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vicarzI are one very happy muffin. Doomed, but happy.
There is a lovely little art-decor store on Wilson Blvd that has yummy halloween treats in the window. Eyeball light sets, dark purple stringy lights, xmas ornament skulls, oh and the gay. They have pushbrooms in ladybug (MINE!), rainbow, zebra, and of course leopard. They have snake candles. I swear I turned gayer in the doorway and that was before the cooing.
Much cooing.
In not-so-good Arlington news, arlington is closing. The fabled little vietnam is in fact falling to the forces of yuppiedom. Atami and Cafe Dalat have gone - Dalat left a note saying after 27 years thank you. Atami is just dark. The inexplicable Vietnamese store with no theme as moved. That entire block is about to go, though you can still eat at kabob bazaar. Notice that where "progress" flows the cool restaurants vanish. Now if you want good ghetto food you have to hit columbia pike and go all hispanic or thai.
Why do so many yuppies have high-pitched whiny nasal voices? Dogs are suffering.
Politics. Support the troops? The republicans didn't during the Kosovo action - some critical republican quotes that ring very true today:
"You can support the troops but not the president."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."
--Joe Scarborough (R-FL)
"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"
--Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99
"[The] President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."
--Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
--Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush
"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."
--Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
--Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)
There is a lovely little art-decor store on Wilson Blvd that has yummy halloween treats in the window. Eyeball light sets, dark purple stringy lights, xmas ornament skulls, oh and the gay. They have pushbrooms in ladybug (MINE!), rainbow, zebra, and of course leopard. They have snake candles. I swear I turned gayer in the doorway and that was before the cooing.
Much cooing.
In not-so-good Arlington news, arlington is closing. The fabled little vietnam is in fact falling to the forces of yuppiedom. Atami and Cafe Dalat have gone - Dalat left a note saying after 27 years thank you. Atami is just dark. The inexplicable Vietnamese store with no theme as moved. That entire block is about to go, though you can still eat at kabob bazaar. Notice that where "progress" flows the cool restaurants vanish. Now if you want good ghetto food you have to hit columbia pike and go all hispanic or thai.
Why do so many yuppies have high-pitched whiny nasal voices? Dogs are suffering.
Politics. Support the troops? The republicans didn't during the Kosovo action - some critical republican quotes that ring very true today:
"You can support the troops but not the president."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."
--Joe Scarborough (R-FL)
"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"
--Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99
"[The] President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."
--Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
--Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush
"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."
--Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
--Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)
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Date: 2005-10-19 01:50 pm (UTC)And, everyone gets a little gayer at Halloween. It - combined with The Tony Awards, The Academy Awards, Pride, and Liza Minelli's birthday - makes up the high holy days in the gay calendar. It's gay Christmas, complete with the virgin (insert laugh) birth of so many drag queens.
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Date: 2005-10-19 01:59 pm (UTC)Oh my virgin birth...hee!
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Date: 2005-10-19 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-19 03:55 pm (UTC)loath…seethe…hate…
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Date: 2005-10-20 02:33 am (UTC)I trust the Smoking Gun will come through with the goods if he gets a mugshot.