No Runny Eggs

Not many of these left….

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Josh Schroeder defends Rush.

UW Wasting money? Naw, couldn’t be. Pheisty Blog

A new look at Badger Blogger and Patrick points out that Obama really does hate babies.

A pluralty is not a minority. Jib

Kane and stereotyping: Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger.

Fuzz Martin on The Olympics.

McCain going pro-choice? Michelle Malkin

Econ links: Sean

Need a prescription in Paris? Too Bad…. Heather Radish

Fred explains the melting of arctic ice.

Julia Childs….. Internation Spy… Me

A quick lesson on corporate taxes by Cindy

McCain on Georgia.. Todd

A little Favre humor…..Ick

I was a bit busy today….. Sorry.

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Mini E says NO to Obama

A must read by Kate

Michelle Malkin connects T. Boone and Sanfran Nan.

J. Gravelle and snakes. Not friends.

Flight 93 Blogburst at Stop The ACLU

Mr. Rorke er Jimi says Smiles everyone. SMILES.

Bushwack on the Powell endorsement of Barry.

James T. Harris: A Maverick choice.

Environmental Extortion: Wiggy

Barry and the celebs: Jessi

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Is your 10 year old smarter than a democrat??? Sister Toldjah

Cindy’s joining a new fan club. NOT.

Pete’s looking forward to the new David Zucker movie.

Dean muses about the Madden Curse.

A quick comparo over at The Right View.

Rick Esenberg seems to be Ok with Aaron Rodgers.

Fraley on the WisOpinion Show.

MRQ at RDW

Patrick McIlherin explains “Big Bidness” and taxes.

SU shows us the many uses of oil.

Ol’Broad’s still drinking coffee.

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Troy Fullerton and the Axis of Idiocy.

Ick worships the swimming god.

Jeni posts a long distance ban alert to Kenosha from Sheboygan.

Michelle likes cheaper gas but she ain’t thanking Nancy.

DRINKING RIGHT ALERT!!!!!!

Owen’s covering the GOP COnvention.

Dad29 agrees with Folkbum???

Kate’s askin’ if the messiah is legal.

Fred at Fox Politics.

Whew…. Made it before noon.

It’s a great song that’s also considered by some to be a driving hazard….

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Ol’Broad had coffee before we had our scramble.

Asian Badger is having a little fun at the expense of John Edwards.

I had a little fun at Breck Girls expense as well.

Uhh Bushwack also rips on Edwards.

Texas Fred moving to California???? Scary.

Olbermann, Obama and Brett at The Daily Scoff

Freedom of speech and Youtube over at Prozak Plaground.

Okay, that’s it….. I’m going outside!!!!!!!!

This is my last one until late next week, so I have to “thank” Prince Fielder and Manny Parra for providing the inspiration for this song…

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Before we begin, I have to direct your attention to Badger Blogger – Bruce caught a Wisconsin DNR employee dumping goose crap and an anti-bacterial foaming chemical into a storm sewer multiple times. Do read the whole thing.

• Okay; on with the show – Paul Socha runs through the list of other things (besides Barack Obama’s birthday gift) the Obamination Express will lose.
• Josh Schroeder explains the official logo of the Obamalympics.
• Shoebox found a set of expired words that got the presstitutes in an uproar – Obama’s previous support of not tapping into the Strategic Oil Reserve.
• Jim Geraghty asks, “Does a poll drop count as an emergency?” It most certainly does, especially since…
• …Carol Platt Liebau found PUMAs continuing to lurk about, and…
• …Geraghty notes the core of the Obamination, including one of his delegates, is questioning his head-fake to the middle (they want nothing but a hard tack to Communism), and…
• PJ-Comix laughs at the virtual disappearance of poll from DUmmie- and KOmmie-land.
• James T. Harris found the change the liberals are hoping for. Yes, that is an empty seat.
• Charlie Sykes explains the Obamination Oil Plan. Say, where’s that $200/person the gubmint wants to steal from “Big Oil” that isn’t slated to go back to consumers going?
• Matt Wolking sticks his neck out on the prediction for Obama’s running mate – Evan Bayh. I double-dog-dare Obama to do it.
• DrewM found the racist (per the New York Times) who first linked Obama and Paris Hilton – Barack Hussein Obama.
• Michael J. O’Shea compares Obama to JaMarcus Russell. I’m thinking more along the lines of Ryan Leif.
• Mark McNally spotted Obama in fantasy land. I’m thinking his call to “(end) the age of oil in our time” is more like Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time”.
• JammieWearingFool found the latest ex-friend of McCain to dump on him; someone who supposedly spent Christmas in Cambodia and who wanted McCain to be his running mate 4 short years ago.
• Gabriel Malor answers whether President Bush could call the House back into session. He could, but he won’t.
• Mark Tapscott and Allahpundit provide the point-counterpoint of the wisdom of that refusal. It’s the old “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t” schtick. Considering a lot of the problems the Pubbies have is they didn’t do anything, I’m more inclined to go with Tapscott’s take.
• Michelle Bachmann delivered an open letter to SanFranNan.
• Flip reports the Texas Tea Party will continue until at least Friday. I would so much like to hear news that Congress is back in session to take up widespread drilling when I get back from vacation, but that’s a pipe dream.
• Dr. Melissa Clouthier mourns the death of Michigan. Somehow, I have a feeling I’ll be doing the same for Wisconsin in a few years.
• Michelle Malkin proudly presents Jason Mattera versus William “The Freezer” Jefferson. The reason I went with Michelle’s link instead of Hot Air’s is I want you to catch the FlipShop.
• John Hawkins explains the election in 300 words. I could go shorter, but then I’d be using a lot of expletives.
• Kevin Fischer found a politically-correct candy manufacturer threatening our Reeses over Gorebal “Warming”. Somehow, I don’t think the crowd behind Gorebal “Warming” will leave Reeses alone when they shift fire to “Big Candy”.
• Sister Toldjah reports Sarah Palin is suing the EPA over the designation of polar bears as “threatened”, despite a lack of scientific or numerical basis. She definitely has some big brass ones.
• Owen found the local NWS office asking, “Where’s the heat?” That’s right, Milwaukee hasn’t had this few 90-degree days over the first 7+ years of a decade since the 1900s (the same in Madison goes back to the 1920s), and that there has been a downward trend in 90-degree days since the 1980s (culminating with zero so far this year). Once again, how are we winning the scientific battles and losing the political war on Gorebal “Warming”?
• Ed Morrissey found cap-and-trade tax failing in Europe. Paging Sen. McCain. Paging John McCain. Please pick up the blue clue-phone.
• Lance Burri proves that, once again, it’s all about transfering the money raised from high gas prices from “Big Oil” to Hugh Gubmint for the lieberal envirowhackos.
• Kat explains the real-world costs of high-priced gas.
• Deebow reveals just how worthless Britainistan has been in Basra. No, I’m not talking about the lack of good food regular chatizen at The Ed Morrissey Show JetBlast-Iraq complains about regularily, though the Brits were also responsible for that.

The Silent one already put up an abbreviated Scramble that can’t be missed, but I don’t leave until o-light-hundred (6 am) Wednesday.

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• American Pundit reports the GOP is celebrating Barack Obama’s 47th birhtday with tire gauges.
• James Wigderson has the perfect birthday song for Obama.
• Geoff found a full Barack-track on NASA. That’ll get him the 8 Kookcinich votes.
• PUMA Alert! – Ed Morrissey notes Bill Clinton isn’t exactly on board the Obamination Express.
• William Teach discovered a very-special monogrammed seat on the flying version of the Obamination Express – Barack’s Presidential chair.
• Kate nails Obama on his faux-Robin Hood scheme.
• American Pundit fires the Big Oil stone back at the glass house that is Obama.
• Stix does the economic two-step on Obamination Economics.
• Jim Hoft delivers the news that John McCain and the PUMAs have been waiting for – Rasmussen has McCain up.
• James T. Harris proves that reaching across the aisle, even to the co-author of one’s seminal work that was rejected by that person’s opponent, results in a missing hand.
• Billiam has a message for the Left – they’ve overplayed their race-card-filled hand so much, he’s back. Welcome back, my friend, to the show that never ends.
• Marshall Manson exposes the stupidity of the Senate “Ethics” Committee. Seriously, what’s up with trying to crucify Tom Coburn while giving Ted Stevens a pass?
• USCitizen reports the House GOP will continue the Texas Tea Party.
• Flip has more resources for following the Party, including…
• …Amanda Carpenter’s live-blogging from the House.
• Mark Tapscott is calling in the clans. I wish I could be there, but a pre-planned vacation intrudes. Of course, if the party continues into October and AFP’s Defending the American Dream Summit timeline, I’m there.
• Gary Gross yells, “CHAAAAARRRRGGGGEEE!!!!!!”
• Just A Grunt is paying attention to “Ice Road Truckers”. If the Canucks can move an oil rig in 40 days, how in the <expletive deleted> is it going to take 10 years to start drilling in ANWR?
• Cindy Kilkenny finds yet another episode of Presstitute Bias. Not only did McCain join the offshore drilling brigade before Obama supposedly joined (see yesterday’s Scramble for why it’s “supposedly”), but McCain wants to drill more places than the “Gang of 10” that Obama supposedly copied.
• Owen gets what the pressitutes don’t.
• Fred Dooley notes the vast difference in presstitute coverage between a one-‘Rat protest over last year’s Wisconsin budget “gridlock” (never mind the state was continuing to spend the same amount as the previous budget while the new budget was being hammered out) and the lack of presstitute coverage of the Texas Tea Party.
• Scott reports high-ranking Saddam-era Iraqi officials are admitting that the Iraqi WMD program went to Syria in the months leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Mike Pechar tells what the presstitutes won’t about the terrorist attack in China – the perps are Islamokazis.
• Eddiebear bemoans Eurabia’s attempt to give bacon a shelf life of the average Obamination campaign quote (i.e. very short).
• Donna Martinez proves that when push comes to shove, the change artists suddenly don’t like change too much. No, this is not an Obamination Update; instead, it’s basic self-preservation. On second thought, is there a difference?
• Bill Quick reminds us that intelligence matters.
• Tom McMahon pictures various sleeping arrangements.

