Yes, I’m on time today. There are actually two reasons for the song today:

- Tonight is the July Drinking Right over at Papa’s Social Club (7718 W Burleigh in Milwaukee, at 7 pm). Be there.
- While I won’t be in the Twin Cities at the beginning of September, I figure between Sean Hackbarth (he’s still jobless, so get him some cash so he can be there), Owen Robinson, Todd Lohenry and gopfolk, they’ll have a DR-Twin Cities during the GOP Convention.

• John Hawkins sums up why the GOP is in trouble. If the RNC doesn’t think that what happened to the Whigs and Federalists can happen to them as a result of their leftward swing at the explicit shunning of the right, I’ve got 50 reasons why that’s fatally-flawed thinking in the poll on the left sidebar of the main blog (which taken by itself is a plurality).
• On the flip side, Stephan Tawney dips into the history to give John McCain a bit of a boost; it seems that in 6 of the last 9 hotly-contested elections (defined by Gallup as either a July lead or a November victory of 6 or fewer percentage points), the July leader lost the popular vote. Barack Obama currently leads McCain by 6 points according to Gallup. That’ll give a lot of comfort to the 109 people who told me that they believe McCain will win the election (which I note is a majority of those who answered the NRE poll as of early this morning).
• Matt Lewis is running a Veepstakes. My money’s on list #1, specifically the estrogen portion.
• Emperor Misha I is definitely part of the nihilist crowd, especially after the RNC’s ad for McCain endorsing his statist, acolyte answer for Gorebal “Warming”.
• Speaking of Gorebal “Warming”, Ace found yet another thing that causes it - cement. No, not the fact that it makes it easier to drive cars on; the mere fact that it is made. I wonder if the Gorebal “Warming” acolytes considered that going back to the 16th Century (or the 8th Century the Islamokazis want to take us to; there really is little difference in the tech) is simply unsustainable on a 6-billion-people planet.
• JammieWearingFool doesn’t want to hear the Obamas whine about their kids not having any privacy after they sold them out to a tabloid TV show. Note; because of the language filters, I could not link directly to the post in this version.
• Jim Hoft found yet another set of Obama’s words past its expiration date; his prediction that the surge failed.
• The Vintage One found another set of words just waiting for the curdling to begin; his use of the past tense to describe his ongoing time in the Senate. Where did I put the garbage can? I think I’m going to be sick.
• Kathryn Jean Lopez wonders about the possibility of a pair of odd-couple tickets. For the record, I don’t think Obama will go with a “bitter Bible-thumping gun-clinger”.
• Plebian reveals the ‘Rat Goodie Bag that was supposed to be handed out in Denver.
• Good Lt. deems the ‘Rat Congress as an Epic FAIL. When those who have a either a great deal of or quite a lot of confidence in Congress is less than those who have a great deal of confidence in the Presidency, and the latter is deemed incredibly low, that’s an Epic FAIL with a capital L. Gee, I wonder why this isn’t gleefully reported by the presstitutes.
• In the Know has just one of the reasons why there is no confidence in Congress - they’re about to pass a bill that will spend $50 million a year on federal inspections for bed bugs.
• Gopfolk has another reason why there’s no confidence in government; the dead are getting the tax rebate welfare stimulus checks.
• Mark Pribonic explodes the myth of fixed income. Who here working in the private, non-union sector has had over the last 3 years the 10% increase in wages that Social Security recipients had?
• Dad29 notes that Detroit is just a little bit worse than Milwaukee; instead of a two-bit Alderthug trying to shake down the entire city for cash, they have the Common Council president and wife of a senior ‘Rat Congresscritter doing it.
• Kat says that Heller was just the first salvo, as DC is trying to ban all semi-automatic handguns. They either believe that by the time Round 2 gets to the Supreme Court, Kennedy will have “grown” some more into a full-fledged Lawgiver-In-Black or one of the conservatives will have been replaced by a L-I-B.
• Lance Burri calls Epic Health Systems an Epic FAIL for trying to put the squeeze on supporters of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce because they defended their interests in the recent state Supreme Court race. Why am I not the least bit surprised that the CEO of Epic FAIL donated $24,000 to One Wisconsin Now, which didn’t exactly sit idly by, but tried to prop up soon-to-be-ex Lawgiver-In-Black Loophole Louis Butler?

