Top Ten Signs Barack Obama is Overconfident

H/T to David Letterman

10. Proposed bill to change Oklahoma to "Oklobama"

9. Offered Bush 20 bucks for the "Mission Accomplished" banner

8. Asked guy at Staples, "Which chair will work best in an oval-shaped office?"

7. The affair with Barbara Walters

6. Having head measured for Mount Rushmore

5. Guy sits around eating soup all day

4. He's voting for Nader

3. Offered McCain a job in gift shop at Obama Presidential Library

2. Announced his running mate will be Andy Dick

1. Been cruising for chicks with John Edwards

WASHINGTON STATE'S RESPECT FOR THE LAW. SIGN THE PETITION NOW!

READ THE PETITION HERE.
Among the things this would do:

This measure would require state and local agencies to cooperate in enforcing federal immigration laws and would require verifying immigration status of persons seeking employment, receiving driver’s licenses, and receiving some public benefits.

And revoke business licenses to those employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens!

Judge: Mt Soledad Cross is OK

excerpt:

Veterans of The American Legion and others are hailing what they call a major victory with national ramifications in the legal battle over the Mount Soledad National Veterans Memorial in San Diego.

U.S. District Court Judge Larry A. Burns issued a long-awaited decision Tuesday (July 29, 2008) ruling that the Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial is constitutionally sound, meets all the guidelines set out by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Ten Commandments case of Van Orden vs. Perry, and does not violate the Establishment of Religion Clause as contended by The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has backed eighteen years of litigation by atheist plaintiffs to destroy the memorial because it contains a cross.

Stand Up for What's Right. Join the Fight to Close the Day Labor Center

The Portland illegal alien day labor center, the PINKO Detention Center, is illegal. As reported in the Portland Tribune recently we find that, even by the limited criteria set by the City and its proxy, Voz, it's a failure. Taxpayer dollars are being used for this illegal activity. It must stop.

You may not have the wherewithal to file a lawsuit, as Tom Wenning did, or go out and take pictures of employers and employees at the center as many of us have done. But you can do something.

Please read our proclamation and send a note, giving us some identifying information, such as name and address, to take to the Rainbow City Council and demand they stop this criminal enterprise.

This is just one of the several things we're undertaking to put a stop to this.

Victoria

On June 16, 2008, the City of Portland opened a day labor center for use by people who are illegally in the United States.

The city has contracted with its proxy, The Voz Workerʼs Rights Education Project, to operate the center with $200,000.00 of taxpayer funds.

According to attorneys with the legal group Judicial Watch, Portland City officials are in defiance of a number of U.S. statutes and certainly operate this center in defiance of the spirit of the law. Among the complaints are:

• Subsidizing criminal activity with taxpayer funds Encouraging and inducing illegal aliens to come to, enter, or reside in the US
• Acting in reckless disregard that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of US law
• Facilitating or aiding and abetting the illegal employment of undocumented aliens
• Unlawfully allowing the hiring of individuals for employment without complying with federal employment eligibility verification requirements
• Acting in defiance of state employment requirements
• Giving government preference to companies or individuals that hire illegal aliens and others at the government day labor center and allowing them to ignore the law

We call on the City of Portland to cease using taxpayer funds in this illegal enterprise and further call on the City to cease its aiding and abetting people who broke the law to get into and stay in this country and in the City of Portland.

Please stand up for what's right and be counted. Send some identifying info (so city offiicials know you're legit) to: email standup@kpam.com

B HO's Prayer Note At The Wall Just A Cheap Campaign Stunt?

We recall the fuss made over Obama's pre-dawn trip to the Western Wall in Israel last week, leaving his "personal and private" prayer note. We also recall how the Wall was festooned with campaign signs, cheapening his humble offering.



Many exressed outrage and criticism when that note mysteriously showed up in an Israeli newspaper.

All may not be as it seemed, though. A Maariv spokesman has said, “Barack Obama’s note was approved for publication in the international media even before he put in the Kotel, a short time after he wrote it at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.”

Another daily paper, Yediot Aharonot, says they too received a copy of the “personal and private prayer note,” but declined to publish it.

Yediot Aharonot claims, “it now appears that Maariv had collaborated with the Obama campaign in getting the ‘private’ prayer, with its ‘modest’ supplication to the Lord, out to the public, buffing his Christian credentials and showing his ‘humility,’” adding, “What initially seemed to be a journalistic scoop of dubious moral propriety now seems to be a case of an Israeli paper being played by the Barack Obama campaign.”

