Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble
[1]This is the ‘Fool for the City’ edition. A nod to Foghat, who I happened to be listening to when I wrote this, and, yes, that is a photo from inside a Circuit City, which closed it’s doors [2]after 60 years, yesterday. Amazing how things fall together, sometimes when I write these things.
- Olberman gets caught. You know, if there’s anyone on television today, that is more emotionally unstable than Keith Olberman, I certainly don’t know of it. Seems our boy keith has been caught stretching the truth just a bit about his educational credentials. Olberman Watch takes Keith back behind the woodshed for some attitude re-adjustment. [3] We’ve known for a long time that Olberman’s relationship with the truth was one of fantasy, anyway. This one really brings it home.
- What I think…. I’ve been contributing at Pajamas Media since the beginning of the year. I like the folks I like the style, and the exposure for the blog doesn’t hurt either. But one of these days I’ve got to try sending something over to The American Thinker. [4] I’ve been watching the goings on over there. Let’s just say that they should be on your regular read list if they’re not already.
- Harder than they figured: Today, particularly I note a posting there, by our old buddy Rick Moran, who says the Democrats are falling apart over this omnibus spending bill. Says Rick:
It is an attempt to hold the Democrat’s feet to the fire on the more than $14 billion in earmarks. If they want that kind of waste in the bill, they are going to have to eat the pork sandwich themselves with no help from Republicans.
The Democrats look weak, unsure of themselves, and in disarray – which mirrors exactly how the White House looks.
Rick, I’ve said for some time now, you have a firm grip on the obvious. That’s less snarky than it sounds; Too many people don’t. Anyway, all this makes one wonder how we’re going to look a year or so down the road, if the Democrats can’t get their act together in the all-important first 100 days.
- Poity for thee, but not for me: Chris Dodd does soemthing Republicans would get spanked for. The press yawns. [5]
- Diversity? Limbaugh’s been saying for years the one area where liberals cannot take diversity is diverity of thought. Right again [6]. And, Again [7].
- Meanwhile, Sarah Palin demonstrates that unlike the Democrats, she’s been governing from the middle. [8]
[9]Photo from the LA Times Blogs
- Thing that make you go (WTF!!!?!?): So, if this guy is homeless, and can’t get a job, and eating at a Soup Kitchen where Michelle Obama is gracing them with her presence, what the bleep is he doing with a cell phone [10]? Apparently, there are varying degress of poverty. Or maybe… just maybe… this is about reinforcing Obama celebrity, and not actually helping the needy, eh?
- Weapons of Mass Distraction, Obama style: Boortz makes an interesting point: [11]
Iran has test-fired a new missile [12] with a pretty hefty range. Don’t you think this is something to worry about, compared to salaries of corporate CEOs? Wait a minute! Was that a CEO I saw getting off that private jet at the local airport last week?
It seems that in Obama’s mind(less), CEO’s have less right to their salary than Iran has to Nuclear missiles. Or maybe he’s creating a distraction, huh?
- No, Mister President, the joke is YOU: So, Obama thoughht the reporters were joking when they asked him about his socialism? [13] Yeah, right. Think about it: Wasn’t that in the end the question Joe the Plumber was asking? And trust me, Barry, if you have to call the New York Times to explain yourself about why you’re not a socialist [13], you more probably are one. That would also seem to be confirmed [14]by the number of people jumping off the Obama bandwagon, particulary business types who were avid supporters of Obama [15]… there’s a message here. I wonder how many can hear it?
[16]Ayn Rand
Billy speaks to this today [17]was well, from a different starting point;
“3) When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to the advantage of the rational side; when they are not clearly defined, but are hidden or evaded, it works to the advantage of the irrational side.”
(“The Anatomy Of Compromise” – Ayn Rand, from The Objectivist Newsletter, January, 1964, re-printed in “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, 1967, part II, “Current State”)
Gee, under those conditions, I can’t imagine why Obama would feign ignorance on such matters. Can you?
- Global
WarmingCoolingChangeOr not, maybe. Increasingly apparent, these days, that the ‘Global Warming’ debate among scientists is anything but over [18]. Just don’t tell the Dinosaur media. - I smell something…. like… Honey… Startrek Perfume [19]? Well, yeah, that’s a place where no man has gone before…
- Hey, Arlen: Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out [20]. Schmuck.