Australia on fire - NOT

If any story is NOT blather, it is in-your-face examples of global climate change. As we know, 'global warming' refers to the phenomenon of extreme weather, not just 'warmer' everywhere. Last week I awoke to news of 2 feet of snow outside London, and 650 flights canceled at Heathrow - because they don't have enough snow plows. Like Seattle, they don't have enough because it just doesn't happen often enough to warrant the investment. This was the first of several days of heavy snow. The same happened to Seattle - 'unprecedented' number of snow days. Here in Marblemout, the norm is about a foot - we got six feet this year. Climate, as we know, does not consist of an aberrant year or two. And yet we've had three 50 year floods on our beloved Skagit River in 10 years. This story has repeated over many areas.

And now Australia is under weather siege, with Melbourne temperatures of 118 F, when the "norm" is 79 F. "Unprecedented" droughts have preceded this tragedy of 230+ deaths, including people trapped in their cars trying to escape raging wildfires.

The solution according to (unchanged) U.S. Republicans - tax cuts for the wealthy. I do not sleep better tonight knowing they are fighting for their greedy cause.

$50M for NEA: Blather

To the Republicans: National Endowment for the Arts is a DEAD HORSE. It is 0.006% of the stimulus package. That means it should have been mentioned AT MOST 1.8 seconds out of an 8 hour debate.

Hoyer claims that it will not create jobs. Except the tax payer cost of ONE Blackwater employee will pay the rent of HUNDREDS of artists. Ours may be the only first world nation that considers art and culture to be dispensable. Get your head out of your asses. Your 1.8 seconds has long since been up. Leave it!

$2.2 Billion for Rural Internet Cut by Republicans: Not

Billions for Wall Street Exec caviar and jets, tax cuts for the rich, but no help to get millions of rural residents into the modern economy. It's just too much money when you can give more in bonuses to ONE wall street firm. Just think of the jobs created for Beluga fishermen in Russia.

Michael Phelps inhales: BLATHER

I was shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to discover that a 24 year old even knows how to hold a bong. 

The two unreported stories:

1. Who is the gold digger who was waiting in the eves to snap the oh-so-valuable photo? With so much money to be made, why aren't there more nudes of Brad Pitt? Oh. He's over 40? Really?
2. What would it be like to have that lung capacity and a really, really big bowl?