Hi all. I’m continuing last weeks bad week by continuing it this week. This probably should be a Friday song but what the hell, it made me laugh.

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• Michelle Malkin gives the pubbies some advice.
• Jenni says enough to higher taxes and goes good with the song I posted.
• Kate has todays daily Obamarama.
• Texas is going to smoke an illegal alien and Texas Fred tells why this is a good idea. No arguments here.
• Myths and Facts from Cindy
• Barack-Tracking at Real Debate Wisconsin
• Patrick has your Local On The 8’s.

This has been your Readers Digest version of The Morning Scramble

This one’s dedicated to Sean Hackbarth, who will be the online communications specialist for the Senate Republican Conference as of Monday. Just don’t ask me how Fausta got a hold of pics from the back-to-work celebration.

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So, it’s afternoon; brunch lasts until 3 on Sundays, and I did start this in the morning, so it’s all good.

• William Smith highlights the difference between Barack Obama and John McCain in a non-scripted environment.
• Purple Avenger tracks the latest in the Washington Pum…er, Post’s PUMA-like activities. Nothing like having a guy with a “tissue-thin” and “troubling” record (the WaPo’s words, not mine) being the presumptive nominee. I’m beginning to wonder whether the Obamination Express will make it to Invesco Field.
• JammieWearingFool dug up a salient fact about Obama’s Hawaiian mentor that The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ “missed”.
• Amanda Carpenter sniffed out the non-change in Obama’s opposition to off-shore drilling before I did, and she even used the extended quote from Friday to do it (I went with the Saturday flop to Friday’s flip). Bonus coverage; the “Gang of 10’s” energy “plan” is a very costly one; $20 billion over 10 years and 85% of the cars illegal to run in 20.
• Jim Hoft caught Obama dealing race card after race card from the bottom of the deck. To paraphrase AC/DC – I know what Obama’s dealing out, and I want him dealt back.
• Owen proves it’s all about emotion for the Obama Nation.
• Jeff Emanuel reports that Eric Cantor is officially on the short list for McCain VP choices, as the campaign requested “personal documents” from him. Flashback – Matt Wolking called it a couple weeks back (though he was a bit off on the timing).
• The Vintage one likes that news. So do I, as long as McCain waits for Obama to name his VP nominee first.
• Caledonia Unplugged reported from the balcony (side note – she gave up a reserved seat for that) on McCain’s townhall meeting in Racine. Yep, it was the peanut gallery (though not because of her).
• Trail-Mix has a nice little diversion from the McCain campaign. Nothing like emulating a timeless arcade classic (yes, I spent many quarters in arcades back in the day).
• Elliot asks the question the presstitutes and their fellow travellers on the Left are dreading – “What if McCain wins?” I’ll answer – Mass hysteria.
• Of course, not all the McCain news is good – A.J. Sparxx asks McCain which side he’s on. It still is a very good question.
• Sgt. Relic sings an ode of sorts for Nancy “Lights Out” Pelosi.
• Jim Lynch took a picture of the House as Lights Out turned out the lights.
• Jim Hoft notes the lifeboats are starting to fill over at the Party of the ‘Rat. I’m not surprised; the public portion of Operation Chaos/NRE Spring Hill Campaign is over, and there is no benefit to remaining a DINO for those that participated.
• Michelle Malkin quotes Chesty Puller as advice for the House Pubbies. Do not miss the Photoshop from Jim Hoft.
• Fausta found the real reason for Anheuser-Busch sold out to the Belgians; taxes. And yet Obama and the ‘Rats want ever-higher taxes, even as the Europeans cut theirs.
• Bill Quick fisks the gripes of the presstitutes. Judging by the comments left by the professional gripers, it is a shame copy editing is a lost art.
• Lawhawk proves that it’s not just the presstitutes that file the dispatches that need a copy editor; it’s headline writers as well. I didn’t know the Taliban had flying mines until The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ told me so.
• Tom McMahon charts the newspaper business model.
• Bruce finds the next presstitute-driven health crisis – text messaging.
• B.C. the Imperial Torturer hammers another nail into the coffin of the Great Glow Bull Worming Consensus Coffin™. The Great Gorebal Bravo Sierra Awakening has not quite hit NASA like a jet of solar plasma yet, but it’s starting.
• Curt wraps up the Week in Gorebal “Warming”.
• Aberman explains in change form (literally) how more future drilling reduces the price of oil today.
• Mark Block explains the economic costs the Doyle Gorebal “Warming” Task Force Gorebal “Warming” acolytes at the World Resources Institute refused to take into consideration.
• Matt Burden is shocked (no, not shocked, SHOCKED; that will come later) that members of the Coast Guard are now eligible to become SEALs. Fortunately, it doesn’t look like the requirements are being relaxed any.
• Zip has some news sure to outrage just about everybody along the political spectrum. Tyson Foods, with the blessing of the leadership of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, is dropping Labor Day as a paid holiday at its Shelbyville, Tennessee plant so they can give employees a paid vacation for, wait for it, wait for it, wait…for…it…the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
• Fausta reports that the Iranians are giving missile technology to Venezuela. There are variants of the Shahab-3 missile that would reach southern Florida from Venezuela.
• Rick Moran sees similarities between the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Hopefully history does not continue to repeat itself, though I wouldn’t mind another Olympic-sized smackdown of a “master race” to happen before the future begins to diverge significantly from the past.
• Uncle Jimbo and Laughing Wolf are competing for your vote to be a co-host for a new Discovery Channel series called “Super Testing”. I can definitely see either guy having a blast (literally).
• B.C. delivers the Sarcasm Smackdown™ to Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services, which stood by as a disabled 14-year-old girl wasted away from neglect before dying at 42 pounds. These are the same <expletive deleted> that want to ru(i)n everybody’s health care.
• Bill Quick catches the Centers for Disease Control cooking the HIV books for political reasons. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that a lieberal-controlled gubmint agency would lie to make things seem worse than they are.
• Jackboot has the Great 2008 Moonbat Test. I’m proud to state that I did not identify with any of the memes; I don’t want to get on the wrong side of the Imperial Torturer.

I wish I were already on vacation, but that’s not until Wednesday…

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This should be short, but it definitely won’t be sweet…

• Matt Burden clarifies a few things about the abortive Barack Obama visit to Landstuhl.
• Martin gives Obama a big, fat F in Economics 101 for his “Emergency Economic Plan”.
• He does beat the folks at IBD; they provide further explanation for that failing grade.
• The Vintage one laughs at the idiots at MoveOn.org for being caught flat-footed by Obama’s Barack-track on an absolute ban on off-shore drilling. Somebody, please remind me to fire a few salvos at that later today, starting with the fact that a single properly-placed hurricane would threaten almost all of what Obama is now reluctantly open to opening up.
• American Pundit found some rather curious locations of donations to the Obamination campaign. I could’ve swore that foreign nationals were prohibited from donating to election campaigns.
• The Vintage one reposts Sarah Palin’s view on the role of the Vice President, and then contrasts that to John McCain’s. Did I mention there are pictures involved (and not of McCain or the Vintage one)?
• Bruce Walker outlines the Three Drills To Victory plan for McCain’s benefit.
• Mark Tapscott bemoans the missed opportunity of the too-short House GOP energy revolution.
• Kevin Fischer provides more evidence we are bass-ackwards here in the land of cheese and beer; while the Hugh Gubmint types are tripping over themselves to raise taxes (specifically, sales taxes), other states, and the District of Columbia are having sales-tax holidays. I guess they didn’t check with the Obamination.
• Jon Ham praises WalMart for participating in politcs to the extent the unions are.
• Glenn Reynolds declares NBC News a bigger joke than Jay Leno after Leno beat the NBC Nightly News in ratings.
• James T. Harris exposes the hypocrisy of the local paint-catcher.
• Proof the Left Wants Us in the 13th Century, Part 1 – lawhawk notes New Mexico governor (and former ‘Rat Presidential candidate) Bill Richardson continues to fight tooth and nail against a coal plant on Navajo land despite losing again and again.
• Proof the Left Wants Us in the 13th Century, Part 2 – JammieWearingFool reports the Britanistan moonbats are trying to stop the first coal-fired power plant in the UK in 30 years.
• Fausta found Hugo Chavez continuing down the road to Communism, as he attempts to nationalize Venezuela’s banks.
• The Oh-So-Tolerant Left Watch – Jim Hoft mentions the animal rights moonbats want to decapitate the 11-year-old who bagged Hogzilla. I wonder if they got the idea from the Islamokazis, or the thug up in Canada noted in yesterday’s Scramble.
• Headless Blogger breaks news of a $20 million offer to Ned Yost to leave the Brewers. I’m in for $20.

Enjoy your weekend, folks.

