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Nightly Ramble:Hizonor,Our Anwr, Obama And Hamas, Bad News, More

  • Yet another Honorable Mention at OTB’s Caption Contest [1]
  • It’s time to sign the petition to drill in ANWR. [2]
  • Baloney, James [3]. Why would Hamas be heaping praise on Obama if not for Obama representing and promoting a policy favorable to their goals?
  • The ruling yesterday on the homosexual marriage ban is decidedly not the end of the story, but the beginning. It strikes me that the timing on this is rather interesting, given the proximity to the ramp up to November’s election.
  • Glenn [4] asks some rather pointed questions.
  • Exactly, Mike [5]. On the money. I’d further it by saying his grandfather would do a better job of defending the country… and he’s been dead for how long?
  • There’s one more body [6]to add to the investigation surrounding Eliot Spiter’s misconduct. I may write more on this later, but it strikes me just now that there’s something very dirty at the heart of this… it’s the only thing that would explain this suicide.  Someone’s political machine was about to be exposed at the wrong time.
  • Memo to John McCain; Craig Shirley did nothing wrong [7]. Get your head out of your cheeks. You need all the help you can get, and turning it away isn’t helping. Oh, and John? This isn’t the help you need. [8]
  • So, Dennis Rodman is in trouble again [9]? (Yawn) What ya s’pose the odds were on that one?
  • Identity [10] politics [11] again?
  • BinLaden has long since gone toes up, gang. The tape they’ve just released [12]is a little out of date.
  • I suppose this is Democrats reacting to reality. [13]
  • The Great Paul Harvey, observed not long ago in his comments to a listner’s letter [14]:

    Paul Harvey, why don’t you newsmen report more good news instead of all of that tragedy and destruction and discord and disaster and dissent?

    Well, now wait a minute. My own network, ABC, once tried broadcasting a program of just good news. You know how long that lasted? Thirteen weeks. Not enough listeners wanted just good news.In Sacramento, Calif., a little tabloid called itself The Good newspaper, printed just good news, lasted 36 months before it went bankrupt. As far as I have been able to ascertain, there’s only one newspaper in the USA today printing just good news. It’s a little tabloid, comes out once a week in Indiana and they have to give it away, because that good news that you all keep saying you want just won’t buy. And that’s why you can listen to any broadcast, and records are crashing and it’s the worst wind and the worst flood or fire or earthquake or whatever, because noise news makes news, and sex and noise and sin make news, and one gunshot makes more noise than a thousand prayers. It doesn’t mean it’s more important, just that it sells more newspapers.

    It gets more votes, too. In fact, I would venture to suggest to you that this is the biggest draw the Democrats have, just now.  So what happens when John McCain eschews all the negativity?  Why, the predictable, of course.

  • Hey, McGehee… That’s [15] what safe mode is for.
  • A rainy weekend. Not much shaking, though I’m getting the camper ready for whatever happens the following few weekends. We’ve discussed the idea of going out on the Memorial day weekend, but tha’s always such a hassle in terms of getting a decent camping site. All the ameteurs showing up on the holidays. We’ll see about the weekend AFTER that.
  • The IRS is having a bit of problem with the load involved in the sending of those tax rebate checks. If you have questions, here’s a good place to start. [16]