A couple of quotes from an interview with Rick Santorum caught my attention today:

"Santorum said he held up the confirmation of Lynette Norton, who also was nominated for a seat on that court, because Clinton White House officials did not follow through on their standing agreement with him and Specter that for every three Democrats, the senators would get to choose a Republican"

Using the term "The Last" * is quite popular in film titles. In fact there are 1,245 ** such titles or sub-titles on IMDB. But surprisingly there are ZERO using the word Penultimate in the title or sub-title. (OK, so there is one with Penúltima in the title "A Penúltima Donzela [The Last Maiden But One]" b

Vice President Dick Cheney, saying he had not seen DeLay's remarks, distanced himself from the call for retribution against the courts. "I don't think that's appropriate," Cheney said in an interview with the New York Post. Houston Chronical link (emphasis added)

Round Rock, TX School Board VP arrested for allegedly offers to trade Legal services for Sexual services.

And remember, John Ashcroft spent the summer of 2001 not preventing Osama bin Laden from attempting to attack the US, but in going after an interstate prostitution ring.

I'm wary of raising the cap since it seems targetted at hitting the upper middle class without any real impact on the truly wealthy. But Removing the cap entirely doesn't seem like a bad idea. Also, if the GOP will only do this as part of setting up personal/private/pirate accounts, then I propose only additional revenues in the bill be available to fund the accounts and that other payroll- like payments from employers to employees be subject to a FICA- like ta

we'll have to see - the last journal I saw posted was 99,998

I'll delete this if it isn't it.

UPDATE: as he gloats below, insanecarbonbasedlif got it - I posted this one - saw it was 99,999 and tried to quickly get another one up - but the new one came up as 100,001.

We got a sitter Monday for late afternoon / early evening (I had it off for the US holiday) and actually went on a date. Dinner was a Pakistani place we try to get to once a year or so, I had a tomatoey/spicy goat dish, and Cy Gal had the mixed kabob platter. For dessert we stopped at Starbucks to split a Chantico. It was divine, so I have been looking around the net for a recipe - this one just happened to come up

I'm not a hockey fan* - but I hate when the monied and powerful piss on the poor masses, and love it when the masses take the initiative to fight back. So when I heard about this effort the other day on NPR, I thought, now that is cause I can get behind.

I'm really confused by the article in today's Washington Post which Describes A Bush Social Security Plan RADICALLY Different Than What I Thought The Plan Was.

I was listening to a radio program on the NPR affiliate here in DC. At night they carry some EU programming and during a Deutche-Welle (sp) broadcast talking about a sharks I was inspired to create a new word. So new, in fact, that Googling for it (for the two logical spellings I could come up with anyway) resulted in zero hits. Here it is:

From the Drinking Liberally DC Mailing list:

It's being reported that Bush has picked Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff to head the Department of Homeland Security.

Previously Chertoff directed the failed prosecution of Zacarias Massoui, and aided the failed investigation of the White Water scandal.

UPDATE: 2:22 PM

You'd think someone at FEMA would have Googled their own website fairly soon after the disaster and removed this.

x\\ spell your name backwards: yuG yC
x\\ have you ever had a song written about you: Well, at least a verse that included me - but the songwriter was my 3 yr old daughter
x\\ height: 188 cm
x\\ hair color: dishwater blonde
x\\ piercings: one closed one in left ear

Just a quick note to ask for some moral support for a friend.