Nightly Ramble: Unfocused Lines

• I’m hearing an awful lot of speculation lately, as regards the reaction of the American public were Jeremiah Wright and Barrack Obama white. Certainly the reaction would be different. They’d be ignored. Forgive the observation, but we already have a

You can do it.  We can not help:

May 1 (Bloomberg) — Home Depot Inc., the world’s biggest home-improvement retailer, will eliminate 1,300 jobs, close 15 stores and scrap plans for 50 more as the U.S. housing slump cripples

• Sorry to see Billy isn’t feeling so well. It’s shameful I’ve not been to see a Coots gig, but our financial situation is getting a bit better, now,so perhaps I’ll get the time and the money this summer to run

It’s been a while since I’ve done any single issue Nightly Ramble. A couple months, I believe. This won’t be one of them, but… let’s try it this way, just once and see how the format works. A longer

• I note by way of John Miller that the editor of the Boston Herald keeps a portrait of Che Guevara on his wall. Oh, these art lovers, huh? I suppose that the editor’s political leanings have nothing to do with

• So Jeremiah Wright is now saying he’s been subject to a public crucifixion. I suppose it’s no shock that we all create God in our own image, but it’s one of the few tines I’ve ever heard of Christ being

• Ya know, some folks simply don’t learn from history. “Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don’t elect Democrats,” Limbaugh said on yesterday’s’s show, saying also, that’s the best thing that could happen to the

• This has been on my radar screen for a while. But that’s where it has stayed. I’ve been frozen by it and haven’t written a word on it. Apparently that is also where it has stayed, if it got that

• Look, gang, right off the bat… any server that goes down under 4000 hits in a few hours isn’t worth much.  Are we clear on this?
• For those of you complaining about Bush’s Global Warming day speech… Gang, I

• Has anyone noticed? Ace did… Obama’s back to wearing a flag pin. Boy, I could make a whole seperate post on the stuff we have on file from when this subject first came up. So does Ben Smith. My

• April 15th. Tax day. It occurs to me as I watch the mail delivery guy in his jeep dropping off more bills for me to pay, that the tax bill may be due today, but by some estimates we don’t

• Scott Fybush over at NERW reports:

*Former MASSACHUSETTS governor Mitt Romney guest-hosted the Paul Harvey show on Thursday, the latest in a line of personalities helping out with the show in the absence of the ailing Harvey, who’s now 89.

• That’s OK, Jon. Tell ya what; Greenwald can claim I’m pro-torture, if he likes… because under some conditions I am. .. and for all the moralizing that’s been thrown at the issue, nobody’s ever come up with an even

• “If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father.

• I can’t let this touching post of McQ’s slide off into oblivion in Google somewhere, without commenting on it. The guys involved with this project would modestly tell you it’s all part of being a soldier. They’d be right in