Too much stuff makes for overloaded RedWolf

So finally, our glorious President Bush has taken responsibilty for all the screwups relating to the relief effort of Katrina on the federal side.  Good.  I hope his polling numbers take a dive, and everything he tries to veto gets overridden.  Hell, I'm half tempted to say "impeach him!"  But that won't solve the problem, and I hope Congress yanks funding in apropriate areas to properly fix this.  (I hope they say "Have this much to get your levies up to Cat 5 rating.  Do it within a year, or we yank all funding from the state.")

Of course, I'm not counting on Congress to do much of anything except talk it to death... not that talking stuff to death is a bad thing.  That's what fillabusters are for.

Tonight, I had my fill of news and abuse.  I turned the TV off after Leno's monalogue.  Before that was the local news, and before that was four hours of World Series of Poker.... which was probably the only thing I really wanted to watch all day.  CNN/FoxNews/MSNBC/etc are ether covering the Cheif Justice nominations or Katrina aftermath.  The summary of the latter would be "Why wasn't the military brought in from day negative-two?  Oh, yeah, Louisiana's government.  Let's scrap it all, because it screwed up royally."

Tomorrow, I have to have my head in the game.  My TV will be off.  My PC will have Wolfox playing, and I will be coding my butt off for pay.

Taking a break from $DEITY...

So, while taking a lunch break, I hear on Fox News (yeah, I had unmuted the TV) that Michael Newdow was successful in declaring "under God" unconsitutional again at a state area level.  While an earlier case was dismissed by the US Supreme Court, a few parents and their kids have hired him to file this new lawsuit.  The local federal judge ruled that "under God" in the Pledge of Alegence was unconsitutional for the same reasons the 9th Circuit Court in California said in the previous case -- kids are essentially forced to recognize God irrespective of the religion (even if they call God "Zuul" or don't recognze such a deity at all), and that voilates the concept of seperation of church and state (an extention of the First Amendment).

You know this is going to be appealed to the 9th Circuit.  Newdow's got a case he can hang on to.  I hope he wins when it eventually gets to the Supreme Court.