I would expect this from Huckabee's Wife

A Photo in the LA Times today showed the presidential candidates wives at the Conference on Women that Maria Shriver puts on every year in California as part of Maria's first lady of Cali act. The photo showed Mrs. Thompson (a blonde trophy wife), Cindy McCain (blonde trohpy wife - slightly older version), Mrs. Romney (Mormon version of blonde trophy wife), Elizabeth Edwards (who is also blonde and a real trophy if what one values is guts and intelligence) and Michelle Obama. Michelle was wearing a houndstooth frock that I don't think really suited her.

Anyway the LA Times quoted Elizabeth Edwards as saying:

Scanning the tall, thin women arrayed beside her, Edwards said she was reminded of the "Sesame Street" song lyric:

"One of these things
Is not like the others."
"Everyone is so beautiful," Edwards said. "Which one doesn't belong?"

Okay, so I have to say that I am truly offended by this. They are really going to have to reduce Elizabeth's pain medication if they want her on the campaign trail.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-na-wives24oct24,1,4418492.story

Global Fires

There was a couple of interesting items I thought in the New York Times this week. One was the cover article of the magazine - drought and global warming in the Western U.S. and the other was the Op-Ed piece about how the "greenest" thing you can do is elect leaders who will actually pass laws that will change behaviours on a large scale. It all dovetails rather nicely with the firestorm that is happening right now in Southern California. It is smoky and hard to breathe and I'm not near any of the fires, being smack dab in west L.A..

Yosemite

Don't you think that people who SPEED through scenic routes have no soul? I mean - why speed on the windy mountain roads that lead you into one of the most glorious places on earth, the Yosemite Valley? What part of wonder about life, the universe and everything are you missing?
That was what I realized when we went to the Valley for a short vacation. It was a glorious vacation - just my speed. We hiked all day up and down mountains in glorious scenery and we then came back to a hot shower and a good meal with a nice bottle of wine. Great way to deal with nature. This deer was feeding in a meadow underneath half dome. As I took a picture of the deer (Look, Honey! Nature!) I realized that it was a stupid photo to take (which was really apparent at dusk with other tourists on the path with tiny cameras far away from the subject and the little tiny flash bulb of knock about snapshot cameras. The little insignificant flash would illuminate about three feet of air and since the deer was far away it was a rather futile exercise. Totally futile. Especially since the next day I realized you could walk up to the deer they were so unafraid of humans and get a really in depth close up photo.)

Alberto Gonzalez is a BIG FAT LIAR

And it's about time somebody did something about it. This whole administration is a pack of perjurers, I can't believe no one's done anything about it. If the Dems don't have the balls to impeach both Bush and Cheney then at the very least we can TRY THEM FOR PERJURY. Start the special counsels NOW!

Partners in so many things

Still working analog.

So have I mentioned that we're buying a house? Have I mentioned don't use Redfin?
No? Well, I don't want to dwell on the negative.

The mortgage broker, J. called. The bank - owned by chinese californians wouldn't lend to us because we were in a partnership. They don't lend to partnerships, or trusts or corporations or companies. They do home loans for individuals and couples - you know married couples. But since we were in a domestic partnership, they wouldn't loan us money. Because they don't loan money to companies - particularly ones who provide domestics.

J. had to gently bring them into the 21st century.

I've been working analog lately.
And I've been buying a house.
Don't use Redfin.

Big Dog

Dogs

It is good to roll!