This is my last one until late next week, so I have to “thank” Prince Fielder and Manny Parra for providing the inspiration for this song…

Before we begin, I have to direct your attention to Badger Blogger - Bruce caught a Wisconsin DNR employee dumping goose crap and an anti-bacterial foaming chemical into a storm sewer multiple times. Do read the whole thing.

• Okay; on with the show - Paul Socha runs through the list of other things (besides Barack Obama’s birthday gift) the Obamination Express will lose.
• Josh Schroeder explains the official logo of the Obamalympics.
• Shoebox found a set of expired words that got the presstitutes in an uproar - Obama’s previous support of not tapping into the Strategic Oil Reserve.
• Jim Geraghty asks, “Does a poll drop count as an emergency?” It most certainly does, especially since…
• …Carol Platt Liebau found PUMAs continuing to lurk about, and…
• …Geraghty notes the core of the Obamination, including one of his delegates, is questioning his head-fake to the middle (they want nothing but a hard tack to Communism), and…
• PJ-Comix laughs at the virtual disappearance of poll from DUmmie- and KOmmie-land.
• James T. Harris found the change the liberals are hoping for. Yes, that is an empty seat.
• Charlie Sykes explains the Obamination Oil Plan. Say, where’s that $200/person the gubmint wants to steal from “Big Oil” that isn’t slated to go back to consumers going?
• Matt Wolking sticks his neck out on the prediction for Obama’s running mate - Evan Bayh. I double-dog-dare Obama to do it.
• DrewM found the racist (per the New York Times) who first linked Obama and Paris Hilton - Barack Hussein Obama.
• Michael J. O’Shea compares Obama to JaMarcus Russell. I’m thinking more along the lines of Ryan Leif.
• Mark McNally spotted Obama in fantasy land. I’m thinking his call to “(end) the age of oil in our time” is more like Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time”.
• JammieWearingFool found the latest ex-friend of McCain to dump on him; someone who supposedly spent Christmas in Cambodia and who wanted McCain to be his running mate 4 short years ago.
• Gabriel Malor answers whether President Bush could call the House back into session. He could, but he won’t.
• Mark Tapscott and Allahpundit provide the point-counterpoint of the wisdom of that refusal. It’s the old “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t” schtick. Considering a lot of the problems the Pubbies have is they didn’t do anything, I’m more inclined to go with Tapscott’s take.
• Michelle Bachmann delivered an open letter to SanFranNan.
• Flip reports the Texas Tea Party will continue until at least Friday. I would so much like to hear news that Congress is back in session to take up widespread drilling when I get back from vacation, but that’s a pipe dream.
• Dr. Melissa Clouthier mourns the death of Michigan. Somehow, I have a feeling I’ll be doing the same for Wisconsin in a few years.
• Michelle Malkin proudly presents Jason Mattera versus William “The Freezer” Jefferson. The reason I went with Michelle’s link instead of Hot Air’s is I want you to catch the FlipShop.
• John Hawkins explains the election in 300 words. I could go shorter, but then I’d be using a lot of expletives.
• Kevin Fischer found a politically-correct candy manufacturer threatening our Reeses over Gorebal “Warming”. Somehow, I don’t think the crowd behind Gorebal “Warming” will leave Reeses alone when they shift fire to “Big Candy”.
• Sister Toldjah reports Sarah Palin is suing the EPA over the designation of polar bears as “threatened”, despite a lack of scientific or numerical basis. She definitely has some big brass ones.
• Owen found the local NWS office asking, “Where’s the heat?” That’s right, Milwaukee hasn’t had this few 90-degree days over the first 7+ years of a decade since the 1900s (the same in Madison goes back to the 1920s), and that there has been a downward trend in 90-degree days since the 1980s (culminating with zero so far this year). Once again, how are we winning the scientific battles and losing the political war on Gorebal “Warming”?
• Ed Morrissey found cap-and-trade tax failing in Europe. Paging Sen. McCain. Paging John McCain. Please pick up the blue clue-phone.
• Lance Burri proves that, once again, it’s all about transfering the money raised from high gas prices from “Big Oil” to Hugh Gubmint for the lieberal envirowhackos.
• Kat explains the real-world costs of high-priced gas.
• Deebow reveals just how worthless Britainistan has been in Basra. No, I’m not talking about the lack of good food regular chatizen at The Ed Morrissey Show JetBlast-Iraq complains about regularily, though the Brits were also responsible for that.

