I Need to Put Out This Fire.  Hand Me That Gasoline, Will Ya?

IN the monring rounds, I note Venlet this morning:

From the New York Timeseditors:

(You know, the same morons calling for complete capitulation to our enemies in the Middle East…)

Congress returns this week, with its approval ratings

Pinch Sulzberger must really hate Clarence Thomas, a black man who refuses to cowtow to the liberal dogma.  Pinch has piece up by one Linda Greenhouse moaning about the current, barely conservative, make-up of Supreme Court.  Greenhouse writesof her vision

From IMDB, we are reminded that the script from the movie about Patton, ran something like this:

Patton: What’s the matter with you?
Soldier Who Gets Slapped: Well, I… I guess I… I can’t take it anymore.
Patton

To say the response to “Live Earth” was a bust, would be like saying Sir Laurence Olivier did a little acting, sometimes.  The London Times:

With the exception of the closing act Madonna – who played next door at Wembley

I have often been asked, (as was again in this morning’s email), why I make conversational reference to the point being made on someone else’s blog, without making a full explanation of what it is the other writer is talking

John Venlet over at Improved Clinch:

Schools’ zero tolerance rules have a tendency to relieve teachers and administrators from utilizing their reasoning skills, and their common sense.

While I understand your response, John, and I am sympathetic, I’m going to

As promised, here’s a series of photos of last night’s happening. For the fourth itself, we went west of here to a little berg called Lyndonville. Those pics are here.

For this trip, we went a bit east… a town

Asked, a while ago, What are the real consequences of FDR? 

I pointed to an article by Amity Shales in the Wall Street Journal subtitled “Reconsidering our reverence for FDR.”

I suspect that that particular article in the Journal  started

Pinch Sulzberger, a.k.a. the New York Times, in reference to Fred Thompson, is asking, “Is America ready for a president with a trophy wife?” 

To which, Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, says:

I don’t see why not. In 2004, America

Joyner at OTB:

The big news overnight is the claim by a pro abortion group that it hired Fred Thompson to lobby the first President Bush to soften his stance on a gag rule.
Michael Finnegan broke the story

I know it is the question everybody, from Rush Limbaugh to Keith Olbermann, is asking, and given the size of our readship the obvious answer is no.   Yet revolutionary theories are often counter intuitive.

On the Fourth, in “Clinton

I believe in gun control, the ability to hit for what you aim.   A citizen demonstrates good control.

This “open society” madness is being used against us, as I predicted.  Little Green Footballs points out, this morning:

Here’s the jawdropper of the morning, as ThisIsLondon reveals that radical Muslims have infiltrated British police forces—but the police cannot legally

We decided to do something little different this year, and instead of going all the way to the show at Niagara Falls, or partaking in any of the local shows, all of which we’ve been to dozens of times, we

Reynolds has discovered the battery:

THIS SOUNDS COOL:

Batteries have long been vital to laptops and cellphones. They are increasingly supplying electricity to an unlikely recipient: the power grid itself.

Until recently, large amounts of electricity could not be efficiently