gee, I was right and it hasn't even started yet...

Remember when I said that any future VP will get ignored and the powerlessness of the office restored because they press simply will never let another VP get as powerful as Cheney ever again? The editorials on that subject are already starting...

Don't Let Cheney Ruin It - washingtonpost.com:

But in many minds now, Cheney's free-wheeling exercise of executive power has impinged on the authority of the presidency. And his stormy and controversial tenure in the Bush White House may well produce a less powerful vice president in the next administration.

That is just as well. The vice presidency should never have been raised to a full partnership in running the country. Ronald Reagan prompted talk of a "co-presidency" when he flirted with the notion of taking former President Gerald Ford as his running mate in 1980, but cooler heads prevailed. The wisdom of that dismissal has been confirmed in the Cheney experience.

I note that nobody in the media is actually actively trying to get Cheney's power restored to what it should be - he gets to keep it all, but any future VP is screwed. This is why, should Obama have lost, I would never have wanted him in the VP slot. It would have been a waste.

hazy hot humid 98 degrees and dry. BULLSHIT

where the FUCK did this storm come from?  nothing all day, then we get on our way home from the annual party and pass through a tiny bit of rain, of the "big deal" type...

...only to discover that whatever the f' it was, it clobbered the shit out of a transformer, killing power from our house east well past cascades and north up cascades well past the costco and giant (2 and a half miles away).  not a single light nor stoplight that entire way.  nothing.  cops at every stoplight (and even then, plenty of idiots not doing the "treat as 4-way stop sign" thing).

so, well, mr weatherman: WHAT THE FUCK????

NOBODY said NOTHIN about no rain.  not even the slightest hint in this morning's forecast which was telling us that yesterday, today, and the next 3+ days would all be dry (and annoyingly hot).

so where the hell did this come from?

on the bright side, we thought about it and got ice to cool our freezer (and my wonderful steaks mentioned earlier) from a 7-11 that was lit, still open, and hadn't managed to sell it all.

on the brighter, we'd managed to quickly get it into the main freezer (which was still cold) in 10 seconds top, which should protect said steaks.

on the brightest side?  30 seconds later, our lights came back on.

I can't impersonate Gilbert Godfried close enough.  I just can't.