From the Washington Post: "During the Democratic presidential primaries, Mrs. Obama said that her husband's so-far successful run for the presidency was the first time as an adult that she felt proud of her country. She said that America is "just downright mean." She said that her husband is "never" going to let us go back to our apathetic and ignorant lives. She complained about having to spend "$10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements and so on and so forth" (she said this in a county where the median income, as of 2004, was $37,000). She said that the Obamas are asking young people not to go into corporate America." Here's a direct quote: "Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you . . . move out of your comfort zones. . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed." Ummm... where are the libertarians?

Chucky Schumer, New York's erstwhile Senator, has done it this time. Ever seeking to promote himself and get his name in the headlines, he sent a completely useless and gratuitous letter to the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the FDIC telling them what they'd already known -- that California savings bank IndyMac was in difficulty. Of course, Schumer, being the whore that he is, released the letter publicly (otherwise, what would be the point?). The letter promptly caused a "run on the bank" as depositors clamored to take out $1.3 billion in deposits, resulting in a death blow to a bank already reeling from the mortgage crisis. Schumer's conduct was so bad that the OTS -- a bank regulator normally given to a thoroughgoing blandness in its public statements -- took the trouble to spank him not once but twice in its release announcing the seizure of IndyMac. http://www.ots.treas.gov/docs/7/778029.html There is only one comment that befits what Schumer did here. Just one. What an asshole.

Well, well, well. Eliot Spitzer caught red handed in criminal activity. I think that amid the doom & gloom on Wall Street this will be at least a brief ray of sunshine. The public story will be, a moral crusader who lost his bearings, because that's good press. But I suspect many who knew him better will agree among themselves that this is a bad guy, who arrogantly used intimidation and blackmail to advance his image -- thereby ruining countless lives -- just being what he really is but now finally getting his just desserts.

7 die in shooting at Jerusalem seminary March 6 2008 JERUSALEM - Two gunmen infiltrated a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem and opened fire in a dining hall Thursday night, killing at least seven people, police and rescue workers said. Israeli media said about 35 people were wounded. Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby said one of the infiltrators was wearing an explosive belt. He said students were being evacuated from the building. (note: the AP apparently can't bring itself to use the word, but CNN called the perpetrators "terrorists") And as if that savagery itself wasn't debased or amoral enough, the beautiful Muslim people can't help but deliver the truly disgusting coup de grace: "...and thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza to celebrate." Proving once again the solutions to Islamism aren't political, they aren't diplomatic -- they are epidemiological.

In order for me to get on with me I can't wait around indefinitely