Sigh.

Another stellar week by our elected representatives. W wants to offer the Saudis nuclear energy. They should have plenty of energy, by my calculations...and hey, what could go wrong if the House of Saud had nukes?

On the other side, dems in the senate inserted a provision in the Iraq funding bill to give a 5 year amnesty visa to illegals in this country who are working in agriculture.

It would be nice to have someone in our government who was on America's side for a change.

The Everlasting Goopstopper

I know how I am going to die. I am convinced that I will meet my maker due to a bout with testicular cancer. This condition will be brought on by prolonged exposure to a wholly unnatural product. It's a seemingly innocuous household item, but I maintain that it is concentrated evil. I'll come back to that in a moment.

My wife cooks, and I do the dishes. It's not that I want to do the dishes, it's more the fact that she won't. Some people don't do windows, she doesn't do dishes. To those who would ask, yes, we have a dishwasher. But anyone who has lived with a chef has seen that every pot and pan in a 4 mile radius seems to get used in the meal preparation process, so the dishwasher is a help, not a solution.

In an effort to cut back on the water bill, she has taken a liking to a new dishwashing product. This distilled and re-scented semen of the Desolate One is known as Dawn Direct Foam. This stuff is beyond strange.

For those of you who are not familiar with this soon to be removed from retail shelves bottle of blasphemy, I'll explain. A small pump of this soap is placed on a damp sponge, and then it never goes away. That one pump can scrub the dishes from Thanksgiving, and with one squeeze, the sponge is still soapy. It never stops. The suds just keep coming.

The fact that the soap never ends would be a little funny if it wasn't for the fact that it will one day lead to my aforementioned case of nut cancer. All the water one saves during the washing process is wasted in the few minutes one takes to try to rinse the sponge out.

Rinse, squeeze, rinse, leave water running, squeeze, squeeze, douse, squeeze, rinse, ahhhh, to hell with it. The still slightly soapy sponge goes back as is, because, really...I don't have the hours nor the supply of fresh water needed to get Beelzebub's ball batter out of the damn sponge.

So, that's how I'm going to die. I only hope that the ensuing litigation against the parent company pays enough to pay the water bill and my funeral.

Colorado Dreaming

Just a heads up, the Senate's Appropriations Committee blocked an amendment that would have ended a moratorium on shale oil development in Colorado.

So to sum up, our oil policy is:

1) Don't drill in ANWR.
2) Don't drill in the Gulf, even though Cuba and China are.
3) Stymie development of shale oil domestically, and that which comes from Canada.
4) Don't review tax policy as it relates to oil prices and the economy.
5) Don't add any refining capacity.
6) Don't standardize a more narrow band of oil grades.

If one's goal was to lessen any chance we have at energy independence, this would be a good start.

Selecting hearing, or selective outrage?

Others have asked this question, but it struck me as a good one, so I'll put it out there.

How did Obama think he heard a personal attack in Bush's speech in Israel, but never heard anything unsavory in 20 years with Wright as his pastor?