[1]I find it interesting that the press is so busy bashing Sarah Palin’s 17 year old kid for a pregnancy, when it spent over two years hiding from sight the story of John Edwards ‘love child’, don’t you?- The left has it’s diapers twisted over a comment Phil Graham made at the RNC last night;
“If you’re sitting here today, you’re not economically illiterate and you’re not a whiner, so I’m not worried about who you’re going to vote for.”
So, the Democrats have a screaming headline saying… “If you’re not for John McCain you’re economically illiterate.” [2]Amazing how close they come to the truth sometimes, isn’t it? Who but the economically illiterate would support Obama’s crippling tax policy? (BBCT: Boortz, [3]who has more)
- You bet your buns I’ll be watching when Sarah Palin walks out on that stage tonight [4]. Somehow I suspect the spinning will be somewhat muted after tonight.
- You watch… what’s left of Gustav will be up here this weekend… about the time I’d planned on taking the trailer out for the weekend. You’ll recall the LAST time I took it out, it rained all weekend, too. Not been much of a summer for camping for us this year. I guess it’s a price I pay for owning the rig, my choice. Just like it’s the price paid for the chocies made by the folks more directly affected by the storm.
- Did you see this [5] about a cat going for a 70 mile run under his owner’s truck? Yikes…
- So Google has a new browser? (Yawn) We’ve all seen them come and go, Sorry, I can’t get excited about a version one of much of anything, particularly that injects itself soe completely between myself and my basic interndat daily travels. And in any event, I have problems taking Popular Mechanics seriously on much of anything, and I certainly won’t take them at their word anymore.. After their political moves a while ago, they have a long, long way to make up the creds needed for that. But FWIW,they do offer a ‘report’ [6] I’ll stick with foxpro, thanks. A much more developed and solid bit of work, from a group of folks I trust.
- I see the self-labeled anarchists were discussing kidnapping delegates [7]. Oh, speaking of which, I wish I’d seen this; Mrs Bit tells me that Steve Ducey’s kid, playing intern for Fox News, went out and started showing pictures of Sarah Palin, John Mccain, and some of the other Republican brass to the anarchists and asking them to identify who it was in the pcitures. THey had no clue about how they were seeing. Ah, yes, it’s informed opinion drives these folks, huh? Guess we’d better listen to ’em. (Not)
- In watching Joe Leiberman last night, one recognized almost at once that he sees himself walking a fine line. He knows he’s going to ctahc hell for last night. Watch for Reid to remove his committee positions in retaliation. I’d have to say that as a result of that caution, the speech wasn’t as rousing as it might have been… certaily not as well as Lieberman had obviously hoped. And, I guess it didn’t help that Thompson was on freakin’ FIRE last night. (Even though Mickey didn’t think so [8], I have to ask…(Where the heck was that Fred Thompson a year ago?) There’s a lot of folks on the leftside blogs complaining that Liberman will end up with a Cabinet post as a result of ‘selling out’. well, first of all, selling out WHAT, specifically? Country? Or just party? Secondly, I would think that someone who leans so far to the left being part of a Republican administration’s cabinet would thrill them. can’t please some folks, I guess. And third, I’m not convinced Liberman would accept such a post, and forth, I’ve no positive indication it would even be offered. But let’s not let mere facts dampen a great leftie rant, OK? I guess I should qualify that by saying he’d make an ideal ambassador to Israel… it’d counter the notion that McCain would be bad for Israel… and it’d also tend to counter some of the other rumors the left is stirring just now. [9]
- The comment about how Lieberman’s involvement in a McCain administration should outright thrill the left, brings to mind a comment heard at work over lunch today, from someone who’s never struck me as the smartest political analyst I’d ever heard… He says; “Well, if Palin is such an idiot, why would they be trying to knock her off the McCain ticket? Don’t they want McCain to lose? If she’;s that dumb, wouldn’t McCain lose with her ON the ticket?” I’m going to have to re-evaluate this guy, he’s got a real point, here. The fact is, Palins got them in panic mode, like they’ve not been in a generation.
- Huge amounts of traffic on the Alaska Investigation thing I posted this morning. A nod of thanks to Conservative Grapevine [10], and all the others who linked up.
- Seems there’s some question now about the vetting process for… wait for it… Joe Biden [11]. Yeah, that guy. Oh, and yes, I mean besides what questions we’ve been asking here at BitsBlog… in last night’s [12]Ramble for example.
- Bringing new meaning to the phrase “Skeletons in the closet” [13]… or perhaps returning us to the old one.
- As we predicted here when the WSJ was bought up, it appears Murdoch is looking at buying up the New York Times. [14] Can’t happen soon enough, in my view. No word from Pinch, yet, though.