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Nightly Ramble: Warming, My Buns; Change?; More

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Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly readanywhere on the ‘sphere…Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

I said if Obama got elected, we’d have no shortage of things to write about. The hard part now is where to start.  let’s get started…

  • It’s a little hard to argue that global warming is a problem, when there’s snow in Vegas. [2] Global warming, dear reader, is still being preached because it’s the basis for the largest (fraudulent) transfer of wealth any mere human has ever cooked up. Trouble is, the ones who think it’s real are now in charge. We’re supposed to catch a serious storm Friday, and over the weekend. Chicago’s WLS is saying a foot there, New York stations are saying eight inches, and I don’t remember what for Philly. Of course, it’s like everything else the left pushes these days; It’s not based in fact to begin with, so mere fact isn’t going to defeat the idea that global warming is happening and giving our money to leftist causes will solve it. 
  • I see Chris Dodd isn’t polling so well [3] just now. Apparently, those in his home state have started figuring that mess out. His role in putting us in the financial bind we’re in just now is just starting to resonate.  In watching such reports, the idea becomes stronger that there’s a great concern among voters about what they’ve just done, both at the presidential level and congressional… and the state level, for that matter, in the case of NY, which I’ve been watching closely, the last several weeks.  In fact, Matt Kaminski has been watching this [4] on a larger scale and suggests it’s happening all over the world.

    Of course, Andrew Sullivan told us it would be so on the cover of last December’s Atlantic [5]–and subsequently told us, repeatedly, that he’d told us that “Obama matters” because the world will see us differently. He has plenty of company in the commentariat and among (admittedly) Democratic politicians. All together, they channel Gidget: “You like me, right now, you like me!” I imagine Sally Field (of 1985 Oscar ceremony fame) partakes fully in the Obama-as-America’s-salvation-overseas mania, though I haven’t bothered to ask.

    One hates to spoil a good party, but here’s a bet that’s far safer these days than a U.S. Treasury bill: Even with Obama at the White House, they won’t really like us any more than before.

    It’s not because America’s not a special country, a City upon a Hill, from the Pilgrims to Obama, the Blagojevich couple and other American horrors notwithstanding. It’s because it is. And as ever, our earnest assertion of our superior ontological uniqueness–not to mention its reality in and of itself–is exactly what always grated on the unfriendlies grouped together under the banner of anti-Americanism.

     Including the anti-Americanism at home that pushed Obama into the White House.  They’re going to all figure this stuff out within the next two years and  that’s going to result in openly changing minds, again. This stuff isn’t nearly as attractive as it was before to them, and it’s going to get worse in their eyes as time goes on. They’re finding out that the reason the grass was greener over there was because there’s so much fertilizer being spread on it. My guess is that we’re going to see a massive shift right in two years at all levels.. I suggest the Democrats know this too, and are going to be driving to the left… hard… for the two years between now and the mid-terms. Which of course will only hasten their electorally driven exit, two years hence.

  • Iain Murray gets it right, here [6].
  • [7] [8]Boortz says it well, [8] this morning:

    Brit Hume is retiring. Well… sort of retiring. He’s leaving Special Report as of Christmas Eve. To put this succinctly, that sucks. There was no better news program on the air, and I don’t know who they could find to replace him.

    No matter who they end up putting in that timeslot… and Brett Baier [9]seems a likely candidate… will end up being a pale imitation… and I suspect whoever they chose for the role will agree with my thought.  He’s one of the paltry few on that side of the mike, these days, that I actually have any respect for, anymore.

  • Chevrolet Volt [8]Local utility companies can breathe a sigh of relief… the Chevy Volt won’t be made for a while yet. GM is so busy with pay and benefits, they have no money to build the plant [10]that would build the … well, I hesitate to call it a car, but I guess I have to…  along the same lines of “Because it’s in the front of that thing on top of your neck, it must therefore be a face”.   This … car… is no panacea, though. Think; do we really have the electical capacity to handle the added draw from the grid?  Given Obama’s calls against Nuclear and coal burning, are we likely to have that added capacity in the near future? And how many are going to die when these things crap out, having exhausted their 40 mile per charge limit? Not ready for prime time. Sorry. What this boils down to is they know it’s not going to sell, and they’re wating for the federal government to finance it.  Paygo in reverse, looks to me. where if the government wants it, we pay for it.
  • Caroline Kennedy speaks at the Barack Obama rally at UCLA [11]David and I have both blogged to the issue of  Caroline Kennedy and her bid to become a Senator. But it seems worth one more shot [12]. One cannot help but wonderif this isn’t payback for the endorsement of Obama, pictured at right. Look, guys, past that, there is no reason for her to be in this position other than star power.  Take the Kennedy brand away, and what you have is someone who would be laughed out of any group looking to elect a Senator; She has none, never having held elective office at all. If the election of Barack Obama has taught the Democrats anything it’s the value to star power when trying to attract votes. When star power is at the top of the qualification list, what’s a small matter like actual experience?   Which kinda gives us a new perspective of the Democrats and their complaints about Sarah Palin and her relative experience, hmmm?  By the way, you’ll want to see what Dr Krauthammer has to say [13] on the point. Victor Davis Hanson [14], as well.
  • Robert Redford: Brainless. [15] What’s this outburst all about? Mostly it’s Redford trying to calm some of the left who have decided to boycott his Sundance Film Festival.
  • Mobil PumpOil’s down below $40, if you’re interested. Around here, the prices at the pump seem to have leveled off from heir drops of a few weeks ago. My usual place is $1.81/gal.  I find FlyingJ’s Fuel page [16]to be a good indication of prices around the country. Usually they’re at or below the lowest prices in the area, so keep that in mind, but it’s the best and most frequently updated indicator for local prices I’ve ever found. Cheapest I’m seeing as of this writing is $1.27/gal in Wyoming.
  • Hey, it works for Talkshow hosts. Why can’t BitsBlog be on George Soros’ list? [17]  I figure the closer we come to the truth should be reflected directly in how pissed off Media Matters  gets about our drawing breath.
  • So, Eric Holder was also working for Blago [18]?  Not unexpected, actually. But, funn,y how he didn’t mention it on his confirmation questionnaire…
  • Speaking of Blago, Jen Rubin has something to say [19]to Republicans on the subject.
  • So does Lynn Sweet. Lynn points out [20]that Rahm Emanuel’s involvement in pushing Gov. Blagojevich toward appointing Valerie Jarrett to replace Barack Obama in the Senate has now been shown to be deeper than previously known. Deep enough for me to question the meme  that Obama didn’t know what was happening, and indeed, that Emanuel’s activity wasn’t being directed by him. That would seem to be the most logical reason for he and his team scrambling to deny Obama had anything to do with it… a point which also was since proven false.
  • I snarked at Rick Warren last night. Seems the homosexual-extra-rights crowd is annoyed, too. [21]  Now, this is interesting. Someone hit me up in feedback last night, suggesting that I was not taking into account Warren’s attitude that ‘we are all Americans”.  First of all, I am in fact taking that attitude into account. Indeed, it accounts for most of my anger.  There is a right and a wrong, people,and we’d best get used to the idea that there are consequences to legitimizing the wrong, under the guise of ‘we’re all Ameicans’.  But more; those who would point up my supposed ‘narrow mindedness’ on the matter, are  by and large, the ones who will also bitch loudly at Obama for inviting Warren, because of Warren’s views, for fear he was legitimising Warren’s views.   In other words they regard exclusion as only being legit in one direction. Think about it. As for Obama himself, he’s busy playing the politics of faction.