...and aren't they all?

Think away.

Best Wishes, Traveller

So, I'm guessing she's learned pretty much all the job is going to teach her and it's time to move on to bigger and better things!!

Here.

...about my earlier post on the failure of state schools in the U.K., here's
a necessary corrective:

Influenced by a $2.6B aid package, and clearly feeling chastised by our President's tough love speech in Cairo, our allies reform their ways and moderate their rhetoric:

Housing Minister: Spread of Arab population must be stopped

Actually, it's a tough choice and there are many worthy contenders.

There's Mark Sanford, and I don't really need to say anything beyond that. And neither should he, btw.

The article, dated June 30th, ran yesterday. The problem is, it was actually dated January 16th 1964.

linky. Enjoy!

...Todd Purdum, for his one-sided hit piece on Sarah Palin. Purdum rounded up as many Palin detractors as he could find and flung ink-stained acid in her political face. It was 9,800 words of spittle and venom. Jim Geraghty offers a partial response here.

The inevitable has finally come to be, nearly eight months after the election.

- http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/court-rules-franken-has-won-senate-seat/?hp

14 hours until CA starts issuing IOUs. Hat-tip to Calculated Risk.

I call it Clash of the Propositions:

Ok folks, here are the facts:

1) Due to difficulties with our current web-host, Hank was not able to get our traditional voting system up and running in time for this week's election.

1a) Hank is out of action until perhaps next week

2) We have instead been running on an older retread, along with some unfortunate time-travel-like effects for the front page.

3) Several of the leading vote-getters have asked me to postpone finalizing the current election results until Hank can get the correct system going, once he's available.

The president of Honduras blatantly violated the law when he tried to push forward an illegal referendum. Basically, he was trying to pull a Chavez by gaming the system to amass more power unto himself, but Chavez is smarter or Zelaya is dumber.

But the courts and the congress were also wrong by engineering Zelaya's swift removal. However, from a commenter at the ObWinger site:

And of course, the main question which I am sure is on everyone's mind - or at least that fortunate and elite subset of "everyone" who logs on here - is:

WTF has happened to The Forvm?????

Otherwise a thread to get us back to June '09...