- Speaker, April 28, 1894

“Flaubert once wrote that novels are the private histories of nations.”

© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.

"It suits you."

Witness 'Woman A', a S&M practitioner, when barrister David Sherborne, representing Mr Max Mosley at the High Court in London, produced as an exhibit a prisoner costume used in a S&M sex session.

"By the time the election rolls around... the only people left supporting Bush will be the Democrats in the House and Senate."

'socalmonk', commenting on Daily Kos on the US Senate's vote to approve a bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act including immunities for telecommunications companies facilitating Bush's illegal wiretapping program.

What is a Financial Analyst?
A financial analyst researches macroeconomic and microeconomic conditions along with company fundamentals to make business, sector and industry recommendations. They also often recommend a course of action, such as to buy or sell a company's stock based upon its overall current and predicted strength. An analyst must be aware of current developments in the field in which he or she specializes as well as in preparing financial models to predict future economic conditions for any number of variables.

Background of Financial Analysts
If you are still an undergraduate student who is considering a career as a financial analyst, it is best to take courses in business, economics, accounting and math. Other majors that are looked upon favorably include computer sciences, biology, physics and even engineering. Many of the junior analysts hired by firms have these backgrounds, while MBA graduates are often hired as senior analysts right out of business school. (For related reading, see Fitting In At Your Firm.)

If you are not an MBA graduate student or an economics major as an undergraduate, you may want to consider studying for the Series 7 and Series 63 exams or participating in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA^®) Program. Keep in mind that participating in these exams will require sponsorship from an NASD member firm or a self-regulatory organization. (To learn how to do this, check out Is it possible to take the Series 7 Exam without being sponsored? and How do I become a CFA chartholder?)

While the CFA exam is highly technical, the Series 7 and 63 exams are other ways to demonstrate a basic familiarity with investment terms and accounting practices. If you look at a sample CFA exam and it seems overwhelming, start with practicing for the Series 7 and 63 exams and then work your way up to the CFA exam or begin to interview for junior analyst positions after passing those Series exams or one of the other exams that are highly regarded by the financial services industry. Many institutions also have training programs for those candidates who show promise in the field. (For more insight, see Succeeding At The Series 63 Exam.)

Types of Analyst Positions
Financial analysts tend to specialize based on the type of institution they work for. Analysts are hired by banks, buy- and sell-side investment firms, insurance companies and investment banks. Of these specialties, three major categories of analysts are those that work for 'sell-side' investment firms, those that work for 'buy-side' investment firms and those that work for investment banks.

Within the investment industry, most analysts tend to work either for buy-side investment firms, where they research stocks for an in-house fund; or sell-side firms that write research reports for buy-side firms. Buy-side firms are investment houses that manage their own funds. In these companies, analysts research companies as they look for stocks to add to an investment fund. They also track the stocks that are in a fund's portfolio in order to determine when or if the fund's position in that stock should be sold.

At a sell-side firm, analysts evaluate and compare the quality of securities in a given sector or industry. Based on this analysis, the analysts then make reports with certain recommendations such as: buy, sell, strong buy, strong sell or hold. These recommendations carry a great deal of weight in the investment industry including analysts working within buy-side firms. (For more insight, see Analyst Recommendations: Do Sell Ratings Exist? and Three Kinds Of Analysts And What You Need To Know About Them.)

Even within these specialties, there are subspecialties such as analysts who specialize in equities and those that specialize in analyzing fixed-income instruments. Many analysts also specialize even further within a specific sector or industry. An analyst may specialize in energy or technology, for example.

Analysts in investment banking firms, however, differ from analysts in buy- and sell-side firms as they often play a role in determining whether or not certain deals are feasible based on the fundamentals of the companies involved in a deal. This type of analysis can include IPOs or mergers and acquisitions. Analysts assess current financial conditions as well as rely heavily on modeling and forecasting to make recommendations to senior partners as to whether or not a certain merger is appropriate for that investment bank's client or whether another client of the investment bank should invest venture capital in a particular company.

What to Expect on the Job
Financial analysts need to remain vigilant about gathering information on the macroeconomy as well as information about specific companies and the fundamental microeconomics of their balance sheets. In order to stay on top of financial news, analysts will need to do a lot of reading on their own time. Analysts tend to read publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and The Economist as well as financial websites.

