Damning Congressional Record.
Bob Herbert
Paul Krugman
I was about to write that I'm getting "too emotionally involved," here and then realized that's a ridiculous thing to say - how can anyone not be horrified and angry and frustrated by what we've seen in the past week? (Of course, as many have observed, our president has managed to maintain his detachment.)
I stayed up too late last night, absorbing too much news (and beer). Time to cut back on one and cut out the other, and give my blood pressure and my liver a break.
I'm alternating working on the green linen feather and fan baby blanket and the "grandpa cardigan," my sore hands respond better to switching off projects. Oh Feather and Fan, How I Love Thee.... it looks so nice and it's so mindlessly easy. Though I've been knitting for untold decades, I've never felt that urge to "challenge myself" with my knitting - life has enough challenges, my job has enough challenges, knitting - I don't want challenges. I want pretty colors and the comfort of clicking needles.
I'll never get that pair of socks done for my son at this rate, and honestly, I'm not that enthralled with the yarn - it's Lana Grossa, self striping - there is something about the texture of the yarn that makes it a bit "sticky" and not as springy and soft as the Regia. I think the socks will be fine, really, it's the knitting texture that is different and somewhat lacking.
It's September 5th already, we're halfway through hurricane season (and the lively part is yet to come, if you can believe that. Five days into the month and I finally got around to reading my September horoscope on Astrology Zone. It's been dead-on accurate for the past several months, but I'm not sure what to make of this month's jumble of issues. Interesting.
Just something I found on CNN this morning:
ReplyDeleteIt is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong man stumbles or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt April 23, 1910 -- From "Citizenship in a Republic", a speech delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
And my point in posting that is:
ReplyDeleteQuit your bitching! Until and unless you're ready to quit watching movies and reading your horoscope and drinking your beer and head to the disaster area, SHUTUP!!! Continuous bitching like this is truly shameful!
Catherine-
ReplyDeletePreach on, sister. God knows there is plenty to complain about. This, IMO, is as much or more of a tragedy as 9/11, because after the terror attacks, the whole country was untied. After this, there are the Elite, and privledged, and the have nots. And the have nots also have no power, therefore thay are useless to this administration.
Ginnie
Yeah, I'm very intimidated by pompous chickenshits who post anonymous snotty remarks. You are cordially invited not to read my "bitching."
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