Nightly Ramble: Suicide; Diet; The Obama Droop; Congress’ Ban on Oil Drilling to End in October, Assuming They Don’t Legislate a Ban Extention; More

• 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

One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result. This article by Joel Kotkin presents the data showing the urban cores going more and more for the democrats since 1960. He points out the

To bolster his rather meager political resume, BO had argued that hiss words, not his rather scant deeds, matter, video:

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Simply put, BO’s only politcal success has been to win elections.  Yet having a skimpy political record for the

• I note with interest, Brian Mahoney over at Radio Equalizer, pretty much echoing my thoughts of  as regards the Knoxville Shooter and the attempt tp attach him to all things right-wing. As Brian says:
  

  Our lefty friends need to decide

Jim Rutttenberg, New York Times, is shocked that John McCain is painting BO as ill-informed, arrogant and out of touch:

WASHINGTON — After spending much of the summer searching for an effective line of attack against Senator Barack Obama

Bit rambled:

Obama. Reparations. ‘Nuff said.

Not quite enough.   Speaking at the UNITY ’08 conventionb, BO said, Laurie Au, Star-Bulletin, Honolulu:

“There’s no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as

• At some point, the rain around here has to stop. Not that we’ve had flooding of any serious amounts, but it’s rained around here about every day this summer, for at least part of the day. Today is another example.

• A second place at the OTB Sheep Off caption contest.

• So, the Democrats are almost to a man, includng Obama, claiming that the Surge didn’t work. So why, then, is Obama proposing another surge, this time in Afghanistan?

• Oil is

• Yeah, I was out all weekend. So, we made the trip over the weekend, to Fair Haven State Park, which is one of the best in the state. There’s a problem, though with the state Reservation system for their campgrounds;

Phil, ClueBatting Cage, has the Bumper Snicker of the Day::

I see Obama’s campaign plane has been outfitted with a new logo…

It, and all the adulation, lead me to come up with this one

Hat tip:  Morgan Freeberg,

One of the biggist liabilities that Barack Obama has, is the people who are already going to vote for him.  A case in point shows up in the Rocky Mountain News this morning, in an article by Daniel J. Chacon:

John R. Bolton, in the Los Angeles Times:

First, urging greater U.S.-European cooperation, Obama said, “The burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.” Having earlier proclaimed himself “a fellow citizen of the world” with his German hosts,

Courtesy James Lewis, American Thinker:

For Barack and Michelle Obama, the biggest blind spot is Ego Tripping — the temptations of boastful grandiosity. It’s Obama’s need to be seen as Jesus Christ Superstar. They have to “remake the world,”

• I managed to catch a first place this week at OTB’s Caption Contest.
• for the last week or so, we’ve brought up John Edwards and his scandal. Kaus has been watching this for a while too, all credit to

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