Mr. Clemmons,

Have a great birthday today with Oakley. Ummm, is Annie going too?

Wendy Connors
(One of the Great Unwashed)

Birthday greetings, Mr. C., and many happy wishes. If you enjoy kayaking, check out some of the springs the next time you're in Florida. You will be amazed.

Cheers!

HBD, Steve. Enjoy it, things are gonna heat up in the next decade.

Steve,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

And thanks for keeping us and GW Bush on our toes. You write the best politics blog in the business, and I think you are just a nice, super cool, way smart dude.

You really do seem real, and that is a pleasant thing on these sassy blogs.

Thanks dude!!!

ruffers

Happy Birthday! Many happy returns.

happy birthday.

Happy Birthday, Steve. Looks like Oakley's having fun!

Steve,

Happy Birthday.

Your Japan article raises two sets of questions:

* Is something about this new, given that Japan has had a sometimes-violent rightist fringe for half a century? Is the more-nationalist climate such that now it means something different?
* Can Japan really swing in the direction the far right desires? Is it a liberal democratic nation well-integrated into the international system, or is this is a veneer that could fall away in the event of a true crisis?

I'd love to hear you thoughts.
http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/08/27/japan-trend-right-wing-nationalism/

Happy Birthday Mr. Clemons,

Thanks for all the factual information you provide.

Happy Birthday, Mr.Clemons!

Happy Birthday Steve.....here are some presents...

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. -- English Proverb

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people. -- Jim Eason

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? -- Will Rogers

There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Unknown

The aging process could be slowed down if it had to work its way through congress. -- Unknown

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. --F. P. Jones

The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw

In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life...It goes on. -- Robert Frost

Many happy returns Steven. I envy you the watersport, it takes me back to canoe trips with the boysprouts on the rivers in NC and VA. With a cool dog too, what a great time!!

I hope there can be a break in these rightward drifting societal factors all over the globe. The US, Japan, Britan, Iran, Iraq, and Israel. This is not a trend that should give anyone a warm fuzzy. Too many trigger happy goons don't make for a good place for us to raise our puppies and kitties.

Again, warmest regards dear sir, and keep up the struggle!!!!

I had a very close fiend ages ago who's favorite food in the whole world was birthday cake. Mine was/is ice cream so by my culinary math, he and I are both 3,000 years old.

Happy belated birthday, Steve. Treat yourself and the great and powerful pooch well.

It was my birthday too! Many Happy Returns

Happy B'day. Too bad you didn't have one of those "beer belts".
August of 62?
A great month...

Happy years to ya, Steve. Enjoy the trip.

Happy Birthday! That is one fine looking dog.

Happy Birthday! Excellent article (scary). Informative and well written, as are all your articles and posts. I forward many to family and friends. Gorgeous dog.

long time no comment on my part, but lurking and voraciously reading as always.
Happy (Belated) Birthday!
That Oakley sure is GORGEOUS.
yes, as crazed as the world is, I just had to state what you already know.
GREAT photo! Hope your Bday was wonderful; thanks for this blog and all who contribute here. Sappy- but it gives me hope.

It's amazing to see all these "new" names appear on the lighter posts. More people are reading than one would ever assume.

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