No Runny Eggs

It’s too cold to come up with a pithy open, so I’ll let Lynyrd Skynyrd do the talking…

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• John provides an example of the good that Project Valour-IT does. I am proud to support this cause.
• Amanda Carpenter and Hugh Hewitt face off on the worthiness (or lack thereof) of Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner. I see Geithner as just another example of Chicago politics (yes, I know he’s actually from the Tammany Hall wing).
• Josh Schroeder is shocked, SHOCKED that the U.S. Senate Bean Soup (yes, there is such a thing) has a bunch of pork in it.
• Jim Geraghty reports that the $1 trillion $1.3 trillion “stimulus” has grown 30%.
• King Banian marvels at the request from Duluth for $6 million for a snow-making machine. While the $83,000 per job is a “bargain” compared to the $230,000 per job in the overall “stimulus”, why would a city that averages over 80 inches of snow per year need a snow-making machine?
• Shoebox proves his statement that there is no difference between 57, 58, 59 or 60 ‘Rats in the Senate once again – they’re about to roll over on releasing the other $350 billion in the original bailout.
• Ace found yet another set of words from Barack Obama that have reached their expiration date – his vow to not rest until Osama bin Laden’s head was on a pike in the Oval Office. I wonder if he was worried that Ted “Swimmer” Kennedy and CNN would confuse the two of them again.
• Charlie Sykes compares and contrasts the last and the next inaugurations. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that the presstitutes, especially The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™, are silent about the record cost of this one.
• Dave in Texas found “Baby Come Back” on Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’ iPod, as news that he is pulling back from the nationalization of Venezuela’s oil industry comes to light.
• John Hawkins has reason #243,129 to militarize the southern border – Mexico is one of two countries that are on course for a “rapid and sudden collapse”.
• Zip found the latest piece of evidence that the UN is at the least complicit in Hamas’ war against Israel.
• Bill Quick asks the War College, “(I)f we can’t know our enemy, how can we defeat him?” That’s right, the next generation of warriors are not learning about radical Islam.
• I can’t leave without some warm thoughts – Asian Badger cheers a double dose of goodness coming to southern Wisconsin from the premier aerobatics teams in the world. Mark down 5/30-5/31 and 7/25-7/26 on your calendars NOW!

Well, it is Open Thread Thursday, so take over already.

It’s time for a deep cut…

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• Matt cheers the first blog-to-film project, “Taking Chance”. Before it airs on HBO February 21, do read the post over at BLACKFIVE In fact, go read it now, then come back for the rest of the Scramble/Open Thread Thursday.
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong When We Tinker With Nature, Part I – Sean M. reports we’re a step closer to “Jurassic Park” with the decoding of the long-extinct wooly mammoth’s DNA.
• What Could Possibly Go Wrong When We Tinker With Nature, Part II – McQ reports the
  Gorebal “Warming” acolytes are prepared to go all “Matrix” on the atmosphere to enforce their reality with an “emergency Plan B”. Where, oh where do I begin with this one?
• Ed Morrissey laughs at the weakness of Not-So-Great Britain, which has started handing out heating subsidies for the first time in 10-year existence of the heating bailout program because they can’t handle 12-degree weather. I could offer the adivce of a former President….
• Van Helsing found the North Sea freezing up in jolly old England. In light of that, I think will offer the Brits that advice – put some ice on it.
• Fausta dubs Russian strongman Mad Vladmir Putin “Mr. Freeze” for shutting off the gas spigot to the Ukrane and the Balkans even as Europe freezes.
• Bill Quick and Glenn Reynolds battle it out over the future of the price of oil. While I usually am a fan of history, I do have to note that in the aftermath of the 1979 OPEC shutdown, the threat of the US actually weaning itself off of OPEC was credible, while it is not credible now.
• There are many places I could have gone for news of the adult entertainment industry’s bellying up to the bailout teat, but elliot’s headline/lede combo takes the cake.
• Lance Burri is genuinely shocked that the ‘Rats in Madistan would reintroduce “Healthy” (and Depopulated) Wisconsin with thfe road to the federal version wide open. Of course, the fact that those clamoring for it snookered the populace into “supporting” it without mentioning that it was the $15 billion doubling $30 billion tripling of the total state tax take so vile that it was merely a budget negotiating point last year may have something to do with that.
• Speaking of taxes, Mary Lazich compares the fastest-growing states to state/local tax rates. Other than California, Georgia and North Carolina (all of which have weather in their favor), the rest of the top ten have low taxes. Funny how that works.
• Kathy Carpenter looks into the rather-substantial and -smelly relationship between stalled Senate-Designate Roland Burris (D-IL) and ethically-challenged Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich (D). I wonder if Harry Reid and company are going to up their asking price from Burris in response.
• Flip found the #!@% ¿ Blagojevich Burger. While the guy who’s selling them won’t take less than $10, he’ll gladly take more because it is a “bleeping valuable thing…(only the bleeps aren’t really bleeps).”
• Ken is struck by the similarities between murals of Barack Obama and murals of various despots (mostly Communists). Birds of a feather….
• Fred asks, “What if Barack Obama was picking the Packers new Defensive Coordinator?” Don’t be afraid to answer, especially if you can beat my suggestion of Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson.
• Jeff Wagner highlights the latest “victim” of the Culture of Badassery (©MKH). If only 70-year-old ladies couldn’t have handguns in the home, robbers could break in without worry of being held at gunpoint until the police arrive to arrest them </sarcasm_lefty>.

I WAS going to try to keep it under a baker’s dozen today, but there’s just too much goodness out there. I know I left more than a few bits out, so feed me.

I was going to go with the usual Thursday blues, but Shoebox’s take on the Big Thr…er, UAW bailout shifted the musical focus just a little bit….

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Before I get to the heart of the Scramble, I must pass along a “clarification” from KHQA denouncing its 11/5 story (dumped into the ether) stating that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Corrupt) and President-elect Barack Obama were to meet later that day. Of course, it doesn’t exactly address its 11/8 story from a different reporter that stated that a meeting did take place (which also got dumped into the ether).

