War with Iraq, check. Soaring gas prices, check. Lamp in the White House...

Again I make the mistake of wandering the internet looking for something important and end up reading something that stops me in my tracks. President Bush has just made a wonderful public announcement on how he intends to finish his term. He has a well laid plan (as well as he can come up with) to conduct an act of repatriation one more time before he leaves office. I'm not sure if this is a follow up to his "I give up golf" comments, but it ranks right up there. Now I always take what I read on the internet with a pile of salt, especially from the Onion, but I just LOVE this article... here is a snippet...

With his term in office coming to an end in less than a year, President Bush announced Monday that he will spend the remainder of his presidency implementing an initiative that will have as-yet-unknown implications for his successors: the stealing of a coveted $27 desk lamp from the East Room of the White House. "Securing this lamp for my den in Crawford has long been a goal of my presidency,"