TexasFred found today’s music…

Here we go again with a mega-linkfest. No politics in this one; just a heap of people remembering why today is special.

• Scott has a moving video of our history (along with another good rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner”).
• Jed and Zip deliver the flags.
• Lawhawk, eddiebear, and Sean Hackbarth break out the fireworks.
• Rick Moran brought back his liveblog of the Continental Congress (scroll down; I’m too lazy to link directly to the 7/2 and 7/3 entries, and the 7/4 one isn’t up yet).
• Owen, Stephen Green, Laughing Wolf, sodaboy, Slublog, lawhawk, Peter, Kate, John Adams (the blogger, not the President), Paul Socha, doubleplusundead, gopfolk, William Teach (with a pinup), and Cuffy Meigs all break out at least part of the Declaration of Independence.
• James T. Harris reposts a Rush Limbaugh classic on what the Founding Fathers gave up to sign and stand by the Delcaration.
• Ed Morrissey declares the Delcaration “timeless and of its time”.
• Tom DeLay posted a speech he used to give stating that America is not an accident.
• Heather Radish breaks out a classic Cox and Forkum cartoon.
• BrewFan quotes Abraham Lincoln.
• Just A Grunt asks us to not harp on what is wrong because we are the example for the rest of the world.
• Mary Lazich explains why America is the best country on Earth.
• Robert uses the words of Shelby Evens to explain the meaning of today.
• Huckleberry Dumbell dug up a poem from a “guest” of Stalag Luft I.
• RidesAPaleHorse has another moving tribute.
• Ed Morrissey reminisces about his first trip to DC 3 years ago today.
• Kathryn Jean Lopez found that even Google got into the spirit of things.
• Jimi is a busy man today, but not too busy to wish everybody a Happy 4th.
• S. Weasel found the real Uncle Sam (at least according to Wikipedia).
• Mike breaks out some Classic Reagan Humor.
• US Citizen asks God to bless those who stand with America. Amen.
• Mary uses John Adams (the President, not the blogger) to explain why she loves this country.
• Janet Evans found some symbols worth talking about.
• RadicalRon replays Red Skelton and the Pledge.
• Paul Socha recites it as well.
• Asian Badger keeps it short and sweet.
• Vivian Lee does LOLRabbitz.
• Kevin Fischer does a triple-shot of John Wayne, Elvis Presley and Kate Smith.
• MataHarley recites the preamble to the Constitution (it’s much shorter than the one to the Declaration).
• Mike remembers Samuel Adams.
• Fred went with the simple.
• McQ doesn’t want to live anywhere else. Ditto, at least until 1/20/2009.
• Josh Schroeder is glad we’re no longer part of the British monarchy.
• Jim Hoft brings news of the largest re-enlistment ceremony in history and a letter from the Polish contingent in Afghanistan to our troops in Bagram.
• Stephan Tawney asks us to remember those that keep us free.

I may or may not update this yet today to throw even more linkage outbound. If I forgot you, kick me.

• Phelony Jones stresses the word “Independence”. Since she is a fan of pinup art, I’m not surprised she and William Teach used the same picture.
• Shoebox adds himself to the Red Skelton Pledge video as he urges us to celebrate.
• Sister Toldjah woke up with an extra spring in her step.
• Add Mark McNally to the list of those quoting from the Declaration.
• See-dubya remembers going shooting (both fireworks and guns) on the Fourth as a child.

