Breakfast Scramble

I tend to let Eric to the long and intense. This morning, I make an exception.

 Bit rambled:

The other shoe: I made mention in a Ramble last August of Jay Mariotti leaving his job in the traditional press. Seems he wasn’t quite as dumb as I took him for. The Sun-Times group went Chapter 11 today. I

Unlike he who not be metioned in Atlanta, the folks at the Sun-Times both read us and linked back.

Note to Angie(ibid):

You go, Girl: Some good thoughts directed to Angie Harmon would be helpful. Girl needs all the good vibe she can get.

The real world is racist, and sexist to boot.   I don’t apologize for recognizing and adjsuting  to  racist world.   Those who do not are naive fools.

About Blind Man Paterson(ibid):

I’m about ready to Join Rush in exiting New York. Who’s with me?

This one is simple.  Blind Man Paterson and his fellow ‘rats have declared war on the residents of New York State.   In the midst of a bleeping recession, near depression, the glutonous bastards in Albany have increase state spending by nine percent.    Joseph Spector:

Senate Republicans estimated that an upstate family of four will have to pay about $2,400 more a year in higher state taxes and fees because of the budget.

I could use a bit of help on this one, but Patterson’s reckless budget will be moving families to poverty   That a family of four living less than $2,400 above the poverty line, under Patterson’s budget will now be living in poverty.   The good news is the the blind man term is up next year and Patterson is toast.    Shame Patterson can’t look in the mirror and see what toast looks like.

Obama’s conflict of Interest, Wall Street Journal)no link):

Only nine of GM’s “top 20 profit contributors in 2008” were cars; the rest were SUVs and trucks, which are politically incorrect on Capitol Hill and with the green lobbies. Chrysler has a similar problem. Even GM’s much-vaunted electric Volt car is “too expensive to be commercially successful,” according to Treasury.

In other words, Mr. Obama’s industrial policy vision runs directly counter to a strategy that would get the companies back to profitability as soon as possible. To help them sell those unwanted cars, Mr. Obama yesterday was already pledging that taxpayers will cover new-car warranties. And he urged Congress to pass a new “incentive program” (read: subsidy) for “cleaner car” purchases.

Obama has both the task of saving the people’s car company, General Motors, and his own obession with dealinog the supposed anthropogenic global warming.   Obama can not do both.  The shareholders of General Motors need to stand-up and protect their rights.   Obama needs to step aside, and let somebody who actually wants make cars try to save General Motors.

‘Really the government’s “Path to Viability” for the car companies sounds like the rough draft of a five-year industrial plan from the Soviet Union’

Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine.

“You don’t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying, and that is what is happening in Iran.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, incoming Prime Minister of Israel., courtesy, Jeffery Goldberg, Atlantic.

This one certainly didn’t take long.  Do you think Bibi’s message was blunt enough to penetrate Mrs. Clinton’s thick skull.

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

This is the “Boy are we LOST” edition.

• Deconstructing the double standard: I’ve got a fair enough idea of why Obama’s been taking a different tack on the Automakers than he has been the banks… The Unions.  It doesn’t help that the banks… and the Unions… have far more in the way of political ties to the Democrats than do car companies. I noted yesterday, and frankly, I’ve forgotten where, speculation that the reason Waggoner was a target of Obama’s people was that GM  and it’s execs have given far more election money to the GOP than to Democrats.   Butt that up against the story we posted here yesterday about AIG and it’s efforts to get it’s own employees to ‘donate’ to Chris Dodd, and you’ll see how this works out. Personally, I can’t take Obama seriously on his claims he’s trying to help the country unless and until the Unions are removed from their unofficial position of power. Get the Government to stop backing them, and I’ll accept he’s about helping the country. Not before. And by the way, does anyone really think Barney Frank dictating pay for all employees to be a good thing?  At what point does the power grab halt? Other than the next election, of course…  And there it is, gang… wo gets elected on the next go round will be the ones screaming the loudest about this stuff. Who among Republicans has yet made mention of any of this? And what of Eric Cantor and the 85 Republicans who voted to tax the IAG bonuses to 90%?  When they’re so quick to dump their principals, I can’t take them seriously either. (Which by the way is exactly why I’ve not posted anything from Cantor’s incessent Emails to our feedback address… Start acting like a conseravtive, Mr. Cantor, and I’ll take you seriously. Eventualy.
• The other shoe: I made mention in a Ramble  last August of Jay Mariotti leaving his job in the traditional press. Seems he wasn’t quite as dumb as I took him for. The Sun-Times group went Chapter 11 today. I don’t want to hear about the current financial issues causing problems. Sorry, this would have occurred eventually anyway. And, look; I’ve never taken Jay Mariotti as the driest road flare in the box. Thing is, though, him being inside the beast, he had a better idea than most on what was what. I said it then, I’ll say it again, the content is the issue, not the medium. The traditional press keeps coming up with stuff like this and wondering why they’re losing their asses.  Nobody trusts them, anymore. It’s about integrity, or rather, the lack of it. It’s really that simple. And Mariotti for all his faults, knew what time it was, as Billy said, at the time. One regret: Lynn Sweetwill be looking for work, soon.Indeed, I’m wondering why she didn’t leave before Mariotti did.
• Hey, Web Wench: I knew the folks in Atlanta were reading BitsBlog, and particularly the  Nightly Ramble. Case in point, is the Vince Shlomi story I posted in last night’s Ramble…  and where it shows up. Since this is a topical blog, I assume we’re going to cover the same stories… but when I see a particular IP address in Atlanta showing up every morning, just before this stuff gets posted, I know what’s what.  No, this isn’t the first time, not by a stretch. I don’t mind, really.  In fact, I like it. Using some of the stuff I put up to go off on, is par for the course. Always thought that was cool. Still do. It’s nice to think I’m doing show prep for talk show types across the country. But, geez… would it hurt to back link here when you do it, just once in a while, especially after all the link love I’ve given out?  Come on. In the words of the great Doctor Evil, throw me a friggin’ bone, here, huh?
• You go, Girl: Some good thoughts directed to Angie Harmon would be helpful. Girl needs all the good vibe she can get.
• MixMaster: By way of Reynolds, I see The most Advanced Mixing Board in the world.  I tell you; I’d have given my left nut for a chance to run such a board, when I was doing production and sound reinforcement work. Even some of the boards that radio people are using today far outstrip the standard stuff of the day when I was in the biz.  I slaved over a couple of this Autogram 10*2*2 model, and 6*2*2 as well, for years at what was WSAY.  They were the best, back in the day. Built like bricks a great feel and and sounded great, even today.
• Those were the days: Speaking of Radio, Fybush mentions the demise of CHUM1050 after 50 years of Rock and Roll on that station. Sad. I know, financial reality. Of course I’ve not been listening to it much since Bob Savage moved WYSL to 1040 with 20kw. The splash makes CHUM unreadable anywhere in the Genesee valley.
• Those were the days, II: Fybush also mentions that Larry Glick died while they had him on the table doing open heart surgury, appraently. He was 87.  I spent years listening to his show on WBZ. He defined overnight talk for decades, and with that one 50KW Hull, MA signal, had followers all over the north east. Indeed, it was the memory of Glick’s show that kept me coming back to WBZ nights, until they dropped local talk recently. Ya know, I had a Jr High school principal that started her career as such at a school the day it opened in 1948. She was in that role until the day it closed, 40+ years later.  Almost to the day they tore the place down, was when she died. Maybe it’s the romantic in me,but I couldn’t help feeling there was a connection between the two events.  So you can imagine the thoughts when I read of Glick’s death, so soon after WBZ’s shifting formats away from what made the place legendary. In discussing this with Scott, he  reminds me that they brought Steve Lavelle back, apparently seeing their shifting away from local programming was a mistake, based mostly on public outcry. And I’d forgotten that. But frankly, while I may stop back once in a while, that kind of heartbreak can occur only once. I know I’m not alone, here, and frankly, I expect Lavelle’s next book to show that, despite him being as good as he is.  I’ve seen it happen too often to be optimistic, I’m afraid.Ya see…. there’s an ineffable quality to the relationships of radio people to their audiences… and to a station’s reputation…one that’s more fragile than most are willing to admit… particularly those in management. I wonder if the chasing the shorter term ratings goals are not cause for a lot of the disenchantment with radio, today. That pursuit, even if successful… as it often is not… comes with a price attached that few reckon with. Part of the magic is the history and consistency to the thing… the feeling of continuance… and that gets lost when management goes numbers chasing. 

   

• Ummmmm: Ouch.
• You worm!: Make sure you’ve run your updates on Windows, guys. Tonight.
• Hey, Billy Beck:  I wonder, my freind, what you think of this. I ask because I half imagined you reading and nodding.
• I’m about ready to Join Rush in exiting New York. Who’s with me?
• Well, now at least, they’ve got an excuse. I don’t doubt the problem exists, but I suspect it’s claimed for more than it exists.
• I knew, when I saw them constructing one of these V8 powered barstools on ‘Horsepower”, that a drunk driving arrest wasn’t far behind.

I’d like you to look closely at S277.

What we have here, is a bill mandating that you ‘volunteer’.

First off, the idea of mandatory national service is a direct violation of the 13th amendment. I find it interesting that so many of the leftie loons who were against the military draft on the idea that it constituted involntary seritude, are behind this one. It’s OK, apparently to serve the government if the government is run by liberal Democrats.

The effect, of course is an extension of the same effect every liberal Democrat administration has had for generations, now, on real charity; It will diminish the real charity work.  It will diminish real chaity funding. Government is not charity, it is force.

Further, what this thing also does is focus what people still decide to volunteer, into roles they would not otherwise take… ones that the government selects and approves of.

Ask Catholic Hospitals if that won’t diminish the s3ervice they perform to our communities, for example.

This thing needs to be soundly defeated.

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

This is the “Jet Airliner” edition.Since Al Gore has decreed ‘Jets are bad’, in spite of having at least one of his own, I’ve decided to get one for the Bloggers here at BitsBlog and our friends in the blogging world.   And here it is. It seats 25, has a built in hot tub, a bar, a full entertainment center,  3 workstations with Full Internet connectivity, of course,(For blogging in flight)  as well as parking for two Hummers on the lower level, for the posse once we arrive.  Great for those last minute worldly Rambles.

There is other news than GM, of course, and here’s some of it:

• Lights Out: Speaking of Al Gore, I see that energy consuming arena he calls a house wasn’t darkened properly for ‘Earth Hour”.  The people in Nashville have started chatting about that one. One gets the impression his ‘global warming’ run is about over.
• MSNBC Activism: Gee, you’d almost think that the MSNBC folks don’t like Rep. Michele Bachmann Tough. Get used to it, gang. The wind has already changed.
• Under the guise of integrity: Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that the Arab League is a criminal origination?
• Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more:The Govenor of New York State has decided that the best way out of the government spending too much money is to tax the rich out of existance. I’m telling you, in a year or two, in Albany, they’re going to wonder why all the people who actually produced wealth, left the state. And frankly, barring any improvements in the near term, I’m one of them.
• Guns: The original 911: Here’s another example of how just one person with a gun would have saved lives. Can anyone explain to me how so many people were so very helpless against this situation? It’s clear to me that it’s the result of our gun phobia.  What this vid from one of the local stations doesn’t show is that the 6 year old was partially beheaded. Whatever else might be said about this, it can be said this took a bit of time. All it would have taken is one person with a firearm. One.
• Flood: Red River at Fargo is on the way down.  They’re having problems with earthen dams, though. Twitter users can get the latest here.
• Obama’s Wrong:This week,it’s Krugman. Odd thing; Kurgman’s comments are of the same tone as that of The Economist, which was the topic of dscussion last week.  The Chorus is already getting warmed up, apparently… and the odd thing about it is that the ostensibly liberal writers are complaining as loudly as the conservatives have been, all along. Joyner has comments here and here.
• Honor: Bruce says goodbye to a warrior.
• Because they coldn’t find a real wow: I see the “Sham-Wow” guy got busted in Miami for beating up a hooker.  Apparently, she bit his tounge and wouldn’t let go. She complained he was slapping her…(Apparently trying to get her to let go…) and she’s busy filing suit. (Gee, big shock).  Irony abounds…If he’d slapped her hard enough, the resulting action on his tounge wouldn’t be unlike his latest hawk… the “Slap Chop”.    I mean, not a bad looking girl, (pics at the link) but $1000 for the hooker, though?  Wasn’t aware they were that expensive, there.  I hear he got most of his money back. I wonder if it was worth it, because it looks to me like it’ll be the last money he makes from selling stuff on the tube. I’ll bet she loved his nuts, though.
• Lights Out II: Yes, my house was lit up like a Christmas decoration in Hollywood over the weekend. With so many of my neighbors being ‘green’ (Translation: stupid)  I figure the guys on the space station could see my house.  And no, I’d not seem Tarranto’s post until the next day.
• Another one nobody told you about: Tea Party in nearby Buffalo over the weekend. Did you know about it? No. Why? Because the Dinosaurs didn’t bother telling you.
• The Cause: Interesting note on Fox about Dodd:
  

  .”It’s like putting the arsonist in charge of the volunteer fire department. He knows where the fire is because he set it. But beyond that, he can’t offer much help.”

  Dodd is now flailing to save his 35-year congressional career in the swirling wake of an amendment he authored in the $787 billion stimulus package. That amendment, signed into law by President Obama, grandfathered in bonuses that would have been cut off by the bill but had already been promised to employees of companies that received government bailout money.

  The issue exploded when it became known that the American International Group had given $165 million in bonuses to its executives after being bailed out by the U.S. government.

  Dodd initially denied last week that he had any role in crafting the exemption language, then changed his tune a day later, saying that Treasury officials pressured him to make the change to protect the government from potential lawsuits.

  Dodd is closely linked with AIG, whose employees and political funds have donated $300,000 to his campaign fund over the last decade, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

  Now, reports are starting to surface, that those employees were ‘encouraged’ by the company, to donate to his campaign. Can someone explain to me how this is any different from any other pay for play scheme? How, for example is this any different than William Jefferson, Blago, and a host of other corrupt Democrats? Hint: It’s not. That being what it is, it’s interesting taht tey’re now talking about how Dodd is blocking our recovery. Blocking? Hell, he was one of the major causes of it.  But look deeper: When demorats start talking about how Dodd is blocking the recovery, what they’re saying is he’s creating a bloackage to getting the Democrat Agenda into law… he’s creating too much voter suspicion for Obama and the democrats to operate quite as freely as they would otherwise.

• It’s cultural: Reynolds notes:
  

  .A CULTURE OF UNDERACHIEVEMENT IN BRITAIN: “The study, published in the Sociological Review, shows how difficult it is for children, particularly boys, to be clever and popular. Boys risk being assaulted in some schools for being high-achievers. To conform and escape alienation, clever boys told researchers they may ‘try to fall behind’ or ‘dumb down’.”..

  The truth is, we’ve seen this for many years in American inner cities among Black and Hispanic and more recently white students. The point I’m making here is one I’ve been making for decades, now… this isn’t racially driven, but culturally.  What we see here is an unintended consequence of government being the end all and be all, governmental overcontrol. That’s the common factor, here.

Yeah, I know.. an earthquake in California is about as newsworthy as sun in Arizona. Still it’s fairly sizable, around 4.3 Richter, and about 4 miles deep, about 25 miles away from San Jose. Details are here.

Earl Ofari Hutchinso, Puffington Post:

President Obama and the Democrats should wave the white flag in their strawman war on Rush Limbaugh. The Media Research Center delivered the grim casualty figures for the Democrats. Since January, the top talk show gabber’s ratings have soared off the charts. Radio affiliates that carry Limbaugh’s syndicated show call the ratings boost he’s gotten from the Democrat’s orchestrated attack on him a “dramatic surge.” This writer predicted as much when President Obama cracked to Congressional Republicans in late January that they should knock off listening to Limbaugh if they expected to get anything done in Congress and with his administration

Surrender seems to be Barack Obama’s favorite idea.

Andrew Breitbart, today at the Washington Times:

A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power.

We must not let that go unanswered.

Uninvited Democratic activists are on a mission to demoralize the enemy – us. They want to ensure that President Obama is not subject to the same coordinated, facts-be-damned, multimedia takedown they employed over eight long years to destroy the presidency – and the humanity – of George W. Bush.

Political leftists play for keeps. They are willing to lie, perform deceptive acts in a coordinated fashion and do so in a wicked way – all in the pursuit of victory. Moral relativism is alive and well in the land of Hope and Change and its Web-savvy youth brigade expresses its “idealism” in a most cynical fashion.

The ends justify the means for them – now more than ever.

Valid points. There’s much more at the link, worth your while to read.

Here’s the thing; I asked a while back after 8 years of that, both here and notably on Rick Moran’s show, how Conservatives would be able to deal with this. Andy’s got it right; We need to respond nearly in kind.

North Korea, the Norks, is preparing an illegal missile launch    The United States has the capacity to shoot down the Nork missile, but has signaled we will not.   Bill Sammon, Fox News:

Appearing on “FOX News Sunday,” Gates said North Korea “probably will” fire the missile, prompting host Chris Wallace to ask: “And there’s nothing we can do about it?””No,” Gates answered, adding, “I would say we’re not prepared to do anything about it.”

Last week, Admiral Timothy Keating, commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, said the U.S. is “fully prepared” to shoot down the missile. But Gates said such a response is unlikely.

I am sure that Iran will take note of Barack Obama’s impotence.

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo on the University of Notre Dame should disinvite Barack Obama from giving the Commencement Address:

I want to venture a comment on the recently released statement of the University of Notre Dame; that statement noted that the President has accepted an invitation to give the Commencement Address this year as well as receive an Honorary Law Degree. The news release then outlines the fact that a number of other Presidents have given the Commencement Address at Notre Dame and have thus highlighted, in effect, the university’s importance. I find the invitation very disappointing. Though I can understand the desire by a university to have the prestige of a commencement address by the President of the United States, the fundamental moral issue of the inestimable worth of the human person from conception to natural death is a principle that soaks all our lives as Catholics, and all our efforts at formation, especially education at Catholic places of higher learning. The President has made clear by word and deed that he will promote abortion and will remove even those limited sanctions that control this act of violence against the human person\.

The Bishops of the United States published a document a few years ago asking all Catholic universities to avoid giving a platform or an award to those politicians or public figures who promote the taking of unborn human life. Even given the dignity of Office of the President, this offer is still providing a platform and an award for a public figure who has been candid on his pro-abortion views. Particularly troubling is the Honorary Law Degree since it recognizes that the person is a “Teacher,” in this case of the Law. I think that this decision requires charitable but vigorous critique.

Hat tip:  Damion Thompson, Telegraph(UK)

After all, if disinvting BO only saves but one human life, it is worth it.

‘When we consider changing military policy, the should ask is “Will it help  win war?”   If the answer is “no” or even “we don’t know,’  then we should not make such change.

Thomas H. Moorer, Admiral, USN(retired)

Matthew Yglesias has his knickers in twist because Secretary of  Defense, Robert Gates, will not support over turning the Clinton era “don’t asks, don’t tell” policy:

Robert Gates’ statement that we shouldn’t expect the Obama administration to fulfill its pledge to end Don’t Ask Don’t Tell anytime soon is highly disappointing:

[…]

Meanwhile, racial desegregation of the military actually required a large number of active steps and was successfully carried out near the peak of Cold War tensions. The biggest step toward ending discrimination against gays and lesbians in the military would be the passive step of just not discriminating against them.

The military has two objectives:  one, to prepare for war and two, to prevail in war.   The purpose of the military personnel policy is  support the ability achieve these objectives.   By their very nature, all military personnel policy disseminates.    The military discriminates against the young, the old, the weak, the fat.   Sobeit!   There simply is no such thing as a right to serve.   Military service is a duty, not a right.    The objective of the military personnel policy is war winning,  not advancing some dubious social agenda.

Yglesias does not even acknowledge that military personnel policy is by its nature discriminatory, or even mount an attempt to show changing “don’t ask, don’t tell” would somehow improve the policy.

By making a false analogy between sexual behavior  and racial genetics, is Yglesias suggesting the formation of prototype “‘rainbow” units?

Mike Allen and Josh Gerstien at The Politico:

The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed, a White House official said.

On Monday, President Barack Obama is to unveil his plans for the auto industry, including a response to a request for additional funds by GM and Chrysler. The plan is based on recommendations from the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, headed by the Treasury Department.

The White House confirmed Wagoner was leaving at the government’s behest after The Associated Press reported his immediate departure, without giving a reason.

General Motors issued a vague statement Sunday night that did not officially confirm Wagoner’s departure.

“We are anticipating an announcement soon from the Administration regarding the restructuring of the U.S. auto industry. We continue to work closely with members of the Task Force and it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the content of any announcement,” the company said

If GM’s stock wasn’t worth absolutely nothing last Friday, it will be certainly worth nothing this morning. Then again, when the Kremlin asks you to resign your position, you do so and hope they don’t take anything else.

We have now entered an age when private companies are under the file an unquestioned control of the all powerful Federal government.  Certainly, we have come quite a distance and 60 days of Mr. Obama’s presidency.  Then again, I’ve already allowed that Obama and his people probably and correctly perceive that they will not be able to achieve their agenda if they wait very long.  The resistance is already ramping up, and this situation certainly is not going to help matters. What we see here is the words of Rahm Emmanuel Writ large… Never let a good crisis go to waste.

The chances of this working out in the long-term are very small indeed, particularly given who’s running the show in the white house these days.  If you don’t have an extraordinary mistrust for Obama and his plans for the auto industry, if you haven’t been watching as he has been totally flummoxed by the comparatively simple act of constructing a cabinet.

We have remarked here in the past that the real locus of the problems within the auto industry is the unions.  Given Obama’s political loyalties, this problem will remain unsolved.  Witness; Obama didn’t demand the resignation of the Union heads.

Of course, all of this is hipshot, and I’ll have far more tommrow, as will, doubtless, everyone else on the planet.

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• @jaketapper Nothing gets by you, man…:-D #
• @jimtreacher funny how nobody asked if rahm having an isiders view was a good or bad thing.  #
• @jimtreacher after all doesn’t the fox know best what the inside of the henhouse is like?  #
• edmorrissey Well odor isn’t everything.  #
• @loriebyrd The bald look? I figure I’ll get there eventually.  #
• @karlrove Caught you on Hannity. Very good. Then againM you usually are.  #
• @ chucksimmmins Any further fallout on the local teapartyN #
• @ chucksimmmins might wanna check his site then. if he did it on air it’s likely there too #
• when you impison someone always make sure there’s an impossibly large vent system to escape through.  #
• @eddriscoll Nah… it was Green.  #
• @Lileks We reach, Man, we reach.  in reply to Lileks #
• @pinkelephantpun No. Take my advice: be far more concerned about the entry pages for people who don’t get there fm google.  #
• @chucksimmons thanks chuck. useful.  #
• @jaketapper Headline: Tapper admits to having kittens. Is he part feline?  #
• (gasp!) There’s a sale at Penneys!!!  #
• By going to Britney Spears concert, Eric Cantor got to see two boobs instead of the one he’d have seen at the Obama press conference..  #
• I am listening to the Parcbench Launch show on BlogTalkRadio – http://tobtr.com/s/468954 #
• @mattmargolis Try the Edge in reply to mattmargolis #
• @allahpundit bet he still shows up to the wed barn burners at the WH though in reply to allahpundit #
• @seedubya unless they’re FLYING zombies.  in reply to seedubya #
• The businesses we’re bailing out are already among the most heavily regulated in the country. regulation seems the CAUSE not the CURE #
• @policygal “Albert Einstein once said…… gah gah goo goo”. Nope. That doesn’t work, either.  in reply to policygal #
• @policygal Nah. I tried being serious once. THey all laughed. (Shrug) in reply to policygal #
• @jmguardia I turned on every light, including the crhistmas lights. My house could be seen from space in reply to jmguardia #
• @jmguardia No, Actually, I’d forgotten that. But at some point, we’ve gotts start fighting back on this junk.  http://bit.ly/SySnS in reply to jmguardia #
• @VodkaPundit But, did you use and abacus ?  in reply to VodkaPundit #
• @EdDriscoll If Algore invented the net, isn’t he responsible for the huge energy use of computers there days?  in reply to EdDriscoll #
• @Lileks Wait until summer. It’ll smell like it, too in reply to Lileks #
• Saying what you need to say in 140 chrs or less is something of an art form. Most people on trying it, will run out of space at some poi #
• @EdDriscoll #tcot #hhrs #8220 #8221 With Bush, they said CHeney ran country. With Obama, the guy runs the Teleprompter runs the country in reply to EdDriscoll #
• @HeyTammyBruce look it doesn’t have to make sense. it just jas to further the agenda #
• turning all your lights off in the name of green is kinda dim…..  #
• i’m out in my SUV… does that count?  #
• @divadoll same thing as happens to his brain #
• @MelissaTweets yeah well with Green he’s likey lit up enough where nobody will notice #
• currently struggling to get Ubuntu working on an ancient IBM 760XD laptop #
• RT @Lileks: Still can’t raise Fargo on the phone – not even a ring or operator, just an end-of-the-world crackle.  #
• @Lileks I’m getting feeds from local radio down there. Spotty, though., KQLX in Lisbon is feeding OK in reply to Lileks #
• @MarkReardonKMOX So much for gun control ;-D in reply to MarkReardonKMOX #
• @Lileks Has anyone ever seen Reddy not smiling and lived to tell the tale?  in reply to Lileks #
• @Lileks Biggest station is a 100,000 watt FM in Lisbon, 70 miles out.about 100 feet up. KQLX. Trust me, they’re making it into Fargo. .  in reply to Lileks #
• @Lileks They also ahve a web feed. If you’re after info, it seems a reasonable place to start in reply to Lileks #
• @divadoll123 The money you didn’t pay in tyaxes was supposed to go to Obama’s campaign in reply to divadoll123 #
• @divadoll123 😀 in reply to divadoll123 #
• RT @CharmCitySean: Video emerges of VP Biden’s daughter allegedly snorting cocaine http://tinyurl.com/cl6mb6 #
• @CharmCitySean Hey, if you had Biden for a father…… wouldn’t you?  in reply to CharmCitySean #
• @usaconservative YOu DID see the superdome when they got done with it, right?  in reply to usaconservative #
• @usaconservative No, they just ate the friggin building in reply to usaconservative #
• Had to run around and turn all the lights oiff this morning, after the Power Festival last night #
• RT @thebcast: Hoax Website Promising Great Tan From Computer Screen Gets 1M Hits *Now we know why Obama is Pres http://tinyurl.com/ckztvw #
• @Linc4Justice Thta would be interesting, I think. Expensive on cars and gas though in reply to Linc4Justice #
• @Linc4Justice Get yr self a Ford Escape. A vehicle aptly named for the task.  in reply to Linc4Justice #
• RE:Lights Out: the enviro – whackjobs and AlQuieda, are quite interested in returning us to the fourteenth century via Luddite Street.  #
• @Linc4Justice Escape is a hell of a truck, but too light for that kinda work in reply to Linc4Justice #
• @Lileks I’m sure the guys were most impressed by your community spirit in reply to Lileks #
• I’m a great lover, I bet #
• @allahpundit It’s not ‘popular’ yet. TEa parties is about as close as it gets in reply to allahpundit #
• @McQandO sounds like ‘project hero’ fodder to me….  #
• @HeyTammyBruce (Sigh) It’s living out there, Tammy.  #Prius #tbrs #tcot #sgp in reply to HeyTammyBruce #
• @EdDriscoll See, there’s the thing, Ed… I wonder if driving it doesn’t amount to defacto support of the religion in reply to EdDriscoll #
• @EdDriscoll Well, exectly.  in reply to EdDriscoll #
• As I suggested before…the enviro – whackjobs and AlQuieda, Both, wanna return us to the fourteenth century via Luddite Street.  #
• @EdDriscoll It’s Not Pro-environment, It’s Anti-human Progress http://bit.ly/5py4k in reply to EdDriscoll #
• @divadoll123 How about ‘My kids aren’t leftists’?  in reply to divadoll123 #
• RT @donsurber: Kosher Cola? Depends how you kill it, Don…  http://tinyurl.com/cz5p9p #
• @HeyTammyBruce Personally, I’d forgotten how much light those old stage lights H had stored from my DJ days would generate #EarthHour in reply to HeyTammyBruce #
• ShamWow Guy Arrested for Punching Prostitute Who Tried to Bite Off His Tongue http://bit.ly/Z0NMk #
• But I’ll bet she loved his nuts #
• @Lileks Nah. Leave it that way. More fun to watch guests and their reactions #
• @EdDriscoll Hah. Wish I’d thought of that one in reply to EdDriscoll #
• @Lileks A short? So, you’re Gimli?  in reply to Lileks #
• @HeyTammyBruce Do they follow today’s chicago mob to DC? #tcot #tbrs in reply to HeyTammyBruce #
• @ScotMcKay @GuysDoMeAFavor The more demanding ones generally do…  in reply to ScotMcKay #
• @michaelemlong Not only no, but HELL no, he won’t mention it #tcot in reply to michaelemlong #
• @FacingUp On Target? NO. High and Left of it in reply to FacingUp #
• @policygal Well, you know Waggoner stepped down… when the Kremlin asks…..  in reply to policygal #
• @EdDriscoll Many thanks, Ed, for the link in reply to EdDriscoll #
• @ryanpdixon Hate to break your bubble, man… #TCOT http://bit.ly/fy79u in reply to ryanpdixon #
• @EdDriscoll I posted a response to your post. http://bit.ly/FL1qe in reply to EdDriscoll #
• @ryanpdixon Well, look; I wonder if he’s regretting that choice, now #TCOT in reply to ryanpdixon #
• @CPACnews THey like The Stones?  in reply to CPACnews #
• @jimtreacher MAY? LOL….  in reply to jimtreacher #
• @jimtreacher Heh… I guess. But it strikes me that I made the same comment before she hooked up with Cobain. Think about that in reply to jimtreacher #
• Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.  #

We Israelis should consider ourselves lucky that Olmert’s term in office mostly coincided with Bush’s term in office and not with Obama’s. Olmert and Obama are birds of feather: The chicken.

Carl in Jerusalem