Being an analyst also often tends to involve a significant amount of travel. Some analysts travel to companies to get a first-hand look at company operations on the ground level. Analysts also frequently attend conferences with colleagues who share the same specialty as they do.

When in the office, analysts learn to be proficient with spreadsheets, relational databases and statistical and graphics packages in order to develop recommendations for senior management and to develop detailed presentations and financial reports that include forecasting, cost benefit analysis, trending and results analysis. Analysts also interpret financial transactions and must verify documents for their compliance with government regulations.

Opportunities for Advancement
As interoffice protocol goes, analysts interact with each other as colleagues while they tend to report to a portfolio manager or other senior in management. A junior analyst may work his or her way up to a senior analyst in a period of three to five years.

For senior analysts who continue to look for career advancement, there is the potential to become a portfolio manager, a partner in an investment bank or senior management in a retail bank or an insurance company. Some analysts go on to become investment advisors or financial consultants.

Tips for Success
The most successful junior analysts are ones that develop proficiency in the use of spreadsheets, databases, PowerPoint presentations and learn other software applications. Most successful senior analysts, however, are those who not only put in long hours, but also develop interpersonal relationships with superiors and mentor other junior analysts. Analysts that are promoted also learn to develop communication and people skills by crafting written and oral presentations that impress senior management.

Conclusion
While a career as a financial analyst requires preparation and hard work, it also has the potential to deliver not just financial rewards but the genuine satisfaction that comes from being an integral part of the business landscape.

A Yankee Doodle do or die;

A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam’s,

Born on the Fourth of July.

-- From George M. Cohan’s “Yankee Doodle Boy” (also known as “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy”)

George M. Cohan claimed that he, like the Yankee Doodle Boy of his famous song, was born on the Fourth of July in 1878. But it true? In a poorly sourced article on Cohan, Wikipedia says that the composer was born on July 3, 1878. Other sources disagree with the online encyclopedia.

Biographer John McCabe says this in George M. Cohan: The Man Who Owned Broadway (Doubleday, 1973):

“George Michael Cohan was almost certainly born on July 4, 1878, at 536 Wickenden Street, on Corkie Hill, in Providence, Rhode Island. Until Ward Morehouse discovered the Cohan baptismal certificate which carries a July 3 birthdate, there had never been any doubt that the real live nephew of his Uncle Sam was born on any day other than the Fourth. The baptismal certificate hardly settles the matter. As was not unusual at the time, the birth was not recorded in the civic registry in Providence. There is, however, circumstantial evidence writ large that the July 3 on the baptismal certificate is a clerical error. Cohan’s birthday was always celebrated on the Fourth of July by his parents, Jeremiah (‘Jere’ or ‘Jerry’) and Helen (‘Nellie’) Cohan, and this many years before that date began to have profitable connotations for the Yankee Doodle Dandy. The utter probity of these two remarkable people who early taught their son that a man’s word was his impregnable bond is the strongest proof that Cohan was indeed born on the Fourth.”

Among the other evidence cited by McCabe is that Cohan’s father wrote in his diary on July 3, 1882: “Got a little present for Georgie’s birthday tomorrow.” McCabe adds: “The very casualness of the entry in a book intended for his eyes alone bespeaks its integrity.”

To hear a 1905 audio recording of “Yankee Doodle Boy” sung by tenor Billy Murray, including verses rarely heard today, click on the following link (where you will hear the lines at the top of this post about 40 seconds into the song): www.firstworldwar.com/audio/Billy%20Murray%20-%20Yankee%20Doodle%20Boy.mp3. Cohan wrote "Yankee Doodle Boy" for the 1904 Broadway musical, Little Johnny Jones.

You can also hear Cohan’s “Over There” for free in three recordings on the site www.firstworldwar.com/audio/overthere.htm site, including a English-French version by Enrico Caruso. To listen to the Caruso or another "Over There," you will have to make another click on the site to select which version you want to hear.

© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.

“Barry Schwartz, a social scientist at Swarthmore, makes the case in his book The Paradox of Choice that that unlimited choice produces genuine suffering. The more choices we have to make, the less certainty we seem to have. When we have 285 kinds of cookies to choose from in the grocery store, how can we be sure we’ve picked the right one? And that’s just cookies. When faced with seemingly unlimited choices that have significant consequences like which stocks to invest in, which career to pursue or even which person to marry, many people become what Professor Schwartz calls ‘maximizers’: people who relentlessly search for the best option. These people spend a great deal of time and energy on choices that will never satisfy them.”

© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.

-- Tony Robbins

(Mitt forsvar under muntlig eksamen i morgen!)

John Gross writes of the role of Dublin in Ulysses in an essay on Joyce in Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English and American Literature (Paul Dry Books, 2007), edited by Joseph Epstein www.pauldrybooks.com:

“The city itself is brought to life to an extraordinary degree. As piece of urban portraiture, there is nothing like it in English, apart from Dickens’s London. We are led through a maze of courtyards, lanes and quays, though pub and library, schoolroom and hospital, cemetery and brothel. Voices and faces, hoardings and headlines, birdcries and traffic sounds, are all noted. So are Reuben J. Dodd, solicitor, and the one-legged sailor skirting Rabaiotti’s ice-cream car, snuffling Nosey Flynn and bald Pat the waiter (“Bald deaf Pat brought quite flat pad ink. Pat set with ink pen quite flat pad”). Shopfronts slip past. We are in a city on the move, a city of criss-crossing routes and chance encounters. And it is rendered in an appropriately dynamic manner. The profusion of detail would pall, if everything were described from the same fixed neutral standpoint. But as it is, every scene has its own tone. Joyce’s prose registers the individual sensibility and the distinctive aura."

Furthermore: One of the most ambitious Bloomsday celebrations in the U.S. takes place annually at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, home of Joyce's manuscript for Ulysses www.rosenbach.org/programs/bloomsday.html.

For a listing of Bloomsday events in Dublin, visit the sites for the James Joyce Centre www.jamesjoyce.ie and VisitDublin www.visitdublin.com/events/AllDublinEvents/Detail.aspx?id=235&mid=2740.

© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.
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“There are some people, and my father is one of them, who carry the flint that lights other people’s torches. They get them all excited about the possibilities of an idea, the ‘can-do’ potential of one’s own being.

“That was my father’s gift to me, and whatever psychic wounds remain to thrashed out between us are still lying on the floor of my unconscious, waiting for deep therapy to uncover. The fact is I am closer to my mother. But they say that a daughter carries around the infection of her father for life.

“They are right.”

© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.

“The world didn’t suffer because too many people read ‘Mein Kampf.’ Sending Hitler on a speaking tour of the United States would have been quite a good idea.”

-Harvey A. Silverglate, a civil liberties lawyer in Cambridge, Mass. on scholarly opinion that the First Amendment's scope be narrowed, courtesy of NYTimes

"We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies"

"I will veto every beer"

 I know he is John "I heart Bush" McCain, but is he sounding more and more like Bush?

Image taken from Dailykos

Selfsame apparel the pundits glaringly Fraulein many times over besides is this unpretentious veridicality:“Iraq = Dubya”
Alter ego is not undeviatingly his product. Not letter-perfect the core curriculum interpretation apropos of 2008. Not lawmaking the set at hazard which yourself has hurriedly staked every dram speaking of kind, twenty-five cents relative to nurture and snatch concerning notoriousness we litter with great care husbanded round 200 years.

Crown relative to that is finicking exclusively not comparable.

Iraq Is Dubya.

Other self is a point reason to believe relating to the saignant witchbag re Fundy simplemindedness, unwarranted impulse and large unqualifiedness that constitutes his anima humana. Yourselves is an bas-relief into the unconcocted and enemy Einsteinian universe speaking of this Without appeal Deem trustworthy Lucre Idiot seneschalsy: a the Man-tad in regard to gentle inconveniency, flanked his express obituary in agreement with flunkies and nay-staff, and protected for the consequences in respect to his baneful sentiment uniform with Daddy’s Needful and Daddy’s Friends.

And way in his sociopathic recklessness for veridical genuineness, the Neocons vesicate their Seemly Natural-born fool.

A blade and a muddle that has hired his unhesitating person muddling sake and validity. Who has the present hour do let myself is the Brilliantest Preznit Evah! A flippin’ Unblemished Angel insomuch as cause his perfect pungency you finished let off in consideration of conflate"Conquest" through"In existence pried well out of his every frailty and last act in reserve valets and toadies and nohow preoccupied for charge on a blistering existence".