• Speaking of corrections, I need to correct a major oversight missing from yesterday’s Blago Scramble Special – Kate dug up a bunch of Blago toons.
• Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin run the Lexis-Nexis numbers on Blago mentions by the presstitutes. Care to guess which is higher; mentions in the last 48 hours or mentions in all of November? Hell, I’ll wager there were more mentions in the last 48 hours than there were in any of the first 11 months.
• Nate Beeler can’t put a price on the criminal complaint against Blago. I believe I can say with some confidence that “@$&*!’N” doesn’t really stand for “@$&*!’N”.
• Gabriel Malor believes his lying eyes over Obama’s greasy assurances. I will note that it is only a pic, so we can’t even read lips on whether they discussed Obama’s replacement in the Senate.
• Jim W. Ainsworth channels Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and various members of Congress answering some bailout questions.
• Lance Burri found immigration wasn’t exactly a deal-breaker in November. Of course, there was no substantive difference between Obama and John McCain on shamnesty.
• Mark Tapscott explains why there is a credibility problem in the DC power structure. Of note, Joe the Plumber wanted off the Straight Double-Talk Express after McCain tried to explain why he was in favor of the $700 billion $850 billion $8 trillion bailout of October.
• Doug Mataconis points out that the current-year deficit is on pace to hit $1 trillion. The truly-scary thing is, other than the bailouts and the on-autopilot increasing welfare programs, the federal government is running on continuing resolutions until sometime after Obama is sworn in, and both he and the Congressional Democrats have a boatload of additional spending plans.
• Uncle Jimbo lays the smackdown on Jimmy Carter’s candy-ass.
• Jo Egelhoff has the proper solution for Wisconsin’s budget crunch – freeze and prune. It’s far better than increasing spending by nearly 10%, with over half of that increase coming from Wisconsin’s own bailout.
• Tom Blumer plays Name That Party, ABC edition. In their montage of 14 political crooks (evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats), they named the GOP crook as such 5 of 7 times (4 in the first sentence, the 5th in the 3rd), but named the ‘Rat crook as such only 2 of 7 times (both in the first sentence).
• Okie Campaigns found 650 scientists, many former Gorbebal “Warming” acolytes, committing heresy against the Religion of Gorebal “Warming”.
• William Teach caught the UN cardinal of Gorebal “Warming” admitting that “(t)here is no clear evidence that global warming is an imminent danger to the world.”
• Tracy Coenen reports Milwaukee County Board Chairman Lee Holloway wants to let others get away with the type of fraud he got away with. I wonder if he’ll try to bend any of his fellow supervisors over their desks this time; he does have a history of that.
• Jim Geraghty wonders why the FBI is asking about Obama’s home purchase (with convicted briber Tony Rezko’s wife also involved).

That’s it; the thread’s yours.

There’s finally enough snow on the ground outside the bunker to drive back the foot that’s slow.

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• JammieWearingFool reports that the next Congress will be known as Teh Most (Un)Ethical Congress Evah Ver. 2.0™, partly because Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told Charlie Rangel (D-NY) that he will continue to write tax laws as long as he wants despite an ongoing House ethics investigation into his failure to pay taxes on various money-making schemes.
• Rick Moran finds history about to repeat itself in Chicago. Of course, back in the day, Michael Bilandic blamed The Next Ice Age for the unremoved snow and consequently lost his mayoral office, while Richard M. Daley’s blaming Gorebal “Warming” and doesn’t face a challenge.
• William Teach answers the question why a significant number of meteorologists (as opposed to climatologists, who are the altar boys and girls in the Church of Gorebal “Warming”) are not buying Gorebal “Warming” hook, line and stink..er, sinker – there is but one constant – back-and-forth change in the weather.
• Lady Logician has a couple more nails in the coffin of the climatic truth Gorebal “Warming”, including the inveterate gamblers in Britain breaking The Man on a white Christmas.
• Stephen Kruiser issued his Envirodork of the Day award to the LeftStreamMedia for applying their election template to the Gorebal “Warming” debate battle.
• RadicalRon found a new hero for those of us who haven’t consumed the Gorebal “Warming” Kool-Aid – Czech President (and soon-to-be EU President) Vaclav Klaus.
• Kat has a lesson from the Massacre of Mumbai – “Do not act as the terrorist expect. Do not be terrified into inaction. Expect no mercy and shrink their window of opportunity to act at every turn.”
• Speaking of the Massacre of Mumbai, Stephen Green wonders how one says “DEFCON 2” in Hindi.
• Dad29 found some serious respect for the US military from their French counterparts.
• Rick Moran dubs Barack Obama “The Promise Breaker”. As Jim Geraghty said way back when, all statements by Barack Obama have an expiration date. All of them.
• Jim Hoft reports the payoffs are starting to come in for the Missouri Obama “Truth Squad”, with one of their number the favorite to become eastern Missouri US Attorney. My advice to Jim is to get across the Mississippi STAT (and probably move south across the Ohio because Illinois isn’t exactly the best place to be – sorry Rick and my other readers south of the toll booths).
• Jon Ham recycles a classic “Mad Magazine” cover for the incoming Obama administration. While he believes things are darkest just before the dawn, I tend to take the “darkest just before things go to pitch black” approach.
• Allahpundit found a CNN poll that says 61% are now “dead set” against bailing out The Big Three automakers the United Auto Workers union.
• Mark Pribonic takes us on a fabulous journey from Henry Ford’s “Let everybody fail, including me” attitude during the Great Depression to the Not-So-Big Three’s tin cups. Do read all the way to the end for Mark’s predictions of what will happen when they burn through their cash.
• Speaking of tin cups, Nate Beeler pictures that as only he can.
• Matt Lewis has a pair of frightening predictions from John Fund. While I agree that Dingy Harry and company will refuse to seat Norm Coleman, nationwide same-day registration will wait until abortion-on-demand is part of the United States Code.

The dogs of doom are howling as well because I have to go to the younger sister’s place for more tech support on their wireless network. Since it’s Thursday, that means the thread’s yours. I know there’s a bunch of stuff I haven’t touched on; I had to deep-six some very good items just to get this out before 10 so I can do said tech support.

I’m still too blue to do anything but morose posts. Since I’m don’t like to do those, let’s open things up.

