The Gun Double Standard

I notice today a rather remarkable report on the wires this morning from the NY Times:

Three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville were shot to death, and three other people were seriously wounded at a biology faculty meeting on Friday afternoon, university officials said.

The Associated Press reported that a biology professor, identified as Amy Bishop, was charged with murder.

According to a faculty member, the professor had applied for tenure, been turned down, and appealed the decision. She learned on Friday that she had been denied once again.

Amazingly, none of the stories I have found online about this incident this morning has mentioned any political affiliation that Amy Bishop might have. None.  Why is that amazing? Well, because  we see just yesterday on the The Talking Points Memo website, yesterday (…and on about 80% of the left-o-sphere via Memeorandum…) talking about how….

The Massachusetts man charged this week with stockpiling weapons after saying he feared an imminent “Armageddon” appears to have been active in the Tea Party movement, and saw Sarah Palin, who he said is on a “righteous ‘Mission from God,'” as the only figure capable of averting the destruction of society.

As we reported yesterday, Gregory Girard, a Manchester technology consultant, was found with a stash of military grade weapons, explosive devices including tear gas and pepper ball canisters, camouflage clothing, knives, handcuffs, bulletproof vests and helmets, and night vision goggles, say police. They believe Girard, who pleaded not guilty at his arraignment, was “preparing for domestic and political turmoil,” and feared martial law would soon be imposed.

Message to Zachary Roth: Since Girard hasn’t killed anyone, or even injured them, despite this suppsoedly “massive” stockpile or weapons, and Amy Bishop HAS killed and injured, despite having only ONE weapon, why are you not examining HER politics and laying THEM bare for all to see, I wonder?  Can it be since she’s a University professor it’s lead pipe cinch that she’s a leftist, and you’d rather not make that association in public?

Harold Ford, Jr, Tax Cheat, John Cook, Gawker:

When it comes to his shadow run for Senate, Harold Ford is a New Yorker through and through. When it comes to paying taxes, though, he’s still a Tennessean — he’s never filed a New York return

Kennedy will not seek re-election, Andrew Miga and Michelle R. Smith:

WASHINGTON (AP) – Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s decision not to seek re-election will leave Washington without a Kennedy in political office for the first time in more than 60 years.

The Rhode Island Democrat’s term ends early next year but he says in a television message viewed by The Associated Press on Thursday that his life is “taking a new direction” and he will not seek a ninth term. The video was provided to the AP by Kennedy’s congressional office.

A dollar to a donut says that Kennedy’s new direction will not include sobriety.

Team Obama, video:

That was from 26 October last year.

Hat tip: Michelle.

Oh Sarah, video:

Hat tip: Nice Deb.

Hey Joe, hows that Hopey, Changy thing working for ya, video:

Hat tip: Da Tech Guy.

A sure sign of the failure of the Obama administration is the fact that they have to try to relabel Bush Administration achievements as if they were their own.

Ramble back, Eric rambled:

CLINTON’S HEART: Yes I saw all the web traffic surrounding the incident with former President Bill Clinton (God,  that still feels good to say). I didn’t say anything about it because frankly, and despite all the news nets going wall to wall on it, I didn’t consider it all that newsworthy.

Michelle makes a connection.

Now, a timely reminder: Stents don’t grow on trees. They were not created, developed, marketed, or sold by government bureaucrats and lawmakers. One of the nation’s top stent manufacturers, Boston Scientific, has weighed in on the Democrats’ proposed massive taxes on medical device makers:

The two stints B.J. Clinton received may have saved his life.  Good.  Yet for some strange reason, Dirty Harry Reid wants to take the manufacturers of devices that save lives.    Does Does Dirty Harry wants to kill B.J. Clinton?   Dirty Harry, and maybe I Won and Mrsl Pelosi, wants to make devices which have saved Clinton’s life harder to get and more expensive.   Reid wants to tax medical devices.   Did Clinton fail to donate to Reid’s re-election campaign”

David Reilly

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama is starting to look like the second coming of Jimmy Carter. If he’s going to avoid that fate, the president had better take radical action — and fast.

