Last Chance to See ALL IN THE TIMING!

This weekend is your last chance to see Theatre@First's production of ALL IN
THE TIMING, a collection of short comedies by David Ives.

FRIDAY 16 July at 8pm
SATURDAY 17 July at 6pm or 9pm

89 College Ave., just four blocks from Davis Square

For reservations email tickets@TheatreAtFirst.org or call 617 776 0951

Tickets are $10 for adults/$7 for students and seniors.

Or you can help out. We still need a few people to hand out programs and
sell concessions. All volunteers get in free and can definitely watch the
entire show. Plus, you earn our gratitude and appreciation. Such a deal!

If you're attending ArtBeat, two of the six short plays from ALL IN THE
TIMING will be performed at Jimmy Tingle's on Elm Street at 3:45pm--try a
taste and you'll want to come up the street to see all of them!

Thank you to all of you who made it to the shows last weekend! We really
appreciate your support.

Last Chance to See ALL IN THE TIMING!

This weekend is your last chance to see Theatre@First's production of ALL IN
THE TIMING, a collection of short comedies by David Ives.

FRIDAY 16 July at 8pm
SATURDAY 17 July at 6pm or 9pm

89 College Ave., just four blocks from Davis Square

For reservations email tickets@TheatreAtFirst.org or call 617 776 0951

Tickets are $10 for adults/$7 for students and seniors.

Or you can help out. We still need a few people to hand out programs and
sell concessions. All volunteers get in free and can definitely watch the
entire show. Plus, you earn our gratitude and appreciation. Such a deal!

If you're attending ArtBeat, two of the six short plays from ALL IN THE
TIMING will be performed at Jimmy Tingle's on Elm Street at 3:45pm--try a
taste and you'll want to come up the street to see all of them!

Thank you to all of you who made it to the shows last weekend! We really
appreciate your support.

Motivations

So, I tend to think of myself as fairly realistic about politics. I recognize that money plays a huge part in elections and policy. I understand that everyone I will ever have a chance to elect will be a politician, will have changed their minds about something at some point, will have some dirty laundry and some shady deals in their past. Even when I completely disagree with decisions made by our leaders, I can usually understand why they made them and even why they thought it was a good idea.

But this one mystifies me. Bush has just changed rules put in place during the Clinton era to protect national forest land from logging and road-building. This has the potential to affect up to 60 million acres in a bunch of states. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/07/13/forest.rules.change.ap.ap/index.html

My question is, why on earth did he do this now? This is a huge give-away to the logging industry, but there aren't that many loggers and they tend to vote Republican anyway. A few months back I heard a piece on NPR about how traditionally Republican hunters, etc. were finally figuring out that Bush is bad news for them and beginning to work against his re-election. He can't afford that. If everyone who voted for Gore votes for Kerry, Bush loses. He can't be pissing off parts of his base. This is the kind of favor one does for one's backers during the first year of the term, not less than four months before an election. This is a time when he needs votes, not money.

Oh well, good for Kerry.

Motivations

So, I tend to think of myself as fairly realistic about politics. I recognize that money plays a huge part in elections and policy. I understand that everyone I will ever have a chance to elect will be a politician, will have changed their minds about something at some point, will have some dirty laundry and some shady deals in their past. Even when I completely disagree with decisions made by our leaders, I can usually understand why they made them and even why they thought it was a good idea.

But this one mystifies me. Bush has just changed rules put in place during the Clinton era to protect national forest land from logging and road-building. This has the potential to affect up to 60 million acres in a bunch of states. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/07/13/forest.rules.change.ap.ap/index.html

My question is, why on earth did he do this now? This is a huge give-away to the logging industry, but there aren't that many loggers and they tend to vote Republican anyway. A few months back I heard a piece on NPR about how traditionally Republican hunters, etc. were finally figuring out that Bush is bad news for them and beginning to work against his re-election. He can't afford that. If everyone who voted for Gore votes for Kerry, Bush loses. He can't be pissing off parts of his base. This is the kind of favor one does for one's backers during the first year of the term, not less than four months before an election. This is a time when he needs votes, not money.

Oh well, good for Kerry.