No Runny Eggs

It’s nice to have a reason for the song. Mary Katharine Ham provided one with anotherwise-unnoteworthy story on a dog-on-dog attack in DC.

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• Let’s start right off with the Obamination Express; there’s a lot of material today – Ed Morrissey caught Barack Obama tossing English under the bus.
• Owen found fiscal responsibility stuck under the rear wheels of the Obamination Express.
• Ed Driscoll has more Obama words well past their expiration date – his philosophy of campaigning.
• Shoebox found even more curdled Obama words – his view of the danger posed by Iran.
• The conspiratorial Chris (there are just too many Chrises in my feed reader) sings the Obamination Flip-Flop Song.
• Silent E uses the opportunity of yet another Obamination Flip-Flop to unleash Barack HUSSEIN ObamaUrkel.
• Jazz Shaw found a solution to the fuel crisis; use the “refined” Obama positions as high-test gasoline.
• Geoff discovered Denial is a river in the aisle of the Obamination Express.
• JammieWearingFool discovered the presstitute photogs are back to their Glowbama photographic tricks.
• Jim Geraghty calls Strike Three on the third Obama ad’s accuracy. Too bad this isn’t baseball.
• Jessi is a bit confused on what change the Jr. Senator (in whichever way it can be sliced, whether one talks about Illinois, the ‘Rat candidates for the nomination, or the presumptive nominees) is offering.
• We’re finally done with the Obamination, so let’s hit the ‘Rats some more – Michelle Bachmann notes the House ‘Rats want to shut up their fellow Congresscritters on blogs.
• Ed Morrissey (back for round 2) says it’s even worse in the World’s Most Deliberative Body.
• Mary relays the John McCain smackdown of draft-doding Bill Clinton.
• Brian explains the difference between an Iraqi-crafted withdrawal timetable and a ‘Rat-crafted one.
• Janet Evans says, “Like terrorist father, like terrorist son.” My hope for the younger bin Laden’s immediate future (quoting Uncle Jimbo) – “Predator sends Hellfire, now it’s all bad (all bad). Remote sniping yeah, we’re cool like this.”
• Gabriel Malor explains Authorizations for Use of Military Force.
• Moron Pundit challenges lieberals (including the presumptive Pubbie nominee) to explain why covering thousands of square miles of land underneath solar panels is preferable to drilling on a copule thousand acres of Arctic wasteland.
• Todd Lohenry asks, after hearing Joe Lieberman say that Red China’s thirst for gas is growing at 8 times ours, why the focus is not on drilling. He does answer his own question; it’s about the economic crippling.
• The Unreal one asks whether any country taxed its way into prosperity. Yet half the country meets Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity.
• We’re finally out of the ‘Rat end of the pool – Josh Schroeder is not happy about the RNC trying a bill collector trick.
• Michelle Malkin has 15 things we should know about La Raza, which is being actively courted by both candidates and both parties.
• Christian Schneider has a real way to go green that’s being blocked by a lot of locales; letting ones laundry dry in the sun.
• More Moron Pundit – he has the Moron Food Pyramid. You’ll have to see it to understand why I put this item where I did.
• JammieWearingFool notes black holes are going into the memory hole of Political Correctness.
• Edward Christie observed that crime does pay, at least for British presstitutes.
• Lawhawk has today’s dose of UN FAIL – once again, thugs walk into a UNprotected (note the lack of a hyphen) refugee camp to beat up on the refugees. This time, it’s in Zimbabwe.
• Dad29 has shocking (literally) news for those of you who can still afford to fly; the DHS wants to put shock bracelets on you.

Yes, I’m on time today. There are actually two reasons for the song today:

– Tonight is the July Drinking Right over at Papa’s Social Club (7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee, at 7 pm). Be there.
– While I won’t be in the Twin Cities at the beginning of September, I figure between Sean Hackbarth (he’s still jobless, so get him some cash so he can be there), Owen Robinson, Todd Lohenry and gopfolk, they’ll have a DR-Twin Cities during the GOP Convention.

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• John Hawkins sums up why the GOP is in trouble. If the RNC doesn’t think that what happened to the Whigs and Federalists can happen to them as a result of their leftward swing at the explicit shunning of the right, I’ve got 50 reasons why that’s fatally-flawed thinking in the poll on the left sidebar (which taken by itself is a plurality).
• On the flip side, Stephan Tawney dips into the history to give John McCain a bit of a boost; it seems that in 6 of the last 9 hotly-contested elections (defined by Gallup as either a July lead or a November victory of 6 or fewer percentage points), the July leader lost the popular vote. Barack Obama currently leads McCain by 6 points according to Gallup. That’ll give a lot of comfort to the 109 people who told me that they believe McCain will win the election (which I note is a majority of those who answered the NRE poll as of early this morning).
• Matt Lewis is running a Veepstakes. My money’s on list #1, specifically the estrogen portion.
• Emperor Misha I is definitely part of the nihilist crowd, especially after the RNC’s ad for McCain endorsing his statist, acolyte answer for Gorebal “Warming”.
• Speaking of Gorebal “Warming”, Ace found yet another thing that causes it – cement. No, not the fact that it makes it easier to drive cars on; the mere fact that it is made. I wonder if the Gorebal “Warming” acolytes considered that going back to the 16th Century (or the 8th Century the Islamokazis want to take us to; there really is little difference in the tech) is simply unsustainable on a 6-billion-people planet.
• JammieWearingFool doesn’t want to hear the Obamas whine about their kids not having any privacy after they pimped them out to a tabloid TV show.
• Jim Hoft found yet another set of Obama’s words past its expiration date; his prediction that the surge failed.
• The Vintage One found another set of words just waiting for the curdling to begin; his use of the past tense to describe his ongoing time in the Senate. Where did I put the garbage can? I think I’m going to be sick.
• Kathryn Jean Lopez wonders about the possibility of a pair of odd-couple tickets. For the record, I don’t think Obama will go with a “bitter Bible-thumping gun-clinger”.
• Plebian reveals the ‘Rat Goodie Bag that was supposed to be handed out in Denver.
• Good Lt. deems the ‘Rat Congress as an Epic FAIL. When those who have a either a great deal of or quite a lot of confidence in Congress is less than those who have a great deal of confidence in the Presidency, and the latter is deemed incredibly low, that’s an Epic FAIL with a capital L. Gee, I wonder why this isn’t gleefully reported by the presstitutes.
• In the Know has just one of the reasons why there is no confidence in Congress – they’re about to pass a bill that will spend $50 million a year on federal inspections for bed bugs.
• Gopfolk has another reason why there’s no confidence in government; the dead are getting the tax rebate welfare stimulus checks.
• Mark Pribonic explodes the myth of fixed income. Who here working in the private, non-union sector has had over the last 3 years the 10% increase in wages that Social Security recipients had?
• Dad29 notes that Detroit is just a little bit worse than Milwaukee; instead of a two-bit Alderthug trying to shake down the entire city for cash, they have the Common Council president and wife of a senior ‘Rat Congresscritter doing it.
• Kat says that Heller was just the first salvo, as DC is trying to ban all semi-automatic handguns. They either believe that by the time Round 2 gets to the Supreme Court, Kennedy will have “grown” some more into a full-fledged Lawgiver-In-Black or one of the conservatives will have been replaced by a L-I-B.
• Lance Burri calls Epic Health Systems an Epic FAIL for trying to put the squeeze on supporters of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce because they defended their interests in the recent state Supreme Court race. Why am I not the least bit surprised that the CEO of Epic FAIL donated $24,000 to One Wisconsin Now, which didn’t exactly sit idly by, but tried to prop up soon-to-be-ex Lawgiver-In-Black Loophole Louis Butler?