I warned you way back when that this was not a daily feature. Sorry about missing the last 2 days; here’s some Def Leppard from when they kicked arse (instead of teaming up with Tim McGraw) to make up for that…

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• Headless Blogger finds Barack Obama’s gas “plan” of speed-limit enforcing (as if I’ll slow down barring repeated speed traps) and proper tire inflation (which I actually believe in; low-pressure tires are the #1 cause of BadYear blowouts in NASCAR) helpful, if a bit underwhelming.
• Mary Katharine Ham says that it’s not the heat, it’s the vapidity.
• Allahpundit caught the DNC ripping off the Leave Brittney Alone guy.
• Bill Quick has the definitive answer to that.
• Slublog joins the growing list of “racists” in style. If only I had thought to do a Photoshop of the local lefty “brain trust” as they missed the mark a while back,….
• Kate plays “Know Your Candidate, Obamination Edition”.
• Kyle-Anne Shiver thanks God for Obama’s inept candidacy. If only 45-55% of those that can be bothered to vote weren’t Kool-Aid drinkers,….
• C. Edmund Wright found yet another new federal program supported by Obama – reparations. Welfare by any other name….
• Elliot has some tech questions for Obama and Newsweek columnist Obamination campaign staffer Anna Quindlen.
• Ed Morrissey has some sticker shock for those of you going to St. Paul to blog the GOP convention. Sean, you might want to fold that sticker shock into your fundraising blegs.
• Geoff proves once again that, given removal of incentives to come and stay here, illegal aliens will stop coming and start self-deporting.
• Doubleplusundead cheers Congress taking bipartisan steps to reassert its responsibility over the District of Columbia and enforce the 2nd Amendment. It is fitting that he gave the hat tip to a place called Snowflakes in Hell, because that’s precisely what is happening.
• Michelle Malkin proves that “free” health care is all about the politics, as the ‘Rats are attacking Sen. Tom Coburn for not charging for baby deliveries. I’ll bet they wouldn’t care if he were performing free abortions, even though he is a Pubbie.
• Nate Beeler pictures the Bridge to Nowhere.
• Brent J highlights an interview John Gard (Pubbie candidate in the 8th Congressional here in Wisconsin) did with CQ Politics.
• Bill Quick cheers a potential breakthrough in the production of hydrogen, using nothing but the sun, water, cobalt, phosphate, and an electrode. Faster, please!
• Charles Krauthammer asserts that the ‘Rat no-drill policy is harming the planet, as countries that care less for proper drilling techniques than American oil companies increase their drilling.
• B.C. the Imperial Torturer notes the ice keeps on building up around the Arctic Circle. In the hilarious tour de force, he sets a new record for uses of the ™ symbol, so go read it already.
• Lady Logician asks which number was higher in the 2nd quarter of 2008 – ExxonMobil’s profits or ExxonMobil’s tax liability. I won’t quite spoil the answer, but one was nearly three times as high as the other.
• John Hawkins notes that the Congressional ban on drilling will expire on 10/1. LET THERE BE GRIDLOCK!
• XBradTC finds some troop-friendly uses for dirt. I didn’t know a properly-filled sandbag could stop an AK-47 round at point-blank range.
• Kat found a Congresscritter who introduced a bill to house all the “guests” at Club Gitmo on Supreme Court grounds. I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
• Just in case you missed it, Jim Hoft didn’t miss the fact that July 2008 was the least-deadly month for US troops in Iraq since February 2003 and for Iraqi civilians since December 2005. Paging Mr. Kagen. Paging Mr. Obama. Please pick up the reality check.
• Geoff found another ‘Rat who has yet to have a dose of reality; the one that’s but 2 heartbeats from the Oval Office.
• Heather Radish has the football quote of the day. I only wish it were a Packer who uttered it, but Wile E. Thompson (mud) has sucked the fun out of the team.
• Dr. Melissa Clouthier breaks out the world’s smallest violin for the sexist whiners of the blogosphere. If the blogosphere were sexist, would I have Melissa, or Mary Katharine, or Kate, or Heather, or Lady Logician, or Katie Favazza, or Dagney Taggert, or (well, I think you get the idea) on the bloated roll, my feed reader, and in the Scramble on a regular basis?
• James Wigderson wonders whether Hollywood’s leading actors and actresses will practice the liberal mantra it preaches. Since liberalism on the rich end is about shutting off access to the club for the nearly-rich, I’ll bet not.
• Speaking of oh-so-compassionate liberals, Jib notes that the ones that tried to shut down the Badger Blog Alliance via the oft-abused Blogger “abuse” feature failed.
• Brian summarizes some basic conservative beliefs. I’m going to miss him in the blogosphere as he announced his retirement from blogging.
• Ed Driscoll chronicles the latest example of the decline and fall of Canada – 35 people stood by as a thug repeatedly stabbed, beheaded and gutted a human on a Greyhound bus (emphasis added for the benefit of the local lefty “brain trust”).

I’m still running at half speed, but so is Joe Walsh…

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• Before this thing goes downhill, a PSA – Jessi is trying to start a new Tuesday meme on energy. I’ll fully-bite momentarily, but note right now that gas is $3.729/gallon (cold, hard cash only) for regular unleaded at a Mobil close to the bunker.
• Moron Pundit lands a right cross to Barack Obama’s plan to fast-track alternative fuel sources to reduce the price of gas.
• Dave in Texas found some Pubbies with enough spine to remind voters that Obama is a leading part of the Drill-Nothing Congress that has the lowest approval ratings EVAH! Odds are high that John McCain will repudiate this by the end of today.
• Paleo-Pat enters the “It Has Begun” realm, as he found that servers tied to Obama’s campaign appear to have been used in a DOS attack of somebody not drinking the Obamination Kool-Aid. Whether it was somebody in Obama’s campaign or a cracker who made it look like the attack came from there, I believe it’s time to review the backup plans.
• Owen found Obama’s plan for Social “Security” tax hikes lacking in details. Bonus coverage – do read Steve Austin’s comments.
• Jim Hoft found some Iraqi officials who highly-doubt Obama’s committment to victory in Iraq. The money quote (from an unnamed Iraqi official) – “As far as he is concerned, this is Bush’s war and must end in lack of success, if not actual defeat.”
• Ed Morrissey found another PUMA – Richard Cohen. I’m starting to get the feeling that the Obamination Express just might not make it to Invesco Field; do remember his margin of “victory” is the sole result of superdelegates who can still change their minds, some for the second time.
• VP Speculation, Obama Edition, Part I – Lawhawk opens the bidding process with Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine, with mention of a few others. Of note, the only other executive mentioned is the sole bone tossed to the estrogen portion of the PUMAs.
• VP Speculation, Obama Edition, Part II – Jim Geraghty knocks down Kaine’s chances.
• VP Speculation, McCain Edition, Part I – I’m going back a few days, but I do have to give credit for this one where it’s due; Matt Wolking pumps up Eric Cantor. Personally, I believe it’s an intriguing pick.
• VP Speculation, McCain Edition, Part II – The Vintage one dug up a likely disqualifier for everybody’s favorite Alaskan mother-of-five. The source is so old, that it mentions only 4 of Sarah Palin’s children.
• VP Speculation, McCain Edition, Part III – Katie Favazza found The Wall Street Journal playing the age card on John Thune. Never mind he’s older than Obama by a matter of months, never mind he’s been in DC since 1997, and never mind that, as of right now, both he and WSJ fair-haired boy Tim Pawlenty are the same age. I wonder what they’d say about my Congresscritter.
• VP Speculation, McCain Edition, Part IV – Matt Lewis updates his conservative guide to VP picks (which I believe I forgot to link to yesterday) with Rob Portman and the aforementioned Cantor.
• VP Speculation, McCain Edition, Part V – Jim Geraghty updates his earlier report that it was going to be Pawlenty by noting that it was a Minnesota insider, and Pawlenty’s schedule hasn’t been reshuffled. Bonus coverage – that pick isn’t coming soon, which in my humble opinion, is the smart move.
• VP Speculation, McCain Edition, Part VI (last one for this Scramble, I promise) – John Hawkins gathered up almost all the “hot” names and created a poll. To be honest, the only ones that even pique my interest are Palin and Thune, and there are reasons why I don’t particularily like the options.
• Patrick Casey scores the Coburn-Reid battle over pork 1-0 Good Guy. The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ tried to beg to differ, but only exposed their rank partisanship.
• I join Bull Dog Pundit in thanking Sen. Coburn.
• Nate Beeler cues up “Holiday Road” for the do-nothing Congress.
• The Vintage one has set up a shiny new place to promote conservative candidates – Down The Ticket. Those of you thinking about staying home because you’re even more disgusted with McCain and the “R”NC than I am (and that takes some doing; trust me), do remember there are 535 House seats and 33 Senate seats up this year, along with various local elections (the entire Wisconsin Assembly and just-under-half of the Senate for me).
• Jim Hoft found one of the Presidential candidates (unnamed, but I’ll wager it was a DhimmiRAT, with minor covering action on Ron Paul-Nut) giving aid and comfort to sworn-enemy Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when Ahmadhimmijob was here last year.
• Lady Logician explains why the ‘Rats are mind-numbed robots; it’s the Stepford Affliction.
• Flip can’t follow Nancy Pelosi’s logic in demanding perpetual foreign oil dependency. News flash; she and her fellow envirowhackos want a 90% drop in the use of oil, specifically, the 90% not used by them.
• Ed Morrissey asks whether the ‘Rats are beginning to crack on drilling. It truly is scary when Harry Reid is the voice sounding somewhat-sane.
• Robert Bluey is amazed that Jerry Nadler only wants to go back to the 18th Century. Guess nobody told Nadler what powered the ships of the 18th Century, especially the latter part.
• Dave in Texas continues the AoSHQ tradition of beautiful headlines on news of dead Islamokazis. To quote Uncle Jimbo, “Predator sends Hellfire, now it’s all bad (all bad).”
• Ray Robinson has some analysis on the Taliban that you won’t hear from the LeftStreamMedia – namely, it’s the fact that we’re more forward-deployed than in the past that makes it seem like there’s a Taliban “resurgance”. Bonus news – we’re starting to get the various tribes to turn against the Taliban/Al Qaeda.
• Of course, it’s not all good news in South Asia; lawhawk reports on a 12-hour firefight between Pakistan and India over control of Kashmir.
• William Teach found the third of Muslims who believe it’s okay to be murdering Islamokazis and their sycophant dhimmitude supporters blaming the messanger. After all, they do share a common goal of wiping out Christianity. It is a pity that the sycophants are unable to recognize that the Islamokazis want them dead as well.
• Jim H. Ainsworth introduces us to the long, sordid history of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and their equally-ill-conceived siblings.
• Uncle Jimbo found a school/business partnership that works for poor kids.
• J. Gravelle reminds us that all meat is “organic”. I do wholeheartedly agree with him on what is “artificial, unnatural, and bad for you”.
• Dad29 reports that it’s Round 2 for Dick Heller. Guess we’re going to get a slow-motion double-tap.

