Well, it at least oughta be above room temperature, Bobert.

Doug: you will recall I gave the speech high marks as a rthetorical staging. If the senators you refer to have changed their opinion about operations based on that rhetoric alone, it is clear they are too easily wafted by hot air to weigh very much. Or are they grateful for the new basis of honest fact suddenly made manifest in that speech? If they were already on board Mister Bush's Oil Train, let me suggest they would have applauded even if he had taken his shoe off and pounded on the table like one of his predecessors. As it was, he made all the right facial gestures, spoke with earnestness and good timing -- it was almost as though someone smart had their hand up the back of his shirt or something!!

"Hey, Chief -- those your sheep over there??"
"Sheep LIE!"

(It's an old joke about a ventriloquist practicing out in the back country. Never mind).

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