This is the article detailing how Miers was selected: [link]
It's very interesting, if you hadn't read it already.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Oct 31, 2005 9:01:25 am PST #282 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
dw - Oct 31, 2005 9:08:17 am PST #283 of 10006
Silence means security silence means approval
With Alito there will be five Catholics on the Supreme Court.
45 years ago some questioned whether JFK would be a sockpuppet of the Vatican.
Things have changed.
Susan W. - Oct 31, 2005 9:13:15 am PST #284 of 10006
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I feel like I should care about things like SCOTUS nominees, but my own powerlessness is bothering me more than it normally does. I mean, yeah, things are falling apart, the center isn't holding, etc.--but there's not a damn thing I can do about it. So there's a big part of me that wants to just ignore it all, work on my novels, and hope the world doesn't fall apart to such a degree that everything I'm working on now is useless. I promise to come out of my tunnel and get involved when it's time to pick a Dem nominee for '08, but until then I feel like I don't even have the tiny power of one voter.
Calli - Oct 31, 2005 9:17:04 am PST #285 of 10006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
So there's a big part of me that wants to just ignore it all, work on my novels, and hope the world doesn't fall apart to such a degree that everything I'm working on now is useless.
Yeah, I get that. I'll probably poke my head out of my cave when the '06 elections gear up. (It would be nice to take back Congress.) But right now? I'll be putting most of my mental energy toward the job hunt, I think.
Susan W. - Oct 31, 2005 9:20:33 am PST #286 of 10006
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm not as worked up about '06 as I might be because there's not a snowball's chance in hell my congressional district could go Republican. I guess Cantwell's re-election to the Senate might be close, but right now I'm not expecting it to be.
Fred Pete - Oct 31, 2005 9:32:15 am PST #287 of 10006
Ann, that's a ferret.
But I think the Miers nomination was just Bush being really uncunning.
I have to agree with this. Crony subdivision. (Remember, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"?)
Kalshane - Oct 31, 2005 9:34:32 am PST #288 of 10006
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
My company is putting up Christmas lights in the trees outside today. Why?
Gudanov - Oct 31, 2005 9:35:14 am PST #289 of 10006
Coding and Sleeping
My congressional district is safely democrat (it includes urban Kansas City and dude has a street named after him in KC). But the Senate race will be interesting. I believe Talent is up for relection and while I think he'll probably win on God and Guns, the democrat who will be running is a really good candidate.
Jesse - Oct 31, 2005 9:35:54 am PST #290 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, VERY nice, Steph. However, the more I think about it, the more I think I should not go out tonight. LAME.
What's funny walking around here today is that there are bunch of people who may or may not be in Halloween costumes. You can only tell by their expressions if they feel goofy or not.
Susan W. - Oct 31, 2005 9:36:07 am PST #291 of 10006
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I have to agree with this. Crony subdivision. (Remember, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"?)
That's what made it so incredibly tone-deaf to me. I was all, "Dubya, you were just in trouble for this exact same thing."