Bitsblog, 5 November 2008:

Jimmy Carter Wins Re-election

My other title would have been Dewey wins.  This is simple.  Barack Obama would not keep his word as a candidate.  He will not keep his word as President.  As per Geraghty’s Law, all of BO’s statements come with expiration dates, including his promise to cut taxes for some ninety-five percent of Americans.

Obama is not a smart man.  He not an honest man.  Obama’s war on energy, gasoline, electricity, will drive the cost of living through the roof.  You were warned.  Now you will have to pay the price.  Life under the One will miserable.

Hat tip:  Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit,

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

• HERE WE GO AWAY AGAIN: I’ll be leaving town on Sunday morning, early for I’m not sure how long. I’ll be in Dayton, OH for at least a few days and then I’m not sure after that.  Obviously, we’ll be back in a situation where my connectivity is limited for the duration of my journeys. I’ll post as I can and update you. With any luck, this will be the last time I’ll have to be off the grid, since the laptop is already in the budget. With any luck, I’ll be sending pics to the site.
• WHAT’S THEIR OPINION? Some interesting questions and answers in this weeks’ Right Wing News Polling. With everything that’s been going on around here of late, I wasn’t able to respond to John’s call for votes. (Feel kinda bad about that…) But here’s the responses anyway.
• BYE BYE LORAN: Apparently, based on budget cuts, the Coast Guard has decided to terminate the LORAN-C system. I have  a number of problems with this move, not least of which the lack of redundancy.  I understand that the majority of shipping these days uses GPS.  But how much does it take to jam such a signal? Satellites , on which GPS is based, have a tendency to fall out of the sky occasionally.  You may recall that we are a little short of weather satellites just now for that very reason.
• ANOTHER ‘RAT DESERTS THE SINKING SHIP: Word from The Politico that Patrick Kennedy plans to retire at age 42. He apparently said in a taped announcement that his life was going in a different direction, after two decades in politics.  The Politico article goes on to suggest however that he is the fourteenth house democrat to announce his retirement in this particular election cycle.  It’s a good point, and an admirable speculation, that what Kennedy is reacting to is voter anger against the Democrats.  and that, and of course his own substance abuse issues, which were going to make his reelection difficult at best. cap that with a legislative record that has been  far from stellar, and you begin to understand the problem, and the reason for this rather drastic solution.
• BIPARTISAN JOBS AGREEMENT FAILS- Alex Bolton at The Hill says:
  

  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is rewriting a jobs bill after Democrats complained of too many concessions to Republicans.

  Reid announced Thursday that he would cut drastically back on the jobs bill Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) introduced only hours earlier, essentially overruling the powerful chairman.

  The Politico, meanwhile, says:

  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led colleagues and the White House to believe he supported a bipartisan jobs bill — only to scuttle the plan as soon as it was released Thursday over concerns it could be used to batter Democratic incumbents, according to Senate sources.

  The problem here is obvious… as usual the Democrats, Reid in particular, are after submission, not bipartisanship.  The bottom line here is that the only way jobs are going to get created is to get the government of the way.  That’s the one thing that the Democrats will never agree to.  (By the way, that’s something that the magnificent Moron, Grassley, should have known going in… the history of the thing speaks for itself) On its face, thereby, any “bipartisan” bill is never going to function.  It’s never going to be able to work as advertised. Fortunately, there are still enough republicans with backbone in the how it to keep such nonsense from becoming law. So, we have a chance .  Even if it is a small one.

• CLINTON’S HEART: Yes I saw all the web traffic surrounding the incident with former President Bill Clinton (God,  that still feels good to say). I didn’t say anything about it because frankly, and despite all the news nets going wall to wall on it, I didn’t consider it all that newsworthy. That said,  I spoke with a few readers about it last night,  and universally they all wondered that the man actually HAS a heart. A few people questioned the timing… a reflex action, by now, I suppose. The man never does anything without regard for the political implications, after all.  Maybe this is the exception, but I do understand the response.
• WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? I have as much problem with these full body scanners and airports as anybody, mostly on freedom and privacy grounds, but one and Islamic group steps up to the podium and suggests that such scanners violate the teachings of Islam, am I alone in being suspicious, I wonder?
• THIS WAY TO THE GREAT EGRESS: Joyner at OTB points out:
  

  “Support for Gays in the Military Depends on the Question,” Kevin Hechtkopf informs us in the No Duh Headline of the Week. But the specifics are interesting: It seems people are much more sympathetic to “gays and lesbians” than to “homosexuals.”

  There is a great old story about PT Barnum.  Say what you will about the man, he understood pack mentalities, and thereby crowd control. THe story goes that one  of his shows was  wildly successful.  So much so, in fact, that they were becoming dangerous.  People were so packed in that there was a genuine danger of there being trampled people. So he had some of his workers open some of the gates, and had his barkers stand out front crying “This way to the great Egress”  of course it was at this point that the crowds learned that the great egress in fact was the exit.    Thus do we better understand the penchant of the left for, upon encountering public resistance to a particular idea, simply changing its name. “the public option” being changed to “the people’s option’ or whatever they fell to calling it, as an example. Or rasing middle class taxes being changed to ‘investing in America”.

• TREATING THEM LIKE MERE CRIMINALS AND NOT ILLEGAL COMBATANTS: Scott puts up a post at Powerline that’s well worth the read. I have been saying all along, most recently in my most recent Pajamas Media article, that what we have here is the 9/10 mentality, including the Gorelick wall, reinfesting our anti-terror policy. Scott.. and by extention former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, make the case for me on that score. I’d urge you to read it.

In honor of idiocy in the media, I hereby designate the Eve Ensler Award.

Today loser is a moron, from Daily Beast, Tunku Varadarajan, has claimed to have published a list of the top twenty-five right wing journalists, from Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters:

As Eric rambled:

SPEAKING OF THE HUFF AND PUFF: What’s up with Airanna Huffington being on the “Human Garbage” list? It is increasingly apparent to me that my original observation was correct, 30 plus years ago… that leftists are walking vials of hatred, looking for an outlet. It doesn’t need to make sense to generate their ire, it just has to exist, while providing the SLIGHTEST in opposition to the left’s political goals

I refuse to take seriously a designation with neither a definition or criteria.

How to tell when Obama is lying, Michelle:

Read Obama’s lips: Don’t believe anything that passes his lips.

Palin Derangement Syndrome, William A. Jacobson. Legal Insurrection.

Can Bobby Gibbs move is lips without lying? Video:

Hat tip and more: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.

While Gibby lies a lot.  He doesn’t do it very well.

Storm Stunner, Jim Stinson,  Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:

Wegmans has 28 stores in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  According to Wegmans’ Twitter account, confirmed by D&C reporter Victoria Freile today, Wegmans will be closing 16 Mid-Atlantic stores at 5 p.m. today.

It hard to recall a storm related closing of a Wegmans locally.   Neither rain, sleet, snow or ice storms seem to able to keep either the employees or the customers out of the stores.

http://www.cioupdate.com/insights/article.php/3863786/article.htm

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html

Where is the outcry from the left?

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• POPULISM? Frankly, I have always had my difficulties with political populism.  But it strikes me is nothing shy of hilarious that the biggest complaint about Sarah Palin these days is that she is better at being the populist than a is Barack Obama. Some will regard Broder’s column as praise of Palin. I’m not so sure. I tend to regard this as a pre-emptive strike. Let’s remember tah over the long haul, populism tends not to work.  Ask Pat Buchanan.  (and yes there are other factors at work there, but those are beside the point here)   I’m of the view, just now, that the very reason that Obama and his handlers have decided to cast him as a populist, is Sarah Palin’s success for the moment in playing that line.  He his handlers… and now Broder with them… are if nothing else pragmatic enough to regard Palin a threat based on her successes. What none of them dare to recognize is that one need not be the fastest when running away from the lion… merely ‘not the slowest’.  Put another way, Palin is as popular as she is just now because Obama and the Democrats are almost universally recognized in the electorate as terminal screw-ups.   However that may be, think of this; when we start seeing the people were complaining about Sarah Palin and her political populism complaining about Obama doing exactly the same, maybe, just maybe, we can start taking them seriously.  Not until.
• JOHN EDWARDS: Not that anybody really cares, (….well, at least, anybody who matters… )  but John Edwards is still in the news.  Wendy Button, who is a former Edwards speechwriter tells us in an article in The Huff and Puff today that she was the one who worked on at word statement admitting that he was the baby’s father and that he then changed it.  Weakened it, she says.  Why is it that the best and the brightest that the Democrat party has to offer the last twenty years or so, invariably involves someone who is a congenital liar?  That’s really what this whole thing is about. And what’s this I hear about Andrew Young being sued for supposedly contributing to Edwards’ failed marriage?
• SPEAKING OF THE HUFF AND PUFF: What’s up with Airanna Huffington being on the “Human Garbage” list? It is increasingly apparent to me that my original observation was correct, 30 plus years ago… that leftists are walking vials of hatred, looking for an outlet. It doesn’t need to make sense to generate their ire, it just has to exist, while providing the SLIGHTEST in opposition to the left’s political goals.
• OBAMA WANTS TO TRACK YOUR CELL PHONE: One of the few times, I think I’ll side with the EFF. Ya know it seems to me I warned about this in a Ramble I wrote a couple years ago. At the time, I pointed out that the government would eventually argue (again) that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy on a cell phone, given that it uses the electromagnetic spectrum.  The government, you see, assumes that electromagnetic spectrum is government property.  This concept, of course,  flies directly in the face of the original precepts of the communications act of 1933. I forget the passage but when read literally, that act could easily be read into making telling your wife what your mother-in-law just said on the phone a jail-able offense.   It was on that particular piece of legislation, that the defense of Charles Katz, in Katz v United States (1967) was based.  I’ll point out that this is an evolutionary process, of course, given Olmstead v United States (1928) …in which the court held that wiretapping of phone lines does not constitute unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment.  According to the court at the time actual physical intrusion into a given area…( say, a trespass…)  is required to go over that Fourth Amendment line, not merely voice amplification at some remote location. As it stands, the Obama administration is now arguing all of this all over again, before the Third Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.  It seems to me that this is as good as an example is we’re going to find of government over a period of the century continuing to redefine the constitution to favor government control of individuals.Let me point out also that there is something of a double standard at work here.  It is not all that long ago, as little as three years, in fact, when the left was all up in arms, about wiretapping foreign nationals as a part of the war on terror.  Now, suddenly, we have Obama and his administration making noises about wanting the ability to be tapping domestic phone calls, (for what reason we’re not quite sure )… and where is the objection from the left over this? (Crickets)
• THE JOBS BILL WON’T ADD JOBS: I wonder how long it’ll take the AP to get bullied by the White House into withdrawing this story.
• ALEC BALDWIN: We’ve not heard much from him lately. I wonder how long it would take to get to this point.
  
• DOING AS THE GREEKS DO: Stewart Varney over at Fox Business Channel has been watching the Financial situation in Greece very closely, and I think deserves kudos for his coverage of it.  But now comes Niall Ferguson of The Financial Times who suggests that what Greece suffers from now will be shortly coming to the US.
  

  What we in the western world are about to learn is that there is no such thing as a Keynesian free lunch. Deficits did not “save” us half so much as monetary policy – zero interest rates plus quantitative easing – did. First, the impact of government spending (the hallowed “multiplier”) has been much less than the proponents of stimulus hoped. Second, there is a good deal of “leakage” from open economies in a globalised world. Last, crucially, explosions of public debt incur bills that fall due much sooner than we expect.

  

  Niall Ferguson

  For the world’s biggest economy, the US, the day of reckoning still seems reassuringly remote. The worse things get in the eurozone, the more the US dollar rallies as nervous investors park their cash in the “safe haven” of American government debt. This effect may persist for some months, just as the dollar and Treasuries rallied in the depths of the banking panic in late 2008.

  Yet even a casual look at the fiscal position of the federal government (not to mention the states) makes a nonsense of the phrase “safe haven”. US government debt is a safe haven the way Pearl Harbor was a safe haven in 1941.

  Even according to the White House’s new budget projections, the gross federal debt in public hands will exceed 100 per cent of GDP in just two years’ time. This year, like last year, the federal deficit will be around 10 per cent of GDP. The long-run projections of the Congressional Budget Office suggest that the US will never again run a balanced budget. That’s right, never.

  An ominous warning, indeed. Is this the change you voted for?

Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard, thinks the use of the word professor in a political oontext is racist,  Inside Higher Education:

If the term professor is used in politics, it’s seldom a compliment, and instead “implies dry, hectoring, unemotional, self important, all of the negative stereotypes of somebody who is vainly certain of his own superior mental capacities but doesn’t have a human connection,” says Nunberg, author of The Years of Talking Dangerously and a frequent contributor to NPR’s “Fresh Air.”

