This is my Clematis, it is a perennial vine and blooms beautifully all summer long. I’ve had this one for about 4 years now. It looks dead in the winter and early spring and then there are small green shoots and it grows and grows…
The American Clematis Society has a website here.
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I’m listening to this and just shaking my head.
Here’s a bit:
Sen. Wyden (D-OR): General, good morning to you and your family. And, Mrs. Hayden you’ll be interested to know your husband went into considerable detail about how much you two love to go to those Steelers games together so I know you all are very devoted to family and we’re glad you’re here.
General, like millions of Americans, I deeply respect the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States. Every day our military risks life and limb to protect our freedom, demonstrating qualities like accepting personal responsibility that are America at its best. Here on the Senate Intelligence Committee, I’ve supported our national security in time of war by voting to give you the tools needed to relentlessly fight the terrorists while maintaining vigilance over the rights of our citizens. Those votes I’ve cast fund a number of top secret programs that have to be kept under wraps because America can not vanquish its enemies by telegraphing our punches.
Now, in return for keeping most of the vital work of this committee secret, federal law, the National Security Act of 1947 stipulates, and I quote here, “you keep the congressional intelligence committees fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities other than a covert action.” It is with regret that I conclude that you, and the Bush administration, have not done so. Despite yesterday’s last minute briefing, for years, years General, you and the Bush administration have not kept the committee fully and currently informed of all appropriate intelligence activities. Until just yesterday, for example, for some time now, only two democratic senators present this morning were allowed by the Bush administration to be briefed on all these matters that are all over our newspapers. These failures, in my view, have put the American people in a difficult spot. Because the committee hasn’t been kept informed, because of these revelations in the newspapers, now we have many of our citizens, law abiding, patriotic, Americans who want to strike the balance between fighting terrorism and protecting liberty. Now they’re questioning their government’s word.
So, let me turn to my question. In your opening statement you said that under your leadership the CIA would act according to American values. We’re not talking about a law here, but we’re talking about values. For me, values are about following the law and doing what you say you’re going to do. When it comes to values, credibility is at the top of my list. Now, General, having evaluated your words, I now have a difficult time with your credibility and let me be specific…
Fox News broke away here, but you can clearly see the tenor of the statements.
Sen. Wyden is upset because
only two democratic senators present this morning were allowed by the Bush administration to be briefed on all these matters that are all over our newspapers.
Okay. The entire committee was not briefed on some things. Isn’t there anything to the fact that Sen. Wyden’s democrat colleagues that were briefed, did not, in their turn, brief him…
He speaks of voting for funding as if the funding would not have come through without his vote.
He’s all for personal responsibility too, when it’s the military. I don’t presume to know his personal views on personal responsibility, but the left’s views seem to be personal responsibility for the right, but not the left (or the left’s chosen groups). Criminals from minority backgrounds are criminals by circumstance, not choice, therefore no personal responsibility. Poor people who are addicted to drugs are addicted by circumstance. High school students in California who can’t pass the exit exams for a diploma can’t do so by circumstance. Give them their diplomas anyway.
And we musn’t forget that all congressional corruption is republican and they all must resign immediately upon even the slightest whisper of corruption, whilst the democrats refuse to return funds and refuse to resign even upon conviction…
But now I definitely won’t be watching ever again…
via The American Princess we learn that [tag]Rosie O’Donnell[/tag] is [tag]Meredith Viera[/tag]’s replacement on [tag]The View[/tag].
Like Coke Blak – Blech!
That’s the title of an essay by Jane Galt (thanks to Lorie at PoliPundit for pointing it out).
Jane mentions, as one of her points, that there are “no coupons for cut price gas.” I’d have to disagree with her there. One of our local grocery chains (which is owned by Safeway) gives you a 3 cent discount (update: per gallon) every day at their gas stations if you use your Fresh Values card.
You can get 6 cent discounts too. For every $50 purchase, you get a 6 cent discount (update: per gallon). It’s noted as a fuel offer on the receipt.
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Senator [tag]Dick Durbin[/tag] (D-IL) was on [tag]Neil Cavuto[/tag]’s [tag]Your World[/tag] yesterday afternoon.
Ian has the video here.
Lorie’s got a post up on it too…
Cavuto: Democrats taking more swipes at President Bush’s gas plan, capitalizing on ample public anger over rising prices at the pump. And now it’s getting personal.
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[tag]Hillary Clinton[/tag]: We are one accident or one terrorist attack away from oil at a hundred dollars a barrel, not just seventy-five. We have no leadership…
{end videoclip}Cavuto: Democrats are calling for the rollback of five billion dollars in subsidies granted to oil companies. House Minority Leader [tag]Nancy Pelosi[/tag] also going after oil executives citing Quote [T]heir obscene record profits and immoral salaries.
Republicans now firing back accusing Democrats of being obstructionist by blocking drilling in [tag]ANWR[/tag]. The RNC also pointing out that [tag]Harry Reid[/tag] and Nancy Pelosi, the two Democrat leaders voted not once, but several times to hike the federal gas tax, and on and on we go.
Welcome everybody, glad to have you. I’m Neil Cavuto, this is Your World.
Are lawmakers more focused on political gain in all of this or on solving the nation’s gas problem? Let’s ask Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. Senator Durbin, thanks for coming.
Durbin: Good to be with you.
Cavuto: What do you make of Hillary Clinton’s remark that we’re one event away from hundred dollar oil? Is that a scare tactic, or is there something to what she said?
Durbin: If you go to the business journals and ask them, is $75 the ceiling for the price of a barrel of oil? they say no, there’s no end in sight. There’s nothing to hold it from going even higher. I think what Senator Clinton said is a fact. If there is, God forbid, some emergency, or some tragedy, we could see the price of a barrel of oil go up dramatically.
Cavuto: Alright, so this zeal about trying to do something, you know you can cast blame, I guess, on both parties Senator, Democrats didn’t do much about this when Bill Clinton was in office. Both parties sort of lagged around on it and only respond when we get these spikes. Who’s to say now either party is going to get anything done?
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I would have written about this at the time but Bitsy and Duncan had taken over my chair…
Still doing well. This is the third “wake-up” since the treatment and I still have not “reached” for the cigarettes and lighter.
I have tried several different methods to quit smoking before. One (many years ago) was a little machine that you would press a button every time you had a cigarette for a certain period of time, then it would start telling you when to have a cigarette. It was supposed to slowly wean you off cigarettes altogether. Didn’t work for anyone in my family.
I’ve tried the patch, gums, regular cold turkey (hey, I quit every single night! – until I woke up, of course).
This has worked.
Ace of Trump is skeptical of this treatment. He says he thinks it’s a placebo effect.
Eye Doc,
I can’t tell you if my endorphin levels have increased or not. I don’t have access to (or knowledge of) whatever I need to check the levels. But this is working. Cravings are minimal. Withdrawal symptoms are minimal to non-existent. I was smoking right up until the treatment in the afternoon on Monday.
Placebo or not, I’m one happy ex-smoker right now. And so are my family.
kimsch
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Don Surber came up with a shortlist of really good, common sense, rules for blogging. Check them out here.
I’m really doing okay. I’ve been thinking about cigarettes all day, but I haven’t felt a real need for one.
This is pretty amazing to me as this is technically cold turkey and there isn’t any medication involved at all. No extra nicotine, no patches, no gums, no anti-depressant medications.
I’m drinking a lot of water and my sinuses are draining so I’m going through a lot of tissues.
I feel like I could have a cigarette, but then I think about the fact that I paid to have this treatment and it would be completely wasted…
I think this will work, but, again, it’s only 24 hours.
To be continued….
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