Enjoyed lunch with Marge at Dockside (not Lizzie Rose, as the stairs are too hard on Marge's knees). She stopped in to say hello to Pat after. Later, A. stopped for a few minutes, too.
Told the surgeon's office Pat is on an antibiotic and steroid and was told surgery most be postponed until he's off the latter for two weeks. Made a new date for later in the month.
What did I think of the VP "debates"? Not a thing, as I wouldn't dream of watching them. I consider them absolutely meaningless except as evidence of appearance, elocution techniques, and acting skills. That's all they mean, yet the electorate has been--so easily!--conned into thinking they're important. The people watch and the pundits solemnly discuss and analyze them, as if they reflect the candidates' suitability for office and their party's platform.
There was a book published 40 or 50 years ago called A Nation Of Sheep. I believe it's actually an anti-communist (remember them?) tome, but the title so perfectly reflects the above, I wanted to mention it. For heaven's sake, we've been told over and over again how the candidates are preparing, being drilled and rehearsing to a fare-thee-well--how could we put any credence in this farce? Yet, sure as Congress will sell us down the river, the media will be all abuzz about whose performance was best.
Hey, get it? "Performance." Does that suggest something?
Further Political Notes:
Here are some little reminders from Justin Raimondo of Anti-War.Com:
"Our wars of ‘liberation" are financed by the age-old stratagem of inflating the money supply: this covert tax is no less keenly felt, yet our awareness of it is gradual, less shocking than a tax bill. Now, of course, we are feeling it, as even the most hawkish pro-war Republicans, such as Tom DeLay, admit. On MSNBC the other day, the "Hammer" was asked his opinion of what caused the fiscal crisis, and he somewhat sheepishly pointed to the costs of the Iraq war. By a conservative estimate, these costs will total some three trillion dollars, and today, as we approach our sixth year of war with no clear end in sight, even pro-war types such as DeLay, backed up against the wall by the fiscal crisis, concede war expenditures are the major obstacle in the path of "saving" the economy, bailout or no bailout."
Also:
"Our misnamed 'defense' budget is more than the combined military expenditures of every other nation on earth."
Chew on that for awhile.