sleepy day

Mmmmmmm, rainy day. Yay lazy! Unfortunately, I should also take the car to get its oil changed. It's a lot ovedue.

But I kind of don' wanna. So maybe I won't. ^_^ I want to make an LJ entry too, but I don't really have much to put into it! I finally found nice guest slippers and bought them (on sale at Uwajimiya's ^_^ ); last night was poker night, I lost all my dollars; I want to set up the keyboard in the exercise-and-music room, but I'm feeling too lazy...

...mmmmmmmm, lazy...

There's a new neighbourhood cat - at least, new to prowling around here - it's calico, friendly, very pretty, and thinks Zoe is Pretty Fuckin' Cool. Zoe is not so sure about the cat being cool. Hopefully there will be entertaining dynamics. (Since there's a window between the outside cat and the parrot, it can't end in tears.)

All the trees are finally dropping their leaves. We've got a lot of red outside by the patio; it's super pretty. And something has been nibbling at the suet feeder, but I haven't seen it happen - successfully, anyway - so I don't know what. I have seen a lot more crow and squirrel frustration, though.

Mmm. I feel like a nap. Wow, I am seriously lazy today. Mmmmmmmmm, lazy. ^_^

( Quizzie )

Ron Suskind, on President Bush and a second Bush administration

I'm posting this because it's much too much like what I've been picking up as how the Bush administration - and how President Bush in particular - works.

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In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

Without a Doubt
By RON SUSKIND
October 17, 2004

TinyURL here: http://tinyurl.com/5nb83

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