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( Still more HBP, yes, I know, I know, I'll get over this eventually and return to regular posts...Really...I will. )

Dance class was good, though I'm not entirely convinced on this new direction Alyne's taking us in with the swords. I've never been a big fan of cane dancing and that's kind of where she's going with this. The visual of some people balancing and others hopping around them doesn't strike me as terribly, well, good. It strikes me as kind of silly. If we start looking like Morris Dancers I'm going to cry.

The double veil was good, though, and I think she's right about switching back to lame for this one. I even have the perfect set to match my costume already so no excuse to buy more (which is good 'cause I have no place to put them). Speaking of costumes I need to find the time to finish up my belt then add some doo-dads to my skirt and I'm pretty much finished. Doubt I'll get to it before this weekend as I want to hit class again on Thursday and I've got to do some cleaning tonight.

Did get another load of laundry done last night as well as my grocery shopping. I actually found this microwaveable vegetarian teriyaki bowl with only 15 fat calories! Now that's my kind of dinner. And the faux chicken stuff they used was quite yummy. I was clever enough to pick up two plus a few of the company's other meals to try out as well.

Finally got the cats' litterboxes cleaned out (they were long overdue), and tonight if I can vacuum and clean the bathroom I'll feel quite accomplished. Oh and I must do my abs and buns workouts too, yes, definitely.

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Back to your regularly scheduled political posts...

via No More Mister Nice Blog:

"We're thrilled."

--Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, talking about the Roberts nomination on NPR this morning

And that's all that really needs to be said about that. Though, The Rude Pundit manages a bit more that you should really consider reading:
John Roberts, the Stealth Motherfucker

For surely, siding with Operation Rescue alone qualifies Roberts as a motherfucker, arguing to the Supreme Court that those who block family planning clinics are asserting First Amendment rights and "are perfectly non-discriminatory in their opposition to abortion. They are opposed to abortion, not women." Which, if you follow the logic, could allow you to block access to anal itch cream and say that you're not opposed to entire buttocks, just assholes.


And via Digby, lest we forget:

Ooops

White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove did not disclose that he had ever discussed CIA officer Valerie Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper during Rove’s first interview with the FBI, according to legal sources with firsthand knowledge of the matter.

The omission by Rove created doubt for federal investigators, almost from the inception of their criminal probe into who leaked Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak, as to whether Rove was withholding crucial information from them, and perhaps even misleading or lying to them, the sources said.

Also leading to the early skepticism of Rove's accounts was the claim that although he first heard that Plame worked for the CIA from a journalist, he said could not recall the name of the journalist. Later, the sources said, Rove wavered even further, saying he was not sure at all where he first heard the information.

Isn't there a word for someone whose story changes from week to week, even day to day? Oh yeah, I think it's "liar".

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Heh, I ended up catching Michael Berube's Azkaban Blogging, and this bit in particular made me giggle:

-- we all love Alan Rickman.

Kudos to Rowling, by the way, for broaching the issue of having an out gay man—er, I mean, a werewolf, cough cough—teaching at Hogwarts. Note that Hogwarts’ only competent Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher (over a five-year span!) is chased from his job by a hate campaign mounted by the Malfoys. If I recall correctly (it was only yesterday, after all), the film makes matters slightly more explicit than the novel, by having Lupin attribute his resignation to the fact that parents will not want “someone like me” teaching their children (he does not use the word “werewolf"). She’d already broached the racism of the Malfoys in Chamber of Secrets, and when we get to Goblet of Fire we’ll come up against the brutal stigma faced by those among us who are half giant. I just gotta love Rowling—she’s managed to piss off the insufferable Bloom and the insane fundamentalist right, and she has no patience with Daily Prophet reporters who rely lazily and uncritically on sources like the Malfoys or Ministry of Magic apparatchiks. What’s not to like?

I'm so glad it's not just me and dozens of fangirls who immediately thought Lupin's here, he's queer, deal with it...