NANANANA YA SAY ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY -

[kyburg]

Well, Happy Birthday to YOU! grammom and angelicate!

(Hey, I could get to like this.)

I am reminded this morning of a promise I made to myself with the first post I made in this journal:

Note to self: this is a party line. No posting about anything that party of the first part will not know about party of the second part. And so on and so forth.

If I can't discuss it with all of you - I won't discuss it at all. And no, leaving AHA things for other people to find, not fair.

Tonight - I find out if our application with DCFS is salvageable. Saturday, we attend orientation with another adoption agency. (I'm really on the fence about how much I'm going to keep posting about this - the new agency has a very visible web-presence.)

And for every other purpose, today is Tuesday.

In other news, who hasn't heard about the 24K cajones Al Gore grew yesterday? (Thanks to joseph_palmer for the full text of the speech.) C-SPAN has a link for the video.

Problem with gold though - it's soft and breaks easily in its pure form. I've had nothing but excellent luck with men from Tennessee (unclejimbo is one, Boss is another) - but while this is an excellent speech and easily historical in scope and content, it's going to get drowned out by some pretty petty name-calling if it's allowed.

Invading another country is not fighting back.
Imprisonment and torture without cause is not fighting back.
Religious intolerance is not fighting back.

The list continues to grow. OH - telling lies and performing character assasination as a matter of record - is not fighting back.

Catching the perps, bringing them to trial and putting them in jail - IS FIGHTING BACK.

Accept no substitutes.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

You like them Tennesseeans, do you? Here, have a few more: Lamar Alexander. Senator, potential presidential material on the R side, along with Fred Thompson the last of the Howard Baker-trained honest politicians. Phil Bredesen, D, governor of Tennessee, balanced the budget, reformed the state's medicare program, and gave the teachers a raise. My schoolteaching little sister worships the ground he walks on. I'd vote for any of those three...

(And, of course, there's li'l ole me. Don't know if you knew that... but jenkitty is the Number One Fan of the Man From Tennessee... :)

(But, no, I don't want to run for President. :)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

But you also can't forget Bill Frist - got to have your eyes wide open.

I've been pleasantly surprised with Tennessee - being a native Californian. (Barry Manilow would agree with me. Seen some of the stuff he's done down there? Last thing I expected too....)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Bill Frist... *spit* Let's just say my momma ain't too happy with him. Dad, he's a yellow-dog R, and that's all there is to it, but Mom thinks for herself.

Seen some of the stuff he's done down there?

He who?

Tennessee is a nice place, September through May. It's got a lot more culture than you'd think, both small towns and large, it's generally friendly, and unlike Georgia, there are few places there where I feel the need to exercise the Second Amendment. But that Dixie heat I just can't stand... and they're not nearly as enlightened about, umm, folks as live differently than they do, as they are on this coast.