One of my listeners brought up the idea of an oil price bubble much like the housing bubble. I, being the smart person that I am, pretty much dismissed it. I am a dweeb. Via Environmental Republican.
The flood of speculative investment into oil markets is inflating a price bubble that could pop and send crude prices sharply lower if U.S. petroleum demand continues to slump, analysts warned yesterday.
Tip to Instapundit
Our global warming moment of the morning comes via Hotair. God Bless them. The LA Times ran a story on how the Greenanator in Caleefoneeia preaches global warming awareness ... BUT ... he doesn't practice it.
The governor's Gulfstream jet does nearly as much damage to the environment in one hour as a small car does in a year, according to figures compiled by the Helium Report, an online publication for buyers of luxury items.Administration officials say Schwarzenegger is well aware of this and makes amends by purchasing pollution credits for the carbon dioxide his jet releases. The credits fund efforts worldwide to reduce greenhouse gases, such as projects that harness energy from wind, landfill gas and farm waste, although they don't eliminate the pollution from Schwarzenegger's plane. Flying the Gulfstream and other jets the governor uses costs as much as $10,000 an hour. Some conservationists say Schwarzenegger is essentially attempting to buy a clean conscience with the carbon offsets, which cost about $43 an hour.
The Hotair ... points us to this video by the US Chamber Of Commerce.
My guess is ... it's only going to get worse as Obama and Clinton slug it out.
The Democratic National Committee ended 2007 nearly flat broke, with cash of $2.9 million and debts of $2.2 million. Since then it has raised some money, paid down debt and managed to put $3.7 million in its piggy bank. This compares, however, with $25 million that the Republican National Committee has in cash on hand, after having raised $97 million since the beginning of 2007.
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Michelle Malkin has a great roundup on the war on Armed Forces recruiting stations. My guess is these folks will be protected too ... by the very people they are trying to harm.
Many observers wanted to shut out any possibility that yesterday’s bombing at the Times Square recruitment center was ideologically motivated. With the disclosure last night that House Democrats received a massive, anti-Iraq war screed and photo of the apparent perpetrator gloating about the destructive deed before it took place, only the blind, deaf, and dumb will persist in denying that this was a deliberate act of anti-military domestic terrorism.
Will any on the left and in the Democrat Party raise their voices–loudly and clearly–to condemn the ongoing, militant anti-recruiter campaign?
Will they urge the Code Pinkos and their ilk to halt their intimidation and obstruction efforts?
Spending like drunkin Democrats is one of the reasons Republicans lost in '06. It apparently is also one of the reasons latte Republicans will not back McCain. One more reasons to throw the bums out ... oh ... and elect John McCain.
I kinda figured eventually it would lead to this ... Somebody always figures out how to scam the system.
I have been told by brokers and banks that the owners have ceased paying their mortgages in some cases for nearly 2 years and have continued to occupy these homes. Now, these are homes in excess of $2,000,000 in the very best neighborhoods in South Florida. Brokers have added that these buyers further complicated things by putting huge home equity lines on top of their mortgages and now have no possibility of selling their homes for amounts needed to cover their accumulated debt.
Maybe after the government agrees to cover some of the principal they will be willing to leave.
Via Hot Air.
Not that I've ever heard that before ... BUT ... according to the Journal Of Sexual Medicine ... the shorter the sex the better. So I guess, had I heard that, it would have been a compliment. Ummm ... you can all stop laughing now. Please. Stop. No, really ... stop it.
via hotair.
Remember Obama's last victory speech ... 45 minutes of hope! Hey, no one is going to accuse Fox of not being fair and balanced ... especially Hillary! Side splitting fun!
OK ... look he's a Democrat and he's worried sick they will lose in November. Now that I've apologized for him ... here he is last night pleading with Hillary to bow out. The Democrat Party Channel indeed!
Hey it was news to me and yet here it is on this morning's Today Show ... and no David Gregory did not challenge him ... he's the messiah!
This is from McCain's victory speech last night and will get little coverage. But all three show how he intends to take it to the Democrat party.