Interesting argument, but not the least bit relevant.  Barack Obama has repeatidly claimed to have been a professor of constitutional law.   Yet Obama displays utterly no understanding of the Constitutional of the United States.    No respectable institution of higher learning would have hired an uneducated fool like Obama to teach anything.

As Obama has claimed to have been a professor, we are entitled to call him a professor.    That’s the way it is  Professor Ogletree.    Obama made his bed, he may not lie in it.

How is that Hopey Changey thing working, Glenn Reynolds, Iinstapundit:

“Despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according to a new report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C. . . . Even with the infusion of so much stimulus money, a recent report by American Wind Energy Association showed a drop in U.S. wind manufacturing jobs last year.”

I suppose George Soros has to recoup this investment in the one somehow.

Begrudging, Glenn Reynolds gets over half a million visits a day, but I don’t begrudge him.   Should this be news?

Post-Racial in the Big Easy, Abigail Thernstrom, National Review :

An ‘Earth-Shaking’ Election in New Orleans

Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu is the next mayor of New Orleans. The city is two-thirds black, and he will be the first white elected to the office since 1970, when his father, Moon Landrieu, won the seat.

The election was a true post-racial moment. Four and a half years after Katrina, black voters decided competence trumped race. The prospect of a white mayor would be “an earth-shaking event,” a politically active black lawyer told a New York Times reporter before the election

Not what the MSM meant.

Mrs. Pelosi, a Karl Rove plant,  Jennifer Rubin, Commentary:

“Nancy Pelosi resists President Obama’s outreach efforts.” She is so perfectly tone-deaf, so utterly opposed to compromise, and so unfazed by the political peril that dozens of her members face, that one sometimes suspects another devious Karl Rove plot is in the works. (Maybe Pelosi could oppose all tax cuts! Then she could reject even the baby-step spending freeze!)

Glenn Beck explains MSNBC’s ratings, video:

Hat tip: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.

That’s enough.

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

Sorry for the delay in posting this. A bit of a family emergency. On with the show….

• BLIND LEADING THE BLIND:  Well, no, that’s insulting to blind people… but seeing Paul Krugman calling anyone clueless, just melts my irony meter. As evidence of Krugman’s complete cluelessness, I offer the fact that he does not as yet recognize that the irresponsible behavior in terms of the world economy was not on the part of the banks, but on the part of the U.S. government which over controlled the banks, so as to buy votes with mortgages that nobody could afford. For a second point, I suggest a serious look at his comments about not be grudging bank executives their bonuses or pay increases or what have you.  At what point did that become the purview of the government?  Let’s bring this a little closer to home ; before long the question will be “At what point do your pay increases become the purview of the government?”  Do you understand the depth of this?  I can only suppose that this is the same attitude that gives them the right to decide on what we’re supposed to feeder cans, because of some claim of child obesity.
• BIPARTISANSHIP IS NOT SURRENDER: The last place I expected this to come from would be Mark Knoller of CBS.
  

  

  Mark Knoller, CBS News

  When a sitting president calls for bipartisanship by the opposition – he really means surrender. And if they block his proposals, its “obstinacy” and not political views they hold as strongly as he holds his.

  Now, understand, I agree with Knoller here. His commentary is spot on.  I just wouldn’t have expected him to utter these words with a Democrat in the White House. Obama may very well have identified that the people are frustrated with the lack of motion in Congress.  Then again, in Obama the grated political mind that has given his party defeat after defeat in the polls, who has been able to get precisely none of his agenda passed, other than spending us into oblivion, and who recently told us that the Colts were going to win the Super Bowl. In total, not  exactly a confidence builder, in terms of trusting his judgments on things.