It’s just been one of those weekends…

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• Jim Geraghty has today’s Obamination Theme wrapped up in one convenient post. You know what they say about history.
• Gawfer pulls in a letter from the future. There’s definitely short-term pain, but I’m not as optimistic as he is on the long-term.
• Jim Hoft is shocked, SHOCKED that the woman two heartbeats away from the Oval Office conducted her own private foreign policy for the benefit of Communists.
• Lawhawk has video of the rescue that San Fran Nan couldn’t stop.
• Chris the head barkeep has 90 million reasons to like Milwaukee Brewers’ owner Mark Attanasio. As he says, we’re now at the Adults table.
• Christian Schneider lists the winners and losers of the big trade for C.C. Sabathia.
• Legalbgl calls for the banning of another Barry Bonds legacy – maple bats.
• Emperor Misha I has some news not fit to print on this side of the pond. That’s right; we have to go to Britain’s newspapers (or the conservative blogosphere) to find out that Al Qaeda in Iraq is about to be pushed out of their last stronghold.
• Gabriel Malor is shocked, SHOCKED to find out that 1 in 100 Club Gitmo (and other assorted overseas detention centers) “guests” has an existing FBI record.
• Charles Johnson caught the News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted displaying their anti-American bias loudly and proudly. No wonder why the presstitutes at crAP don’t want us memorializing their utterances.
• JohnJayRay blows yet another hole in Gorebal Warming – that “fast-melting” Greenland ice is strictly a result of seasonal changes, not any climatic change.
• While We’re Winning the Fight On the Scientific End, We’re Losing It On the Political, Part 1 – BrianR is saying, “No!”, to McCain because of his status as a Gorebal “Warming” acolyte.
• Doubleplusundead highlights the coming platform fight in St. Paul.
• While We’re Winning the Fight On the Scientific End, We’re Losing It On the Political, Part 2 – Ed Driscoll reports California is requiring Gorebal Warming Scores on all new cars.
• Fred uses one lieberal screwball idea to mess with another.
• Nanny Statism Part 1 (and also Stupid Labels Part 2) – Slublog passes along the Stupid Label of the Week.
• Gaius has this week’s dose of Microsoft FAIL – their plan to have people rent Office.
• Nanny Statism Part 2 (and Why I’m Glad We Beat the Brits Part 1) – Sister Toldjah passes along news that the Brits are now going to start labeling 3-year-olds who say, “Yuk,” to foreign food as “racists”.
• Nanny Statism Part 3/Why I’m Glad We Beat the Brits Part 2) – Jon Ham notes the British government is going to use the “kids are starving in China” canard to get those “racist” kids to clean their plates.
• Antitote to Nanny Statism – Mary Lazich reports that bans on cell-phone use while driving don’t work. Now if she could convince her fellow Legislators,….
• Headless Blogger has today’s dose of history, commuter-train edition. Simply reversing the letters on the money-losing abomination that was MRK (which failed long before I-94 opened up) isn’t going to suddenly make it a success.

Sorry about being late (again). I didn’t feel well at all this weekend (a bit better now).

TexasFred found today’s music…

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Here we go again with a mega-linkfest. No politics in this one; just a heap of people remembering why today is special.

• Scott has a moving video of our history (along with another good rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner”).
• Jed and Zip deliver the flags.
• Lawhawk, eddiebear, and Sean Hackbarth break out the fireworks.
• Rick Moran brought back his liveblog of the Continental Congress (scroll down; I’m too lazy to link directly to the 7/2 and 7/3 entries, and the 7/4 one isn’t up yet).
• Owen, Stephen Green, Laughing Wolf, sodaboy, Slublog, lawhawk, Peter, Kate, John Adams (the blogger, not the President), Paul Socha, doubleplusundead, gopfolk, William Teach (with a pinup), and Cuffy Meigs all break out at least part of the Declaration of Independence.
• James T. Harris reposts a Rush Limbaugh classic on what the Founding Fathers gave up to sign and stand by the Delcaration.
• Ed Morrissey declares the Delcaration “timeless and of its time”.
• Tom DeLay posted a speech he used to give stating that America is not an accident.
• Heather Radish breaks out a classic Cox and Forkum cartoon.
• BrewFan quotes Abraham Lincoln.
• Just A Grunt asks us to not harp on what is wrong because we are the example for the rest of the world.
• Mary Lazich explains why America is the best country on Earth.
• Robert uses the words of Shelby Evens to explain the meaning of today.
• Huckleberry Dumbell dug up a poem from a “guest” of Stalag Luft I.
• RidesAPaleHorse has another moving tribute.
• Ed Morrissey reminisces about his first trip to DC 3 years ago today.
• Kathryn Jean Lopez found that even Google got into the spirit of things.
• Jimi is a busy man today, but not too busy to wish everybody a Happy 4th.
• S. Weasel found the real Uncle Sam (at least according to Wikipedia).
• Mike breaks out some Classic Reagan Humor.
• US Citizen asks God to bless those who stand with America. Amen.
• Mary uses John Adams (the President, not the blogger) to explain why she loves this country.
• Janet Evans found some symbols worth talking about.
• RadicalRon replays Red Skelton and the Pledge.
• Paul Socha recites it as well.
• Asian Badger keeps it short and sweet.
• Vivian Lee does LOLRabbitz.
• Kevin Fischer does a triple-shot of John Wayne, Elvis Presley and Kate Smith.
• MataHarley recites the preamble to the Constitution (it’s much shorter than the one to the Declaration).
• Mike remembers Samuel Adams.
• Fred went with the simple.
• McQ doesn’t want to live anywhere else. Ditto, at least until 1/20/2009.
• Josh Schroeder is glad we’re no longer part of the British monarchy.
• Jim Hoft brings news of the largest re-enlistment ceremony in history and a letter from the Polish contingent in Afghanistan to our troops in Bagram.
• Stephan Tawney asks us to remember those that keep us free.

I may or may not update this yet today to throw even more linkage outbound. If I forgot you, kick me.

Have a happy 4th, everybody.

Revisions/extensions (10:02 am 7/4/2008) – Round 1 of the additions…

• Phelony Jones stresses the word “Independence”. Since she is a fan of pinup art, I’m not surprised she and William Teach used the same picture.
• Shoebox adds himself to the Red Skelton Pledge video as he urges us to celebrate.
• Sister Toldjah woke up with an extra spring in her step.
• Add Mark McNally to the list of those quoting from the Declaration.
• See-dubya remembers going shooting (both fireworks and guns) on the Fourth as a child.

R&E part 2 (8:33 pm 7/4/2008) – More incoming…

• Dave in Texas went to a good 4th of July parade.
• Dri and Heather Radish break out the Muppets.
• Emperor Misha I says, “Let us swear to (keep this Republic) or die trying.”
• Anwyn thanks those that earned our freedom.
• Kat tears up over a particular phrase in the National Anthem.
• John has a few things to remember, such as freedom not being the same as safety or security.
• Lance Burri explores how the Declaration changed the world.
• Jim Lynch remembers the parades and picnics of his youth.
• Add William Smith and silent E to the list of those reposting the Declaration.
• Plebian says, “Sally Fourth.” The mosquitoes are just too bad here, though the steaks, chicken, corn, burgers and brats my older sister cooked up before I retreated back to the bunker were very good.
• Trail-Mix keeps the message simple, though the delivery is beautiful.
• Sean M. delivers more fireworks (there is a content warning on the video).
• Ed Driscoll flies the flag.
• Curt’s word of the day is “sacrifice”.
• John Adams posted a lot of pics from Whitewater’s parade.
• Mary Katharine Ham reveals her reading list.
• Headless Blogger remembered his trip to Monticello and Mt. Vernon.
• Ace has the true point of Independence Day.
• Leslie Carbone rolls video of a re-enactment of the reading of the Declaration to the citizens of colonial Williamsburg.
• Michelle Malkin does a multimedia presentation.
• Mike celebrates Thanksgiving in July.
• Sgt. Relic reflects on the direction we’re going.
• Keith Conrad reposts the famous painting of the signing of the Declaration.
• Professor Stephen Bainbridge says that Independence Day was the second domino.
• I almost made it through the day without an Obamination update. Jon Ham noticed something odd, but entirely predictable; a lot of Durham homes with American flags, a lot of Durham homes with Obama signs, but not one with both.
• Justin Higgins photographed the Washingotn Monument and a lot of flags.
• Silent E provides yet another patriotic song.
• Wyatt Earp, who feels lucky to have been Philly-born and -raised one day each year, does the Top Ten thing.
• Teresa rolls with the fireworks.
• Mark Hemingway has the pic of the day.
• John McCormack has some more required reading.
• Carol Platt Liebau reposts some classic Reagan.
• Nick Schweitzer salutes high treason.
• Eric explains what July 4 means to him.
• Ragnar says that we are indeed the shining city on the hill.
• Dan Deibert reposts John Adams’ letter to his wife.
• JihadGene says, “It’s time to dance.”
• R&E part 3 (8:48 pm) – Xbradtc says to not forget the “small, but wonderful” ways patriotism is expressed.