This from Instapundit ... He has the entire roundup ... asking Obama the tough questions on NAFTAgate? As Glenn says ... yeah but they waited until the night before the primaries ...
SAN ANTONIO It took many months and the mockery of "Saturday Night Live" to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl. Read more here.
As a frame of reference ... once again here's the Obama denial ... not good.
As I mentioned this last week ... cracks in the armor. I think folks are paying attention.
Woah there big fella! I am telling you I would have lost my lunch. Maybe decided to go Greyhound.
I just can't put up all the video I cut tonight ... more tomorrow on the air. Should be a great show! Night!
My favorite clip of the night actually.
Yikes ... I forgot to point this out. I've made the big time. Sunday's Washington Post quotes my blog ... very nice. And one more time ... it was Ray Dunaway that tipped me off to the story after he did a quick scan of DU. I just did the digging.
Man, Rush is right ... Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sounds like he's reading right from the Democrat talking points. Americans are the problem ... they should get out ... everyone hates you. You can read more ... then watch.
Jim Geraghty keeps digging up entertaining news on Senator Obama. How do people find this stuff?
OK ... it looks like an "informal" conversation did take place between Obama Economic advisor and the Canadian Consul in Chicago in which Austan Goolsbee (who?) allegedly told the Canadians all the anti NAFTA talk was just ... talk.
OK ... still some kinks to work out of the system but we are back recording again. I will have some stuff later.
From Drudge. A lot will be made of this line from 60 Minutes, although I am not sure why. Sewing seeds of doubt perhaps. I think she's just covering her ... umm ... well you listen.
Meanwhile Senator Obama tries to assure us he is a Christian because he prays to Jesus. Actually I like this kinda talk. I do. I like to hear our leaders pray and understand there is a higher authority.
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Hillary supporter is on with Shep Smith. Smith says isn't NAFTA a problem for Hillary? The Congresswoman says umm ... no, that's Obama putting that "noose" around her neck. Where's the outrage?
Oh man ... and the hits keep right on coming. Over the weekend Obama praised Jay Rockefeller for being right on the war from the beginning. I agree, he was ... just not the way Obama thought he was. Memo to Obama ... I hope you pick your WH staff better than your researchers. Read it all.
I guess that's reason enough. Actually I thought the schools already taught "health". Really, I would prefer they do a better job with reading, geography and math (Find Somalia on a map please) but I can't understand why the Church objects to this. We really need to know more about the curriculum but better there than MySpace. An opt out provision?
A woman has been sentenced to 8 years in prison in Connecticut for killing a man in a drunk driving incident. But that's not the whole story. Read the whole thing here. All you need to know is after she serves her time .... "she will be deported." Deporting first might have been a good idea but then that's just me.
Ok ... let me get this straight. The Democrats are the party of tolerance, the people's party, every vote must count. They don't look at a person's race or gender ... no its all about democracy.
Redstate has a nice post concerning Howard Dean's now famous comment, " ... the Democratic field “looks like America,” while the all-white male Republican field “looks like the 1950s and talks like the 1850s.” Rather than give it away ... give it a read.
Our good friend John Hinderaker at Powerline has done a magnificent job of dissecting last week's 60 Minutes piece in which CBS bought into (willingly?) Jill Simpson's story concerning Karl Rove. She claimed that it was Rove who asked her to dig up compromising photos on former Alabama Governor Siegelman. Rove says (yesterday on Fox News) he has never even met her or talked to her.
Surely he can't be serious. But yes he is and don't call him Shirley! This is via Powerline.
Small problem with the equipment. Switched on Friday to ATT Uverse internet TV and dropped Comcast. Comcast was getting very expensive and for the price of just TV i am now getting more channels plus high speed internet plus local phone. The service is much cheaper, more selection and because its still new ATT is anxious to please. So far very happy. BUT ...
Why Are U.S. Troops So Hard To Kill? This post comes via Instapundit. I took the time to read the whole thing and its quite good. Two key graphs:
