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Sorry, but for some reason I can't post anything right now.
I contacted TypePad and they claim they can't find anything wrong and that I should be able to post, so it looks like I'm screwed unless I can figure out what the problem is. Thanks a lot, TypePad.
I hope to have this resolved some time soon. If I can, I'll post something.
I did manage to get a short post up, but I'm still out this week. I will try to get some posting done, but it won't be daily.
What have you got for me on the hostile I brought in earlier?
Can't be helped right now. I'll probably be out at least another week.
I may not have a post up for a day or two, and posting will probably slow down for the next week or so, but I might be able to find the time.
Maybe I shouldn't even post this notice.
Oh, well, too late now.
February 6, 2006
The Honorable Barack Obama
United States Senate
SH-713
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Obama:
I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurance to me in the Senate dining room last night that you were only going to take "a little bit" of mashed potatoes was sincere. Your comment, while passing a nearly-empty dish to me, that potato consumption is one of the "leading causes of spare tires in old dudes" made it clear that you know jack about carbs. Seriously, senator; Atkins? That you apparently made this comment in hopes of amusing Senator Kennedy belies your claims of wanting to strap on the ol' feedbag in a bipartisan manner, and will certainly not earn you a seat on the Senate Irony Committee.*
I expected better of you, sir, but I have been around long enough to appreciate that exercising common courtesy while dining isn't always a priority for every one of us. Good luck to you, senator.
*By the way, there in no Senate Irony Committee, that's a just a joke we senior senators like to play on noobs.
Hev you seen this?
“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams told The Hill that he wrote Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) letters of apology last week after he confused the two men at the State of the Union address.During NBC’s broadcast, Williams noticed Obama on the House floor and identified him to the viewing audience. Unfortunately, it was actually Ford.
Talk about blog fodder! Unfortunately, I have nothing left to say after reading this post:
(Sample)
Natural disasters...
Read the whole thing. The quiz at the end is even funnier.
Well, Yin, the hour's almost up. Anything else you want to discuss?
Yeah. How come when Yang engages in promiscuous sex with multiple partners no one blinks an eye; but when I do it, everyone thinks I'm a big fat whore?
Isn't it interesting that...In the pictures you keep seeing of that London protest, most of the "Behead the infidels" signs have the same handwriting? (Either it's not quite a spontaneous upswell of outrage, or there was only one person there who knew enough English. (Oops, is that racist or bigoted or whatever? In any case, it's shades of "Baby Milk Factory."))
I did a little digging to see if I could find the answer, and I think I have.
What, you're surprised?
While interviewing one Abdurahmen Jafar of the Muslim Council of Britain about the whole cartoon "dustup", a CNN International anchor goes out on a limb:
Anchor: It seems that has taken on a life of it's own. I mean you see in some Palestinian territories, for instance, in Gaza, where Europeans are being told to stay indoors, that they're at risk. And it's kind of taken on this dimension, that seems, from the outside, violent.
Hey, how about taking it down a notch, lady? I mean, you threaten a few nations with extermination, torch an embassy or two, and the next thing you know some news desk jockey is suggesting that some people (ignorant outsiders though they might be) might get the idea that you're the violent type.
Be sure to watch the video so you can hear Jafar expressing his fear of Europeans, who he says are "Relearning to hate again."
Related: Dafydd delivers a smackdown that blisters like a hot Caramel Macchiato.
No doubt most of you have heard that there are some inconsistencies in my book, A Million Little Pieces.
Authors of memoirs have traditionally been granted a certain amount of latitude in that they alter names, dates and locations, many times to protect the people they write about, but that doesn't excuse the fact that I've disappointed a lot of people, and for that I appologize.
I know it's no excuse, but please understand that things were really hectic at work when I was writing Pieces. After the incident at the Chinese consulate, I thought it would be best for the country if I faked my own death. At that time, only four people knew that I was still alive. One of them was President Palmer, and I have to live with the fact that this knowledge may be the reason he was assassinated.
Obviously, I couldn't work at CTU any longer (you know, since I was "dead"), so I had to get a job working on oil rigs. This meant putting in long hours, so I didn't have as much time to devote to writing as I would have liked, but I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that all great stories require, so I did embellish certain facts (although I prefer to think of it as "assuming a flank 2 position"), so, once again, I apologize.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to see if Chloe has uploaded the satellite coordinates I need for my next assignment.
Hi again,
Why didn't you answer my last letter? You must be busy working on another one of those outages.
Just wanted to drop you a note to say that I have noticed a significant improvement in performance when I'm previewing and saving posts since you moved to the new data center, but now it actually takes longer to access my blog from the home page. A lot longer.
No big deal, though - I've been using the extra time to work on my art. I call this one #@*&^%$#@!!!!
See also: Part 1
I think it must be a lot less:
Sen. John Kerry claimed this morning on NBC TODAY that only 53% of America's children graduate from high school [actually, he claims that only 47% graduate - see update below] -- a claim that raised eyebrows in the NBC control room...KERRY: "That's terrific. But 53 percent of our children don't graduate from high school. Kids don't have after-school programs... He didn't ask America to sacrifice anything to achieve great goals and the biggest example is making the tax cut permanent for the wealthiest people in America. The average American struggles to find time to take carry of families, working two or three jobs... It's a disgrace. He did not tell the real state of the union."
Kerry's 53% claim conflicts with a recent press release from the U.S. Census Bureau: "High School Graduation Rates Reach All-Time High"
And the Census Bureau's own website states: 85.9 Percent Of Americans Aged 20-24 Are High School Graduates. (U.S. Census Bureau Website, www.census.gov , Accessed 2/1/06)
So, now it's time to play one of John Kerry's favorite games: "What I meant to say was..."
UPDATE: Reader Pookie points out a mistake in the wording of the first paragraph of the Drudge article - Kerry says that 53% of "our children" don't graduate from high school. So, he's actually claiming that only 47% graduate. My apologies to the senator. Still, I'll give him the benefit of a doubt and say that he knows his ass from a hole in the ground as much as 53% of the time.
UPDATE II: Flip at Suitably Flip has the real figures.
UPDATE III: Michelle Malkin has the video.