I told you I was running at half-speed. I would’ve normally had this up an hour ago with even more links and thus still in the morning. Oh well; at least it’s not mourning.

Once again, I’m extremely late with this. Sorry about that; haven’t been feeling good since Ned Yost decided he didn’t like 1st place and Hen¢AR and Goodyear decided they didn’t like teams not owned by Hendrick Motorsports….

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• We’ll reverse the order of proceedings today, and start with something light – Janet Evans says to watch for the 4-day school week. France, here we come!
• Zip pays attention to what Al Qaeda is saying. Do remember their goal is 300,000,000 dead Americans (give or take the number that express 150% fealty to them).
• Michelle Malkin caught the DNC paying Envirowhacko Carbon Credits to a school district whose wind turbine produces no electricity. I wonder how much of a cut Algore Goracle got out of it.
• MataHarley asks whether the electric-car “cure” is worse than the Gorebal “Warming problem”. If you thought the “science” was shaky on CO₂, wait until you check out the lack-of-science on H₂O.
• Dad29 proves, using the Governor’s Gorbebal “Warming” task force’s report, that Gorebal “Warming” is all about the return to the 13th Century, with a big, fat heaping, steaming pile of Communism thrown in for good measure.
• Shoebox found Minneapolis’ mayor finding a “better” use for $500,000 than either road repairs or taxpayers’ pockets – 10 custom-built artsy-fartsy bubblers (that’s drinking fountains for those of you outside the Milwaukee area). The individual cost is something north of 10 times the most-expensive ADA-compliant/freeze-resistant standard-construction fountain I could find in a quick search of the Web (and that is a dual-bubbler design).
• Lance Burri laughs at both the ‘Rats of Wisconsin’s First Congressional District and the local paint-catcher. $77,500 in a four-way primary race for Congress against $1,200,000 to be spent in at least 2 media markets (specifically, the 2 most-expensive based-in-state ones) when there are Assembly candidates raising more cash (while covering less than a tenth of the area) is pathetic.
• Matt Naugle caught an Ohio ‘Rat sending a look-alike to a parade.
• Swint asks how John McCain is so close in the polls.
• A brief dip into the Obamination Watch since it fits here – Dr. Melissa Clouthier asks whether Obama peaked too early. Do remember to vote in her poll.
• How close? How early? How much of a backlash? Jim Hoft found McCain up by 4 points among likely voters.
• Guess it’s 2 steps forward, 2 steps back at NRE today – Allahpundit notes McCain’s most-powerful arrow is now out of the quiver and on the ground broken as McCain signs onto Barack Obama’s 16-months timeline with presstitute-ignored qualifications. It’s only fitting that Wile E. Coyote (super genius) calls Arizona home.
• Slublog wonders whether McCain’s support of the Fannie/Freddie bailout means that the other powerful arrow in McCain’s quiver, his opposition to excessive government spending, is also broken on the ground. Sure looks like it.
• Michelle Malkin caught the American presstitutes applying Great Circus Parade Math (for those outside Milwaukee, that’s presstitutes greatly inflating the crowd estimates to prop up a favored item) to Obama’s Berlin speech.
• Eric dubs Obama the Hannah Montana of politics.
• Jon Ham found an organization lifted up out of the wheel wells of the Obamination Express – Blackwater. That’s right, eeeeeevil Blackwater provided security for the Iraq portion of the Obamination World Tour.
• Rick Moran lists the top ten things about Obama that creep him out.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings.

There’s just so much goodness in my feed reader from yesterday, I couldn’t do just one portion of the Scramble. It’s a good thing that Pink Floyd agrees that some things just require multiple parts…

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• On to the energy and envirowhacko portion – Robert brings news that we may have more oil than we thought.
• James Wigderson says, “Don’t panic.” I can picture Lt. Frank Drebin standing before a broken CFL doing that as the hazmat crew seals off the house for a couple weeks.
• Kathy Carpenter confesses to being a CFL disposal criminal for not calling in the hazmat crew.
• John Hawkins explodes the myth that T. Boone Pickens is peddling wind and natural gas for environmental reasons; Pickens has massive investments in both wind farms and natural gas holdings.
• Flashy does the math on the No Drilling crowd. The only question is which century they want us in; the 13th or the 8th?
• Van Helsing finds the green fad on Madison Ave. running out of steam. I guess I now have to state this – “How are we winning the scientific and public opinion battles and losing the political war on Gorebal ‘Warming’?”
• Charlie Sykes relays a Jim Ott shredding of Jim Doyle’s handpicked Gorebal “Warming” Task Force. Do recall that, before he went to the Legislature, he was a meterologist for 30 years, and that he is still a member of the American Meteoroligist Society despite the worst efforts of High Priestess “Dr.” Heidi Cullen.
• Little Miss Sunshine’s blood is boiling over Newsweek’s shameless use of the oh-so-endangered-Canada-hunts-them-for-sport polar bear to try to prop up Gorebal “Warming”. Somehow, I doubt 20,000 polar bears can fit into any “basketball arena” smaller than the RCA Dome.
• I probably should have put this in part 1 along with the rest of the Obamination Watch, but somehow I filed it under Presstitute Follies – Trail-Mix is keeping a running total of the slant of the stories from The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that it’s Barack Obama +28, John McCain -21.
• Patrick Hynes found a nexus between the nutroots and the presstitutes. Guess it truly is NOD’s “One vision, one purpose.”
• Gopfolk laughs at the Washington Post’s partner. Birds of a feather….
• Ed Lasky is laughing at the pending slash of NYT bonds to “junk” status.
• American Pundit caught CNN manufacturing a disgruntled “College Republican”.
• Wendy wonders just how WTMJ-TV will fill 3 1/2 hours of local news surrounding the NBC Nightly Propaganda. Stand by for even more Gorebal “Warming” Bravo Sierra now that Ott no longer works there.
• Ace found out how the Columbians managed to fool FARC so completely; they pretended to be presstitutes. Specifically, they were masquerading as Che-shirt-wearing presstitutes.
• Daniel notes that the terrorist-sympathizing majority on SCOTUS is out of touch with the rest of the country.
• Uncle Jimbo starts the countdown clock on Iran after they threw out the nuclear inspectors. Yep, that worked out real well for Saddam Hussein.
• Mary Katharine Ham asserts that the West is in its last stand in Israel.
• Kat reports things are going well in Basra, and reminds us that it’s the beginning of the end.
• William Teach exposes the surrender monkeys who are willing to give up in the south Asia theater, where both candidates want to redouble our efforts.
• Sean M. has the latest episode of Failed Brittania; the “Conservative” Party wants Sharia law for bicycle thieves.
• Zip found the local Six Flags (Great America Dhimmiland) conducting a “Muslim” day. Guess Cedar Point isn’t too far of a drive after all.
• On to the rest of the news – TexasFred found Wilmette, Illinois accepting the reality of the 2nd Amendment.
• Bill Quick declares victory now that a study claims there is no difference between boys and girls in math. I have two doses of bad news – it’s a result of the dumbing-down of math, and the forces that are assaulting the hard sciences aren’t satisfied with gender parity.
• Dr. Melissa Clouthier summarizes the arguments on the new media war.
• Kim Zigfried has today’s episode of the Return of the Soviet Union. Guess McCain was right about what is in Mad Vladimir Putin’s eyes – “KGB”.

Maybe I need to start cutting back on this.

This is going to be extra-filling today after yesterday’s light fare, so I’m going with a 2-parter. I hereby dedicate the first-half song to Uncle Jimbo and his search for a new avatar for Blackfive’s newest contributor, Driven…

