Internet access on the cell phone is expensive, and slow if you want to use it for anything other than surfing on a handheld device. I just goggled at my bill -- 30MB set me back quite a chunk of change. I need to upgrade that plan/downgrade my usage.

From yesterday's press briefing with Press Secretary Scott McClellan:

Reporter: Scott, does the president retain confidence in his FEMA director and secretary of Homeland Security?

McClellan: And again, David, see, this is where some people want to look at the blame game issue, and finger-point. We're focused on solving problems, and we're doing everything we can --

Reporter: What about the question?

McClellan: We're doing everything we can in support --

Reporter: We know all that.

McClellan: -- of the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA.

Reporter: Does he retain complete confidence --

McClellan: We're going to continue. We appreciate the great effort that all of those at FEMA, including the head of FEMA, are doing to help the people in the region. And I'm just not going to engage in the blame game or finger-pointing that you're trying to get me to engage.

Reporter: OK, but that's not at all what I was asking.

McClellan: Sure it is. It's exactly what you're trying to play.

Reporter: You have your same point you want to make about the blame game, which you've said enough now. I'm asking you a direct question, which you're dodging.

McClellan: No --

Reporter: Does the president retain complete confidence in his director of FEMA and secretary of Homeland Security, yes or no?

McClellan: I just answered the question.

Reporter: Is the answer "yes" on both?

McClellan: And what you're doing is trying to engage in a game of finger-pointing --

Reporter: There's a lot of criticism. I'm just wondering if he still has confidence.

McClellan: -- and blame-gaming. What we're trying to do is solve problems, David. And that's where we're going to keep our focus.

Reporter: So you're not -- you won't answer that question directly?

McClellan: I did. I just did.

Reporter: No, you didn't. Yes or no? Does he have complete confidence or doesn't he?

McClellan: No, if you want to continue to engage in finger-pointing and blame-gaming, that's fine --

Reporter: Scott, that's ridiculous. I'm not engaging in any of that.

McClellan: It's not ridiculous.

Reporter: Don't try to accuse me of that. I'm asking you a direct question and you should answer it. Does he retain complete confidence in his FEMA director and secretary of Homeland Security, yes or no?

McClellan: Like I said, that's exactly what you're engaging in.

Reporter: I'm not engaging in anything. I'm asking you a question about what the president's views are --

McClellan: Absolutely -- absolutely --

Reporter: -- under pretty substantial criticism of members of his administration. OK? And you know that, and everybody watching knows that as well.

McClellan: No, everybody watching this knows, David, that you're trying to engage in a blame game.

Reporter: I'm trying to engage?

McClellan: Yes.

Reporter: I am trying to engage?

McClellan: That's correct.

sigh...

No point in dancing around it. This is a scary link.

Great. I have PT at three, which means I leave the office at 2, latest. This means I'm near home and can errand better, but also -- dude, lots of time out of office, and I'm off work next week. Pfft. Also, grr. But whee!

Man, I might be a little bit in love with Scott McLellan. I am just fascinated by his reality.

I know that's perverted and wrong though. He provides such mindboggling yet entertaining press conferences!

Pfft. Also, grr. But whee!

Hmmm.

McClellan is the proverbial brick wall. The one you can't talk to, the one you bang your head against.

This is how it's going to be, isn't it? Pretty soon Bush will be on the air praising the heads of FEMA and Homeland Security to the heavens, and there will never be any mention of any problem. Any question about accountability will be met with the same brick wall. The administration won't let the question be posed. They won't even have to get to denial of accountability; they're denying the problem. There'll be no reckoning. No one will be held responsible. Nothing that's broken will be fixed. Bush rejects reality and replaces it with his own. The press and the public and the victims can be outraged, but there's nothing to fight against; the wrongdoers just smile vacantly and tell us the problem is with US. This is how it's going to be, for three more goddamn years. Heaven help us if there's another disaster before we can get rid of this administration and its fetid legacy.

I'm so furious and frustrated. I can help as much as I can, but it's not enough. Nothing will be enough until that crazy soulless man is out of the White House.

Cheney told to "go fuck yourself, Cheney, go fuck yourself" live on CNN

There's a mayoral candidate in Cincinatti who says that only born-again Christians should be allowed to run for office.

:headdesk headdesk:

Assholes do vex us!!! (Sorry, Robin Williams flashback...)

There's a mayoral candidate in Cincinatti who says that only born-again Christians should be allowed to run for office.

I read somewhere that Guliani has endorsed him.

The Con Plague has taken up residence in my lungs and doesn't want to go away. I keep having coughing fits that send my co workers scurrying away.

Since I was wheezing last night in bed I called the Dr to find out if I need to go in and get this looked at, or if I'd be okay. (I've had lung issues before). The nurse kept asking ifI just wanted something called in to the pharamcy. She didn't seem to grasp that if I'm not sick enough for medicine then I don't want any.