1 Being temporarily unemployed (I hope) these past few weeks has turned me completely nocturnal.  I go bed at 10am and wake up at 7-8pm.  How do I stop the vicious cycle?!  With Honey Badge Espresso?

2 Try NOT going to bed at 10AM and stay up until the evening.

3 Serious Cat: "How do I stop the vicious cycle?!"

Bah! Sleep is for cobras. Honey Badger don't give a shit.

Want to get angry? Read Bill Whittle's thoughts on our Enemy in Chief (via Phineas at Sister Toldjah).We all know none of the behavior is accidental and this is old news, but Whittle produces a fine summary of just some of the offenses.

BTW, has anyone noted how much of a clusterfuck of a manchild we have as president today?

4 That's the best way.

5

Cell phone usage increases brain activity.

That may be a plus for some people.

6 Chris Christie coming up on Morning Joe. Purportedly right after the current commercials, but they always lie.

I see Scarborough has a bit in "The Adjustment Bureau,' the newest movie based on a Philip K. Dick story. Unfortunately, Matt Damon.

7 PoconoJoe: "Cell phone usage increases brain activity."

Simultaneously, it diminishes neuromotor coordination leading to premature death and high insurance rates... not necessarily in that order.

8 So, anyone you would like me to interview today not named Donald Rumsfeld?

9 I think their call for venture capital is premature. I see $10 gas and doom in the near future.

10 I might go one step further than Whittle and point out that empty-suit Obama is just the front man for a whole America-hating cabal of leftists and totalitarians, but then I'd be labelled as 'crazy just like that Beck guy.'

11 I go bed at 10am and wake up at 7-8pm.  How do I stop the vicious cycle?!

Don't fight it, embrace it. 

12 On your knees, naif, and press your lips upon the executive baubles.

http://tinyurl.com/49vaqb9

13 nickless@10,

I'm stepping right beside you. Beck and his team have been much further out in front of events than anyone I've seen/read. I should've bought lots of gold.

14 I keep saying that I *hope* Beck is as crazy as his critics say, but then stuff that he says is coming keeps happening. Case in point - linked on Instapundit today: WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Federal Reserve Is Causing Turmoil Abroad: Few protesters in the Middle East connect rising food prices to U.S. monetary policy. But central bankers do. Umm, Beck was saying this a YEAR ago. Then, CRAZY. Today, well, of course. So yes, gold. Guns. And seeds. The recovery which is basically only happening in the DC area is shaky at best. Add $5 a gallon gas? (Seems like Beck was saying something about the price of oil a little while back?) Eff. And eff again. Glenn Beck can't you just be a nutcase paranoid crazy guy?

15 I see $10 gas and doom in the near future.

I don't think the Saudis will allow that to happen.  A deep world wide depression and extreme pressure on energy technology development is not in their national interest.

OPEC is well aware that there is an inflection point where nations like Canada and the USA will sweep aside all enviro whining and be compelled to hit tar sands and oil shale like a Viking.  The last thing they want to do is push us to that point, because once there, the price of oil is effectively capped at whatever WE want it to be, because WE will be in a position to supply the "last barrel of demand" and cover new demand.

16 PA I admire your optimism. Unfortunately we are a nation that *wants* decline. Maybe not you or me, but a lot of us. We don't want to be exceptional. A lot of us want our way of life to be substantially different, etc.

17 Joe just handed Mika her ass on the collective bargaining issue, a rare moment of clarity....

18 I don't think the Saudis will allow that to happen.  A deep world wide depression and extreme pressure on energy technology development is not in their national interest.

The financial guys were on Beck yesterday and said that if Saudi Arabia got caught up in this shit that is where it would go. They said we are already going to see $5 gas based on Libya.

They said since the Saudis were already surrounded by violence they were next on the list for trouble, hence the $10 gas.

They are not going to be able to do anything about it.

19 BTW, has anyone noted how much of a clusterfuck of a manchild we have as president today?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 23, 2011 07:11 AM (swuwV)

The other guy who usually points that out is going to be upset.

