Nightly Ramble Monday

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere…. The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

• JOHN HAWKINS IS AT IT AGAIN: This time, it’s in the form of the 40 most obnoxious quotes of 2009.

Goodbye 2009!  Hello 2010!

Nearly everyone I talk to expresses relief at the end of 2009.  It would be a good year to forget, that is, if we didn’t have to deal with the consequences of decisions and actions that

Barack Obama is making history.   He has achieved the greatest presidential communication failure since Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech.

Video:

Charles Krauthammer,  Washington Post:

Any government can through laxity let someone slip through the cracks. But a government that refuses

Steve Benen, who can always be depended upon to leap to the defense of anything Barack Obama does,(So long as it bows to the whackjob left) … does it yet again:

OUR STUNTED DISCOURSE…. For over a week now, the

Obama can’t be too happy about this. In what can only be considered a flat rejection of Obama policy, Rasmussen reports:

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information

From Erick Erickson, Red State:

People tell me the President’s rush to acknowledge the attack on the CIA in Afghanistan and mourn the deaths openly, publicly, and via press release is a huge no no. The CIA and greater

Telegraph(UK)

Barack Obama looks tired as he gets in the car after going to see “Avatar’

His care-free children Sasha and Malia were spotted smiling and playing with friends as they took to the water.

But in sharp contrast,

Has anybody seen this person?

Nile Gardner, Telegraph(UK) gets warm:

The White House should send a search party to track down Hillary Clinton. America’s foreign policy chief has been missing from the world stage for several days, and has

Let it never be said that Eric doesn’t know how to bait a co-blogger:

DUKE: WHAT DIDN’T HAPPEN… David’s gonna holler about this. The always pretty Mary Katharine Ham, ripping the Duke fiasco, Mike Nifong, and so on. What’s

Welcome, one and all, to the first Nightly Ramble of the new year.

• GLOBAL WARMING PROTEST DOUSED BY SNOW One really has to wonder how often this has to happen before the global warming wonks finally get the message.
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Editor’s note: I wrote this a few years ago, possibly for the 2000 or 2001 New Year’s show, and never posted it until 2005 because other thoughts came forward. But in re-reading this one, I decided it was too good

Welcome, one and all, to the last BitsBlog Nightly Ramble of 2009

• YOU DIDN’T WEAR YOUR SUIT: Birthday wishes go to Rusty Shackleford. I don’t quote Rusty’s work as often as I should.  But you should be reading it, none

Many readers have been kind enough to send me bumper sticker files over the last few months and honestly, with the schedule I’ve been keeping I filed them badly for future use.  I found these while doing some cleaning, and