HoodaThunk?

It’s been a home project day so I’ve been “news-blind” for the past several hours. Some items of note:

A spy satellite has lost power and is headed for an uncontrolled re-entry. This is bad for several reasons but I’m not sure what they can do about it. The bird is due to come down in late February or early March. Could the shuttle be scrambled to rendezvous with it and either repair it or put in into a safe orbit? Perhaps fit it with some kid of rockets that would allow a controlled re-entry where it won’t hurt anyone on the way down?

In an event that is no doubt causing all manner of cheerful faces over in the fever swamp of the Left, President Bush is getting ready to deliver the last State of the Union address he’s going to give. Frankly, it’ll probably be far more interesting to note the reactions to the President’s speech than the speech itself.

Finally, Hillary Clinton is flipping the proverbial bird to the DNC by heading down to Florida to stump there in spite of DNC’s penalizing Florida for moving their primary up. Florida is to be denied seating for their delegates at the Convention later this year and the candidates were asked to comply with the DNC’s request that they not campaign there. Clinton, true to form, won’t have anything to do with that. She’s riding to the rescue to make sure Florida’s Democrats’ “voices are heard.” One might note that they would have been heard just fine had they not undertaken an action their national committee specifically prohibited. Clinton wants them to be able to spit in the eye of the national party and be respected by having their delegates seated anyway. Nice.