The Ramble 12/13/11- Indianapolis, IN… Beck, Leftie Love, Etc

Indianapolis, IN–I’m still at Indy.

When I got done writing yesterday’s Ramble, I did my usual pre-trip inspection of my truck and found that I had oil coming from one wheel seal. This is a possibly dangerous situation, with

Spittle shield vendors to be hit hardest.   The number one source of spittle on Capital Hill,  Barney Frank, has announced his retirement,  Karen is heartbroken, from Lonely Conservative:

Good Riddance! Barney Frank to Retire

Now that the damage is

For a movement which claims to represent ninety-nine percent of the population, the Occutards seem to suffer a shortage of chicks.   Whereas the Tea Party was organized by and had plenty of participation by Tea Mommas., from Nice Deb:

I note with some degree of interest with a resurgency  of Newt Gingrich in the early polling for Iowa.  There seems a good deal of objection to his showing up, particularly among the press who like Rick Perry and Herman

Jessup,MD– I’m here getting ready to grab a load bound for Syracuse, and then head home. I’ll be there by morning. Raining off and on across the northeast today. My poor truck doesn’t look quite so flashy with the much

Westbury, Long Island, NY– A frequent stop for me… dropping off some drinks to the thirsty club shoppers. Nearly 80 here… you’d not know it was fall. Today, I’m going to do a one subject Ramble.

Some observations on

In the fabled antebellum south, of Gone with the Wind, plantation slaves existed to create wealth for their white masters.

In the Twenty First Century democrat plantation, blacks exist to blindly give their votes to their largely white political

The rumble of discontent. Given the fact that Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Ohama, has become irrelevant, is the pining for Mrs. Clinton a sign of primary challenge for Dim Won?

Rumblings,  from Bill McCl ellan, Saint Louis Today:

Dumbo stuck on higher taxes. Barack Obama is addicted to the idea of big government,from James Pethokoukis, Beuters:

But Obama’s tax obsession becomes understandable when you realize the long game he’s playing: Big Taxes to fund Big Government.

Hickory Run, PA– I’m at my stop for the night, along Interstate 80. This is actually a favorite stop of mine… not for the facilities…. they need some help, actually… but because it’s very near to a place I load

“According to Jim Messina, his campaign manager, through the second quarter of 2011, President Obama now has 552,000 contributors to his 2012 re-election campaign. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that during the same two quarters, the U.S. economy

Is Hope Dead? From the Sharp Tack Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:

This was the kind of week where any self-respecting 2008 Obama supporter who had not yet yanked off his Obama-Biden Bumper sticker should have been in his garage

Two takes on Dumbo’s presser, first the literate, from Yuval Levin, National Review:

It all had the feel of a childish tantrum by a person who desperately wishes he were living in a different reality — one in

Algore, from Walter Russell Mead American Interest:

It must be as perplexing to his many admirers as it is frustrating to himself that a man of Vice President Gore’s many talents, great skills and strong beliefs is one

The election in black and white. Barack Obama’s inept economic policies have hit the black population hard, from Michelle Miller, CBS News:

The economy and jobs will be big issues in Washington again this coming week.

While unemployment