From “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution”:

First, we are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

Now it is true that the geographical oneness of this age has come into being to a large extent through modern man’s scientific ingenuity. Modern man through his scientific genius has been able to dwarf distance and place time in chains. And our jet planes have compressed into minutes distances that once took weeks and even months. All of this tells us that our world is a neighborhood.

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The uneasy relationship between Joe Lieberman and the some Connecticut Democrats continues. State Rep Tim O’Brien D-New Britain has introduced a bill that would require a special election to fill a Senate vacancy should one occur. This bill matches the one for filling a U.S. House of Representatives vacancy, which on the surface makes sense. But, 42 states have laws that grant the power to appoint a replacement with the Governor. While State Rep O’Brien claims that he has timed his legislation when a vacancy appointment was unlikely, it seems that it’s not Dodd’s presidential announcement that has Dems worried about what happens if Lieberman decides to leave the senate before his term ends.

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This gem of a story comes to us form the quiet corner of Connecticut, So quiet, that it barely registers on the radar of Connecticut MSM. The short story is that a substitute teacher in Windham, Julie Amero, was found guilty of showing porn on aPC to middle school students. From the Norwich Day:

A Norwich Superior Court jury has convicted a 40-year-old substitute teacher from Windham of exposing seventh-grade students at Norwich’s Kelly Middle School to pornographic images on a computer in October 2004.Julie Amero faces as long as 40 years of prison when she is sentenced March 2 for four counts of risk of injury to a minor.

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State Rep Joe Mioli, D-Westport has introduced a bill to extend the state do-not-call list to robo-calls. It’s not a surprise that he’s from the fourth congressional district, which was heavily targeted by many groups advocating positions or candidates in last year’s elections. Brian Lockhart’s Norwalk Advocate article continues:

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he thinks the measure “would be fully constitutional,” and he will work with any legislator to fine-tune bills to avoid legal obstacles.

“The more narrowly it can be tailored, the less impact there is on First Amendment rights,” Blumenthal said. “People are entitled to protect their homes and families from certain intrusions. People can bar political candidates from coming into their homes.”

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Anti-war activists were all atwitter this week over Senator Lieberman’s public comments of support for President Bush’s call for increasing troops. The blogsphere, naturally, was the fulcrum for pushing the message that Lieberman was sucking up to the GOP and not a true Democrat. Many example of this line of thinking can be found at My Left Nutmeg. The Iraq occupation has become to many, the litmus test position, that supposedly decides where political philosophies can be gaged. The reality is that what to do with Iraq, theocratic Islamic states, terrorism, foreign oil dependency and propping up defense contractors have all become a knot of conflicting interests that aren’t so simply defined, and more importantly solved. As long as President Cheney Bush calls the shots as commander in chief, there’s not much bloviating senators can do to change things. Unless of course they follow the money and take away the checkbook from the reckless spenders in the white house.

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Making it official, Dodd said he’d file his paperwork later in the afternoon.

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While the questions fall somewhat in the “when did you stop beating your wife” category, this political spectrum quiz is the staple offers up the scale of Ronald Reagan representing conservatism and Jesse Jackson representing liberalism. It’s always interesting seeing what the quiz makers choose as poster childs of political philosophy. Take the quiz here, the quiz. I scored a not surprising 17.

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Last night George Bush laid out his master plan for finishing the bungled occupation of Iraq. Earler in the week, Joe Biden offered up the Cliff Notes summary of Bush’s plan. Biden:

“I have reached the tentative conclusion that a significant portion of this administration, maybe even including the vice president, believes Iraq is lost. They have no answer to deal with how badly they have screwed it up. I am not being facetious now. Therefore, the best thing to do is keep it from totally collapsing on your watch and hand it off to the next guy — literally, not figuratively.”

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I’ve always wanted to do a site like this, but never had the time. Fortunately, here it is: www.platewire.com. Platewire let’s you post about your encounters with the various drivers you run into, or more likely, avoid running into. Or, maybe there’s some cute driver that you want to wink at. Privacy concerns will unfold, but to think that one day, there might be a user reported list of license plate numbers that are the “most reported”, would perhaps lead to better driving. Or at least a marketing opportunity for defensive drivers education.

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Tuesday night’s Common Council meeting promised to be lively with Mayor Moccia proposing four new appointees for the historical commission. The four commissioners whose terms expired will not be reappointed, and what’s up for tonight is a vote on the new appointments. The Norwalk Hour reports that the Democratic council members Gwenn Briggs and Carvin Hilliard have reservations about the new appointments. Briggs, conflates the issue on whether they are voting on the record of the four expired commissioners, she said

“I am outspoken in my opposition to replacing these people on the commission. The commissioners are knowledgeable, hardworking and deserving to continue on that commission,” Briggs said. “I have no evidence that the appointees have any specialties or expertise.”

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