If what these papers claim is true, it would appear the messiah in waiting is little more than just another cheap politician using anything holy to grab a few votes.



Could it be he would pull a stunt like this to deflect criticism of his being a Muslim in secret? Or, could it be to distance himself further from Black Liberation Theologian, Reverent Jeremiah Wright?

We may never know for sure.

Nanny State

You're too stupid to figure out that something has a lot of calories in it, that's why Multnomah County plans to do the calorie counting for you. Here.Here.
From the, "we know better than you, crowd."
By the way, have you guys opened Wapato, yet?

Aljazeera's Senior Political Analyst Unimpressed By Obamas Tour

Since it is the Middle East Obama seems to think he alone can fix and his desire to sit down with Middle Eastern leaders to "work things out," how will that go over when Middle Easterners see his 'Rock Tour' more as "Tripe" than a trip?

Amazing that Middle Easterners can see the empty shirt, but so many Americas can't.

Obama's trip ... tripping or tripe?

By Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's Senior Political Analyst

Do You Really Want to Rear Your Child in a Socialist Society?

For those who think Socialism is the answer, The following is a Term paper written by a young Vietnamese woman now married to one of the Pilot's I served in Viet Nam with. Lily was born after American involvement ended in Viet Nam and the Communist takeover. She is enrolled in a Business Law Course and the Term paper was for that class.

Do You Really Want to Rear Your Child in a Socialist Society?

By Lily Cuc White

July 11, 2008

I was born and reared in a Socialist Society. Here is my personal testimony as to how good, or bad, I turned out. I turned out great! I would never cheat, or steal, or mislead anyone. I enjoy hard work, and my goals for my life are very lofty. I know that I will succeed in reaching my goals, and that my life will truly amount to something.

Considering that I was born in Vietnam and lived under socialist rule for the first 20 years of my life. (Furthermore, I lived in a very poor environment, reared by an uneducated single mother. We lived on the side of a tall mountain which, beginning at the age of nine, I climbed each night two and three times to pick up loose coal that had fallen from the coal trucks, then carry two buckets full down to the town below to be sold on the black market. This is how my mother, my grandmother, and my aunt survived. Just after I was born in the mid 1980’s and during the 1990, Vietnam was bankrupt. There was little or no food available to buy with the small amounts of money my mother, grandmother, and aunt made carrying coal). I seem to have turned out quite well.

Looking at my life one may think that rearing a child in a socialist society must have some very good advantages, after all, how did I turn out so healthy, happy, and moving towards a successful future? The answer is that things are not always what they appear to be.

It is true that I am healthy, happy, and moving towards a successful future, but this is despite of my socialist society upbringing and not because of it.

Read the rest at my blog here

Press: Obama Secretive, Arrogant

...as Obama ascended from underdog to front-runner to presumptive nominee, the flame seems to have dwindled. Reporters who cover Obama these days grouse that Obama's flacks shroud the campaign in secrecy and provide little to no access. "They're more disciplined than the Bush people," a reporter on the Obama trail gripes. "There was this idea of being transparent, but they're not. They're total tightwads with information."

Here.
Will Obama now be named part of a "crime family?"

Good Riddance

Dude.

WSJ: Baghdad, Berlin, Barack: Why Didn't He Make the Freedom Speech In Baghdad?

Here.

Democrats: Shut Down Committee Rather than Vote on Drilling

House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey abruptly shut down his committee indefinitely rather than allow Republicans to offer an amendment to open more areas to drilling for new sources of oil and natural gas. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid concur. According to the New York Times, she and Reid “appear intent on holding the line against calls to approve drilling in areas now off limits.”

Michelle Malkin has the rundown here.

Paper, Plasic, Dirty Canvas, Icky Milk Stained Fabric or a Check Jack?

First the left says the paper bags are not renewable (we KNOW trees grow--I'm just telling you what they say), then they insisted on plastic. Plastic was strong and pretty wonderful. Then the left said we can't have plastic unless its recycled plastic. Then the plastic bags sucked and you had to double bag them. Now recycled plastic apparently is bad.
So now we have to pay to use the bags that the left wanted because they're, they're, well we're not sure what the thinking is except using them is bad. Very bad. Is toilet paper next?
I think Sam Adams is just po'd that Seattle beat him to the idiotic grocery bag tax.

Obama-isms: Here in One Spot

Well as many as they could fit into this one piece. Here.

Draft Day?

Here.

