Dews don't know wrastlin...

Granted, the only wrestling I remember as a child was Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, some dude named Sting with a greenish mask(?), and vaguely remember that Iranian guy (as a child of the 80's, I'm supposed to though so I would have been prepared to fight them in the future :) ). So I'll leave that one to the experts here...

Leading off (as there is no shortage of this type of news) are even further examples of the economic downturn the US is currently facing with news today of new home sales falling to their lowest levels in 13 years:

The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that new home sales dropped 1.8 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 590,000 units, the slowest sales pace since February 1995. The decline was slightly worse than expected.

Really wishing I was in a position to be gobbling up homes like the robber barons of old, but until LSWTF gets a sweet book deal (like StuffWhitePeopleLike), or get bought out by AOL (ala Engadget), I don't see that happening just yet...

Thankfully it seems no matter how much the US Government helps to bail out certain members of the predatory lending industry (read: Mortgage Brokers), Wall St still looks to lose $460 Billion over the sub prime mortgage collapse (or "or almost four times the amount already disclosed").

In a slightly funnier move, Clint "Dirty Harry" Eastwood was fired by Ahnuld on California's State Parks commission, as well as Ahnuld's own brother-in-law Bobby Shriver.

(Ahnuld can do no wrong, so Clint and Bobby obviously did something to screw this cake position up).

Finally, running across this site (as well as seeing it on CNN), has convinced me I'm nowhere near ready to have kids and probably never ready to have a daughter...

Introducing, http://www.missbimbo.com/.

Yea, I got nothing more to say about that one...

Thursday Throw Down

So I go off to a crappy Holiday party yesterday and the kids apparently ran off in the night. Well, you get what you pay for. Note to all offices, don't have your holiday parties at a buffet, especially a small one, when there are three other office parties there at the same time. Though I did pull number one in the Dirty Santa and took home a big thing of hot chocolate, go me.

Apparently the good news we've been receiving from Iraq is because the administration has stopped making the military decisions over there and did what Dubya always said he did, and listened to the Generals. Didn't they learn from Vietnam that Politicians have no business running a war, Patton wouldn't stand for this.

Apparently there was a fire in Cheney's office yesterday. Well, cause as we all know you're not guilty of shredding papers if the building simply burns.

This Republican minority has broken a record, they've filibusterd more bills then any other in the history of our country. The scary portion of that is that they're only half one through the two year session.

How can anyone take Republican campaigning serious anymore? I mean seriously, a dog groomer letter from a dog named Spike?

Apparently Huckabee isn't the only Republican candidate with someone affiliated with their campaign that has a dog killing story. What is it with all the Republican killing dogs, isn't that what serial killers do when their children?

The good news, the House passed the Open Government Act this week. The bad news is it pretty much just makes the wait weeks and not years for your request to be denied.

The years top ten quotes were released this week with Don't Taze Me Bro being number one. Nice to see Joe Biden's shot at Rudy making the list, but where is Sparta?

San Diego State's nighttime underwear run occurred this past weekend. I doubt CityCat will allow me to participate in any future University of Houston runs, guess I'll have to use that Journalistic integrity excuse.

Apparently the DoJ isn't too interested in Justice since they had zero representatives on the Hill for this testimony yesterday. It is a very tragic story, the kind of which has run rampant in Iraq and has been the least reported and most offensive non-reporting maybe in the history of this country.

Dubya may get the visit he's been dreading for years now after his folks blocked one of Ahnuld's initiatives. I can't wait till I'm driving by the Mall and Ahnuld's out there topless with camo paint on screaming, "What are you waiting for, I'm right here!!!"

Arnie to the Rescue!

Well, it seems Arnold is proving himself worthy of being Governor. I never thought he had it in him. After nearly killing off the educational system of California and taxing the ever living crap out of them, he found something he is good at. Disaster relief!! Yes, this man did what nobody in the entire state of Lousiana did, and that is provide leadership. Arnold did and is still doing, everything and anything it takes to provide adequate shelter and resources. He says he is not leaving anything to chance.

I am not a fan of this man by any means, but at least he is proving his armor to those in times of need. He called the National Guard and setup a bus system to take people out of harms way. I say to you sir, good for you! A republican that learns from the mistakes of history is as rare as finding a leprechaun in Colorado