Breakfast Scramble (Friday)

Religion of Peace:

Islambad, Pakistan (CNN) — Two prominent Pakistani Muslim leaders threatened Wednesday to call for nationwide protests if the president pardons a Christian woman sentenced to death for insulting the Muslim prophet Mohammed.

“If the president

Editor’s note:

As this is written, (Edited, really) I’m preparing to go to bed. I have to leave at 3am for Southern PA from my western NY home, to make a 10am delivery.

As such I really don’t have a

Jimmy Carter has the Norks all wrong, former and disgraced President Jimmy Carter wants to appease North Korea for their recent temper tantrum, from the Washington Post:

No one can completely understand the motivations of the North Koreans,

Obami* stuck on Green, going green is not the same as going smart.  from the Washington Post:

[Laurence] Anton has been out of work since 2008, when his job as a surveyor vanished with Florida’s once-sizzling housing market.

TSA stuck on stupid, TSA chief John Pistole, from CNN:

Well, I think the Israeli model, which a number of people have talked about, uses intelligence in a different way, profiling. And then if in terms of a

If these completely arbitrary naked scans and gropings of American citizens by the TSA could actually protect us from terrorists, then perhaps we would be willing to go along with them. But surely it has already occurred to the terrorists

No Shat Sherlock, TSA grope down will kill people.  Just the facts Ma’am.  As driving is much more dangerous than flying, anything which discourage air travel and motivates people to drive, actually costs lives, from Hill:

As the

Doug Mataconis over at OTB, is commenting on the Anti-Palin backlash going on, and seems to me quite willing to be part of that backlash.

I’ve already made note since the elections of reports of growing concern about Palin

An interesting problem showed up after last week’s update.  I started running out of memory while manipulating plug ins.  Turns out that the stock memory allocation settings wordpress had werelow for some of the plug ins I’ve been running.  I’ve

Bruce McQuain asks the question:
So are Obama and the Democrats focused like a laser on jobs and the economy?

Then, Bruce answers his own question with the rather obvious, “Uh… No.”

The point is taken, Bruce.  That said, consider

Putting the security back in air travel, by Muchael J. Totten, New York Post:

Security officials should pay less attention to objects, and more attention to people.

The Israelis do. They are, out of dreadful necessity, the world’s

The the big news story for the last couple of weeks has been the IPO of General Motors .  They managed to raise something on the order of $20 billion last week selling literally millions of shares owned by the

Dumbo’s Direction, from Eugene Robinson, RCP:

For what it’s worth, my advice for Obama is to forget the Republicans.  Not literally, of course — the new House leadership is going to make itself hard to ignore. But ultimately,

Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) too stupid to be Senator:

More than just retransmission consent ailes our television markets. We need new catalysts for quality news and entertainment programming. I hunger for quality news. I’m tired of the right and the

Alvin Greene for President, if we run him, the blacks will vote for him.  from Meredeth Shiner, Poltico:

“I’m the next president,” Greene said. “I’ll be 35 … just before November, so I was born to be president. I’m the