Nightly Ramble: The ‘Corner Store’ Edition

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It’s the Corner Store edition. Just a few quick items. In, and out.

• Obama to be upstatged: As you likely already know, Barack

Mrs. Clinton on advancing human rights issues with the ChiComs, via Gateway Pundit:

“But our pressing on those issues can’t interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis.”

The difference between antropogenic

James Lewis, American Thinker[sic], is completely blind to the lessons of tragedies like Blacksbug and Mumbai:

It now appears that 10 commando-trained terrorists with Pakistani jihadist training were able to kill at least 172 people and wound almost

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… Bitblog’s Nightly Ramble.

Friday, and lots of fresh snow up the ground in Bitsville, today. A lot of it coming from the Obama people, and congressional

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere: Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

Lots going on.

• So, Ol’ Gaffe-O-Matic Biden and, one assumes, B. O. both think John McCain is wrong on security? Is that why they both

Potemkin village.

If voters pay attention instead to the things Obama is saying, the case against an Obama presidency will be clear. 

Lorie Byrd, Townhall.

As attributed to Barack Obama by Hugh Hewitt, Townhall,  via Dale Franks,

Yeah, I know. I”ve not said much about The Olympics.

Truth to tell, it really hasn’t managed to capture my interest this time around. Then again, there are very few spots that do, anymore. No, it’s not that I’ve turned

If there is one thing that Barack Obama has demonstrated it is that he can not handle “distractions.”    Well as Jim Gerhaghty, National Review, demonsrates, the real world is full of distractions:

We may be on the verge of

• 08-08-08. Not sure it means anything, but it’s interesting.
• Just about mid-summer. The Telegraph reports what I told you about at about mid-spring would happen at Mid-summer: The great oil Bubble has burst.
  

  The market’s conviction that oil prices were

Attributed to Mrs. Pelosi by Jimmie, Sundries Shack:

“The House is in adjournment. The lights are off, the mikes are off…They can talk all they want. We’re just doing what we normally do.”

Even BO is calling the price

Dirty Harry Reid, and his eco-freak friends, don’t like oil and they don’t like us producing our own oil.   Dirty Harry would have us conserve out way out of current mess.  James Hamilton, Econobrowser, has posted a  long, detailed

Boortz today looks in some detail and the back and forth over Chiana drilling in the gulf… and goes doumentation heavy on us.  Go and read.

The bottom line: They’re not drilling there now, but could be, because all the

Interesting questions from Victor Davis Hanson, this morning…

Why is the U.N. holding conferences about rising food prices, but not spiraling oil prices that in various ways account for them? Somehow in the globalist mindset the agricultural producing world

• Fuel prices have had a small effect on the amount of travel over the weekend, though not as much as they apparently figured on. The difference amounts to about 1% less than last year.  The problem with judging how

• At some point, someone with some brains is going to show up and figure out that all the candlelight vigils ever held don’t mean squat for stuff like this. And for that matter, stuff like this. And stuff like this,