• SNOWSTORM: So now the global warming crowd has sprung into action, and has decided that the recent spate of snowstorms on the East Coast are the result of global warming. Message to Al Gore; Nobody’s believing this garbage, Albert.  Not even those you called followers. Reports from the DC area indicate that it’s costing something on the $300,000,000.00 per day just to close up the offices.  Frankly, that seems a reasonable deal given it costs as 100 times that when we leave those offices open.  Tell the truth, now, how many of you really noticed that the offices of the Federal government were closed?  I suspect not many.
• DEMOCRATS BEING DEMOCRATS:  Over at Fox News, Joseph Abrams is reporting:
  

  A new Web site targeting the tea parties is a part of a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions and trickling slowly into political slush funds for Democratic activists.

  Meanwhile, we see the traditionally leftist org, called Amnesty International suffering from it’s links to the Taliban? Now, wait a minute. So what we have here, is progressives acting unethically and in concert with the Taliban ?  Gee, I never would have seen that coming.

• WHAT ARE THE REAL NUMBERS, BARRY? It’s an interesting article in the Washington Times today from their editorial staff.  In the first paragraph they point out that the numbers declaring the number of job losses and its impact on these United States often contradict other measures also issued by the government for the same purpose.  They point out the fact that the government really doesn’t know how many people are out of work, the people are without jobs .  The reason for that lack of knowledge is simple; those numbers are based on surveys which can have wildly different methodologies. They suggest that the numbers that the government have been reporting need to be adjusted seriously downward ; things are far worse than we’re being told.  Personally, I can’t help but wonder if those reports were not intentionally skewed so.  We have so often seen coming out of Washington these days statistics and figures which were obviously issued by throwing a dart at a board on the other side of the room.  Or, were issued very obviously with some political objective in mind.  We’ve been lied to about so many things, from this government, that I wouldn’t put this one past them, frankly.
• SOMEONE SEES THE WARNING SIGNS and they’re responding
• NOW HONDA, TOO I mentioned yesterday that the likely reason for the large number of recalls four Toyota recently is that their largest competitors are now U.S. government owned.  Inflict of interest for that cell same government to be acting against its corporate competition.  The thought process behind that conclusion was confirmed yesterday when recalls and investigations started showing up with Honda .  It doesn’t take a great deal of gray matter to understand that the united states government is now targeting corporate Japan, its biggest competitor.  has the U.S. government started getting entirely too cozy with the automobile industry?  I think it could be fairly said that they have been less stringent than some on the left would like them to have been. but I refuse to measure the overall performance of a government agency based on what the progressives think of it.
• IRAN Over at the New York Times, Robert Wright quietly suggests that we should be listening to the Iranian people, in our efforts to understand and quell their drive for the bomb.   frankly, this is sheer idiocy.  The fact of the matter is the united states government, or for that matter any government and the world, has absolutely no chance of interfacing to rectally with the Iranian people, given the state of the leadership over there.  Write seems to be under the illusion that the drive for nuclear armaments is coming directly from the rank and file Iranian, and not the mullahs or from the civilian government.  First of all, I wonder how we can make that judgment.  But secondly, even if true, what to do about it?  Remember, this is one of the problems that was supposed to be so easily counterbalanced by the sheer force of the personality of Barack Obama. Seems to me that among other things, this column from Robert Wright… (in the New York Times of all places?) … is a tacit admission that that force of personality didn’t work.  If in fact Robert Wright has a correct, that this Gerard for nuclear armaments is actually coming from the Arabian people, in what way does he suggests that we negotiate with them?  He points out that this is the 30th anniversary … correction, the 31st anniversary, of the 1979 uprising .  Here’s an extra bonus question for you …. what party was in power in Congress, and which party had the White House, in 1979?  Not much has changed since those days, including the illusion that the Democrats are on top of all of this.

Prelude, from Jeff Poor., Newsbusters:

[Eve] ENSLER: Well, I just think the idea that she [Sarah Palin] doesn’t believe in global warming is bizarre.

[Joy] BEHAR: Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in it.

ENSLER: And I think we just kind of have to walk around the world at this point and look at what is happening to nature and earthquakes and tsunamis.

BEHAR: Right.

ENSLER: And weather changes to just feel it. But I think that idea that she doesn’t believe in global warming and she could actually run for vice president, and we have a country where that is possible, it seems insane.

BEHAR: It’s unbelievable. It does seem insane and the fact that she has not negated the possibility of running in 2012.

ENSLER: But we have. We have negated the possibility of her winning.

Which sets up the Snark of the Day:

Here’s a tip: When you want to call somebody dumb, try not to say anything dumb.

