Monday April 29, 2013 All the snow in my neighborhood was gone.  (A bit more expected later this week.)  Bare ground, starting to turn green.  Bare legs, not turning green.

***From politicalwire.com:

1) Former Lawmakers Seek Evidence of Space Aliens
Former Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D) told the Detroit News that she's "excited about presiding over a week's worth of testimony about the existence of extraterrestrials."

Kilpatrick "signed up with five other former members of Congress to listen to testimony aimed at proving alien contact with Earth and a government effort to cover it up."

Also on the panel are former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-AK), as well as former Reps. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Darlene Hooley (D-OR), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) and Merrill Cook (R-UT).

2) Senator Says Obama is Buying Up Ammunition
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) claims the Obama administration "is buying up exceedingly high levels of ammunition in an attempt to limit the number of bullets the American public have access to on the open marketplace," The Hill reports.

Said Inhofe: "President Obama has been adamant about curbing law-abiding Americans' access and opportunities to exercise their Second Amendment rights.. One way the Obama Administration is able to do this is by limiting what's available in the market with federal agencies purchasing unnecessary stockpiles of ammunition."