Thank God Friday’s Over!
My respect for bloggers has gone up greatly after trying to get today’s items written, proofed, graphs made, operating unfamiliar software from afar, unable to scream “Help” to the real Carpetbagger.
Just after 6am PST (my zone) I was all set to click “publish” on the first item. It seems to have sailed off into the ether somewhere (Entropy Heaven?). The Carpetbagger page just sat there, unaltered. The item itself had completely disappeared from the launching page, unretrievable. I stewed for about 20 minutes and then decided to drag out my draft copy and resubmit. This time it worked.
I don’t know why, but I had to doubly submit each item before it would show up on the Carpetbagger page. Each time was an adventure. My dog thought I had gone nuts. So did I. Then later I noticed that one item actually showed up twice, once on the day before (?!) and once today. I thought I understood computers pretty well, but I’m still mystified.
It has been fun though.
Thank you all for your kind remarks and for putting up with this “maiden voyage” of mine. And, of course, thank you, Carpetbagger — in part for enabling me to relive my most frequent nightmare: showing up for a lecture with nothing at all to say.
I can’t think of a better way to close out my contribution here than to happily report that Bush and the Republican Congress have just pulled their lowest ratings ever!
When it comes to public approval, President Bush and Congress are playing “how low can you go.” Bush’s approval mark is 43 percent, while Congress checks in at 31 percent, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll found. Both are the lowest levels yet for the survey, started in December 2003.
“There’s a bad mood in the country, people are out of sorts,” said Charles Jones, a presidential scholar and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Iraq news is daily bad news.”
The public also is showing concerns about the direction of the country as the war in Iraq drags on. Only about one-third of adults, 35 percent, said they thought the country was headed in the right direction. Forty-one percent said they supported Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq, also a low-water mark.
And still one more item, just in from Raw Story, the Downing Street Memo will not die!
The ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled hearings on the 2002 minutes between senior British and American officials which asserted that intelligence was “being fixed” to support the case for war in Iraq, RAW STORY has learned.
The hearings, which will be held next Thursday, will bring renewed attention to what is being called the “Downing Street memo,” actually official minutes of a secret 2002 meeting.
Conyers office has revealed that they will introduce new documents that corroborate the Downing Street Memo at the hearings June 16.
Have a good weekend, everyone. I may see you again Sunday.