Labor Day

Saturday night, I went up north with Tony and Clarissa. Saturday night was kind of rough but got better after we started playing a new board game I just bought. Sunday was a blast.

This is the first Labor Day in a while that I haven't had to work. The day off was for the most part, busy. Woke up and went out for breakfast with Beth and Amanda. Followed that up with a trip to Stockbridge. I thought we'd play volleyball but it was way to hot out.

Returned to Appleton and called some people over for a cookout. It wasn't bad for short notice. Had six people total. Grilled out some spicy chicket breasts, brats, and hamburgers. Jill and Peter brought some Vegan food. Played some washerbox and Taboo.

If you've been keeping up with my blog, you might have noticed that I've been talking way to much about politics. The thing that's been getting me lately is how the current administration has been spinning the hurricane.

Read this artical, and then come back and read the rest of this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05bush.html?ex=1126584000&en=030cf85ee8fc90d7&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Alright, so Karl Rove, who can feed America a piece of crap and then get the media to say that someone else did it, is working at a whole new web. If you can remember back a couple weeks, Bush was under fire for his extra long vacation time. The republicans said that they are working vacations and that Bush can do everything he can do at the Whitehouse from Crawford. They really pushed home the point that they really weren't vacations at all.

The hurricane hit and all hell broke loose. Many people died because Bush didn't take leadership to get the ball rolling. When he realized what a PR disaster this was, he came out swinging with his normal "tough guy talk". "I am not satisfied with the results". They are trying to make it seem like he's got everything under control.

Now the administration is trying to say that Bush and most other officals were on vacation. Wait...see what happened? He wasn't on vacation and now he was. He could do everything before...and now he couldn't. I heard the same thing echoed on Air America the other day. It made me happy to know that someone else realized the same thing. I hope America isn't dumb enough to fall for it this time. Chances are, they'll forget about the whole vacation thing and go for the story about it being the local officals fault. I'm afraid to say that America's memory just isn't sharp enough.