The talking heads are outraged. There is great wailing and gnashing of teeth. The Forever Glum sit hunched over their tepid beer with that look of eternal resignation and remind everyone who cares to listen that "I knew this would happen - it was only a matter of time". These people are all upset about President Obama, and the things they think he's done - and these are the lefties!
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51 comments (Latest Comment: 04/10/2009 19:58:59 by Will in Chicago)

With all of the discussion about whether newspapers will survive (or whether they should survive), the discussion often overlooks some of the services that will be lost. Besides the jobs lost at the printers, the jobs of the copy writers, the proof readers and the fact checkers, there is also the job of the political cartoonist. Since the time newspapers began, the political cartoon has been a unique art form, one that is at once disarming and well-armed with barbs. In the hands of an expert, it can distill a political point down to its essence, and present it in a way that gets the point across in seconds without requiring lengthy reading.
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40 comments (Latest Comment: 04/09/2009 02:51:45 by livingonli)

From today's NYT The Lede Blog:
For the first time in 18 years, the Pentagon granted the news media access on Sunday night to cover the arrival of a coffin to Dover Air Force Base from overseas.

The coffin, draped in a flag and bearing the body of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va, was unloaded from a government aircraft by the military honor guard. Sergeant Myers, 30, was killed by an improvised explosive device near Helmand Province in Afghanistan on April 4, according to the Defense Department.

Per this new policy, Family consent must be given. I know that Tuesday is usually the day on this blog that we set aside for our Soldiers in Peril, but today, I would like to thank Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers for his sacrifice, and his family for allowing us to bear witness to the horrible costs of this war.

Afghanistan may be considered by some to be the 'nobler' of these two fronts we are fighting, and I would tend to agree, but in the end, war is war -- and the sacrifices our soldiers make are a great loss for our country. These are our sisters and brothers, lovers, friends, fathers, daughter, sons and mothers. This is the first coffin we have seen in 18 years, and no doubt it will not be the last.

I hope that the sacrifice Staff Sgt. Myers made on the field as well as the sacrifice his family have made by allowing us to truly and finally see the cost of war will help to bring the battle in Afghanistan and Iraq to a quicker end.

Rest in Peace.

:peace: and
Raine



 
66 comments (Latest Comment: 04/07/2009 01:13:48 by Mondobubba)

Good Morning!

Well, in case you missed it somehow, yesterday was Bob & Raine's first anniversary. (Bob's birthday, too!)

Looking back to last Saturday's blog, that ties in nicely with our human obsession with time; it's a life milestone worth celebrating and remembering.

This got me thinking about my own marriage....Mrs. TriSec and I took a different path than Bob and Raine. We first met in 1991, when we both worked for the same company a couple of desks away. That Christmas, we went to the company party together as a 'first date', and we still remember December 21 each year.

We became comfortable together, but never really moved towards "the big M" for the first few years. It was my brother's wedding in 1994 that finally upped the ante; we finally decided to get married a year later, but it wasn't until 1996 that we sealed the deal.

So....this July 14, we'll be celebrating our lucky 13th year of marriage. (Lace, textiles, or furs....pm me for our address! )

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12 comments (Latest Comment: 04/05/2009 01:35:10 by m-hadley)

Regarding the presidents request that GM get its act together in 60 days, I am left wondering, how can they do it? Why have they not been doing it and what was the hold-up? Did they not see the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car"? Did they not see Toyota and Honda's sales on hybrids going thru the roof? Did they not hear Americans' calls for more efficient vehicles? Did they not hear the warning about global climate change and overuse of fossil fuels?
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89 comments (Latest Comment: 04/03/2009 02:55:18 by trojanrabbit)