tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166254322012-02-16T13:00:59.270-05:00Treading a fine line on all things politic ...Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-58055074897299878302007-09-01T21:27:00.000-04:002007-09-01T21:40:26.817-04:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Other Miscreants,So I have to admit that when the case of Larry Craig first hit the wires, I chortled with glee. Another Republican caught with his pants down ... literally. They are beginning to pile up like dominoes and the mean part of me is having fun watching. But recently I've begun to find a part of me that feels sorry for Larry Craig. And I'm beginning to

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-44213119562074562642007-09-01T21:14:00.000-04:002007-09-01T21:16:53.455-04:00

Greetings fellow bloggers and other miscreants,We shall see if this blog might indeed be resurrected. It has lain fallow for a necessary time. Perhaps the grass shall grow green now in this season of new politics. The tides seem to be turning. Will they bear the ships out to sea and bring our soldiers home? Or will they simply bring more bad news?Will Theseus see black sails or white?Til next

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1146790730610753592006-05-04T20:52:00.000-04:002006-05-04T20:58:50.623-04:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Other Miscreants,Finally, some good news. You won't see it from U.S. sources, but the BBC is carrying it. Our government is going to be held to some kind of account for it's treatment of the prisoners in Guantanamo. It is to be hoped that those performing the cross-examination will be thorough.Without the internet and BBC, I don't think we'd be able to get any

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1146768071248236212006-05-04T14:38:00.000-04:002006-05-04T14:41:11.270-04:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Other Miscreants,You may recall the uproar over Vermont AP Bureau Chief Chris Graff. The reasons for his termination have now become clear. The AP is indeed an arm of the government and is censoring the news we get to read. Read it here.That I am disgusted is putting it mildly.Granuaile.

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1146171587620776602006-04-27T16:57:00.000-04:002006-04-27T17:12:58.450-04:00

Greetings Fellow bloggers and other miscreants,Huffington hits one out of the park ... click here.Granuaile.

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1143342299302639962006-03-26T07:03:00.000-05:002006-03-26T07:05:05.876-05:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Other Miscreants,Someone said to me (under other circumstances), "Until someone can provide some evidence that the government is actively suppressing the press, I can only believe that it is the press monitoring itself for business purposes."I have to say that when I read that statement I very nearly blew several gaskets. I tried to remind myself that this person

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1143307308894180732006-03-25T12:18:00.000-05:002006-03-25T12:21:49.033-05:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Other Miscreants,One of my favorite movies of all time is Braveheart. My husband and I saw it when it first came out and our daughter was a tiny baby. It was (I think) our first "date" after she was born. We left her with a family we trusted and respected and went to the theater to see this movie. To be really honest, I was going to see Mel Gibson with long hair in a

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1143216251884869522006-03-24T11:02:00.000-05:002006-03-24T11:05:54.313-05:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and other Miscreants,Update: What?! An update already? Yes ... because I don't think any of you saw this link to this article yesterday. Read this article. As you read, know this ... Jim Douglas is the current governor of Vermont, he is a very right wing Republican. Patrick Leahy is a long term first Representative and now US Senator and is a Democrat. Marselis

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1143066952551819932006-03-22T17:35:00.000-05:002006-03-24T10:35:53.530-05:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Other Miscreants,Okay, I hope none of you out there is named Janet ... this isn't aimed at you. Some of you might remember that line from SNL of the early 80's (and thus I'm dating myself).But, look at this article. It's from my hometown newspaper. The head of Vermont's AP bureau was fired (or did he "resign"?) over a column he ran last week. What was so

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1137730086969887822006-01-19T23:06:00.000-05:002006-01-19T23:08:06.980-05:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Other Miscreants,Overheard from White House Spokesman Scott McLellan:"We do not negotiate with terrorists. We put them out of business."Well ... I guess that's why there are so many fewer of them now than there were in 2001. We're mighty fortunate.Granuaile.

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1134533266237196382005-12-13T23:06:00.000-05:002005-12-13T23:07:46.250-05:00

This speaks for itself!