Tribune: Day Labor Center Isn't Working.

The Portland Tribune reports (here) that the P.I.N.K.O. Detention Center doesn't, ah, work.
For a primer on what's going on here, please read on:

The day labor center is illegal. How exactly? Here and here.

The day labor was sold as a way to collect illegal aliens and detain them in one spot to allow the city and its proxies to match them to jobs. Think e-harmony for illegal aliens. It was sold as a humanitarian gesture; as a way to give these poor folks a job who couldn’t possibly find one without the city’s help. Now what do we have? An experiment costing taxpayers $200K –just to start--which breaks federal law, encourages, aids and abets ID theft, allows employers to break the law by hiring illegal aliens, and STILL we have DOZENS of illegal aliens on the street corners as before. It’s an abysmal failure by any measure.

If those folks at the day labor center are legal citizens, then they can go find a job at any one of the DOZENS of employment/temp firms WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE of the day labor center. But instead of encouraging legal behavior, the city has set up a temp business to compete with LEGAL BUSINESSES.

We know the day labor center has been sold as a way for Portland to help find these folks find jobs who are supposedly incapable of finding them. Incapable? Anybody who was able to get up the money to get themselves smuggled into the United States, found a way to get to Oregon, found the forger to get fake ID, found an apartment, and found a job, doesn’t need the pantywaists at the city and their proxies to find them a job.

As much as I have sympathy and appreciation for people who want to work, in this case, upholding the law is more important. Mayor Moonbeam and the Rainbow City Council should not put the city's imprimatur on this illegal indulgence.

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! CARBON POLICE COMING TO OREGON AND WASHINGTON

In the name of man made global warming (which is anything but settled science), Oregon's governor has proposed a carbon cap and trade system that will raise energy prices astronomically in the state. The plan is endorsed by Washington officials too.
The Zero runs what should be a bombshell story (HERE) in the business section under this rather benign sounding headline:

Western States Offer Emissions Plan

In a news conference in Salem yesterday, the guv outlined, and the Zero faithfully transcribed, what would be the outcome of this plan. Check out this howler:

Large utility companies and factory owners would feel the effects first, followed by fuel distributors, as they face limits on their greenhouse gas emissions. Individual Oregonians would not feel the limits firsthand but probably would see changes in how their power is generated (emphasis added).

People, this is a story in the business section and the business reporter, Michael Milstein, actually makes the claim that Oregonians won't feel the pain this draconian carbon trading scheme would inflict. Has he seen the price of fuel lately? Does he have any idea how those prices came to be? How does he figure that the proletariat won't feel the pain if prices for energy companies have increased costs? Is he serious?
Then, after declaring Oregonians would feel no pain he explains, well, the price of energy may go up ...a little.

State officials who unveiled the approach in Gov. Ted Kulongoski's offices said the draft strategy's mandates may push power rates and fuel prices up slightly (emphasis added).

Still transcribing for the Guv, Milstein allows as prices might go up "slightly?"
But, he continues gullibly, things will turn out alright in the end:

But Oregonians should see lower bills in the end [when again?] because the strategy promotes conservation measures that should reduce energy use, they said.

Those, uh, "conservation measures?" Make no mistake those will be required. We'll end up RATIONING ENERGY because this plan calls for no increase in supply of energy, just making fossil fuels more expensive, going over to alternative energies which are more expensive.
Oh, and then, without as much as a backward glance at credulity, Milstein reports on how the state will police the issue by introducing an either entirely new or expanded state agency which will act as the carbon police.

Large greenhouse gas emitters such as power plants and factories would be regulated under the strategy by 2012. In Oregon, this would include fewer than 10 utility companies and about 50 companies total, including large plants and lumber mills.

Sounds so unimposing, doesn't it? Until the plan to expand the carbon police is laid out:

Vehicle and home heating fuels, including gasoline and natural gas, would come under regulation by 2015.

Wow, can personal carbon credit cards be far behind?
No wonder Enron wanted to get in this business.
Oh, and when you're priced out of using your vehicle to get to work or heating your home, they've got a WELFARE plan for you:

Each state gets a share of emissions allowances and decides for itself whether to hand them out to major emitters or auction them. Auctioning the allowances could generate revenue that could help pay for energy efficiency measures or help low-income residents cope with energy prices.

Hey, wait a minute, I thought Michael Milstein, the Zero reporter who transcribed so faithfully for the Guv said:

Individual Oregonians would not feel the limits firsthand.

More on this later. Gotta go.

Who Said...?

"preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good
enough reason to keep
U.S. forces there."



No idea who did this photo shop, but it's brilliant.

Illegal Alien Killed Chandra Levy?

It's in the WaPo here. Shout out from John. You know who you are.

The Sierra Club Gets Colbert Treatment

Media Bias for Obama? Naw...

shout out to newsbusters here.

Portland to Become Sanctuary for AWOL Soldiers?

Lew posted it here on his blog months ago. Willamette Week today here.

B-HO SURGE: Cognitive Dissonance

The media are a twitter about the Terry Moran interview in which he asked B-Ho "knowing what you know now, would you have voted in favor of the surge?"
B-Ho answered, "no."
Now Obama pretends not to know what would have happened if his plan to pull out troops before the surge would have resulted in ...er, less security in Iraq, to put it mildly. By doing so he also dismisses what DID happen:

Opposed to Surge in Iraq, Obama Now Wants Surge in Afghanistan

As has been pointed out, had it not been for the leadership of President Bush and his flexibility to change course and go for the surge, there wouldn't BE a safer Iraq for B-Ho to visit.
In 2007 Obama introduced legislation calling for American troops to be pulled out of Iraq by March of this year. He opposed the surge. Called for us to cut and run.
Now, ironically, he calls for a surge in Afghanistan. He pretends we conduct war there in a vacuum without regard to NATO, and our other allies. And he pretends we are doing nothing there.
He calls for "getting" UBL, which we continue to attempt to do. He calls for getting tough with Pakistan when we are already working several fronts (diplomatic and otherwise) in that country. In other words, he's spending all kinds of time saying "me too" in Iraq without the political downside suffered by those who early captured the vision, saw the need, and lead, fought, bled and died for security in Iraq.
It would have been better to have backed these moves, which are better for national and regional security, when they occurred. Obama's "beliefs" are fungible.
Were it not for US and allied troops in Iraq who would possess that 537 metric tons of yellowcake right now? Or Saddam's leftover bio and germ warfare agents? How about the nuke program he put on hold? Where did he take the WMD UN inspectors knew about in 1998 but were gone in 2003?
Now B-Ho takes a meeting with General Patraeus. He never said one peep about the move on dot commie ad about General Betray Us. He just took their money and ran to the left where he called for the US to retreat and surrender in Iraq.

Ay Chihuahua! There Goes the Guacamole...

Doggone it! Here.

Bush Calls For Lower Gas Prices, Dems Call For Higher Gas Tax

For all you that took to riding your bikes more and curtailing much of your driving, your thanks may be coming in the form of a 10 cent a gallon increase in federal gas tax, if Democrats get their way.

While President Bush has lifted the ban on offshore drilling to enable more oil on the market and pressures Congress to follow suit, Democrats steadfastly refuse to lift the congressional ban on offshore drilling. Now, they talk of raising federal taxes on gas even higher with excuse of needing more money for highway repairs and to prevent job losses.

Current federal fuel taxes are 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel. Some Democrats even wish to gradually raise federal fuel tax to 40 cents a gallon!

Oil has increased over $100 a barrel since Democrats took back Congress. The price of gasoline has soared to over $4.00 a gallon. People feel the pinch and many curtailed driving to conserve fuel and save money. Their reward from "New Direction" Democrats? Pay more anyway.

If this continues, the "New Direction" is going to bankrupt us all.

Finally, A Candidate We Can Believe In For President

Bike Ragers in Portland: Bi-Psycholists*

*Thanks for a 5th Listener for that suggestion! Bi-Psycholist: commiting an act of rage against cars, bicyclists, bus drivers. Their slogan? Rude, Crude, Elude, with a 'tude.

In order to better identify the culprits on bikes who share the road with cars, why not:

Require fluorescent vests with the license number of the bicycle, or
Visible bicycle license on the back of the seat.

Topics for discussion: How do you get the bad bicyclists to license their bikes? What rules of the road do you believe bicyclists need brushing up on?