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• Before I get into the heart of the extra-heavy Scramble, a PSA – The Game is organizing a charity golf outing to benefit his sister-in-law, who has breast cancer.
• I don’t think we’re going to run out of Obamination targets anytime soon. Slublog offers in SluShop form the Obama campaign a few more places besides the Western Wall in Jerusalem to put campaign symbols.
• Ace found nothing but deafening silence on Barack Obama’s newest warlike pledges.
• Dad29 caught Time, the official magazine of the Obamination Express, blaming the lack of a poll bump on racism.
• Jib has two questions for Obama.
• Ace also found the German campaign rally pic of the day. That is not, by the way, a SluShop.
• Sister Toldjah explains the cancelled Obama visit to wounded troops at a pair of American bases in Germany as the result of the trip being a campaign function. So many questions, so little time.
• Uncle Jimbo defends the dropping of the trip because it was inappropriate to mix campaigning with troop-visits.
• John McCormack explodes that canard with a bit of Colorado Springs history.
• Moe Lane deduced Obama’s priorities list. Shopping came before the troops. I’m shocked, SHOCKED!
• Ace figured out that it was because Obama couldn’t bring his sychophant presstitutes along.
• Jon Ham has the definitive observations on the Berlin speech.
• Jim Geraghty plays “Name That Source” with said speech and “We Are the World”.
• Mary Katharine Ham plays “One of these things is not like the other”.
• On a related note, her dad was the only one to catch a rather embarrassing error by Der Spiegel; the copy editor confused Ramstein Air Base with the group Rammstein.
• D.M. Giangreco caught another Obamination Gaffe. When it comes to the history of the Berlin Airlift, I’ll trust the co-author of Airbridge to Berlin: The Berlin Crisis of 1948, Its Origins and Aftermath over a politician.
• CDR Salamder and his wife found (created, actualy) the draft of Germany’s memorial to Obama.
• Ed Morrissey found that “non-political” Berlin speech wasn’t so “non-political” after all. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that it would be a political speech.
• After all, that promotional poster that Good Lt. found had an uncanny resemblance to a Soviet-era Lenin poster was paid for by the campaign.
• GayPatriotWest quotes Ronald Reagan over Obama’s attempt to rewrite his history on the Surge.
• Allahpundit notes another presstitute is about to be thrown under the Obamination Presstitute Express for daring to bring to light the fear amongst the presstitutes to look into Obama’s life.
• Bill Quick found another proud supporter of Obama; a guy who was just executed for chasing down and holding down someone while another beat him to death.
• Jim Hoft notes that death threats by Obamination supporters that are serious enough to warrant arrests have begun.
• Jackboot discovered that the presstitute love for the Obamiantion isn’t universal, as the Brits deliver some serious satire.
• Russ Vaughn puts the presstitute love for Obama to lyrics.
• Dad29 reports that Obama, fresh from the declaration by the presstitutes and Obama himself that he already is the 44th President, is putting together his post-election transition team.
• More Gateway Pundit – he found the Iranians pleased with Obama’s National Security Advisor. After all, Zbigniew Brezezinski has been appeasing them since the Peanut Farmer.
• Last Obamination item – Zip lists the demands of the Muslims for Obama. He’ll implement at least half of them in the first year.
• That doesn’t mean I’m done – Sean Hackbarth takes a critical look at the coming McCain Money Bomb.
• Shoebox has a memo that John McCain and his campaign should read.
• More “It has begun” from Jim Hoft – he found The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ trying to begin the McCain Is Too Old meme.
• Time for the rest of the political news of the day – The Vintage one is saddened that the only soiled pants on the protestors at the DNC convention will be from natural causes.
• Ed Lasky says to prepare for a repeat of the tossing of military votes at the insistence of the ‘Rats.
• Emperor Misha I cheers the finding of a pair of gumballs by the Pubbie members of the Senate. We’ll see whether it’s real when it comes time to keep up a filibuster of the attempt to nationalize Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae, and give lots of taxpayer money to ‘Rat constituencies.
• Nancy Coppock outlines that attempt by the bipartisan Party-In-Government to ram that through.
• Lawhawk caught New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (D) following Jim “Craps” Doyle’s (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) playbook on ethics. I wonder when he calls for sole control over the Public Integrity Commission like Doyle has over both the now-dissolved State Ethics and Elections Boards.
• Justin Phillips found Rep. Sheldon Wasserman (D), fresh from his embarrassment on the links at the hands of his opponent, Sen. Alberta Darling (R), once again playing the “bad health” card, this time personally. Even as I type, Charlie Sykes is recounting how Wasserman swore up and down he repudiated the use of the bad health card the last time this came up. Stay classy, Sheldon.
• Rizzuto dug up some rather interesting information on the DNC head of religious outreach/DNC Convention chair. I won’t spoil the surprise by mentioning it here, but I’m not the least bit surprised.
• Plebian counted bumper stickers on his trip out West.
• Kate reports on another candidate for the Harrassers in Government portion of the roll – the Memphis Police Department.
• Ace gives President Bush some advice. Do not miss yet another SluShop.
• John Hawkins dips into the memory hole to recall what the ‘Rats said about the Surge.
• I guess I could call this the transition item – Michelle Malkin found the only place the ‘Rats want to drill – your wallet. Do note what every single ‘Rat believes is the solution – buy more Venezuelan heavy oil.

Stay tuned; part 2 is next.

Today’s music is suggested by Peter (specifically, the bottom-of-the-deck reference). Before we get there, however, a little inside baseball. I’m laughing at the “superior intellect” of the Leftosphere as Rick Esenberg destroys it…

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• Let’s start out with some highlights of other oh-so-tolerant lieberals and their ideas of speech –
  Doubleplusundead caught some anti-war types spitting at veterans. Several others in my feed reader also caught this, but DPUD found a couple of “special” spokesmen.
• American Thinker found Google sending the anti-Barack Obama spin from the Hillary Clinton campaign down its own memory hole.
• Warner Todd Huston brings news of a “news” organization that bowed to the tantrums of the nutroots.
• Fred invites a local lefty to clean out his ears. Haven’t you heard the news, Fred? The left decides what is and is not said nowadays </sarcasm>.
• On to the Obamination Watch, and I’ll start with something designed to tweak our “old friends” on the Left – Michelle Malkin found Michelle Obama (She Who Cannot Be Critiziced – according to the oh-so-compassionate Left at least) threatening the children. Not surprising when Barack’s gangsta-rap supporters have threatened the rest of us with death.
• Richard H. Collins proudly introduces Obama’s Enemies List. Can I forego the $5 donation since I’m doing all I can to tweak the oh-so-tolerant Left, and I’ve proven successful on the local level?
• PJ-Comix has his usual FUnny take on the DUmmies call to violence should their man Barack Obama lose in November.
• Robert notes Obama is providing hope to the enemy.
• Uncle Jimbo reminds us that Obama has been opposed to liberating Iraq from the start.
• Allahpundit found Obama continuing to oppose the liberation of Iraq.
• Jim Hoft notes Obama gives all the credit to the Sunnis of the Anbar Awakening. News flash; without the US military, there wouldn’t have been an Anbar Awakening, and the inevitable post-Hussein (Saddam, not Barack) period would have had decades of extreme bloodshed and a likely muti-part ethnic cleansing (take your pick of Sunni or Shia along with the Kurds and Christians).
• Ed Morrissey asks whether Obama would stick with a “surge” in Afghanistan. Judging by the above, probably not.
• Glenn Reynolds has a counter-prediction on Obama’s future warlike status that won’t make the peacenik portion of the moonbat base at all happy. Do remember that, just like the Clinton escapades of 1998, it’s all about Number One.
• Scott found evidence of that counter-prediction in today’s Obamination Express Bus Toss of the hard-and-fast timetable.
• Mary Katharine Ham predicts the next contestant in the Obamination Express Bus Toss – Andrea Mitchell. The only question is whether the rest of the presstitutes will first throw her under their bus or wait until the Barack-Track marks are on her back.
• Zip spotted something missing from the flying version of the Obamination Express; the American flag (replaced by the Obamination seal).
• Headless Blogger spotted a very-special banner above one of the stops of the Obamination Retreat and Defeat World Tour.
• CDR Salamander offers some siting help for the Germany portion of the Obamination Retreat and Defeat World Tour.
• MataHartley notes one country left off the Obamination Retreat and Defeat World Tour; Pakistan.
• Gabriel Malor provides today’s episode of Obamination Gaffe Machine – an advisor forgot that the election hasn’t taken place yet. Incredibly, a reporter pointed out the gaffe.
• Jim Geraghty believes both parties will have the bottom half of the dance card filled in the next 2 weeks. Unfortunately, John McCain is poised to waste the advantage of having the later convention by doing so this week.
• Patrick Ruffini agrees that it is too early.
• Sister Toldjah thinks it’s a good move.
• Matt Wolking has a dark-horse for McCain’s VP pick – Eric Cantor. I’ll try to be back on this in a bit.
• McQ asks whether this is 1976 or 1980. The Pubbies are running Gerald Ford II, not Ronald Reagan II; and I believe that answers the question.
• Mark Krikorian found another ex-ally of McCain’s abandoning him for the ‘Rats – the Mexican government. Guess pushing shamnesty is truly a lose-lose for the Pubbies.
• Stephen Green found a bumper sticker for James Dobson. I’m still uncommitted despite the expletive.
• William Tate ran the money totals of the presstitute donations, and is shocked, SHOCKED that there is a 10-1 advantage for the ‘Rat.
• Gorebal “Warming” Update time – Lance Burri proves once again that it’s all about sending us back to the 13th Century.
• Silent E discovered whose senator Herb Kohl is – OPEC. Maybe that’s slightly unfair, as Kohl wants to seize the American assets of OPEC and trigger a oil boycott that will make 1973 and 1979 look like mere hiccups.
• Paul Socha has a two-part series of efforts to increase production of both crude oil and refined petroleum products. Unfortunately, it’s Iran that’s exploiting new oil fields and building new refineries.
• Todd Lohenry brings some disturbing news from northern Alaska. We have a 10-year deadline to increase oil production in the North Slope to save the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.
• The rest of the best – Andy Aplikowski has some tips for Republicans looking to leverage the power of the blogosphere.
• Dr. Melissa Clouthier explains why they should leverage that power.
• Darryl Enriquez reposts comments from a former train engineer on why “quiet zones” are deadly. Bonus thought – the trains were there before most of the whiners.
• Eddiebear has a very bad feeling about the Sovi…er, Russians returning to Cuba. I really need to dig out a dispatch from The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ from the weekend that whined that the Sovi…er, Russians just can’t come up with enough new-generation weapons to threaten America with.
• Kevin (yes, that Kevin who’s been MIA from the Cheddarsphere the last couple years) notes that history might not quite be repeated this time thanks to the NEA.
• Emperor Misha I rips San Francisco’s mayor for running a sanctuary city sheltering an illegal alien with a lengthy criminal record who ultimately committed a triple homicide as only a Rottweiler can. One thing to add from last night’s O’Reilly Factor – the San Francisco County Sheriff’s office (not under the control of the mayor) did contact ICE to get him deported, only to have ICE do nothing.
• Zip points out that the EU is once again useless on Iran. Then again, 2/3rds of the EU3 were (and probably want to be again) heavily-involved in the Iranian nuclear program, and the other third is quickly sliding toward Britainistan.
• Mary Katharine Ham plays “Guess The Reporter’s World View”. I’ll wager that presstitute supports the no-stick approach from the EU3.
• Tracy Coenen has a solution that wouldn’t involve moving out of Milwaukee if the voters pass a paid sick-leave mandate more generous by a few hours than the 65 hours the average state employee takes – cut the pay. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
• Patrick Casey invites the Senate GOP “leadership” to resign after showing absolutely no willingness to show leadership, culminating with the acceptance of the ‘Rat policies on almost everything. No wonder why I call them the bipartisan Party-In-Government, and no wonder why a plurality of my readership still believes there will be no GOP come 2012.
• I can’t be entirely serious (or is it series, or maybe Sirius) – Owen has a couple of pictorals on proper restroom etiquitte. Don’t know if I’d agree with holding onto the hair while one is vomiting into the porcelain throne, but there definitely should be silence in the mens’ room.

