News you can use for a Tues... day.

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I am be-hatted by chresimos! Hurrah!

Also, the jury duty thing turned out okay. I don't have to go, and I got off with a stern lecture. You guys were right. :)

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-This past Saturday was John Kerry's birthday. (In honor, malograntum posted a picture of young!Kerry shirtless and holding a puppy. The effect is sort of like johnxjohn filtered through baaaaabyanimals.)

But the reason I bring it up is that it kind of made me sad -- not for him, but for myself, as yet another reminder that my side lost. And I started thinking about the balance between holding onto anger and sadness, and moving forward... In a way, the Republican exhortation to "get over it already" is sound advice. It's good to keep on top of the fraud issues, but not because of what happened last month -- because of what will happen two, four, six years from now. Eh. There's a thin line between staying angry and wallowing.


-Speaking of anniversaries, this past Sunday marked one year since Saddam Hussein was captured.

Reuters: A year on, Iraq's rebels unfazed by Saddam capture

Daily Kos: What Should Anti-Iraq Debacle Dems/Progressives Do Now?
I thought this was interesting. Raises the question of whether it's more important for people against the war to also stand firm against the people who started it, or to look for the best solution within the current administration.


-On a totally different note...

PlanetOut: New Zealand OKs civil unions; gays rejoice

"[O]nce the bill was passed, two openly gay members of Parliament, Tim Barnett and Chris Carter, kissed while supporters lined up for hugs."


-This doesn't even border on political news, but da_governator gave his pals at worldaffairs Santa hats, and it made me laugh very hard. (But then, I still laugh every time I see joementum's name, so maybe I'm easy. Joe-mentum! Haha! Er, yes.)

Comments

[meridym.livejournal.com]

That photo was taken in Vietnam, possibly on Kerry's swift boat. I'm with you about attempting to move on and get over the anger...but I don't think I'm going to be moving on the way the Repubs would like me too. I'm plotting ways to get even. ; ) I'm still totally disgusted over what the Bush/Cheney-supported Swift Boat Liars did to Kerry, and actually, over the way the Republicans conducted their entire campaign.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

The Kerry pic is terminally cute, and I don't even like the guy! Awwww!

[malograntum.livejournal.com]

"[O]nce the bill was passed, two openly gay members of Parliament, Tim Barnett and Chris Carter, kissed while supporters lined up for hugs."

Awwwwww, stop making me want to emigrate. :-P

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

Not that it has much to do with John Kerry, but worldaffair's drdean posted a rather, um, nice shirtless pic of the former governor.

With regards to politics, I've been seeing more yellow ribbons that say "Support the Troops - Bring them Home." I wish support and flags could cross party lines as much as cuteness does, but unfortunately there's still a lot of knee-jerk reaction of what's on someone's bumper. I'm sort of disgruntled that the Peterson trial gets as much if not more air time than Iraq.

(whew to the jury trial craziness!)

[chresimos.livejournal.com]

Apparently the anti-civil unions protesters were actually weeping on the lawn. o_o