Two new oil fields have been discovered off the coast of Brazil. Experts estimate that both oil fields could hold a total of 40 billion barrels of oil. Hopefully the environmentalists will not try and prevent the drilling like in Alaska.
From: Steve Chapman – Reason Online
…Barack Obama is a liberal, but not a conscientious one. I don’t much care if he declines to wear a flag pin; I can overlook his wife’s limited capacity for patriotic pride; and I defended his relationship with his former pastor. But his comfortable association with an unrepentant former terrorist should induce queasiness in anyone who shares the humane values that Obama extols.
Sexist comments like “darling” will not be allowed in English pubs.
From: WSJ
…Race helps Mr. Obama in another way — it lifts his political campaign to the level of allegory, making it the stuff of a far higher drama than budget deficits and education reform. His dark skin, with its powerful evocations of America’s tortured racial past, frames the political contest as a morality play. Will his victory mean America’s redemption from its racist past? Will his defeat show an America morally unevolved? Is his campaign a story of black overcoming, an echo of the civil rights movement? Or is it a passing-of-the-torch story, of one generation displacing another?
The Mexican flag was flown above the US flag at a Mexican restaurant in Reno NV, but not for long. Our thanks to veteran Jim Broussard for setting things right with the help of his KA-BAR.
From: Investors Business Daily
As Northern Illinois University restarts classes this week, one thing is clear: Six minutes proved too long.
It took six minutes before the police were able to enter the classroom that horrible Thursday, and in that short time five people were murdered, 16 wounded.
…as happens time after time in these attacks when uniformed police are there, the killers either wait for the police to leave the area or they are the first people killed. In Kirkwood, the police officer was killed immediately when the attack started. People cowered or were reduced to futilely throwing chairs at the killer.
Just like attacks last year at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb., the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City and the recent attack at the Tinley Park Mall in Illinois, or all the public school attacks, they had one thing in common: They took place in “gun-free zones,” where private citizens were not allowed to carry their guns with them.
From: UPI
DALLAS, Feb. 21 (UPI) — The Secret Service told Dallas police to stop screening for weapons while people were still arriving at a campaign rally for Barack Obama, a report said.
… Several Dallas police officers — speaking on condition of anonymity because the order came from federal officers — told the newspaper it was worrying to see so many people get it without even a cursory inspection.
UPI filters links from blogs (morons) so you may have to copy and paste the link below if it doesn’t work.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/21/report_security_relaxed_at_obama_speech/8649/
From: Celsias.com
The phenomenon is recent, dating back to autumn, when beekeepers along the east coast of the US started to notice the die-offs. It was given the name of fall dwindle disease, but now it has been renamed to reflect better its dramatic nature, and is known as colony collapse disorder.
It is swift in its effect. Over the course of a week the majority of the bees in an affected colony will flee the hive and disappear, going off to die elsewhere. The few remaining insects are then found to be enormously diseased – they have a “tremendous pathogen loadâ€, the scientists say. But why? No one yet knows.
… the few bees left inside the hive were carrying “a tremendous number of pathogens†– virtually every known bee virus could be detected in the insects, she said, and some bees were carrying five or six viruses at a time, as well as fungal infections. Because of this it was assumed that the bees’ immune systems were being suppressed in some way.
“It may be that the honeybee has become the victim of these insecticides that are meant for other pests,†he said. “If we don’t figure this out real quick, it’s going to wipe out our food supply.â€
Just a few miles down the sunlit road, it is easy to find farmers prepared to agree with his gloomy assessment.
British athletes have been asked to sign a contract stating they will not criticize the communist government if selected to go to the Olympics.
The move – which raises the spectre of the order given to the England football team to give a Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938 – immediately provoked a storm of protest.
I couldn’t agree more. My only question is: Why was China selected to host at all?
From: Susan Dunn – Washington Post
Why political unity is not such a great idea.
 What Obama and others, captivated by the notion of unity, could reasonably promise is not national unity but simply unity within the Democratic Party or within the Republican Party. For Republicans and Democrats do not and should not agree. Different, competing visions of the public good are the lifeblood of a dynamic and open democracy. They strengthen our democracy, engage citizens in meaningful political debate and keep us awake.
When tumult is absent, when everyone in a state is tranquil, Machiavelli wrote, “we can be sure that it is not a republic.” Out of unity, Obama believes, change will somehow emerge. But only insignificant or incremental changes can come out of the compromises that are reached through consensus. Transformational change, on the other hand, is the product of conflict and polarization.
From: PlaneBuzz
Planebuzz has a story on a passenger who was influenced by iPhone pilot/weather commercial…
“Some guy with an IPhone says the weather is good, and wants to know what the real reason is for the delay. Is something wrong with the plane?â€
So, the pilot gets on the PA and responds…
“If the passenger with the IPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control center to arrange our timely departure amongst the other aircraft carrying passengers with IPhones, then we will be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the Flight Attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multi-million dollar aircraft and its passengers to safely leave.â€
Mike Huckabee can be serious and have fun at the same time.
Via YouTube.
A week or two ago the Spanish King told Hugo Chavez to shut up after Chavez criticized the former Spanish PM. The quote from the king has become a hit as a ring tone in Spain with around half a million people downloading it.
From the Republican Presidential Debate earlier this week.
“Hillary tried to get a million dollars for the Woodstock museum. I understand it was a major cultural and pharmaceutical event. I couldn’t attend. I was tied up at the time.†—John McCain
Here is an interesting take on Google’s reported interest in the old 700mhz cell phone spectrum. I knew there was a reason to hang on to my old Motorola brick phone.
From: Don Reisinger
If the FCC agrees to the terms outlined … Google will definitely win the auction. Once its wins, its executives will soon realize (as if they haven’t already) that this spectrum can go through walls and reach just about anywhere. Even better, it’ll create a speedy broadband connection.
Within no time, Google will announce that wireless will be made available to the public through its system. After all, it did it in San Francisco, why won’t it do it all over the country? In effect, Google would run a “third broadband pipe.”
This is the best interview I have seen the President give to date. He is not the best public speaker to say the least, however he was spot on in the interview.
Cameron Diaz made a big mistake by wearing communist propaganda while vacationing in Peru.
Apparently Angelina Jolie who stars in an upcoming movie about freedom of the press wanted to ban FOXNews from a recent viewing of the film!
I can’t imagine what it would be like to have to live in that bizaro world called California. The country is beautiful and most of the people are very friendly but I’ve never been there for more than a few days before getting attacked by some self-righteous politically-correct fascist over some horrific thing I’ve done like eat meat, wear leather shoes, or smoke a cigar. Just the fact that I live in Texas can be enough to set them off. I love the Blue Angels so naturally some idiots in California want to ban them.
From: Michelle Malkin
The moonbats continue to bash the Blue Angels in San Francisco. Here’s video of one of the leaders trying to kick the Blue Angels out of the city for Fleet Week. The Examiner’s letters page shows that there are a few sane people left there.
Putin recently said that he would point nuclear missiles at Europe in response to the United States’ missile shield there. What is this guy thinking? This is a continuation of his increasing rhetoric.