20 We don't want to be exceptional. A lot of us want our way of life to be substantially different, etc.

Once they figure out that new economically compelled lifestyle includes tiny Soviet style apartments, drastically limited product choices, and cars that resemble a Trabant more than a Tacoma, their opinions will change.

The Gen X/Y/Z crowd grew up with a LOT of skewed assumptions about what the bare minimums for survival are supposed to be.  Most aren't old enough to remember gas stations that simply didn't have gas.  The notion of say food rationing is completely foreign to them, yet it was SOP during WWII.

Damn few of them will be willing to trade their car in for a euro-scooter or bicycle, or accept the Mexican version of "road repair" where potholes are simply filled with large white painted rocks you need to avoid.  Even fewer will be willing to give up their cell phones as unaffordable.

21 I have family in the awl bidness. It is not clear the Saudis have the capacity to take up that much slack anymore. Obama could help some on price by waiving fuel mixture requirements.

22 They are not going to be able to do anything about it.

Unlike Egypt and Libya is the Kingdom is essentially a vast welfare state where a significant percentage of citizens are taken care of cradle to grave by oil profits.  The percentage of citizens with a vested interest in stability is much larger.

The oil producing regions aren't very close to the political/religious centers either, which makes restricting the movement of miscreants a bit easier.

23

Protests Continue Throughout the Middle East and Wisconsin!

At Stake?  The Very Concept of Minority Rule!

24 And in other news: The Global Drama of Justin Beiber's Hair is in it's 938th Day.  Video at 11.

25 The percentage of citizens with a vested interest in stability is much larger.

The financial guys talked about that too. While Egypt had a relatively poor population it was not the same with Libya and Bahrain. That is why they said Saudi Arabia is not immune.

26 I guess H.R. Clinton is on top of all this world misery, being the smartest woman in the world and all.

27 From Hotair's QotD last night:
He described corpses lying on the streets of Tripoli, the capital. Gadhafi, he warned, could even resort to a nuclear strike.
Um, did I miss something?

28 You dirty teabaggers, this could be in your future.
 
Yeah I know, this is one side of the story but there a bunch of things in there to make you stop and go hmmm.
 
h/t to Injustice Everywhere, a blog to raise your blood pressure.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 23, 2011 02:44 AM (h0RtZ)

From last night's (or rather this morning's) ONT and there's an update to the story about the town's incompetent Town Attorney.

29 The percentage of citizens with a vested interest in stability is much larger.

Than whatever anti-Al Saud bunch weren't anti-US enough to go get martyred into Iraqi buzzard feed.

30 PA - I think the question is not whether the Saudis have an interest in stabilizing oil supplies and prices - that's self-evident. The question is whether they have the capacity. Not sure how much slack they have in their system. And I am sure they have heavily invested in Greens in the US to insure themselves. Again, I admire your optimism. I don't think an oil shock will make the decliners wake up - they don't think Trabants, they think Prii, which are pretty cushy for an economy car. They don't get that Prius sales are all subsidized by the Sequoias and 4Runners and Highlanders and the feddle gubmint. That economics stuff is hard, and the Consitution is OLD. Oil comes from polar bear breeding grounds, and Sarah Palin said oil is good and she is teh stoopid! It isn't just lame ass funemployed hipsters saying it's a crime that the US has 2 percent of the worlds population and uses 25% of the world's resources, its the President of these United States. Elected by the 52.

31 Looks like Providence, RI teachers are gonna need some of those 'stress' doctor's notes:

PROVIDENCE — The school district plans to send out dismissal notices to every one of its 1,926 teachers, an unprecedented move that has union leaders up in arms.

In a letter sent to all teachers Tuesday, Supt. Tom Brady wrote that the Providence School Board on Thursday will vote on a resolution to dismiss every teacher, effective the last day of school.

