pic via Cat of course

This morning Jeff looked out the back window and said, "The yard looks like Coconut Grove!", which means it looks like a jungle.

The combination of all the rain we've gotten and the 9,564 cana bulbs I planted really make my corner of Indiana look pretty wild and wooly. I like it.

Tidbits....

On Chris Matthews' syndicated TV show, Dan Rather announced that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg will not be running for president.

Rather: Bloomberg "told me that he was not going to run for president. In a direct answer to a direct question, would he run under any circumstances, he danced around a bit and finally said 'No.'"

I don't understand this stuff, MICHIGAN TO MOVE UP ITS PRIMARY , Oy, Giuliani-McCain: That's the Ticket?; You go Dennis!!,Domestic Spying is Orwellian (Rep. Dennis Kucinich) .

Quote of the Day
"But they kept their marriage together. And a lot of the Republicans who have condemned them and talk about their platform of family values, interestingly, didn’t keep their own families together."

-- Mike Huckabee, quoted by NPR, praising Bill and Hillary Clinton.

I'm with you John....John Edwards Calls Ann Coulter "She-Devil" , ACLU Lawyer: Patriot Act Gag Order is Unconstitutional ,

Via Wonkette-

dept. of fat guys with buzzcuts begging for a police state
Watch Ron Paul Yell At This Fat Fascist Guy
Way back in the late 1980s, in the wonderful days before blogs existed, idiots were forced to attend tapings of a daytime teevee show called “Morton Downey Jr.” so they could yell about things they didn’t understand — and Ron Paul was pissing them off then, too.

And finally, the sad ongoing struggle of the miners. No, not the 6 in Utah, the 172 trapped in China. and a prayer (or the Paddy version of it) for them and all the people suffering in Peru.