Breakfast Scramble

Overheard at breakfast:   “I wish this was the last snow fall of the season.”   Fat chance.  The fish wrapper shows we a future average of forty inches remaining.  Chances of getting none of that forty – nada.

Earth to Howie:   Howard Dean thinks he is gonig to broker a deal betwenn Barack Obama and Mrs. Clinton to prevent a floor fight at the convention.   Sure, Howie.  Party chairmen are figure heads, and fund raisers, not  decision makers.   If and when Mrs. Clinton and Obama make a deal, they will tell you about it.

Mrs. Clinton broke:  Mrs. Clinton does Riudyy Guiani route.. She has lent her campaign five million dollars.  Now what is the annual salary of a senator?   Meanwhile, the Obama campaign matches.   So just where does a United Statese senator get five milliion dollars?   From Norman Hsu?  I want to konw, and so does Amanda Carpenter   Is Mrs. Clnton using her husband, B.J. to funnel Chinese cash into her campagin?

Mrs. Clinton’s base.   In the various discussions of who to support, or not to support, the word I is seldom used except in regards to trust or lack thereof same.   Issues like the economy, and national security are battered around.

On the other side of the Moon, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is all about dependancy.    Mrs. Clinton, a dependent woman pandering to other dependent women.    Mrs.  Clinton is feeding the demons of her dependent base.   She demonizes every institution which under educated dependent women do  not understand.    Mrs. Clinton’s base are the LIsa Nowaks of the World.

What Mrs. Clinton’s voters fail to undertand, or are indiffeent to, is that Mrs. Clinton can not provide health care to anybody.   She onlly take health care from some and give to others.   I for one, don’t want to live in world where Mrs. Clinton is making my health care decisions.   Do you?

Pet Peeve:   Back up beepers, am I the only person feed up with those loud obnoxius, aggrevating and useless back-up beepers?   If I were but empiror, I would lock every congresscritter who ever voted for those foul things and make them listen to them all day.   Ah seeet revenge.

NAGS:   There are all kinds of feminists.   Yet for some strange reason the militant angry feminists, say there is but kind of feminist,  and further that they speak for all women, except of course unborn women.    Then these same NAGs,wonder why so many women deny they are feminists.   Go figure!

Henke, this monring:

In light of the possibility that a Democrat could win the Presidency in November, giving them control of the White House and both houses of Congress, it’s worth pointing out what Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said in 2005…

We need more than one party in charge. And the vote on Tuesday is going to be critical to decide whether American democracy still allows those of us who didn’t vote for the president to have any say in running the country whatsoever.
[…]
Someday, the Democrats will be back in charge again. Do we want a Democratic Party that’s in charge of everything? Well, you know, I suppose it’s my job to say yes. But the truth is, as an American, it’s better when parties share power. It’s better when even those people who didn’t win the election have something to say.
[…]
[There] is a culture of corruption and abuse of power in Washington. This is what happens when one party is in charge of everything.

Henke, of course goes on to ask if Dean still thinks that way, knowing full well he doesn’t. Everything with those idiots is relative to their paths to power.

Hmmm.
Ya know, Maybe it’s time I spell this out, and Henke’s comments… well taken, so far as they go… (I’ve always been suspicious of the idea of a government split by party lines as being a panecea…) …are as good a place as any to jump this off from.

I’m no fan of the Republican party, per se’.

Did you get that? Go read it again.
If you have questions, go read the line above, yet again, and continue reading it until you understand it, because until you do nothing else I will say here will make any sense.

I have said often enough here and elsewhere that I view the Republicans as the best tool with which to defeat the Democrats, but that’s as far as my love for the GOP goes. That’s a position I continue to hold, today. Interestingly, it’s a position I expressed in relationship to Henke himself, just over a year ago:

…it has been and always will be about the ideas. That goes for him or anyone else. When I have gone after Jon, it’s been about the ideas. I hold neither love, nor hate for Henke, any more than I hold particular love or hate for the Republican party. Rather, I see the Republican party at the moment to be the best tool in efforts to defeat America’s worst enemy; the Democrats.

For the last decade or so there has been nothing in the makeup of the Republican party that has made me consider as possible, much less likely, that such a perception will ever change, except for the negative. There is nothing there to endear the party to me, and in the last six months or so, that lack has been confirmed in a way that I freely admit, I never foresaw. I took McCain’s loss in 2000, as a rejection of the liberalism he’s been fighting for, and a reaffirmation Reagansim. Of course, that’s changed. ANd his claims not withstanding, he’s not a Reaganite by any stretch of the word. We knew Ronald Reagan, and this man is no Reagan.

It pains me, my friends, to see the Republicans so fragmented, but hurts worse to see them so gladly reject their principles to embrace John McCain, for the sake of the party. What about for principle and for country?

I have openly wondered, here and elsewhere, if abstaining from voting…. if deciding, loudly, to not endorse John McCain with my vote is the best way to go. I still consider that an open question because I’ve seen nothing to convince me it’s not the best path, here.

There’s one thing and one thing only, that has been keeping me from committing to sitting at home on election day… The idea that either of the Democrats will be worse than McCain. At the moment, and for the foreseeable future, that’s a close call… and frankly, too close a call to make, at least on domestic issues.

With McCain’s signing on so willingly to the global warming scam, And several other points on domestic policy, I am very concerned that we won’t be able to see much difference between Hillary Clinton and John McCain. As I’ve said, I cannot see fitting water between them, on domestic issues.

Now with John McCain and his apparent coronation, I find even less chance for an optimistic outlook for the GOP.  You see, I had figured on Republicans beating the Democrats as Reagan did; by BEING Republicans,not by becoming Democrat wannabees, as McCain has done.  What I have been always about is the advancement of the principles that the Republican party stood for back in the day…. principles which I have complained bitterly through the Bush years they’ve given mere lip service to, and which they’ve abandoned outright with McCain.  Remember, dear reader, the reason McCain lost his presidential bid back in 2000 was he was seen as being to the left of George W. Bush, who himself was seen at best as a centrist. Now McCain is leading the race. So it is that within the space of one two-term presidency, we have seen conservative values utterly abandoned by the GOP… values which I have always fought for and voted for. And at this point it’s logical to ask if telling the party to take a hike isn’t the best course.

But, I’m not just talking about domestic issues, here. The Democrats and McCain are about equal in domestic policy… so the judgment must be made on other ground.

The issue involving the war on Terror are very much on my mind in all of this. McCain’s insistence on giving terrorists ‘constitutional rights’ is misguided in the extreme, and given another option, would be enough to disqualify the man from the office he has now, much less the one he seeks.  But we don’t HAVE another option, barring Romney doing well in the remaining states, or at the convention, which leaves us with a choice between Democrats who have been playing both sides of the war against the middle, and McCain, whose apparent dedication to winning the thing, (his leanings about the treatment of terrorists aside) is just about the only attractive feature he has.

It pains me, but that one point may force me to consider a Vote for McCain in the General election. My fear is this sends the party the wrong message… that McCain’s overt leftist nonsense, is acceptable.

Further, we have the issue of the south; No Republican has won without it since Lincoln. McCain lost it in the primary, and the noise I’m hearing suggests that a goodly amount of those in the south who went elsewhere, will NEVER vote for McCain in the general election… thus making the White House unattainable, anyway. 

No matter what, we have a very unattractive option.

And I have no answers for all of this.

I will note for the record that given a McCain presidency, we will have plenty to write about here.  With the party so fractured over McCain’s liberalism, however, I wonder now if even THAT is attainable.

Ronald Reagan would have been ninety-seven today:

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Happy birthday Mr. President.

• Tax the rich? Tax fairness? Yeah, right.
  

  just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people!

  Now, next time you wonder why gas at the pump is so expensive… And by the way… you do know McCain wants to add 50 cents per gallon additional gasoline taxes, right?

• John Hinderaker:
  

  John McCain did very well, I thought. He struck the right notes of confidence and conciliation, pledged allegiance to the party, saluted the party’s conservative principles, and offered an olive branch to the Romney campaign.

  It still comes down to “do we trust the man’? I don’t.

• One unsung non-hero of last nights mess: Ron Paul. Can we get you Paulbots to stop the spam routines, and the hanging hadwritten signs on every overpass you can find, please? Time to do the fade out. Even Kucinich got the message. Why can’t YOU morons?
• Speaking of fading away, I happened to stumble across WNTJ/850 Johnstown PA while hunting for stations to the south, last night.  THey have 10,000 watts and push a good signal up here any night things are flowing form the south, mostly because north is their strongest lobe, both day and night. (Now I understand why George over in Palmyra is having such a beef with the FCC; HIs 45watts night pattern much be getting drowned under those conditions!) Anyway, Johnstown is of course the home of John Murtha. Yeah, the same guy who we were hearing so much about a short time ago, now suddenly isn’t getting any press at all. Funny how that silence just seems to show up at election time.
• David was right, the weather wasn’t good for driving. Glad I had the Rainier. It was kinda fun watching the idiots in the Priuses (Is that a word?) trying to maneuver in the weather…. until I noticed a few of them were getting dangerously close to my paint. Still, it beats trying to find where the tornado dropped my truck.
• Oh, speaking of Tornadoes, I should mention that this website was offline for a while last night, presumably for that reason. The server is actually in Kentucky… right in the middle of those storms.

Ok, I was a whimp to complain about cold and freezing rain.   It sure beats winter tornados, John Lester, NewsOXY:

Tornadoes touched down in the southern US states of Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi on Tuesday night, causing severe damage and injures as many as 86 people.

At this time, there are three fatalities to count from the storm system.

Come to think about, Rochester weather isn’t so bad after all.

Addendum:

Update from, New York Times:

A wide swath of thunderstorms packing tornadoes, high winds and hail swept through the South on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, killing at least 48 people, injuring at least 100 more and leaving authorities searching for others who may be trapped in rubble.

The media paints the myth of some sort of glorious political Camelot otherwise called the Kennedy Administration.   Those old enough to have survived it, or willing to read some history are more apt to associate Kennedy with the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam and the Cuban Missile Crisis than any Camelot.    Still the myth endure. 

So Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg’s endorsement of Baack Obama only shows that she learned her history at the family dinner table and not in the public library.     As for Senator Oldsmobile’s passing on the his brother’s mantle,  Oldsmobile repudiated his brother’s politics of lower taxes and a strong military many Scotch addled decades ago.

Still some observations are in order: 

Betsy Newmark, Betsy’s Page:

From all the hoopla last week about Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg endorsing Obama, you would have thought that JFK himself had risen from the dead to embrace Barack Obama.  

Jonah Goldberg, Townhall: 

And it is a myth. Start with the “Camelot” label. It’s worth remembering that nobody used that word to describe JFK’s presidency when he was alive. The media’s marketing of the term stems from Jackie Kennedy’s recollection that her husband liked the Broadway musical “Camelot,” which had opened a month after Kennedy’s election. Theodore White, a journalist-admirer of Kennedy’s, convinced Life magazine to run with the idea. The musical’s tagline “for a brief shining moment” became an overnight cliché to describe the supposedly glorious idealism of Kennedy’s “thousand daysJ

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder, American Spectator: 

The Kennedys recently endorsed Barack Obama, and Teddy Kennedy drew a parallel with President Kennedy — a vision of a new Camelot rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the Bush administration. Either he was addressing the largest group of amnesiacs ever gathered in one place in history or the media and much of America have been eating funny mushrooms and are in the throes of a mass delusion.

It appears that we will get Sleazegate II, before any version of Blackelot.

The weather outside is frightful.   Good day to be a duck.

Mitt Romney:   I voted for Mitt.  He would make a good president.   Sad to say, Romney is just one horrible candidate, a modern day Jack Kemp.   Romney has won primaries in what three states, Michigan, Massachusetts and Utah.   All three could be called Romney home states.   Sadly for Mitt he can not seem to win a primary outside a home state and he doesn’t have any more home states left.

Mike Huckabee:  He proclaimed the race to be a two man race and that Romney is not one of them.   Sadly for the Huckster is out of southern states.   His Schick doesn’t sell outside the South.    Huckster is running for Veep,  and won’t get it.   He adds nothing to the ticket.

Veep:   Condi Rice.   I know that she brings no geological base and her policy strength foreign policy is the same as McCain’s perceived strength.    Still the democrats are headed to a brokered convention.  Either way a lot a black voters or women voters will feel that the party stabbed their candidate in the back.

John McCain:  It not my task to learn to trust McCain.  It is McCain’s task to give me reason to trust him.

Perfect Storm:  The Republican Party needs to reform her nominating process.   The process has been hijacked by non-republicans and is in the process nominating a person who hates the party.  John McCain likes the Republican Party just like Willie Sutton liked banks.   McCain’s delegate totals are dispositional higher than his percentage of the vote.   Winning every winner take all primary certainly helps.

Gipper:   Ronald Reagan was a democrat.   Had no problem supporting Reagan because Reagan didn’t change.   The Democratic Party changed.    In  contrast McCain has waged open warfare on the Republican Party and now wants the support of the party.   Sure John.

Brokered Conventions:  In brokered conventions the winners will be John McCain and Mrs. Clinton.   The Huckabee and Romney camps are naive and the Clintons have too many political chits.

Have you ever noticed how similar the liberal views of change and diversity are?

The liberal view of “diversity” is a black guy, a white guy, and a woman all espousing the same ultra-liberal ideas as they run for the Presidency.

On the other hand, the liberal view of “change” is a young, black guy espousing the same ultra-liberal ideas that old, white guys like Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and John Kerry have been pushing for years.

Of course I have, John.

Then again, one of the lines in the masthead rotation for quite some time, now is a line I first uttered years ago:

There is nobody so intent on enforcing conformity to their ideas and ideals, as a person who insists on the PC version of diversity, because political correctness brings diversity in everything but thought. -Bithead

The McCain animus apparently transcends ideology. He has admitted his mistakes on immigration, and would not raise taxes, while his ACU ratings are good, and his ADA/ACLU scores are lousy – nearly the exact opposite of those of Obama and Clinton.

That’s Victor Davis Hanson, this morning, making the usual, and fruitless arguments in support of John McCain.

Hanson, as long time readers of this blog will know very well indeed, has a very special place on my reading list… But this morning, I can’t help but think that Hanson’s own statements about preferring McCain aren’t backing him into a logical corner from which he cannot even attempt to break free. Example:

Again, the anger apparently derives from his gratuitous past snubbing of prominent conservatives (especially the notion that a rude McCain didn’t need them then, but a conciliatory one does now) and can’t be assuaged. At this point, I take the base’s claims they will sit out – or that Hillary or Obama is no worse than McCain-as genuine.

And given their furor expressed so far on the record, it would be almost impossible for them to recant, and they shouldn’t be defamed or coerced to try. No doubt they will lead the charge in a year or two against the liberal Supreme Court nominations of a President Obama or Clinton, or payroll and income tax increases, or a timetable withdrawal from Iraq. Just as McCain is trying to win them back now, they will try to win back then those who are turned off by the venom expressed against the likely Republican candidate. In either case, it will be nearly impossible to do so.

Given that situation, it seems unlikely that McCain will be elected. Someone as smart and experienced as Hanson will see this with a even little self-honesty applied.

Look; the last several cycles have been hair’s width close, close enough that nobody… and I mean nobody… is going to win without the full support of the base. Sorry, it’s just not going to happen.  Since we appear to be moving in the direction of a brokered convention anyway, Republicans would seem to have a viable way to reverse the self-destructive trend the Rockefeller wing of the Republican party seems to have us set on, toward McCain.

Such a smart individual will also see, particularly given the statement…

Like many I prefer McCain but will gladly support Romney if he wins the nomination.

… that Romney is by far the better candidate in the general election, given those conditions, since even by Hanson’s lights, Romney is far more likely to pick up the support of the whole of the Republican party in a general election, than the candidate picked for us by the Democrats, the RINOS and the press. I submit that the number of McCain supporters who would vote Romney in the general election is far higher than the number of Romney supporters who would vote for McCain in the general election.
However, I note with interest Hanson is unwilling to directly SAY that. I can only attribute it to a degree of “He’s my guy” that is so deeply ingrained as to transcend logic.

And frankly, I’m getting more than a little tired of being told that those objections to McCain are illogical and deranged… a ploy which several, Hanson, Joyner and a few others have been floating.  So you can understand that I note with interest, Andy McCarthy’s reply to Hanson:

McCain has not “admitted his mistakes on immigration.” He has not abandoned the goal of legalizing the status of illegal aliens (his biggest mistake since it incentivizes them to wait it out in the U.S. rather than go home and try to immigrate legally); and he refuses to say he would not sign his disastrous comprehensive reform if it crossed his desk as president.Sen. McCain says he won’t raise taxes, but he also says he opposed the Bush tax cuts because they were not matched by spending cuts – a claim that is demonstrably false (he opposed them on class-warfare grounds – because they benefited “the rich”).

Finally, Dr. Hanson’s point about judges may be the least persuasive of all.

Sen. McCain’s two major legal issues over the past decade have been the suppression of political speech (aka campaign finance reform) and the aforementioned extension of Geneva Convention and other legal protections to alien terrorists. Since 2002, these issues have been the subject of several Supreme Court decisions, most notably McConnell and Wisconsin Right to Life on campaign finance and Rasul and Hamdan on rights for enemy combatants. In each of those cases, McCain’s ardent position was the polar opposite of what he refers to as “strict construction” of the law. In each of those cases, McCain’s positions were adopted by Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer – the liberal wing of the court (Justice Souter, by the way, is the gift that keeps on giving whose nomination was championed by Warren Rudman -a top McCain adviser previously floated by the senator as a potential Attorney General in a McCain administration.) The conservative justices the senator claims to regard as models roundly rejected McCain’s legal theories.

So, not only is there a deeply ingrained objection to McCain, but there’s very logical, and very reasonable objections to McCain… reasons and objections which have yet to be answered at all, much less factually. It amazes me that the normally quite logical Hanson isn’t seeing this.

Related: Dr. Sanity, TBogg and Classical Values

Move America Forward – www.MoveAmericaForward.org – is calling on patriotic Americans from near and far to come to Berkeley, California and join us for a protest of the Berkeley City Council – in response to their recent efforts to silence the Marines and chase all vestiges of the military out of their city.  Remember, the City Council called the Marines, “unwelcome intruders” and accused them of commiting acts of “barbarity.”
Well now the rest of America will be heard from this Tuesday, February 12th when we organize a giant pro-America rally to protest the Berkeley City Council when they gather for their City Council meeting.

The City Council meeting takes place at 7:00 PM at 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Berkeley, CA.
Move America Forward is asking people to show up by 5:00 PM if possible – so we have a crowd gathered in time for the media crews, and so we can secure seats for supporters inside the City Council Chambers.

(Note:  Since the media will be covering this story all day, we’ll have Move America Forward staffers outside the City Council chambers beginning at 5:00 AM.  We’d sure like it if some of you could either join us for brief periods of time throughout the day, or join us for our all day pro-troop vigil!)

Again – the pro-troop/anti-Berkeley City Council rally takes place on Tuesday, February 12th, outside of their City Council Chambers.  We’re asking people to join us by 5:00 PM if possible.  The address:  2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA.   You can get a map of the location – HERE.

Bring your American flag with you!

More details can be found at the Move America Forward website:  http://www.MoveAmericaForward.org

Note these are early numbers, not necessarily calls.

As of when this is posted, 22:15 eastern, here’s the leaders so far:

Alabama: Huckabee/Obama

Alaska: Not in/Not in

Arkansas: Huckabee/Clinton

Colorado: not in/Not in

Deleware: McCain/Obama

Georgia: Huckabee/Obama

Idaho: Not in/Obama (Idaho’s Republicans caucus on May 27th)

Illinois: McCain/Obama

Kansas: Not In/Obama (Kansas Republicans caucus on 2/9)

Massachusetts: Romney/Clinton

Minnesota: Romney/Obama

Missouri: Huckabee/Clinton

Montana: Romney/Not In (Montana’s Democrats caucus on 6/3)

New Jersey: McCain/Clinton

New Mexico Not in/Not In (New Mexico Republicans Caucus on 6/3)

New York: McCain/Clinton

North Dakota: Not In/Obama

Oklahoma: McCain/Clinton

Tennessee: Huckabee/Clinton (Tornadoes in Memphis area may affect return timing)

Utah: Romney/Edwards

West Virginia: Huckabee/Not In (West Virginia Democrats vote on 5/13)

Again, note that these are early counts, and the win/loss may… nay.. WILL change on at least some of these… and there’s the west coast states to consider as well.

Addendum:  (David L)

Byran, Hot Air, has the resuls.   For the republicans, John McCain was the clear winner.   For the democrats, it was a split.

• Figures. Heaviest traffic day we’ve had in a month, and there’s an WordPress update to be done. I guess I’ll hold off on it until tomorrow, or perhaps the weekend, depending.
• Rained like crazy here this morning. We actually had some thunder and lightning, last night, too. At 9 this morning, we had 52 degrees out. We’re supposed to be getting colder later today and tonight. Usually, warmer weather affects voting turnouts, but my guess is it won’t affect them much, today, because the warmer weather has wind and rain attached to it.
• Head drooling idiot Chris Bowers says: “It can no longer be avoided: super delegates will determine the Democratic Presidential nominee this year.” Well, gee, Chris. Seems Camp Clinton has already figured that one out.
• I note Andy McCarthy at NRO:
  

  Bottom line: The United States does not currently use waterboarding as a tactic to derive intelligence. There is, moreover, no expectation that waterboarding will be added to the menu of interrogation methods, a process that would involve several unlikely steps.Of course, war critics and anti-torture activists will never be satisfied. Too many of them are more invested in further inflating yesterday’s legal quarrels than preparing for tomorrow’s national security needs. But for people of good will — those who concede that there have always been strong arguments on both sides of this debate — it’s time to let go.

  Let’s take a step back. Credible reporting — which is not addressed in the attorney general’s letter — indicates that waterboarding has been used on no more than three of the thousands of detainees the United States has held, long and short term, since military operations against radical Islam began over six years ago. Assuming (as I do), that it was used on those three (all top-tier al-Qaeda operatives), the same credible reporting also tells us the tactic has not been used in over four years.

  So we did it an infinitesimal number of times, we haven’t done it in years, we don’t currently do it, the regulations in place don’t permit it, and it seems inconceivable that future regulations will alter that.

  Is this issue really worth scandalizing ourselves over?

  Well, of COURSE it is, Andy, if you’re a member of the opposition trying to score points with the drooling idiots.  Which is exactly the point of this whole thing. But consider, please, what such people are willing to sacrifice for their point scoring.  And by the way, the same goes for wiretaps. Apparently, such people think our national security isn’t worth using all the tools to hand… and that such security can be profitably put at risk so as to allow them to make political hay. And yes, I would include John McCain in that statement.

• Finally, here’s a bumper sticker that Michelle picked up from a reader.

The nanny state nazis never stop trying to run other peoples’ lives.  Now a study sure to frost Mrs. Clinton’s boxers.   Smoking and being obese saves money.   Fat obese smokers require less medical care and are simply cheaper to treat.   So after HillaryCare II, it will be your patriotic duty to have extra cheese on the your pizza, a beer to wash it down and a smoke afterwords, Maria Cheng:

LONDON (AP) — Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn’t save money, researchers reported Monday. It costs more to care for healthy people who live years longer, according to a Dutch study that counters the common perception that preventing obesity would save governments millions of dollars

Sure have that extra piece of pie.  It is your patriotic duty.

Hmmm. Interesting… Both Obama and Romney are leading in California.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama surged to a big lead over Hillary Clinton in California hours before “Super Tuesday” voting began in 24 states, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.

In the Republican race, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney held a 7-point advantage on Arizona Sen. John McCain in California, while McCain added to commanding double-digit leads in New York and New Jersey.

This is going to be interesting…

Local plug, wasn’t a bad weekend for Upstate New York.  Syracuse grad, Art Monk got elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame.  Well deserved.  Waterloo native, Syracuse grad coach, and Rochester Institute of Technology head coach Tom Coughlin won the Super Bowl and Syracuse grad David Tyree caught a touchdown poss and had the catch of the game.  Not bad.

John McCain versus Mrs. Clinton. Bob Dole has chided Rush Limbaugh for not supporting McCain.  Dole is a republican first and conservative second.  Limbaugh is a movement conservative first.  As Rush as said many times, movements are about advancing causes.  Parties are about winning elections.  A party will sacrifice a cause to win an election, as Dole is doing by backing McCain.  Offering up a candidate such as McCain who will not advance the cause, it is not a means to garner support.

Health care.  Mrs. Clinton’s health care mandate has been attacked from the left, Deborah Burger, Puffington Post:

Someone needs to tell Senator Hillary Clinton and her minions to stop practicing consumer fraud on healthcare. Forcing people to buy insurance is not “universal healthcare.”

For a few brief seconds, I was tempted to make Burger the Snark of the Day., I am sure that Deborah will be heart broken.  Sadly, Burger gets her knickers in a twist because Mrs. Clinton treats health care as a commodity.  Well Earth to Burger, health care is a commodity, to wit a product of human endeavor.

Thomas Sowell, 101, the supply of any product of human endeavor is finite,.  The distribution of any commodity will be limited.  Burger yearn for a no cost and unlimited supply of health care.  She needs to find some other planet on which to live.  Of course the PP is mad because Mrs. Clinton is not just giving away free health coverage.

Liberalism, Another letter to the fish wrapper chides President Bush for being generous enough in giving way the tax payer money.  Generosity is when you give away your property.  Giving way the property of others is called theft.  If you think we need to do more about say AIDS in Africa, write a check.  Otherwise shut up.

More liberalism, an op-ed asserts that because young black males have a much higher rate of HIV infection, they need special attention from the government.  Does the same logic apply to same population with respect to murder rates?

More, Code Pink is protesting a Marine Corps recruiting station in Berkley, California.  Evidently Code Pink has no analogous plans to protest the local Berkley abortuariums.