This idea was started by Jessi at Wake Up America. It will appear here every Tuesday (except when I'm on vacation, like next week) until Congress wakes up and allows a lot more domestic drilling (I’m not talking about just ANWR, or just off the Florida coast where Cuba, Red China and Brazil are preparing to drink our milkshake, or just the shale fields in the Rockies).

My Gas Price (south suburban Milwaukee County, Wisconsin): $3.849/gallon cash // $3.909/gallon credit for regular unleaded

America needs to drill here drill now. America is having a energy crisis, and we need to do something now!

Urge Congress to pass a bill to drill in America, where the United States has vast oil and gas resources onshore and offshore that are currently illegal to develop and therefore inaccessible.

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 38 billion barrels of undeveloped oil resources (19 billion barrels onshore and 18.92 billion offshore).

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 180 trillion cubic feet of undeveloped natural gas resources (94.5 trillion cubic feet onshore and 85.7 trillion cubic feet offshore).

Also…

CONGRESS RECENTLY VOTED TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO DEVELOP U.S. OIL SHALE RESOURCES

With oil prices at an all-time high, Americans are facing escalating gas, diesel, and aircraft fuel increases. Oil prices are projected to increase further.

Congress, however, has made it illegal to develop vast domestic oil resources in large parts of the United States.

The most startling Congressional prohibition on domestic oil production concerns the recently enacted ban on the development of oil shale resources in parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in the Green River Formation. According to a Rand Study estimate, this reserve contains over one trillion barrels of oil, with 800 billion barrels fully recoverable, or three times the current oil reserves as Saudi Arabia.

If you haven’t already done so, first If you haven’t already done so, first sign the petition to call for more drilling, then sign the one to get Congress back to DC so they can allow more drilling faster.

Silent E already put up an abbreviated Scramble back at my main site that can’t be missed, but I don’t leave until o-light-hundred (6 am Central) Wednesday.  I may as well combine the two...

I'll leave you to decide which item is silent E's, and which one is mine. 

• Kate has todays daily Obamarama.
• American Pundit reports the GOP is celebrating Barack Obama’s 47th birhtday with tire gauges.
• James Wigderson has the perfect birthday song for Obama.
• Geoff found a full Barack-track on NASA. That’ll get him the 8 Kookcinich votes.
• Barack-Tracking at Real Debate Wisconsin
• PUMA Alert! - Ed Morrissey notes Bill Clinton isn’t exactly on board the Obamination Express.
• William Teach discovered a very-special monogrammed seat on the flying version of the Obamination Express - Barack’s Presidential chair.
• Kate nails Obama on his faux-Robin Hood scheme.
• American Pundit fires the Big Oil stone back at the glass house that is Obama.
• Stix does the economic two-step on Obamination Economics.
• Jim Hoft delivers the news that John McCain and the PUMAs have been waiting for - Rasmussen has McCain up.
• James T. Harris proves that reaching across the aisle, even to the co-author of one’s seminal work that was rejected by that person’s opponent, results in a missing hand.
• Billiam has a message for the Left - they’ve overplayed their race-card-filled hand so much, he’s back. Welcome back, my friend, to the show that never ends.
• Michelle Malkin gives the pubbies some advice.
• Jenni says enough to higher taxes and goes good with (one of the songs) I posted.
• Myths and Facts from Cindy
• Marshall Manson exposes the stupidity of the Senate “Ethics” Committee. Seriously, what’s up with trying to crucify Tom Coburn while giving Ted Stevens a pass?
• USCitizen reports the House GOP will continue the Texas Tea Party.
• Flip has more resources for following the Party, including…
• …Amanda Carpenter’s live-blogging from the House.
• Mark Tapscott is calling in the clans. I wish I could be there, but a pre-planned vacation intrudes. Of course, if the party continues into October and AFP’s Defending the American Dream Summit timeline, I’m there.
• Gary Gross yells, “CHAAAAARRRRGGGGEEE!!!!!!”
• Just A Grunt is paying attention to “Ice Road Truckers”. If the Canucks can move an oil rig in 40 days, how in the <expletive deleted> is it going to take 10 years to start drilling in ANWR?
• Cindy Kilkenny finds yet another episode of Presstitute Bias. Not only did McCain join the offshore drilling brigade before Obama supposedly joined (see yesterday’s Scramble for why it’s “supposedly”), but McCain wants to drill more places than the “Gang of 10″ that Obama supposedly copied.
• Owen gets what the pressitutes don’t.
• Fred Dooley notes the vast difference in presstitute coverage between a one-’Rat protest over last year’s Wisconsin budget “gridlock” (never mind the state was continuing to spend the same amount as the previous budget while the new budget was being hammered out) and the lack of presstitute coverage of the Texas Tea Party.
• Scott reports high-ranking Saddam-era Iraqi officials are admitting that the Iraqi WMD program went to Syria in the months leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Mike Pechar tells what the presstitutes won’t about the terrorist attack in China - the perps are Islamokazis.
• Eddiebear bemoans Eurabia’s attempt to give bacon a shelf life of the average Obamination campaign quote (i.e. very short).
• Donna Martinez proves that when push comes to shove, the change artists suddenly don’t like change too much. No, this is not an Obamination Update; instead, it’s basic self-preservation. On second thought, is there a difference?
• Bill Quick reminds us that intelligence matters.
• Texas is going to smoke an illegal alien and Texas Fred tells why this is a good idea. No arguments here.
• Patrick has your Local On The 8’s.
• Tom McMahon pictures various sleeping arrangements.

