Nightly Ramble: Sharks And Those Who Act Like Them, Fred, Instant Democrats, And More on Supply Side

• First things first: An Honorable Mention at the OTB Caption Contest.
• I’ve noticed that Memeorandum thinks we have a heartbeat again. I’m not at all sure what caused them to hang up on us, but I’m glad we’re back on

• Another Honorable mention at the udderly ridicowlus version of OTB’s caption contest.
• Speaking of OTB, Joyner is running a headline…Huckabee and Al Qaeda Oppose Guantánamo.And James? Huckabee is dead wrong here. This should end his WH run,

• Memo to the Paulbots: If 9/11 was an inside job, you’d not be alive to talk about it today. Think about all of what the hijackers had to do that day to accomplish what they did. You really think your

• There’s apparently a video out showing those Iranian boats attacking US warships. No working links to the vid itself, yet.
• An Honorable Mention at the OTB Caption Contest. Hillary Clinton’s always a good target.
• Two folks talking at work

After many weeks on hold, I’m re-starting the Nightly Ramble. Reasons are many but the bottom line is that there are a lot of subjects I want to touch on but don’t want to write it all out… I’d rather

• A thank you to Michelle Malkin for her link from VDARE.COM. Good article, by the way.
• Noted in passing at Billy Beck’s…

> The Bawlmer Sun had a front page article
> on the “right-wing smear campaign” against
> the

OK a few notes left over from tonight….

Mind you, these are in no particular order.  It’s too fricking late to be that organized.

• No, Adkins, traffic was never a problem.  I should tell you that it did manage to

• “Progressives” are badly mislabeled.  Mostly, by themselves.  Personally, I fail to see what progress there is in buckling to Islamo-Facists, who are fighting to turn the world back to the 14th century, in the name of ‘respecting their culture’. Yet,

• Has it occurred to anyone at the UAW, that job security wouldn’t be an issue if their wage and benefit demands were not so ridiculous?
• Has occurred to anyone at Columbia, that what they did by allowing the Iranian nutjob

One rather gets the impression that this is going to be a stormy week.  And I’m not talking about the weather.  So let’s spend a moment together in the quiet before the storm:

• There’s a lot more info coming in

• The day is already longer than usual… We’ve got another cat admitted at the vet… a serious respiratory infection.  After losing Ray just a few weeks ago, this I didn’t need… to say nothing of the bills involved. (Sigh)
• James

We do get caught up in the day to day… Far more than is good for us, I think.  Both Martin, and Billy, send us reminders of that, today.  Personally, I owe thanks to both of them, for

• Someone whose judgments I value told me here just recently, that it’s not how many hits you’re getting that really matters to the stature of a blog, but who is reading. I’m starting to understand what he meant. The recent

• They’re calling for ten days of relatively dry weather with Thomson the seventies to the eighties, around here.  Not at all unusual, and it looks like we may be able to get some fall camping in.
• Why is it that

This is post 7100. That’s right, 7100 posts, officially, since BitsBlog started. Even GZipped, it comes out around 300mb. A lot of writing, these past 6 and a half years. OK, let’s get to it.

• It amazes me, Billy,