Transition - Things That Bother Me

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Saturday November 22, 2008 · 9:39 AM PST

2008/11/22 · 09:39

And Things That Don’t

After this last week of Transition (week two and a half of eleven), I’m glad I took a week off to write about dogs. Several of you told me that you were glad I did too. But I was glad that Obama and his transition team didn’t take the week off. And, I’ll tell you why. But first I want to tell you some of the things that didn’t bother me this week.

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Tuesday November 18, 2008 · 1:21 PM PST

2008/11/18 · 13:21

It is one thing to have a steady procession of cats and dogs through our house for stays as short as overnight and as long as a couple of months as Connie provides foster care for them as preparation for their being adopted at the Humane Society of Central Oregon. It is quite another to go down to the shelter on Saturday mornings and put neckerchiefs on dogs that we suspect may get passed over because they are older, not a popular color, or not a "more desirable" breed.

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 11:02 AM PDT

2008/09/08 · 11:02

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. -Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1765

No living Homo sapiens is above the law. (Notwithstanding our good friends and legal ancestors across the water, this is a fact that requires no citation.) -Vincent Bugliosi, 2008

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." –Supreme Justice Robert H. Jackson at Nuremburg, 1945

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Wednesday September 03, 2008 · 9:35 PM PDT

2008/09/03 · 21:35

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Thursday August 28, 2008 · 10:35 AM PDT

2008/08/28 · 10:35

Seventy-five year old Inocencia Coto in South Florida who has always supported Republican candidates in a district of predominantly Cuban Americans who usually vote 90% Republican in national elections won’t be supporting the Republican in her district this year. She’s actively working for the Democratic challenger, Raul Martinez, who is within four percentage points of eight term Republican incumbent, Mario Diaz-Balart.

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Wednesday August 27, 2008 · 8:52 PM PDT

2008/08/27 · 20:52

The Beijing Olympics ended as a global public relations success. Everyone who watched filtered what they saw and heard through the prisms of their own experiences. From my experiences here in the United States and from my years in Taiwan I couldn’t help but watch with a cautious eye.

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 8:40 PM PDT

2008/08/21 · 20:40

The question is: why would Georgia's president Saakashvili invade a sworn enemy, which has a Russian peace keeping force stationed there to defend Ossetia's autonomy? It would appear to be a suicide mission.

Likely reasons: Either Saakashvili was totally deluded, and/or he gambled that Russia would not stand behind their word to the Ossetians, and/or he believed that the U.S. would support him and Georgia in a war against S. Ossetia and possibly Russia.

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Friday August 15, 2008 · 10:53 AM PDT

2008/08/15 · 10:53

The U.S. response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia would be laughable if not so ominous for the future. I read statements of the President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense. With the subsitution of a few nouns I saw how the past is coming back to bite. Indulge me:

"Russia {The U.S.} is putting its aspirations at risk by taking actions in Georgia {Iraq} that are inconsistent with the principles of those institutions," Bush said.

"Those institutions" refers to "international institutions" in which Russia desires to be a major player.

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Monday August 11, 2008 · 10:37 AM PDT

2008/08/11 · 10:37

If China’s leaders took note of it, which they probably didn’t because they are too busy presenting themselves as "the Middle Kingdom" (the "middle" between Heaven and Earth) to the rest of the world, they would doubtless have been amused by Rush Limbaugh’s case of China-envy:

See, the ChiComs need their economy growing. They need people driving around, moving around. They need people to be able to afford fuel, so they're subsidizing fuel. They're not bailing people out of stupid home mortgage messes. They're buying their gasoline for them, because they need an economy. Know what energy means to this, the whole subject of economic growth. So meanwhile, the ChiComs, a country certainly growing, certainly on the rise, but it ain't the United States of America.

Presumably, what Rush would like is for the U.S. to subsidize gas so that people in the U.S. could live large like the Chinese leaders and fuel our economic growth.

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Thursday August 07, 2008 · 7:21 PM PDT

2008/08/07 · 19:21

Every year around the first of August, Ivy would bring a couple of well worn books to my office, a shawl, and a few articles to put on a table near the worship center on the first Sunday of August. "People need to remember the horror of nuclear weapons" she would say referring to the anniversaries of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. Ivy was a Japanese American woman, a natural born citizen of this country who had been interned with thousands of others during the Second World War. Every year some would complain that Ivy’s displays were inappropriate for a worship setting: "using those bombs saved thousands of lives," some would say. Most passed the displays by without a glance. These are not days marked on the calendars of many U.S. citizens. Not remembering may be to our peril.

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Friday August 01, 2008 · 3:14 PM PDT

2008/08/01 · 15:14

On January 2, 1960, John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. A month later—on February 1st, 1960—four African American college students asked to be served in an all-white restaurant at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, an act that gave birth to the Sit-In movement. Those two events had a great impact on me at the time and have since then, but there is no way I could have imagined how they would cast forty-eight year old shadows across the presidential election of 2008.

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Wednesday July 30, 2008 · 10:31 AM PDT

2008/07/30 · 10:31

Loretta emitted a huge yawn. Why not? She was exhausted and now bundled in Connie’s arms with three brothers. This four and a half week old puppy and her siblings had been separated from their mother for only a couple of days. They had been rescued from unspeakably crowded and filthy conditions by the Bend Police and brought to the Shelter at the Humane Society of Central Oregon. On July 5th four of the nine in the litter—Loretta, Waylon, Willy, and Hank—had come to our house for foster care.

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Limbaugh’s China-Envy, the Wrecking Crew, and Economic Growth

Hiroshima: New Questions about Old Rationalizations

Obama and the Demons of Religious and Racial Bigotry

A Dogs Tale