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A link that a non-LJ friend passed on to me, which I found really thoughtful and worthwhile, a speech by Sen. Tom Daschle (D-N.Dak.) which lays out many reasons why the Bush Administration has been bad for America: Doing Right By America. If you know anybody who is wavering on whether to vote for Bush, send them on to it, it has a lot of stuff that sound-bites from Fox News can't easily counter.
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twistedchick, especially because I want to bring it to sister_wolf's attention, a treasure trove of contemporaneous cowboy pictures that a photographer named Erwin E. Smith took between 1905 and 1912 -- a little late for the period she's looking at, but still it should provide some visual inspiration for the way things would have looked -- as opposed to the way Hollywood thinks they looked.
(Actually though, Hollywood did pretty good in getting some things right -- starting in the silent days, most of the stunt men were ex-cowboys, and they brought their expertise along for all the depictions of ropin' and ridin' and so on, so that the visual look of authenticity became canon.)
I've just been paging around and have found enough leather chaps to fill a very dodgy bar. Or, hey, Dancing Cowboys! or a town celebration circa 1910. I'm running out of time here, but you get the idea.
Speaking of getting out of here.. yeah, I've done a morning's worth of work and now I'd better hit the road. I'm going out through Manchester, which should get me clear of most DNC-related transportation difficulties or at least minimize them! I have no idea how often I'll get on the Internet this trip (probably not until I'm checked into the hotel on Sunday, and bored out of my skull), so stay good until then!
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twistedchick, especially because I want to bring it to sister_wolf's attention, a treasure trove of contemporaneous cowboy pictures that a photographer named Erwin E. Smith took between 1905 and 1912 -- a little late for the period she's looking at, but still it should provide some visual inspiration for the way things would have looked -- as opposed to the way Hollywood thinks they looked. (Actually though, Hollywood did pretty good in getting some things right -- starting in the silent days, most of the stunt men were ex-cowboys, and they brought their expertise along for all the depictions of ropin' and ridin' and so on, so that the visual look of authenticity became canon.)
I've just been paging around and have found enough leather chaps to fill a very dodgy bar. Or, hey, Dancing Cowboys! or a town celebration circa 1910. I'm running out of time here, but you get the idea.
Speaking of getting out of here.. yeah, I've done a morning's worth of work and now I'd better hit the road. I'm going out through Manchester, which should get me clear of most DNC-related transportation difficulties or at least minimize them! I have no idea how often I'll get on the Internet this trip (probably not until I'm checked into the hotel on Sunday, and bored out of my skull), so stay good until then!
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1. Song of the Loon
2. Song of Aaron
3. Listen the Loon Sings
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I don't get how a family could possibly spend $896 per month, every month, for health insurance.
I don't understand how HMOs can so tightly run health care as a business.
Health care is not a business. (Ironic, perhaps, because I am a health care providor in the private sector and heaven knows that we make a profit and I benefit from it, but still.)
How can the US government still justify their stand that universal health care of all Americans will be too costly when the US spends more per capita on health care than Canada? How can the US government, sleep at night knowing that children and pregnant women and old people can't see a doctor when they are sick because they don't have money? Jesus wept.
There's talk about two-tiered health care in Canada and I tell you right now that there is a generation of Canadians that will not stand for it. Because to us paying to see a doctor is repugnant. Because we feel that health care is a basic human right, not a luxury for the wealthy.
Sorry for the rant - it baffles me, it sickens me.
I just don't get it.