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• Michelle Malkin set up a petition site to thank Sarah Palin.
• Kat-Mo compares the Pubbie debacle to a family BBQ. Yes, it is on Ace’s place, so there’s plenty of vulgarity.
• John Hawkins has some post-election thoughts that, had I been able to get beyond 50% formulation, I may well have put up.
• Shoebox asks what we all learned. My money is, at least on the GOP end, the same thing they learned after 2006 – NOTHING!
• Tom McMahon puts the year in review. Actually, there was some overlap; a couple of stations started with the Christmas music before Halloween.
• Rick Moran holds out hope that Barack Obama will resist the far-left radicals in Congress. Rick, I know you know Chicago politics like few others, but quite frankly, Obama IS one of them.
• Lao breaks out some classic “Planet of the Apes” as his response.
• Emperor Misha I reports Hamas and the Soviet Unio…er, Russia didn’t even wait until Obama was sworn in to issue their first tests.
• Lance Burri discovered James Madison called the last 2 elections 220 years ago.
• Dad29 notes that social conservatism still succeeds. That fact makes me sad that the Republican Party has pushed away the social conservatives (and indeed, still are), and that they responded by bringing in Christian Socialist Mike Huckabee.
• Josh Schroeder proves that when one plays in the middle of the road, one gets run over by both sides.
• Caleb offers some suggestions for surviving the Barackolypse. Do add to it, but do not click the Rickroll.

Well, at least it was morning when I started. I had to leave a few comments on a few blogs that may or may not necessarily be part of this. I’m also still running at about quarter-speed (dunno what part the post-election blues has in that versus an oncoming chest cold).

That’s it; the thread is yours.

You can thank Jonah Goldberg’s discovery of Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry’s endorsement of John McCain for the lack of blues today.

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I’ll try to remember today is Open Thread Thursday and only give you a launching point to feed me with links (for a change). Even though I now have something north of 280 feeds in the Feed Reader of Bloat, I know I’m missing some good stuff out there on a daily basis.

• In keeping with the good news theme, RightwingSparkle reports that the PUMAs are not yet dead in Florida.
• Stephen Green wonders whether the hope in the McCain camp that the polls are hosed is misplaced. Do not, repeat, NOT miss Ed Driscoll’s Cheech & Chong response.
• Nick Schweitzer applies statistical analysis to the hosed polls.
• Laura reports that Texas is done being messed with by Mexico’s druglords.
• Soren Dayton runs the numbers on the jobs that will be lost in states that will be disproportionately affected by Barney Frank’s (Religion of) Peace Dividend. Why do I call it that? Simple; a 25% cut in defense spending in the middle of a war smells like a surrender in that war, and the opponents do call themselves the “Religion of Peace”.
• Those cuts mean we likely won’t see stories like this – Zip reports Marine snipers are so precise that even Islamists in Afghanistan using children as human shields while emplacing IEDs aren’t safe, but those children are.
• RFW has today’s history lesson – this is the 10-year anniversary of the signing of the Iraq Liberation Act. Hey moonbats; care to guess who was President when it became official US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power?
• I was going to skip the Obamination Update entirely today because you’re probably tired after the Obamacommercial, but Mark Steyn dragged me back in. He reports that donations to the Obama campaign are now being cited by the city of Boston as evidence of US citizenship. Mark notes (sarcastically) that it should “(clear) up any question marks over those donations by ‘A Hitler’ and ‘S Hussein'”.
• Kevin Fischer lists the growing number of communities that do trick-or-treating right – on Halloween night. Notably, and regrettably, absent from the list are any communities in Milwaukee County, including Oak Creek.
• Moron Pundit has today’s PSA – if you get caught drunk driving, do not immediately go back to your house, grab your spare keys, and drive to the police station to complain.

That’s it; the thread is yours.

As Shoebox said, “Never forget!”

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Since I’m on the road (specifically at the State Policy Network 16th Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona), I won’t have the ability to keep up with the list of tributes. Fortunately, silent E started the list (don’t forget to read his tribute, and he’ll keep up. I’ll dispense with the usual summaries today, and just point you to the tributes, rememberances, and thoughts he didn’t catch yet (I’ll warn the sensitive that some may be on the firebrand side; honestly, I believe they have a place as well because this is a war of survival that was driven here 7 years ago today).

• Lawhawk
• Ace
• Robert
• Walid Phares
• Bull Dog Pundit
• JackBoot
• Paul Socha
• Laughing Wolf
• Owen
• Caledonia Unplugged
• CDR Salamander
• Mary Lazich
• Jim Hoft
• Gawfer
• Bruce
• Janet Evans
• Glenn Reynolds
• JammieWearingFool
• Katie Favazza
• Kevin McCullough
• Mike
• Newsbusters
• Michelle Catalano
• William Teach
• Spies, Brigands, and Pirates
• Pejman Yousefzadeh
• RightwingSparkle
• Sister Toldjah
• Huckleberry Dumbell
• Stix
• Charlie Sykes
• RAG
• Jim Geraghty
• Phelony Jones
• Kathryn Jean Lopez
• Viniie
• Eric
• Kevin Fischer
• Hugh Hewitt
• USCitizen
• Updated 12:48 pm 9/11/2008 – Emperor Misha I
• Lance Burri
• Dan Kenitz
• William Smith
• Dad29
• Bill Quick
• Mondoreb
• Doubleplusundead
• Curt
• Wisdom
• Wordsmith
• Elliot
• JihadGene
• Allahpundit
• Just A Grunt
• Katie Harbath
• Lady Logician
• Charles Johnson
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Beth
• Patrick McIlheran
• Serr8d
• The Unreal one
• Dan McLaughlin
• Haystack
• Slublog
• Kathy Carpenter
• S. Weasel
• Peter (just scroll through today’s multiple updates)
• Dr. Rusty Shackelford
• James T. Harris
• Nick Schweitzer
• John Campbell
• Zip

Do read as many of the tributes of the 2,996 that died at the World Trade Center as you can.

It may be Thursday, but the NFL season starts tonight. There is but one song for this…

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Actually, it’s a two-song, no blues allowed Scramble (thanks for the reminder, Shoebox, and it fits so well with today’s Day by Day cartoon)…

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Before we begin, Alexander has a PSA for you – donate blood.

