Swan Song

It's a beautiful Friday morning, and life is good. Unless your a member of the GOP. President Bush and his fellow Republicans in Congress have approval ratings that are at an all-time low during Bush's administration. Only 36 percent of the public approves of the job that President Bush is doing. The war in Iraq, CIA wiretapping/surveillance, and now the new hot button issue of his guest worker plan have all contributed to this dip in confidence of the president. The GOP fears that in the upcoming Congressional elections this November the pendulum may swing to a Democratic House and Senate. In a survey last week polls showed that right now the public would favor a Democratic as opposed to a Republican Senate by a margin of 49-33. It will be interesting to see if a lack of confidence remains throughout the summer, or if the Republicans can some how up their approval rating before the upcoming elections in November......

The big news in Europe yesterday was a dead swan in Scotland. This of course is no ordinary dead swan, but rather a swan that was shown to be killed by the H5N1 strain of the Bird Flu. The swan was found in Fife, Scotland which is a town right off the eastern coast of Scotland. Surveillance zones, safe areas, and loads of other precautions are being taken in order to contain the outbreak of bird flu, and many farmers are trying to assure consumers that there is no risk in poultry products. We can only hope that scientists and experts can continue to contain and neutralize the threat of bird flu, otherwise we are all vegetarians. Next time your at Wendy's imagine an order of 99 cent veggie-nuggets, or a spicy soy sandwhich, that will be enough to scare the world about this bird flu scare.....

In sports yesterday the Tigers kept their unbeaten streak going as they coasted past the Rangers 10-6 powered by a pair of home runs by Magglio Ordonez and rookie sensation Chris Shelton. The Pistons continued their domination of the NBA by beating their eastern conference rivals the Miami Heat 95-82 at Miami. Vijay Singh shot a 5 under 67 yesterday at Augusta in the opening round of the Masters. He is entering the day a stroke better than Rocco Mediate, and 5 strokes better than defending Master champ Tiger Woods who was an even 72 for the first round. Thats it for now, stay tuned for the next installment of Ramble On.