I would like to thank the academy........

For this award..

Rob Briley, Thank you for making me look so good by you being so bad. I guess without Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker would have been just another farmer. In an odd way I will miss you...........But not much.

Mike Turner, You teased me all year long with your resolution condemning Bush for not joining Kyoto. The same resolution that I put my Al Gore amendment on as well as another amendment condemning the governor for the party bunker. For weeks you would put it on the calendar and I would get excited and then you would put it on the desk. Week after week you would wet my apatite only to pull dinner away. Both amendments may have been to much for the Democrat leadership. I am sure their blood pressure went up for weeks as well. In the end you never ran it. That was almost cruel.

Oh well, January is only a few months away.