• Turk has the best of the Little Known Facts Tweet-A-Thon.
• Eric Erickson has another Little Known Fact; Sarah Palin doesn’t need a Teleprompter to deliver a devastatingly-good speech.
• Jim Geraghty suggested a killer line to Palin. I guess if The Indispensible One asks Palin to co-blog with him, I’ll definitely lose out in the co-blogging wars. Maybe if Shoebox did the asking,….
• Ed Morrissey found signs of fight in the PUMAs.
• Jim Hoft notes it wasn’t your average CodePinko that was PWN3D! when she tried to bum-rush the stage last night, but a Top 500 Obamination Bundler.
• More Jim Hoft and CodePinko – he crashed one of their rallies with more success. I believe that makes the score Gateway Pundit 1, CodePinko 0.
• Back to Ed Morrissey – he summarizes the Team Obama response – “Mom! Mom! Sister hit me back "¦ and she hits too hard for a girl!” (emphasis in the original)
• Gopfolk offers some free advice to Team Obama. Money says they don’t take it.
• William Amos rolls tape on Joe Biden’s latest pandering to the nutroots. Hmmm, I thought the tickets were supposed to move toward the middle in the general. Besides, if memory serves, Biden chose to place Bill Clinton above the law along with every other ‘Rat Senator back in 1999.
• One more Ed Morrissey morsel – he discovered some rotting words from Biden on his former support for drilling. Guess we have to extend Jim Geraghty’s Maxim on Obama’s words to Biden’s – All statements from The Blunder Twins have an exipration date.
• Dad29 found the 52nd state of the ObamiNation – Denial. I forgot to mention yesterday that he also found the 51st – Panic. I humbly submit the 53rd – Desperation.
• Darryl Enriquez found just how touchy the ObamiNation is in Waukesha; they can’t even handle gentle jabs. Somebody please dispatch a WAHHHH-mbulance.
• Speaking of WAHHHHH-mbulances, William Teach orders one for Joe Klein, who can’t handle the blowback.
• Speaking of PWNAG3, Asian Badger found Megyn Kelly delivering the smackdown on US Weekly editor Bradley Jacobs’ candy-arse.
• Jihad Gene tapped Krazy Kim Jong-Il’s phone again and recorded a 3 am call.
• Staying with North Korea, Tom McMahon discovered a North Korean claim of a high-calorie ramen noodle. I’ll bet the EU won’t be complaining about genetically-modified foodstuffs.
• Cuffy Meigs found the Atlantic Fleet gained a Ballistic Missile Defense destroyer. The score is now PacFlt 16, LantFlt 1. Keep them coming.
• Chris the head barkeep found today’s Mr. No Luck Guy – someone at the WSOP Main Event who went all-in on 4 aces and got knocked out by a royal flush. Maybe he’ll want to tune in later today; after all, I was above .500 against the spread last year.
• Jeni brings the Envirowhacko Update of the Day – the Swedes have outlawed catch-and-release fishing. That’s it; I’m declaring war on Sweden on behalf of all fishermen.

I’ll have the ever-popular (or at least ever-goofy) NFL picks up later, and I’ll be live-blogging the McCain acceptance speech (or the first game of the NFL season, whichever is more interesting). Until then, the thread is yours.

The Beatles described The Blunder Twins ticket perfectly back in the day…

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Yes, I’m late, but because it’s Open Thread Thursday, I won’t deliver a lot of links.

• Jett Atwood provides the ‘Toon of the Week™…

  
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• Dad29 wonders about the down-ticket impact of the Obamination Express, and suggests to keep an eye on Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional race.
• Jim Lynch captures another sneak peek at the Obamessiah Greek Temple.
• Jim Geraghty took one for the team last night. He and Mark Hemingway even did a few videos for us.
• Fred invites us to read the real record on Obama. Yes, Geraldine Ferraro was correct.
• More Fred – he exposes what the liberals call “charity” – funneling your money through government so their consciences can be placated.
• Katie Favazza summarizes the case against CubaCare.
• Matt Burden put up some extended thoughts on the Blackfive tour of Blackwater.
• One last Geraghty nugget; he proves that good is bad in the eyes of the ‘Rats. After all, they are the party of “1% GDP growth is good enough”.

I will be live- drunk-blogging the Obamination Coronation tonight, so tune in later.

It’s Thursday; you know what that means (blues and Open Thread Thursday)…

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I was hoping to keep this small so as to not intimidate you into not playing along, but there’s too much good stuff out there. Oh well; let’s light this candle.

• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like CHAOS, Part 1 – Bill Quick reminds us just how few superdelegates have to change their mind (some for a second time).
• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like CHAOS, Part 2 – Gabriel Malor reports there is going to be a Hillary Clinton whip team on the floor. Exit quote from Gabriel – “Like a lamb to the slaughter.”
• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like CHAOS, Part 3 – plebian delivers a second “shock to the nation” ‘Rat VP nominee. He may well be half-right there.
• Doubleplusundead breaks out Mr. Rodgers to smack Barack Obama around over the lack of support he’s giving his poor brother stuck in Kenya. Guess it’s really true that liberals consider charity what they can force you to give.
• Doc created a couple new posters for the failing Obamination Express.
• Matt Lewis dug up a classic magazine cover. Now you don’t have to go into the memory hole to find a surprising friend of Big Oil – Barack Hussein Obama II.
• James T. Harris terms the “Chocolate Jesus” the Left’s Affirmative Action candidate.
• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like CHAOS, Part 4 – PJ-Comix laughs at the DUmmies who are panicking. I almost should’ve taken a Pink Floyd song in homage to all these parts.
• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like CHAOS, Part 5 – Jim Geraghty thinks Hillary Clinton is on the very-short list.
• Peter has the cure for the queasy feeling the ‘Rats are having.
• Fausta found the perfect bumper CHANGE bumper sticker. After all, change is all we’ll have left if the Obamination Express rolls into the Oval Office.
• John McCormack would have inspired a slightly-different song had this not been Thursday with news the gloves are off.
• E.M. Zanotti and Ace warn Team McCain against making the D&D crowd mad.
• Lady Logician says to expect one of several dark horses to ride alongside John McCain through November.
• Plebian channels everybody’s favorite Mitt Romney cheerleader.
• TexasFred launched the Write In Tancredo/Hunter campaign.
• Steven Walters found a unique use for leftover campaign funds – retiring state Rep. Barbara Gronemus (D-Whitehall) is holding a “reverse fundraiser”/retirement party with those funds.
• The Vintage one whacks a specific presstitute over the head for wishing a bipartisan ticket on McCain. I don’t know what’s worse; the fact the presstitute forgot what happened the last time the Pubbies reached across the aisle for the VP nominee, or the fact this particular presstitute works for the Washington Times? Bonus thought – the first (and last) time the ‘Rats had to reach across the aisle for the occupant of the VP office, they got the Constitution changed so it would be nigh impossible to have 2 different parties in the elected executive offices.
• Dr. Melissa Clouthier declares bike lanes bad for the environment.
• Nick Schweitzer discovered they tend to force bicyclists to violate state law.
• J. Gravelle salutes a real man of genius, Brant Vogt, “Mr. Too Stupid for a Driver’s License”.
• Wendy brings back one of my favorite things from mhking – Hold Throw Muh Beer And Watch This! That reminds me; now that I’ve found his new haunt, I need to bloat the roll again.
• Peter has 34 more names for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who infamously challenged Charlie Sykes to give him just one name of someone who committed vote fraud in Milwaukee.
• Michelle Malkin delivers the Beijing Repression Olympics update of the day – the results of one of the 78 protest applications filed. No word on whether it was one of the 74 that had been “voluntarily withdrawn”, one of the 3 where a revision was requested, or the 1 that was rejected outright. Bonus – don’t miss the official logo of the Repression Olympics.
• Speaking of Olympics (which I’m not watching), Little Miss Sunshine cheers the gold-medal-winning womens’ beach volleyball team of Kerri Walsh and Misty May for praising President Bush after winning the gold. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

I saw in my Twitter feed that doubleplusundead was complaining about having 200 unread items in his reader. I think I have something north of 200 unread items right now, and I know I’m still missing stuff.

It’s Thursday, it’s late, and I’m glad Shoebox is back and in fine satirical form because I have no energy, so enjoy some Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton and feed me some material, please…

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• I wish I could do a day without an Obamination Watch, but I can’t. Matt Burden has two witnesses of Barack Obama’s Afghan Adventure.
• Lance Burri explains my view on the DNC delegate for John McCain. Do remember that the ‘Rats demand 110% fealty.
• JammieWearingFool has the flop to the flip on the exploitation of Obama’s kids. Yes, they’re being exploited again.
• John McCormack caught Wesley “World War III over Pristina” Clark forgetting a couple of key facts on the Surge. I guess Clark wants to get into Uncle Jimbo’s Crosshairs again.
• Jim Hoft gives credit to Harold Ford for blasting the critics of the Surge. Expect Ford’s tombstoning to occur shortly.
• Gopfolk charts the price of oil since Bush lifted the executive portion of the off-shore drilling ban. Not even a hurricane could save Nancy Pelosi’s lies.
• Soren Dayton has another view on the Online War.
• Michelle Bachmann becomes a MythBuster. That tiny portion of ANWR designated by Jimmy Carter as an energy reserve would increase the daily world oil output by roughly 1.25%, which would do a lot to bring the oil markets to the middle of the supply/demand curve and reduce the price of oil significantly.
• Mary Katharine Ham found a movie I might actually go to the theater to see; a Zucker zing of Michael Moore. I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
• John Hawkins interviewed “Save the Males” author Kathleen Parker.
• E.M. Zanotti found a homeless guy aping the Obama campaign line. Do remember that both are campaigning for your change.
• McQ gives kudos to Katie Couric for actually daring to question the Obamination while on their junket. The arrogant tone taken by Obama when he realized that Couric is a member of PUMA is priceless. Operation Chaos LIVES!

Let’s see if I can keep this one short because it is Open Thread Thursday…

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• Ace and the Morons break out the funny to help out the late-night talkers with their drought of Obamination jokes (I do have to put a content warning on this; we are talking about Morons).
• John McCormack pins a few on Barack Obama (literally).
• Curt found no principles from Obama. I must disagree that there is no history though; while there isn’t much, it is of a far-left nature.
• Byron York wonders why Obama feels at such a disadvantage to John McCain despite a $52 million month.
• Jim Geraghty answers that; the DNC is burning through its meager funds as fast as they come in. Bonus math – the Obama campaign spent $27 million in June.
• Jim Hoft found that the Obamination supporters are practicing the Chicago Way, Mob Edition, on the die-hard Clinton supporters. Why am I not surprised they’re resorting to violence? Could it be that Obama is a Chicago politician, or is it that they’re hard-core lefties?
• Lawhawk identifies the word Jesse Jackson used in the part of the infamous tape not aired yet (again, a content warning is in effect; it’s not the sanitized n***** you’ll see elsewhere).
• Enough Obamination; let’s go to the Envirowhacko Watch – Ace caught Chuck Schumer wanting more drilling…in Saudi Arabia. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Chuckie said that Saudi oil is funding Al Qaeda.
• Fred Keller lists all the products that come from a 42-gallon barrel of oil. Guess Harry Reid’s sick of all those products as well.
• Van Helsing found mathematical proof that there is no such thing as “Global Warming”. Algore Goracle was last seen with a flamethrower in the Arctic.
• Allahpundit is impressed that Newt Gingrich got 1.3 million signatures on his Drill Now petition to Congress. I will take the time now to remind my Wisconsin readers to sign Phil Williamson’s Drill Now petition going to the Wisconsin delegation in DC.
• JammieWearingFool caught Algore Goracle baying at the moon on energy. Question for the Goracle – if you want to use clean coal, why did the guy you shared the ticket with twice lock up all the clean coal?
• Paul Socha notes the US Forest Service wants to shut down 55% of the roads in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.
• Jim Hoft proves it’s not about the environment, but about sending us back to the 16th Century, for the envirowhackos.
• Mark Heuring has the title of the day – “The Forecast Calls for Pain”. Actually, that’s an understatment.
• Do I cut things off here, or do I continue? There’s too much in the feeder, so let’s clear it out. Moron Pundit explains his theory of just war. It tracks well with what I’ve said before; wars end only when one side suffers enough death dealt with sufficient horror that it gives up rather than continue to suffer horrific death.
• Dad29 laces into Jim Doyle for his simplistic opposition to a temporary halt to the gas tax that feeds the state’s transportation personal slush fund.
• American Pundit caught Yahoo acting like Google and recaptioning an AFP photo for leftist propaganda purposes. Guess I must have missed the Yahoo-Google merger.
• John Derbyshire bemoans the coming application of Title IX to college science and math programs. I wonder which programs will become the analogues to the UW baseball team and Marquette wrestling team.
• James T. Harris blasts McCain for kissing the NAA(L)CP ring.
• Jeff Emanuel has the rest of the story on the 9 American soldiers killed while fending off a massive, coordinated attack on their outpost.
• GayPatriotWest caught The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted cooking the dispatches again.
• Michael Rubin questions the wisdom of negotiating with those that want to kill you regardless of the result of said negotiations.
• Charlie Sykes notes the censorship of history is alive and well on college campuses. It matters not that the book in question praises the defeat of the KKK; the fact that it mentions and pictures the KKK is enough to set off the ninnies.
• Ed Morrissey notes Mitt Romney is clearing the decks of $45 million in loans to himself, presumably so he can be a more-viable candidate for VP. More likely, he’s trying to maximize cash flow to active campaigns (unlike a certain ‘Rat ex-contender).

