TILTPAT-BIDHAT4 (050408, Afternoon)

“Things I‘d Like To Post About Today; But I Don’t Have Any Time ‘4‘”:

• Here’s an unintentionally humorous offering from former Wide Open co-blogger and Ohio Daily Blog proprietor Jeff (”Dann’s the Man“) Coryell (bold is mine) — “What a shame. Dann stepped up the mission of the attorney general’s office and was producing good results. But, he is not the only visionary person who could be in charge there …..”
• The presidential candidate I irreverently refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama – Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) won the Guam caucuses by 7 votes. Not to, uh, Guam up the works, but wasn’t he heavily favored?
• While three presidential candidates hyperventilate over oil and gas prices, free markets work. I would not rule out a big drop in the coming months.
• Anyone else wondering about “the nature of the trip” that compelled March Dann to fly to Arizona this past weekend? And who paid for it? (And, conceivably, because it’s only getting worse, if he’s coming back?)
• In transparently weak attempts at Obama-Wright equivalence, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite wants John McCain to renounce Ron Parsley, and the New York Times’s Frank Rich whines about McCain and John Hagee. Not even in the same zip code, people. You have no idea…..
• First it was Merkel in Germany. Then Sarkozy in France. Then the recent return of Berlusconi in Italy. In yet another sign that those who think that “the rest of the world” has turned against the US under the eeeeevil George Bush are full of baloney, London’s radical Mayor Ken Livingtstone was defeated for re-election by Conservative Boris Johnson, who will be the city’s first Conservative mayor in 30 years.
• You think you’ve seen it all? How about Christianity without Christ?
• You STILL haven’t seen it all — “This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called “plant rights” is being seriously debated” (this was discussed on TIB Radio [last excerpted item at post] on Saturday).