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    Merry Christmas from Vancouver USA

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    For those readers in the Vancouver, Washington area, I am sure you will personally recognize the singer in the video below.  That is if you shop at the local Costco.  If you do not, you should.  Costco pays well compared to its competition and really is a great company.  Full disclosure:  I am a member but I [...]



    making the world a better place

    I am an atheist, but I love Christmas. And, since we discovered the Jews hiding in our family tree (and with it the explanation for why our was the only non-Jewish family in the country, as far as we can tell, with my maiden name: Porges), Chanukkah has added to our holiday fun.

    I was about 12, and having real trouble understanding why [...]



    slow on the uptake

    You all are probably way out ahead of me on this, but I just realized that the 700 Billion Dollar Plan makes a great October Surprise (albeit in late September) – it has all the fear necessary to push voters’ buttons, with the plausible deniability of “We’d never play politics with something so serious.”

    And, it has the added bonus of giving billions [...]



    dude, where’s my legacy?

    There is so much lying, bullying and bad grace in Bush’s presser from yesterday that I can hardly repudiate him any better than to just let the moron whiner speak for himself.

    Bush is the drunk who drives his car through a pedestrian crosswalk, up onto a sidewalk and into a street fair, killing or maiming all in his path, and then sues [...]



    can we impeach the bastard now?

    Things are rapidly devolving in Afghanistan back to the bad old days of Taliban-Northern Alliance violence, with the added target of U.S. troops in the middle:

    Insurgent attacks have put US and NATO forces on the defensive in eastern Afghanistan, an area recently touted as a counter-insurgency success but now a focus of spreading insecurity, analysts say.

    In the latest attack, at least [...]



    to quote atrios:

    WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

    From our international banker this morning:

    The dollar is under siege. The New York Times reported that the Bush Administration was considering a take over of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, possibly putting both into a conservatorship, which could mean the share value would be near worthless. The euro and pound both moved up two cents while the dollar fell two yen. [...]



    the best gift

    J. has a hard time buying gifts for me. Even when I say I don’t need anything, or ask for something that can’t be bought (this year I asked that we adopt the stray cat that’s been camped out on our front porch for a month), he thinks he needs to get me something. (He’s great at picking out gifts for L., who [...]