R&E part 2 (8:33 pm CDT 7/4/2008) - More incoming…

• Dave in Texas went to a good 4th of July parade.
• Dri and Heather Radish break out the Muppets.
• Emperor Misha I says, “Let us swear to (keep this Republic) or die trying.”
• Anwyn thanks those that earned our freedom.
• Kat tears up over a particular phrase in the National Anthem.
• John has a few things to remember, such as freedom not being the same as safety or security.
• Lance Burri explores how the Declaration changed the world.
• Jim Lynch remembers the parades and picnics of his youth.
• Add William Smith and silent E to the list of those reposting the Declaration.
• Plebian says, “Sally Fourth.” The mosquitoes are just too bad here, though the steaks, chicken, corn, burgers and brats my older sister cooked up before I retreated back to the bunker were very good.
• Trail-Mix keeps the message simple, though the delivery is beautiful.
• Sean M. delivers more fireworks (there is a content warning on the video).
• Ed Driscoll flies the flag.
• Curt’s word of the day is “sacrifice”.
• John Adams posted a lot of pics from Whitewater’s parade.
• Mary Katharine Ham reveals her reading list.
• Headless Blogger remembered his trip to Monticello and Mt. Vernon.
• Ace has the true point of Independence Day.
• Leslie Carbone rolls video of a re-enactment of the reading of the Declaration to the citizens of colonial Williamsburg.
• Michelle Malkin does a multimedia presentation.
• Mike celebrates Thanksgiving in July.
• Sgt. Relic reflects on the direction we’re going.
• Keith Conrad reposts the famous painting of the signing of the Declaration.
• Professor Stephen Bainbridge says that Independence Day was the second domino.
• I almost made it through the day without an Obamination update. Jon Ham noticed something odd, but entirely predictable; a lot of Durham homes with American flags, a lot of Durham homes with Obama signs, but not one with both.
• Justin Higgins photographed the Washingotn Monument and a lot of flags.
• Silent E provides yet another patriotic song.
• Wyatt Earp, who feels lucky to have been Philly-born and -raised one day each year, does the Top Ten thing.
• Teresa rolls with the fireworks.
• Mark Hemingway has the pic of the day.
• John McCormack has some more required reading.
• Carol Platt Liebau reposts some classic Reagan.
• Nick Schweitzer salutes high treason.
• Eric explains what July 4 means to him.
• Ragnar says that we are indeed the shining city on the hill.
• Dan Deibert reposts John Adams’ letter to his wife.
• JihadGene says, “It’s time to dance.”
• R&E part 3 (8:49 pm CDT) - Xbradtc says to not forget the “small, but wonderful” ways patriotism is expressed.

I warned you today would be a recovery day. It’s a good thing too, because Mary came across the reason why I’m no longer featuring Summerfest acts; they pulled the US Army display.

• Wyatt Earp remembers that it was this day 232 years ago that the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt the resolution for independence from Great Britain.
• Frank Lasee expounds on the meaning of freedom.
• Mary Lazich reprints a letter from Rep. Mark Gundrum, who is serving in Iraq. Bravo Zulu, sir, and see you when you get back.
• Matt Burden remembers who thought The Surge wouldn’t work. Why am I not surprised to see both Barack Obama and Wesley Clark on that list (I’ll be back to them in a bit)?
• How much progress? Warner Todd Huston caught the presstitutes including our allies’ casualty numbers to try to keep the anti-war American spin machine going.
• Sean Hackbarth is keeping track of the benchmarks the ‘Rats suddenly forgot about because Iraq is better than 83% there.
• Of course, not all the news from Iraq is good; Dr. Rusty Shackelford found Hezbollah setting up shop in Iraq. Say, isn’t that a 25-year itch that needs some extra-strength medication?
• Uncle Jimbo says, “Character matters.” If only John McCain weren’t so stubborn in eviscerating the First Amendment, granting amnesty to Mexicans here illegally, and killing the economy on the altar of Gorebal “Warming”,….
• Moron Pundit decodes the message of Hugh Gubmint - “You’re too stupid to live your lives.”
• Dad29 caught soon-to-be-ex-Justice Loophole Louis Butler being the decisive vote on a case in which a party donated to him. Need I mention that it was a liberal group, and Loophole voted in their favor?
• Headless Blogger dips into the dustbin of history to explain why we don’t have tracked trolleys anymore. No wonder why the liberals got history excised from the schools; it’s so much easier to repeat the failures if nobody remembers why they failed the first time.
• Bryan Maersch explores why MATC taxes are going up 4.9% this year. If MATC president Darnell Cole got his most-recent raise while working in the private sector, especially with MATC’s (lack-of-)performance, the presstitutes would be having a 30-ton cow.
• Moe Lane eviscerates Dingy Harry Reid on energy.
• Speaking of the Dingy One, see-dubya caught him going to the Nazi attack. Now, what’s the principle that says the first one to the Nazi references loses?
• Update on yesterday’s stupid union item; Lance Burri now reports Baraboo’s public employee union is going to drop their grievance about not being called first to fill sandbags.
• Now, it’s Obamination Time. Heather Radish asks Obama why he wants to kill Canadians with his plan to nationalize American health care.
• The Unreal One has the Obamination Demotivation Poster of the day.
• Flip notes that the drive to 100% taxation will really take off with an Obamination Administration.
• Jim Geraghty has today’s Expired Obamination Words - that 16-month withdrawal pledge isn’t a deadline.
• Jonah Goldberg found a rather-interesting (in the Chinese, likely Red, sort of way) group organized on the Obama campaign site.
• Duane Lester found another recipient of a sweetheart mortgage deal - your presumptive ‘Rat nominee for President.
• Ed Morrissey isn’t buying the Obamination Excuse that it was competition for a hot new successful ‘Rat pol. Oh, I don’t know; buying pols is standard operating procedure in Chicago.
• Zip does the math on Obama’s experience. If you took the over-150 days between swearing in and creating a Presidential Exploratory committee, rip up that ticket because it’s worthless.
• Bus & Driver update, part 1 - Jim Geraghty found Obama pulling Clark up from under the front bumper of the Obamination Express.
• Bus & Driver update, part 2 - Fred found George Soros and company under the wheels.
• Bus & Driver update, part 3 - Charles Johnson found there is a bigger bus than the Obamination Express.

