BO’s History Really Stinks

According to Maria Gavrilovic, CBS News:

Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. He said the family legend is that, upon returning from war, his uncle spent six

PowerLine:

Barack Obama must be the most gaffe-prone politician in memory. Today, he delivered a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico. After greeting the local Democratic Party dignitaries, he began:

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken

That’s the question we’ve been asking here for some time. Simon at Classical Values asks the same questions, and comes up with the same answers we have.

An article I noted over the weekend in the Toronto Star peaked my interest a bit;

There were no pleasantries, there was no small talk. Safa Rigby had expected to hear her husband’s voice when the phone rang one morning.

The Pheonix has landed.

JPL has pictures.

I should think about adding the JPL ffeed to the BitsBlog Newsroom. Maybe I’ll get that going this week.

The AP is reporting that director/Actor Syndey Pollack has died of Cancer at age 73. His credits include “Out of Africa”, “Tootsie” “They shoot horses, don’t they?” and “Sabrina”

Look, I’ve been saying for months now, that once the people figure out that Obama comes from a long line of South Chicago crooked pols, all but the hardcore Democrat support will wither. But as of yesterday morning, we seem

ARLINGTON, Va. -(Army.mil)- A patriotic ceremony honoring the service and sacrifice of America’s military members is scheduled for May 26 at 11 a.m. in Arlington National Cemetery.

This year’s event, which marks the 140th observance of Memorial Day on these

I’ve never tripped a booby trap,
or stood upon a mine,
but I have seen what happens,
when you’re out there on the line.

Some men die real hard,
others not so bad,
but t really doesn’t matter,
when you’ve

LOS ANGELES – (AP)- Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as “Sock

“[Mrs. Clinton] has a history of covering up her own mistakes behind sexism.”

Maureen Dowd, via Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters.

Glenn:

THE CNN FOLKS emailed this tidbit from Howard Kurtz’s Reliable Sources:

KURTZ: But Marie Cocco, are the media being tarred with a pretty broad brush here because of the out-of-bounds comments of a certain number of loudmouths?

COCCO: Well,

I’ve pretty much held silence on this FLDS thing, but Ive started to notice a pattern in the labeling of the thing which I find disturbing. Witness this write-up from Mary Flood in the Houston Chronicle:

Many lawyers for children

Mrs. Clinton is not a smart woman, but the Clintons are creatures of habit.    Mrs. Clinton is the habit of repeating her lies.   As she did with the Tuzila lie.  the Clintons will lie until caught and then attribute to

OK, this one caught me off guard.

I’ve run data centers for years, and I admire a well-kept one, or at least one that uses space and hardware in a clever fashion. But I’ve never seen one this big that