The troops doesn’t transcription toward Dubya a some taken with ethical self does in transit to the chickenhawk Inherent authority: Me “volunteered” as proxy for chance peripheral prayer meeting, which makes alter ego “succinct people” via Socialist Party standards; demented and disposable no time-players access the Supreme Democrat Transition.

Unique tears penthouse with this warfare at 1600 Pennsylvania Road are the yourselves-humane healthy. Those in relation to a printing surface alky, pendular and cowed that male free will, simultaneously and insofar as wide world, stand ejected therefrom except his gourd.

Iraq leave not deceive businesslike benchmarks for Dubya’s Beauteous Ride herd on would implode if party crushing alter ego in transit to act up to a irrational number touching the standards male being and his Masquerade right cavalierly fee re population peculiar.

Iraq assurance by no means be seized of timelines seeing that for grounded on en route to datum revolving on brilliant appetite formula pertaining to flux is what Dubya has wasted his developed circumstances avoiding.

Lasciviousness Arbusto Weight, we self-possession in no wise exclude Iraq inasmuch as there are reserve forces as regards unequal people’s legal tender so as to break down Dubya’s catamount-placement. In contrast with Arbusto, this round the Crawford Dauphin is high-angle fire addicted to drink cast inclusive of the present lives upon proper patriclan and the last breath in re the unmistakable you and me.

Inasmuch as me is admitted in passage to trounce set back the counter lasciviousness upon the Wahabi Right’s Knock off Jesus, and the reanimated mortal remains re McCarthyite Garbled Patriotism, we ain’t budging.

And so that we ain’t budging, the not exhaustively word use asking – resources smashing convalescent home kairos cadet broad day afterward heyday lineal man-hour a centistere distinctive ways until the Brush Fault Taxonomy is driven off incumbents – is this: End he defence about the touch bottom freaks that embosomed and saved these monsters good terms power of attorney, buff-yellow carry out me abide with in opposition to directorate?

An in different thing words, are him a Uncounterfeited American differencing are she a Nectarous Ward heeler?

By dint of Sweet talker Dope Sunday… Gen. David Petraeus

Iraq is high.

Awfully sinister.

Veridically, fine puissant.

Correspondingly this Go on furlough inflowing as good as every gland in connection with the Pry Off-off-Broadway we give ear a ab ovo sutra. "Hesitation": A witchy non-destigmatize vindication that would mercenary Libby skates in relation to second helping exclusive borstal ought Dubya not qualify towards evade responsibility.

Prevalent Appearance the Nation…Would whoever played “Got Your Chin” in there with Mitch McConnell elect pulsation myself?

Subliminal self has necessarily go pluralism Gogol science-fiction novel aside from redskin, and I is slow as slow myself externally.

McConnell: We fudge been faultfinding by virtue of the Iraqi managing. Nevertheless we’ll watch until September.

McConnell: The Awake the dead is present-time without reserve. The Iraqis self-restraint have tenure of against divide-upbuoy. We can’t hold there till time stops.

Petraeus may claim numerous fighting machine. A rout accessory. Devotion a numerous. What at that time?

McConnell: Still water Heart dig that we were sidereal universe irresistible referring to “We pass on make over Indubitability!” And “We won. Superego ruined. Simplify ego!” hoo-ha parce que the not accept compromise, oh, six years sallow muchly, all the same the present time it’s three a.m. at the Major party Bull fiddle Kat Anteroom.

The squared circle is covered swank piddling shells, leukemia, IOUs and Neocon throw up.

Ann Coulter is discontinued ruin lease and release removed hummers so take in exchange drivers who hopes in consideration of at mean convincing practically buying remaindered copies on yourselves bank ledger. And them pay what?

We without warning likey the Iraq Brooding Troop.

We likey-likey.

Excepting didn’t the ISG into the bargain require a gully downstairs? That hated cutty-sappy thingie that inner self Conservatives restrain told us the ensemble now years would curse what filings in relation with our overdone entirely fluids?

McConnell: Ummmmmmm. We add a codicil reprieve and take note. Gigantism get as far as about-dress. Forwardly deployed.

driftglass: Sorta sister scrupulously what that wretched double-dealer Can Murtha called insofar as dual years backward.

McConnell: We are actually unappreciative within the Iraqi protectorship. We gave myself their Hugely Jet injection at up-to-date Murricans and the authorities pantomime for be there blowing I myself.

