Just Observing

Just Observing

I don't know yet what the pub date is, but when TJ Waters book, "Class 11" hits your bookstore, buy it. He joined the CIA's first class after 9/11 and this is the story of how that class was trained.

Right now, I'm reading another book, "Overworld" by Larry J Kolb, that's a read education. His father was CIA and trained him from childhood in that very special tradecraft. Terrific story!

Also, C and I went off to the movies this afternoon to see "Beyond the Sea", Kevin Spacey's biopic of Bobby Darin's life. Great film!

So came home, revved up this machine, clicked on C-Span and watched some of the Judicial Committe's questioning of Alberto Gonzales, whom Bush nominated for Atty Gen of the US. Gonzales has to be one of the masters of never giving a straight answer to a direct yes or no question. Talk about evasive manuvering! Sen Leahy tried every way he could think of to no avail. The scene was so disgusting I turned it off.

Am very proud of Sen Barbara Boxer for having the guts to stand up and say the Ohio electors vote should not be certified due to the many violations of voters' rights that occured there. Many Dem Senators agreed with her, made speeches backing her, but when the chips were down, Boxer was the only one to vote no on certification.

Kerry is overseas in Iraq seeing how their election plans are going. Says he'll shortly be introducing a bill in the Senate on election reform. He'd better...and he damned well better fight like hell to get it passed too. No voter of any party should ever be afraid that their vote won't count or that the election is gonna be screwed over.

Repub Majority Leader in the Senate, Sen Frist, is currently over in Indonesia, seeing how things are going. He's a surgeon. But is he getting his hands dirty? Actually working on patients? No. So what's the point of his travelling there? There are about 16 docs treating 1000 patients a day and they need help. Powell and Jeb can tend to the "looking over". Frist should be doctoring, otherwise he's just in the way.

What's good? Those two books, the movie, and Barb Boxer. :)

Sufficient for the day....