Hey, it’s still before 6 pm here in the land of cheese and beer, so it’s not Evening Scramble yet :-)

Don’t confuse the size of this with normalcy; I won’t be back until tomorrow and that’s going to be a recovery day.

• Jim Hoft relays the predictabe result of the attempt of the ‘Rats, led by Nobody’s Senator, Herb Kohl and the worst doctor around, Steve Kagen, to sue OPEC.
• Peter questions southeast Wisconsin’s (and northeast Illinois’) very-own special blend of Algore-Whitman Memorial RFG. While it is 14 cents/gallon more than uncontaminated gas, thanks to the 8-year-old threat by Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) to sue Big Oil if they passed that along to just those of us in SE Wisconsin, the entire state is paying 7 or so cents/gallon more than they should. Maybe I should just make stupid lawsuit threats the theme :-) .
• Second dose of the Gateway Pundit on gas (sue me; I’m on vacation); he is sick of Dingy Harry Reid’s answer to energy. You want an energy crisis, give him a compliant President (wait, we are about to).
• Lawhawk delivered Wesley Clark his own copy of Bus & Driver yesterday. Guess I was a bit off on the timing.
• Jim Lynch isn’t letting the fact that Clark got tossed under the Obamination Express get in the way of his latest caption contest.
• Laughing Wolf links Barack Obama, Clark and not-under-the-bus William Ayers.
• Jim Geraghty applied some inflationary and non-inflationary math to Barack Obama’s claims that he only got $12,000 as a community organizer. Throw in the car, and Obama started out better than the median income; and he only got richer.
• Brief break from the Obamination Express; James T. Harris confirms there is a lot of money in “charity work” in the black community.
• Back to the Obamination Express; Emperor Misha I rips the Official Washington Paper Paint-Catcher of the Obamination, Washington Post™, over their dis of the part of “flyover country” I happen to be in (or at least the state).
• James Wigderson found another curdled set of words from Obama past their expiration date; his former federalist stance on gay marriage.
• I’m not done with the ‘Rats yet. Kathy Carpenter notes they skipped town without forestalling a 10% cut in Medicare rates scheduled because of a formula that requires fee cuts when spending exceeds established goals. (Un)fortunately, President Bush bailed them out.
• William Teach confirms the ‘Rats are all about misery.
• Sister Toldjah caught a ‘Rat pining for the glory days of the Great Patriotic War (no, not the American Revolution, or the Civil War, but the Soviet front of World War II).
• Plebian has what the ‘Rats believe are the most-dangerous things in the world. Unlike Scrappleface, 90% of it’s true (it’s only missing Rush Limbaugh).
• Paul Socha is rooting for chicken wire for the protesters at the ‘Rat convention.
• JammieWearingFool notes that it would feel just like home to a couple of Durham ‘Rats who are part of a Satanic cult busted for kidnapping, rape and assault.
• Okay; I’m done with the ‘Rats, but we’re not done with politics. Doubleplusundead (filling in on Conservative Grapevine this week) has this week’s dose of GOP Senate FAIL. Trent Cave-A-Lott taught Mitch McConnell well (relatively-speaking).
• The letter-writing Brad V says that Bobby Jindal just saved his national political future by vetoing the 100% pay increase for Louisiana’s legislature.
• Christian Schneider has women who are not his wife mad at him because he dared to question Wisconsin’s policy of giving the ‘Rats an 8-Assemby-seat and 2-Senate-seat head start in any given election. Guess it’s time to rename that organization League of Women DemocRATic Voters.
• Josh Schroeder has an investment opportunity for you. Of course, Six Flags will first have to find a way to shut up the family of a youth who climbed a pair of well-marked fences and found himself on the fatal end of a roller coaster without losing a lot of money.
• Michelle Malkin and See-Dubya tag-team the sad state of education today.
• Let’s close off with some humor. Lemur King answers the question, “Why do we laugh at misfortune?”, with some potatoes.
• Anwyn asks, “What is Christie Brinkley proliferating?”

