tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88632582009-01-01T16:14:02.952-08:00TurkeyBlog2gbartonoreply@blogger.comBlogger1094125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-61222473260961390612009-01-01T15:46:00.000-08:002009-01-01T16:14:02.971-08:00Should the Senate seat Burris?
And do they have to?
Althouse has more on the latest in the debate.
I think it would set a dangerous precedent for the Senate to take seriously the idea that it can decide who is and isn't welcome. It's to our nation's credit that when the several states have heretofore sent cranks, crooks and even communists to serve in our nation's capital, we've given them a gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-19988309741754785292008-12-31T19:52:00.000-08:002008-12-31T20:10:29.076-08:00Via How Appealing, an article on a man held at Young prison in Delaware for over a week without being allowed a phone call. He's suing because one of his parrots died while he was in custody and he was unable to let anyone know to feed it. As a PETA spokesperson notes in the article, if he'd simply gone on vacation he'd face neglect charges for leaving the bird unattended that long.
So, what do gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-5654914663097352382008-12-29T21:19:00.000-08:002008-12-29T23:14:39.622-08:00Fuzzy Dice Okay?
Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy has an interesting piece on a new Sixth Circuit decision of a most unusual nature. At issue: A man was pulled over, ostensibly because the Tweety Bird hanging from his rear view mirror violated laws against driving with something obstructing your field of vision. Once stopped, the police discovered all sorts of other goodies in his car, gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-80901227519253461632008-12-27T10:08:00.000-08:002008-12-27T14:05:43.561-08:00Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and the Ownership Society
Jacob Sullum has a short piece at Reason entitled Obama's Job Fetish. Sullum is worried that Obama's jobs programs will be focused on creating work, not value. Notes Sullum:Obama's job fetish is apparent even when he talks about spontaneous economic activity. "Businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs," he declared in gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-9423788577026755352008-12-11T09:06:00.000-08:002008-12-11T09:08:45.987-08:00Did Al Gore go down south?
Snow in New Orleans!gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-43727161859494267952008-11-30T13:32:00.000-08:002008-11-30T13:48:27.759-08:00Why the Indian security forces (both state and national level) didn't get the Mumbai situation cleaned up faster, explained in a joke.
Go to Neo-Neocon and read the post and comments for some more in-depth exploration of how India is joining the first world. A taste (quoted from this article):The Central and Bihar governments have reacted sharply against the Mumbai police killing a young man whogbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-470894973958595962008-11-28T11:05:00.000-08:002008-11-28T11:13:47.939-08:00Chris Matthews and Gail Collins both suggest Bush and Cheney resign so Obama can begin his term early (with Nancy Pelosi governing on his behalf). Belmont Club has a write-up. Some of the Belmont Club commenters suggest it would show a supreme lack of judgment for Obama to trust Pelosi with such a position, even if Bush and Cheney went along. But a commenter at Little Green Footballs has a much gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-88479656197070594832008-11-28T10:19:00.000-08:002008-11-28T10:40:17.514-08:00Okay, this is just pathetic:
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death by Customers
Here's the nut graf from the NYT:The 34-year-old employee, who was not identified, was knocked down by a crowd that broke down the doors of the Wal-Mart at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y., and surged into the store. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital at 6 a.m.Tell me, is it standard practice for "gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-4673553315321871802008-11-21T19:08:00.000-08:002008-11-21T19:13:20.195-08:00Rahm Emmanuel, Eric Holder, Tom Daschle, Hillary Clinton (?)...
You'll get more change from a five-spot at Starbucks than you will from this crowd.
Thoughts:
1) The Clinton years weren't the idyllic time some remember them as. But they beat the hell out of the Carter years.
2) If Obamaism turns out to be Clintonism 2.0, at least we'll have the satisfaction of listening to the Left whine thatgbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-79634218619917233732008-11-14T21:31:00.000-08:002008-11-14T22:38:31.312-08:00Megan McArdle looks at the cost of letting GM go bankrupt - and the greater cost of keeping it on its feet. Frankly, what's happening with GM has been a long time coming. Did no one watch Roger and Me? Yeah, Michael Moore was a buffoon hellbent on proving that GM management was evil. But for all that, you can't have watched the movie without seeing the devastation wrought wherever and whenever GMgbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-60762458718130422982008-11-06T18:43:00.000-08:002008-11-06T19:38:05.129-08:00Thoughts a few days out
Obama is not my president. I didn't vote for the man. I'm dubious about his political program to the extent he could be nailed down on it. And I'm dubious about the crowd he runs with.
But he is our president. In a democratic system, you can either vote and have your say or you can not vote and disenfranchise yourself. The only way out is to leave the country. And while gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-84979711587457665452008-11-05T07:52:00.000-08:002008-11-05T08:19:02.402-08:00Obama said the management of his campaign was proof enough of his leadership and executive experience.
He spent $600million to get a 6% margin.
He spent around $9.00 a vote. McCain spent around $1.50.
(Very back of the envelope math there.)
Hope this isn't the way he solves the country's economic woes.
There will be plenty of discussion of how this was lost by the McCain folks. The biggest gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-33001380208656180292008-11-04T20:07:00.000-08:002008-11-04T20:29:43.550-08:00That's all folks!
With 53% of precincts reporting nationwide, and 0% of precincts reporting in California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii, CNN has called the election for Barack Obama.
Guess I didn't need to vote after all.
