Anniversary Number Two

Last weekend, Nelly and I celebrated the completion of our second year together! That's right, two whole years! You can't beat that with a stick!

Once More, It Begins

Spring is officially here and it's brought with it some very nice weather. Today, Nelly and I made our way down to Prospect Park in Brooklyn for the open tryout/practice/scrimmage of Crafty (the ultimate frisbee team we played on last year). It wasn't the most grueling practice, nor was it very practice-y. But we had really good turnout and it's exciting to know that there's so much interest in coed ultimate in the city.

It's also great to get out and play again. I had some good moments and some not so good moments. Overall, it was a really great day and I am really excited to play ultimate again.

Bush gets philosophical

Today, as part of his visit to Guatemala, Bush was asked why he never mentions Hugo Chavez's name. His response was to change the subject to something more... er... philosophical.

My message to the people in our neighborhood is that we care about the human condition and that we believe the human condition can be improved in a variety of ways.

Say what? I guess by now we're all inured to our president's cockamamie way of speaking. And his malaprops are usually buried by the media who are more interested in conveying his meaning. This one got through as I've heard the quote several times on NPR.

I guess he was trying to say that the United States cares about the lives of the people in Latin America. The wikipedia takes a pretty good crack at what the phrase "human condition" means. Perhaps it makes more sense in Spanish.

When Doubletalk Becomes Tripletalk

The Democrats in the senate proposed a phased withdrawal from Iraq (Starting in 4 months and finishing up in a little over 2 years). It probably wont come to be, though who knows, maybe in six weeks the Republicans and Democrats will agree on a non-binding statement or something. Anyways, the Republican minority leader John (Careful-Pronunciation) Boehner had this to say:

“The Democrats are using the critical troop-funding bill to micromanage the war on terror, undermining our generals on the ground and slowly choking off resources for our troops,” Mr. Boehner said.

Because the generals have done so well with the free-hand they've had for the past 4 years! But this is just the standard doubletalk the Republican leadership always spews out. Wait, it gets better:

If a bill with an arbitrary deadline were ever passed, Mr. Boehner said, America’s enemies in Iraq would “step back, sit back and wait until the dates come and go and then go ahead and press your attack.”

Wait, is he suggesting that should the Democrats proposal go through, we'll have two years of reduced insurgency in which to build up Iraqi institutions? I'm having a hard time seeing a downside here. It's a deal!

After 8 years of bending and twisting the facts to match their world-view, the Bush-Cheney faithful are beginning to actually forget what their world-view is. It's understandable really, since it never had any basis in reality.

Iraq=civil war, Afghanistan=taliban resurgence, Iran=building nukes, N. Korea=Clinton's agreement except now they have nukes, Budget=deficits forever (in hock to the Chinese), Health-care=looming/actual disaster, Russia=rising totalitarianism, Climate=screwy, Oil=still addicted,...

Can we hold out for another 16 months?

Operation Status: Complete

According to this post on the Nellog, we are officially moved in. So I am declaring Operation "Movin-On-Up" accomplished. This is pretty momentous. Let me get my flight-suit and land on an aircraft carrier ("Heckuva job, Mr. Teleprompter!"). What's that? I don't have an aircraft carrier? Drat.

Yesterday we moved the couches and the furniture around to make the living room seem bigger. That was a total success! We have one or two furniture items that might not make the cut. But otherwise, we've fit everything in with room to Cha-Cha.

Next up, Operation "Jungle Cover"...