Let there be speed…

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You best get that extra-large cup of drink; this is going to take a while (hopefully as long as it took me to put the post-weekend edition together):

• Justin Higgins found the Obamination Express rocking back and forth more than a ship in a hurricane.
• Jim Geraghty notes that Barack Obama’s schedule is open for Lalapalooza (or is it Comic-Con?)
• Flip found that details don’t matter to Obama; it wasn’t a single bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor but a whole heap of them.
• Eric breaks out Spinal Tap and Winnie the Pooh to explain Obama’s Iraq policy.
• Gina Cobb caught onto the fact the Obamination tax plan would mean a top marginal rate approaching 60% in places like New York. Ditto Wisconsin.
• Vivian Lee pictures Hillary Clinton serving Obama tomatoes. I think that would be a meal she’s planning on serving about the middle of January 2011.
• DrewM caught Obama thinking he would be running for Vice President, with an offing of Clinton on January 21, 2011. That would be the only way he could serve the “to 10” portion of his “8-10 years” dream expressed in Europe.
• Slublog offers up yet another classic SluShop on the “8-10 year” dream.
• The folks at The American Thinker have this weekend’s Red-on-Red episode. Operation Chaos lives!
• Ed Morrissey points out that Obama’s second choice for his German speech is historically-deficient. I guess not teaching history has consequences.
• Rick Moran is ashamed of his brother’s profession and their slavish love for the Obamination.
• Karl found that Obama couldn’t put up with foreign presstitutes during the Obama World Tour.
• Speaking of Obama not putting up with foreigners, Jim Hoft found him throwing Britain’s Prime Minister under the Obamination Express. Britain’s only been our best ally for the last 100 or so years.
• Lady Logician asks who Obama’s character references are.
• Jason (aka Ick) found the anti-Obamination sign of the day. If I ever need insurance in Manderville, Louisiana, I’ll be sure to look up Bud Gregg’s State Farm Insurance office.
• Speaking of the Obama World Tour, Michelle Malkin has the T-shirts.
• Janet Evans discovered the change Obama is talking about; our status as a superpower.
• Michael J. O’Shea counts the ways the Obamination Presstitute Groupie Corps loves giving Obama tongue baths.
• Ed Morrissey got a hold of the Obama World Tour dress code. He’ll get the same pass for offending the female half of the Obamination Presstitute Groupie Corps he got for the “Sweetie” kerfuffle.
• Flip found Dan Rather joining the Osama/Obama mix-up in style. Then again, maybe the Rev. Jesse Jackson did break the ground for Osama bin Laden.
• Erick Erickson found some more “inconvenient entanglements” that Obama’s advisors have with mortgage lenders. By the way, snow isn’t exactly pure; try letting some melt to see this proof.
• Warner Todd Huston caught the official cable station of the Obama campaign, PMSNBC, trying to equate John McCain to the Joker.
• Sean Hackbarth found James Dobson starting to warm to McCain.
• Bill Quick recalls why the last 6 years of Bill Clinton’s Presidency was relatively-easy to survive; a Republican Congress and Newt Gingrich.
• Patrick Ruffini has a plan to bring conservatism back.
• The Vintage one has some good news out of Alaska – the primary challenger to Don “Bridge to Nowhere” Young, Sean Parnell, outraised Young in the second quarter.
• Soren Dayton exposes the fact the ‘Rats don’t believe in ethics reform. After all, they have a coronation to pay for, and lobbyists are the ones with the excess money.
• Gribbit found even more evidence that Gorebal “Warming” is a bunch of Bravo Sierra – the estimated temperatures in Europe over the last 1,100 years.
• Brian says to blame Nancy Pelosi for high gas prices.
• Bill Quick found a cop that was fired for demanding free coffee and tea from a Daytona Beach Starbucks under pain of reduced response times. I agree that he should also face extortion charges.
• King Banian explains why airlines want a government takeover of the oil futures market.
• Ed Driscoll terms the coming death of journalism a suicide. Bonus coverage; The News Organzation That Cannot Be Quoted™ is encouraging even more left-wing bias in its dispatches.
• Lawhawk highlights the dangers of appeasement; Hezbollah is looking at more Israeli kidnapping operations now that they’ve been proven to work.
• Matt Naugle has picture evidence of the Presstitute Folly of the Weekend; NPR’s whine that two rather-overweight Ohio women have to cut back on meat because the economy is soooooo bad.
• Kate and Michael Ramirez discovered the ultimate dipsticks – Congress. Yes, the dipstick is dry.
• Kathy Carpenter discovered the empty-dipstick Congress wants to raise the gas tax 52.6% and the diesel tax 41.7%. Once again, this proves that the ‘Rats are more than happy with ever-higher gas prices as long as government is the entity getting the money.
• Emperor Misha I confirms that the MSM is stark raving insane. The letter combination of “a”, “I”, “q” and “D” isn’t exactly the same as “RATS”; after all, “‘Rats” do describe the ‘Rats.
• Purple Avenger found evidence that Gorebal “Warming” studiously hides evidence of its reality.
• Dad29 notes that the study noted above that finds, among other things, no historical link between rising temperatures and carbon dioxide comes from a former Gorebal “Warming” apostle. Once again I ask, how are we winning the scientific battle and losing the political war?
• Speaking of the decline and fall of the presstitutes, Jerome J. Schmitt misses Tim Russert. Russert’s replacement, noted Gorebal “Warming” acolyte Tom Brokaw, failed to ask the Goracle about nuclear power during the course of a 40-minute tongue-bath.
• Jim Hoft is shocked, SHOCKED that the presstitutes would misquote Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. For the record, it’s “withdrawal on success”, not “withdrawal regardless of success”.
• Lawhawk caught Algore Goracle comparing offshore drilling to the Iraq invasion.
• Fred Keller will be running a U.S. Presidents Trivia contest. This ought to be good.
• Elliot explains for the benefit of the leftosphere what an American is.
• Jim Hoft found two more pieces of evidence that Gorebal “Warming” is a bunch of Bravo Sierra – the Arctic ice pack has grown 11% over the last year, and sea levels are falling.
• Mike explains that it won’t be 10 years before any new oil production would hit the pipeline. Bonus coverage – a lefty wants $8/gallon gas.
• Donna Martinez points out that innovation is the last resort of government. Actually, in Wisconsin, the majority of the bipartisan Party-In-Government doesn’t believe in innovation despite a situation worse than the one in Orange County, North Carolina.
• Bruce has a few travel tips for the fair-weather airline passengers.

I don’t have the time to see if this is the longest Scramble ever, but it sure feels like it. Maybe I need to expand it to the weekends.

This one’s dedicated to a local lefty who has no clue what words mean…

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• Patrick explains the actions that make Lee Holloway a thug.
• Owen calls that local lefty a “political thug”. I wouldn’t go that far (only because I don’t recall who ran Jessica McBride out of the Cheddarsphere); but “idiot” and “imbecile” certainly fit.
• James Wigderson asserts Holloway remains a thug.
• James also describes the events outside the bunker this morning.
• Brian Fraley declares that lefty blogger’s case weak.

Thank you, guys.

Revisions/extensions (7:34 am 7/21/2008) – Kevin Fischer likens said local lefty blogger to another local incredibly-guilty white liberal.

