That was the essence of an inadvertently hilarious (anonymous, natch) comment about Obama in this post.
To me, that’s like Helen Thomas saying “don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.”
Unsustainable
Crude has fallen below $90/barrel. That’s from a peak of almost a hundred fifty.
Of course, this will be no surprise to regular readers.
[Afternoon update]
Apropo some of the comments, here’s a promising new technology for getting oil from shale and tar sands. I don’t see a price per barrel, though.
No Free Marketeer
That’s what John McCain is. One of the reasons it’s hard to get enthused about him. I suspect that Palin might be a little better.
[Update a while later]
Both presidential candidates are completely economically incoherent.
No surprise, since they’re both economic ignorami. Though in Obama’s case it’s worse, because he thinks that he understands economics, and much of what he knows for damned sure is wrong.
Compare And Contrast
This is the Beltway/MSM definition of a “compromise”: giving the Dems everything they want.
I hope that John McCain (or even Sarah Palin) urge Bush to veto the sham energy bill, and explain why.
The Latest In Medical Transplants
… Patients who come into the hospital with suspected pneumonia now get an antibiotic within six hours, instead of four hours previously, to allow more time to assess the need for drugs.
One controversial strategy: fecal transplants. For one patient with recurrent C. diff, Kettering suggested a stool transplant from a relative, to help restore good bacteria in the gut. But Jeffrey Weinstein, an infectious-disease specialist at the hospital, says the patient “refused to consider it because it was so aesthetically displeasing.”
To say the least. Though some kinky folks might get off on it. It’s certainly a simple procedure compared to a heart or a kidney.
Some might argue that a lot of folks in Congress have already had the procedure done, except it was transplanted to the wrong location, considerably north of where it was supposed to go.
Can We All At Least Agree?
That Nancy Pelosi is an ignorant, arrogant moron?
She’s going to let the anchor that is Charlie Rangell drag her party to defeat this fall, and she’ll lose her job.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Why Obama Will Lose Pennsylvania
Ads like this.
There are actually a lot of reasons. The only thing that could save him will be ACORN vote fraud in Philly. And that will depend on who Ed Rendell really wants to win. He is a Hillary! supporter, after all…
Devastation
Here are some before and after pictures of the Bolivar Peninsula.
I wonder what was different about the houses that remained standing?
Our house in Boca is just a few houses from the Intracoastal, on the mainland side, but the barrier island that separates us from the sea is a lot narrower than the Bolivar. I don’t know what kind of surge it would take to cross it and fill the Intracoastal and neighborhood canals, but I’ll bet a lot of the multi-million-dollar mansions on the ocean would get wiped out, or at least badly damaged in a similar situation. But they might help blunt the blow of the water and keep it from getting to us. A worst-case for us would probably be a similar west-bound storm hitting north Broward, around Deerfield Beach or Hillsboro, which would maximize surge up here.
[Update a while later]
Jeff Masters has more, on the almost total destruction of Gilchrist.
I don’t see any description of the type of construction. Our house is cement block on concrete slab. I can see a wood frame getting stripped off its foundation, but it’s pretty scary to think what kind of force it would take to empty our lot.
A New McCain Demographic
Gays for Palin? Why not? As the article notes, Alaska is a pretty libertarian, live-and-let-live place. I wonder if a lot of lesbians think that she’s hot?
And of course, this goes against the hysterical stereotype of her in the minds of the left as an extreme “right-wing” social conservative.
We’re Unworthy
Donna Brazile says that if The One doesn’t win, it will be because we didn’t deserve him:
“He has had some moments where he seems unsure of his own voice,” Brazile said, “but I still think he can pull this off.”
And if he doesn’t?
“If he doesn’t, then Obama didn’t lose,” she said. “The country just wasn’t ready.”
Well, she’s right, in a way. And we should be thankful that we haven’t deteriorated as a nation to the point at which we were.
I’d put it a little differently, though. It won’t be Obama losing so much as the nation winning.