Feel the stimulus!

So Dez and I and Jameson will get a $1500 tax rebate. I like it. And then the market will drop 20%, the value of our house will drop for the next two years, our insurance premiums will continue to sky rocket, gas will go to $4 a gallon, milk to $7, and the expected cost of Jameson's college tuition will jump 40% annually between now and when he starts college. And, uh, the rebates and business tax cuts will chop $150 billion in revenue from our government's budget. How many Americans do you think that would provide with total health care?

Sorry to be such a downer, but we've had a lot of rain around here lately. We need more garden blogging soon. Marc Tellepsen has been emailing plenty of good tips. I am ready to get outside and stop reading the news.

Oh yea, and democrats and republicans hold hands to assault the fourth amendment all day. (with a free Friday morning update) The terrorists will kill us or the troops or the bald eagles if the telecoms (and therefore Bush) aren't given retroactive immunity and allowed to read our emails without a warrant. Not that the FISA Court was all that great in the first place, but at least they were going through the motions. Thanks to Obama and Clinton for not even bothering to show up when a fundamental civil liberty is on the line.