I warned you today would be a recovery day. It’s a good thing too, because Mary came across the reason why I’m no longer featuring Summerfest acts; they pulled the US Army display.

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• Wyatt Earp remembers that it was this day 232 years ago that the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt the resolution for independence from Great Britain.
• Frank Lasee expounds on the meaning of freedom.
• Mary Lazich reprints a letter from Rep. Mark Gundrum, who is serving in Iraq. Bravo Zulu, sir, and see you when you get back.
• Matt Burden remembers who thought The Surge wouldn’t work. Why am I not surprised to see both Barack Obama and Wesley Clark on that list (I’ll be back to them in a bit)?
• How much progress? Warner Todd Huston caught the presstitutes including our allies’ casualty numbers to try to keep the anti-war American spin machine going.
• Sean Hackbarth is keeping track of the benchmarks the ‘Rats suddenly forgot about because Iraq is better than 83% there.
• Of course, not all the news from Iraq is good; Dr. Rusty Shackelford found Hezbollah setting up shop in Iraq. Say, isn’t that a 25-year itch that needs some extra-strength medication?
• Uncle Jimbo says, “Character matters.” If only John McCain weren’t so stubborn in eviscerating the First Amendment, granting amnesty to Mexicans here illegally, and killing the economy on the altar of Gorebal “Warming”,….
• Moron Pundit decodes the message of Hugh Gubmint – “You’re too stupid to live your lives.”
• Dad29 caught soon-to-be-ex-Justice Loophole Louis Butler being the decisive vote on a case in which a party donated to him. Need I mention that it was a liberal group, and Loophole voted in their favor?
• Headless Blogger dips into the dustbin of history to explain why we don’t have tracked trolleys anymore. No wonder why the liberals got history excised from the schools; it’s so much easier to repeat the failures if nobody remembers why they failed the first time.
• Bryan Maersch explores why MATC taxes are going up 4.9% this year. If MATC president Darnell Cole got his most-recent raise while working in the private sector, especially with MATC’s (lack-of-)performance, the presstitutes would be having a 30-ton cow.
• Moe Lane eviscerates Dingy Harry Reid on energy.
• Speaking of the Dingy One, see-dubya caught him going to the Nazi attack. Now, what’s the principle that says the first one to the Nazi references loses?
• Update on yesterday’s stupid union item; Lance Burri now reports Baraboo’s public employee union is going to drop their grievance about not being called first to fill sandbags.
• Now, it’s Obamination Time. Heather Radish asks Obama why he wants to kill Canadians with his plan to nationalize American health care.
• The Unreal One has the Obamination Demotivation Poster of the day.
• Flip notes that the drive to 100% taxation will really take off with an Obamination Administration.
• Jim Geraghty has today’s Expired Obamination Words – that 16-month withdrawal pledge isn’t a deadline.
• Jonah Goldberg found a rather-interesting (in the Chinese, likely Red, sort of way) group organized on the Obama campaign site.
• Duane Lester found another recipient of a sweetheart mortgage deal – your presumptive ‘Rat nominee for President.
• Ed Morrissey isn’t buying the Obamination Excuse that it was competition for a hot new successful ‘Rat pol. Oh, I don’t know; buying pols is standard operating procedure in Chicago.
• Zip does the math on Obama’s experience. If you took the over-150 days between swearing in and creating a Presidential Exploratory committee, rip up that ticket because it’s worthless.
• Bus & Driver update, part 1 – Jim Geraghty found Obama pulling Clark up from under the front bumper of the Obamination Express.
• Bus & Driver update, part 2 – Fred found George Soros and company under the wheels.
• Bus & Driver update, part 3 – Charles Johnson found there is a bigger bus than the Obamination Express.

Hey, it’s still before 6 pm here in the land of cheese and beer, so it’s not Evening Scramble yet :-)

Don’t confuse the size of this with normalcy; I won’t be back until tomorrow and that’s going to be a recovery day.

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• Jim Hoft relays the predictabe result of the attempt of the ‘Rats, led by Nobody’s Senator, Herb Kohl and the worst doctor around, Steve Kagen, to sue OPEC.
• Peter questions southeast Wisconsin’s (and northeast Illinois’) very-own special blend of Algore-Whitman Memorial RFG. While it is 14 cents/gallon more than uncontaminated gas, thanks to the 8-year-old threat by Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) to sue Big Oil if they passed that along to just those of us in SE Wisconsin, the entire state is paying 7 or so cents/gallon more than they should. Maybe I should just make stupid lawsuit threats the theme :-) .
• Second dose of the Gateway Pundit on gas (sue me; I’m on vacation); he is sick of Dingy Harry Reid’s answer to energy. You want an energy crisis, give him a compliant President (wait, we are about to).
• Lawhawk delivered Wesley Clark his own copy of Bus & Driver yesterday. Guess I was a bit off on the timing.
• Jim Lynch isn’t letting the fact that Clark got tossed under the Obamination Express get in the way of his latest caption contest.
• Laughing Wolf links Barack Obama, Clark and not-under-the-bus William Ayers.
• Jim Geraghty applied some inflationary and non-inflationary math to Barack Obama’s claims that he only got $12,000 as a community organizer. Throw in the car, and Obama started out better than the median income; and he only got richer.
• Brief break from the Obamination Express; James T. Harris confirms there is a lot of money in “charity work” in the black community.
• Back to the Obamination Express; Emperor Misha I rips the Official Washington Paper Paint-Catcher of the Obamination, Washington Post™, over their dis of the part of “flyover country” I happen to be in (or at least the state).
• James Wigderson found another curdled set of words from Obama past their expiration date; his former federalist stance on gay marriage.
• I’m not done with the ‘Rats yet. Kathy Carpenter notes they skipped town without forestalling a 10% cut in Medicare rates scheduled because of a formula that requires fee cuts when spending exceeds established goals. (Un)fortunately, President Bush bailed them out.
• William Teach confirms the ‘Rats are all about misery.
• Sister Toldjah caught a ‘Rat pining for the glory days of the Great Patriotic War (no, not the American Revolution, or the Civil War, but the Soviet front of World War II).
• Plebian has what the ‘Rats believe are the most-dangerous things in the world. Unlike Scrappleface, 90% of it’s true (it’s only missing Rush Limbaugh).
• Paul Socha is rooting for chicken wire for the protesters at the ‘Rat convention.
• JammieWearingFool notes that it would feel just like home to a couple of Durham ‘Rats who are part of a Satanic cult busted for kidnapping, rape and assault.
• Okay; I’m done with the ‘Rats, but we’re not done with politics. Doubleplusundead (filling in on Conservative Grapevine this week) has this week’s dose of GOP Senate FAIL. Trent Cave-A-Lott taught Mitch McConnell well (relatively-speaking).
• The letter-writing Brad V says that Bobby Jindal just saved his national political future by vetoing the 100% pay increase for Louisiana’s legislature.
• Christian Schneider has women who are not his wife mad at him because he dared to question Wisconsin’s policy of giving the ‘Rats an 8-Assemby-seat and 2-Senate-seat head start in any given election. Guess it’s time to rename that organization League of Women DemocRATic Voters.
• Josh Schroeder has an investment opportunity for you. Of course, Six Flags will first have to find a way to shut up the family of a youth who climbed a pair of well-marked fences and found himself on the fatal end of a roller coaster without losing a lot of money.
• Michelle Malkin and See-Dubya tag-team the sad state of education today.
• Let’s close off with some humor. Lemur King answers the question, “Why do we laugh at misfortune?”, with some potatoes.
• Anwyn asks, “What is Christie Brinkley proliferating?”

