Boots, tunes, and threads

I found some boots. They're a wee bit pricier than what I hoped to pay, but Timberland is a pretty reputable company, so I would assume/hope that these are damn fine quality boots. I think I'll go ahead and spring for these next month, with the intent to get them well broken in before I start trudging up to work in them on ice-crusted sidewalks.

Yeah, you think that time's far away, but it's just around the corner. Srsly. Boo.

I bought some CDs at Border's last night. One I've wanted for a while, one that looked good for chill-out background music, and a bellydance CD that, alas, I don't like that much now that I've listened to it. I'm going to go back tonight for a different Middle Eastern CD based on recommendations from the bellydancing comm. Meh. I'm also going to take some notes from my Amazon Wish list--forgot to do that before I left for the store yesterday.

I met some friends downtown for dinner last night, too, and stopped by Wild Man Vintage to see if anything else from my summer stock sold. Half the remaining items I had on consignment were gone, so I walked out of the store with cash and only four garments--the garments I gave away at dinner. We'll see if they fit the recipients. I would prefer not to pack those items up for the season. The woman at the register asked me "You are going to bring some stuff in for Fall and Winter, right?" I told her I'd try. I can't justify selling the clothes I make at used-clothing-store prices, but I certainly can sell my old stuff that I've worn for a few years! What a nice way to rotate out the garments I'm tired of, or don't quite fit anymore.

Speaking of new garments for the changing season, I'm trying very hard to resist making a sizable purchase from Fabric.com. They've got some stunning brocades at some stunning markdown prices.

Boots! Boots! Not more fabric! Boots. Saving money for boots.

Call today.

Pulled directly from gmskarka:

No one anywhere in the US media seems to have noticed that on September 20th, 2007, Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) filed Amendment No. 3017 to the Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Authorization bill --- which could come up for a vote today.

The Lieberman-Kyl Amendment reads, in part (emphasis added):

3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies;

(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies.

The policy of the U.S should be to "combat" Iran with "all" "military instruments"?!?

Do any of you honestly believe that Bush and Cheney won't use this, the War Powers Act and the 2001 and 2002 Authorizations to Use Military Force, to say that they now have all the authority they need to attack Iran?

They've already talked Israel into attacking Syria (in airstrikes which have been the subject of an almost total news blackout) -- I will guarantee you that an attack by Israel on Iranian nuclear sites, met by resistance from Iran, will be the excuse, backed by this amendment, for the administration to launch a new war in their final months in office. Then, the Republican candidates will run on a national-security/continuity-of-authority platform. It will happen.

Everyone needs to call and email their senators RIGHT NOW, before they pull another fast one and sneak this one through in the dead of the night. The Senate switchboard can be reached at 800 828-0498, 800 614 2803 or 866 340 9281.