Nightly Ramble:Happy Hump Day Edition

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This is the “Happy Hump Day” Edition” The picture to your right is a railroad hump. It’s how cars are sorted in many rail yards

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This is the Rail car Graffiti Edition. Sorry about the blur, the thing was moving at track speed. (yeah, right)

• They’ve let

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This is the “Have one on Me” Edition.

• Tea Parties, Iranian Style: Somewhere in my travels last night, I stumbled across a

Fathers on-screen and off,  Eric rambled:

John Wayne:  Finally, I know I‘ve linked James twice already, but this got by me yesterday, with all that happened to me yesterday and trying to write what became “Fathers”

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This is the First Dept Edition

• From our Dept of Intemperate Thoughts: So, now that Whalen has (wrongly, I think) apologized for

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This is the “Bit’sBar” edition.

Lots going on tonight. Pour yourself a cold one, and let’s get to it.

• A tale of

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This is the “Proposal” Edition

• Spin City: You can be reasonably assured of the Republicans pointing up the failure of the so-called

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This is the JAF Edition. (Just Another Friday)

• Unemployment is up: To the shock of nobody, unemployment is up. This morning’s

Oh, my.

Where to begin, on an examination of Obama’s speech to the Middle East? I’m certainly not going to hit you with all 6000 words.  I can’t even jump on everything in the speech that should be jumped

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This is the The “ChooChoo, Daddy!” Edition.

• The Honeymoon is officially over:  Jennifer Rubin:
  

  The jig is up.

  The stimulus is a

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This is the “smart Guy” Edition

• Burris and Blago: Apparently, we have Burris on tape offering Blago money.  Bruce at Q&O

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This is the “Still in the truck stop” edition

•  Minority Broadcasters, again: Limbaugh touched on this yesterday:  I lived through the

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This is the “Change the oil, rotate the Tires” Edition

• Men are from Mars and Earth Girls are Easy… or something: John

After pigging out on hamburgers, Barack Obama tries a new diet, crow;  Micheal Goldfarb, Weekly Standard:

Obama Accepts False Choice of Military Commissions

Passed to a friendly reporter at the Washington Post late on a Friday afternoon is

Arthur Brooks, at  The Wall Street Journal suggests that there’s a bit of a culture war going on about the future of capitalism.  The headline suggests that “The Real Culture War Is Over Capitalism “

There is a major cultural