Quick quiz:  who recently made the following statement:

"Look, Hurricane Katrina showed how bad disasters can be, and there's an incredible need for individuals and businesses to understand how important preparedness is.  So if I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses _ because that goes straight to the bottom line _ then I hope I can help the country in some way."

It isn't often that I find myself sympathetic to Republicans, but, come on, you have to feel for a party faced with a new scandal EVERY day.  Along with those scandals comes the need to raise money to defend the scandaleers.  After all, you wouldn't expect the scandaleers to use up the money they improperly acquired to defend their acquisition of it, would you?  Where's the profit in that?

No, the Republicans need a BIG idea, one that can cover all the scandals, big and small, coast to coast, no matter what the underlying sleaziness may have been.  One big "thon" to cover DeLay, Abramoff, Ney, Noe, Norquist, Frist, Reed, Blunt and the many other scandaleers, known and unknown.  So, to all my Republican friends, I offer the following idea; take it, it's yours, you need it:  hold a televised Corruptathon.

Sniffling, coughing, the first signs of the flu big eating at me, along with a mild fever, I was on the way into work and was listing to NPR's Morning Edition, and yes, I almost wrecked the truck!

Guess what, WTW fans! Here's your chance to be so annoying to dear old falafel it's not even remotely funny!

Just wanted people to know that I have undertaken the duties of administering WTW.  An odd choice, to be sure, since I know very little about the web and blogging, but I'll do my best.

If anyone has been delaying submission of stories or diary entries while waiting to see what happens with he site, delay no more.  Its operating as it always did, and I'll be checking it every so often to take care of admin details.

I also encourage visitors who don't usually submit to consider creating an account and submitting their ideas.  Diary entries are automatically displayed within the Diaries section, and may be moved to the front page.  Regular stories are evaluated by site members after submission.

This is the chronological sequence of my e-mail communications with a retired Army colonel on whether it is traitorous to publicly call for removing American troops from Iraq, as Representative Murtha did. The e-mails between us are verbatim; nothing added, deleted, or altered, with the exception of removing any reference to his name and the URL for his blog.

I think it time I addressed something, and as one might could guess, yep, Christmas, or whatever it's come to be called....

I think someone hurled the old Mandarin curse at me long ago, and darn gosh, these are some interesting times as of late...

This is it, guys, my last post over here at WTW. I am sad to be leaving, but at the same time, I just don't fit here any more.

I spend as much time these days cussing out the left as the right, and have found little companionship when someone wants to be even-handed about dealing with the political arena.

And so, I'm going away. I've started a new blog called Right as Rain, which I think is pretty derned catchy. Of course, I expect you all to come and comment on my new drivel, and grace me with your intelligent debate and musings.

I'm also going to be cataloguing my training to fight MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) competitively, so it's not going to be all-politics all-the-time.

Come along for the ride if you like, don't if you do not. I love you guys either way.

See you soon,
~A!

Some of you may know this, others may not, but I have announced that I am running for the Wisconsin State Assembly in Fall 2006.

I'm throwing my hat in for a couple of reasons, but one of my biggies is this: Campaign Finance Reform.

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