That's right, folks.  I'm headed on vacation  to the wilds of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wednesday, and I won't be back until the 15th.  I don't have anybody to fill this place (yet), but Shoebox and the usual cast of guest-bloggers (including the freshly-added Silent one) will be manning the main blog's board.

So, it’s afternoon; brunch lasts until 3 on Sundays, and I did start this in the morning, so it’s all good.

• William Smith highlights the difference between Barack Obama and John McCain in a non-scripted environment.
• Purple Avenger tracks the latest in the Washington Pum…er, Post’s PUMA-like activities. Nothing like having a guy with a “tissue-thin” and “troubling” record (the WaPo’s words, not mine) being the presumptive nominee. I’m beginning to wonder whether the Obamination Express will make it to Invesco Field.
• JammieWearingFool dug up a salient fact about Obama’s Hawaiian mentor that The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ “missed”.
• Amanda Carpenter sniffed out the non-change in Obama’s opposition to off-shore drilling before I did, and she even used the extended quote from Friday to do it (I went with the Saturday flop to Friday’s flip). Bonus coverage; the “Gang of 10’s” energy “plan” is a very costly one; $20 billion over 10 years and 85% of the cars illegal to run in 20.
• Jim Hoft caught Obama dealing race card after race card from the bottom of the deck. To paraphrase AC/DC - I know what Obama’s dealing out, and I want him dealt back.
• Owen proves it’s all about emotion for the Obama Nation.
• Jeff Emanuel reports that Eric Cantor is officially on the short list for McCain VP choices, as the campaign requested “personal documents” from him. Flashback - Matt Wolking called it a couple weeks back (though he was a bit off on the timing).
• The Vintage one likes that news. So do I, as long as McCain waits for Obama to name his VP nominee first.
• Caledonia Unplugged reported from the balcony (side note - she gave up a reserved seat for that) on McCain’s townhall meeting in Racine. Yep, it was the peanut gallery (though not because of her).
• Trail-Mix has a nice little diversion from the McCain campaign. Nothing like emulating a timeless arcade classic (yes, I spent many quarters in arcades back in the day).
• Elliot asks the question the presstitutes and their fellow travellers on the Left are dreading - “What if McCain wins?” I’ll answer - Mass hysteria.
• Of course, not all the McCain news is good - A.J. Sparxx asks McCain which side he’s on. It still is a very good question.
• Sgt. Relic sings an ode of sorts for Nancy “Lights Out” Pelosi.
• Jim Lynch took a picture of the House as Lights Out turned out the lights.
• Jim Hoft notes the lifeboats are starting to fill over at the Party of the ‘Rat. I’m not surprised; the public portion of Operation Chaos/NRE Spring Hill Campaign is over, and there is no benefit to remaining a DINO for those that participated.
• Michelle Malkin quotes Chesty Puller as advice for the House Pubbies. Do not miss the Photoshop from Jim Hoft.
• Fausta found the real reason for Anheuser-Busch sold out to the Belgians; taxes. And yet Obama and the ‘Rats want ever-higher taxes, even as the Europeans cut theirs.
• Bill Quick fisks the gripes of the presstitutes. Judging by the comments left by the professional gripers, it is a shame copy editing is a lost art.
• Lawhawk proves that it’s not just the presstitutes that file the dispatches that need a copy editor; it’s headline writers as well. I didn’t know the Taliban had flying mines until The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ told me so.
• Tom McMahon charts the newspaper business model.
• Bruce finds the next presstitute-driven health crisis - text messaging.
• B.C. the Imperial Torturer hammers another nail into the coffin of the Great Glow Bull Worming Consensus Coffin™. The Great Gorebal Bravo Sierra Awakening has not quite hit NASA like a jet of solar plasma yet, but it’s starting.
• Curt wraps up the Week in Gorebal “Warming”.
• Aberman explains in change form (literally) how more future drilling reduces the price of oil today.
• Mark Block explains the economic costs the Doyle Gorebal “Warming” Task Force Gorebal “Warming” acolytes at the World Resources Institute refused to take into consideration.
• Matt Burden is shocked (no, not shocked, SHOCKED; that will come later) that members of the Coast Guard are now eligible to become SEALs. Fortunately, it doesn’t look like the requirements are being relaxed any.
• Zip has some news sure to outrage just about everybody along the political spectrum. Tyson Foods, with the blessing of the leadership of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, is dropping Labor Day as a paid holiday at its Shelbyville, Tennessee plant so they can give employees a paid vacation for, wait for it, wait for it, wait…for…it…the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
• Fausta reports that the Iranians are giving missile technology to Venezuela. There are variants of the Shahab-3 missile that would reach southern Florida from Venezuela.
• Rick Moran sees similarities between the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Hopefully history does not continue to repeat itself, though I wouldn’t mind another Olympic-sized smackdown of a “master race” to happen before the future begins to diverge significantly from the past.
• Uncle Jimbo and Laughing Wolf are competing for your vote to be a co-host for a new Discovery Channel series called “Super Testing”. I can definitely see either guy having a blast (literally).
• B.C. delivers the Sarcasm Smackdown™ to Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services, which stood by as a disabled 14-year-old girl wasted away from neglect before dying at 42 pounds. These are the same <expletive deleted> that want to ru(i)n everybody’s health care.
• Bill Quick catches the Centers for Disease Control cooking the HIV books for political reasons. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that a lieberal-controlled gubmint agency would lie to make things seem worse than they are.
• Jackboot has the Great 2008 Moonbat Test. I’m proud to state that I did not identify with any of the memes; I don’t want to get on the wrong side of the Imperial Torturer.