Let’s see if I can get this done quickly; I’m off to Cedar Point since I’m almost all the way down here…

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• I would be remiss if I didn’t show you what I ate this weekend. The rest of you Morons just don’t know what you missed.
• Crunchie0311 (or is it 0311 crunchie?) smacked down the Chicago Tribune’s editorial idiotorial board. That reminds me; I’ll have to restart the Idiotorial of the Day contest when I get back.
• Kate has the cartoon of the day.
• JammieWearingFool reports a French commando “accidentally” used live ammunition during an open day demonstration. Fortunately, nobody died (yet), though out of 16 wounded, 4 were in serious condition.
• Fausta exposes Barack Obama’s New-Ageism. I wonder what the out-of-the-country Islamists will think about that.
• Warner Todd Huston notes just how little respect the Cult of Obamination has for opposing viewpoints (pay attention, those of you using Blogger; if you haven’t been targeted yet, you likely will be).
• William Teach predicts a bus-tossing for Wesley Clark. Put me down for high noon Tuesday.
• Headless Blogger explores what happens when the tracks get flooded out. That’s right, AMTRAK is a government operation.
• Bill Quick notes the presstitute follies are beginning with the reporting on the anti-Obama/anti-John McCain/pro-Hillary Clinton vandalizing of a bunch of cars in Florida.
• Sister Toldjah runs through a couple more bogus attacks on McCain from the left.
• Karl offers a sage piece of advice to McCain on the economy; less is more.
• I doubt McCain will take it; after all, nocomme1 notes he isn’t exactly into us conservatives.
• Shoebox coined a new term for the no-drill ‘Rats – DOPES. It definitely fits.
• Tom McMahon delivers the 4-Block to hope and reality.
• Uncle Jimbo and Kev launched a Freefly into professional journalist treasonist Seymour Hersh, the aforementioned Clark, and the aforementioned Frenchie (standard Freefly language rules apply).
• Kevin Fischer notes Japan has gone to a very strict waist-measurement regime. If Healthy (and Depopulated) Wisconsin or the Obamination Health Care plan comes to fruition, this is our future.
• Lance Burri has today’s useless public union news; the unionized Baraboo city workers have filed a grievance because the volunteer firefighters were filling sandbags during the height of the flooding. My solution; next time, sandbag everything except the union thugs’ homes.

Yes, it’s Sunday. As usual, I’m conscious way too early, but not as usual, I’m running with a Scramble…

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• James Wigderson found yet another place that requires photo ID.
• Kevin Fischer issued a call to arms back at the home county (Milwaukee) over a board of supervisors’ 12-6 vote on running a referendum to raise the county sales tax from 0.5% to 1.5% (this on top of a 5.0% state sales tax, a 0.1% Miller Park tax shared with only 4 other counties, and a 0.25% food-and-soda tax for the white elephant known as the Midwest Airlines Center not levied in any other county. For the non-math geniuses, that’s just enough to override a Scott Walker veto (and yes, he will veto). Fortunately, they can’t raise the sales tax…yet.
• Eric runs through the alphabet for examples of successful first-initial people.
• Marshall Manson reviews the Newseum. Paging Ms. Favazza. Paging Katie Favazza. I do believe you owe us a review.
• Jib has this weekend’s presstitute folly. I’m the king of the run-on sentence, but what The Capital Times put up is beyond belief. I guess all the copy editors were fired when they went essentially web-only.
• Emperor Misha I shows what happens when there is no such thing as a Bill of Rights. I wonder if seeing the video will make American presstitutes not be in such a rush to become like their European counterparts…nah.
• JammieWearingFool found a disturbing new trend; people who are adopting “Hussein” as their middle name. Why? They want to be like Barack Hussein Obama. Bad decision.
• Owen discovered that the Jim Geraghty Maxim also applies to Obama’s words on taxes. Unfortunately, the curdling exposed an even more-liberal view. As I am fond of saying, the past is an indication of future performance.
• Janet Evans marvels at the 52 Chinese who refused to leave a plane after the flight was cancelled. And we gave Beijing (the city where the plane was sitting) the Olympics this year?
• Elliot (and commenters) explode the “War is not the answer” line of Bravo Sierra.
• Vivian Lee saw the best bumper sticker ever.
• Rich Horton has today’s European PC Death Watch episode. Kids no longer have control over who they invite to their birthday parties.
• Patrick dips into the history well for a few choice quotes from the Founding Fathers regarding the 2nd Amendment.

Time for some biscuits and gravy. Hopefully when I get home, the bunker won’t have blown away.

I have to tip my cap to Don Smiley; the Summerfest lineup looks soooo good on paper…

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Yes, it’s the weekend. Normally that would stop me in my tracks, but let’s roll on:

• Jim Hoft opens fire on Barack Obama. Remember what I said about past performance.
• Jim Geraghty jumps all over Obama’s failed privatization of low-income housing. The trouble actually was hiring a bunch of contributor slumlords like property-purchase-partner Tony Rezko, not the privatization (Cabrini Green rings a warning bell).
• Jed calls the food menu in Denver for the ‘Rat convention an “Epic FAIL!”
• Lawhawk catches Matt Drudge diving into the tank on gas prices. I will note that Drudge doesn’t take his own pictures, but choosing one that has only racing fuels on it is, at the least, misleading.
• E.M. Zanotti laughs at Michigan’s latest attempt to use government subsidies to try to bail itself out of a business crisis mostly of its own making; wood-chips-to-ethanol.

The From the Frontlines webathon was a smashing success. They wanted $500,000; thanks to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin, and everybody who donated, they got $1,055,719 as they went off the air. Bravo Zulu! Just as a reminder, the donation window is open until July 2.

It’s fitting, yet sad that Rush is at Summerfest tonight; I’ve been looking for a good time to break this one out, and a trip out of Milwaukee is as good of time as any…

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This is going to be a bit abbreviated because I’m actually putting it together just before midnight, and I’m putting it up right at midnight.

• Karl reminds us that another conservative victory came out of SCOTUS; the axing of the “Millionares’ Amendment”.
• The Vintage One caught Reuters projecting their hatred of hunting on Justice Antonin Scalia. Score another point in the book for the Italian.
• Curt found something disturbing in the Heller decision. Honestly, if the Lawgivers-In-Black ever get a solid majority on SCOTUS instead of relying on the coin flip that’s Anthony Kennedy, the presence or absence of that phrase won’t matter a bit; they just make it up anyway.
• Marshall Manson and the other two denziens of On Tap say that it was actually Roberts’ majority.
• Speaking of Jim Geraghty, he reports the NRA is going after Chicago’s handgun ban. Stay on target. Stay on target!
• Uncle Jimbo smacks down the L-I-B.
• Robert found a pic of the Justices that explains a lot.
• Teresa notes how far Obama has moved since 2000 on foreign policy. Of course, I don’t necessarily consider adopting the Algore/Joe Lieberman standard a sign of maturity, but retreat-and-defeat is still worse.
• Jessi has the Obamination cartoon of the day.
• William Teach has half a cheer for Obama on the UN-Fairness Doctrine. Just remember Geraghty’s Maxim – every Obama statement has an expiration date.
• Dad29 chalks up another cure for adult stem cells. Embryonic stem cells have yet to get on the board, but don’t expect the Culture of Death™ to stop trying killing.
• Fred Keller has the top 10 reasons to support ANWR development. Paging Mr. McCain. Paging Mr. Sensenbrenner. Please pick up the diamond-tipped drill.

Unless I pop pack in here in the am, the next time you’ll hear from me, I’ll be on Michigan time.

In honor of ex-Milwaukee alderman Michael McGee/Jackson Jr, freshly convicted of 9 federal felonies, I present some more AC/DC (hopefully the alderthug doesn’t get any ideas of a jailbreak; they tend to end badly)… R&E (9:53 am 6/25/2008) – D’OH! I grabbed the wrong song.

