Nightly Ramble: The “Well, Blow Me Down” Edition

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This is the The “Well, blow me down” edition.

• Oops… I forgot: Turns out

Not sure what to make of thisreport from Fox News:

An aide to Sen. Jim Webb was found dead from a gunshot wound Tuesday morning, the Virginia Democrat’s office confirmed to FOX News on Wednesday.

Frederick Wayne Hutchins Jr., 26,

I see by way of Billy and a few other sources (Martin McPhillips,for one)  that J. Orlin Grabbe may or may not have passed on.  One could never be sure with him. He may be just playing with

I note David’s post on the Hillary Clinton comment on the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy. I note also, a good amount of traffic on the web about it.

Unlike some of the traffic that I’ve been seeing, I’m

• We now hear chatter again about Hillary being offered the VP slot on Obama’s ticket. Not a shock to hear it, I suppose but it still strikes me that Obama would have to be suicidal to make such an offer. 

• I’m hearing an awful lot of speculation lately, as regards the reaction of the American public were Jeremiah Wright and Barrack Obama white. Certainly the reaction would be different. They’d be ignored. Forgive the observation, but we already have a

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (CNN) – After a weekend spent making direct appeals to gun owners and church goers, Hillary Clinton said Sunday a query about the last time she fired a gun or attended church services “is not a relevant question

From the WSJ this morning:

Among the many things Hillary Clinton’s schedule sheds light on are her activities before, during and after major events in her husband’s presidential tenure – such as the death of Vince Foster.

Foster, a lawyer

• Well, over the weekend we got up to two feet of snow in places, mostly west of here. There’s a foot and a half in my front yard, and in my driveway.  We shovel it out, but since the yard

• A second place in the OTB Caption Contest.
• So, they’re concerned about a doctor shortage in the third world? And they think the US is causing the shortage? Look, Gang, I’m used the the US getting blamed for everything. But

People have been saying $#!t like this for a while now, and I’m sick of it.

If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted in a newspaper interview

Very interesting tidbit from World Net Daily with respect to the death of Kathleen Willey’s husband,  Ed: 

At the time of that meeting, Clinton and Willey were unaware that Ed Willey was lying dead of a gunshot wound to his