November 2012

Well, the always-opportunistic Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, who famously questioned the patriotism of his opponent, triple-amputee-as-a-result-of-military-service Max Cleland, in a senate race some years back, now takes… a stand?… and suggests that he may breach his “no new tax” pledge with Grover Norquist. Yawn. [Oh… and my college classmate, the President, forgot to mention the One True God in his Thanksgiving address. The fact that he’s going to use these “Fake Fiscal Cliff[TM]” negotiations to set in motion the eventual handing over of social security to his backers on Wall Street… what did you think this was about?… will be...

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First, a happy birthday to TD Sister, and belated happy birthdays to TD Nieces #2 and 5 (ages 14 and now 4 days respectively) and to Mrs. TD. And now… on with the all too tragic soap opera that is the Middle East. Israel’s Haaretz reports that a cease-fire deal is in the works between Israel and Hamas. The deal being brokered in Cairo with the assistance of Egypt would, hopefully, shut down the ongoing rocket barrage into Israel coming from Gaza and the Israeli air-strikes in retaliation (as well as the possible Israeli ground invasion of Gaza). Some things...

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No… not the vote total of the winner of the Fake Election[TM], my college classmate, Barack Hussein Obama, but the fact that at measuring stations in Arctic and other Northern climes, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have come in at the devastatingly high 400 parts per million. Even as much of the New York area continues to reel from the aftermath of “superstorm Sandy,” with a new “Noreaster” storm expected within hours, it would appear that, whether Americans chose to recognize reality or not, reality has decided it won’t wait for us. Ah, I remember a candidate who suggested that “today...

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Thanks to whomever posted this gem from the Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror VII.” Be it Kang or Kotos, Goldman or Sachs… my vote is “no thanks.” Vote any way you want. You know where I stand.

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All is well here in Stately Dog Manor in Brooklyn… alas, Familia TD in the NYC suburbs, especially up in Rockland County, continue to be without power. On a broader note, the Grey Lady gives us this round-up of frustrations associated with the (inevitably) slow recovery in many places from last weekend’s Hurricane Sandy. One of the frustrations that had been a growing irritant was the running of the NYC Marathon (given that there remain hundreds of thousands without power not to mention a seeming inability to get here– and frustrations involving the intersection of marathoners with hotel reservations and...

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