Archive for 2010

FRIEDRICH HAYEK reaches from the grave to humiliate a Newsweek staffer.

PLUG THAT HOLE! — WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED, AFTER CHECKING FOR LIFEJACKETS AND STUFF. More Incompetence… Crude-Sucking Barges Ordered By Gov. Jindal Shut Down By Feds. “Against Governor Jindal’s wishes the federal government blocked oil-sucking barges today because needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests on board and were having trouble contacting the owners.” Remember when the selling point for Obama was that he’d be more competent than Bush? Well . . . .

GERMAN ENGINEERING at its finest.

YOU MIGHT LIKE SCOTT OTT’S LAUGHING AT OBAMA. (Bumped).

JAY COST: The Bully’s Pulpit. “For somebody who seems detached from the details of policy and largely uninterested in legislative wrangling, Barack Obama sure does come across sometimes like a political bully. But this is not bullying some obstinate backbench legislator. Instead, this is bullying the American people. With health care reform, he basically told the country that he didn’t care what it thought. The fact that people opposed the bill was proof they didn’t know what they were talking about. Now, apparently, the evolving strategy on energy is the same. Don’t like cap-and-trade? That’s your problem, not his. Plan to vote out Democrats in favor of the idea? Like he cares. He’ll pass it anyway.”

TUNKU VARADARAJAN IS feeling Tony Hayward’s pain. “The embattled BP exec was pelted by so many inane questions from the mediocrities in Congress they almost turned the oil spill villain into a sympathetic figure.”

BILL DUPRAY: Remind me again why Chris Christie can’t be president in 2012? “Christie isn’t kid with no record. He is a Republican executive of a large liberal state. He served for 7 years as the United States Attorney for New Jersey, a high-level executive position as the chief federal law enforcement official in the state. Just the U.S. Attorney job alone gave him more executive experience than President Obama has had in his entire career. Now, as governor, he is tackling an entrenched liberal bureaucracy in a state with the highest taxes in the nation, and getting results.” The Insta-Daughter was propounding a theory a while back that each President is chosen to be the opposite of his predecessor. So, a fat white guy from New Jersey vs. a skinny black guy from Hawaii. . . .?

DAVID BERNSTEIN: “I’ve wondered for years why, when I was eight, I thought I lived on a lush island with a giant puppet with a huge head, an Australian boy with a talking flute, and a witch with a very strange nose. So now I know.”

I thought I lived on an island with Mary Ann and Ginger.

SHOCKER: 84% of Nissan Leaf Buyers Are Over 40. I don’t know why this is a surprise. People over 40 are more likely to remember high gas prices and gas lines, and more likely to be able to afford what’s basically got to be a second or third car for most households, since the all-electric Leaf is a pure commuter vehicle that isn’t suitable for long trips.