Dansville Balloon Festival 08-31-08

Decided to make a run to Dansville, NY… about an hour’s drive south of Rochester, to catch the annual Balloon Festival. This is usually a two day event. Actually, we’d planned to camp down there for the weekend, but (Shrug)

In 1984 Dave Thomas took a bit out of McDonald’s by asking, “Where is the beef?”   Well today yet another Dave takes yet a bit out of another icon, to wit Barack Obama.   While BO was asleep at

I’ll state this up front; I have no idea who Rogers Cadenhead is, nor do I much care, frankly.  But knowing something of the history of Alan Colmes, I can’t say I’m much surprised to find him in agreement with

At this point, I realize I’m belaboring the point. “Sarah Palin is an awful choice for a running mate,” I can hear you saying, “We get it.”

No, Benen, that’s us, for the 20th time and more, tagging you as

This has to be seen to be believed.

Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler, on an airplane back to South Carolina, is caught laughing that Hurricane Gustav is going to hit New Orleans at the start of the GOP

Reynolds:

For me, of course, most of the fun of the past 24 hours has come from watching Democrats get caught up in the whole identity-politics tangle.

And you know, Glenn’s hit this one. That’s really what this has been

I see, by way of McQ, a set of trascripts on National Review  from Larry Kudlow, of interviews with Sarah Palin, Here and here I’ll include a few excepts, here.

Kudlow: Here’s the bad news. The Congress is going

OK, I admit I don’t have an Iphone.

I gather some of you with them were having problems with it and this blog, though, (Totally unreadable, I hear)  and of course I want to help. I’ve added some code to

Jake Tapper has the tale of two takes, ABC News: 

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” said Obama spox Bill Burton. “Gov.

BBCT to Michelle’s readers…

Reader Brian wrote:

My secretary was just listening to channel 7 news on the thedenverchannel.com online.

The news guys had the audio on and did not know it.

They commented that they think McCain and Palin

I’m going to take the unusual step of sending the news release out untouched from The Source, since with all the political goings on, there’s no way you’re going to hear much of it otherwise. You certainly won’t see it

Bruce McQuain at Q&O:

Oliver Willis asks on Twitter:

“How many qualified and tested Republican women did McCain pass over for Sarah Palin? “

About as many as the Democrats passed over to pick Barack Obama, Oliver.  Why?

LOL… sometimes

Holiday weekend, so this will be a short one… essentially a nod to the Ramble Tradition.

• As to the holiday itself, let me say this clearly: Labor unions have outlived their usefulness, and have evolved to the point where they

I’ve cleaned up the front page a bit, as well as the footers on individual posts.

The object is to lighten the load a bit on the Database server, and get the page looking a bit cleaner. Individual posts still

The official Democrat Party Veep Hit list: 

Bobby Jindal
Mitt Romney
John Thune
Tom Ridge
Tim Pawlenty
Carly Fiorina
Charlie Crist
Fred Smith
Eric Cantor

Blind-sided baby!

Sarah Palin gives the McCain-Palin campaign some leverage to attack Obama a several