Nightly Ramble: Why the Holiday, Yet?; 3rd Place; Reax to Palin; More

Holiday weekend, so this will be a short one… essentially a nod to the Ramble Tradition.

• As to the holiday itself, let me say this clearly: Labor unions have outlived their usefulness, and have evolved to the point where they

• Bad news for the Democrats. Better put the ‘resession on hold. How can they keep selling gloom and doom when these little bits of reality keep sneaking through?
• McCain has decided on a running mate. But of course we

• YetAnotherJohn gets a first place, and I get an Honorable Mention at OTB’s Caption Contest. It must be said, John has a nice touch for that kind of thing.
• I’ve noted a shift in the readership of BitsBlog the

• YetAnotherJOhn gets second place, and the boss gets an honorable mention in today’s OTB Caption Contest.
•  McQ  points up today the idea that the thing Stan kurtz was chasing about Obama nad Ayers is still in play
  

  Until they are

• Yes, I’d seen the reports of the death of Stephanie Tubbs-Jones. I had nothing of any value to add to it, so I didn’t mention it. Of course now I’m taking Feedback claiming this lack of response to this

• My office at work is getting moved, so I spent half the day without connectivity. The ramble, as a result will be a bit shorter than it would have been otherwise.
• Well, we know one guy who won’t be the

• Amazing, how the press isn’t covering the drop in oil prices the way they covered every penny of it’s rise. Despute a bit of bouyancy surrounding Faye ad the possiblity of disruptions from that storm, prices are back on their

• So, Iran now says it’s warplanes are able to reach Israel. Now why would they want to level THAT threat, I wonder? I mean, they could make it there, but they couldn’t make it BACK. Wouldn’t that be a suicide

• The Pew polling says Obama and McCain are tied.
• Speaking of Obama one usually gets judged by those they hang around with. McQ points out today that Obama’s list of advisers is… well…
• The New York Times is reporting that

• Are we really expected to accept Nancy Pelosi flip-flopping so quickly, from “Drilling is a hoax’ to ‘have the vote’?  Sorry, Nancy… Hans Christian Andersen you’re not. His fairy tales had more truth in them than yours.
• In the same

• A first place finish at the OTB Caption Contest. Some of those things just wrte themselves.
• I guess the New York Times does admit it’s mistakes. 50 years later.  Which ought to give us a clue about when they’re

• Look up the word “Idiot” and you’ll seeSt Andrew the Incontinent’spicture next to it. What would you say Andrew if you’d found him out on the course? You’ve have done what you always do; you’d have gotten all

• 08-08-08. Not sure it means anything, but it’s interesting.
• Just about mid-summer. The Telegraph reports what I told you about at about mid-spring would happen at Mid-summer: The great oil Bubble has burst.
  

  The market’s conviction that oil prices were

• Morgan Freeman is not even out of the hospital, and he’s back in the rumor sheets, this time beause he’s divorcing his wife of 24 years. I guess when you’re God, you live an eventful life.
• Bill Clinton, championing

• Arianne Balsom is blogging from Antarctica, and McQ is blogging from onboard theUSS Kearsarge. And I didn’t get to go anywhere.
• Tony Blankley has a great bit up at Townhall, today. It’ll be interesting to see