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• I was going to go straight to the Obamination Watch, but there is a thing or two I need to highlight first. Warner Todd Huston asks, “What for a blog?” If you read but one thing today, read that.
• Uncle Jimbo has the details on a fundraiser the American Hitmen are doing in Utah this weekend. Even if you can’t make it, do hit the donation page.
• Now, the Obamination Watch. I almost went with “Big Balls” from AC/DC because a certain bit of lyrics matches up so well with the actions of Barack Obama. Mike notes that Obama lied and lied again.
• Plebian noticed Eric Holder entered the FBI’s Advisor Protection Program to avoid that bus (or at least Holder would have if there were such a thing). If your name is on his friends list,…
• Enough joking around; Ed Morrissey has the latest group to go under the Obamination Express; Muslims. …(H)e’ll surely throw you under.
• Jim Geraghty noticed that town hall meetings are well and truly under the wheels. Everybody says he’s got a great bus of fire.
• Dick Morris and Eileen McGann ask, “Is Barack Obama Teflon?” Mary has my answer.
• John McAdams found another unsavory character supporting Obama.
• Josh Schroeder presents the Obamination/Dobson fruitcake constitution.
• Headless Blogger found that no-energy BANANAs are on that fruitcake.
• Stephan Tawney found yet another loaded Obamination poll, this time on the Left Coast.
• John Hawkins notes Obama’s supporters are reaching out to the soon-to-be-convicted and the ex-cons. They’re juuuuust a bit late with McGee/Jackson.
• Charles Johnson kicked up Seal-Gate Ver. 2.0. What the Obamination Machine is doing may be subliminal, but it isn’t subtle.
• Second dose of Geraghty (just because I can, and because he’s on the Ed Morrissey Show today as he is just about every Wednesday); he compares the Obamination v McCainiac campaign to Mac vs PC (did I mention he’s not an Apple guy?).
• JammieWearingFool notes Obama’s tepid call for a delay in the Zimbabwe presidential runoff election. Bonus coverage; a commenter on the thread remembers that it was the Peanut Farmer that gave us dictator-for-life Robert Mugabe.
• Leslie Carbone relays Baby Max’s mother’s answer to Momma’s Boy Alex’s momma.
• The gang at IBD says, “Know them (Obama and John McCain) by their endorsements.” I’ll add, “Know why despots are endorsing those they are endorsing.”
• Okay; it’s time for the rest of the Scramble. Allahpundit found some discontent with the Next Anointed One in the GOP.
• Sean Hackbarth has the pitch that Paul Ryan (my Congresscritter, and outside of southeast Wisconsin and some conservative circles, not the Next Anointed One in the GOP) delivered to a bunch of conservative bloggers yesterday. For the life of me, I don’t know why he’s not considered the future of the GOP.
• Michelle Malkin and the voters in Utah’s 3rd Congressional District told pro-shamnesty incumbent Pubbie Chris Cannon, “DLTDHYOTWO!”
• Amanda Carpenter notes the home-buyers’ home-lenders’ bailout program was written by the banks…and La Raza. Bonus coverage (which I am too busy to source right now, or as AP would say, “Too good to check!”); in exchange for participating in the bailout, the homeowners will be agreeing to give the feds a cut of the eventual sale price of their homes.
• Trail-Mix distills the purpose of Gorebal “Warming”. Do remember that the Greens in Europe were financed by the Soviet Union back in the day.
• Van Helsing says the faux Amazon find perfectly summarizes the liberal point of view. After all, for them, it’s not by any means necessary, but by every means possible, especially if it’s falsified.
• Sister Toldjah delivers the latest in moonbattery from the Left Coast.
• Donna Martinez caught an Orange (N.C.) Coutny Commissioner admitting they’re making taxes unaffordable for the average resident. Of course, his “solution” isn’t to actually cut the tax take.
• Staying with taxes, McQ notes New York is trying every dirty-pool trick in the book to stay the #1 tax hell. Hopefully Doyle and the rest of Wisconsin’s ‘Rats aren’t paying attention.
• Dad29 delivers the Quote of the Day from an ex-Boston mayor. Very true.
• GayPatriotWest asks what HRC has done lately. No, not Clinton, though the answer applies to her as well; the Human Rights Campaign.
• Eric interviews Harry Reid.
• Kate delivers the Congressional energy “policy” in pictures.
• Meanwhile, Tom McMahon 4-Blocks the ethanol-vs-oil debate.
• The energy news isn’t all bad; HeatherRadish delivers the good news that the BP refinery in northwest Indiana (one of only two that produces the very-special Milwaukee/Chicago blend of Algore-Whitman Memorial RFG) has the final federal approval to expand production to better handle Canadian oil.
• J. Gravelle tells the rioters looking for a federal handout the other day here in Milwaukee, “Ask not what the country can do for you….”
• James T. Harris says to those same rioters; “Food crisis? More like integrity and dignity crisis.”
• Caledonia Unplugged has the study that the Wisconsin Taxpayers’ Alliance did for supporters of the divorce of Caledonia from Racine Unified.
• CDR Salamander highlights a new book worth reading, One Minute to Midnight. We were even closer to World War III in the Cuban Missile Crisis than we thought.

I have to thank Kevin Fischer for picking today’s song…

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• Slublog and his wife just had a daughter. Congratulations.
• Ace notes even most of Californians support more off-shore drilling. I wonder if the bipartisan Party-In-Government in DC is listening.
• McQ explains why there are “inactive” oil leases.
• Uncle Jimbo summarized the letter that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wrote to Dingy Harry Reid.
• Trail-Mix asks a pertinent question; “Is America willing to pay an additional $3,333 for every man, woman and child in the country for Barack Obama’s spending?” I can sum up my personal answer in two letters – NO!
• Bill Quick asks, “Who is in charge of the Obamination Campaign, Obama or Keith Ellison, the first openly-Islamic Congresscritter?”
• Jim Lynch is running a Obamination Seal caption contest. Do drive him over 100,000 visitors today.
• Headless Blogger found an apt comparison between Obama and a Groucho Marx character. Hello, Rufus T. Obama.
• Plebian takes a cartoonish look at an Obamination Cabinet. I do say that it’s probably more truthful than any analysis the presstitutes would offer.
• William Teach is shocked, SHOCKED that the liberals who profess to love direct democracy so much feel so strongly about denying the will of the people, they’re headed to court to preserve California’s court-ordered homosex marriages against a constitutional amendment proposition.
• Ed Morrissey found a no-talent hack whose sole qualification for editorial cartoonist is that he is a moonbat in full moonbat flight.
• Sean M. provides today’s example of why The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ doesn’t want to be quoted. Well, somebody has to be the copy editor, and with all the cutbacks at crAP and elsewhere, we bloggers are willing to do it. Of course, we’ll probably be sarcastic about it, but that’s our style.
• Second dose of Ed; he eviscerates the Useless Nitwit…er, United Nations over their failure to do anything substantive regarding Zimbabwe. Those of you who remember yesterday’s Scramble remember lawhawk noted that the UN failed the opposition after said opposition put their faith in them.
• Speaking of lawhawk, he notes it didn’t take long for Hamas to break its hudna.
• Deebow was part of an op that snagged a Taliban honcho (#11 on the most-wanted list, to be exact). Bravo Zulu, and thank you.
• Jim Hoft notes that Iraq will take control of two more provinces on Saturday, including Anbar. Still think we’re losing, Rats?
• Scott found confirmation that a pre-war Al Qaeda camp in Iraq had biological weapons courtesy the government of Iraq (i.e. Saddam Hussein).
• In the bad news department, Zip says the fallout from Boumediene is beginning with an Appeals Court demand that a Chinese Muslim guest of Club Gitmo be released or transfered. I say, return him to Red China.
• JammieWearingFool found the Malay Muslims aren’t as “moderate” as they claim. They want no lipstick or high heels for the women.
• Owen questions another no-bid flood-related contract, this one to repair Lake Delton.
• Josh Schroeder has another reason to drive stick; it’s harder to steal. I wonder if he noticed the vast majority of those I asked about their stick-driving skills a while back claimed they could.
• James Wigderson issued an Air Quality Index alert for dangerously-high levels of mosquitoes.

