Libby got 2.5 years, and I'm pretty Ok with that, though I cant see that the folks who wrote him letters of leniency were folks who were charged with ...um...protecting not only us, but Valerie Plame, as an agent of ours!...I dont think that its OK for them to write letters of support for this criminal who is openly taking the fall for the worse criminals in our governement! I think that all of those rotten apples have to go. Its highly irregular to have top government officials go to bat for a convicted criminal, and make arguments along the lines of the convicted being just too busy to remember ANYTHING....
This is pathetic and I hope that Scooter enjoys his moments in jail before his pardon...I hope that every American looks at this for what it is: an inside job underlying the machinations that worked to send us into a needless war that has put us in danger and debt....and killed so many of our kids, not to mention the uncounted innocent Iraqis too....
Even if Scooter ends up never spending a day in jail, the civil trial will be strengthened by this conviction, and according to Joe Wilson on Kieth Olbermann this evening, Cheney and those higher ups who the American people deserve to hear on this matter will definitely be named in this action!...and clearly, the transparent attempt to block Valerie Plame's book will be defeated too.
What kind of a wonderful world is this that I live in...? Back home with my birds, dogs, plans for a few chickens, and counting down to upcoming mornings of not waking up for the school bus... and watching my lil' slackers become summer slackers in this only ever summer of their 14th year....
I finally was starting to catch up this morning except for the self-replenishing pile of paper on the desk here and the fact that I forgot all lists upon leaving the house, therefore making it impossible to actually do much of anything out there besides finally stopping to buy the grill that Ive been circling for weeks now.
But it was upon arriving really, really late at the gym this morning that a "friend" was laughing at me and saying that she thought that maybe the moose had gotten me! ...Moose!!??
Well,
apparently we had a moose on the loose here in Stamford that had traveled from Northern Fairfield County to just about right here in my neighborhood...Clop, clop, clop, walking up driveways...off running across the Darien golf course, like a very large horse, and finally causing some schools and businesses to lock down, before running into the Merritt parkway and getting hit by a car. Animal control apparently had to put it down, and the people in the car had to be extricated with heavy equipment...
The year that Will was born I lived just outside of Portland Maine, where the Moose rules all...and it is well known that you don't want to hit a moose on the highway because the moose will likely live and the car will be an accordion. Here in Connecticut we have only around 100 moose in total, and they reside in the furthest north-west corner of the state...so, like the recent whales and dolphins showing up way off course, and the increase of bears and bobcats and coyotes entering areas where they never would have been found before because of...um..people...things feel turned upside down.
And the poor guy was put down...which, I'm sure we will hear more about, as the animal rights people around here are pretty strident. And I guess I care more about that than who was hurt in the car...
Then, as I was figuring a way to rush home and put some hay in the yard to try to lure the thing here, my phone email started pouring in with all of these emergency weather notices about extreme storms coming and how we should take cover...violent thunderstorms, big hail, and tornadoes were moving from the northern coastal towns towards where I was...safe in the gym, yes, but still....
What kind of craziness is this?
The flooding wont stop, a worse than usual storm season is promised, mosquitoes are HUGE, theres a moose in the backyard, and its hailing!
The endtimes are nigh, kids....
and just to confirm that,
Conan O'Brien is featuring Marc Maron tomorrow (Wednesday,) who will again remind us how fucked things are in general, and also what we're missing every day on the Green's AAR 2.0. Someone had better get smart and give this guy a regular gig really quickly...he is full of material, information, opinion, and angst, and hes ready to go...lets get on with it, OK? We need the funny, we need it regularly, and we need it NOW!
Next up, a plague of tiny frogs or grasshoppers or something slimy, like slugs (the only animal ...er...bug...that I fully dislike...hate!)...(and an unshaven Dan Abrams filling in for Joe Scarborough!)
Maybe I can grill just once or twice on the new grill before the next blow?
Moose update: A New Hampshire woman hit the moose on the Merritt Parkway, totalling her car and injuring the Moose...She was extracted and taken to the hospital. The Moose was too badly injured to save, so had to be put down...RIP baby...Next time, head north...what a beauty!
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