Economy slowing?

It don’t think we’re quite here yet.

Americans want “change” at any cost. . .

. . .which really is an immature reason to vote.  Do Americans really know anything about government and oversized bureaucracy?

Do Americans honestly believe that the Obama™ brand will impart real change in Washington when the apparatus controlling his every appearance and scripting his every word already controls most of the (supposedly) despised Washington establishment?  Whether it’s Obama, Clinton, or even McCain, it’s  “Honey, which color scarf should our little Establishment wear today?”

So yeah, let’s vote for “Change”.

Now the complete opposite could be true

Warmer oceans might actually reduce the number of Atlantic hurricanes making landfall.

A warming global ocean — influencing the winds that shear off the tops of developing storms — could mean fewer Atlantic hurricanes striking the United States according to new findings by NOAA climate scientists.

We really just don’t know yet, do we?

Official: George Soros no more than a moneyed spammer

Soros says we’re suffering through the worst market crisis in 60 years.   He should know–he designed it that way.  Proof?  I have none.  But if he’s allowed innuendo, so am I.

This man, through his extensive network of “non-biased” surrogates, has finally achieved the fearsome status his detractors had long warned about—The Ulltra Spammer.  Able to flood every important information market with context-free opinion left-leaning “facts” with near impunity, he can even manage to be get some of his press releases treated as ‘news‘ by complacent reporters.

But we’re told constantly that Ruppie Murdoch is the one to watch out for.  And there’s a Vast Rightwing Conspiracy out there somewhere menacing Americans.

Here we go again!

From George Soros’ wallet to the grubby little mouths of leftist sycophants nationwide:

Bush lied about the war and we searched Lexis-Nexis to prove it! Plus, our press release, ahem, er “study” will be disseminated by the AP as hard news!

Now, who exactly politicized the White House?

Something that should figure into the Democrat’s race, but probably won’t.

Hitchens on identity politics

“The problem is that Sen. Obama wants us to transcend something at the same time he implicitly asks us to give that same something as a reason to vote for him. I must say that the lyricism with which he does this has double and triple the charm of Mrs. Clinton’s heavily-scripted trudge through the landscape, but the irony is still the same.”

A hollow victory for McCain

Another reason why primaries just aren’t the good indicators they used to be.

Did they really get what they deserved?

The AP attempts to deflect the blame for the recent San Francisco Zoo tiger attack from the zoo to the tiger’s victims. The moral of the story apparently seems to be this—-A perfectly decent (not to mention RARE) tiger was wasted because of inhumane taunting by some young men who were high on drugs and alcohol. Heck, the men may have even driven to the zoo under the influence of controlled substances! We already have enough of a problem protecting these rare creatures in the wild, and then to have some young punks make things worse, arrgghhh. . . .

This is like blaming a rape victim for the rape because she was wearing a provocative outfit.

SAN FRANCISCO — One of the three victims of San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police said in court documents filed Thursday.Paul Dhaliwal, 19, told the father of Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, who was killed, that the three yelled and waved at the tiger but insisted they never threw anything into its pen to provoke the cat, according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.

“As a result of this investigation, (police believe) that the tiger may have been taunted/agitated by its eventual victims,” according to Inspector Valerie Matthews, who prepared the affidavit. Police believe that “this factor contributed to the tiger escaping from its enclosure and attacking its victims,” she said.

Although these men acted immaturely, it’s not like they opened the tiger’s enclosure, moved the railing closer to the danger zone, or even entered the enclosure.

More. .

Mark Geragos, an attorney for the Dhaliwal brothers, did not immediately return a call late Thursday by The Associated Press for comment. He has repeatedly said they did not taunt the tiger.

A call to Sousa also wasn’t returned.

Toxicology results for Dhaliwal showed that his blood alcohol level was 0.16 — twice the legal limit for driving, according to the affidavit. His 24-year-old brother Kulbir Dhaliwal and Sousa also had alcohol in their blood but within the legal limit, Matthews wrote.

All three also had marijuana in their systems, Matthews said. Kulbir Dhaliwal told police that the three had smoked pot and each had “a couple shots of vodka” before leaving San Jose for the zoo on Christmas Day the affidavit said.

Police found a small amount of marijuana in Kulbir Dhaliwal’s 2002 BMW, which the victims rode to the zoo, as well as a partially filled bottle of vodka, according to court documents.

Investigators also recovered messages and images from the cell phones, but apparently nothing incriminating in connection with the tiger attack, the Chronicle reported.

Sam Singer, a spokesman for the zoo, said he had not seen the documents but believed the victims did taunt the animal, even though they claim they hadn’t.

“Those brothers painted a completely different picture to the public and the press,” Singer said. “Now it’s starting to come out that what they said is not true.”

