Obama Giving Up on Virginia?

So, now it starts. Soren Dayton:

I just got an email from Barack Obama’s campaign urging me to drive to Pennsylvania. The thing is… I live in Virginia. Virginia is supposed to be a swing state. They would rather

Another busy day, here in Busytown.

• In case you didn’t notice, the Markets went UP today. Bigtime, up. Meanwhile, Oil goes below $92/BBL. I guess we can reschedule the end of the world, huh?.
• If Iran, who likes to

The Charlie Rangel thing I mentioned yesterday is getting hotter.

Glenn mentions it this afternoon.

 if I were the GOP I’d put together an ad featuring Biden’s credit-card connections, Dodd’s sweetheart mortgage scandal, and Rangel’s ongoing problems and run it

 We went for a two day run over to Golden Hill State Park. The Campground was a great one. Facilities were good, even the rest rooms were pretty well kept, not that we really needed it with our current rig.

I note in my morning rounds, this from Glenn:

SOEREN KERN: Anti-Americanism in Europe Fueled by Ignorance. “Those who know the least about America seem to hate it the most.” Thank state-controlled media for both.

OK, they at least have

First day back from the camping trip. And yes, I’ll get to those pics; I promise. But there’s lots going on.

• Offshore drilling is coming up for a vote. Democrats are finally being forced by political reality, and by

MELBOURNE: Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage.

Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best

So, on top of all of the rest of it, Chalie Rangel is now caught taking trips on the dime of lobby types without declearing it as such, which is what the Democrat’s own rules… rules Rangel himself helped to

Megan McArdle on the Atlantic/Jill Greenberg photo nonsense:

Magazines have to extend their writers and photographers a great deal of trust. The editors can’t follow people around to make sure that they don’t make up quotes or stage photographs,

Bank of America buys up Merrill, AIG’s looking for cash to stay afloat, and Lehman is basically dead on it’s feet. I’m no more worried now than I was a few months ago about our financial sector.

Why? Look, people,

“1982. John McCain goes to Washington. Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t,” says a voice-over in the ad against shots of a Rubik’s Cube, a disco ball, a massive cell phone and an old computer.

Numbers will be fouled for a while, but it’s working now.

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Art Smith
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They are now backing out the upgrade and returning to the old system. More at

It’s a virus — and it’s spreading. Do a Google News search for “since the Great Depression,” and you come up with more than 4,500 examples of the phrase’s use in just the past month.

But that doesn’t make any

We’re back. Despite the rain that popped up form time to time, things went very well indeed. Turns out it didn’t rain nearly as much as they thought. I’ll be posting pictures tonight or perhaps tommorow. I have a few

• By the time you read this, I’ll already be soaking up the outdoors by the lakeshore, and soaking, is the word.  Remember that 30% chance of rain? We’re now to 70%. and as of noon, the whole of upstate NY