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1132747394811576692005-11-23T06:59:00.000-05:002005-11-23T07:03:14.823-05:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Other Miscreants,Well, the next time the good reverend Pat Robertson decides to take out a hit on a head of state, he first ought to consider the good works that person may have done. Especially when said head of state has potentially given more to the poor of this USofA than he has.Granuaile

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1132587312717101752005-11-21T10:28:00.000-05:002005-11-21T10:35:12.716-05:00

Greetings fellow bloggers and other miscreants,I homeschool my 6th grader and my 3rd grader. So I belong to a couple of yahoogroups that are dedicated to homeschool issues. One in particular is a group of homeschoolers who are also dedicated to progressive political issues. So we talk more about politics than homeschooling, altho the two sometimes merge.Yesterday someone raised the question,

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1132586519204197782005-11-21T10:19:00.000-05:002005-11-21T10:26:52.806-05:00

Greetings fellow bloggers and other miscreants,I continue to be grateful to the BBC. Without them, we'd never know how wonderful our president truly is.Granuaile.

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1132168250269283922005-11-16T14:08:00.000-05:002005-11-16T14:52:17.820-05:00

Greetings fellow bloggers and other miscreants,We can only hope that new veep chief of staff Addington has cause to travel to London sometime soon. Read this article to find out why he will be hoist with his own petard.Granuaile

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1131992813389377052005-11-14T13:18:00.000-05:002005-11-14T13:32:49.673-05:00

Greetings fellow bloggers and other miscreants,Follow this link and read the letter that was published in the Eugene, Oregon Register-Guard written by Stephen Barnes and published in their Opinion section ... because I think everyone I know should read it, then they should send it to everyone they know, and they should send it to everyone they know and so on and so on.Everyone in this whole

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1131886151959995952005-11-13T07:43:00.000-05:002005-11-13T07:49:11.970-05:00

Greetings fellow bloggers and other miscreants,Did anyone else read this article in BBC about the US tackling Syria for human rights abuses?Ummm ... why on earth does anyone in the current administration think that anyone else in the world is going to take that kind of criticsm seriously coming from them? One cannot commit some of the most egregious human rights abuses in the last 25 years,

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1131746025649315152005-11-11T16:48:00.000-05:002005-11-11T16:53:45.660-05:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Other Miscreants,The mid-term elections took place earlier this week. Sometimes I think the state of Virginia is schizophrenic. Republican senators. Largely Republican Congressmen. Democratic Governor most of the time.Go figure.Here was the strangest part of all. The Republican candidate ran one of the most vicious campaigns ever. The attack ads were beyond the

Granuailehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526061757412380020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1131726928605643702005-11-11T11:26:00.000-05:002005-11-11T12:05:27.883-05:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Other Miscreants,When, the other day, I heard about the latest bombing in Amman, Jordan, I went to the BBC website to read about it. That's where I take most of my news now ... BBC. They are more credible than any stateside source. They also have a unique feature with most of their articles ... e-mail commentary. It's almost like a blog comment feature. You probably

sonjanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1127959712744231322005-09-28T22:08:00.000-04:002005-09-28T22:09:42.190-04:00

Greetings Fellow Bloggers and other miscreants:O ho ... remember that oldie, but goodie? I hardly dare haul it out of the closet. It's sort of dusty and wrinkly. But let's take a look at it for a moment. We'll shake it out. And take it for a spin around the block to see what happens.I was thinking about this the other day. It popped into my head. I remember it from my childhood during the Vietnam

sonjanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1126779015852103102005-09-15T06:12:00.000-04:002005-09-15T06:10:15.856-04:00

Greetings Fellow bloggers and other miscreants,Well, I think we have to finally say that Osama won. Al Qaeda won.There it's been said.We can dispense with that and move along to the important stuff.They won because we now have to wait in long security lines at airports ... but we're really not any safer.They won because we've spent untold millions on "Homeland Security" but we couldn't help save

sonjanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1126611044226729722005-09-13T07:53:00.000-04:002005-09-13T10:07:43.196-04:00

Greetings fellow bloggers and other miscreants ...I firmly believe that we have managed to recreate the aristocracy of Europe. And in our usual fashion we've done it bigger and faster.It took France (in conjunction with Austria, Prussia and all those other little places) about 1000 years to produce Marie Antoinette and her peers.It took U.S. about 200 years to produce gwb and his.Way to go.Yes, I

sonjanoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16625432.post-1126481627315369102005-09-11T19:31:00.000-04:002005-09-11T22:06:21.923-04:00

Dear Fellow Bloggers and other miscreants,Here's my place to talk politics. A place to rag on the right ... and the left. I'm just done with the way things are going in this country. Where we are is sad. Our forefathers must be turning in their graves. Our promise has been nearly squandered. I hope we can pull our proverbial irons out of the fire. What do you think?

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