Eight Feet Deep

“It was this long and filled with pastrami, salami, ham, Swiss and a couple of kosher pickles.”

Endless speculation from inside the Beltway continues over whether Vice President Dick Cheney will be entangled in a legal web over the CIA investigation. Among the rumors is that Cheney will step down and the president will name Condeleezza Rice as VP. That would not surprise me in the least that he would step down and Bush would name an heir apparent. But Rice’s skin tone and gender might be a little too hard for some of the geriatric GOP to take. Likewise for some of the conservative voters who see things more in shades of black and white, if you get my drift.

The veep’s ethnicity makes no difference to me. To paraphrase Navin Johnson’s mother in “The Jerk:” I would love the vice president if he or she was the color of a baboon’s ass. Well, maybe love is too strong a word. I would respect the position at least.

It would really be a bold move for Bush to appoint a black woman as vice president if old Tricky Dick II resigns. Whether Cheney calls in the dogs and pees on the fire is another question.

“Wow. You mean I could still live in Dublin and sit on the U.S. Supreme Court? Bitchin’.”

I decided not to organize the links on my blogroll nor list conservative blogs I know nothing about. Tim Blair, I’ve read quite a bit. An Australian, conservative, insightful. He stays. That’s what I like about blogging — being master of your domain.

Consumer’s Union makes a video about corporate broadcast ownership. It’s entertaining for a couple of minutes as well as a catchy little tune. I don’t know if I could dance to it though, so I’ll have to give it a 5. (If that)

Click on “Resist the Tower! Fight Media Power!”

The former world’s largest hydrant and former world’s second largest hydrant in Beaumont, Texas.

Sigh! I really hate to do this. First it was the hurricane and now — this.

While doing some research this morning I discovered that, what had been the onetime world’s largest fire hydrant, was now the world’s third largest fire hydrant. I was afraid something like this would happen.

Roadside America, which features such peculiarities as civic arms (or hydrant) races, is where I learned of the news.

“Artist Blue Sky used his favorite parking lot in Columbia, South Carolina, to unveil a four-story tall steel fire hydrant in February 2001.”

This large and leaning fireplug is almost 10 feet taller than the current former world’s largest hydrant, which is located in Elm Creek, Manitoba. It makes me wonder when will this madness stop. For God’s sake, quit building large fire hydrants! Get on with your lives! Do something constructive. Visualize swirled peas, or something.

Well here in Beaumont we can, at least, take comfort in knowing we have the world’s largest dalmatian-spotted fire hydrant. For now.