I wish I were already on vacation, but that’s not until Wednesday…

This should be short, but it definitely won’t be sweet…

• Matt Burden clarifies a few things about the abortive Barack Obama visit to Landstuhl.
• Martin gives Obama a big, fat F in Economics 101 for his “Emergency Economic Plan”.
• He does beat the folks at IBD; they provide further explanation for that failing grade.
• The Vintage one laughs at the idiots at MoveOn.org for being caught flat-footed by Obama’s Barack-track on an absolute ban on off-shore drilling. Somebody, please remind me to fire a few salvos at that later today, starting with the fact that a single properly-placed hurricane would threaten almost all of what Obama is now reluctantly open to opening up.
• American Pundit found some rather curious locations of donations to the Obamination campaign. I could’ve swore that foreign nationals were prohibited from donating to election campaigns.
• The Vintage one reposts Sarah Palin’s view on the role of the Vice President, and then contrasts that to John McCain’s. Did I mention there are pictures involved (and not of McCain or the Vintage one)?
• Bruce Walker outlines the Three Drills To Victory plan for McCain’s benefit.
• Mark Tapscott bemoans the missed opportunity of the too-short House GOP energy revolution.
• Kevin Fischer provides more evidence we are bass-ackwards here in the land of cheese and beer; while the Hugh Gubmint types are tripping over themselves to raise taxes (specifically, sales taxes), other states, and the District of Columbia are having sales-tax holidays. I guess they didn’t check with the Obamination.
• Jon Ham praises WalMart for participating in politcs to the extent the unions are.
• Glenn Reynolds declares NBC News a bigger joke than Jay Leno after Leno beat the NBC Nightly News in ratings.
• James T. Harris exposes the hypocrisy of the local paint-catcher.
• Proof the Left Wants Us in the 13th Century, Part 1 - lawhawk notes New Mexico governor (and former ‘Rat Presidential candidate) Bill Richardson continues to fight tooth and nail against a coal plant on Navajo land despite losing again and again.
• Proof the Left Wants Us in the 13th Century, Part 2 - JammieWearingFool reports the Britanistan moonbats are trying to stop the first coal-fired power plant in the UK in 30 years.
• Fausta found Hugo Chavez continuing down the road to Communism, as he attempts to nationalize Venezuela’s banks.
• The Oh-So-Tolerant Left Watch - Jim Hoft mentions the animal rights moonbats want to decapitate the 11-year-old who bagged Hogzilla. I wonder if they got the idea from the Islamokazis, or the thug up in Canada noted in yesterday’s Scramble.
• Headless Blogger breaks news of a $20 million offer to Ned Yost to leave the Brewers. I’m in for $20.

Enjoy your weekend, folks.

I warned you way back when that this was not a daily feature. Sorry about missing the last 2 days; here’s some Def Leppard from when they kicked arse (instead of teaming up with Tim McGraw) to make up for that…