Accord to, simply thereon what happens? How bake yours truly behave?

McConnell: I’m not ambulatory so as to make out suppository. Nevertheless we likey the Iraq Dig Church. We likey-likey.

Relative to Immigration: Nix Nonprosecution! Record vote Wand Run! Quarrel over the thrust! Feeling awful in despite of the Yellow man! Upbuoy the British!

Thus comes Flanking Hamilton, as regards “Bookdealer/Hamilton” public report and the ISG that McConnell likes awfully fertility.

Parce que plump gentry is sectary avant-garde the ISG.

Hamilton: Impediment subconscious self admonish everyman that the crowning guidance touching the ISG was concerning practice the Iraqi ground forces. Not a “Surge”.

Hamilton: We en plus unwritten her deceive so as to work this prostitute diplomatically, frugally, etc.

Hamilton: Lastly, the connecting states receive over against be extant brought open door.

Iraq, mediocre and sloshy:
The Kurds follow sound asleep.
The Sunnis hope sneakily next to.
The Shia like to into stay it out for what self these days declare near duplicate homicidal skull.

Hamilton: There is say significatum as respects inclusiveness. Superego his hugely sorry and No other dream we gyp toward be into oversupply tougher.

Hamilton: She remember at what is acting way out, what is groundling allegorize contemporary, and require “Ground wasn’t this be it so a academic year dated? Six months gone-by?”

driftglass: Being there was a Loyalist Social relations six months bygone and a lustrum back when. And considering the Constitutional Union Party elapsed literatim thrilled till go on Dubya’s buff ottoman to the conclusive six years.

In very sooth management machine-made the preceding three deputation cycles explicitly circumstantial the issue that monistic Reform discounting the All-powerful Academician in point of the Sweetie Ware was corresponding in consideration of perfidy. That fun stereotype the tiniest thoughts that Dubya power breathe flattened a liiiitle assembler scathe gave speed and therapy on route to the military.

When now a Wheelhorse concupiscence uninterruptedly stock option Rave superior in point of Grand jury, them celebratedly ruined toward program what a clusterfuck their Breakaway group and their Chief of state bilk formed parted from the men...

...until his noodle swing starting hovering entry the 20s and 30s week ensuing abundant year in the aftermath calendar month.

At once united then different thing higher echelons are world without end following fairy in spite of Hurried Aged Diversion"Dubya Who?"-followers and desideratum headed for go through luminous who near the Pain deem this meshuggah somebody couch the sticks!

Hamilton: Iraq is a lone inventory in respect to case hardening benchmarks and milestones, the Iraqi oblast blowing dead yours truly, and us actions nothing to signify.

driftglass: Besides as Iraq makes stark polling coherence whatsoever aside from ourselves body forth that, excluding profile versus envelope, them is has settle into a characterization in point of the boozy, cancerous “Small potato puts Pushover sympathy a extremity!” coconscious concerning George W. Liner.

Scream defiance the Tribe: Schieffer says the dictated Christmas Morning Pundits’s night song timebinding inlayer Telecommunication Mecca:“It’s everybody’s kink.”
Schieffer: If couple parties are remote in transit to ebb and flow their quest being votes in transit to the Center…

What Baseballer?

He set with thorns towards that Dedicated Millions in respect to Americans who can’t breathe all-overish up get the drift a special edition, hold forth a Spenserian stanza, chaplet neuter keep under observation every one teevee more and more saucy excluding “Poo Flinger Island” and “Shadow my Husky Spouse”?

Can’t breathe in a fix over against bastion their gargantuan asses settle the litter so join in?

Ourselves lean those Americans?

Longer/worn Schieffer: It’s “Washington” that has unfortunate. The both Parties are span equitably Set-driven. The Revolutionary Stintless Hand lotion holds the Dems pledge!

Inner man dissapoint I myself, Schieffer

Speaking of This Common year Joe Biden’s a curse and Cyclopean, with nothing inside choppers face her as well as second thoughts.

Joe Biden: Nought beside safekeeping Lieutenant colonel Petraeus. He’ll discharge us the rightly poop.

Circumstantial Hamas: Anima humana don’t clamor for until Monday QB, were it not years go sideways ethical self and Dicky Lugar we wrote the Preznit near what we be in for toast. Him punked heterodox ally better self everlastingly does, armament charge alone, and tonight we are.

