THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN WE’D SEE LYNCHINGS IN SOUTH CAROLINA: And they were right!

BRIAN J. NOGGLE: The Coming Incandescent Bulb Rapture.

Hey, it’s not too late to stock up!

BIGGEST LIE OF THE WEEK: Geithner: Oil release not a political move. I mean, that’s worse than “It was Turbo Tax that done it.”

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION “STEALTH SURVEY” OF DOCTORS called “government snooping” and “Big Brother tactics.” Plus this: “This is not a way to build trust in government. Why should I trust someone who does not correctly identify himself?”

UPDATE: Reader J.R. Ott writes: “This could be a two way street as bloggers could call federal agencies and see how they respond if at all?”

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader warns that this is how James O’Keefe wound up facing federal charges. Being checked up on is for the little people!

TIME FOR Carville’s Razor?

ADMINISTRATION JOBS POLICY REMAINS CONFUSED: Out: We’re losing jobs to ATMs. In: We’re creating jobs via robotics.

A FOLLOWUP ON YESTERDAY’S DISASTER-PREP POST: What to do after the disaster.

ANN ALTHOUSE: Lueders responds to my post about him, saying “We absolutely did not have information about an alternative version that we purposely withheld.” Althouse is not satisfied. “Me, I’m always suspicious about things that don’t look right… even that period after ‘alternative version.’ Many commenters, meanwhile, note that a denial is not the same as a refutation.

BOB SHRUM: Get Ready For President Cuomo! And why wait until 2016?

HOWARD NEMEROV: The “Gunwalker” Scandal And The Case For Impeaching Eric Holder.

THEY ATTACK BREITBART (“jowly face,” — really?) but they can’t ignore him.

UPDATE: Yeah, yeah — “jowly” is better than “low-sloping foreheads.” But the latter was blurted, while the former was presumably run past an editor.

ANOTHER UPDATE: NYT uses Blumenthal crony to attack Breitbart. And doesn’t mention it.

THE “CLUELESS” TSA.

WELL, IT FITS THE PATTERN: Hot new idea: What if Obama just ignores Congress on the debt ceiling? “Now there’s a campaign platform I’d like to see in time for the 2012 election: The Constitution lets me run up as much debt as I want and there’s nothing your representatives can do to stop me.”

UPDATE: Reader Jerry Lawson thinks this could set a precedent he’s okay with: “What if Obama ignores the debt ceiling – what if WE ignore dictates from Washington?”

THE ECONOMIC LESSONS TO BE LEARNED from watching HGTV.

MARK STEYN ON WHITE COLLAR CRIME:

As to white-collar crime, what about the one type of white-collar crime that goes entirely unpunished? For an accounting fraud of $567 million, Enron’s executives went to jail, and its head guy died there. For an accounting fraud ten times that size, the two Democrat hacks who headed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, walked away with a combined taxpayer-funded payout of $116.4 million. Fannie and Freddie are two of the largest businesses in America, but they’re exempt from SEC disclosure rules and Sarbanes-Oxley “corporate governance” burdens, and so in 2008, unlike Enron, WorldCom or any of the other reviled private-sector bogeymen, they came close to taking down the entire global economy. Yes, yes, I know two wrongs don’t make a right (unless you’re Jamie Gorelick), but what then is the point of the SEC?

Good question.

GOING GALT VIA FLEA MARKET: Reader Mark Vavra writes:

Met an interesting couple, late 50’s. Decided to sell off assets a few years ago, home, furnishings, all of it. Bought a lovely motor home and small van. Now in Midwest selling a single easy to order/pack item in flea markets, country fairs, etc. Winter, they move down to Florida, Texas, Arizona. When I asked how they liked it; “It’s wonderful no property taxes, no upkeep on home…plus its all cash! (anyone who has worked flea markets understands the value of cash transactions…) The gas is a little high these days, but it hasn’t hurt too much…we love it, shows over, we grill up a couple steaks and go down the road, golf 18 before dark…” Partner saw them this morning…steaks were great and they nearly shot par…

There are a lot of folks like this, but The Who, as usual, saw it coming: Watch the Po-lice and the taxman miss me, goin’ mobile!

And after Tax Cheat Tim Geithner got a pass, who can call them wrong for following The Who’s advice?

RANDY BARNETT: The Dangerous Effort To Delegitimate Supreme Court Justices. It seems particularly unwise for lefties, who have depended so heavily on the judiciary for decades, to pursue this strategy. But they seem committed to it, at both the federal and state levels.

Plus, as Randy observes, “When ‘ethics’ is used as a political weapon, ethics will ultimately suffer.” Indeed.

FROM JEFF SOYER, advice on cheap dinner.

EVEN MYSPACE FOUNDERS no longer use MySpace. “MySpace has fallen so far that its own founders no longer bother updating their profiles. . . . Former CEO Chris DeWolfe, who founded the company with Tom Anderson in 2003, says he cringes on the rare occasions he visits his page, while Anderson’s last update was in March of 2010.” Cringing all the way to the bank, however.

UPDATE: Reader Rich Reilly emails: “Maybe they should change the name to bandspace and focus on what it does best. Bands who have Facebook pages often don’t have music files prominently featured. And the FB design is so ho hum…kind of like a DOS MySpace.” Good point.

ASTEROID TO buzz Earth on Monday. “Asteroid 2011 MD, a chunk of rock estimated to be 25 to 55 feet (8 to 18 m) across, is expected to pass less than 8,000 miles above Earth’s surface around 1 p.m. EDT (17:00 UT) on Monday, June 27th.” That’s close, and it was only discovered a few days ago. It’s fairly little as asteroids go, of course.

ON ROAD-SPEED SIGNS AND BLOOD NANOSENSORS: “An article in Wired reports about how drivers respond to dynamic speed display signs (with built-in radars by slowing down. FuturePundit wonders whether a cell phone tell that would tell you (unsolicited) when you’ve exceeded your calorie allotment would have a similar effect.” Well, I use the LiveStrong app on the iPhone, and I lost ten pounds — actually, a couple more than my goal — last semester, pretty painlessly. It doesn’t directly measure your calories consumed and expended, as you have to enter them. But it has a good database that covers most food and pretty much all exercise you’re likely to perform. It also tracks diet composition; I didn’t go Atkins but I did cut my carbs significantly, which I think helped, too.

3D PONG?

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, WE’D HAVE ONGOING WARS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND FAT-CAT DONORS ENTERTAINED RIGHT IN THE WHITE HOUSE. And they were right!