Going back to Dumas's The Vicomte de Bragelonne now.
As for Oceans Elven, it shall cast Orlando Bloom.
Coz he needs the money.
(*I* liked Elizabeth Town, but the world? Maybe not so much ....)
Love, C.
FWIW, "The Scouring of the Shire" feels essential to LOTR. It has since my first reading of it all, lo these many long ages ago. Losing the replanting of the Party Tree and the re-growth of the Shire to a box of salt and herbs just -- ahem -- tasted wrong.
Love, C.
You can't train in charisma. You either got it or you don't.
Some may have more of it or less of it than others. But you can't acquire it.
Love, C.
In reality, whatever the result, the consequence is this POTUS campaign is a more than billion dollar media boondoggle of smoke'nmirrors, distracting us all from what is really going on, still, all the time.
Nobody's dragging anyone out to be tried for treason, war crimes, corruption -- nothing.
Whoever sits in that Oval Office isn't going to make a single effort to turn back the incroachment upon Constitutional rights (and anyone who dreams that HRC of all people will do that, puleeze go and look at her own record of behavior when Bill was sitting in that office).
And Edwards -- he's mia -- guessing, to hark to another topic here -- his wife's health.
If we're lucky, the best we're gonna get is Obama with Richardson as VP.
I know a lot more about Richardson up close than I do Obama. But it's pretty clear from the broadcasts that about now the Big O's starting to believe his own hype. Time for the Fall.
Love, C.
What Obama's got that neither Clinton has is street level activist organization. That's a big deal, at least going by our friends who have been activists their entire lives.
There are some things Obama knows that they don't about people, particularly now after all the years the Clintons have been living in that bubble of power, privilege and wealth -- even if the bubble was borrowed, they got it from their friends.
Love, C.
Hillary Clinton's attempt to turn big boats re her impossibly complicated health plan doesn't inspire much confidence, particularly since then she's become the health insurance lobbyists favorite girl.
As far as happy, loving marriages -- well Mad invoked Tolstoy. I'm going to invoke Jane Austen and Sense and Sensibility. The happy, satisfying marriage of John Dashwood and his wife make it possible to talk each other into NOT helping the Dashwood widow and her daughters, as his dead father, Henry, had requested and John had promised to do. These scenes are great comic writing, but it says something about marriages too. Then there's Emma and the direction the marriage between Vicar Elton and his Augusta, as they cleave together to mistreat Harriet, Emma's protege. Though how long they'll remain happy together, well, I at least, have my doubts!
Love, C. who is also half of a very long marriage
Gack -- meant -- their kingdom of Avery ISLAND -- they being, of course, the generationally famous and wealthy McIlhenny family.
Avery Island is one of the best places to visit in Louisiana. But try to do it during daytime, and still be sure to use lots of mosquito repellant.
The gardens are gorgeous, for one thing.
Love, C.
#184 ::: Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers) :::
[ Looked like a crowd at a buffet circling through the serving trays as they were depleted. ]
I saw that!
The snowy egret was saved from extinction by the Avery family, on their island kingdom in Louisiana. When the snowy egret was being hunted to extinction at the end of the 19th - early 20th century, for their plumes so popular for ladies' hats and the froth of the non-costume of the early incarnation of the show girl, the current reigning Avery made his kingdom a protected area for this and other birds as well. This was possible as they recovered so nicely from the Civil War by becoming Tobasco pepper barons -- which then operated not that differently than the previous regime of plantation slave labor ....
More than one Avery's history includes contribution to Arctic exploration and membership in the Explorer's Club (I learned that while working on the wreck that was the EC's membership records).
As for seagulls, they are the whingeist birds going. They never, ever stop complaining at the tops of their voices that they never get anything to eat, even when so gorged they can't fly.
Love, C.
#114 -- Bruce Cohen:
Do you think the egrets mistake golf balls for round food?
Love, C.
#78 ::: Fragano Ledgister
[ . . . from relieving cattle in their itchy plight
the farmer will not have this helper slurred
that comes from africa and yet is white . . . ]
As so frequently, amigo, you hit it right, at the right moment.
(which is why it is so difficult that you hide the stuff these days over there.)
Love, C.
