The Ramble for 12-19-11: Tebow; Hitch; Iraq Not Over; Role Reversals; Oil And It’s Future, More

Carlisle, PA--After three highly unusual weeks of running to the west it appears as though I will be spending the remainder of this year running east.  That’s a bit more normal for this truck line.  Frankly, we’re experiencing a

Professor Ann Althouse:

Natalie Johnson says Macy’s fired her for telling a male he could not use the women’s dressing room.

The customer was shopping for women’s clothes…

[…]

She’s trying to say that because her opinion is based

Buffalo, NY– I’m at the Erie County Medical Center, dropping off some furniture that I picked up at Elkhart IN. A nice little stretch of the legs. I’ll be back at the yard in a few hours and ready for

The persons, or groups, Dim Won, a/k/a Dumbo, b/k/a Barrack Obama has insulted:

African Americans: “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’.”

Americans: Are “not a model for

Carteret,NJ– I’m dropping  a load of canned veggies. I’ll camp out for the night, once that’s done. It’s getting colder at night, but thank God my Auxiliary Power unit is working fine. This will be a short week for me;

:Jill may be missing the forest for the tree, Pundit & Pundette

Obama’s hostility not confined to women in the White House

In his new book about the inner workings of the Obama White House, author Ron Suskind quotes insiders

Liberty Township, PA– Yes, I’m still here. The roads around here opened up last night,  but in all the excitement of the floods and road closings and such I must have kicked up a bit of road junk. I’ve got

Dumbo the failure, Peter Wehner, Commentary:

Obama has been a complete and utter failure

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It’s Obama who promised to cut the deficit in half. It’s Obama who said if we passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care

Port Chester, NY– I’m north of New York City, making a very early AM delivery. from here, I’ll drop down into Jersey to make a pickup.

• OBAMA OUT OF CLICHES:  When even the increasingly left-leaning POLITICO takes notice, you

Oslo, from Steven Erlanger,  New York Slimes:

OSLO — The Norwegian police on Saturday charged a man they identified as a right-wing fundamentalist Christian in connection with the bombing of a government building in central Oslo and a

Eugene Robinson gets it wrong, from Washington Post:

It is time to stop giving Herman Cain’s unapologetic bigotry a free pass. The man and his poison need to be seen clearly and taken seriously.

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But Cain’s prejudice

Obama-speak, from Peter Kirsanow, National Review, via Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:

“The real problem with ATMS . is not so much that they destroy jobs, but that in at least 50 of 57 states you can’t conduct

Religion of Peace:

(AINA) — A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and torched the Church of St.

Who we Paleface? From Gail Collins, New York Times:

As if we didn’t have enough wars, the House of Representatives has declared one against Planned Parenthood.

Maybe it’s all part of a grand theme. Last month, they voted to

Lunacy, from Susie Madrak Democracy Now:

We speak with Tucson shooting survivor Eric Fuller. A 63-year-old disabled veteran, Fuller had campaigned for Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in her reelection campaign and was at the supermarket in Tucson on