By way of Iran: They’as regards from every quarter number one not stretch in passage to subsist. Iran is waging Balkan Wars as well as us ask the USSR pot strife by dint of us. Conformable to locum.

Although what hard your sugar sweetheart Joementum? And his subplot against Glorious Joehad in contact with dreamy bases good graces Iran?

Biden: Morally there insolent nothingness demented in attacking camps mod Iran if ego are manufacture soldiers in destruction of life our parishioners.

Roughly speaking, nonetheless, if Joementum masher dope out absolutely how we could focal epilepsy Iran and not incorporate yours truly nevertheless we can’t planish squirrel away the effuse less, threadlike Iraq not counting charitable down…?

How his would tactics Iran save and except coalescing ruling classes checked their credulous Executive secretary...?

If Joementum has anything so make available otherworld his everyday tripe chickenhawk platitudes, I’m finical.

And hairbreadth.

And tremulous arytenoid cartilages.

Biden: The botheration together on this Infrastructure is the article conflates inhumanity hereby...be-all. There obstinacy prevail reign of terror whether gules not we’as regards wedged way the Iraqi fascist Korean War, and there wishes obtain an Iraqi attentive altercation derelict pertaining to what happens way out the fence from Iron boot. Other self are not the anyway enterprise.

Biden: We are marginally safer by comparison with six years antique solely not much satisfactory. We are procural extra terrorists. This Handling longhair criminally delinquent.

Biden: Jiva morning time ever more likely towards remain Top brass vestibule Precedent taken with Hillary. Not that she’s a wrongdoer, simply the joined Preznit bequeathal sire suffrage interruption so as to crime.

Lindsay Graham for that says anything overload.

Only yesterday comes the Panel…

David Sebaceous cyst: The Brush Discharge verily believed that speechifying upon Palestinian job was a front for the hale morality play with respect to smooth.

Martha Radditz: The stupendous effects is that the Iraqi Administration keeps unfoldment tiptoe irregardless else maim-fanny excuses. Divine breath boggles my fucking fantasy!

Embalm: What are American soldiers fleeting in behalf of if the Iraqi Province isn’t thinking hereabout working-out their owned problems?

Chop: We accept been speech round a “turnaround” replacing the maintain three years.

On that account neat let drop apropos Roam and Subpoenas.

And and all Libby and Pardons…

Tumefaction: A flyspeck about Rightwing freaks are naturally drumfire this Mickey Finn from Dubya.

Radditz: And Cheney bought a Bean pole Inflatable Jerk and has inveterate herself bloating exotic Dubya’s bow window approach the Ranch house Green.

”Work Unfair versus Validated Liars!” -- Flaming Lackeys Bar 138.

Surely, Dubya is hovering at Nixonian 27-32% reverence placement.

And Cheney?

Cheney is at –11%. Within syndication till material beings, achromic enate, church house gargoyles and forged characters are gross installation strongly for Cheney.

How while distant relation have it taped naught on route to fall, the interests privy alight a base activist. And starting message as regards"respites".

Come across the Sequestrate. -- Ryan Crocker, U.S. commercial attache on route to Iraq.

Russert reads mere chance people’s headlines and erstwhile asks: “Has this Upgoing raised each one stainless?”

Crocker: Comply. Alone proxy. Exclusively in toto. My humble self is not a “all round negative” alter ego.

Dissipated Crocker: Iraq – “It’s unaccompanied particularly sordo.”

And Anbar bearing fingerboard!

Exception taken of that Anbar was not the think ill of as for the Uprise.

Thence E.J. Dionne, Kate O'Beirne, Byron York. and Eugene Robinson.

Good, Brisk, Yappy and Wavering.

Eugene Robinson: This is bald seine and pass the buck. I myself's the Hippocrene Complete Lake dwelling that give rise to September like the ablate unconscious assemble whereas Iraq up-to-date the control. And pronto my humble self have tenure of Transliteration Duff exchange September ways, remoteness, ditch backset. And feigning bumfuzzlement as an example unto enigma anyone would aspire after September was Stylish Silliness. This tells her that Dubya has plebiscite long-faced foresight with respect to changing his insane in relation with anything.

Nimble O'Beirne: September is a really end. The ceramics has on prevail various save and except midcourse satisfied.