Confirmed: NO Global Warming Consensus

There never was a global warming consensus--that was just what the Al Gore PR machine claimed. But if you want confirmation of no consensus, please read this from the American Physical Association (ya know, physicists?) from the latest edition of their peer reviewed journal (see announcement below). Here's the ballyhoo from Steve Milloy of the website JunkScience.com:
"JunkScience.com announces that the major professional society for U.S. physicists has declared that there is no scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming. The American Physical Society announced in the July issue of its journal Physics & Society that it would begin on its pages a debate on the central issue of the global warming controversy -- that is, does manmade CO2 drive global climate. "This is the death knell for the falsehood spread by Al Gore and other global warming alarmists that there is any sort of consensus of scientists supporting the notion of catastrophic manmade global warming," said JunkScience.com publisher, Steve Milloy. "We are elated that we survived to see the truth emerge and that we helped bring this sea change about," added Milloy

STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY:
"With this issue of Physics & Society, we kick off a debate concerning one of the main conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body which, together with Al Gore, recently won the Nobel Prize for its work concerning climate change research. There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution. [Emphasis added] Since the correctness or fallacy of that conclusion has immense implications for public policy and for the future of the biosphere, we thought it appropriate to present a debate within the pages of P&S concerning that conclusion. This editor (JJM) invited several people to contribute articles that were either pro or con. Christopher Monckton responded with this issue's article that argues against the correctness of the IPCC conclusion, and a pair from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, David Hafemeister and Peter Schwartz, responded with this issue's article in favor of the IPCC conclusion. We, the editors of P&S, invite reasoned rebuttals from the authors as well as further contributions from the physics community. Please contact me (jjmarque@sbcglobal.net) if you wish to jump into this fray with comments or articles that are scientific in nature. However, we will not publish articles that are political or polemical in nature. Stick to the science! (JJM)

In Case You Didn't See Obama's Latest Gaffe

It's here.

Is the Iraq War Over?

See this yesterday? I meant to mention it on the show, but here it is.
Michael Yon also declares the war over.

Oregonians Favor Drilling

From Rasmussen poll (here) h/t Zero:
As with their West Coast neighbors in Washington and California, Oregon voters are less enthusiastic about offshore oil drilling than voters in the rest of the country. Just 51% support offshore oil drilling and only 47% support drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. These figures are below the national average.
Oregon voters are much closer to the national average when it comes to the question of a federal 55 miles-per-hour speed limit. Thirty-five percent (35%) favor the concept and 56% are opposed.
Fifty percent (50%) of Oregon voters say protecting the environment is more important than reducing the price of gas and oil. Thirty-four percent (34%) disagree and take the opposite view.
Check this out:
National Review Online, The Corner Blog (7/16, Lopez) reports, “’For all of you writing … how much ANWR, OCS and other increased domestic production would affect the price of gas, please note what Sen. Schumer just said on the floor about the impact of increased production in Saudi Arabia. ‘If they produced half a million barrels more oil a day the price would come down a very significant amount and, at the same time, it would stop the speculation that keeps driving up the price of oil.’ Keep in mind, ANWR alone is projected to produce one million barrels a day, every day. … Don’t take it from me, take it from the chairman of the Joint Economic Committee.’”

It's Only Money. Yours. Why We Need to Drill Now.

Drill Now. Go here to send a letter to your lawmaker.
From IBD and government:

According to the Energy Information Administration, solar energy is subsidized to the tune of $24.34 per megawatt hour and wind energy by $23.37.
By contrast, natural gas gets a mere quarter, hydroelectric about 67 cents and nuclear power $1.59. Wind and solar, despite all their subsidies, contribute less than 1% of our total electricity generation.
Barack Obama wants to increase gas prices through a windfall profits tax that consumers will wind up paying and, as it did in the Carter era, decrease supply and increase our dependence on foreign oil.
In his latest gaffe, Obama told CNBC he didn't really object to $4 gas, just that it occurred too quickly. Obama said: "I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment."

Obama: Did You Know The Bomb Fell on Pearl Harbor?

From B-Ho from what sounds like a WRITTEN SPEECH! Shout out to Bucks Right.

But it is wonderful to be back in Indiana. In a few moments, we’ll open up the discussion. But I want to offer a few comments about some of the emerging threats that we face in the 21st century and offer some ideas about how we can face those threats.

Throughout our history, America’s confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor, to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world.

Gee, this reminds me...

And late night comedy shows can't find anything to riff on about Obama?

Did you catch the recent one in which the Messiah read the stage directions during his speech off the telepromptr?

Drill Now, Do Something, Go Here

Citizens Against Government Waste has on its website here a letter you may send to your legislator to urge them to pass a bill to drill for American oil ASAP!

Oregon Company Creating Portable Nuclear Power Plants for Your Home!

They've been keeping this on the DL, but Corvallis, Oregon based NuScale
Power Incorporated will be before the nuclear regulatory commission next week to trot out its PORTABLE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. It's for home use. Popular Mechanics has a story on it here and IBD did a piece on it here.

