Nightly Ramble:New Layout;Bailouts;Obama And Citigroup; More

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Yet another Monday, and only three shopping days left until ‘Black Friday”.

• Thanks for the feedback abot the new latout.  It pleases me

There’s a reason why Obama and his people are so busy back peddling from the goals they laid out during the campaign; reality.

Robert Stacy McCain  says it well:

Details, however, were not the Obama campaign’s strongest selling point. Rather,

In this morning’s Financial Times:

The US government rode to the rescue of Citigroup, entering an agreement to guarantee up to $306bn in problematic assets and inject $20bn in capital to restore confidence in a bank that defines the

Ooooohhh… this is rich. From the Washington Post:

NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the “Forecast Earth” environmental program during the

Couple things.

First, I’ve added some color to the blockquotes, as you’ll see. It’s a little ham-handed, and I’ll be adjusting it, but the basics are in.

Secondly, I’ve spent some time with the comment editor, and gotten MCE working.

We’ve been told often enough that what happens in film, and on TV, is disconnected from reality. So, too, it appears, are the actors, themselves.

LOS ANGELES -(AP)- The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to

You will have doubtless noted a new look for BitsBlog. Same layout… which is what really attracted me to the old one… but I think the color combo here is easier to read. The old one was a modification of 

Christopher Sherman at AP, last night::

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) – A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing. Willacy County

If one has to serve crow, it might as well be served in style, James Taratto, Best of the Web:

A Note to Our Readers

Brevity is the soul of wit, but that is not why subscribers received a

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Friday, and lots of fresh snow up the ground in Bitsville, today. A lot of it coming from the Obama people, and congressional

Paging Miss Andrea Sullivan, paging Mss Andrea Sullivan.    Representative Linda Sanchez,(D-CA) is wtth child.   The Representative  the one on the left, Patti Morrison, Los Angelos Times:

California Congresswoman Linda Sanchez is pregnant. Ordinarily, this would not make headlines, except

David Kope who writes with the Volokh boys, says this morning:

Earlier this year, Eric Holder–along with Janet Reno and several other former officials from the Clinton Department of Justice–co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller.

Noted a site called typealyzer.com being used over at OTB, and on a whim, decided to try it here. Here’s the result for this blog. I guess I can live with the result.

The analysis indicates that the author of

A.J Strata, Strata-Sphere, compares Barack Obama(BO) to a rock,  and makes the rock seem smart.  At least a rock is not stupid enough to believe in anthropogenic global warming.   The sane can not be said of BO:

What kind

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