What's With This Guy and Storms?

You can come out from under the porch now, George.

I mean, geez, he's worse than a housepet.

Tropical Storm Abu Alberto's coming ashore, and thank heavens for Florida's sake, doesn't appear to be serious...but Shrub still hightails it to a desert...again.

Maybe it has something to do with losing his nerve as a pilot all those years ago.

Anyway--the latest surprise visitor to the Green Zone was such a secret that the Iraqi Prime Minister was among those surprised...so much for all the trappings of a state visit. No, this was more of a "don't move while we're deplaning or I'll blow your fucking brains out/heavily armored, slip in and out of the Green Zone" sort of trip. I suppose, coming on the heels of Operation Let's Try to Make Him Look Presidential yesterday, Operation Let's Try to Make Him Look EVEN MORE Presidential Today was planned in advance...but it still looks like Operation Chicken Out in the Face of a Storm to me.

Well, at least there was a tad of good news for the Gret Stet today--The U.S. House passed the spending bill that includes significant amount of hurricane relief funds. It also includes yet another boatload of cash destined to be fruitlessly dumped into the twin black holes of Afghanistan and Iraq--minus, of couse, whatever Halliburton, The Lincoln Group, and assorted GOP hacks can siphon off.

Yer gubmit at work...