I wish I were in Texas right now instead of cloudy, steamy and soon-to-be-stormy Wisconsin…

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• Dhimmitude Watch, Part 1 – DrewM found the United States State Department selling “Mosques of America” calendars.
• Dhimmitude Watch, Part 2 – Charles Johnson reports the Louvre will be opening an Islamic wing.
• On to the envirowhackos – Gabriel Malor explains how the “science” Gorebal “Warming” is falling apart. If only we weren’t about to lose the political front of the war,….
• Ed Morrissey notes the American Physical Society is now calling Gorebal “Warming” unproven and is calling for a public debate on the validity of the “science”. It’s a good thing High Priestess “Dr.” Heidi Cullen doesn’t control the accrediation of physicists like she wants to control the accrediation of meteorologists.
• Ace is incredulous that the Congressional ban on offshore drilling is likely going to be renewed.
• More Ace – he found Algore Goracle wants to raise taxes on energy $1 trillion to fund his moonbat “renewable energy” shot.
• William Teach discovers yet another thing that causes Gorebal “Warming” – cows. Make my steak medium-well, please, and my glass of milk extra-frosty.
• Mary Katharine Ham and Americans for Prosperity caught the utter hypocrisy of the Gorebal “Warming” crowd. As The Hammer says, “Click for the inane environmentalists arriving via cab; stay for the great Gore fleet.”
• Mary Lazich outlines the rise and fall of biofuels.
• On to the Presidential horse race – Ace highlights the brazen attack on John McCain by The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted. Three mentions of Ace and a couple more of my fellow Morons ought to cement my status as a Moron Blog.
• Jim Geraghty found evidence that Operation Chaos is continuing to bear fruit, as fundraisers for Hillary Clinton met with…McCain’s camp.
• Josh Schroeder asks, “Which McCain do you prefer, the Real Life one or the JibJab Cartoon one?” Do make sure you scroll for the actual poll.
• Moe Lane found another state GOP looking for sanctions from McCain for daring to quote Michelle Obama – the Washington one. Bravo Zulu, WAGOP.
• The letter-writing Brad V explains why the presstitutes don’t think Barack Obama stinks; they think he doesn’t sweat.
• Speaking of presstitutes and Obama, Sister Toldjah found them treating Obama’s upcoming overseas trip like Elvis’ Army stint. No, it’s more like the Beatles’ first visit to America.
• Flip found a Bush Doctrine-sized fly in the Obamination soup. Of course, it turned out to be pre-emptive surrender rather than pre-emptive hindquarters-kicking.
• It Has Begun by Jim Hoft, Part 1 – he found the racists supporting Obama aren’t waiting until November to declare those of us who dare oppose the Obamination racist.
• It Has Begun by Jim Hoft, Part 2 – he notes the Obamination Nation has taken to torching the property of die-hard supporters of Hillary Clinton. Say, wasn’t torching a favored tactic of the KKK?
• The focusing Brad V has the Obamination campaign slogan of the day.
• Karl explores the other side of Obama’s campaign coin.
• PJ-Comix found the DUmmies all in knots debating Obama’s flip vs. Obama’s flop.
• On to the rest of the wrap – McQ found the District of Columbia in contempt of SCOTUS. I wonder if a visit from the Supreme Court Police is in order for the DC Common Council.
• Rusty wonders if The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted and the Taliban are sharing cameramen. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least; they both have a goal of defeating America.
• More crAP – Jim Hoft found The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted carrying water for SanFranNan.
• Wyatt Earp exposes the shallowness of Al Sharpton’s disappointment in Jesse Jackson.
• Paul Socha wonders where the ‘Rats were when a field trip to ANWR was scheduled.
• Patrick laughs at Sheldon Wasserman’s weak golf skills. The 47-year-old doctor/Assemblyman got outdriven by a 64-year-old woman whose health he attacked because he wants her Senate seat.
• Fred has the first previews of 24:Exile, the Jack Bauer African adventure.

It sure seems like half my roll’s in Austin right now for AFP’s conference. Make sure you guys and gals hoist a cold one for me.

Summer is here…

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• Jim Hoft found a bare spot in the latest Obamination whitewash. Those of you with weak stomachs and those of you in “sensitive” offices, you may not want to view the latest SluShop presented by Ace (the rest of you, enjoy).
• McQ highlights the long, sordid history of Barack Obama’s view on the Second Amendment. Do remember that past performance is an indicator of the future, and it’s bleak for those of us that are armed.
• Patrick Ruffini sounds the alarm on the Obamination Ground Game. If memory serves, Hillary Clinton spent a ton on state-level staffing.
• That includes the opening of Obama’s Waukesha office (from Cindy Kilkenny, who beat the local paint-catcher by two news cycles). Waukesha County, in 2004, had the second-largest percentage spread and largest vote-total spread favoring President Bush in the state.
• Stix, with the help of Michael Ramirez, found the draft of Obama’s proposed Brandenburg Gate speech.
• American Pundit found Time not knowing what happened in May 2004. Only in an Obamination does $22 million beat $26 million.
• Uncle Jimbo fires for effect on the Obamination Iraq Flip.
• Michelle Malkin educates Obama on the level of education of the Al Qaeda leadership.
• More Gateway Pundit on the Obamination Watch – he caught Obama flipping on The New Yorker cover. Guess his wife (the bad Michelle) let him have his Malkins after the good Michelle told him to grow a pair.
• Lee Cary found Obama’s plan to fully-federalize education. The good news; no more referendums to increase taxes to build new Taj Mahals staffed by millionares. The bad; no say in the increased taxes to build new Taj Mahals staffed by millionares.
• Rick Moran found some rumblings below the Obamination mountaintop. Unlike Rick, I believe there is some cow to go along with the bell. The superdelegates already proved themselves to be a fickle lot.
• Warner Todd Huston found that lobbyists will be sponsoring the Obamination coronation. Does this count as another Barack-track?
• Byron York found the architect of the previous $6.3 billion accounting scandal at Fannie Mae giving economic advice to Obama. Suggestion for those of you looking for the outrage from the Left; don’t hold your breath.
• Jim Geraghty found the Washington Post dangerously-close to apostasy as they declared that Obama is “indifferent” to the outcome in Iraq. When even the liberal Washington gatekeeper doubts one’s committment, there’s definitely something wrong.
• William Teach found Obama caring about Muslim sensitivities over The New Yorker cover.
• Smooth transition time (if I hadn’t announced it, that is) – Zip found the head of the Anglican Christian Dhimmitude Church bowing once again to his Islamokazi masters.
• In light of the previous two items, Jon Ham asks whether there is nothing that won’t offend Muslims. Let me start with polygamy and honor killings.
• Fred Keller says, “Know thine enemy.”
• Mike Pechar found a brand-new religion; smokers. They already have more gumballs than the Archbishop of Cantebury. Unfortunately for the shrinking number of American smokers, the religion started in Europe.
• McQ found even more evidence that Gorebal “Warming” has replaced Socialism as the leading secular religion. Actually, Gorebal “Warming” is merely the latest manifestation of Socialism, as it pushes the same claptrap (lack-of-)results arranged to a slightly-different set of “greivances”.
• A lot of people caught this, but I’ll give the credit to Teresa – she found a direct connection between even the discussion of more drilling and lower crude oil prices. I believe Degeneration X has two words for SanFranNan.
• Silent E and Michael Ramirez have 1,000 words for SanFranNan and her opposition to drilling where there is oil.
• Kevin Fischer outlines the costs of allowing oil prices to continue rising. Do note that study was in a vacuum; it would be even worse with all the additional spending the ‘Rats, both nationally and statewide, want.
• Dad29 has a simple solution to the petroleum crunch. Of course, those that are “sick” of oil won’t give up its advantages; they want us to give up its advantages.
• Speaking of gubmint spending, John J. Miller and Americans for Tax Reform wish you Happy Cost of Government Day.
• Sean Hackbarth caught Barney Frank (D) declaring the dollar (actually, $4,000,000,000) “lousy”.
• Curt says there’s going to be trouble for “some” in Washington, namely those in the bipartisan Party-In-Government that thought the surge wouldn’t work.
• Stephen Green found a Denver Goron that wouldn’t mind feces thrown at the police in his city.
• Jeff Emanuel found that Rush Limbaugh is right again – conservatism wins every time it’s credibly espoused.
• Tom Tancredo sounds the early warning on the potential failure of Mexico as a nation; their police are starting to seek political asylum here because they’re threatened by the drug cartels.
• Ed Driscoll says the blogosphere market is up 48% this year. Shoebox and I are wondering where our mad blogging money is.
• We’re in between Drinking Right and Blog ‘n Grog, but that won’t stop the beer from flowing. Wyatt Earp found a guy with a $1000/week beer habit. That’s some serious drinking.
• James Wigderson thinks he’s part of the Drinking for McCain brigade.
• Van Helsing found the next target of the Nannies; strong beer. Stay out of my Labatt Maximum Ice and everything will stay golden.

C. Edmund Wright provides the inspiration for today’s song by declaring a return to the double-nickel could speed us to a recession…

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• Sister Toldjah could use some prayers and well-wishes.
• Let’s start the Obamination Watch off right; Kathy Carpenter found the perfect wind-blown cartoon for it.
• Ed Lasky caught Barack Obama reinventing his church attendance.
• Ed Morrissey found a fresh coat of whitewash at Obama’s website.
• Joe Repya declares Obama’s retreat-and-defeat plan for Iraq precisely that.
• Mary Katharine Ham found some objectivity from ABC News regarding Obama’s plan to retreat and defeat from Iraq in 16 months.
• Charles Johnson wonders whether Obama’s planned meeting with Fatah (nee PLO) is going to jeopardize his standing with Hamas. I’ll lay odds he’ll find a way to smooth things over with them.
• Thomas Sowell asks, “Are facts obselete?” I submit that facts haven’t really mattered since 1992, and that the lack of history in the public-school cirriculum is making itself apparent now.
• Vivian Lee compares Obama’s love to OJ Simpson’s. I wonder if the two will meet on the golf course.
• Michelle Malkin declares the capitulation of both halves of the bipartisan Party-In-Government to La Raza complete with John McCain’s refusal to repudiate Obama’s characterization of ICE as terrorists.
• JihadGene channels Krazy Kim Jong-Il as he reviews the latest issue of The New Yorker.
• Trail-Mix delivers some harsh soon-to-be-realities for the Obamination crowd.
• Enough Obamination for 1 Scramble; time for the folks Roy Innis call Energy Killers – Heather Radish isn’t excited by the rescinding of the executive ban on off-shore drilling. I’m going to have to explore the reasoning a bit more in a bit.
• Shoebox does some math for the two-year-olds ruin…er, running Congress.
• Dad29 explodes the Russ Feingold/Steve Kagen malarkey about all the acreage leased but not actively drilled by the oil companies. Why would they sink more drill bits into dry holes?
• Kate has some not-exactly-random thoughts on Congress and gas prices.
• Ed Morrissey found the greatest oil-spill polluter on Earth – GAIA!
• Lemur King has today’s item blamed on Gorebal “Warming” – kidney stones.
• There’s still some good stuff in the reader, but I can’t come up with a pithy category – James T. Harris spotted the telltale sign of hypocrisy from Bill Clinton; he opened his mouth on polarized politics.
• Justin Phillips found today’s example of the folly of campaign finance “reform” – Sheldon Wasserman and his stockpiling of donations while taking public money. That reminds me; I still owe you my take on Obama’s refusal to participate in the public financing scheme for the general election after pledging to do so.
• Kevin Fischer rips the rampant growth of gas-wasting, time-wasting roundabouts in Wisconsin.
• Tom McMahon explains the non-economic reason why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are failing.
• Jim Hoft notes not all is hunky-dory for the Mad Mullahs and their sockpuppet, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iranian students are quite upset about the way the theocracy is going.
• Elliot has today’s example of the Aztlanization of Green Bay. How long before speaking Spanish is a requirement for employment? I give it 2 years regardless of who wins.