I’m just hanging on until Blog ‘N Grog tomorrow and the Meeting of the Morons this weekend…

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• Happy 2nd Blogiversary, Trail-Mix.
• One more light thing before we go into the heavy stuff; TexasFred has the Alabama preacher joke of the day.
• Stephan Tawney says The Fred! is supposedly going to vet judicial nominees for John McCain. It’s a step in the right direction.
• Why? Just read Fred Thompson’s two-site smackdown of Boumediene.
• Of course, it isn’t all good news on the McCain Watch; James T. Harris is having a nightmare over McCain’s $300 million battery search.
• Jim Hoft notes the Iraqis are saying there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, specifically second-in-command Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
• John Adams wonders why the Jefferson Super WalMart is able to sell alcohol without marauding drunks and pillaging rumpbots. Simple; there’s no UW party school campus at Jefferson.
• Sean M. has the perfect accessories for the AoSHQ lifestyle, ones that they’re probably using in Jefferson to disguise the marauding and pillaging.
• Jim Hoft notes that we Morons have a LOT of catching up to do to match the Nutroots’ use of the late George Carlin’s 7 Words.
• Lawhawk mourns the penultimate act of Zimbabwe’s death-by-dictator (in the form of Robert Mugabe), the withdrawal from political life of the only major opposition after repeated violence by those loyal to Mugabe. Bonus; the UN failed the opposition.
• Wordsmith asks, “Can it git mo’ crazy than this?” As Stone Cold Steve Austin used to say, “If you think it can, give me a ‘Hell Yeah!'”
• Owen finds BadgerCare Plus $78 million in the hole. Even after it was raided to the tune of $60 million by Doyle and the Legislature, that’s still a large shortfall from the folks that would be running Healthy (and Depopulated) Wisconsin.
• No Wonder Why crAP Doesn’t Want to be Quoted, Part I – Gaius caught the news wire organization that shall not be quoted giving the nickname “Big Muddy” to the wrong river. The funny thing is, the lower Mississippi River becomes muddy only once Big Muddy (the Missouri River) runs into it.
• No Wonder Why crAP Doesn’t Want to be Quoted, Part II – Fausta caught the news wire organization that shall not be quoted providing the unattributed Marxist spin to Hugo Chavez’ nationalization of Venezuela’s mining industry.
• More Presstitute Follies – Allahpundit caught the New Sedition Slim…er, New York Times (or was I right the first time) revealing the name of KSM’s chief interrogator against the wishes of that person and the CIA. All the secrets fit to leak….
• JihadGene has today’s TV schedule; nothing but tributes to Tim Russert.
• JammieWearingFool found a ‘Rat who is having a bit of a problem donating back to the party.
• J. Gravelle runs the numbers on Rep. Gwen Moore’s salary.
• Robert notes the ‘Rat Congress delivered on every bad thing we on the right said they’d deliver on. By the way, that deliverance resulted in record low approval ratings for Congress.
• Finally, onto the Obamination portion of the Scramble. In today’s issue of Bus and Driver, Lawhawk notes Barack Obama has tossed the left under the bus twice. Speaking of B&D, I know a couple of you are good with Photoshop; lawhawk would appreciate it if someone could whip up a Photoshop with the latest seal on the cover.
• See-dubya is gleeful (well, not really) that Obama has wrapped up the clean sweep of dictator endorsements with Krazy Kim Jong-Il’s.
• Kate has not one, but two doses of Obamarama cartoons.
• Ed Morrissey notes Bill Clinton isn’t feeling the unity yet.
• Jim Geraghty notes Obama isn’t as good with the “get over it” line as Bill was.
• PJ-Comix delivers The Funny to the growing sense of doom and buyers’ remorse amongst the nutroots.
• The Liberty Brian found the same sense of doom and buyers’ remorse amonst the Europeans. Guess getting the clean sweep amongst dictators has consequences, especially since Iran is eyeing up Eurabia.
• Robert puts Obama in his own words.
• William Teach found Obama drinking the Corn-a-Hole Kool Aid.
• Todd Lohenry has the Obama joke of the day.

Don’t forget to tune in tonight to Blogs4Bauer for the Strike Substitute finale.

I was going to save this for my return from my canoe trip in August, but Bryan Preston’s return to the land of the blogging with a wicked-good post on drilling is a better use for the song…

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• Miss a day of hacking the Obamination, miss a lot. Let’s start with the first dose of Jim Geraghty, as he discovers all of Barack Obama’s promises have expiration dates, and the expiration date on taking public financing for the general election was yesterday.
• Cuffy Meigs (D’OH! on the misattribution) notes Obama’s u-turn comes only days after Tim Russert, the guy who Obama made one of the public financing promises to, passed away. Could we be seeing Zombie Russert taking revenge soon?
• Cam Edwards introduces a new campaign-ism – Barack-tracking. Odds the Indispensible One picks this up – very good (memo to ego – it’s because he and Cam are good friends).
• Sean Hackbarth found yet another “exaggeration” from Obama. It seems he wasn’t around when the bill that extended health care benefits for veterans, something he’s taking credit for, was considered and voted upon in the Senate.
• Ed Driscoll whipped up a killer Barack the Pooh video.
• Uncle Jimbo and Kev unleash a Freefly on Obama and his affinity for the life of the guy Ted Kennedy and CNN continuously confuse him with, Osama bin Laden (or is it his digitized replacement, M-m-m-m-max bin Laden?). Since it’s a Freefly, there is a language warning associated with this, so those of you who catch this at a government facility or in a radio studio, wait until the mics are off and the bosses are away to click (unless you are the boss; then you are encouraged to crank it up).
• Emperor Misha I opens the Imperial Translation Service for those who are mystified on yet another Obamination flop (NAFTA). Unlike the Freefly, this one only gets a PG-13 rating.
• Second dose of Geraghty; he drills for answers on Obama’s energy claims and comes up dry.
• Alan Steinberg wraps a heap of oil news in his larger wrap. Bonus coverage – tanker wars (I’ll wager John McCain isn’t too happy with the GAO right about now).
• Mark McNally adds Canada to the long-and-growing list of those drinking our oil milkshake. It seems they don’t have much of a problem with drilling under the Great Lakes.
• Unfortunately, that’s the only item about which Canada shows any sanity. Ace notes that kids can now successfully appeal grounding and denial of parental permission to go on a school field trip to court, even if the grounding is the result of the elementary-school-aged skull full of mush posting “inappropriate” pictures of herself on the ‘Net. Note for those that are wondering about the double link; Ace and Mu/Mee.Nu guru Pixy Misa are in the process of moving AoSHQ to a mee.nu-based server, and Ace decided to open it up a bit early because his New Comments Thingy is being recalcitrant again.
• Speaking of the decline and fall of Western Civilization, Leslie Carbone relays the sordid story of the Goucester Pregnancy Pact, at least 17 very-underage girls who apparently took Hillary Clinton’s call that it takes a village to raise a child literally.
• Speaking of Clinton, E.M. Zanotti discovered what she’s doing with her “month off”.
• Allahpundit found polling proof that the ‘Rats selected both major-party candidates. Why else would 42% of ‘Rats be “very satisfied” and another 36% be “somewhat satisfied” with the choice of candidates?
• Michelle Malkin had several “spies” break into a “closed-to-the-media” town hall meeting between McCain and Chicago Hispanics. There is a reason why McCain took a step that he says he won’t take at fundraisers; he’s still for shamnesty and he doesn’t want the former GOP base to find out. Too late!
• Related to that, Just A Grunt found that the European Union is willing to do what nobody in power or seeking power in DC is willing to do; deport illegal aliens.
• See-dubya righteously rips Blackwater a new one for trying to have it both ways on the legal front. See, lefties, we on the right are not wholly-owned subsidiaries of Blackiburton Inc.
• Mark Rahmlow has a three-point plan for the Wisconsin GOP.
• Owen notes there will be no tax relief for the Lake Delton Five, who had their homes washed away by the emptying Lake Delton. I wish I had a recorder on my radio; Bob and Brian (from 102.9 The Hog) had some more bad news for them; FEMA’s not going to be much help either.
• Nick Schweitzer has a Dew-spewing-funny look at male restroom etiquette. Remember, silence and speed are golden.
• I seem to have forgotten a few things I highlighted last night in my feed reader (bad Egg!). Donna Martinez wonders how a barbeque festival that serves two tons of meat can claim to be “trash-free”.
• The Liberty Brian looks at what would happen if we see a repeat and a direct reversal of 2000. Remember, it’s all about winning by any means necessary every means available for the ‘Rats.
• Fred notes that the next Racine Unified School District tax-increasing referendum is being proposed just like clockwork.
• Fausta found another link between Venezuela and terrorists, this time of the Hezbollah variety.
• James Wigderson discovered that the official position of The Capital Times (Madison’s “mainstream” paper) is 9/11 Toofers are not “crackpots”.

I’m going to try to clean up the bloated roll today because it is the last day of spring, so hopefully you haven’t been MIA lately.

Revisions/extensions (8:45 am 6/20/2008) – Added a few more to the Scramble.