In an e-mail sent to all teachers and School Department staff, Brady said, “We are forced to take this precautionary action by the March 1 deadline given the dire budget outline for the 2011-2012 school year in which we are projecting a near $40 million deficit for the district,” Brady wrote. “Since the full extent of the potential cuts to the school budget have yet to be determined, issuing a dismissal letter to all teachers was necessary to give the mayor, the School Board and the district maximum flexibility to consider every cost savings option, including reductions in staff.” State law requires that teachers be notified about potential changes to their employment status by March 1.

“To be clear about what this means,” Brady wrote, “this action gives the School Board the right to dismiss teachers as necessary, but not all teachers will actually be dismissed at the end of the school year.”

More at: http://tinyurl.com/4mr82gl

32

Okay morons -- here's a really BFG:

Jon Gosselin apparently has returned to the life of the working man, as the Berks County dad was reportedly spotted installing solar panels on the roof of a storage building, according to TMZ which has photos of Kate's ex hard at work.

Jon, wearing a hardhat and safety harness on the job, is working for Green Pointe Energy, a company that specializes in renewable energy, is based in Berwyn. The pictures show Jon taking a break rather than working and it seems he still has time for a smoke and to check Twitter.

33 Unfortunately, Matt Damon!!!!

34 27 From Hotair's QotD last night:
He described corpses lying on the streets of Tripoli, the capital. Gadhafi, he warned, could even resort to a nuclear strike.
Um, did I miss something?

Libya had a robust nuclear program before Gadhafi was "convinced" to dismantle it by the Iraq War.

However, I'm convinced that Libya never completely gave up their WMD program and kept some projects going on the side.  Lord help us if Gadhafi has some operational nukes.

35 they don't think Trabants, they think Prii

They can forget that shit with european levels of taxation ;->   They'll be driving crap that'll make a Morris Mini look like a Hummer.

36 Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2011 08:51 AM (Ew1k4)

yeah seriously, when did libya get nukes?  And from who and where are they?

37 so pisani says "lowe's did very well".  Well yeah they did, they lowered their prices  with sales or just out and out lowered them and I have to find the article which says they let some people go.  I remember it cause I was a little upset that at this late date they were letting people go.

38 Nuke stuff is harder to hide than chemical.  Viable chemical weapons can be mixed up pretty quick using common industrial supplies.  Might not be as high tech as say VX or Sarin, but a cloud of chlorine or ammonia will kill you just as dead.

39 Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at February 23, 2011 09:00 AM (9hSKh)

he's making hugo seem liek a reasonable fellow.

40 Rejoice Chicago, rejoice! Runt Emanuel is our new overlord

41 Chavez is just as bad, he's simply better at hiding the bodies.

42 Good morning, morons!  Today is our "Monday" b/c the man had Monday and Tuesday off.  Downside: back to the grind.  Upside: A three-day week!

A lot of annoying news lately, but I am still celebrating the good news on Cali Grump. 

43

The Gen X/Y/Z crowd grew up with a LOT of skewed assumptions about what the bare minimums for survival are supposed to be.  Most aren't old enough to remember gas stations that simply didn't have gas.  The notion of say food rationing is completely foreign to them, yet it was SOP during WWII.

Yeah, I'm in the Generation Pepsi(or so the commercials on tv tell me) and I will be shocked when I go to a gas station and it doesn't have gas. I've never experienced it in my life but I have a feeling I might at somepoint.

Even if all this unrest doesn't result in massive shortages, I worry that the new governments will go to war with israel as a way of consilidating their domestic power. It's always easy to unify a population around a government by going to war with a hated enemy.

44 Chavez has the little parrot he takes around with him.  Sometimes the little parrot has a beret on,  just like Hugo.

Does Ghadaffi have a parrot?  No.  So he doesn't even have comdey value,  although the Charlie's Angels bodyguards are an interesting diversion.

45

Morning all!  Great column from Thomas Sowell on "civil discourse." 

