The Democrats Have No Balls

Once again the Democrats have proven they have no balls. They've dropped their demand for a timeline for an exit from Iraq from a bill funding the war. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201329.html?hpid=topnews
Even when they won a majority (albeit slim) in the House and the Senate based largely on opposition to the war, they can't get past their fears of appearing weak on defense and not supporting the troops. They could argue the case purely on economic grounds. On last night's News Hour, there was a truly scary piece on the true cost of the war http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/2007/05/22/20070522_warcost28.mp3
When all the costs are calculated, it's easy to come up with costs of $2 trillion dollars or more. That's over $6000 for every man, woman, and child in the US. Does that horrendous cost made anyone safer or even feel safer? As I noted in my last post, there's not much bang for the buck.

Jerry Falwell was buried yesterday. It would have been better if his theology was buried with him. If I believed in Hell, I'd hope he was burning in it, or if there is a god, that when (s)he greeted Jerry at the pearly gates, (s)he was a super-butch lesbian surrounded by a bevy of flaming drag queen angels.

WaveGuide update....My boat is back in its home slip and has been pronounced fixed, but no one has been able to tell me why the shaft bearing/seal failed in the first place. So needless to say, I'll be worrying about when it will fail again. Yesterday I spent a good chunk of the day chasing down a couple of inline flow switches that will set off an alarm if water flow to the seals fail. I'll install them today and see how it works. A full report with photos, and possibly blood but no sex, to follow.....