Noveling, Politics and A Rather Messy 2005: The Lazy Girl’s Meta-post

On Noveling
I signed up again this year to do NaNoWriMo and I am going a bit slow so far with a multtitude of distractions and demands. But I am determined this year to get 50K by Nov. 30, even if I have to pull a few all-nighters. My novel is called The Wish and its about a woman who gets a wish granted and is happy. I've read several books and stories where the protag gets a wish and nothing good happens, so I wanted to write one where the protag gets a wish granted and as a result is changed for the better.

On Politics
It seems there are a lot of rather interesting things coming out of Washington these days. Between the release of emails that Mike Brown wrote, the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to fill retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the indictments handed down by the grand jury convened by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, that there is plenty of verbiage being spewed by both the bloggers and the mainstream media.

My opinion is that something is seriously messed up in Washington.

First a very unqualified man is hired into an important post and frankly it showed. Then there was the nomination of Harriet Miers, whose only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice was that she had a law degree. You would think that somebody who would be called on to decide matters involving constitutionality of laws and other appeals would have a least some experience in deciding things like fair emplyment practices, the 1st amendment, civil rights, soveriegn immunity, etc.(List of issues facing the SCOTUS this term taken from On The Docket) Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination and 4 days Later President Bush nominates Judge Samuel Alito to the open seat. Bush made especial note of Judge Alito's judicial qualifications. I'm wondering if he was so qualified to begin with, why didn't Bush nominate him in the first place?

So I have a chance to read in-depth about the indictment handed down against "Scooter" Libby and i have had a rather interesting thought. A lot of the problems we as a country face boils down to the sheer incompetence of our elected leaders. Bush got breaks because of his daddy and didn't have to work as hard as the average American does to put food on the table and clothes on the kids.

2005 has so far seemed to be a rather odd year: Hurricanes named using the Greek alphabet, lots of natural disasters: Katrina, Rita, Wilma, earthquake in Pakistan, landslides in Costa Rica and let's not forget the bird flu or even man made diasters: over 2K service men and women killed in Iraq in a war that shouldn't have been started in the first place, higher cost of living, and the odd news that the Seine-Saint-Denis region has been rioting for 8 days(9 days as of this writing) and it is just now getting wider circulation?