The key question is how the popular vote margins will turn out. The media will be sure to spin this as a mandate, but if McCain stays within 5% and/or a few million votes, gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-878512565043483602008-11-04T17:10:00.000-08:002008-11-04T17:13:08.122-08:00Voter Intimidation in Chicago!
Obama campaign: "Republican voter suppression efforts have gone too far."
In a blatant attempt to embarrass Senator Barack Obama by putting Illinois in Senator John McCain's column, a collection of Republican leaning plumbers and contractors have blocked the gates to the Graceland and Oak Woods cemeteries, the TurkeyBlog has learned.
Developing...gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-5562068825758925812008-11-02T21:38:00.000-08:002008-11-02T21:50:57.701-08:00Why it's a bad idea to cast a protest vote if you're libertarian, even in a state that's locked up...
I've seen a number of people show logic like this from Manny Klausner (quoted by Randy Barnett) on libertarian leaning blogs: As for me, I'm voting for Bob Barr in California, where Obama will win by at least 500,000 votes if the election is close.
The incremental value of a vote for Barr as angbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-21342790285482397722008-11-02T15:31:00.000-08:002008-11-02T15:38:15.277-08:00In which A, a jokester, and B, an Obama supporter, exchange a few words:
A: Hey, I got some Obama jokes for you.
B: I'm not sure I like where this is going.
A: No, really, they're fun!
B: Okay.
A: Knock knock.
B: Who's there.
A: Obama.
B: This is stupid. You shouldn't be making fun of Obama.
A: No, no. Relax. It's just a joke. Just say, "Obama who?"
B: Okay, Obama who?
A: Obama who gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-85164076779868294382008-11-01T12:17:00.000-07:002008-11-01T12:49:03.817-07:00Campaign Donations Returned to Obama's Illegal Alien Aunt
Here's the scoop, in three paragraphs: The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama will refund a small number of contributions made by Obama's aunt, who has been living in the United States illegally, according to a published report. The woman, Zeituni Onyango, lives in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama's late father. The gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-70977473936236556222008-10-27T20:03:00.000-07:002008-10-27T20:10:11.481-07:00National Candidate Hung in Effigy
Homeowner says it's just "art," but nation outraged
Oh, never mind. It's just Sarah Palin. Were it The One, you can bet we'd be hearing about it.
The homeowner says that obviously it would usually be out of bounds, but since it's the Halloween season, you can get away with this sort of thing.
Yeah, that's right. Ever since Salem, we've known what to do with gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-44624721500681120602008-10-26T12:53:00.000-07:002008-10-26T13:11:23.748-07:00The coming global financial crisis
What? You thought we were already in one? That was just part one. They're working on a sequel. Here's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: The financial crisis spreading like wildfire across the former Soviet bloc threatens to set off a second and more dangerous banking crisis in Western Europe, tipping the whole Continent into a fully-fledged economic slump.The gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-64547772493302048462008-10-26T11:57:00.000-07:002008-10-26T12:33:04.617-07:00The other problem with where things are going...
Even the Washington Post is starting to have concerns about what's going on with the financing of the presidential race. While they do their best to put in a "McCain too" sentence here and there, it's pretty clear that the Obama campaign's decision to forgo public financing and raise money from everybody, his dog and his second cousin's next door gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-84212729544738048952008-10-25T22:15:00.000-07:002008-10-25T22:21:32.903-07:00How you know the media is covering for Obama
Another Althouse commenter, Palladian, on the unnamed aide criticizing Palin:And where are the fucking rats in the Barack Obama campaign? You know they exist- even Jesus had one among his disciples. Why aren't we hearing the shit they're shoveling about Obama? Oh! Right! That might, you know, hurt Obama's campaign.But, doncha know, Obama's a better gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-27427511450443123152008-10-21T20:40:00.000-07:002008-10-21T20:49:07.725-07:00They said he was a closet socialist...
maybe he's just a Chicago pol.
Some in the media are less than gruntled to discover that if you want to cover The One on Coronation, er, Election Night, you have to pay a premium to be where the campaign people are.
Some people are in a snit over this. I think it's about right that after all the media's done for them, he goes and charges for access on the gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-84133458920797933902008-10-17T13:58:00.000-07:002008-10-17T14:14:34.605-07:00What would it be like with a President Obama?
I think this bears quoting unaltered from Instapundit:
McCain defends the plumber: Last weekend, Senator Obama showed up in Joe's driveway to ask for his vote, and Joe asked Senator Obama a tough question. I'm glad he did; I think Senator Obama could use a few more tough questions. The response from Senator Obama and his campaign yesterday was to gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-81273741462722478672008-10-15T21:43:00.000-07:002008-10-15T21:51:22.395-07:00What will you do on Election Night?
Althouse's commenters are on their game. My favorite:sojerofgod said... What am I going to do election night?Obviously I'll be drinking heavily, I might sit in the den and clean my guns and saddles, considering that The One will take away the first, and after We all are unable to hunt game after the great collapse of '09 I won't be able to hunt so I'll gbartonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863258.post-60963912845625765752008-10-12T16:45:00.000-07:002008-10-12T17:02:37.138-07:00Scary thought for the day
Victor Davis Hanson notes: And even then I would withhold judgment had Obama earned any record of success rather than played on identity politics. He had no distinguished record as an undergraduate at Columbia (so far as we can tell, given his refusal to release his transcripts) that would have won entry to Harvard Law School. Once there, he published nothing, in gbartonoreply@blogger.com