Nightly Ramble:BitsBlog Lives, Oil,taxes, Oil, the Sun, More

• I complained last night that Memeorandum had been pretty much ignoring BitsBlog. Apparently, someone there is reading, and they reacted. The post complaining about being ignored, got featured status. Gottena  few links through since then, a well. Nice to

AJ Strata has been watching with some interest the demise of al-Qaeda.  Today, he remarks:

It is alarming even to me how drastically al-Qaeda’s future as changed recently.  After 9-11 they were the future hope of Islam after they

I’ve posted this before, but I think it bears revisiting… here’s how to raise fuel prices should you want to do it…

* Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will

Dennis Kucinich, as we have said here many times, is one of the very few people on the planet who can make Ron Paul look sane. We have yet another example of that. Raw Story:

Thirty-five articles were presented by

Gasoline is at four dollars a gallon and raising.  The drooling idiot from Illinios, Barack Hussien Obama, proposes a really radical idea, a windfall profits tax on gasoline:

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said

• I see KSM says he’d welcome being a martyr. I would suggest burial…alive… face down down… under a pig farm. Being in a place where the pigs crap on him all day, for years and perhaps decades on end, 

Tiger Hawk answers a question I quoted VDH as asking earlier today, when he said:

And why are Republicans, who voted in overwhelming numbers for off-shore drilling, ANWR, nuclear, shale, tar sands, liquid coal, etc—and were opposed by Democrats on

Barack Obama, 3 June, courtesy of Breitbart:

The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in

Interesting questions from Victor Davis Hanson, this morning…

Why is the U.N. holding conferences about rising food prices, but not spiraling oil prices that in various ways account for them? Somehow in the globalist mindset the agricultural producing world

The paper callled for a high the low 90’s today, but it only reached a mere 87,   Hiked several miles on the Erie Canal Towpath, a/k/a  the Canal.   I was struck of distinct lack of dogs, too hot for Fido.  

Better late than never. aFter a quarter of century, the World Health Organization has quit promoting the hoax of hetersexual AIDS, Jeremy Laurance, Independent (UK):

A quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO)

The high was projected in the 90’s for today.  Ok so the temperature only reached a mere 89.  The local television statioin gives a warning for the youngsters, WHEC-TV:

With the heat and humidity the risk for heat related

James Joyner, this morning:

Aaron Brazell is doing some research on the evolution of blogging in recent years and has asked for my input. I started OTB in January 2003 and have seen a lot of change. I should note

From ESPN:

Jim McKay, 86, a longtime television sports journalist, has died of natural causes in Maryland, according to a statement from the McKay family.

McKay is best known for hosting “ABC’s Wide World of Sports” and 12 Olympic Games.

I said yesterday morning:

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) suggested that oil companies may be manipulating energy markets as Enron did in 2001, and that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Federal Trade Commission needed to more aggressively regulate all