Nightly Ramble:JAF Edition

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere: The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the JAF Edition. (Just Another Friday)

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

Welcome, one and all tot he most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

This is the “All this and a hat, too” Edition

• More Base!! To start with, today, we see a comment from Glenn

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the “Future Camper” Edition

• I have the POWER…. So now Arlen Specter is willing to compromise on “Card Check”?  I

Light up the victory cigar.  Team Obama has surrendered.   Operation Hush Rush is history. Mike Allen, Politico:

Beginning Sunday, the White House will harness every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray Republicans

James Lewis, American Thinker[sic], is completely blind to the lessons of tragedies like Blacksbug and Mumbai:

It now appears that 10 commando-trained terrorists with Pakistani jihadist training were able to kill at least 172 people and wound almost

Welcome dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

• Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know, Colin Powell. All the rage over the weekend. I don’t think there’s much argument against the idea that there’s a

Overnight, the situation in Georgia  has changed a bit.  The Financial Times says Georgia is welcoming Russia’s cease fire call.   

The first implication for the US out of this is the most obvious of all. Even if Bush had committed

Russia invaded Georgia. John McCain was prompt to recognize the Russian aggression and to condemn it. Meanwhile BO seems unable to distinguish between being invaded and be the invader. I doubt BO even knows where Georgia is. View the video:

• 08-08-08. Not sure it means anything, but it’s interesting.
• Just about mid-summer. The Telegraph reports what I told you about at about mid-spring would happen at Mid-summer: The great oil Bubble has burst.
  

  The market’s conviction that oil prices were

Erica Wagner at the London Times notes the passage of one of the great voices of freedom: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

Years of internal exile and suffering never daunted him. The 1962 publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Interesting questions from Victor Davis Hanson, this morning…

Why is the U.N. holding conferences about rising food prices, but not spiraling oil prices that in various ways account for them? Somehow in the globalist mindset the agricultural producing world

• Been getting downright crazy traffic the last couple months, and none of it bigger than the last week or so. No particular reason I can see. Usually when we get traffic spikes it’s due to one article or another that