"Republican moderates warn their fellow Republicans that they need to move away from the Ronald Reagan approach, in order to attract a wider range of voters. But Ronald Reagan won two consecutive landslide elections— and he couldn't have done that if the only people who voted for him were dedicated conservatives."

I love Thomas Sowell.

46

Chris Christie coming up on Morning Joe. Purportedly right after the current commercials, but they always lie.

I see Scarborough has a bit in "The Adjustment Bureau,' the newest movie based on a Philip K. Dick story. Unfortunately, Matt Damon.

why hasn't hollywood made The Man in the High Castle?

 

47 Tom Friedman hardest hit:

Renewed call for 'Jasmine rallies' in China

48 Handy list from Gallup on places to avoid for morons considering relocation.  DC and Hawaii top the list. 

Oh, and, come to Utah! 

49 The reason gas stations ran out of gas in the 70s was not because there was a shortage of gas. It was because idiot Carter decided to put a cap on the price of gas. Since the price of oil was going through the roof the evil oil companies could not make up for their costs so they simply quit selling any gas that came from overseas oil.

You would think the idiot liberals would learn sooner or later but they don't.

50 Even if all this unrest doesn't result in massive shortages, I worry that the new governments will go to war with israel as a way of consilidating their domestic power. It's always easy to unify a population around a government by going to war with a hated enemy.

Right you are.  And the Muslim sects have always found common cause in their hatred of Israel and their desire to wipe her off the map.

Hezbollah might attack Israeli target to help Iran

51 Apropos of nothing... our pheasant was making a helluva ruckus out in the yard early this morning. 


_{mmmm.... tasty, tasty pheasant...}

52

RE: the sidebar article about Providence teachers getting the pink slip.  That's actually not unheard of, though possibly it is at such a scale.  Just last year here in NH, the town of Somersworth pink slipped all of its education employees, from teachers through the Superintendent, for precisely the same reason.  They didn't know what the budget would look like for this fiscal year, so they cut everybody and then waited to see what the budget would look like before they brought anyone back.  I had to go up there and conduct a training the day everyone found out; boy was THAT uncomfortable.

53 Pizza-only diet saves woman's life

Greinke man of few words but speaks his mind

Fleebagger Chris Larson is an SEIU stooge

Media Matters claims Wisconsin protests and Tea Party protests are the same thing

54 Think of who as children, exactly?

55

From Andrew Malcolm's column in the LA Times via Drudge:

The community organizer who became president has launched a massive pre-reelection year campaign to assemble and train an army of new community organizers to carry Obama's "movement forward for years to come."

Strengthening "our democracy" presumably has something to do with reelecting the revered leader in 2012.

The message about what it calls the "Summer Organizing Fellowship" adds: "Effective organizing doesn't happen in a vacuum. It takes commitment, time, and hard work to build a movement around a cause." It does not specify what the "cause" is, other than promoting Obama and his agenda.

No mention of an Obama organizer flag, uniform -- or salute.

 

56 weren't we slow on the uptake to get Americans out of Libya.  Anderson was babbling about a ferry and bad weather on the way to Italy and then I heard an ABC radio news blurb that the government had chartered a ferry to get some Americans out and were working on planes, talking with carriers.  But then the other day saw someone interviewed who said the runways at the airport were in "pretty bad shape". 

57

Cell phone usage increases brain activity.

That may be a plus for some people.

Posted by: PoconoJoe at February 23, 2011 07:13 AM (3s8nc)

---------------------------------------------------

Hello African Space Agency! 

58 Beck is playing an ironic country song from the SEIU talking about "smashing them to the ground, to let them know"

59 to Ben about Google hostage-holding:

You have to look for it, but there's a "skip this" link near the bottom.  I use it all the time.

elspeth

60 Fuck the NEA, and fuck whatever the New York City version of the NEA calls itself-UFT, which I think stands for Unified Fucktard Teachers.

I saw an ad of theirs last night-it was the usual "it's for the kids, so don't lay off any teachers" horseshit.  No where did the ad mention the union's offer to take a across the board salary and benefits cut to save those jobs, probably because they did not make such an offer.

