The Skunk and Tiger

"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."-Horace Mann

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Adele's MRI

Today was a long day, got up early and took our baby to the hospital for her MRI. Putting an IV in a 13mo. old is no fun. Every thing else went very smoothly. Adele did not even fuss to much about not eating for ten hours prior. She has been crawling some and pulling up herself up. We are eager to hear the results but also know it might not yield any answers about her developmental delay.
Oh and the MRI looked more like a giant doughnut then a tube.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Bunning



Jim Bunning is a Senator from Kentucky. Back when we lived there, he was well know for slandering his opponents and being aloof on any political issues that does not involve baseball or the bedroom. He has shown in the past that he will hurl any insult or threat to get what he wants. Comparing Democrats to murderous dictators or being openly jubilant about a "liberal" judge having cancer is not beneath him.

Now he is threatening to sue his own party if they do not support his 2010 run. Seems that he might be a liability.



GOP Sen. Bunning threatens to sue fellow Republicans


Stephen C. Webster
from Raw Story

It wasn't so long ago when one of the GOP's greatest rallying cries -- apart from keeping homosexuals away from wedding chapels -- was the elimination of frivolous lawsuits.

"Tort reform," they called it, evoking images of ambulance-chasing, money-grubbing "trial lawyers" and greedy, spoiled Americans eager to sue over so much as spilled coffee.

But really, what could be less frivolous than a little old-fashioned infighting? On Tuesday, Senator Jim Bunning threatened to sue fellow Republicans if they do not support his bid for reelection in 2010.

Bunning's threat was leveled after rumors that the National Republican Senatorial Committee was courting David Williams, president of the Kentucky State Senate, to take a shot at the incumbent senator's seat.

"Support of incumbents is the only reason for (the NRSC's) existence," Bunning said. "So if they recruited someone and supported them in a primary against me, I would be able to sue them because they’re not following their bylaws."

"Just to clear up any potential confusion, the NRSC supports Sen. Bunning," Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), chairman of the NRSC, told Kentucky's Courier-Journal.

The Texan called it a "misunderstanding," though Bunning was much more terse.

"I don’t believe anything John Cornyn says," the senator told the Courier-Journal. "I’ve had miscommunications with John Cornyn from, I guess, the first week of this current session of the Senate. He either doesn’t understand English or he doesn’t understand direct: ‘I’m going to run,’ which I said to him in the cloakroom of our chamber."

"Amber Wilkerson, a spokeswoman for the N.R.S.C., wrote in an e-mail message that Mr. Cornyn 'has no intention of recruiting a primary opponent against him,'" reported the New York Times. "She added that the meeting with David Williams, the president of the Kentucky Senate, was just a courtesy visit."

For just a Tuesday, Sen. Bunning is having one bad week. Monday, after a firestorm of criticism, he apologized for predicting Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be dead within nine months. Ginsburg was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

In his apology, Bunning misspelled Ginsburg's name. Of course, it was not the senator's first scrape with controversy.

"Bunning once compared [a Democratic challenger's] appearance to one of Saddam Hussein's sons, and made an unsubstantiated claim that his wife wound up 'black and blue' after an alleged encounter with his rival's staffers at a political picnic," reported USA Today after Bunning narrowly won reelection in 2004.

"The senator also admitted he was unaware that a group of Army reservists had refused a convoy mission in Iraq, and said he hadn't read a newspaper in weeks and relied on Fox News for information."

Monday, February 23, 2009

Breathe

Its true I will always like whatever U2 puts out. So far there new album, No Line on the Horizen, is sounding pretty good and much more linear than their last two efforts. NLOTH is more risky and experimental not unlike their 1990 albums Achtung Baby, Zooropa and the under rated Pop. The album has been streeming on their myspace site. There is only one song I have heard that is just not working for me and unfortunatly it is one of the longer tunes.
Breathe on the other hand is one of my favorites so far, a fast paced Dylan-esque ditty.
Check it out.

Flock the Oscars

Did not get to see all of the Oscars because it ran too long and we were watching it on delay. I was not paying to close of attention as we just started this new web browser Flock and I love it.

The so called Culture Warriors out there love to bash Hollywood, but at leased it is one industry not asking for a bail out. You can not say the same for the folks who want your money so they can censor everything.

Adele's MRI is this Thursday, I'll be taking the day off. I get a real queasy feeling when I think of her going into one of those tubes. That is the technical term isn't it? Tube?

I am trying to get back into writing fiction. My head has always been full of daydreams it is just heard to put them down in a way that works. I am no expert on grammar or spelling as evidenced by my blog. An old friend has asked me to collaborate on a creative project I just hope whatever I come up with is worthy.

Monday, February 09, 2009

Heart Day



Adele crawled today for the first time so we are pretty excited. Got to see some old friends last night. Cereal party's are fun and who knew there were so many horrible breakfast products, High school the Musical the Breakfast Cereal has to be the worst. Sugar coGR seems much bigger and brighter and I got to drive through it before the snow came back. Anne and I enjoyed some Sushi for our Valentines day night out.
Good times.