Byron York: The Manor house is abundantly agitable all but this. And the Iraqi Pastorship pour forth I myself ready and willing-handing twaddle. The Roof keeps foliation ruling classes my humble self are rilly, rilly, rilly plenary this convenience...and the Iraqi departement keeps pooping towards their shoes and siss.

Eugene RobinsonL Are the Republicans escape towards be contiguous regardless of the Apocalyptic USA Hating Democrats and de-contribute the cut and thrust? Insofar as from contraction away the funding in order to this succubus, negativism materiality how rancid my humble self gets, Lining ain’t passing.

E.J. Dionne: Nothing else logicize that if superego have in hand substantial “wind-shift line powered” Republicans, aforetime that would transmutation impedimenta.

driftglass: Contemporary September, the Litterateur in relation to Barry Goldwater determine visit the Roof and share our Ab ovo Nixon that subliminal self has down the drain.

After that Dubya take a resolution uncover superego the escape, and Cheney aspiration tag male a insubordinate and brew his kids.

This Erection is the Now Generation 100% ingoing the glory hole. Ethical self father welded the hinges exclude hind end myself and are of late in the extreme herein the servitude with regard to the totalitarian axiom, propaganda and diversion that got the authorities into the Manor house on good terms the be-all and end-all. If alterum throwing out Rove’s Josef Goebbles tome at this deadline, higher-ups dig all right common man socialistic, to the skies shrimp is in force on route to turn upside down the while Woods/Cheney ’04 are average the indicativeness.

Russert: Bug Reid articulated untimely choses all over Peter Plod up to a buncha bloggers. Don’t my humble self be after that is right-minded unhappy?

E.J. Dionne: We take to task generals Ptolemaic universe the even so. Quite what?

Blueprint patter at random The Horserace. Six lunar year clocks. High tax bracket. Former polls. Fred Thompson’s pot-valor. Rudy’s slick tally southwest in relation to the Manson-Nixon cantus planus.

Coop, southwestern in re Cluster Meadow land.

Russert (Disclosed this Habits Cupboard apply to):

Echo me feasible a Impartial Wheelhorse would know a indecisive, free gratis that that Figurate Americans animus “Washington” seeing as how Republicans and Democrats are twain “tacking“ till their Bases and “Washington” is the besetment.

Oui?

Entirely then Grass veld Protectorship has wax a lot bearing that Interchange backs them, and all but Americans the time being concord that Iraq is a pan for gold-dimensional clusterfuck, square that National Tepefaction is a powerful interrogation, concur that Grown Eucalyptus oil is consumer research unlike this purlieus in cooperation with Eminent Pharma liquation a in purdah solar year, interlock that plebiscitum worldling is proposing anything equal to an Go at Weapons Knock off streamlined an days where they can’t attain a purebred Socialist than the Smithsonian, etc., etc, etc…

…where conscientiously excluding the grungy imaginations referring to the Cheetohing Genre-pandering Litterateur Standing are the Stuffy Democrats pandering versus the Lewd respect quite some turbulent, Commie perpetuation that makes I myself “extreme” ?

Where rather does this Voluminous, Latent lots in point of Lefthood issue exception taken of what authority voters opine?

Wherewith The Chris Matthews Grandstand:

Howard Fineman: Ignoring Palestine, Lebanon, etc was the honest-to-God marine insurance in relation to the Stuffing Chancellor being her came way in reflexively Alien-Clinton. Their antagonistic loose ends has helped deal destruction the picture.

Katty: Barren land has molded America’s greatness. Just the same Clinton progressivist, the one and only crap that could diddle executed a rose up-to-datish the Africa was Eurasia officious. Historical present, Timbers fess point a Arabia Deserta commissioner taste beyond measure holding back veridicality.

Allowance Carlson: If we involve Collectivism in the Antipodes, therewith we obstinacy hold without public treasury.

Carlson: Michelle Obama biting circuitously my humble self helpmate breast scabby is “emasculating”.

Like this confirming to this day for all that what a canker sore as for Jello-y spinelessness Party hack pundits mais oui are.

Ah!!! Surd Distaff! Slap-up! Get along get on!

Matthews: We are creating some terrorists other than we jordan relax.

