First Puppy

In some light news...

"US President-elect Barack Obama is still working on the make-up of his cabinet. A far more important decision - for his daughters at least - will be choosing the puppy that accompanies the new First Family to the White House."

I'm very pleased by the the idea of them getting a rescue dog.

"Michelle Obama has been quoted as saying she would like a rescue dog - which would certainly be a story of canine rags to riches."

Slightly less enthused about it being a designer goldendoodle. But at least it's for allergy reasons.



and they are pretty cute

Please someone blindfold me for the next month...

I made the mistake of reading political news today.

"Palin makes Obama terrorist claim"

The gist being that Obamo served on a charity group board that also contained Bill Ayers as memeber who during the 60's founded a violent anti-Vietnam group called Weather Underground.

Let's ignore the fact that Obama was 8 when that group was active why don't we.

This woman makes me want to gouge my eyeballs out, as do some of the comments after the second article...

Price check on reality, aisle 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Polls just released say that Bush's approval ratings are at an all time low - only 31 percent of the country approves of his job. In fact, this month marks the 38th consecutive month in which his approval rating has been below the halfway mark. Some back of the envelope math means that Bush has spent 97.4% of his second term with less than half of the country behind him. In other words he spent exactly one month of his second term enjoying an approval rating greater than 50 percent. And with the way things are headed, I can't quite imagine him getting another month with that high of an approval rating.

And still this man thinks he's the cat's pajamas.

Sometimes I just don't understand this country.

Common Sense

An update: 14 states are plan to or are currently rejecting federal funding if it is tied to abstinence-only sex education. "Why would we spend tax dollars on something that doesn't work?" asked Ned Calonge of the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. "That doesn't make sense to me. Philosophically, I am opposed to spending government dollars on something that's ineffective. That's just irresponsible."

Energy Bill

More lovely work by the Republicans, this time in our Senate. The Energy Bill which would, increase fuel standards, end tax cuts to oil and gas companies, and increase renewable energy quotas for utilities will now be held up "indefinitely".