Say what?

This woman is bat shit crazy. That is all I have to say. She is nuts. She has lost it. She is a Republican is sheep's clothing.

I think that she should become McCain's running mate. She is just as looney.

I Love This Woman

Divide.

My client today told me that he went to the place I referred him to to receive shoes to wear to a job interview. This place is great. I have sent clients there before when they needed a certain type of kahki pants or button down shirt for a new job. We have a clothing closet at my work for men who are looking for work and are in our programs. He got some good stuff. He showed up in his new suit at a job fair we recently had at work. Confidence. Beaming.

Today he said that he went to the other place because our closet couldn't provide shoes. He went there and they woman rudely asked him what he wanted. You want clothes, food, what? Stern.

He was a little taken back. He just needed shoes for his feet and knew that they had them. What is really the kicker is that this place is Christian organization, non-profit, for the community. I know that working in this environment and get frustrating, but if you cannot show kindness, then you shouldn't be here.

It hurt me, but it made me thankful that this client felt comfortable enough to talk to me about it. We kind of laughed it off because it is kind of silly when you think about it, but wouldn't you expect more from an agency that is Christian than one that is run by the government? I guess sometimes you just don't know.

Talking Heads

Lately, I've been less a fan of notice. This means music, tv, people talking, etc. Sometimes you can only take so much noise, especially when you cannot even hear yourself and your own emotions.

Today was the typical Monday. Rush, rush, paperwork, blah, blah.

I wore glasses to work, but then I got a headache from wearing them. My head looks funny when I wear my glasses with my hair down. I don't know why, just does.

I was just in a bitchy mood.

Maybe this is why:

What would you think if you knew that barely a handful of Senators read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting to give President Bush the authorization for war? Very few did indeed. If they wanted to read the some 90 page document outlining their so-called evidence of WMD's and Iraq's urgency to build biological and chemical weapons, you had to sign in to a secure room and read it there.

Only some of the NIE has been made open to the public. I read some of it last night and found that it was very poorly written. When making the case for war, I wouldn't use words like "probably" or "we judge" "they could", words that elude to mass assumptions. For Example!

"We judge that Iraq has continued its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs in defiance of UN resolutions and restrictions. Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles with ranges in excess of UN restrictions; if left unchecked, it probably will have a nuclear weapon during this decade.

We judge that we are seeing only a portion of Iraq's WMD efforts, owing to Baghdad's vigorous denial and deception efforts. Revelations after the Gulf war starkly demonstrate the extensive efforts undertaken by Iraq to deny information. We lack specific information on many key aspects of Iraq's WMD programs. "

AND

"If Baghdad acquires sufficient fissile material from abroad it could make a nuclear weapon within several months to a year."

AND

"Although we have little specific information on Iraq's CW stockpile, Saddam probably has stocked at least 100 metric tons (MT) and possibly as much as 500 MT of CW agents - much of it added in the last year."


Yesterday two more soldiers were killed in Iraq. 4,009.

Texas Democratic Convention Re-Cap

My husband I got there at about 8:15a.m. for the SD-9 Texas Convention.

I expected that some would get there early, but the parking lot was packed by 8:00a.m. I am happy to state that the sign in process was very organized and people were in line. The volunteers were excellent. We were in line less than 10 minutes and signed in in less than one minute once we got to the front of the line. No one had problems locating their precinct chairs/groups.

Unfortunately, the credentials committees took quite a while and I'm assuming we were trying to align ourselves with SD-23's timeframe. My precinct (4104) had no problems and our paperwork was well in order. All Obama delegates (8)from 3/4 showed up and Clinton delegates (4). I was an Obama backup but I wasn't needed but still stayed until the results were read (at 4:30p.m!).

The most dramatic moment of the day was after we just got started with the opening statements an elderly female Obama supporter tripped on these mats that were on the gym floor and came down hard. People called for a doctor and it got kind of crazy. Paramedics came and all the while the precinct chairs kept going forth with the order of things when pretty much everyone started shouting to stop proceeding until the woman was taken helped.

I know, get to the good stuff. Overall, the results were 61% Obama, 39% Clinton. That is what was announced after tabulations were finished. I can announce that one precinct was able to net 2 delegates for Obama because two of the Clinton delegates and their alternates were MIA. and Obama had extra alternates there for that precinct.

The Obama supporters reflected just about every spectrum of society, and not to play the pundit, but the Clinton supporters looked like characters off of an episode of "Rosanne" or the bra burning type. There were homemade posters with a giant Hillary picture with "She's Our Girl" in big letters.

What was the most odd moment of the day for me was when right after they read the results, Heather Tom (All My Children) and Jehmu Green of "Rock the Vote" were on the stage talking about their support for Hillary Clinton because of the content of her character and so forth. I thought their timing was a little off because the voting of the delegates had been completed long ago. Plus, a soap opera actress and the Vote or Die lady?

That's what I got from SD-9. Our neighbors across the highway in SD-23 (Oak Cliff, etc) will probably have a much more exciting story to tell.

Here is an video account of Kaufman County which went for Obama:

The Surge is So Totally Working, Like Duh!

And how exactly do I know that this surge is working. Well, take this Democrats!

"WASHINGTON — The State Department has instructed all personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad not to leave reinforced structures due to incoming insurgent rocket fire that has killed two American government workers this week.

In a memo sent Thursday to embassy staff and obtained by The Associated Press, the department says employees are required to wear helmets, body armor and other protective gear if they must venture outside and strongly advises them to sleep in blast-resistant locations instead of the less secure trailers that most occupy."(Associated Press; by Matthew Lee)

Oh Shit. Nevermind.

But! Wait! President Bush sees this current string of violence as a positive sign that the surge is working. Man, I am very confused. He thinks that it shows that the Iraqi government, parliament, whatever they are called, are standing up to the militias and out of it will come resistance. Of course, I am sure that the U.S. Troops are on the same page. Who knows! The media never asked the troops what they think and God forbid Cheney listen.

In response to a recent interview question about 2/3 of Americans think that the war isn't worth it, Cheney simply stated, "So?". See below. You might want to shield your eyes because evil rays might suddenly pop from your computer screen.



But, because there are good people in this world. I will redeem your eyes and play this: