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The Housesky is blue, and all the leaves are green
My heart's as full as a baked potato
I think you know exactly what I mean
When I say it's a schpedoinkal day!

( Modified rapture. )

Caption of the week

Via stephen_dedman, I laughed so hard I cried.

Bad ideas for headmasters

Via CNN:

School soccer team adopts the slogan "On to victory".

German exchange student teaches other students to say the phrase in German.

Students find a 90-second speech containing the phrase (in German) on the Internet.

Students download speech and play it over the PA during warmups for a game against another school.

I'd finish the story, but I think most of you have already figured where this is going.

President Pelosi?

I've seen several people on my f-list noting that Nancy Pelosi is now just after Cheney in the succession to the US Presidency (or rather, will be from January), and entertaining scenarios where Bush and Cheney are both removed from office via impeachment to give the USA its first female president.

I've posted here about why this is not likely to happen (in brief: it would need at least 16 Republican votes in the Senate to get either of them removed from office, and even if they'd done something so damning that you could find 16 Republicans willing to do it, they'd undoubtedly insist on impeaching them one at a time so the vacancy could be filled by appointment).

What bugs me more, though, is the idea that - if this was politically feasible - it would be a desirable thing to do.

( Pondering herein. )