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Nov. 16th, 2006
the red-clay run-off is so bad the workers are out there with vehicles to try to catch it and put it back on the plots. It ain't working, of course...
meanwhile...
there was flooding on 29/50 at the intersection of that and Oak, right by the restaurant where we had a group lunch. it was resolved before we left as the rain subsided. naturally, as soon as we got on the road the deluge returned...
inner loop of the beltway has a jackknifed truck between 355 and CT ave with a fuel leak that'll take some time to get taken care of. means i'm going to have to drive through town, but probable flooding of the rock creek will make that difficult as well...
*sigh* long day written all over it...
meanwhile...
there was flooding on 29/50 at the intersection of that and Oak, right by the restaurant where we had a group lunch. it was resolved before we left as the rain subsided. naturally, as soon as we got on the road the deluge returned...
inner loop of the beltway has a jackknifed truck between 355 and CT ave with a fuel leak that'll take some time to get taken care of. means i'm going to have to drive through town, but probable flooding of the rock creek will make that difficult as well...
*sigh* long day written all over it...
McCain calls for "common sense conservatism" - Yahoo! News:
The problem: limited government and "common sense conservatism" don't exist when in tandem with the religious right, so he's playing two contrary cards at the same time and it's not going to work this time.
George Will also talked "common sense conservatism" a few weeks back when describing the not-very-limited interfering government No Child Left Behind law. Will stated that he believed that most of the time "common sense" and "conservatism" mean the same thing.
However, his argument showed otherwise. It is full of facts, figured, statistics, and reasoning. In short: evidence. Common sense is that which doesn't need "evidence" to be right, and as a result is usually wrong most of the time.
Evidence-based argument, supporting a claim with actual numbers and already addressing some easy skeptical concerns, is not common sense.
Would that it were...
Meanwhile, Mr. McCain - get a spine and get your own damn identity, like maybe in the form of an original thought or two? This repeating everything anybody else says schtick is going to get old REAL fast, well before 2008 rolls around...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arizona Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), taking the first step toward a 2008 White House bid, said on Thursday a return to principles of limited government and "common sense conservatism" would carry Republicans back to power after last week's election drubbing.This text is almost word for word the post-election column from the Post's George Will. He's still stuck in base-playing, Karl Rove style, only he's now trying to play to three bases simultaneously, the "academic conservative", the big-business tax-cut conservative, and the religious right. G.W. tried that and only got the latter two; he got the vote of the former 'cause they weren't going to trust "a liberal" to do anything right (either Gore or Kerry).
"We lost our principles and our majority. And there is no way to recover our majority without recovering our principles first," McCain told the Federalist Society
The problem: limited government and "common sense conservatism" don't exist when in tandem with the religious right, so he's playing two contrary cards at the same time and it's not going to work this time.
George Will also talked "common sense conservatism" a few weeks back when describing the not-very-limited interfering government No Child Left Behind law. Will stated that he believed that most of the time "common sense" and "conservatism" mean the same thing.
However, his argument showed otherwise. It is full of facts, figured, statistics, and reasoning. In short: evidence. Common sense is that which doesn't need "evidence" to be right, and as a result is usually wrong most of the time.
Evidence-based argument, supporting a claim with actual numbers and already addressing some easy skeptical concerns, is not common sense.
Would that it were...
Meanwhile, Mr. McCain - get a spine and get your own damn identity, like maybe in the form of an original thought or two? This repeating everything anybody else says schtick is going to get old REAL fast, well before 2008 rolls around...