In addition to the usual music video today, I proudly present Josh Schroeder’s answer to MoveOn.org’s “Not Alex” ad…

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Let’s get Josh’s video viral. Now, on with the music…

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• James Wigderson is celebrating 4 years in the blogosphere.
• Start of the run at crAP – Michelle Malkin duns “that news organization” for $132,125.
• Smackdown part deux – Jim Lynch reveals “that news organization’s” top-secret price list for words.
• And the hits just keep on coming – Ace makes “that news organization” an offer it can’t refuse – $25.00 per link.
• Jim Geraghty marvels at the supposed ‘Rat infestation of Ohio, to the tune of 55% of the populace according to Public Policy Polling. I wonder if that sort of bias crept into Quinnipac’s claim (once again, Jim is the Indispensible One) of an Obamination surge in Florida and Pennsylvania.
• Ed Driscoll wonders whether Barack Obama will take the second-last major “first hyphenated-American President” title. Why not; Bill Clinton stole the “first ‘black American’ President” one.
• Zip has Obama’s latest flip; he was for an undivided Jerusalem before he was against it. Now, where did the RNC put the official mascot of the John “Flipper” Kerry campaign?
• McQ takes “Constitutional Law Professor” Obama (he was only a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago) to task over his view of the federal judiciary’s role.
• A brief respite from the Obamination; Jay asks why we’re not impeaching the Lawgivers-In-Black that gave Islamokazis captured on the battlefield habeas corpus rights. Simple answer; ever since the end of WWII, more than a third of Congress has been invested in using SCOTUS as the means to cram the parts of the agenda that can’t fly through Congress down our throats.
• Uncle Jimbo puts Obama’s foreign policy in the crosshairs and fires for effect. I do have to say that the Don’t Be A Douche’ t-shirt UJ’s wearing (available at the Blackfive store) is a beaut; I got mine yesterday.
• The Game provides evidence of Obama’s willful ignorance on energy. If only John McCain didn’t have that plank in his eye (and yes, I’m discounting his “let’s open up the coasts” claim; he’s giving the states veto over that),….
• Sister Toldjah takes a log-splitter to Algore Goracle’s increased electricity usage after he “greened up” his house.
• SteveF delivers today’s economic warning about Gorebal “Warming”
• William Teach drops the LinkBomb on the acolytes.
• The Chris that’s On The BorderLine (there’s too many Chrises in my feed reader) explores the economics of loading the family in a Suburban for a trip between western Wisconsin and Chicago and a train trip between St. Paul and Chicago. He actually underestimates the Suburban’s highway mileage (it’s closer to 19 mpg than 12), and still the vehicle slated to become the “cause” of Janesville’s downfall comes out on top.
• Warner Todd Huston cheers the Road-to-Damascus-Baghdad moment of James Kirchick, assistant editor of The New Republic. I expect PJ-Comix to note his tombstoning in the next day or two.
• Wyatt Earp is amazed that a Romanian village voted for the dead guy. No word on whether he supports the Obamination like Chicago’s dead. One more thing; for those of you who haven’t found Wyatt’s new home, he has an inducement for you (I’ll take the first bribe; the second does absolutely nothing for me).
• Flip has a contrarian reality check for at least most of those that think that rising gas prices are the end of the world. That’s right; adjusted for inflation, gas prices have “only” gone up 43%, or less than the average tax rebate welfare payment.
• Cindy Kilkenny found another liberal government entity that requires photo ID, and this one’s to vote; the Elmbrook School Board. It truly is ironic how “protective” of the process those liberal entites can get when it comes time to oppose their free-spending ways.
• Lawhawk deciphers the code of conduct Hamas is using; shell all they can just before a hudna, then wait for Israel to respond after the hudna takes hold and prepare to whine to the world how Israel is the bad guy.
• Jib offers his own “Man Talk-to-Chick Speak” translation. Ladies, pay attention. Jib knows what he’s talking about.

The trip back from Madison yesterday drained me more than I thought. I’m feeling a chest cold coming on…

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• Dave Bauer reveals who Abu Babear is in the penultimate episode of Blogs4Bauer’s Writers’ Strike Substitue. Next week; do we get our first Scientologist President?
• Shoebox sounds the alarm for those of us forced to burn our food. I will note that since he’s in Minnesota, he has to deal with ethanol statewide (unless he’s driving a 21-year-old vehicle or a diesel; if memory serves, the latter suffers from a biodiesel requirement, and soybeans are about as flood-intolerant as corn).
• Ace delivers an Instant Classic on the combined US/Saudi increase of 200,000 barrels of oil per day.
• 3 wood reports on another (un)intended consequence of high gas prices; a further crash of the suburban housing market.
• Kate has several cartoons on oil.
• Lawhawk notes the 7th Marine of the Haditha 8 is about to be cleared. I wonder whether John Murtha likes crow.
• Paul Noonan makes the case for doing to Ned Yost what the Mets did to Willie Randolph.
• Tom McMahon 4-Blocks the difference between Jesus Christ and Barack Obama.
• Jim Geraghty caught Obama’s likely National Security Advisor, Richard Danzig, dipping into the land of childrens’ books, and comparing Islamokazis to Luke Skywalker. No word on whether it was the Navy or the group by that name that fried Richard’s mind.
• Of course, Slublog unleashed an Instant Classic SluShop in honor of that.
• Plebian takes a semi-serious look at Obama’s VP candidate choices. I’ll leave it up to you to decide which parts are Shirley-quality serious.
• Lance Burri has the latest Obamination verbal gaffe. Just remember, there’s a reason why authoritarians the world over want their subjects unarmed.
• Robert has the cartoon of the day, mourning the impending loss of independence for America’s last mega-brewer. If only I could handle rice in my beer, I’d hoist a cold one.
• John Adams notes the Department of Revenue sees a sluggish Wisconsin economy until 2010. I guess making Wisconsin a bigger corporate tax hell isn’t exactly conducive to economic growth.
• Ed Morrissey explores the decision of the Associated Press to revisit its stance of suing blogs that use short quotations from its articles.

This will be brief; I have to find a way to Madison by 8:30 (or so). We need some speed (metal, that is)….

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• Bill Quick has a devastating Photoshop of the Supreme Court. The only things missing are the AK-47s and the suicide belts.
• Kat bemoans the absence of freedom and democracy from the campaign.
• Bull Dog Pundit gives Barack Obama credit where it’s due; he gave a good speech on the disappearance of black fathers yesterday.
• Jessi lists the reasons why a lot of people don’t like Obama.
• Capt. Karl (who will be on my bloated roll when I get back from Mad-town) gets a not-unexpected, yet pigheaded answer out of Nobody’s Senator, Herb Kohl (D-WI) regarding drilling.
• Doc expounds on the idea that we conservatives are nicer than liberals.
• Ed Morrissey notes that, despite all the cash going to Obama and various ‘Rat candidates, the DNC is likely going to stiff Denver for the costs of their convention.

I don’t even have time to put up an Eggs On The Road post, even though there will be some traveling this week. I am off to Madison and Jim Sensenbrenner at the Center Right Coalition.

I have enough pseudophedrine in me to do another edition of Ask Egg, which combined with the fact that it’s Friday the 13th, means this thing’s late. Sorry about that. Hopefully this mega-edition of the Scramble will fix that.

