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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.

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

In a Pajamas Media article I wrote just after Obama was deified:

Indeed, it is Obama who apparently is doing the most in terms of recognizing (the far left’s bleeding anti-Bush vitriol notwithstanding) that Mr. Bush didn’t do that bad

The Obama method, by Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media:

[Barack] Obama, who was always himself given something (take your pick—Harvard admission, Harvard Law Review billet, Chicago Law School tenure offer, Noble Peace Prize, etc.) without requisite achievement, is

David Scrambled:

NPR can either go partisan or public, Michael Meyers, New York Daily News, is lost in the weeds with respect to National Public Radio:

Juan Williams is right; NPR was way off base firing him

Dogs Know Obama:

Have you ever heard that a dog ‘knows’ when an earthquake is about to hit?

Have you ever heard that a dog can ‘sense’ when a tornado is stirring up, even 20 miles away?

Do you remember

Mr. Attorney General – STFU, from Associated Press:

Meeting Tuesday with religious leaders to discuss recent attacks on Muslims and mosques around the U.S., Attorney General Eric Holder called the planned burning both idiotic and dangerous, according to

Via “Young Americans for Liberty”:

I suggest Obama and the left are to blame. We saw nothing of the sort before the left swept into power and the new attitudes about our soldiers and their job in Iraq. Given the

Yep… no disconnect here.

Two people were injured when two fuel tanks exploded and a truck caught fire at Monroe County’s alternative fuel station.

Around 12:50 p.m. Thursday, a fuel tank was being exchanged for another at the green fuel plant on Scottsville Road.

As regular readers will know, I’ve had a new job for a few months now which has prevented me from doing much blogging.

That’s changing, with the addition of an HP/Compaq NC6000 nI picked up used for $100. Everything’s there,

I’ve been spending a good deal of time the last several weeks thinking about many things as I go about the business of driving my truck, and piloting the nation’s freight to where it needs to go. It’s a kind

I see it as nothing short of alarming that we go forward with the Fourth of July /Independence Day celebrations as if nothing was wrong; as if the instrument which has served better than any other to protect our freedoms

The news events of the last few months have certainly put the Obama Administration in a peculiar position.  The Gulf crisis notwithstanding, most of these events have been created by this president and his staff.

Team Obama went the the