• Headless Blogger finds Barack Obama’s gas “plan” of speed-limit enforcing (as if I’ll slow down barring repeated speed traps) and proper tire inflation (which I actually believe in; low-pressure tires are the #1 cause of BadYear blowouts in NASCAR) helpful, if a bit underwhelming.
• Mary Katharine Ham says that it’s not the heat, it’s the vapidity.
• Allahpundit caught the DNC ripping off the Leave Brittney Alone guy.
• Bill Quick has the definitive answer to that.
• Slublog joins the growing list of “racists” in style. If only I had thought to do a Photoshop of the local lefty “brain trust” as they missed the mark a while back,….
• Kate plays “Know Your Candidate, Obamination Edition”.
• Kyle-Anne Shiver thanks God for Obama’s inept candidacy. If only 45-55% of those that can be bothered to vote weren’t Kool-Aid drinkers,….
• C. Edmund Wright found yet another new federal program supported by Obama - reparations. Welfare by any other name….
• Elliot has some tech questions for Obama and Newsweek columnist Obamination campaign staffer Anna Quindlen.
• Ed Morrissey has some sticker shock for those of you going to St. Paul to blog the GOP convention. Sean, you might want to fold that sticker shock into your fundraising blegs.
• Geoff proves once again that, given removal of incentives to come and stay here, illegal aliens will stop coming and start self-deporting.
• Doubleplusundead cheers Congress taking bipartisan steps to reassert its responsibility over the District of Columbia and enforce the 2nd Amendment. It is fitting that he gave the hat tip to a place called Snowflakes in Hell, because that’s precisely what is happening.
• Michelle Malkin proves that “free” health care is all about the politics, as the ‘Rats are attacking Sen. Tom Coburn for not charging for baby deliveries. I’ll bet they wouldn’t care if he were performing free abortions, even though he is a Pubbie.
• Nate Beeler pictures the Bridge to Nowhere.
• Brent J highlights an interview John Gard (Pubbie candidate in the 8th Congressional here in Wisconsin) did with CQ Politics.
• Bill Quick cheers a potential breakthrough in the production of hydrogen, using nothing but the sun, water, cobalt, phosphate, and an electrode. Faster, please!
• Charles Krauthammer asserts that the ‘Rat no-drill policy is harming the planet, as countries that care less for proper drilling techniques than American oil companies increase their drilling.
• B.C. the Imperial Torturer notes the ice keeps on building up around the Arctic Circle. In the hilarious tour de force, he sets a new record for uses of the ™ symbol, so go read it already.
• Lady Logician asks which number was higher in the 2nd quarter of 2008 - ExxonMobil’s profits or ExxonMobil’s tax liability. I won’t quite spoil the answer, but one was nearly three times as high as the other.
• John Hawkins notes that the Congressional ban on drilling will expire on 10/1. LET THERE BE GRIDLOCK!
• XBradTC finds some troop-friendly uses for dirt. I didn’t know a properly-filled sandbag could stop an AK-47 round at point-blank range.
• Kat found a Congresscritter who introduced a bill to house all the “guests” at Club Gitmo on Supreme Court grounds. I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
• Just in case you missed it, Jim Hoft didn’t miss the fact that July 2008 was the least-deadly month for US troops in Iraq since February 2003 and for Iraqi civilians since December 2005. Paging Mr. Kagen. Paging Mr. Obama. Please pick up the reality check.
