The Ramble for 3-22-12

Carlisle, PA— Actually, I’m a little closer to Harrisburg… but whatever.

GREAT TO BE BACK– Yes, it took a while, but we’re back. I simply got fed up with the antics at the webhost I was using.  Far too much

Somewhere the Sun is shining, from Scott Wong, Politico:

And Palin turned to an extended ship metaphor to make her point that the country needs to “shift gears and change course” from Obama’s economic policies of bigger government,

SYRACUSE, NY– As this is written I’m being unloaded in Syracuse.  A grey morning, here with a bit of rain.  I may end up going home after this, but I’m hoping not, since it means a shorter check. It’s Friday

L. Donald played Dumbo like a cheap fiddle. How is that the Messiah, with the world class intellect and temperament got played like a cheap fiddle at a hoe down?  From Jim Kunhhenn:

WASHINGTON (AP) – Confronting doubters

MD call an MD, the entire state of Maryland appears to be be in dire need of a medical doctor.  Chris Polis, a twenty-two years old male, entered a occupied female restroom in a Baltimore area McDonalds Apparently exposed

Taking Dumbo Care to Tusk:

ST.  PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a potential GOP presidential candidate, stepped up his attack Thursday on President Barack Obama’s federal health care law with a court filing challenging its

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• EXPANDING ON NY23: Yes, I put up an extended commentary on the NY23 lessons this morning.  Michelle Malkin, today,  expands on this

Nobody does it better.

Hat tip photo:  Telegraph(UK)

The Gunny, b/k/a R. Lee Ermey, is doing a show on edged weapons tonight.   Somehow I think the Gunny will miss ths one,  from an clearly impressed Boingboing:

A quick-thinking

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This is the “Beep Beep” Edition. If you don’t get the reference, look here.

• The Obamacare Telethon:  No, I didn’t bother watching

• 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.

Why does the left block US energy development? The answer is their value system is different from the mainstream of the country. But the left’s blocking energy development costs all of us.

Case in point. Do you know how much

I’m to the point where I can draw no other conclusion than our government isn’t interested in solving the problem of high gasoline prices. The evidence for this goes back well prior to the current wave of price hikes, and

I’ve posted this before, but I think it bears revisiting… here’s how to raise fuel prices should you want to do it…

* Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will

• Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will force us to get oil from the least stable spots in the world, thus forcing not only higher prices, but forcing us to