changing of the guard

hillary got a rousing welcome at state this morning----woo woo

and salazar, sans cowboy hat, met with the staff at interior in d.c. this morning, which was telecast to the regional offices and parks----he got a rousing welcome, too----and big applause when he promised that respect for science is back---he's a westerner, his family having moved to what is now new mexico 400 years ago, but every sec. of int. for the last 100 years has been from west of the mississippi---he probably likes drilling for this and that too much, but a damn sight better than whichever republican i can think of----he won't be another coloradan, james "i-know-watt's-wrong" watt, who led one of the earlier assaults on the department----i guarantee that the great majority of federal employees are ecstatic at this changing of the guard

but the greatest thing has to be obama's statements about the u.s. setting a "moral example" and explicitly renouncing torture, closing guantanamo----america is back