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• First, I’ll highlight someone at Wednesday’s AFP Blogger School who will be on my bloated roll presently. Jessi relays a whacking of Rep. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-Madison, WI) weak response to rising gas prices by her presumptive opponent, Peter Theron.
• Charles Johnson wonders when Barack Hussein Obama will throw his brother Malik under the bus.
• Bull Dog Pundit fills Obama’s FICA tax increase full of holes.
• TexasFred finds a few ‘Rats not falling for Obama. Hopefully there’s more of them than those of us not falling for John McCain.
• Neo-Con Tastic comes back from the dead to do a wicked Photoshop as his entry to Red State’s Fake It contest. I’m a sucker for mushroom clouds.
• John Hawkins caught Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) wishes the hottest ring of Hell for those of us who disagree with Michelle Obama. Sorry, Dick; that’s already occupied by your friend Saddam Hussein.
• Gabriel Malor caught another Obama supporter with a Che pic in his office. This time, it’s a Lawgiver-In-Black in Ohio.
• Ed Morrissey asks, “Think that the Florida issue is over?” Seems the Obama crowd is trying to get more delegates than they’re entitled to.
• Related to that, Jim Geraghty quotes from an e-mail sent by Obama’s Florida finance chair. Since Jim censored it, we need to do some character substitution: & = u, ^ = c, and % = k. Stay classy, Kirk Wagar.
• While I’m done with Obama, I’m not done with the ‘Rats. Jim Hoft notes the continued free-fall of the Pelosi Congress. As my fellow Morons would say, “Epic FAIL!”
• Hack-A-Chuck Part I – Shoebox hacks Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on his inconsistency over “windfall profits”. Last year, Schumer protected his constituents (investment fund managers) from an “windfall profits” tax.
• John McAdams teaches Economics 101 to the ‘Rats.
• Hack-A-Chuck Part II – Flip hacks Schumer on his inconsistency over the filibuster.
• Dupray exposes the reason behind the lack of a ‘Rat energy plan.
• Brian Faughnan notes the next step in the envirowhackos’ plan to return the US to the 17th Century – kill the Canadian oil industry through lawsuits. Considering that would put us even more at the mercy of the Islamokazis, maybe I should’ve said 8th Century.
• Headless Blogger renews his call for the end of ethanol mandates in the face of a lot of flooded-out corn fields.
• See-dubya teases us with news of 7 new refineries. Unfortunately, they’re in Iran.
• Gopfolk explores whether solar is a viable alternative. The short answer is “No”, but do read the extended answer.
• Michelle Malkin joins the calls for McCain to actually visit ANWR, and more importantly,
• Neocon catches McCain doing some waffling regarding drilling. Considering he is willing to let states veto offshore drilling, and the states with the largest unexploited developments are against it, it’s more of a case of being disingenuous than waffling.
• Uncle Jimbo takes President Bush to task for squandering the time that Club Gitmo bought us. Now, thanks to a power grab by the Lawgivers-In-Black, enemy combatants now hold more rights than the average citizen going before the IRS.
• Jim Hoft has some good news; the Brits are able to tell the difference between crossdressing Islamokazis and the women in countries dominated by Islamokazis. Since the dead tango was wearing pink, I wonder when Code Pink starts their protests.
• Elliot has the latest example of guns not killing people.
• David St. Lawrence has a timely tip for those job-hunting; beware of bait-and-switch on your salary.
• Gawfer celebrates his 500th post with a trip to the US Open. Lucky bastich; great pics.
• Speaking of Club Gitmo, Matt has pics of the American staffers having fun on the water.

How long have I been doing this? Oh well; let’s continue flying…

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• Ace caught Mad Vlad’s man in the oil business saying, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet on these prices.” Tell me again how the Sovie…er, Russia is now our friend.
• Lawhawk explores using the gas weapon on Iran. No, not the ones that Saddam Hussein used; the ones the lieberals are using against us (the lack of refining capacity).
• Jim Lynch puts the ‘Rat energy policy in a nutshell (with the emphasis on “nut”).
• Dad29 has a plan to get back to $2.10/gallon gas.
• It isn’t through biodiesel; James Wigderson asks whether we taxpayers can get our $250,000 back after construction on the biodiesel plant planned for Evansville was stopped because of "rapidly rising commodity prices and the decision by a key lender to withdraw from its loan commitment."
• Just because I can, Allahpundit has tape of Michelle Malkin offering the sane solution to the oil crisis. PSA time – Everybody, sign Newt Gingrich’s petition ; Wisconsinites, also sign Phil Williamson’s petition.
• Slublog wishes John McCain wouldn’t go off the rails. Same here, Slu; I just don’t have the mad SluShop Skillz.
• Ed Morrissey has news of a new “conservatives-only” PAC started up by Sen. Jim DeMint. Sounds interesting.
• Plebian breaks out in song to Barack Obama. Trust me, it’s wicked good (besides, would I Rick-roll you?).
• Dean has the dream ticket for Republicans. I will say this, an Obama/Hillary Clinton ticket would ensure that the Dems are not competitive in the “mushy middle”.
• Bull Dog Pundit asks, “What makes a profit a ‘windfall’?” Answer; not enough cash kicked back to the party in power, specifically, the ‘Rats.
• Anwyn lays the linguistic smackdown on “education”.
• Speaking of education, Chris the head barkeep (or more-accurately, his oldest son) found out the hard way that grades bear little correlation to one’s accomplishments. I’ll remind everybody that Albert Einstein was considered a failure in mathematics.
• Uncle Jimbo has unleashed the Dead Tangos: The Totally Unrated DVD. My birthday’s coming up soon (hint, hint).
• Doubleplusundead has some Peeps video for those of you already jonesing for more HamNation. Air Peeps!
• Paddy O’Furniture breaks out a laundry list of how stupid we’ve become over the last 50 years. I know Paddy usually doesn’t look for publicity, but this one’s just too good.
• William Teach figures out which party is truly responsible for Gorebal “Warming”. Do note that it is a demonstrated fact that highly-urban areas are warmer than rural areas, and also note which party tends to dominate highly-urban areas.
• Fred has the Drinking Right Quotes from last night. As always, they’re taken way out of context.
• There are a bunch of places I could have taken this one from, but since Kevin Fischer asked whether the NBA has turned into the WWE, I’ll use him as the source. To answer the question it’s not a corinkidink that the most-obvious examples, as well as the one that’s the subject of the hot-and-heavy rumors, happened while the NBA was on NBC, and that NBC is the longtime home of what is now the WWE on network TV.

Let’s see if I can come up with some good stuff for Silent E while he’s on vacation. I’m one of those he left the keys of the blog to (I helped move his and Kate’s blogs to a more-reliable server).

As bad as things are in southeast Wisconsin, they don’t compare to losing an entire town (Gays Mills) or lake vital for the local tourism industry (Lake Delton)….

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• Americans for Prosperity and Phil Williamson are looking for a few thousand signatures on a petition urging the politicians to allow new drilling and refining here by July 26 to give to Sens. Kohl and Feingold. I’ll be repeating this on a regular basis until then.
• The gang at Blogs4Bauer unmasked “Abu Bubear”. It’s nice to see Dave Bauer was paying attention when Pappy was training the boys in torture.
• The Bar Slaves have issued the call for Morons to meet somewhere around Detroit the end of the month. I have but two words – ROAD TRIP!
• Tom McMahon delivers a coup de grace to the ‘Rat Race.
• Ace and Slublog proudly present the Surfin’ Messiah. Sort of looks familiar, has the same policies as the last windsurfing candidate.
• Charles Johnson has sent what Emperor Misha calls the Obamessiah Site Scrubber Teamâ„¢ on a futile chase to scrub the anti-Semites from the Barack Hussein Obama campaign blogs. Screencaps truly are a blogger’s best friend and worst enemy rolled into one.
• Ace points to the definitive ballistic review of the Toyota Prius.
• From the “Here we go again” bureau, Owen calls the ‘Rat plan to jack up taxes on “Big Oil” a joke. I’ll remind everybody once again that the ‘Rats are perfectly fine with obscenely-high gas prices…as long as government gets the money.
• Dagney Taggert asks, “Who is responsible for high gas prices?” I know, I’ve highlighted this before, but until it sinks in, I’ll keep on keeping on. Bonus item; there’s a lot of corn fields now under water in the Farm Belt. Care to guess what’s going to happen to the price of ethanol?
• Cindy Kilkenny catches Obama not getting the answer to that question.
• Gawfer found out that it’s all about the money for the Gorebal Warming crowd. In true Fascist fashion, the “green” companies are not satified with the natural marketplace and are using the power of gubmint mandates to create the market.
• Genes has the latest example of the decline and fall of the Royal Navy.
• The Vintage one asks why “no-government libertarians” want Big Gubmint to protect by fiat a particular theory on how we got to be. And Nick wonders why I’ll never be either a big-L or small-l libertarian….
• Ed Morrissey proves even a blind ‘Rat can find cheese now and again. Ed Markey has a great point about the US helping Saudi Arabia (yes, that Saudi Arabia) go nuclear.
• JammieWearingFool breaks out the world’s smallest violin for the Club Gitmo guests who some moonbat mental health group is worried about. I’ll say they lost their sanity when they chose to engage the US military.
• Michelle Malkin notes New York City is a hotbed of genital herpes despite giving out roughly 12 condoms for every male (sexually active or not) over the past year.
• The Game points out how nationalized health care of the type in (not-so) Great Britain would have killed Ted Kennedy before he was diagnosed with his cancer.
• Rick Moran has a plan to survive the next 8 years. Guess I’ll have a head start on the last item; Drinking Right is tonight.
• James Wigderson has been driven away from public education by the oh-so-tolerant </sarcasm> educrats.