61 Wow guess who benefits with the price of cotton (CNBC doing a little story) going up, almost overnight?   Why those guys making towels and stuff out of bamboo.

62

to Ben about Google hostage-holding:

You have to look for it, but there's a "skip this" link near the bottom.  I use it all the time.

elspeth

elspeth,

You're right there was but they've taken that away. I guess they let you skip the step so many times. Now when i go to sign in, I don't get the "skip this" option anymore.

63 49 The reason gas stations ran out of gas in the 70s was not because there was a shortage of gas. It was because idiot Carter decided to put a cap on the price of gas. Since the price of oil was going through the roof the evil oil companies could not make up for their costs so they simply quit selling any gas that came from overseas oil.

You would think the idiot liberals would learn sooner or later but they don't.

Posted by: Vic at February 23, 2011 09:22 AM (M9Ie6)

I recommend the History of Rome podcast.  The latest one is about what happened to price controls in Rome at the time of Diocletian.  It didn't last.

It's also about how Diocletian dealt with incredible runaway inflation.  Basically, he created feudalism.

64

Good morning campers! How are we today??

Chris Matthews, quoted at Newsbusters, confused and disoriented by the idea of college students carrying guns:

First up Matthews, drawing from his expertise in old TV and movie Westerns, questioned Wentworth if he thought it was okay for college students to bring guns "into saloons" to which the state senator had to notify Matthews that bars weren't even allowed on Texas campuses.

Read more

65 Yeah, those R's and their violent rhetoric.....

A Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is raising the stakes in the nation’s fight over the future of public employee unions, saying emails aren’t enough to show support and that it is time to “get a little bloody.”

“I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,” Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.) told a crowd in Boston on Tuesday rallying in solidarity for Wisconsin union members.

It's on Drudge but that link (nhjournal.com) is apparently not working or is overwhelmed.

From another site:

http://tinyurl.com/4jv75cm

66

Please spare a thought for our neighbours across the ditch, NZ, in the aftermath of that earthquake - 75  confirmed dead, 300 people still missing - watching the vision is heartbreaking - Christchurch in the South Island is a lovely city

Many Aussies have close ties with NZ, through family, friends and work so this affects us all badly

67 sock off

68

63 AmishDude

Where do I find that podcast? I'm heavily into ancient Roman history after a eye opening visit to  Rome last year

Not ever having any interest in ancient history, I was hooked after standing on Palatine Hill and wandering through the forums and the Colosseum 

 

69 @63  The Byzantines did a lot of the same stuff, i.e. forcing sons to replace fathers in whatever profession they held, paying the troops in land and food rather than in coin, etc. 

So, looking on the bright side, we could be looking at a thousand years or so of this if Obama's "organizers" organize us right into Caesaropapism.  J/k, sort of.

70 Authorities in Japan have begun excavating the former site of a medical school that may contain the remains of victims of the country's wartime biological warfare programme.
The school has links to Unit 731, a branch of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal experiments on prisoners as part of efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction.
...
Unit 731, based in Harbin in northern China, conducted experiments on tens of thousands of mostly Chinese and Korean prisoners, and a small number of Allied prisoners of war. Some historians estimate up to 250,000 people were subjected to experiments. The remains of some are thought to have been transported from China to Tokyo for analysis.

71

Oh, Aussie, I didn't realize it was that bad. I'm so sorry to see and hear all that.

72

Many Aussies have close ties with NZ, through family, friends and work so this affects us all badly

 

I hope we send help. We're always so eager to help countries who hate us or are unappreciative of our help, France I am looking in your direction.

I haven't heard if we've sent naval ships to aid.

