Canada, the campaign and NAFTA
Posted by miri On 5 March, 2008
After reading this, I’m totally confused. Who was the one nodding and winking to Canada about NAFTA while saying the opposite on the campaign trail?
“He said someone from (Hillary) Clinton’s campaign is telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt. . . That someone called us and told us not to worry.”
Government officials did not deny the conversation took place.
They said that Mr. Brodie sought to allay concerns about the impact of Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton’s assertion that they would re-negotiate NAFTA if elected. But they did say that Mr. Brodie had no recollection of discussing any specific candidate — either Ms. Clinton or Mr. Obama.
CTV News President Robert Hurst said he would not discuss his journalists’ sources.
But others said the content of Mr. Brodie’s remarks was passed on to CTV’s Washington bureau and their White House correspondent set out the next day to pursue the story on Ms. Clinton’s apparent hypocrisy on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Although CTV correspondent Tom Clark mentioned Ms. Clinton in passing, the focus of his story was on assurances from the Obama camp.
Caucus Results
Posted by miri On 5 March, 2008
Wonder why those Texas caucus results are being reported so slowly? Turns out they don’t have to report them. Any reporting is “voluntary.”
More F.B.I. Privacy Breaches Reported
Posted by miri On 5 March, 2008
From the NYTimes:
The FBI improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.
Bench
Posted by miri On 5 March, 2008
More reports of caucus “fun”
Posted by miri On 5 March, 2008
- Precinct holds caucus in parking lot; campaigns accuse each other of wrong-doing
- Caucus confusion causes frustration
- Voters Overwhelm Texas Caucus Officials
- Clinton prepared to sue over Texas caucuses?
- Clinton and Obama Supporters Accuse Each Other of Breaking Texas Caucus Rules
- Dallas caucus site overflowing with crowds
- Clinton forces charge Obama camp with irregularities
And they need to know that, why?
Posted by miri On 4 March, 2008
I forgot to mention the boxes they also wanted you to fill out/check on the caucus sheet:
- Persons with Disabilities
- LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered)
- 35 & Under (Y) Yes, (N) No
- Sex (F) Female, (M) Male
- Ethnicity (AA) African American, (H) Hispanic, (W) White, (AS) Asian, (NA) Native American
Caucus
Posted by miri On 4 March, 2008
For those of you who live in caucus states and take part in them – are they usually cluster-fucks? Or is it just that Texans are stupid and unorganized? HOLY CRAP! This is how we elect someone? People standing around in a room going, “what are we supposed to do. Do you know?” And the “organizers” saying, “we only have one sign in sheet. Anyone have the keys to the school’s office so that we can make copies?” I went in there wanting to stay for the whole caucus and maybe try and be a delegate to the county convention, but I couldn’t take it. Unorganized hot messes with crying babies just piss me off. Granted, they said the last time they had a caucus, 3 people showed up, but this has been all over the news and they had to have known they would have a big crowd.
Manhattan
Posted by miri On 4 March, 2008
As seen from Roosevelt Island
Rusty lets me stand somewhere near her
Posted by miri On 3 March, 2008
We have a new game now – I hold my hand out in what I hope is a non-threatening gesture and she bats at it with her paw. If I don’t remove it immediately, she hisses. Which causes the Hissing Tabby of Doom to hiss and things just get more and more hissy until I go back inside.
Lamp shade
Posted by miri On 2 March, 2008
Christmas Eve at Mom’s house.