• Geoff found another ‘Rat who has yet to have a dose of reality; the one that’s but 2 heartbeats from the Oval Office.
• Heather Radish has the football quote of the day. I only wish it were a Packer who uttered it, but Wile E. Thompson (mud) has sucked the fun out of the team.
• Dr. Melissa Clouthier breaks out the world’s smallest violin for the sexist whiners of the blogosphere. If the blogosphere were sexist, would I have Melissa, or Mary Katharine, or Kate, or Heather, or Lady Logician, or Katie Favazza, or Dagney Taggert, or (well, I think you get the idea) on the bloated roll, my feed reader, and in the Scramble on a regular basis?
• James Wigderson wonders whether Hollywood’s leading actors and actresses will practice the liberal mantra it preaches. Since liberalism on the rich end is about shutting off access to the club for the nearly-rich, I’ll bet not.
• Speaking of oh-so-compassionate liberals, Jib notes that the ones that tried to shut down the Badger Blog Alliance via the oft-abused Blogger “abuse” feature failed.
• Brian summarizes some basic conservative beliefs. I’m going to miss him in the blogosphere as he announced his retirement from blogging.
• Ed Driscoll chronicles the latest example of the decline and fall of Canada - 35 people stood by as a thug repeatedly stabbed, beheaded and gutted a human on a Greyhound bus (emphasis added for the benefit of the local lefty “brain trust”).

This idea was started by Jessi at Wake Up America. It will appear here every Tuesday (whether I’m here or not; the only difference is I won’t be able to update the current gas price while on vacation unless I'm on vacation, because it is not possible to post-date posts at Townhall) until Congress wakes up and allows a lot more domestic drilling (I’m not talking about just ANWR, or just off the Florida coast where Cuba, Red China and Brazil are preparing to drink our milkshake, or just the shale fields in the Rockies).

My Gas Price (south suburban Milwaukee County, Wisconsin): $3.729/gallon cash // $3.779/gallon credit for regular unleaded

America needs to drill here drill now. America is having a energy crisis, and we need to do something now!

Urge Congress to pass a bill to drill in America, where the United States has vast oil and gas resources onshore and offshore that are currently illegal to develop and therefore inaccessible.

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 38 billion barrels of undeveloped oil resources (19 billion barrels onshore and 18.92 billion offshore).

U.S. law prohibits the development of approximately 180 trillion cubic feet of undeveloped natural gas resources (94.5 trillion cubic feet onshore and 85.7 trillion cubic feet offshore).

Also…

CONGRESS RECENTLY VOTED TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO DEVELOP U.S. OIL SHALE RESOURCES

With oil prices at an all-time high, Americans are facing escalating gas, diesel, and aircraft fuel increases. Oil prices are projected to increase further.

Congress, however, has made it illegal to develop vast domestic oil resources in large parts of the United States.

The most startling Congressional prohibition on domestic oil production concerns the recently enacted ban on the development of oil shale resources in parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in the Green River Formation. According to a Rand Study estimate, this reserve contains over one trillion barrels of oil, with 800 billion barrels fully recoverable, or three times the current oil reserves as Saudi Arabia.

