This is Not A Trip Report
Aug. 29th, 2008 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanNo time for updates, back for five minutes then out again for dinner, but *hi mom! I'm alive!* (*looks in mirror* Oh hell. Freckles. Damn this French sunshine...)
Political thoughts: Lovely speech from Obama. Very moving, said many things flat-out that we've been begging him to say. "Change doesn't come from Washington - change comes to Washington." Yes. And he let loose with the line that gave me the most hope: "We cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy."
If (I never say when, not after the past few elections) he wins, I hope that the text of the speech is printed out and framed in his office, where he must look at it every day when he comes in to work. Tougher to get the grit done after the cheering has stopped...
Meanwhile, McCain chooses Sarah Palin, who is inexperienced as hell (Biden will destroy her in debates, dear gods), but hey, she's a woman! The Republicans probably think they've got the female vote in the can! Um. I don't know about you, but a strongly anti-choice, staunchly Religious Right female is not what I'd call attractive to the feminist vote, not even the ones steamed over HC's loss (IMO, voting for a uterus-any-uterus is as idiotic as voting for a penis-any-penis. Isn't the point supposed to be what we think and do, not what our sexual organs look like?) More will be reported about her in the days to come, so We Shall See (ETA: Yes,I know she's under ethics investigation for allegedly misusing her office to harass someone on behalf of her family. As I said, we shall see what comes of that.).
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I will be doing a full dump of photos to my flickr account when I'm home, for those of you who are interested in photos of old towns, vineyards, antique farming implements, and whatever else caught my fancy....
Political thoughts: Lovely speech from Obama. Very moving, said many things flat-out that we've been begging him to say. "Change doesn't come from Washington - change comes to Washington." Yes. And he let loose with the line that gave me the most hope: "We cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy."
If (I never say when, not after the past few elections) he wins, I hope that the text of the speech is printed out and framed in his office, where he must look at it every day when he comes in to work. Tougher to get the grit done after the cheering has stopped...
Meanwhile, McCain chooses Sarah Palin, who is inexperienced as hell (Biden will destroy her in debates, dear gods), but hey, she's a woman! The Republicans probably think they've got the female vote in the can! Um. I don't know about you, but a strongly anti-choice, staunchly Religious Right female is not what I'd call attractive to the feminist vote, not even the ones steamed over HC's loss (IMO, voting for a uterus-any-uterus is as idiotic as voting for a penis-any-penis. Isn't the point supposed to be what we think and do, not what our sexual organs look like?) More will be reported about her in the days to come, so We Shall See (ETA: Yes,I know she's under ethics investigation for allegedly misusing her office to harass someone on behalf of her family. As I said, we shall see what comes of that.).
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My base of operations.
Who's got the garlic butter?
That one's for
kradical. I will be doing a full dump of photos to my flickr account when I'm home, for those of you who are interested in photos of old towns, vineyards, antique farming implements, and whatever else caught my fancy....
