That’s right let’s scrap the Endangered Species Act, that’s the problem, silly bivalves drinking up all of Cobb County's water. After all that water is needed by people… people like the ones who run the Stone Mountain water park that as recently as this October was planning on using some of that water… New York Times 10/23/07 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/us/23drought.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

“On an 81-degree day this month, an outdoor theme park began to manufacture what was intended to be a 1.2-million-gallon mountain of snow.”

The mind reels.

“Worse than Hoover?

He mucked stuff up pretty good. They don't call it The Average Depression, do they?”

The Average Depression, I like that line a lot, Bravo!

In defense of Hoover

While Hoover was sadly misguided in his economic policies, and while there is plenty of fault to find in some of other decisions he made while in the White House, I’m thinking here of his treatment of the bonus marchers, at the least we can say that Herbert Hoover was a man of impeccable personal integrity and honor who’s life outside the Oval Office was marked by service to his country and humanitarian philanthropy. Hoover failed as a leader in a time of crisis, he exasperated that crisis by adhering to outmoded and ineffectual economic theories and his presidency is rightly regarded as one of the worst, but much of what America and the world experienced at the end of the 1920s was unprecedented, whereas Mr. Bush had numerous examples, had he but had the will or wit to see them, that could have helped him avoid this disaster. History has not been kind to the Hoover presidency but I think it will be far harder on Mr. Bush. Sadly in the case of George W. Bush an appeal to the individual goodness and rectitude of the man outside of the office won’t be of much help either. A disaster wrapped in a catastrophe shellacked with fiasco… We’ll be cleaning up this mess for the rest of our lives.

Don't hate the player, hate the game... so to speak.