It's Only Money!

There comes a time when you really have to wonder what in the world anybody's thinking, at least the people who get to make decisions. The federal government has spent $350 billion of the bailout money. And they didn't spend it where they thought they were going to, mainly because Congress didn't seem to see fit to provide an oversight or restrictions on how it was spent.

So last night, I'm watching television news (the News Hour on PBS) and they show one of the leading Republican senators talking about how they don't want to release the next 350 billion because, after all, it wasn't spent the way they thought it ought to be last time. Gee, you think? why on earth would President Bush and his administration possibly have done it the way you thought they'd might? You didn't bother to put in place any restrictions on how it was spent or to tell him to how to do it the way you wanted it done. And this is the president has lied about everything since he got into office -- did you think he was going to change his spots overnight?.

So now we have a new president coming in, and Congress thinks maybe they should've done something different and so with going to start now? They're crazy! The barn is on fire, the horses are burned, the money you spent to put out the fire got spent on something else, so now you're going to delay medical treatment for horses? It's much too late to develop qualms now.

Might as well give the new administration a chance to prove whether they're better/more honest than the prior one. After all, it's only money...

Sun Dogs

this morning on the way in to work I saw the most amazing pair of Sun dogs. We don't get the very often around here and I have never seen a pair with complete rainbow arcs. I wish I had a camera, so I could show you what they look like. But I didn't, so I'll content myself with saying that they were the most amazing things I've seen in a long time. The rainbow arcs stretched all the way from the horizon to about 45° above the Sun, say a quarter of the circle surrounding the sun. You had the feeling that if you could just keep your head at the right angle, you could see a full rainbow circle. I think I was the only one who really paid any attention to it; it would be nice if we all took little more time to appreciate the beauty around us.