Now, Eve Ensler, to make up for your embarrassing derision, you can “walk around the world.” Make sure to take a running leap when you get to the oceans.

Professor Ann Althouse.

If Ensler can demonstrate a connection between tectonic plate movement and anthropogenic global warming,  she should  win a Noble prize.

No more Dopes from Hope, from Allah Pundit, Hot Air:

Yeah, granted, it’s practically home-field advantage for a former governor of Arkansas, but it’s also evidence of Huck’s abiding strength in the south even as Palin’s national profile expands. How’s this for a three-way race: Mitt captures the northeast, Huck takes dixie, and Sarahcuda uses her Jacksonian cred to grab the plains states. And then everything comes down to … California.

No thanks to the Huckadope.  I have may fill of liberals.

Who is O’s real enemy, William A. Jacobson,  Legal Insurrection:

Negotiations Without Preconditions for Iran, But Not Republicans

Barack Obama was steadfast during the campaign and after his election in his willingness to enter into negotiations with Iran without preconditions.

But Obama is not willing to enter into health care negotiations with Republicans without preconditions.

Some deal.

Snowmentary, from Moe Lane:

I’m still digging out from 3 feet’s worth of RFK Jr’s ‘anemic winter’ …

…so people will understand that I’m about as interested as David Freddoso in being overly nice in pointing out his past bloviating. My back isn’t actually killing me, right now, but that’s only because I was being very, very careful about removing all that anemic winter from the car.  I’m going to be forty in a couple of months; I don’t bounce back from straining myself over anemic winters like I used to.

video:

Hat tip: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.

Palin Derangement Syndrome, video:

Hat tip video: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.

Reax:

WASHINGTON (AP) – Even the White House’s top spokesman is getting in on the act of mocking former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for looking to talking points written on her palm during a speech to “tea party” activists.Robert Gibbs showed the words “hope” and “change” on his hand as he started his daily briefing with reporters on Tuesday.

Many in the room, where President Barack Obama had spoken just moments before about the need for bipartisanship, groaned at the political shot.

Hat tip and more:   Glenn Reynolds, Intapundit.

Leaving aside its lameness — stepping on the President’s message, and demonstrating, once again, that Robert Gibbs is never intentionally funny — it really seems to me that bringing up the whole “hope and change” schtick nowadays isn’t doing much for the White House, but rather is simply reminding people of how the original promise of this Administration has failed to bear fruit.

Hint BO, next time don’t send your missus out to do your job, from ABC News:

Michelle Obama defended her husband against some of his most vocal critics, saying President Obama did a “phenomenal” job this year and that change is a long-term process.

The first lady talks about her nationwide campaign called “Let’s Move.”

“I think my husband has done a phenomenal job staying on course, looking his critics in the eye, coming up with clear solutions against staying the course,”

Hat tip and more:  William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

It’s not good when a political spouse has to jump to the rescue. It makes the politician look weak.:

James Bond, but better and true.  Howard Chappll was a real person and a real hero.

I hate to bring up the subject of Miss Sullivan for a second time.   Miss Sullivan is two all-beef patties short of quarter-pounder.    As  Eric rambled:

BEING CRITICAL OF SULLIVAN It’s easy to do, but Leon Wieseltier does a fair and complete, if somewhat understated  job of it.

Sullivan is hunting for motives, not reasons; for conspiracies, which is the surest sign of a mind’s bankruptcy. These days the self-congratulatory motto above his blog is “Of No Party or Clique,” but in fact Sullivan belongs to the party of Mearsheimer and the clique of Walt (whom he cites frequently and deferentially), to the herd of fearless dissidents who proclaim in all seriousness, without in any way being haunted by the history of such an idea, that Jews control Washington. Sullivan might have a look at the domestic pressures-in lobbies and other

In addition to not being sane, Miss Sullivan iis both a misogynist and an anti-Semite.  Miss Sullvan can not handle the twin thoughts of women having both breasts and brains, and of a Jewess having a non progressive position.  The following video will blow Miss Sullivan’s gasket, from Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

Shout Out, Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs.

Mrs. Geller leaves Ronald Reagan, Jr. muttering to himself, and makes Behar joyless.   How is Miss Sullivan gong to be able to handle the stress?