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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
AKA Smith
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I cannot tell you how much I disagree with your comment about letting the cat go. That is not the same as adapting it to the outside. It is even crueler than the nutcases here who want to drown or shoot the poor cat.
Do a little research and you will find only a certain percentage of cats can learn to hunt. Over the years domestication and ready food have dimmed the hunting instinct in cats. Some hunt; some don't. My hunch is that this cat won't hunt. Remember, the LW said he is not even much interested in toys and he had no mother to teach hunting skills so if that prey instinct is not intact, the poor sucker will only starve.
OMG! I wonder if I could get addicted.
Some women don't like Hillary, not because of her politics or her war vote or her refusal to apologize for her war vote, but because Bill was a tacky, round-heeled, cheat who chased skirt in a crude (not an upper class) way. He did not even have the decency to be discreet.
And she's still married to him!
However, Bill is the one with the charm. I recall when his autobiography came out. I happened to be in the hospital at the time. It was summer and nothing was on television. Nothing, unless I wanted to watch "What Not to Wear." Since I was wearing a hospital gown and didn't even want to think of short skirts and pointy-toed shoes, I ended up watching Bill on some some channel where he was talking about his book. He was as narcissistic and self-referential as ever.
I don't like Bill Clinton. I actually believed stuff about him that other liberals refused to consider, yet I was utterly mesmerized by him. He was born with "It."
What Hillary reminds women of is that they can be snookered again and again, just as Hillary was snookered again and again. Hillary reminds some women of the not-too-idealistic compromises that they themselves have made. She reminds some women of their willingness forgive for the sake of love, or the children, or the income. I think she reminds even feminists of this.
Some people are so certain that she didn't divorce Bill for political reasons. Hell, I would've thrown his clothes out on the White House lawn and told him to sleep somewhere else because I was keeping the house! At least I like to think I would have divorced Bill . . .
I think the brutal truth is that she loved the guy. I think she even, at first, believed the guy. There was a "vast right wing conspiracy," which -- at first -- gave Bill some cover. I think Hillary hurt just like every woman hurt who has ever been in her position when she found out the truth.
Did she make a deal with the devil? I don't know, but whether she stayed with her husband because she still loves him or because she had her eye on the White House or a mixture of both, I am not going to let my emotions get in the way of casting the best informed ballot I possibly can. I will vote for the candidate I think can win and who can also get us out of the war and rollback the BushCo infringements upon the Constitution.
I remain undecided. I haven't eliminated a single Democratic candidate yet. There is lots of time left for mistakes and triumphs. There is lots of time left for the candidates to reveal both themselves and their plans more fully.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