Sorry about the length; there’s just so much material. Still, I know I missed some good stuff. Let me know what I missed.

It’s Thursday; the Scramble might be longer than usual, but it’s still Open Thread Thursday (as if I get people to play)…

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• Stephan Tawney has an update on the “shocking” news for flyers from yesterday; it’s an abandoned plan that never got past the contractor’s-thoughts stage.
• Jim Lynch hired DW and Larry Mac to provide commentary on the race.
• Kat dips into history even I didn’t quite fully remember to explain war powers.
• DrewM raised some false hopes on John McCain actually turning right. Oops; McCain decided that the fewer differences between him and the ‘Rats on stuff like Gorebal “Warming” and a Hugh Gubmint “solution” to it, the better. EPIC FAIL!
• Erick Erickson invites the Senatorial Pubbie half of the bipartisan Party-In-Government to have some Rocky Mountain Oysters after they reduce the number of differences between the two halves of the P-I-G by dropping ANWR drilling. I’ll bet they can’t even eat one.
• Capt. Karl explains just what the portion of ANWR that would be drilled is, with lots of pictures for the literary-challenged.
• Jim Hoft has the details of a bus collision between Barack Obama and Jesse Jackson. Let there be chaos!
• James T. Harris told us this was going to happen.
• Van Helsing brings news that an Obamination blogger is suing God for frowning on homosexuality. I smell brimstone.
• Jim Geraghty found that Obama’s second book now contains words beyond their expiration date – his stance on English. That reminds me; there’s a new NRE Poll up on whether to continue the use of expiration dates or switch to something else.
• Josh Schroeder discovered a new disease – Obama Messiah Complex.
• More Geraghty – he’s wondering who Obama represented when he practiced law way back when.
• Jamie Sneider thinks something is seriously wrong when even Europe thinks Obama is too weak on Iran.
• Lemur King notes there is no parity in the Middle East, at least how NPR attempts to define it.
• Zip declares the UN an Epic FAIL on yet another front – Hezbollah now has triple the number of rockets aimed at Israel as they did in the spring of 2006, all guarded by UN “peacekeepers”.
• Jim Hoft invites the losers on Iraq to stand up and be recognized. I’ve got my rotten tomatoes ready for Obama, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha and the rest of the DhimmiRATs.
• Ed Morrissey detected a torpedo launch from the S.S. Hillary into the side of the Obamination Express on FISA. Mary Katharine Ham wonders whether that signals the resumption of the campaign.
• Dupray dug up the ‘Rat tombstone.
• Sister Toldjah observed a Breck Hair Flip on John Edwards’ willingness to be a very-visible part of the Obamination Express.
• The Vintage one caught the latest menu for the DNC convention, and it contains deep-fried waffles.
• Patrick McIlheran says former state Sen. Tom Reynolds is getting very even with a local version of Operation Chaos. Let me say it again – LET THERE BE CHAOS!
• Stephen F. Hayes caught California Speaker Pro Tem Dom Perata trying to invoke World War II in his call for more and more taxes. I’ve got two words for Dom – Hell No!
• Eric the Tygrrrr has a great interview with Ward Connerly. Go, read.
• Gopfolk found the real reason for Gorebal “Warming” (besides more output from the Sun that’s now dropping again) – clean air.

Even though I read too many blogs, I know there’s stuff I miss. Go ahead, let me know about it. I dare you.

Once again, I’m late, and this time, without video. Owen explains why. So much for the free lunch music…

• Lawhawk proves once again that Gorebal “Warming” is all about permanently reducing the quality of American life, as the acolytes attack flat-screen TVs.
• Ed Driscoll found all of the anti-Obama statements on the Hillary Clinton website and YouTube channel have fallen into the memory hole. They’ll be back.
• Nick Schweitzer has a not-so-random thought or two on election fraud.
• Mondoreb found a letter from OPEC to Congress thanking them for not doing anything substantive to reduce our dependence on them, like drilling now.
• S. Weasel defines torture.

