Monthly Archives: September 2005

Politics vs Governance

September 28, 2005 – 7:22 am

An interesting Davenetics post today, highlighting something I’d been vaguely aware of but hadn’t really thought about; the difference between Politics and Governance. Politics is the playing of games; potentially very important games, that determine who gets to do what. Governance is the doing of the what. For all the talk of the media monitoring [...]

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Presidential Gasoline

September 27, 2005 – 8:21 am

Here’s some fun. I tend to read left-wing sites (though not exclusively). One of the impressions I come away with from both sites is the idea that the right looks at people with a “you’re either with us, or against us” mindset, which means that most of those one the left are essentially terrorists or [...]

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Great image

September 12, 2005 – 7:40 pm

Go read this post on Americablog. There’s a big image on there, but give it time to download for full effect. I can’t decide if the President is lying, or if he really believes what he’s saying. I also can’t decide which would be worse.

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One last letdown

September 12, 2005 – 12:41 pm

Michael Brown is now the former director of FEMA. This is one final letdown, resigning just as our need is greatest. We need people with experience of organizing Arabian horses, and as the President himself said, Brown was doing ‘a heck of a job’. For him to resign now, and for Bush to accept the [...]

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When was this a good idea?

September 7, 2005 – 1:25 pm

I can understand the desire to use public funds carefully and even cautiously, ensuring that any money distributed is used for the intended purpose (notice I’m not even mentioning Iraq in this). But at what point did this ever seem like a good idea? The House on Wednesday was expected to pass two Katrina-related bills: [...]

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