Guys, we're going in a circle again. The next post linked is back to Celebration in 2001.

Posted November 1, 2005 8:24 PM by Marilee

Say what, Marilee?

Posted November 1, 2005 8:33 PM by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Thank you; that fuzzy postage stamp made my night!

Posted November 1, 2005 11:28 PM by Darice Moore

Given that I'm in Texas now, which is enough to depress one (the upcoming vote on the m-f-only marriage amendment) and excite one (deLay in court just six miles from me!)... this download may be small but I had the volume turned up anyway.

I need to get me a flag that says, "Give 'em hell, Harry!" and then I can wave it at moments like these.

Posted November 1, 2005 11:43 PM by sGreer

Marilee ::: (view all by) ::: November 01, 2005, 08:24 PM:

Guys, we're going in a circle again. The next post linked is back to Celebration in 2001.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden ::: (view all by) ::: November 01, 2005, 08:33 PM:

Say what, Marilee?

Sometimes, when a new entry is first up, the "Back to Previous Post" link in the left-hand column points to some random Other Post, not to the actual Previous Post. This straightens itself out after just a few minutes, but for those few minutes it can be confusing.

Posted November 2, 2005 12:13 AM by James D. Macdonald

New Jersey has its general elections next week, including the gubernatorial race. Up until now, I've been opposed on principle to voting a straight party ticket -- and since I moved to New Jersey, I haven't voted for a Democratic candidate for governor (I actually liked Whitman, and couldn't stand McGreevey or Schundler four years ago).

But anything that will stick it to the Republicans is a good thing this year (and every year until they're out of the majority). And it doesn't hurt that Corzine is actually a likeable, competent candidate. My biggest worry is that his leaving the Senate opens up a seat, but New Jersey tends to pretty solidly back Democrats for the Senate.

Although it's not a Congressional election year, it will be worth keeping an eye on how the votes swing in those states that have major elections this month.

Posted November 2, 2005 8:32 AM by Jimcat Kasprzak

Send Harry 10 bucks if you want to encourage more of this kind of thing.

Posted November 2, 2005 8:59 AM by Barry Ragin

Jimcat:

Corzine's move from the Senate to the State House is, it seems to me, preparation for a run at the White House. I'm neutral on him for the moment; on the one hand, he's a politician. On the other, he was the highly successful CEO of Goldman Sachs, which demonstrates (to me, at least) that he has the administrative ability needed in a governor and/or President.

Unfortunately, I don't get to vote for him. All I get is to vote against Bloomy.

Posted November 2, 2005 10:07 AM by Bruce Adelsohn

Here's a photo of Bill Frist after Reid sprang that one on him yesterday.

Posted November 2, 2005 10:39 AM by Serge

Once again, we must bow down to Giblets. Bow down to Giblets NOOOOW!

Posted November 2, 2005 10:48 AM by TexAnne

No kneeling before Zod, TexAnne? (Who has made a worse mess of the White House? Zod, or Dubya?)

Posted November 2, 2005 10:51 AM by Serge

Serge: check out Zod's campaign website.

The Iraq War has shifted $187 billion to the defense industry. How is this "defense industry" to kneel before me? Are my praises to be sung as footnotes in their paperwork? You will stop giving these corporations your wealth. I suggest you put the money into your own schools and health care, so that I may have intelligent, healthy servants. I will indulge your wishes if you all want a Westernized, unpopular regime in Iraq, and I too shall gloat in its troubles, but it will not be done at my expense.

Posted November 2, 2005 11:24 AM by Christopher Davis

Good thing I had already finished my Nth coffee mug, Christopher. Say, what positions would Ursa and Non fulfill in a Zod Cabinet?

Posted November 2, 2005 11:30 AM by Serge

All Zod did was wreck the ceiling the white house by flying in through it, and Superman fixed that, handily. As for W... well, let's just say not even Superman can fix what he's done to the White House.

Posted November 2, 2005 11:33 AM by Keith Kisser

Serge: General Zod does not have pies an robots an the Medium Lobster.

Posted November 2, 2005 11:43 AM by TexAnne

"Say, what positions would Ursa and Non fulfill in a Zod Cabinet?"

Secretaries of Krushing and Destroying, respectively.

Posted November 2, 2005 11:47 AM by Sandy

Or mute Non could take Scott McLellan's job.

Posted November 2, 2005 11:50 AM by Serge

Thanks, Patrick. That was fun.

Posted November 2, 2005 11:53 AM by Kathryn Cramer

Jim, actually it says it links to the Next Post Forward, but links back to the beginning, thereby going in circles.

Posted November 2, 2005 5:59 PM by Marilee

A variant of the same bug, I think, Marilee.

Posted November 2, 2005 6:21 PM by James D. Macdonald

C-SPAN has a RealAudio (sorry!) link up to Reid's speech on the floor yesterday (sections of which statement included in an earlier post by Teresa), at the end of which he invokes Rule 21. Nice review of the Republican stiffing of Phase II over the last 20 months. I love the part at the end when he pulls the piece of paper from his pocket and executes his Secret Plan of Action.

The video lasts about 20 minutes, as they say on C-SPAN.

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/iraq/iraq110105_reid.rm

I wish they would put up the floor speeches given by Sen. Roberts (backing and filling) and Sen. Rockefeller (pissed and precise) after yesterday's closed session. Seen back-to-back, All Is Clear, as they say on... well... here, I guess.

Posted November 2, 2005 6:48 PM by michael weholt

I've been very impressed with Reid. If there's a filibuster that can be out together, he'll do it.

Posted November 3, 2005 2:10 AM by Scott Lemieux

Pet peeve.

The media I'm seeing, and some of the online commentary, reports this in terms of political maneuver and tactics: 'Democrats revolt'; 'Reid just changed the subject from Judge Alito...'; 'They got the bird flu conference off the headlines in about four hours'. Their side say it's dirty tactics. Ours say it's good tactics.

I know Harry's closure of the Senate isn't any actual result to any actual thing, but it seems to me that when Conservatives pose like this it isn't [mainly] assessed as maneuver and horse race. Doing so for 'our' actions undercuts them.

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Posted November 4, 2005 11:24 PM by Geoff Crooks

It's not really spamming a commercial product like online gambling or something like that, but it's a drive-by with no more content than "come look at my blog". Your call, Teresa.

Posted November 5, 2005 4:19 AM by David Goldfarb sees a borderline post

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Posted November 5, 2005 5:12 AM by bryan

That's terrifying. Don't do it, you'll regret it!

...oh, my eyeballs... where's the peroxide?...

Posted November 5, 2005 2:04 PM by Michael Falcon-Gates

A good time for opposition all round, it seems.

The 90-day extention to holding without charge just got rejected in the Uk parliament.

This was a measure personally championed by Tony Blair (the word is that his Home Secretary Charles Clark was making offers of compromise, but 'Tough on Terror' Tony stopped him).

Under the amendment adopted by the House of Commons, the police can only hold someone arrested for terrorism offenses for 28 days (a doubling of the current 14).

This is the first time the Government has been defeated in the House of Commons since Tony Blair took office in '97.

I'm sure most people reading this are fairly familiar with the principles under which the UK Parliament operates, but I'll say that (as you know, Bob) in the British constitution there is only one criterion for who gets to be Prime Minister. He (or She) who can get MPs to vote for their bills gets to live at Number 10 Downing Street.

Posted November 9, 2005 1:58 PM by Aboulic