I know that would pull you all in today: especially all those who normally do not read me. I forgive you.

Anyway, with the home mortgage loan and homeowner foreclosure fiascoes, the economy slipping into a depression that a stimulus plan may not rectify, and the piling debt from the prosecution of the surge to Iraq, Afghanistan, and maybe soon Pakistan, Iran, or Serbia, US President Bush needed something positive to cheer about.

He is the first President ever to submit a budget to Congress on a laptop computer!

[...."I just met with my Cabinet, where we discussed a lot of issues. And one issue we discussed is the budget. I submitted the budget today to Congress -- it's on a laptop notebook, an e-budget. It saves paper, saves trees, saves money. I think it's the first budget submitted electronically. And it's a good budget. It's a budget that achieves some important objectives."....]

Wow, yippee....technology at work..... that's really an awesome innovation in the midst of the chaos of the War on Terror. Jokes apart, considering the number of paper copies that would have been necessary to distribute the 2009 budget physically to both houses of Congress, it really is a significant achievement.

Let me save you some paper, help to reduce the effect on the environment of global warming too, and save some trees at the same time, by showing you the proposed 2009 US budget.

Let's hope some hackers don't mess with the figures before and after it's approval:

• Fact Sheet: The President's FY09 Budget

• Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2009