Nightly Ramble: The Vegetable Edition

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• READ OBAMA”S LIPS: It seems Barry may have to break his “No New Taxes” pledge. Now, I wonder what his supporters would do

Long time readers to this blog will know that I often spend afternoons and evenings trackside, awaiting a train to photograph.  But while I’m waiting, I often shoot the surroundings, weather, sky, birds, animals, even cars, if they’re interesting. I

Right Wing News polled 74 conservative bloggers on the health care bills winding their way through Congress.

You can see the results here.

Here are a couple of sample Q&A’s from the poll:

2) If the health care bills moving

I will be a guest on “The Beanwalker Live!” this Tuesday at 3:00 PM Central Time.  This is an internet only radio station, which you can find at http://macsworldlive.com. If you miss it, there will be a podcast of it

How much to you want to bet that this what Eric really wants to be driving?  From Ben Dobbin, the Associated Press:

AVON, N.Y. — After an hour of shunting rail cars aside, a 1964-vintage locomotive operated by Tim “Brown

Question, if an man has his dick chopped off, starts wearing dresses and gives himself a girl’s name, what sex is he?   From the Associated Press:

WEST LINN, Ore. — For 20 years, Nicholas Kintz has taught math at

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This is the “Remember that white stuff” edition

• OBAMA SUPPORTER BILL RICHARDSON GETS A PASS: Perhaps more correctly, a “get out of

The use of the death of Ted Kennedy in support of the Democrats and their socialist-style takeover of our healthcare system has been widely noted and decried. It’s crass, at least. Cynical, as well. But it shows us just how

The chickdom reaction to the passing off Senator Oldsmobile has not been all Nina Burleigh.  First, Eric rambled on the reax of Virginia Postrel:

HE WASN”T AS WELL THOUGHT OF BECAUSE HE SURVIVED: That’s Virginia Postrel, talking about Ted

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• Obama: Last of the Kennedy Brothers? Well, let’s hope so. On the other hand, maybe not Consider the words of Limbaugh on

These are from a couple years ago.

They’re taken at Ashtabula, OH. on a chilly day. Long time readers will know I’ve always been a bit of a railfan, and that’s a trait I’ve passed on to my boys. (What

• NO TED KENNEDY HEALTHCARE MEMORIAL: There is perhaps no better measurement of Ted Kennedy’s legacy than the lack of a government healthcare takeover. James Pethokoukis suggests:
  

  The pleas for politicos and pundits to refrain from politicizing the passing of

The fat drunk who killed Mary Jo Kopechne has died.  Unconfirmed report indicate that Bay State bars will be flying their flags at halt staff and scotch futures have tumbled, from NBC News:

BOSTON – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,

Molly’s found a comfy spot in the sun

Does anybody, at all, believe this latest line of male bovine scat from the Scare Monger in Chief:

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Swine flu may hospitalize 1.8 million patients in the U.S.
this year, filling intensive care units