Daily Archives: 12/10/2010

(Community Matters) Our Christmas presents to each other are indulging on hotels and views during this trip.

Victoria Harbour from our room in Hong Kong

reminds me of how much I loved John Lanchester’s novel, Fragrant Harbour

Tomorrow nearly wraps up travel these last few weeks which have taken us to Berlin, Manheim, London, Shawnee, Kuala Lumpur & Hong Kong. One more short jaunt for STs business (I work remotely while we travel) as well as Sealy around Xmas, then we’ll wind up 2010 and celebrate 2011 in Austin.

(Community Matters) gotta love Andy Tobias. From his blog:

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As frustration over this and the tax compromise mount, an ardent and admirable Democrat on a list-serve I follow wrote: “So far the President has been failing miserably to do the jobs a majority of voters hired him to do.  I want a competent executive who gets things done.”

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(Community Matters) We’re back in Hong Kong for a couple days r&r.  Having breakfast this morning with John Erik Metcalf (who’s been living here for nearly a year) & Bijoy Goswami who’s visiting his parents.

(Community Matters) I’ve come around on the tax compromise for reasons in my earlier postings.

And, I’m getting agitated by increasing arrogance among supposed centrist Democrats arguing liberals are on our last leg, have over reached, are unrealistic, etc. First, who doesn’t over reach?  Second, give everyone a chance to react, breath, better understand and regroup. Third, independent voters are nothing to us without the base – work just as hard to keep the base as we do to attract additional allies.

Politico:

For some Democrats, the histrionics would be funny if they weren’t so potentially devastating politically. While liberal activists, commentators and lawmakers believe they need to take a tougher stand on taxes and other issues, others argue strenuously that it’s independent voters Obama and his party must recapture to win in 2012 and beyond.Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46254.html#ixzz17l92myoO