Obama plans to announce troop decision on Afghanistan next week
McClatchy reports that the Commander in Chief of the US military has finally made a decision on whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan, and will officially announce his decision next Tuesday (probably in a primetime address to the nation):
Introducing Velvet Lair
I wanted to take a few minutes to introduce y’all to a blog I have started as a “companion” of sorts to this one. It’s called “Velvet Lair.” I started it earlier this year because 1) I have started back (after a long hiatus) to creative writing in my spare time and wanted to document my journey back to that at the blog, and 2) there are things I sometimes want to write about that don’t always fit into the political theme of this blog. You’ll know what I mean when you take a look. I sometimes write there about music, movies, human interest stories, cutesy stuff, etc. I suspect it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s fine. Don’t feel like you are insulting me if you aren’t interested in what you see there. I understand that my rambling on can be a turn off sometimes
My “Things To Do For Christmas” list
Good grief! I sat down tonight to start making a list of things I needed to do in order to prepare for hosting Christmas lunch next month and, well – I didn’t expect the danged thing to be so long! It’s so long, it rivals Santa’s list of people who have been naughty this year. No bigs – it’ll get done, but it just goes to show that in spite of what I may want to believe about myself, in reality I am a perfectionist. “Clean carpet spots” – that no one can see. Seriously?!
Palin visits NC, meets Rev. Billy Graham, and receives huge welcome in Fort Bragg
The woman who drives the left batsh*t crazy visited my great state of North Carolina today, where she signed copies of her book Going Rogue at a Fort Bragg bookstore (via Defend Glenn):
NYT: We’ll publish classified info that could hinder war efforts and kill people but …
… we will not publish any hacked emails/documents in depth that could devastate the credibility of our fellow global warming alarmists! Dot Earth blogger Andrew C. Revkin writes: