Nightly Ramble:W3C;Celebrity II;Legacy; More

These Nightly Rambles are all things I’ve found during the day. I input them all day long and auto-post whatever I’ve collected at around 4 to 430 eastern. I put things in here that catch my eye but that perhaps

• It’s August, already? Where the hell did July go?   2/3rds of the summer is gone and I’m just getting started on the stuff I wanted to do this year.
• Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption Contest. I gotta admit, that

Captain Ed:

NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube get the skinny on the abrupt cancellation of Barack Obama’s visit to Landstuhl and Ramstein yesterday.  The campaign tried to excuse it by claiming that it wouldn’t be appropriate to visit while

The Campaign Spot, earlier today, says:

Liberal radio talk show host Ed Schultz calls John McCain a warmonger at an Obama rally, and the Obama campaign issues a terse statement that he shouldn’t be called that term (and

I am a wee bit of a fan of the national spelling bee, not becausse I could ever spel worth a darn,,  Rather I enjoy the pure mano e mano aspect of the competition.

Gotta give Mrs. Clinton credit for

• McQ notes this report which finally catches on to the obvious…
  

  Rap music has increasingly glamorized the use of illegal drugs, portraying marijuana, crack and cocaine as symbols of wealth and status, according to a new study by the journal

[Mario] Cuomo said he’s surprised by the cold shoulder he’s received so far from the candidates, especially from Obama, since he has agreed to meet Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions. If the Democrats are willing to negotiate with foreign

Well if you look at what Dave In Texas, Ace of Spades Hq, is reporting, both the Obama and Clinton camps are acting consistent with the belief that they are:

Scandal!!

The Obama campaign can’t shut up about it.

It is a well establshed that Mrs. Clinton feels entitled to simply take what she wants.   We are faced with these facts.

One, Mrs. Clinton wanted the information from Bacack Obama’s passport records.  Joe Conason, Slate

Must be a really slow news day.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department says it is trying to determine whether three contract workers had a political motive for looking at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s passport file.

Two of the

Is Barack Obama’s grandmother a racist, or is BO a fool?   BO as attributed by Jim Geraghty, National Review: 

 “I can no more disown [Reverend Wright] than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me,

Barrack Obama is increasingly exposing himself as someone who has serious problems with the truth:

The Chicago Sun-Times today:In an extensive 80-minute interview with the Sun-Times,White House hopeful Barack Obama laid out just how close he and indicted Chicago businessman

The media does not treat Barack Obama as if were a radical.   Yet people close to Obama, like his wife and his pastor, sure sound like angry hot headed radicals, Brian Ross and Rehab El-Buri, ABC News:

Sen. Barack

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns have looked in the mirror and saw a monster. Gerri Peev, Scotsman:

HILLARY Clinton has been branded a “monster” by one of Barack Obama’s top advisers, as the gloves come off in the

Much is being made just now, of the possiblity of the DNC making a ‘do-over’ in Florida and Michagan.  If I considdered oward Dean a principled man, I’d suggest he wouldn’t do it on the basis of principle. But these