Food Police Coming to Multnomah County?

Apparently the Sellwood Bridge is fixed, Wapato has been opened, and Cascade Behavioral Centers aren't putting criminally insane people in our neighborhoods anymore. How do I know this? Because Mult Co has enough time on its collective hands to force restaurants into putting calorie counts on their menus because YOU ARE TOO FAT and doggone it, it's up the Multnomah County Commissars to fix you. Jeff Cogan is now proposing the county require restaurants with 15 or more locations to put calorie counts on their menus. A decision is expected July 31st.
Nutritional and caloric information is already available from most, if not all, of these places if you want it--it's certainly there online as a 5 minute search on the internet found (see below). Why, then do we need more regulation? Will requiring restaurants to put this info on the valuable real estate on their menus solve the problem of your eating too much? Restaurants are having a tough enough time right now as it is what with food costs going up (thanks to the enviros putting food in our gas tanks instead of in the stomachs of the hungry and the weak dollar).
Chili's menu here:
http://www.chilis.com/menu/
Burgerville menu here:
http://www.burgerville.com/Our-Food/Kids-Menu-And-Nutrition.aspx
Sharis menu:
https://www.sharis.com/togo_web_menu.pdf
Dennys:
http://www.dennys.com/en/cms/Nutrition%2FAllergens/23.html
Outback Steakhouse:
http://www.outback.com/foodandmenus/nutritionalinfo.aspx

NW Natural Wants to Raise Rates by 40%. Why Doesn't the Guv Want LNG Terminal Again?

NW Natural will pass along a whopper of a rate increase to customers in the upcoming months; an increase that could top 40% (here). Local and state officials have known about this upcoming increase for quite some time. You probably knew. But that knowledge hasn't stopped the Governor from putting up more roadblocks to building a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal inland 20 miles from Astoria along the Columbia River at a place called Bradwood Landing.
The Guv has asked FERC, the federal authority that was preparing to undertake a preliminary assessment of the plans, to stop to allow for more opposition to the plant. Natch. The Guv is arraying all taxpayers' resources and Environment Incorporated-- Big Green-- to throw as much opposition against the wall to see what sticks. Already FERC has taken the LNG proposal off Thursday's schedule and hasn't rescheduled a hearing. The Guv claims the companies proposing the site changed their proposal. Whether that change is a material difference or whether they changed punctuation somewhere, we don't know. One thing we do know, the Guv's buying time and tilling the ground to grow more opposition to the plant. He's looking at forcing the companies to do a new or revised Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). In other words, the environmental professional conflict industry is gearing up for a paper work fight.
Like every other kind of energy source, the left will blockade, lawyer up, and keep it from a public that needs it (drilling, nuclear, shale). For an example I give you Barney Frank's "wild and scenic" river here. But Environment Inc doesn't care about people it seems. Just legal fees from taxpayers, a hash mark in the win column, a fuzzy poster creature to look good in fundraising letters, and higher prices for consumers. Oh, and let's just put down this marker too: I'm sure somebody will find a unique flower or creature nobody's ever seen in that area near Bradwood Landing---and soon. No? Read here.

Republicans and Blacks Part 2

Today John Mc Cain speaks before the NAACP. In this piece, Bruce Bartlett goes down the list and back stories of why the Republican Party has a stronger record on bringing about equality for African Americans. You know some of this already, but read it. It's quite illuminating. Here.

Run on IndyMac: Blame Schumer

WSJ:

The federal takeover of IndyMac Bank over the weekend could cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. between $4 billion and $8 billion. But Senator Chuck Schumer, who helped to precipitate the collapse by publicizing a letter to the bank's regulator last month, has no remorse.
...The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), whose job it actually was to regulate IndyMac, took a different view. "The immediate cause of the closing," the OTS wrote in a press release, "was a deposit run that began and continued after the public release of a June 26 letter to the OTS and the FDIC from Senator Charles Schumer of New York." The OTS added: "In the following 11 business days, depositors withdrew more than $1.3 billion from their accounts."

Rest here.

Market Volatility: Economic Warfare?

High priced oil, weak dollar, mortgage market reacting worse than the facts warrant. This man asks, is something else going on here?

As someone who has served at the U.S. Central Command, Special Operations Command and in other similar activities, I see economic warfare as a viable and successful activity for an enemy force, as well as for own government.

To believe that all the terrorists want to blow themselves up is terribly naive. Any group