Congress, N, A problem perpetually in search of a solution.

Until we get Pelosi/Reid (D-Themselves) out of office we're just writing checks our descendants will have to cash. Case in point, as Alan Sullivan writes that a simple administrative act basically cleared the governmental barrier which has caused this huge mess. The market is able to correct itself - at less cost and pain - than any sellout being proposed in the Senate.

Anyone who reads this, I implore you to call your Senators and Congressperson and urge them to vote this revived measure down.

Summing up ethanol.

Sure, you may be killing pandas if you're Conservative. But at least people aren't starving to death from the West using corn-based Ethanol.

China's Empire.

The word "imperialist" is bandied about so often that it's lost a lot of its edge. Well, the Daily Mail has a refresher course. Now what China is doing in Africa is evil and not in the "emo" sense which we see all the time regarding Bush.

Read the article and digest that. The evils of the past ended because of firm, moral leadership and not the "nuanced" view of windsurfers and community activists. The decline of the West will unleash these evils on the world again and very few mind. Keep an eye on this and realize that the Media won't report this as it doesn't fit the Narrative.

This is just another front in the low-level conflict raging across earth. And it's not one we can nuance out of.

The real reason for Obama's level of support.

Again over at Instapundit, it looks like Rezko may be talking. Made me realize the reason all of Obama's supporters are so fervent is they all need the pardons.

For that green surveillance society.

Given the twilight of liberty going on in Britain, I wonder how long until this joins the thousands of cameras and other restrictions that define modern Britannia. I am left wondering if Britain's new Sharia courts will have jurisdiction, so I'll have to keep an eye on it.

"Bailout" Bill held off for now.

Which is likely good for America given the nationalization we're seeing. Over at Instapundit he links a mainstream media take on things in Volokh.

What's missing in Ilya's take is this, the public knows enough about the where-fors here to not trust Congress with this bill. It's public knowledge that this market panic was predicted as far back as 1999 in the New York Times (D-NY) but people like Barney Frank (D-NY) worked to prevent that. McCain was trying to fix Fannie Mae (D-DC) as far back as 2005. That the Democrats are being spun as heroes here is obscene.

If it wasn't for the fact that the MSM (D-NY) was absolutely in the tank for Obama you'd hear this. This bailout is all about protecting the 535 jobs in the Capitol and getting Obama into the White House. Not about anyone out in the real world.

That Congress is being looked to for a solution is identical to having a rapist console their victim. *ugh*

"You go to an election with the populace you have."

Just paraphrasing Rumsfeld.

Jim Lindgren @ Volokh is talking about Obama's lead in the polls, which isn't surprising given his support to same. The money quote is the comment from Obvious:

The polls simply show that Americans, given the choice of two extremely bad candidates, will eventually make a bad choice.

Why is it we pick the evil of two lessers? McCain isn't what America needs but it's painfully obvious that Obama is worse (with FARC, Chavez, Hezbollah, Iran, and countless others pulling for him to boot).

Oh, and bonus on math. Obama has a 6% lead in the poll cited above. The poll weighed Democrats 6% more than Republicans. Coincidence?

HT Instapundit

Three things I like about this year's MLB playoffs.

• The Angels are in it.


• The Dodgers are in it.


• The Yankees aren't in it.

Life is good!

Do the math - Family billed for 1.4 million gallons of water.

Over at FOXnews you have a report on a Utah family getting billed for 1.4 million gallons of water in 107 days. Now while the obvious answer to:

"When water goes through a meter, they (customers) are obligated to pay for that." - Craig Frisbee

is you've got a faulty meter, I'm more interested in just looking at this in terms of the real world.

1.4 million gallons is roughly four acre feet and this family has a two acre plot, enough water to drown their property two feet deep in water. On average, their entire two acres of land was submerged in 0.25" (~6 mm)of water every day for three-and-a-half months. During the wet season. And since the owner only irrigates about a third of his parcel, that makes it 0.75" (~18 mm)deep per day.

Of course they were also out of town for a third of this time, so that'd just inflate it further.

If I was the town, I think I'd forgive them this one. Unless they think this family was planting rice.

Chavez showing signs of displacement.

On a surprisingly non-fawning Reuters piece, Hugo Chavez calls for:

"I think the United States should start a constituent process to create a constituent assembly, a new truly democratic model."

Yes folks, that old imperialist Chavez thinks it's time to rework the US Constitution.

Now I'm not one to bemoan Baptista's reincarnation calling for an end to the "dictatorship of the elite", but you'd at least think he'd start with the nation he's impoverished and starved. Perhaps 'elite' doesn't included the Chavezista imperialists oppressing people in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Honduras.

As to his statement about the US people needing a new Constitution -- well, we should probably start using the one we've been ignoring for 70 years before we think of replacing it.