Hmm...300,000 jobs created in March, 759,000 in the last 7 months. But I guess the economy isn't recovering and we should switch to John Kerry's plan of increased taxation, less national security, and a mythical number of 10,000,000 new jobs in 4 years. <sarcasm>Sounds pretty rational to me.</sarcasm>

I could have sworn I posted about the cool poker chips I received for my Christmas present, however, checking the archives, I can't find anything about them. But basically, my dad found these chips that say "Blake's Casino" on them with a big "$1" in the middle. I received 100 of them I think, can't be sure, and I initially wanted to add more, since my dad did not buy all of them for my present. So when I made my first return trip to the Poker Store in Stanton, CA, they wanted $1 for each chip, and I wasn't really willing to pay that much since I already had quite a few and I couldn't get any more made, so it kind of made them pointless since I couldn't match them.

Well, after playing poker for 5 hours on Tuesday night (didn't make much money, but did finish in the positives), I decided to see if I could find some more chips and called up the Poker Store again today. They said they had about 60 more of them in stock and they were only $0.50/each, so I couldn't pass up that deal and drove on down. I bought them out of all the "Blake's Casino" chips they had and also bought some other chips that are the same design, but different colors, and have no "branding" (e.g. Blake's Casino) - just a blank center. They were $0.60/each and I bought 41 of those, so now, I've got a very large collection of my "Blake's Casino $1" chips and about 25 cool looking yellow chips, 10 blue chips and then about 5 red chips all of the same design. I'm pretty happy, though I would love to have more of the yellow, red and blue chips, but I bought all they had.

I'll just have to keep an eye out online. I love these chips at eBay, but yesterday they were $100 for 600 and now they're over $200. I don't have that much money to spend now on poker chips, nor do I really know how much I'd want to spend on "Kuo Wha" casino chips.

URL: The Poker Store.com

Hmm...let's see - now why would Kerry want Condoleezza Rice to testify publicly before the 9/11 commission? It seems pretty obvious to me - partisanship is tearing the commission apart. Why put her up there other than to parade her around while she is torn down by Democrats?

"If Condoleezza Rice can find time to do '60 Minutes' on television before the American people, she ought to find 60 minutes to speak to the commission under oath," Kerry said while campaigning Saturday.

But wait, she's already spent more than four hours with the commission testifying. She publicly stated that she would like to go back and testify again. But since it's not public and the Democrats can't publicly attack her, I guess that doesn't count?

Perhaps I'm being a bit too partisan here, but come on now - what rationale can you give that would make me belive that forcing Dr. Rice to testify publicly is anything but a partisan move by the Democrats? And what does it accomplish? She's already testified - there's no reason to force her to do it publicly.

URL: Kerry chastises Rice for 9/11 commission absence