I get it now. They’re not only immature taunters, they’re potsmoking liars. . . which is apparently enough to tarnish your obit even if you were killed by a negligent public institution.

Loving thy pop idols

Sorry for perpetuating this tabloid garbage, but–yikes.   Amy Winehouse looking her best!

Bad day to be considered short

From increased risks of suicide to genetic links to arthritis, the vertically-challenged have lots of obstacles to overcome.

Euro-bureaucracy urges greening of F1 motorsport

EU urges F1 to adopt green technology, including using 4-cylinder engines and biofuel. . .and the FIA is amenable!

The (EU) statement said: “MEPs recognise the role motor sport can play in changing attitudes and customer behaviour towards environmentally friendly technology.

Why does everything need to serve a greater purpose?

That which should be obvious is actually news

David Broder notices that the top three Democratic candidates don’t have single day of executive experience on their resume.   Instead, the option is to vote for “change” or to “transcend politics”.

“Bridging the divide”

Ex-GOP lawmaker charged in terror conspiracy.   Debbie Schlussel is floored that her former boss was a part of this alleged treason.

Giant sucking sound located south of Mexican border

Ross Perot was right.

Scientists reveal vast “plumbing” network underneath the ocean, complete with massive holes and potential for all kinds of underwater mayhem.

Open borders democracy

From SeeDubya - how not to win friends and influence judges after you’ve been fingered for providing laundered Mexican drug money to Dem candidates.

Obama, now 100% Prophet

Barack Obama, the Candidate of Hope and Light, must be the Chosen One.  He proclaims his hallucinations and is just a little susceptible to delusions,  just like a true prophet.  Regarding the Anbar Awakening:

“much of that violence has been reduced because there was an agreement with tribes in Anbar Province, Sunni tribes, who started to see, after the Democrats were elected in 2006, you know what? — the Americans may be leaving soon. And we are going to be left very vulnerable to the Shias. We should start negotiating now.”

Let-me-get-this-straight.   The Democrats’ most risible public persona–a strong public willingness to deflate a deployed American military by any means necessary –also happens to be their most effective foreign policy instrument? And one they’re most proud of?

Unless he has some hard evidence proving Anbar sheiks were somehow able to predict the American elections in 2006 (as Kristol points out), I sincerely doubt that Obama is honestly capable of explaining how his thesis actually tied to events on the ground.

This is not spin of the highest order, this is delusional prophecy.

Here it comes

Perhaps even the Times is sick of Clintonian spin–they’re calling BS on Hillary’s selective memory regarding the buildup to the war in Iraq in 2002. Also, although unnoticed by the Times, was her entirely predictable assertion yesterday on Meet the Press claiming her share of responsibility for the success of the Surge.

Compelling, and rich.

Anti-Castro patriots still fighting the good fight

Medea Benjamin gets bent in Miami after confronting Cuban-American group.

Favorite quote “Pink is close to red”.

Obama loses New Hampshire, Kenya talks deteriorate

Less than a week after Barack Obama phoned Kenyan leaders urging a dialog between political parties, the talks fail:

NAIROBI, KENYA — Efforts to resolve Kenya’s disputed presidential election faltered Thursday as diplomats from the United States and African Union left the country without forging an agreement.

Perhaps they were expecting a call from Hillary?

Urgent: Send more heat!

No matter how hard Americans try, they still might not be able to melt all the glacial ice in the Arctic. From Science Daily:

New research challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could not have existed on Earth during past super-warm climate events. The study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego provides strong evidence that a glacial ice cap, about half the size of the modern day glacial ice sheet, existed 91 million years ago during a period of intense global warming.

We have to keep trying, though. It is our children’s destiny.

Britain says it’s backing new nuclear power plants

And I say good.  Construction will be powered by private investment, which should hopefully shut the eco-dummies up about “diverting government resources away from developing renewable energy sources.

Weekend at Bernie’s - 2008

At least give them a gold star for effort:

Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store and tried to cash his Social Security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said.David J. Dalaia and James O’Hare pushed Virgilio Cintron’s body from the Manhattan apartment that O’Hare and Cintron shared to Pay-O-Matic, about a block away, spokesman Paul Browne said witnesses told police.

“The witnesses saw the two pushing the chair with Cintron flopping from side to side and the two individuals propping him up and keeping him from flopping from side to side,” Browne said.

Who needs the Writer’s Guild when there’s sooooo much good stuff already out there?

The traitor who wears a tablecloth on his head

American-born Al Qaeda Spokesman Adam Gadahn lashes out at U.S. in new tape and threatens to assassinate President Bush.

Obamagasm of the highest

Ezra Klein, nearly speaking in tongues about the coming of the Messiah:

Obama’s finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don’t even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. The other great leaders I’ve heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence.

Waiting for Klein’s next installment, where he’ll do a deep dive into Obama’s “policies”!

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