Mark Bossingham

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Environmentalism kills again

NOT SATISFIED with killing half a million African children a year by denying them DDT, environmentalists are now starving people, creating a food shortage by taking crop bearing land out of circulation to "grow" useless biofuels. If people were not rioting over a few handfuls of grain, i could take amusement in the left's discomfort. No problem, every time reality smacks them in the face, they simply move on to another phony crisis, and keep distributing those damn mosquito nets in Africa. Makes them feel better, but it doesn't do a thing for a child at risk. Now, the ones that manage to survive malaria, the environmentalists will starve.

Coulter on the money and funny

"IT IS an article of faith with the Democrats that they must fool Americans by simulating agreement with normal people. The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American."—Ann Coulter

Stick a fork in him, you know

I PRAY the Democrats nominate Barack Obama, you know. Last night's debate on ABC proved, you know, to a major network audience, you know, that this guy cannot, you know, win in November.

More on Barry and the religious gun nuts

DEMOCRATIC PARTY shills aka 98 percent of U.S. journalists are furiously spinning Brarack's smear of Americans, trying the make the story all about his description of voters as "bitter." Of course, that's not the story. There are bitter voters everywhere on the political spectrum. Nothing wrong with a politician saying so (as the craven press knows). However, they are ignoring the rest of the remarks, the truly revealing slanders—that these "bitter" Americans are clinging to guns and religion as some sort of security blanket, because, in Barack's world, the current administration has let them down, and thusly they won't vote for Barack. A bit confusing, but Barack is both that confused and that arrogant. The press won't even touch the "anti-trade" aspect of his remarks because how do you spin Barry out out that hypocrisy? A subsidiary of the unions, Barack is about as anti-trade as a politician can get.

Obama revealed: He hates you

LIKE PRETTY much everybody else, i am open-mouthed amazed at B. Hussein Obama's "bitter" comment. Politicians make stupid statements every day, but this one is a disaster for the Obama campaign. It pretty much confirms what many were afraid of—that he did take to heart much of Jeremiah Wright's ravings; that he is en elitist liberal; and that he detests much of the American public. There is simply is no way to parse his comment, it speaks for itself. He says he could have said it better. I disagree, it is clear and to the point—attributes much of his political speak never possess. The media is going to have a heard time smoothing this over. For the record, here it is:

"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Ironically, Obama himself is anti-trade. But those cracks about religion, guns and immigration are going to hurt him badly. Can anybody remember a politician saying anything even as remotely demeaning about the people he hopes to "serve?" That he made the comment in speech at what AP calls a "private" fundraiser in San Francisco explains much. He was surrounded by a crowd of rich liberals. They religiously believe all the b.s. Barry was spouting.

The ethanol scam starves people

THAT ETHANOL is a scam has long been evident. Now that it is leading to a huge run-up in food prices worldwide as government-subsidized corn pushes other crops (mainly wheat) off the farms, even crazed liberals like the NYT's Paul Krugman are figuring out the obvious. As he says:
 
"This is especially true of corn ethanol: even on optimistic estimates, producing a gallon of ethanol from corn uses most of the energy the gallon contains. ... We also need a pushback against biofuels, which turn out to have been a terrible mistake."

Realistically, every fix the libs come up with that involves manipulating the market turns out to be a "terrible mistake" in the end. But rarely do they admit it.

With time running out—AP lets one slip by

MY NEWSREADER just picked up an AP story that seems to have gone out with the editing markups still intact. Pretty funny. First the editor simply deleted the writer's first clause, which was just a minor rant, and then cleaned up a lot of lousy writing. Crap, I don't seem to be able to duplicate the strikethroughs when cutting an pasting. Everything is red was a strikethrough. I've actually never seen anything like this outside the newsroom. Somebody screwed up big time.

AP - With time running out on an often testy seven-year relationship, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are taking have failed to reconcile differences on a lot of unfinished business in their final leader-to-leader meetings Sunday.planned U.S. missile defense system but did agree to a "strategic framework" guiding future U.S.-Russia relations.

Here's the edited, edited version that eventually appeared.

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed in talks Sunday to reconcile differences on a planned U.S. missile defense system but did agree to a "strategic framework" guiding future U.S.-Russia relation.

PS—Maybe this isn't so unusual—I've scanned the leads of the first six stories on Yahoo RSS top news feed and three of them are these crazy rough drafts. Click through to the story and you get the finished product. One was a Reuters story, so it isn't just the losers at AP.

Still stuck with Firefox

THIS IS a first, it seems that I can actually use Safari to post. But let's not get carried away. How about I try to link to the Miss Universe Japan site? That's diverting. Here it is. OK, so far it seems to work, but i am looking at a lot of HTML code. And the color palette is missing. That's a deal breaker. Looks like I am still stuck with Firefox.