Things I’d Like to Post About Today ….. (051908, Morning)

….. but I don’t have time for:

• It looks like the candidate I refer to as HR4C (Hillary Rodham Cackling Crying Complaining Clinton) is going to win yet another “irrelevant” (if you believe the lapdog, fawning Old Media) blowout win — this time in Kentucky.
• Kentucky has a larger population than Oregon (4.2 mil vs. 3.7 mil), where the other major Dem primary is being held this week. If the candidate I refer to as Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama – Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) wins Oregon (probably by a much narrower margin), who wants to bet against that win will get more attention?
• Speaking of Obama’s nickname, that “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” tag describes the campaign’s “it’s all about me, and you must be talking about me” reaction to Bush’s speech last week at the Knesset, doesn’t it? The reaction just proves, as Captain Ed pointed out on Friday, that Obama owns appeasement.
• By the way, Bush’s full speech, probably his best since just after the 9/11 attacks, is here, and worth reading.
• While the three remaining presidential candidates, including the one I refer to as JS3M3 (John Sidney the Mad Maverick McCain III), are all trying to out-green each other, the worldwide ongoing resistance to globaloney (my term for the notions that catastrophic global warming is occurring, that it is caused by man, and that we must fundamentally alter world commerce to prevent it) grows. I see at least three “we’re not going to take it” stories a day coming out of Europe and Asia. Here’s one: Britain wants to slap the equivalent of an $780 tax on older “gas guzzling” cars. The blowback has been so strong (one editorial here) that it could take down the once thought untouchable government of Gordon Brown.
• Bill Cosby appears unwiling to drink the Obama kool-aid.
• Jeannine Aversa and her AP colleagues just won’t let go of their recession obsession. Aversa’s latest offering says that “A growing number of economists believe the country is on the brink of a recession or in one already” — unnamed, as usual. Apparently, economists at the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) are catching the AP disease, as “56 percent of (those surveyed) think the economy has started or will enter a recession this year.” At the same time, these economists say that growth “will slow to 1.4% this year.”

  Follow me closely, everyone:
  – Let’s say first quarter growth stays at the 0.6% reported last month (a group willing to be cited by name, as Wall Street Journal reporters Kelly Evans and Justin Lahart noted last week, believes that it will be revised upward to 1.0%).
  – Growth for the whole year, as just noted, is expected to be 1.4%.
  – That means that growth during the year’s remaining three quarters is forecast to be about 1.67%.

  So now we can have a recession when growth is over 1.5%? This is crazy.

  Steve Matthews of Bloomberg (”U.S. Recession to End by September, Business Economists Say”") clearly assumes we’re in a recession now.

  This last item went up in very expanded form at this NewsBusters post.