I know; I did this song before, but Tony Snow’s flute brings a different perspective…

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I really need to either start doing a weekend Scramble or start cutting back on the 200+-feed feed reader; this one’s going to be scattershot:

• With all the focus on Tony Snow’s passing, it’s easy to miss that a pioneer in heart surgery, Dr. Michael DeBakey, also passed away this weekend. Fortunately, lawhawk didn’t miss this.
• Patterico asks whether Howard Kurtz will declare bad for the gander what he declared bad for the geese. I highly-doubt it.
• Tom McMahon 4-Blocks Snow and the guy he replaced as White House Press Secretary.
• Gary Gross cheers the increasing belligerence of the House GOP on drilling.
• Lemur King found a purveyor of nuts that was perfectly-positioned for the Jackson-Obama rift.
• Learned Foot does the math on Norm Coleman’s DC apartment that’s been the subject of a Tin Foil Alert among the Minnesota lefties.
• Moron Pundit has the idiots of the weekend. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether the idiot who used a stolen Taser for some “fun” with his father, the idiots in Madison who won’t let us have “electric weapons”, or the idiot in Waukesha County who charged the shocker with possession of an “electric weapon” rather than the theft of that weapon.
• Jeff Wagner proves why baseball and unorganized volunteerism are dying.
• Soren Dayton exposes the online hypocrisy of Nancy Pelosi.
• Failed Africa by lawhawk, Part 1 – he declares the International Criminal Court attempt to prosecute Sudan’s President “too little, too late”.
• Lady Logician has evidence of whiplash among the ‘Rats on drilling. Nothing like a blindsiding by the voters to get them off their duffs.
• Dave Casper caught a transit boss not practicing what he preaches. Why, after all, high-flying gubmint honchos can’t be tied to the very-limited schedule they want to tie the rest of us to.
• James Wigderson replays the Burr vs. Hamilton duel with modern video equipment.
• Capt. Karl makes the Constitutional case against the income tax.
• John McCormack notes that Mr. Spanish-For-Your-Children Barack Hussein Obama can’t speak anything beyond English.
• Patrick McIlheran answers the question of whether the US or the UK is more violent. Hint; it’s the assaults that seal the deal.
• Jim Hoft has the Fading Glowbama pic of the weekend.
• Patrick Ruffini explains why the Obamination Campaign made a mistake on not taking public financing.
• Christopher Chantrill pokes a few more scientific holes in Gorebal “Warming”.
• John Hawkins and Dennis Avery pump a lot of lead into Gorebal “Warming”. Do not miss the effect of adopting Kyoto or cap-and-trade.
• Mark Block calls for some turnabout on the Wisconsin leftosphere.
• Failed Africa by lawhawk, Part 2 – he notes that the ChiComs and the Sovi…er, Russians are standing by their fellow Marxist in Zimbabwe.
• Dad29 notes the “R” model for the youth movement isn’t working. I think the insiders at the RNC and the WIGOP need to take a second look at efforts like Wisconsin Institute for Leadership and The Next Right (yes, I’m looking at you, Rep. Vos.)
• Why? Ed Morrissey points to a clarion call from John Fund about how the Pubbies are about to have their lunch handed to them.
• More Gateway Pundit – he notes a Clintonista Lawgiver-In-Black is roadblocking a single wellhead in Michigan because a particular bird is within a mile of it.
• Failed Africa by lawhawk, Part 3 – he found the ChiComs fueling the military run by the guy the Europeans want to string up (see Part 1).
• James T. Harris is wondering why he’s still in the central city.
• Phelony Jones doesn’t miss all the gunshots from her old neighborhood.
• Stephen Green caught Reuters rooting for retreat and defeat.
• Emperor Misha I has the latest thing being blamed on Gorebal “Warming” – Black Hawk Down. And here I thought it was a bunch of Islamokazis.
• Lance Burri ran the numbers on Obama’s service in the Senate, and by the time the 44th President is sworn in, he will have served 73% as long as the time John McCain spent in POW camps in North Vietnam.
• Owen found a town where death is illegal. If only it were that easy to satiate the lust of those who want to live on this planet forever,….
• Michelle Malkin tells Obama to grow a pair and take his satirical lumps like conservatives do on a regular basis.
• I know, I’ve gone over this one before, but MataHarley explores who we bloggers do and do not influence. I don’t like to brag, but I know I have regular readers in both Wisconsin’s and the nation’s Capitol Building.
• Patrick found that Milwaukee has a special set of taxes for retail business that want to have a “going out of business” sale. Considering they also want a $20/car/year wheel tax so they don’t have to make any tough decisions, and considering that this is WisTAXsin, I’m not the least bit surprised.
• Even more Jim Hoft – he caught Obama admitting to a backward 2 1/2-flip gainer with a twist in an attempt to snow-job the Jewish vote.
• More Captain Ed – he found distance between Obama and McCain on immigration; Obama has tossed the “terrorizing” (Obama’s word) ICE all the way under the Obamination Express.
• Tracy Coenen notes we bloggers have rights.

It’s going to be a hot one today…

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• Zip puts the demographic numbers behind the decline and pending fall of the last vestiges of the British Empire.
• JammieWearingFool says that 4 rent-controlled apartments for Charlie Rangel is 3 too many.
• Marshall Manson has a warning for the Twittering politicians who aren’t actually listening. I’ll lay odds on Barack Obama disappearing from the online community if he wins.
• Rick Moran has the Barack-Track Headline of the Day.
• Mondoreb sings “Barack the Blazing Liberal”.
• Moe Lane is popping a fresh batch of corn over a name that popped up in the Obamination Veep Sweeps – Chris Dodd.
• Curt found the presstitutes are in a land of confusion over Obama’s intentions. Memo to the media – they’re not good.
• Ace and we Morons prove that with our takes on the Obamination “…You Can Believe In” poster (note; this may not be safe for work – we’re talking about Morons after all).
• Slublog highlights the arrogance that is Obama.
• Ed Morrissey notes the tax policies of an Obamination Administration are helping push the breakup of one of the NFL’s longest-running family dynasties.
• Dean Barnett does his best Michael Buffer impersonation over Obama’s forgetfulness over his pledge to help Hillary Clinton retire her debt. The Photoshop simply cannot be missed.
• Tom McMahon has a photograph of Jesse Jackson’s new coffee mug.
• James T. Harris found the happiest man in America – Al Sharpton.
• Eric is now the campaign manager for the Jesse Jackson for President of Iran campaign.
• Jim Hoft caught Iranian President Mad Man/Puppet of the Mad Mullahs Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying that the American generals in Iraq have a “special place in their hearts” for him. Oh, they have a special place for Ahmadhimmijob all right; the only question is the number (.50-cal or 2,000-lb).
• Wyatt Earp found today’s episode of presstitute bias; this time from CNN over a story that John McCain won’t answer the “Viagra” question.
• Sister Toldjah adds to that find as she notes the New York Times Sedition Slimes is trying to get their Republican candidate of the spring disqualified on, at best, dubious claims about his “natural-born” citizenship.
• It’s not like McCain needs help from the NYT to crash his campaign; even Ed hits him on his latest thumb to the eyes of conservatives.
• Brian has a message to those of you who voted for the ‘Rats in 2006 – They lied to you before; they’ll lie to you again.
• GOPgal has the new logos for the few conservatives left and the bipartian Party-In-Government.
• Pelosi’s Epic FAIL, Part 1 – Michelle Malkin caught her calling drilling a “hoax”. Bonus coverage – see-dubya broke out a chart showing just what happened since Pelosi got to within 2 heartbeats of the Oval Office.
• Pelosi’s Epic FAIL, Part 2 – John McCormack notes that the most-important thing on her docket now is rushing impeachment charges through the Judiciary Committee. Nancy; I dare you. I DOUBLE-DOG DARE YOU!
• Flip found Denver imitating “art” (sorry, “South Park” doesn’t qualify as true art) on the issue of panhandlers.
• J.R. Dunn explains how the envirowhackos captured energy policy.
• Headless Blogger explains why we can’t GROW our way out of the energy crunch (this also qualifies as Pelosi’s Epic FAIL, Part 3).
• The Unreal one mourns the coming death of the European supercar.
• John Hawkins proves shamnesty is political suicide for the GOP.
• XBradTC has a slightly different take on Drill Here, Drill Now; specifically, the Army take.
• David St Lawrence wonders what it will take to keep the deer from munching on his garden; they picked up a taste for hot peppers.
• Jon Ham has bad news for teetotalers. PROST! for good health.