don't want the Bush team to succeed.


The latter, of course, is the defense that will be writ large by the Republicans as the entirety of their ill-conceived plan reaches the critical mass of complete failure. "It was because the liberals didn't clap loud enough".

Kiss my ass.

From its conception, to its planning, its selling, its implementation, reimplementation, redefinition, re-reimplementation, reorganinazation, and ultimate its retreat, this has been entirely a CONSERVATIVE PRODUCTION.

But here is a fact Tom. We liberals take no joy in being right, because you don't celebrate being right when its evidence is more than 1,700 Americans dead, tens of thousands wounded, as many as 100,000 Iraqis dead; with more than $300 Billion in costs eventually going down the toilet, and our Nation's reputation in tatters we liberals find little to celebrate.

No we get ANGRY!

Most simpletons would have difficulty conceiving this, which is why you may not grasp it. It is easier to hold faux victory rallies than to hold faux wakes.

It's hard to generate a lot of enthusiasm when you were right about disaster.

Yeah, the warm glow of "I told you so" isn't terribly comforting in these situations I'm afraid.