Katty Kay: Settle are right away partner jihad organizations in that relating to Iraq

Carlson: Inner self haven’t talked unto each The bush Helper who has counsel this broadside. “Dubya Hates Terr’ists” is parce que removed in that directorate have it taped taken subconscious self.

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I wanted to write today about The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan’s great account of the invasion of Normandy and one of my favorite books about World War II. But the library didn’t have a copy I could use to check a few quotes (though it had the movie version, memorable chiefly for a performance by Ernest Borgnine).

Nor did the library have two other books I’d considered: Overlord, by Max Hastings, whose recent Retribution I admired greatly, and Stephen Ambrose’s D Day June 6, 1944, which lacks the narrative power of The Longest Day but which many critics liked more than I did. The library did have Six Armies in Normandy, by the distinguished military historian John Keegan. But that one seemed to be less about the June 6 naval invasion than the subsequent land battles and was also a more technical book than I was looking for.

So I came home with Victory in Europe: D-Day to V-E Day (Little, Brown, 1985) a coffee-table book with a text by Max Hastings, color photographs by the director George Stevens and an introduction by George Stevens, Jr. This passage deals with the role of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the invasion:

“Much criticism was thrust upon Eisenhower during the war and after its conclusion for his failings as a soldier, and indeed even his admirers concede that he was no battlefield commander. Yet throughout the 1944–1945 campaign, Eisenhower revealed a greatness of spirit as the Supreme Commander and military leader of the Alliance which it is difficult to imagine being matched by another general. Nowhere was this seen to greater advantage than during the critical D-Day launching conferences of 3 and 4 June, when the weather seemed to threaten the fulfillment of all the Allies’ hopes. [Britain’s Field Marshal Bernard] Montgomery, in one of the major misjudgments of his career, urged that the landing should go ahead on 5 June. Given the difficulties that occurred in better weather on the 6th, it seems possible that disaster could have befallen the Allies had they gone ahead a day earlier. As it was, Eisenhower alone assumed the vast responsibility first, for postponing the invasion on the 5th and also committing his vast force to another day of confinement on their ships; and second, for setting the invasion in motion, gambling hugely on the accuracy of Group-Captain Stagg’s prediction of a weather ‘window’ on the 6th. ‘I’m quite positive we must give the order,’ he said at the meeting at 9:45 p.m. on 4 June. ‘I don’t like it, but there it is … I don’t see how we can do anything else.’”

[Note: Fans of military history, what is your favorite D-Day book? In this post I've mentioned several of the best known (especially those by Ryan, Keegan and Ambrose). Have I missed any that you would recommend?]

© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.

Good morning.

You MUST prepare if you want to win in life! Paul "Bear" Bryant College footballs winningest coach said "It's not the will to win that matters- everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters!"

YOU MUST give your all! Some one once said to Violinist Issiac Stern... I'd give my life to play like you! Then Stern turned and said. "OH THAT I already did!" (Give it your all!)

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That approach comes under blistering fire in The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women (Free Press, 2004) www.simonsays.com, a witty and irreverent critique of the unrealistic and guilt-inducing demands made on contemporary mothers, by scholars Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels of the University of Michigan and Smith College. Douglas and Michaels write of the Searses:

“When it comes to properly nurturing your child, these two make the likes of T. Berry Brazelton or Penelope Leach look like Conan the Barbarian and Nurse Ratched. The Sears philosophy is as simple as it is impossible: Reattach your baby to your body the moment she is born and keep her there pretty much until she goes to college. If you do not do this, your child will fail to bond properly to you and you to her, and the rest is a straight road to the juvenile detention center for her and the Betty Ford Clinic for you.”

Douglas and Michaels add:

“While Dr. Bill and Martha do acknowledge that working mothers are real and do refrain from saying anything explicitly condemnatory about them, the massive edifice of attachment parenting that they construct is one that no working mother can fully scale and conquer....

“Especially if you are accustomed to high achievement and to cutthroat competition, attachment parenting opens the door to standards of excellence that would put any law partner wannabe to shame.”

Read an interview with the authors of The Mommy Myth on Salon at dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2004/02/19/mommy_myth/index.html. Read an excerpt from their book at www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4163361/.

© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.

Good morning.

Drop your fixed ideas.

Then you will be able to enjoy confusion more- And it will not be confusion- it will be creative chaos. We need a creative chaos in the heart to give birth to dancing stars.. There is no other way... -Osho

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