Something's wrong here

Sunday morning (before today's thaw,) the Mourning Doves (Zenaida macroura) found it hard to get a drink out the heated bird bath. Instead, they were skating across the surface, like drunk pilots.

The circuit breaker for the outdoor outlet had tripped in the cold, so in an hour or so, problem solved.

There's also something wrong in Washington, DC, but luckily, it'll be gone in less than a year. As the President prepares for his final State of the Union address, here's a great list of 99 things that are worse now, than at the beginning of the "W" years. Here's a couple examples:

Problem: Staggering National DebtAfter declining significantly during the 1990s, the combination of expensive Bush tax cuts and reckless spending pushed the national debt from $5.7 trillion in 2001 to $9.2 trillion in 2008.

Problem: Iraq Reconstruction in ShamblesDespite spending $488 billion (so far) on the Iraq war, many of the U.S.-led reconstruction projects in Iraq, fraught with corruption, security problems, and inept contractors, have been abandoned, delayed or poorly constructed.

Problem: No Health InsuranceThere were 47 million Americans living without health insurance in 2006; that’s 8.6 million more uninsured than there were in 2000.

Problem: Sticking Poor Countries with the BillCountless reports have said that poor, developing nations will bear the brunt—think: drought, famine, floods, and disease—of climate change. Yet, at the recent climate change talks in Bali, U.S. delegates tried to block a proposal that would require rich nations to do more to help poor nations fight global warming.