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[annathepiper]

Today I will be taken out to lunch by way of a bye-bye from my team. That'll be nice. I got asked where I wanted to go, and chose Red Robin; I'm not particularly choosy when it comes to food, and I've been craving a good hamburger and a milkshake anyway.

Courtesy of solarbird, I have now learned that according to current polls, Dubya's approval ratings are falling farther and farther down the toilet. And just to give you an indicator of exactly how far his approval has fallen, apparently even ANN COULTER has started complaining about his selection of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. (I'm not linking to her, so if you want to go find any articles about it, go you now and Google.) Not that I'm terribly thrilled with the idea of yet another round of cronyism out of the Shrub, nor with the lack of any experience that can give the American people any hint about what kind of a judge she'd make (and I have been advised, yes, that lack of prior judicial experience hasn't necessarily meant someone will be a bad judge, e.g., Rehnquist). But, to borrow a word from kathrynt, I am whomperjawed that the likes of Ann Coulter would actually be complaining about this, the sorts of people who I would expect to be the LAST ones taking issue with anything he does.

I am told by my endoc that I am NOT to up my dosage of Synthroid yet, as she needs me at my current dosage for a little longer before she decides what to do. I am to go in to have my levels checked on the 24th, and see her as previously scheduled on the 31st. Meh.

Oh, and y'all say hi to stickmaker, who finally got himself an LJ. He hangs out a lot with solarbird and me on our MUSH; we know him from the Kentucky fandom crowd. Say hi to rosepurr while you're at it, who is also out of the Kentucky fandom crowd.

Thursday evening miles: 2.45
Friday morning miles: 0.7
Miles out of Hobbiton: 371.6
Miles to Rivendell: 86.4

Comments

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

Thanks for adding me!!

Actually, Coulter complained bitterly about the Roberts nomination too. She said she thought that given the strength of conservative backing he should have picked someone more hardline. *pauses to thank the stars that Coulter is not actually in office.*

[kent.livejournal.com]

Bush promised to pick Justices that are in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. From the perspective of an extreme righty, Meiers' and Roberts' low-key nature doesn't reveal anything of the sort. Of course, they're probably wolves in sheep's clothing...

[annathepiper]

You're very welcome!

And yeah, I'm with you on the gratitude that Ann is not in office, indeed.

[annathepiper]

Dara has been seeing large hints out of the likes of Dobson (the Focus on the Family crowd) that she is indeed a "sleeper agent" who's being low-key now only to go uber-conservative once she's on the bench.

But that's interesting compared to how others seem to be worried that she'll do exactly the opposite and go liberal once she's on the bench, like Souter.

Mostly, I'm just boggling that somebody out of Bush's own camp is actually taking issue with the Miers nomination.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Whomperjawed is a good word. :)

[annathepiper]

It is an EXCELLENT word. Kathryn says she got it from the columnist Molly Ivins, which now that I know that makes absolute sense, as it absolutely sounds like a word she would use.