First cab off the ranks today is Ignatius in the Washington Post saying how similar Donald Rumsfeld and Robert McNamara are appearing to be in their war strategies. The article actually starts off with Nixon wanting to fire Rummy for being too anti Vietnam LOL. Still need to see that McNamara doco, The Fog of War - now why do I feel sympathetic towards McNamara and not Rummy? Maybe because Dylan Baker played him in Thirteen Days? Now THAT'S a movie I should get on DVD... very Camelotish :)
LOL, the Prez had another press conference yesterday. Seems from this Slate article that he was going par for the course - Dubya never has seemed to really revel in talking to the media has he? Was he really saying to people ask someone else about that? Whatever happened to Truman's the buck stops here? Oh well, I guess Harry only had the dilemmas of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, retaking South Korea and firing MacArthur, no really biggies there LOL...
Frank Rich here in the NYT following up on the North Carolina fatwa against Happy Holidays LOL, saying that instead of allowing different opinions in religious issues, the media especially are portraying it as winners and losers, and that the more extreme viewpoints make for better entertainment. Why can't we all just get along LOL. And this LA Times editorial almost afraid to say the C word LOL - very entertaining writing :)
Oh no - trolley buses could be on the way out in Wellington! Surely having an electric system is better than being dependent on diesel or oil? Sure, it will cost lots to replace the entire fleet, but think of our clean green image people. Sure, the wires across Lambton Quay can sometimes be an eyesore, but noooo keep themmmmm - as you can probably tell, I am getting more and more homesick the closer it comes to me actually being back in Welly - looking forward to it more so than Christmas actually...
Too bad it won't be rugby season when back home LOL...
Pauly
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