Taking The Hill

I have barely enough time these days to read," Bicycling: World's Leading Bike Magazine." The blogosphere sucks up all within its reach. I know there is life out beyond the blog but is it air conditioned?

We are in mourning this a.m. for the passing of Jacko and Farah. Today, is a bad hair day the world over. We had barely gotten Ed McMahon's demise comprehended when the lights went out for many of us....for whatever reason. Still, there is hope for another day with the announcement by The Hill of the 50 most beautiful people in D.C. for 2008. You have got to read these profiles.

Still, we must go on and take on The Hill.com, a wildly entertaining blog about the congress. How could it be other than entertaining when it is about capital capers. Perhaps my lack of sleep made me a bit more giddy than usual at the piece on a congressional committee attempting to force more money on the administration for F-22 fighter planes. The Secretary of Defense says he doesn't want them, the country doesn't need them and there isn't anyone around who could possible be a threat to the already huge air force we have in place. Of course, as the movie "Independence Day" proved, you never know who is out there in the far reaches of the galaxy. The Obama administration is preparing to veto the appropriation bill and Gates will way in to stop the buying of a weapon's system with no mission. This is about jobs in the home district and these congressional patriots are willing to give their all to put more money into a program, that the Defense Secretary says is useless to the needs of the military mission.

While we hear sticker shock over health care, tens of billions in obsolete and useless weapons programs rubble along, almost unstoppable. Kind of funny in a way...if you have a sick sense of humor.... And who doesn't have a sick sense of humor these days? Okay, Hanna Montana!

More later, once I get some more sleep,



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