73 PA I don't disagree that the consequences will be worse than they suspect, I just don't think they will pick up on that. And, as much as I am with you on this, the problem with your argument is that there are a hell of a lot of Porsches and Mercedes and BMWs on German roads, and they have, sort of axiomatically, European levels of taxation. Europe in general was subsidized by living under the American Defense umbrella, so that helped, and I think being on their own a lot more, the results are starting to appear. But the Kos commenter doesn't see that. They go, hey, Europe isn't so bad, they have expensive gas....

74 "Nomura: Oil Could Rocket To $220 If Just Algeria And Libya Stop Production"
This is the article beck is discussing now.

75

PA I don't disagree that the consequences will be worse than they suspect, I just don't think they will pick up on that.

And, as much as I am with you on this, the problem with your argument is that there are a hell of a lot of Porsches and Mercedes and BMWs on German roads, and they have, sort of axiomatically, European levels of taxation.

Europe in general was subsidized by living under the American Defense umbrella, so that helped, and I think being on their own a lot more, the results are starting to appear.

But the Kos commenter doesn't see that. They go, hey, Europe isn't so bad, they have expensive gas....

I can't wait for the day when we stop paying for their defense. I want to be there to see the looks on their faces.

76

For those worried about the price of gasoline, do this next time you fuel up. Look over at the price of diesel fuel if your station sells it. That's what you really need to worry about.

Diesel has been running higher than gas for a long time. The average semi gets about 6mpg. When I was working, I generally would use 80 to 100 gallons a day, 5, 6, even 7 days a week. Not a lot of gas is used to get product to retail. Even the smaller trucks are going diesel. But on the bright side, Moochelle has lovely toned arms, eh?

77 "Add to that an eight-member congressional delegation led by Representative Don Manzullo (R-IL), who chairs the Asia-Pacific Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee. This was also the largest U.S. congressional delegation to visit New Zealand."

they may have exited Christchurch just in time.

78 Evan and Susan Bayh were in Christchurch during the earthquake.  Both are ok.  Bayh had to take refuge under a table and Susan saw a woman crushed to death right in front of her by a falling wall.

79

Diesel has been running higher than gas for a long time. The average semi gets about 6mpg. When I was working, I generally would use 80 to 100 gallons a day, 5, 6, even 7 days a week. Not a lot of gas is used to get product to retail. Even the smaller trucks are going diesel. But on the bright side, Moochelle has lovely toned arms, eh?

wow i did not know they only got 6mpg, that's insanely low.

80 Bayh had to take refuge under a table

There's a joke about Indiana politicians in there somewhere...

81

72 Mama AJ

Yes I think it's even worse than expected in the aftermath - many buildings were weakened in the September quake and have collapsed now

Thankfully a friend's hubby is safe - he arrived in Christchurch the day before the quake for work  - he's now staying a bit longer because he's a builder and they will be needed

 

 

 

82

73 Ben

 

Yes you've sent Armed Forces planes, rescue people and cadaver dogs

 

83 the problem with your argument is that there are a hell of a lot of Porsches and Mercedes and BMWs on German roads, and they have, sort of axiomatically, European levels of taxation.

Motor vehicles per 1000 people:
US: 842
Italy: 571
Germany: 558
France: 494
Sweden: 475

Of course, that doesn't break down how many are owned by businesses or government vs. individuals.  My understanding is it's not unusual to include a car leased by the company as part of the benefits for white-collar workers (please don't tell the WI teachers union).

84 only got 6mpg, that's insanely low.

Freight can be heavy.

85

LOS ANGELES – Two civil liberties groups have sued the FBI, claiming that one of the agency's former informants was ordered to target Muslims for surveillance when he infiltrated a California mosque.

The ACLU of Southern California and the Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court, the Washington Post reported.

The lawsuit alleged that ex-FBI informant Craig Monteilh violated Muslims' constitutional rights of freedom of religion by conducting "indiscriminate surveillance" because of their religion.

 

I'm surprised that Holder isn't in on the lawsuit

86

Price of petrol here in Sydney tonight $1.36 a litre...

Been that for months so I wouldn't be complaining if I was you !

 

 

87

...indiscriminate surveillance...

