Open House Picks

Well, now it’s nice weather. Go Mets. Going to go check out the block party. Peace out.

Montrose, even you can be needled into an occasional all caps post with exclamation points. Happens to the best of us I guess. Your posts really do tend to be quite well written.

well, I’m embarrassed, lechacal :-). OK- so my excuse is I have high school Spanish. (You’re a GUY?????) I am even more humiliated to admit I thought your name had to do with milk (leche) and – ok, wait for this- somehow you were a breastfeeding mom. And now I go down in utter blazing defeat (Not as a democrat however! Just as a psychic).

That said, I have to agree with MM’s sentiments. It’s been a long scary ride the last 8 years and I can’t blame it all on bin Laden. Not that I think McCain would turn out to be an awful President- I just don’t think he has what it takes to improve our situation. But Palin as Vice President? No no no no no. She’ll make Bush look like an intellectual and political giant by comparison. I can’t even begin to explain how much the thought of Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency terrifies me.

I’ve watched the Bush administration unravel this country I love into something approaching a travesty of who and what we are. The culture wars are beyond anything I have ever seen and I believe every non-fundamentalist is just as concerned. I grew up believing what happened in Germany couldn’t happen here because my parents -who lost family in the Holocaust- firmly believed it. I still believe it but not for a moment do I think religious fundamentalism belongs in our policies or our laws and with a Sarah Palin in office we can kiss religious freedom goodbye.

We can kiss a lot of things goodbye, including equal rights for women and gays, the right to our own medical decisions and the right to walk into a pharmacy or hospital and get medication or treatment no matter what. And that’s already happening- Bush is trying to pass a law that pulls federal funding from hospitals that do not allow doctors or nurses to refuse to treat people based on their own personal religious beliefs. If that doesn’t frighten people it’s because they’re dead.

And beyond that I think Palin is totally unqualified and unable. This country doesn’t need a lipstick wearing canine- we need a human being with brains and foresight.

le chacal means the jackal in French. That makes me Mr. Jackal. Sorry you misinterpreted my reference to Mrs. Jackal, whom I adore to the ends of the Earth (just like the little jackals) even if we are voting for different people.

Montrose, come on, are you really going to use the tired old “I’m moving to Canada if a Republican wins” routine? Until now I have been very impressed by the thought you put into your posts (probably the best written on this site). You just dropped down quite a few notches with that comment.

Pierre, there are rowhouses in DC. I’ve seen them. (am I qualified for this, or not, eh?) Works for me. I’m not that impressed with the White House, stylistically,though. I prefer late Victorian or better yet, an eclectic Arts and Crafts vibe. Now if the White House was William Morris’ Red House, now we’re talking. Please, spare me the Commie rejoinders.

If McCain wins, I may be relocating anyway. The UK’s rather expensive, Canada’s going to be filled with angry ex-pat Yanks, so I have to think about this carefully. I may be polishing my French, German or Italian. Or maybe my Jamaican patois.