So what’s the problem? Sen. Harry “Fight less” Reid won’t schedule it? or what?

Aloha,
Bob in HI

You know…the usual.

The self-righteous act is getting really old. Especially given how much work Marcy, bmaz and Spencer put in on the national security issues on a daily basis, calling bullshit quite frequently on current administration policies when they are questionable just as they did with Bush administration policies.

And bitching about it here? Especially given how much ink I’ve devoted — for years — to civil liberties, torture, legal and other issues on every side of the aisle? Utter crap.

That report just came out yesterday, that Glenn is talking about, and it was embargoed for every member of the press and blogdom that got it until late last night. Since I haven’t had time yet to read it in detail, I thought writing about it would be stupid — since without reading it, I’d had nothing to actually say.

You’ll have to pardon me if I didn’t read it instantaneously and give you spot-on analysis, but I’ve spent the last few days researching and writing articles for here, and then rushing around to try and shop for new school uniforms because The Peanut has outgrown her old ones. Last week was taken up by nonstop liveblogging and it looks like next week will be something else, so I thought if we didn’t go now, they might be out of her size. And she has a project that has to be completed before school begins again — so we’ve been working on it during afternoons this week.

Damn me and my need to fit my family in my life.

I do, on occasion, get a life outside the blog. I know that’s tough to comprehend, given that I have a 6 year old, a husband and an increasingly high level of frustration with people who want to dictate my every thought, writing and topic — but there you are.

It is just this sort of passive aggressive whining about “my topic isn’t being discussed ad nauseum, and thus you suck and I, the griper, am self-righteously and morally superior” bullshit that drives people to leave blogging. Or turn off their comments.

For some people, nothing is ever good enough. So, perhaps, it’s time to just produce nothing and see where that gets any of us.

Except…that doesn’t feel right, either. And so? No idea, but I’m certainly contemplating any and all possibilities on that…

*scratches head*

” Leen | Tuesday July 21, 2009 08:37 am 20
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I support Franken but what can you base your take on Franken on? Only time will tell…his votes..his focus on issues. Who he ends up listening to. Sure liked the way he started out during the Sotomayor hearings.

Franken said something about “listening and learning”

First steps taken to implement preventive detention, military commissions

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..index.html

in which he writes:

From this interim report, it’s more apparent than ever that the central excuse made by Obama defenders to justify preventive detention and military commissions — there are dangerous Terrorists who cannot be released but also cannot be tried because Bush obtained the evidence against them via torture — is an absolute myth.

that kind of excuse was needed to fend off the unpleasant cognitive dissonance createdby hating Bush, yet loving Obama, who is continuing and expanding those same police state powers, and of course shielding Bush era criminals from any accountability.

so, that excuse having collapsed, the next best thing is to . . . pretend it’s not happening, la la la la la!

which seems to be the new tendency among frontpagers at FDL, especially when Glenn Reynolds is around saying something stupid, which is always:

http://firedoglake.com/2009/07…..ange-post/

Well, for once, the fact that Cornyn is “my” senator may be worthwhile — he might not care for a constituent telling him “to go Cheney himself.”

I’ll give it a shot. : )

(At home this week. Shingles. Do. Not. Want.)