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I'm trying to draw someone's attention to a point related to Rachel's segment tonight on early voting in Ohio. I am a member of a County Board of Elections, Hamilton County (Cincinnati). She mentioned that the last three days of early voting have been eliminated, and that is right. But there is something else happening around the issue of hours. In the main urban Counties we are getting limited to "normal business hours" while in big (Republican) suburban ring counties the Boards will be open for early voting on Saturdays and in the evenings. The implications are obvious.
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As good as it was to see Rep. John Conyers on TRMS this evening, I am sure the people of his district were surprised to learn that they live in Georgia. Global warming or no global warming, the last time I visited Detroit, it was still in Michigan. Perhaps you momentarily confused him with John Lewis or someone else.
I'm sorry to comment on this, because there are issues that are so much more important. But I have to. Paul Bremer is a LOUSY artist. There, I've said it.
I am not an artist, myself, but I know crap when I see it. I actually went out to his website and looked at his work. There is not a single piece I would put in my house, not even at gunpoint. His perspective is somewhere between ridiculous and nauseating. His sense of lighting derives from cartoons, with silly shadows emanating from no discernible source of light. His colors are ordinary... not a surprise to be had in some three dozen paintings. If he is attempting some kind of naturalism, he fails. If he is attempting some kind of abstraction, he fails even worse. Seriously, I don't know what this junk is supposed to be.
Maybe it's his complete lack of perspective, imagination, and ambition that resulted in his mismanagement of Iraq. I don't remember... was he in charge when the museums and galleries were sacked and thousands of years of art and history were destroyed?
As Simon and Garfunkel once said... "The man ain't got no culture (cul-chah)."
Maybe he just needs new glasses.
You may be missing the point, Thisby, lousy though these paintings may be. They're dismal, inartistically dismal, because the major endeavor of his life was a dismal failure. It was a dismal failure because the war was ill conceived, mismanaged, based on a fraudulent premise, and he knew, or should have known these things when he assumed his position (pun fully intended). Edward Hopper painted dismal scenes, but he had an ingenious sense of light and color. Bremer's stuff reflects a world where the bases of order and stability are sliding into chaos.
This was all predictable from the inception. An ebook on Smashwords.com and Amazon.com, the shadow of Xeno's eye, re-tells the Trojan War saga as a parable to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, 3,200 years later. Underneath the propaganda, the parallels are manifest. Both wars were about resources (Greeks wanted a base on the Dardanelles to control acess to the Black Sea). Both wars were promoted on fraudulent premises (Helen was the phony excuse, but not the cause, an ancient arsenal of phantom WMDs). In the end, neither invader could maintain their military presence, and warring locals filled the power vacuum (the layers of excavated Troy were Hittite, then Phrygian, but never Greek).
You can download a sample of the shadow of Xeno's eye on Smashwords.com or Amazon.com.
Hey, his art is way better than his foreign affairs. If there is one of three men who should be in jail for the Bush follies, Paul Bremer should be painting scenes from Guantanamo.
LOL, right on Trollop!
"Mitt Romney Announces “Juntos Con Romney” Hispanic Leadership Team"
This is how wealthy people deal with those lower class peons-they hire somebody to deal with it. Spainish? Mitt will hire a team latino. Ticked off about Bain and its M.O.? Mitt has a team for that. Want a straight answer? Uh--I am sure he is working on that team now.