TILPAT-BIDHAT4 (051608, Morning)

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

• Planned Parenthood makes excuses for getting caught sympathizing with the desirability of aborting black babies. Wire service proabort mouthpiece the AP laps it up (HT WND).
• If Gateway Pundit isn’t the best and most varied deep-digger out there, I don’t know who is. This post on how Nancy Pelosi and Congress are giving Colombia the free-trade shaft is outstanding.
• The idea that President Bush was “sending a message” to the presidential candidate I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) yesterday in his speech in Israel is comical. But, since the Obama campaign brought it up, their candidate resembles Bush’s remarks about appeasers. As Instapundit noted, “When somebody condemns appeasement, it doesn’t help things to jump up and yell ‘Hey, he’s talking about me!’”
• If Obama IS in control of the person putting out the YouTube vid questioning the ability of the candidate I refer to as JS3M3 (John Sidney the Mad Maverick McCain III) to get his business done in the bedroom, it may be the dumbest campaign move designed to alienate a major voting bloc I have ever seen.
• Correlation of the day: An anti-tax Massachusetts group is working to get repeal of the state’s income tax (HT Club for Growth) on the ballot. It only needs a ridiculously low 11,000 signatures. The correlation is this: If so few signatures are needed, why didn’t pro-same sex marriage advocates in the Bay State ever put the measure on the ballot — i.e., the way it’s supposed to be done — instead of running to the state’s Supreme Judicial Court to get the still-not-codified-into-law (at least that was the case the last time I checked) Goodridge ruling? You know why. It’s for the same reason those in favor of same sex marriage got the California Supreme Court to invent a right that isn’t in that state’s constitution yesterday.
• Megan McArdle is right (HT Instapundit): “It’s a miracle unemployment is as low as it is.” Read this CNN article about job interviewing tips, and you’ll wonder what planet some applicants are on that they don’t know these things already. Don’t miss the 10 apparently real examples near the end of what some applicants did or said during interviews. How many tenths of a percent should we handicap the current unemployment rate to make it comparable to 20 or so years ago when the vast majority of applicants had a clue?