Like bugging an Italian restaurant in New Jersey or sending an informant to KKK meetings, you go to mosques because that's where the jihad terrorists are.   CAIR is against 'all forms of terrorism' (jihad not mentioned) and any law enforcement effort to prevent it. 

88 Ben, that's pretty much average over a year. You get less mileage in winter because diesel burns more in cold weather. #2 fuel is usually blended about 26% with #1 to keep it from gelling in the cold. In summer I could get about 7mpg, but with the new low sulpher fuel now required, I lost about a quarter to half mile per gallon, doesn't sound like a lot til you do the math. Takes a lot of fuel to push 80,000 lbs down the road. Gasoline would be worse. You'd get about half that mileage.

89 “I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,” Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.) told a crowd in Boston.

The last time I checked Incite to Riot was a capital offense. Mr. Capuano could be indited in Wisconsin. Sorry, certain types of speech are not protected by the first amendment.

90

To date, the names of doctors Lou Sanner and James Shropshire have been cited in media reports about the medical excuses dispensed over the weekend. Both are affiliated with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The agency said none of the doctors involved was representing UW Health at the time.

Shropshire has not returned a call seeking comment, and Sanner defended his actions in an interview with The Associated Press. He said the excuses were legitimate because those protesting showed symptoms of stress.

91 Europe in general was subsidized by living under the American Defense umbrella, so that helped, and I think being on their own a lot more, the results are starting to appear.

The results were starting to show quite some time ago -- but denial is a wonderous thing.  Hell, the results are beginning to show here -- anyone had a really good look at the roads lately?

92

STOCKHOLM -- Swedish tabloid Expressen says Libya's ex-justice minister claims Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988.

Expressen on Wednesday quoted Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as telling their correspondent in Libya that "I have proof that Gadhafi gave the order about Lockerbie."

93 This is from Ben Smith at Politico. I'll post the whole thing so they don't get any hits...

Not since those Montreal comedians got through to Sarah Palin has a stunt like this worked, but a reporter from the Buffalo Beast, posing as David Koch, appears to have managed to get Scott Walker on the line.

The alt-weekly's site is down, but you can hear the recording at Mother Jones.

But they didn't actually get much from Walker, other than his assent to bizarre "Koch" statements. He does give a glimpse of his -- utterly reasonable -- strategy, including courting an independent-minded Senate Democrat who he describes as "pretty reasonable, but he's not one of us." He also tips his hand to an attempt to lure Democrats back to the state for a meeting that, even if they fled again, would allow Republicans to pass his bill.

"I'm not negotiating," he said.

He also clearly believes that time is on his side, and that Democrats are desperate to get out of the fix.

Walker said his administration is looking into the question of whether legislators can be charged with a felony if unions are paying them "to keep them from doing their job."

The call is worth a listen though, for the candid glimpse it offers at the suddenly-prominent Walker. It's also typical in that it reflects politicians willingness to give large amounts of time to rich guys whose obvious weirdness and terrible ideas are to be tolerated for the cash they put up.

One other interesting bit: Walker says he talks to Ohio's John Kasich "every day."

94 For those worried about the price of gasoline, do this next time you fuel up. Look over at the price of diesel fuel if your station sells it. That's what you really need to worry about.

One of the local talk shows here had a guy on from a gasoline distributor talking about this subject a few weeks ago. Diesel is a lot higher than gasoline primarily due to taxes.

Also, it is going through the roof due to the falling dollar. This is the same for ALL commodities. You are seeing the effect of QE1, QE2, QE et al. The only reason gasoline has been slower to react has been the shitty economy is holding down the demand.

If the economy had been bett4r gasoline would already be above $4. Now per the folks on Beck yesterday you can expect to see the national average of gas at $5 soon.

