Nightly Ramble:midweek

• Busy watching the Sabres beat up on Tampa Bay, so I didn’t get to this until late. PLayoff time, you know… and it looks to me like they’ll be there. IN this win, they entered the third with a 4

I’ve not turned out a single issue ramble in some months, now, Tonight seems the time.

I’ll say this at the outset; I have been predisposed to not trust what Obama has to say on much of anything in general,

So, Obama is going to try to diffuse the race issue he has so far benefitted from. How? By giving a  speech. The trouble with that idea, of course, is that the speech comes almost directly on the heels of

(With apologies to “Sweetness and Light”, I couldn’t resist)

Brad Freidman writes at BradBlog:

“Alegre”, a longtime Daily Kos diarist, has called for a writers strike at the world’s largest supposedly-Progressive blog site, due to what she says has

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

Sister Toldjah rips Barack Obama.  a.k.a BO Plenty:

By the way, I’m calling Barack Obama out on the outrageous lie he told today about not being present in Wright’s church when he made the offensive hateful remarks that have been

Rich Lowry notes something that’s been unsettling to me the last several days:

When an unimpeachably liberal former vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic party is likened to David Duke by a liberal media hero, the political apocalypse — or at

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

•  The racist card and the sexist card. Is Geraldine Ferraro a racist? Eh, likely not. But it is of note that the charge is coming fast and furious against her from Obama’s supporters, isn’t it?I mean, look…You knew the race

Passed along by a reader. I’m sure this one’s been making the rounds. I’m equally sure the leftsts will claim it’s been ‘debunked’, but it hasn’t. This stuff is going to come up, no matter who the Democrats nominate. Forewarned

Impossible Dream, Independent(UK)

Well she is a blond,  Ireland On-Line:

Patricia Arquette questioned how open-minded she was when her transgender brother Alexis first announced he was going to become a womanP

Patrica, he is still your

Conservative Reader makes several good points last night, along the lines of:

He said, it seems as time goes on, we are becoming more and more intolerant of bad behavior. Not that it should be okay to engage in illicit

(Queue Beatles, Revolution Number 9)

OK, for all that we’ve been busy chatting about how Spitzer came over at the Mayflower, there was , in fact, other stuff in my head, and on the wires, besides Spitzer, today. Here’s

Preface:  One, it is neither my intent to blog about Silda Spitzer, nor to pass judgment.   She only  serves as the vehicle of this discussion.   Two, I find it aggravating when discussing issues pertaining to women that some can not,

NEW YORK -FOX-  New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has resigned.

The news completes a rapid and stunning fall from power following unchallenged reports linking him to a high-priced prostitution ring.

“I am deeply sorry that I did not live up