It’s Summerfest time, so I’ll be dipping into that lineup the next 11 days (I’ll probably throw something together for the weekends, which ought to be fun this weekend since I’ll be at the Meeting of the Morons)…

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• Don’t forget; the From the Frontlines webathon begins at 3 pm today over on Ustream, Michelle Malkin’s place and Hot Air. Michelle wants the MM.com/HA.com regulars to (collectively) match Sean Hannity’s $15,000 donation. Since I’m one, I chose the “Goodies From Home Squad Pack”.
• I’m trying not to do too much Obamination today. However, there’s a couple of items I do have to note. Jim Geraghty found yet another Barack Obama statement with an expiration date, this time on the constitutionality of DC’s gun ban.
• Emperor Misha I and Mrs. M-ITT, Imperial Sniper present another Obamination Express Photoshop. I know, Jim told me that it could get overused, but this one is sooooo good.
• Wordsmith provides the photographic evidence of past character of Obama and John McCain. I’ve always been a believer in the past being an indication of future perforance.
• Remember that approval of the Indiana BP refinery from yesterday’s Scramble? Ace notes Obama doesn’t want the Canadian oil. Of course, Obama also would like higher gas prices…as long as government gets the additional money, so it fits.
• Plebian presents the McCain Cabinet.
• William Teach points out Nancy Pelosi LOVES the UN-Fairness Doctrine (the pic that’s part of the post may or may not be safe for work, but I like it).
• The Vintage One says, “Buy Mopar; they’re offering mobile wireless internet.” Don’t let me catch you surfing here while driving (if you can prove you’re a passenger, it’s all good, though).
• Russ delivers the Top Ten Probable Findings In The Heller Decision.
• Moron Pundit has a SCOTUS Haiku contest. I must stress that this one is NSFW, so click at your own discretion.
• Back to oil; Jim Hoft tells what a willingness to produce and sell oil will do for a country.
• I knew I forgot somebody. The Focusing Brad V has an idea on what to sell grain to OPEC for.

Allergies have knocked me flat, so I’m not in Manitowoc.

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• Charlie Sykes points to the topic of discussion in Manitowoc and La Crosse today; “Healthy” (and Depopulated) Wisconsin. The money quote – “If (the assumption that health care costs can be brought closer to wages) cannot be accomplished, given the assumptions put forth by the plan’s supporters themselves, the program will face a shortfall of between $4.79 billion and $10 billion by 2017. The tax rate on businesses will have to increase to 13.51% and on employees to 4.62% in order to keep the program solvent in just nine years.”
• The Vintage One remembers a couple of Communist traitors who received their just reward 55 years ago today.
• Samantha Sault begins the wrap-up the reaction to the growing calls to nationalize the oil industry. Allow me to continue with a few that weren’t on that list.
• Rick Moran whacks the Left like a good Sicilian.
• Shoebox really lets the cat out of the bag. As Paul Socha points out, “Communism is alive and well in the United States.”
• Owen caught the BBC practicing some bias. Incredibly, as a result of letting that cat out of the bag, the BBC changed their picture from Knut to an old James Bond movie set (or so says James Wigderson in the comments).
• GOPgal lists the members of the House who support (or at least claim to support) the proper solution; more drilling. Somebody needs to explain to Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner that the introduction of ANWR oil to the world market, even if it doesn’t make it to Wisconsin, will reduce prices just as much as if it does make it to Wisconsin.

  One more thing; where’s Paul Ryan? He’s usually smart on items like this.

• Purple Avenger warns that because we’re driving less, the gas tax is going to go up. After all, government can never live with only what they had last year.
• Headless Blogger has the new slogan for the corn crop. One thing; our “friends” at ADM (and thus in the governor’s mansion) want but one of those three choices.

Even though this is late, I managed to avoid all mentions of the Obamination. Where’s my cookie from Mike Huckabee? Oops, guess I just lost the cookie; I have the same answer to the Huckster as Matt Lewis and Fred Thompson (courtesy Ed Morrissey).

I wish the weather weren’t going to be changing for the worse, but you know what they say about sticking one hand under the wish fountain and the other under a faucet…

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• Dad29 has the latest piece of evidence that Red China is not our friend; they’re hacking into the federally-owned computers used by Representatives that see through the facade.
• Ace and Slublog proudly present the Obamination High Ground-Clearance Bus SluShop.
• Jim Hoft dips into the memory vault to catch what Jimmy Carter said about Barack Obama before the Peanut Farmer endorsed the Bus Driver.
• Josh Schroeder came up with the perfect slogan regarding Obama – “Chance We Can’t Afford To Take”.
• Stephan Tawney caught Obama with yet another flip-flop. I wonder what his Appeasment-At-All-Costs base will do once they catch wind of this one, especially since they rejected Hillary Clinton as a Joanie-Come-Lately.
• Plebian introduces Candidate GPS.
• Mary (and Mark Belling) catch Gov. Jim Doyle golfing at his personal annual fundraiser yesterday as towns wash away and freeways are threatened. Doyle essentially treated the flood as an inconvenience, starting his day at the outing, bailing for a short while to hold a press conference, and then returning. No wonder why his full title here at NRE is Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale).
• Bruce thanks the last ‘Rat President for $4/gallon gas. That’s right, even the USA Today admits that ANWR oil would be flowing now if Bill Clinton hadn’t vetoed the authorization to drill back in 1995.
• Second dose of the Gateway Pundit; he notes that the gas-price protests in Europe have turned deadly. And yet the ‘Rats want to emulate the European level of taxation.

  One more thought on that; I guess it isn’t all the collapsed dollar’s fault that gas prices are high here.

• JammieWearingFool has some good news for those headed south of the border. From the halls of Montezuma….
• James T. Harris runs the Chicago carnage during National Bike to Work Week. 2 dead so far this week, 5 since October. That allows me to break out my favorite movie question, “Is it safe?”

So it’s a bit longer than the usual bare-bones Thursday. Don’t let that stop you from contributing.

It’s looking more like midnight out the windows of the bunker than morning, but let’s roll with it. Thanks to OdieO for suggesting today’s artist….

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• Tom McMahon spins the jukebox for the Disco Dems.
• Gabriel Malor catches Barack Hussein Obama plagiarizing himself on the conviction of his friend and fundraiser Tony Rezko. There’s also a couple governors running scared.
• Owen gives a raspberry to Wisconsin’s profiles in courage, Russ el-Slimeroad (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) and Nobody’s Senator Herb Kohl, for waiting until AFTER BHO clinched the nomination to endorse him.
• Lawhawk delivers a history lesson to the last failed ‘Rat candidate.
• Fred catches the Racine ‘Rats at it again. For the newer readers here, Fred’s the guy who got the former Racine County Democratic chair ousted.
• Sean Hackbarth had a nice sit-down with my congresscritter, Paul Ryan, about John McCain’s chances. I can’t say that I agree with Ryan on conservatives coming home to roost with McCain. While we agree that 2008 is a potentially-“transformative election”, McCain is hardly the person that’s going to transform things in a conservative direction.
• Little Miss Sunshine highlights a roadway pet peeve of mine – drivers who all-but-stop when they see a deputy on the side of the road running radar/lidar.
• Luke breaks out Carnac to prove that most of the voters in northwest Wisconsin are getting it on taxes. I guess the aftermath of some of their number passing the largest school referendum in the history of the state (New Richmond’s $91 million one) shook them back to reality.
• I apologize for missing this the first time around, but gopfolk has the Gorebal Warming When You Should Die game. I’m proud to say I’m way overstaying my “welcome”, though I note that the average Aussie wouldn’t make it to my age either.

