The Moose would like to give a huge “Thank You!” to all the overwhelmingly generous donations received during our Moose-a-thon. Hugs and Moose kisses to everyone who helped us keep the lights on for awhile (a long while if we are careful) and, maybe, hire some professional mental tech help (for when we aren’t careful).
Gabby Giffords gave testimony today on the issue of Gun Safety …
If Cathrynn Brown (R-NM) has her way sexual assault victims who seek an abortion could be charged with a felony punishable by up to three years in prison.
President Obama was sworn in to start his second term in the Blue Room by Chief Justice Roberts who used a notecard this time to avoid any errors. Just a bit of trivia: once POTUS is sworn in again tomorrow today at the public ceremony he will be only the second president to be sworn in four times.
We were talking at work yesterday and somehow got around to “The Twelve Pains of Christmas.”
There are so many things to love about this song. Video’s “meh” but most of them are.
Feel free to post your favorite holiday song.
Strummerson recently started the conversation on the Moose that I’ve had in my head for a few months: what kind of blog are we/do we want to be? There seems to be a core group of commenters/authors who apparently have time in their lives to post things; I sit in front of a computer eight or nine hours out of the day so I can lurk or post at my leisure. But there are others who are able to come and go when life lets them. I will admit that I generally let someone else post articles (diaries) because I can’t get my thoughts together long enough to be coherent and worthy of being read. And it seems that the last few month have been particularly slow but with the new year perhaps there is a chance to put further thought into what the Moose should be and how the Moose should look.
If you haven’t seen it, heard about it, and/or noticed the rapturous reviews from most of the Left you’ve been hiding under a rock this fine Saturday:
UPDATE: During an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts on Thursday President Obama came out in favor of same-sex marriage:
In an interview with ABC News, Obama said, “I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”
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“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.” http://2012.talkingpointsmemo….
This wasn’t easy at least politically-speaking. And we can debate whether or not it was smart or whether or not VP Biden’s remarks on Sunday were pre-planned or not. At this point, today, all I want to say is, “Thank you, Mr. President.”