SIGN THE PETITION (if you haven’t already)!

Revisions/extensions (6:48 pm CDT 7/29/2008) - Fixed an error introduced by simply copying from my main blog.

Once again, I’m extremely late with this. Sorry about that; haven’t been feeling good since Ned Yost decided he didn’t like 1st place and Hen¢AR and Goodyear decided they didn’t like teams not owned by Hendrick Motorsports….

• We’ll reverse the order of proceedings today, and start with something light - Janet Evans says to watch for the 4-day school week. France, here we come!
• Zip pays attention to what Al Qaeda is saying. Do remember their goal is 300,000,000 dead Americans (give or take the number that express 150% fealty to them).
• Michelle Malkin caught the DNC paying Envirowhacko Carbon Credits to a school district whose wind turbine produces no electricity. I wonder how much of a cut Algore Goracle got out of it.
• MataHarley asks whether the electric-car “cure” is worse than the Gorebal “Warming problem”. If you thought the “science” was shaky on CO₂, wait until you check out the lack-of-science on H₂O.
• Dad29 proves, using the Governor’s Gorbebal “Warming” task force’s report, that Gorebal “Warming” is all about the return to the 13th Century, with a big, fat heaping, steaming pile of Communism thrown in for good measure.
• Shoebox found Minneapolis’ mayor finding a “better” use for $500,000 than either road repairs or taxpayers’ pockets - 10 custom-built artsy-fartsy bubblers (that’s drinking fountains for those of you outside the Milwaukee area). The individual cost is something north of 10 times the most-expensive ADA-compliant/freeze-resistant standard-construction fountain I could find in a quick search of the Web (and that is a dual-bubbler design).
• Lance Burri laughs at both the ‘Rats of Wisconsin’s First Congressional District and the local paint-catcher. $77,500 in a four-way primary race for Congress against $1,200,000 to be spent in at least 2 media markets (specifically, the 2 most-expensive based-in-state ones) when there are Assembly candidates raising more cash (while covering less than a tenth of the area) is pathetic.
• Matt Naugle caught an Ohio ‘Rat sending a look-alike to a parade.
• Swint asks how John McCain is so close in the polls.
• A brief dip into the Obamination Watch since it fits here - Dr. Melissa Clouthier asks whether Obama peaked too early. Do remember to vote in her poll.
• How close? How early? How much of a backlash? Jim Hoft found McCain up by 4 points among likely voters.
• Guess it’s 2 steps forward, 2 steps back at NRE today - Allahpundit notes McCain’s most-powerful arrow is now out of the quiver and on the ground broken as McCain signs onto Barack Obama’s 16-months timeline with presstitute-ignored qualifications. It’s only fitting that Wile E. Coyote (super genius) calls Arizona home.
• Slublog wonders whether McCain’s support of the Fannie/Freddie bailout means that the other powerful arrow in McCain’s quiver, his opposition to excessive government spending, is also broken on the ground. Sure looks like it.
• Michelle Malkin caught the American presstitutes applying Great Circus Parade Math (for those outside Milwaukee, that’s presstitutes greatly inflating the crowd estimates to prop up a favored item) to Obama’s Berlin speech.
• Eric dubs Obama the Hannah Montana of politics.
• Jon Ham found an organization lifted up out of the wheel wells of the Obamination Express - Blackwater. That’s right, eeeeeevil Blackwater provided security for the Iraq portion of the Obamination World Tour.
• Rick Moran lists the top ten things about Obama that creep him out.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings.

This is going to be extra-filling today after yesterday’s light fare, so I’m going with a 2-parter. I hereby dedicate the first-half song to Uncle Jimbo and his search for a new avatar for Blackfive’s newest contributor, Driven…

• Before I get into the heart of the extra-heavy Scramble, a PSA - The Game is organizing a charity golf outing to benefit his sister-in-law, who has breast cancer.
• I don’t think we’re going to run out of Obamination targets anytime soon. Slublog offers in SluShop form the Obama campaign a few more places besides the Western Wall in Jerusalem to put campaign symbols