I somehow made it through the storm without a loss of power, which is good because I’m doing this on the soon-to-be-replaced desktop, and I don’t have a UPS.

If I were smart, I would’ve done this one last week…

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• Jim Hoft has the terror stats you won’t see trumpeted in the media.
• Zip follows up on the Germans-let-Taliban-commander-walk story. Guess feeding the crocodiles is hazardous to one’s health.
• Mike asks, “Who is to blame for high gas prices?”
• Shoebox answers. Pay attention, Sen. McCain; he’s talking about you.
• Speaking of McCain, Michelle Malkin notes his campaign is sponsoring comment spam. A healthy chunk of my roll is on the hit list, but I’m not. Could I be THAT mercurial? (Yes.)
• Ace remembered the last candidate to do that. Guess the McCainiacs and the PaulNuts have more in common than I thought.
• Ed Morrissey caught the New York Times violating their ethics policy in trying to roll the McCain campaign. Note; this message, while it may seem to be paid for by the McCain campaign, most certainly isn’t.
• More Ed; he urges House Republicans to take the third and final chance to kill the Farm Pork Bill.
• Still on pork, Kate catches Harry Reid giving a wet sloppy French kiss to Planned Parenthood while using the war supplemental bill as cover.
• Jon Ham has a multitude of reasons to eat popcorn while the oh-so-tolerant Left eats their own. UUUURRRPPP!!!!! (Excuse me.)

As a reminder, I’ll be gone for a week starting Saturday on my Great Canadian Walleye Hunt. Shoebox is back from his fishing trip, and I should have the usual guest-blogging crew in.

The forecast as I type this (Wednesday night) doesn’t look promising for the original plan for baseball-then-dinner. Worse, I’ve already paid for the ticket. At least there’s a bit of good news; Favazza’s has a lunch menu, and the hour-by-hour forecast suggests it should start breaking up by 6. With that, I’ll still take the Flatland driving tips from Max and friends…

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• Slublog has an open letter to the national GOP; one that I’m likely going to be delivering on my own to the Wisconsin GOP.
• Jim Hoft has a link to a pretty good start to the platform for GOP 2.0. I wonder if I could sell that to the delegates Friday.
• Bonus Slu – he notes some of the Pubbie members of the bipartisan Party-In-Government are in denial. For a moment, I thought he was talking about Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch and my formerly-reliable Leggie Mark Honadel.
• John Campbell is one Pubbie who gets it on the Farm Pork Bill. Incredibly, 5 of the 8 members of the Wisconsin delegation (all 3 Pubbies plus Ron Kind and Gwen Moore) also got it.
• Nick Schweitzer has good news for fans of fine food in Chicago; they’ve lifted the foie gras ban.
• Brian sums up the ‘Rat tax policy – “They won’t miss it.” After all, the Left believes that all money is government’s.
• JammieWearingFool proposes a code of conduct for the media. They won’t do it.

By the time you see this, I’ll be on the road. I may or may not update the Twitter, but that’ll be about the only way to get a hold of me (unless I decide different).

It’s Thursday; you know what that means…

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– In case you missed doubleplusundead’s and Ace’s call, Stashiu needs your help to keep his adopted daughters. The lawyer he trusted to file the proper paperwork way back when didn’t exactly do so, and ICE is giving him a hard time.
– Sister Toldjah is looking for a new host. If you have any suggestions, please let her know (if her blog is down and you don’t have her e-mail, you can leave it here and I’ll make sure she gets it).
– Matt Lewis says, “Bloggers matter.” Allahpundit may disagree, but it’s kind of hard to argue with Matt Naugle and The Hammer.
– Speaking of AP, he’s yelling, “COBRAMA!”
– Jib has some timely advice for Brewer fans. It’s getting ugly, and June’s coming up real quick. I don’t have a link, but Jeff Wagner remembered that it wasn’t until June 1982 that Harvey Kuenn took over for the Brew Crew, and that team came within a game of winning a World Series. Hint to Doug Melvin – “Fire Yost now and beat the rush.”
– Tom McMahon takes up the cause of Minnie Minoso.
– Owen notes the motto in Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) administration is, “Don’t worry about what we’re telling the presstitutes; take those junkets.”
– Ed Driscoll has the post title of the day – “Arise, Sir Loin of Beef!” Barack Obama does make a perfect Sheriff of Nottingham, but I don’t see a Bugs Bunny anywhere, much less in Rockefeller Center.
– Pejman Yousefzadeh has the runner-up – “Meet The New Boss”. Looks like the Sovi…er, Russians are getting fooled again.

If it’s Thursday,….

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– Fausta remembers today is Holocaust Rememberance Day.
– S. Weasel delivers yet another stunning WeaselShop. Nice hat, Barack.
– Rick Esenberg, among others, asks whether Obama’s grandmother is next to go under the disowning bus. I do believe she was already run over once this campaign season.
– Allahpundit has Hillary Clinton’s GHWB Memorial Clueless About Technology Moment. Remember, while the current target is Obama, we do have to keep an eye on Clinton lest she slip into our six.
– Following up on something from yesterday’s Scramble, Dad29 cheers a rather unequivocable counterattack on corn-a-hole Jim Sensenbrenner is co-sponsoring. I’ll have to double-check the co-sponsors of that bill to see if my Congresscritter is on board; the list wasn’t updated beyond the 4 sponsors that signed on Tuesday as of Wednesday afternoon.
– Beth puts the hate on Google drive-by trolls. Hopefully this will bring her some higher-quality traffic (of course, in terms of steering power, I’m like a feather put behind the Queen Elizabeth II).
– Silent E delivers an eulogy for common sense.