…that makes no sense:
So how to explain the Sestak offer? Either the Obama administration (and President Clinton!) didn’t know the relevant rules, or they didn’t mind lying to Sestak, or they don’t mind lying to us.
Any reason that it can’t be all of the above? No honor among thieves, even incompetent ones.
Some observations. I wonder if the White House realizes what a disaster Robert Gibbs is, or are they politically tone deaf on that as well?
Some thoughts. Israel will always be in a no-win situation in terms of public opinion, because much of the world will never see a Jewish liberal democracy in the Middle East as legitimate. So they might as well do what they need to to survive, and to hell with what those fascists think.
Never again.
Of course, be sure to read Walter Russell Mead’s piece as well.
As Glenn says, I can imagine a lot of campaign commercials coming from this. And a commenter notes the same thing that I thought when I heard what McCartney said. George Bush married a librarian.
Moron. I hadn’t realized before how completely lacking in class he was.
[Update a few minutes later]
More thoughts from Jay Nordlinger.
I like it a lot better than the original. Of course, I thought the original sucked.
Clark Lindsey has a summary.
[Late afternoon update]
Apparently, the range has finally signed off on the Flight Termination System, so they’re good to go tomorrow.
Gordon Young is trying to fund some reporting of one of our premiere post-industrial cities (and my home town). It’s sad to see how far it’s fallen from my childhood days.
The “sustainable agriculture” movement is senselessly starving people.
…for SpaceX. And they’ve rolled it out to the pad, and erected it.
It’s now less than forty-eight hours until their first opportunity, at 8 AM Pacific. On later flights, when they have to go to ISS, they’ll have a tight launch window (ten minutes more or less, depending on how much performance margin they have), but for the first couple flights at least, there’s no target they’re aiming at in space, so they can go any time within the window provide by the range (four hours, I think, on each day). As Clark notes, while I won’t be surprised if they’re successful (nor will I be surprised if they’re not, on this first launch), I will be surprised if they actually launch at 8 AM on Friday. I suspect that they’ll be operating on a hair trigger when it comes to anomalies that can delay them. There is a lot riding on success (and for those defending the old regime, a lot riding on their failure).