#74 ::: Bruce Cohen
[ There's a small lake on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge that has flocks of egrets numbering in the hundreds sitting on the water at the right time of day. Unfortunately, my camera battery packed it in the day before I saw them while taking a walk around the campus, so I have no pictures. My son and daughter-in-law live there, so I'll probably be going down to visit in the next year or so, and I'm taking an extra battery this time. ]
We're gonna be at LSU rather extensively (as well as in NO) by the end of this month and next month (March), coz of da book(s). Will look out for those egrets.
Until I lived in one I had no idea of how beautiful swamps are, and filled with beautiful inhabitants -- not talking about humans here, but animals, birds, insects. As well as all those that are inimicable to human life, of course -- and that includes human beings too.
Love, C.
We have egrets in New Orleans -- and ravens. Both are seen in large numbers around the Tulane campus main library. In NYC we have falcons -- and pigeons.
And rats in both.
But as far as I know the falcons are the only ones to eat the rats. They eat the pigeons too.
It is now the Year of the Rat, or the Year of the Mouse, whichever you prefer.
Gung Hei Fat Choy!
Love, C.
Databases NEVER crash. On television.
But in the library we spend more time on the phone with the database vendors than anything else. Or so it seems.
Love, C
Lieberman's been stripped of his superdelegate status to the Dem National Con. Zell-Miller bites ....
For those keeping score, 5 of the supers are supporting Obama, 1 is with Clinton and 5 are neutral. Lieberman was judged less than neutral coz he's campaigning for the other side.
Gads. What a system.
Love, C.
Dude -- And what exactly are YOU actually doing to change things and have them be the way you think they should be?
The point of a democracy is not to have the other guy do it, but that we can do it ourselves.
WE -- I mean me and thee -- need to DO more and maybe, um, well, blog less. Among other things. Much more likely to produce positive results than than blaming somebody else.
Love, C.
#287 ::: Lori Coulson
Constance Ash @259:
From Wikipedia:
Because the Constitution does not set forth any qualifications for service as a Justice, the President may nominate anyone to serve. However, that person must receive the confirmation of the Senate, meaning that a majority of that body must find that person to be a suitable candidate for a lifetime appointment on the nation's highest court.
So, you see, Bill doesn't even have to be a lawyer.
Thanks, Lori.
Though, really, the very idea of someone playing judge and justice and having any law study is appalling.
Love, C.
#215 ::: Rob RusickLori Coulson @169: And I'm still betting that if Clinton wins, she appoints Bill to the first SC vacancy...
You all are far more optimistic than I am. I hadn't begun to think that far ahead, for my doubts that the dems are going pull off the national election are so great. Much less something like this.
Did Bill Clinton ever actually practice law?
He was suspended from the practice of law for 5 years; the suspension's now lifted, of course. But, has he filed to be re-instated to the bar in either Arkansas or New York? I haven't found any info on this. But without bar membership he's not allowed to argue cases.
I'm also curious why Clinton would be considered to be a good choice for the SCOTUS.
Love, C.
My dislike or like of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have nothing to do with gender or skin. It was infuriating to read in the NY Times this a.m. that it does: the Dems are divided along racial and gender lines, stupid Adam Nagorske stated, flatly. I flatly state he's a farkin' nitwit.
I am very much afraid that if the dems give it to Clinton, McCain will take her out. I do believe that Obama has a better chance of defeating McCain, because of the enthusiasm factor among the younger voters and some others. If Clinton i is the nominee they won't turn out. Edwards, of course, was an even more electable candidate, but we certainly were not going to be allowed to have him.
None of this has to do with race or gender on my part. It has to do with Hillary's really high negatives. I also don't support her first, because there are some slight differences between her and Obama, and they are in issues that really matter to me, including Cuba and health care.
Love, C.
#50 ::: Xopher --
I have been listening to editors and journalists who are European, from England to Germany to Italy to Spain to Sweden, and all of the sectors who care about politics know far more about all the candidates of both parties than your average person in the U.S. does -- perhaps more than the average person posting on this thread does even. That's saying a lot.
They are all terrified of any of the R candidates, though they also say the average person in their country isn't interested any of them except McCain. They all think McCain would be a much better POTUS than Bush, because he knows the value of cooperation, and they can't wait to get this regime gone gone gone.
That said, they have been interested in all the Dem candidates, and know a whole lot about them, and generally, they all would prefer a Dem candidate to succeed to the Oval Office.
It's a great deal more than probably any of us (certainly more than I know!) know about the election campaigns and candidates that are current in other countries. How much do you know about Russia's coming election, for instance?
Love, C.
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