95 OPEC is well aware that there is an inflection point where nations like Canada and the USA will sweep aside all enviro whining and be compelled to hit tar sands and oil shale like a Viking. While true in principle, we will be amazed at how far off that inflection point is. It's a solid black gold guarantee that Clownifornians will accept actual residential electricity rationing and mandatory car-pooling before they permit new drilling off CA shores. Furthermore, the younger generations will accept tiny Soviet apartments. We build them now in southern CA. Most new construction, cheap enough for most to rent or buy, is tiny boxes stacked on top of each other, with retail space at bottom, in the middle of stinking city congestion. I know plenty of libtard douchebags who actually ride bicycles to work and are fine with it. They live close to work by choice, because they can't afford much else, and they live in urban hives like cordwood, enjoying hipster lifestyles of iPods, Urban Outfitters, and Starbucks. I suspect many of them have no problem running up plenty of credit card debt, with little intention of paying it off. As many have said, liberalism is a religion and people will suffer dismemberment and even immolation for religious beliefs. Suffering gas lines and high prices and bus transportation amounts to little in comparison.

96 Vic, yes, it is mostly taxes. Diesel is a middle distillate, so it is cheaper to refine. Also, watch for gas to take a big jump this spring. Right now we are using a winter blend of gas. Soon it will be back to RFG for summer, which is usually 10 cents a gallon more.

97 87
Posted by: Aussie at February 23, 2011 10:40 AM (431B0)

O/T: Why is your country's Northern Territory not a full-blown state in the Commonwealth?

98 This first Moron who invents "sock be gone" for those of us here who are challenged to manage our socks will have my vote to receive a lifetime supply of pudding.

99 Um.  Isn't the longest running meme on AoSHQ the Paul Anka meme?

100 He said the excuses were legitimate because those protesting showed symptoms of stress.
Quick! This teacher is obviously suffering from rectal-cranial inversion syndrome. Get him some Vicodin and a doctor's note. Immediately!

And nice ass, Cuddy.

101 O/T: Why is your country's Northern Territory not a full-blown state in the Commonwealth?
Because the AGW manmade droughts are causing flooding and the situation won't be rectified and the NT allowed full statehood until Tim Blair has been sacrificed to Gaia. And now, to finish, I will howl some Midnight Oil hits.

102

Um.  Isn't the longest running meme on AoSHQ the Paul Anka meme?

fixed it

103

fixed it

Posted by: Ben at February 23, 2011 11:44 AM (wuv1c)

Damn, that was diligent.  Are you sure you work for Ace Corp?

104 Cultural biases aside, German policymakers do think the United States is misguided as a matter of economic reasoning. “We think they’re wrong,” says one top official. “We think you don’t get the multiplier they say.” The multiplier is the measure of how much economic activity results from emergency government spending. Discussions of the multiplier were at the center of the debates over the Obama stimulus plan. Christina Romer and the president’s other economic advisers argued that the multiplier would be around 1.6—the government would create $1.60 worth of economic activity for every dollar it spent. At those rates, who can afford not to stimulate? “Our research says the multiplier is more like .60,” says the German official. If he is correct, then a stimulus plan can actually deaden an economy rather than stimulate it. If he is correct, you might have been as well off to have taken the stimulus money and thrown it away.

105 not the droid you seek: "The other guy who usually points that out is going to be upset."

I'm practicing the "living on borrowed/stolen stuff" technique. It's my new normal under the Obama economic insolvency plan.

106 Sad.   Canadian Family Fights to Keep Boy's Breathing Tube in Place

107 --Threatens to Somalize Libya and blow up the oil Hussein style.


Which Hussein? 

"Dump oil into the sea and light all the wells on fire" Hussein ... or,

"Force the fire to be put out quickly thereby sinking the rig, bending the pipe causing oil to dump into the sea, doing nothing to try to contain the flow, stopping states from defending their own shores against it, ceasing all offshore drilling - being slapped down by a court - ceasing it again - being held in contempt by another court" Hussein?

There are lots of crazy Husseins and their oil spills.

108 The "Gratuitous Cat" is from http://www.simonscat.com .  You should at least acknowledge the cat, since it is copyrighted.