Breakfast Scramble

After action report, Rochester, NY:  WHEC-TV

“An extraordinary situation” and “something we’ve never seen before” – those just some of the comments from first responders to Sunday’s deadly 36-car pile-up on 390 near the airport.
 

Ladies and gentlemen:  well done.

Christian Bando is dead at 49.

Let’s see, here. Mother lost custody of him because of what the courts decided was a dependency on drugs and alcohol. And Christian, with his mother as a shining example,  dies of exactly that,

I see you, Brian, and no, I do not agree that I’m being pushed off principle, here.

I reject the premise that the guy was innocent on several levels, but the most important of them is that I reject and

The Clinton’s are vicious on the attack, provided they are attacking no more than a mere straw dog.  Barack incited the Clinton when he said that Ron Reagan changed the trajectory of the country in ways that B.J. Clinton never

Scott Johnson, Powerline, has “The case against John McCain.” I’ll go beyond Rick Santorum, and I don’t trust McCain on foreign or defense policy either. McCain has the problem of letting extraordinary temper get the better of

The Washington Post is questioning the moral underpinnings of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, “Racial Undercurrent Is Seen in Clinton Campaign:”

It has unfolded mostly under the radar. But an important development in the 2008 Democratic battle may be the

[sticky till 12/26]

Editor’s Note: This is a time of year when I don’t envy the position of members of the cloth.

Such men and women find themselves in the position of having to write a sermon on essentially the

Why on earth would Hillary Clinton be focused on Obama’s drug use, when Bill Clinton has a record of it, himself? After all, who was it who said of Cocaine…

“Gotta get some for my brother. He’s got a nose

A bloody mess, quite literally, in Nebraska yesterday. The Jawa Report did a great job with tracking the story.

And no, don’t start with me about gun control.

One armed citizen …as opposed to a store full of sheep….would have

This is rich….

A blog on a site promoting Al Gore’s climate change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has been hacked by penis pill-promoting spammers.

Links on the blog portion of the climatecrisis.net site point to websites hawking online pharmaceuticals

Several folks, including Billy Beck, and a pile more at Memeorandum, have noted thet Barry Bonds was indicted in that BALCO thing. Chicoer.com:

SAN FRANCISCO—Barry Bonds, baseball’s home run king, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday

Alan Dershowitz, guesting at the WSJ today:

Consider, for example, the contentious and emotionally laden issue of the use of torture in securing preventive intelligence information about imminent acts of terrorism–the so-called “ticking bomb” scenario. I am not now talking

Hey John, if you don’t like advertisemnts for prescription drugts, don’t watch them.   Then lay off our Constitution.

Edwards may be a shyster of a lawyer, but he doezn’t seem to be much of a physician.   Holly Ramer, Associated Press

Pinch Sulzberger can not understand how having your child’s school giving your child blessings to be sexually active, with neither your knowledge or consent would upset you.   Katie Zezima, New York Times:

PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 19 — Carissa Porcaro,