There goes the neighborhood...

[chicksrus]

All the while people are poking fun at W. for finally moving (he started packing, apparently) out of the White House (no, there's no sign up sheet to volunteer to help), locals are up in arms about him moving in. God save us all. Good thing is that he's such a public figure, so chances are he'll hardly leave his four walls, but his wife is such a social butterfly that, you know, she sure will stop traffic once in a while. Word in the news is that he's requested a security gate be put at the end of the street of his new residence. It's apparently unclear if he's moving to the cul-de-sac, or to the street proper. Cul-de-sac, no problem, but on a public street? Not a chance in hell, George. No matter how famous or wealthy your neighbors are (who'd love the gate just as much as you), I believe the city cannot do that. I'm all for locking him in and throwing away the keys, if you ask me.

Another housing crisis in Washington is apparently Obama's. I don't know if it's regular news (I get my news from Rachel Maddow these days), but The White House people have denied Obama and his family the use of the guest house for the time of his stay in Washington before he moves into the White House. And Rachel is having a field day with this, every day. It's highly amusing. Apparently, the former Prime MInister of Australia is staying at the Blair House for one single night to get some sort of Freedom Medal awarded by Bush. And he's staying alone there with his wife, in a four townhome mansion. And the Obamas are staying in a hotel. How funny!!