tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54447132011-04-21T13:30:45.205-07:00Two Abes my two cents on everythingKarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1060566692203101452003-08-10T18:51:00.000-07:002003-08-10T18:51:32.043-07:00Reagan 2? I'm not certain about all these Shwarzenegger/Reagan comparisons, but one thing is clear; Schwarzenegger-omics doesn't have a nice ring to it. Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1059957764332690312003-08-03T17:42:00.000-07:002003-08-03T17:45:20.556-07:00I think that many would agree that the internet, satellite tv, cellular phones and other such technology have brought the world together. Simultaneously it seems these things may have detracted some compassion or emotion from humans. This may be one such example from the NY Times website. Hussein Brothers Buried | Slide Show Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1059443559178151292003-07-28T18:52:00.000-07:002003-08-03T17:25:54.846-07:00This guy is definitely guilty of something but im not sure it even has to do with watergate. Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1059014644878825882003-07-23T19:44:00.000-07:002003-07-23T19:54:00.970-07:00Dems on Bush Don't let the title fool you, this post isn't about the left's platform on the hair down south. Rather, it's about how some democrats are reacting to President Bush and his foreign policy and his basic modus operandi. Today former President Clinton came out with a very magnanimous position on the Bush/Niger/Uranium situation reinforcing the former President's title of L.L.B.C. (Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1058670346343477592003-07-19T20:05:00.000-07:002003-07-19T20:07:22.620-07:00During the war on Iraq, I don't remember seeing one single picture of an injured US soldier. In retrospect this is a bit bizarre to me being that there was so much embedding going on. However, since the "end" of the war it seems like there is a flood of pictures depicting wounded or haggard soldiers. Many people have jumped the gun on the Iraq War and Vietnam connection, and I really don't Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1058319820648849702003-07-15T18:43:00.000-07:002003-07-15T18:43:40.676-07:00The Administration that cried wolf. In response to more questions regarding the location of WMD in Iraq the AP reports that Bush stated "the United States is working overtime to prove Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction before the United States invaded Iraq." Perhaps I'm just becoming overly supsicious, but the words "working overtime" conjur images of Rumsfeld, Cheney andKarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1057889595984404122003-07-10T19:13:00.000-07:002003-07-10T19:29:06.853-07:00(D)-electability The question of "electability" looms large over the 2004 election and I'm lead to wonder, when did "electability" become such an issue? It's not even as though candidates are saying "I'm a winner" it's "I'm electable." I believe this question of, and intense focus on, "electability" stems from the 2000 election. That election may have had a deeper psychological effect on the Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1057888067835400552003-07-10T18:47:00.000-07:002003-07-10T18:47:47.860-07:00Ezra Klein over at, the very attractive, notgeniuses.com is talking about what he believes to be a bad move by Howard Dean to try to distinguish himself from "Washington Democrats." Ezra points out that "Washington is exponentially more attuned to the pulse of the nation than Vermont" clearly there is no arguing with that. A recent census found that in the Washington Metropolitan area 1 in 5 Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1057800935490610182003-07-09T18:35:00.000-07:002003-07-09T18:43:01.696-07:00numbers numbers numbers So this is a bit interesting. Today Donald Rumsfeld revealed that per MONTH it is going to cost the US 4 Billion dollars to stay in Iraq. Today it was also announced that the US is going to contribute $20 million to the Palestinian Authority. I dont even really know what to make of this. It just makes me think if we didn't go to war on Iraq would we have more money Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1057799106543767142003-07-09T18:05:00.000-07:002003-07-09T18:05:06.550-07:00'member the good ole days when the president only lied about sex? Well, times have changed my friends. This article speaks to the ever changing reasons for the war on Iraq and also the lil white lie the president told in his state of the union address regarding Iraq's purchase of uranium in Niger. In response to the "admisssion" Tom Daschle stated, "This is a very important admission," "It's aKarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1057797501936359222003-07-09T17:38:00.000-07:002003-07-09T17:38:21.900-07:00This is insane. I can't even scrape together anything funny to say about it. Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1057534295799988802003-07-06T16:31:00.000-07:002003-07-06T16:36:11.340-07:00bringin it. I agree with Tacitus that the whole Bush "bring them on" statement is not all that compelling and doesn't have the potential for enemy led repercussions as some may believe. It has been made clear a million times over that Bush is not a good public speaker and is not very articulate. With all the other enormous problems in his actual policies I find it a bit tedius and wasteful Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1056672155225569682003-06-26T17:02:00.000-07:002003-06-26T17:05:14.370-07:00Dean Already on Letterman I'm not sure if anyone else saw this, but I was quite happy when I did. Clearly, the list isn't that favorable, but being mentioned in these things is huge. Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1056504887859871542003-06-24T18:34:00.000-07:002003-06-24T18:34:47.830-07:00So Diana Ross had to go to court today for a drunk driving incident. Are you getting a mental picture in your head of this scene? Diana Ross in court is bizarre enough, but imagine this woman with a 0.2 blood alcohol level. This is scary when one considers that sober she looks like this. Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1056503555529130492003-06-24T18:12:00.000-07:002003-06-24T18:36:31.376-07:00Fifty Dollars and a Hand Shake. No, it's not some sort of warped prostitution for the prude, it's a Dean fund raiser. I got to shake Howard Dean's hand tonight. It was my left hand for anyone interested, and yes, he shakes well. Dean gave a pretty brief speech in Washington, DC tonight ,close to Union Station. He stood on some steps outside of a restaurant, the Capitol in the distance, and Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1056502476567751602003-06-24T17:54:00.000-07:002003-06-24T17:54:36.460-07:00"Operation Desert Scorpian" a.k.a. the war isn't really over. Are we all getting very sleepy? It seems as though the American people may be under some sort of hypnosis from the Bush Administration. Rather than reciting daily affirmations we are all reciting things like "Bush is good" "i'd give up anything for the war on terror cause" and "Dick Cheney is my friend." But if you wake up for a Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1056415304887772592003-06-23T17:41:00.000-07:002003-06-23T17:41:44.820-07:00Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1055809501957343572003-06-16T17:25:00.000-07:002003-06-16T17:25:01.863-07:00A what man??? Politicians get my respect for a number of reasons. One reason is their ability to keep talking despite being aware of the fact that everything they say and do will be scrutinized. Tom Delay may not get my respect through his politics but he said this with a straight face and that's something. Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1055699144154098512003-06-15T10:45:00.000-07:002003-06-15T11:05:10.700-07:00ALL ABOARD There’s nothing like waking up on Sunday morning to a slightly overweight middle aged man, hunched over, talking about the week’s events. This week Tim Russert woke me up both literally and figuratively. One of Tim’s guests (yes, we are on a first name basis) was General Wesley Clark. General Clark spoke about many things, including the Bush administrations urgings in September Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1055696233854634842003-06-15T09:57:00.000-07:002003-06-15T09:57:13.840-07:00U.N. UNable? I intended this post to be about the U.N's recent decision to send more "peacekeepers" to Congo to help calm the raging civil war there. I was going to point out my inability to quite comprehend the decision to send in "peacekeepers" when these groups would be unable to take any real action unless they were attacked. It seems that with regard to Africa, the world is just Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1055380637686326722003-06-11T18:17:00.000-07:002003-06-11T18:17:17.680-07:00mars, venus, world wide web. As you can tell if you've ever looked over my few shoddy posts below, you'll notice I’m pretty liberal. However, when it comes to men and women and their roles, I'm pretty traditional. I've only been blogging for eleven days, but I'm beginning to question, "should girls blog?" The first link to my site that I received was from a male friend. The link brought Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1055203429782252362003-06-09T17:03:00.000-07:002003-06-09T17:03:49.233-07:00Finding WMD. Months not weeks. In the always precise and clear way of the Bush Administration, it seems they have taken their vague phrase on when the US would attack Iraq and invert it to answer the "where are the wmd?" question. With all this recycling you'd think Bush would care more about the environment. Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1055197983044614662003-06-09T15:33:00.000-07:002003-06-09T17:08:00.626-07:00Al Gore May have invented the internet, but Howard Dean knows how to use it I just read this piece , care of Matthew Yglesias. I found this an interesting recount as I have actually attended one of these Howard Dean Meet-up events that was held a few months ago in Washington, DC. A meet-up is an interesting thing. For the first twenty minutes or so people mill around asking "Have you done Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1054770931802857922003-06-04T16:55:00.000-07:002003-06-04T16:55:31.520-07:00Pentagon Talking In Circles I just read this article and I'm a bit confused. Pentagon official, Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, doesn't seem like quite the right guy to defend the Pentagon. When discussing accusations regarding whether or not the Iraq War was justified, Feith stated, "This suggestion that we said to them, 'This is what we're looking for, go find it,' is Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1054686298071995712003-06-03T17:24:00.000-07:002003-06-03T17:57:15.330-07:00Unless you are both deaf and blind you have probably noticed the fairly recent upsurge in the recruitment efforts of the US Army. I actually opened up my credit card statement yesterday and they were urging me to join--I think they are trying to capitalize on the sucidial feelings that creep up when you look at your 24.5% interest rates. But really, if they want to get people to join they Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1054684633906898042003-06-03T16:57:00.000-07:002003-06-03T17:58:12.790-07:00 Although I’ve been known to tap my foot to a country music tune or two and I can identify at least five faces on CMT (thereby putting me just over the legal limit accepted to still be considered “cool”) I have no great allegiance to the Dixie Chicks. I found the hoopla over them in the past few months to be a bit tiresome. But what I do find interesting is the way this columnist described Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444713.post-1054507929288507492003-06-01T15:52:00.000-07:002003-06-09T17:12:34.526-07:00After being an infrequent commenter on other sites, I have decided to start my own blog. Although it is fun to be a Monday morning quarterback, there comes a time when you need to get in the “game.” But rather than list my favorite things or go on and on about the cute worker at the nearby Starbucks I’m going to get started doing what I set up this thing to do, that is, present my pedestrian Karahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17492522351856469754noreply@blogger.com