Let’s see if I can get this done quickly; I’m off to Cedar Point since I’m almost all the way down here…

• I would be remiss if I didn’t show you what I ate this weekend. The rest of you Morons just don’t know what you missed.
• Crunchie0311 (or is it 0311 crunchie?) smacked down the Chicago Tribune’s editorial idiotorial board. That reminds me; I’ll have to restart the Idiotorial of the Day contest when I get back.
• Kate has the cartoon of the day.
• JammieWearingFool reports a French commando “accidentally” used live ammunition during an open day demonstration. Fortunately, nobody died (yet), though out of 16 wounded, 4 were in serious condition.
• Fausta exposes Barack Obama’s New-Ageism. I wonder what the out-of-the-country Islamists will think about that.
• Warner Todd Huston notes just how little respect the Cult of Obamination has for opposing viewpoints (pay attention, those of you using Blogger; if you haven’t been targeted yet, you likely will be).
• William Teach predicts a bus-tossing for Wesley Clark. Put me down for high noon Tuesday.
• Headless Blogger explores what happens when the tracks get flooded out. That’s right, AMTRAK is a government operation.
• Bill Quick notes the presstitute follies are beginning with the reporting on the anti-Obama/anti-John McCain/pro-Hillary Clinton vandalizing of a bunch of cars in Florida.
• Sister Toldjah runs through a couple more bogus attacks on McCain from the left.
• Karl offers a sage piece of advice to McCain on the economy; less is more.
• I doubt McCain will take it; after all, nocomme1 notes he isn’t exactly into us conservatives.
• Shoebox coined a new term for the no-drill ‘Rats - DOPES. It definitely fits.
• Tom McMahon delivers the 4-Block to hope and reality.
• Uncle Jimbo and Kev launched a Freefly into professional journalist treasonist Seymour Hersh, the aforementioned Clark, and the aforementioned Frenchie (standard Freefly language rules apply).
• Kevin Fischer notes Japan has gone to a very strict waist-measurement regime. If Healthy (and Depopulated) Wisconsin or the Obamination Health Care plan comes to fruition, this is our future.
• Lance Burri has today’s useless public union news; the unionized Baraboo city workers have filed a grievance because the volunteer firefighters were filling sandbags during the height of the flooding. My solution; next time, sandbag everything except the union thugs’ homes.

Yes, it’s Sunday. As usual, I’m conscious way too early, but not as usual, I’m running with a Scramble…

• James Wigderson found yet another place that requires photo ID.
• Kevin Fischer issued a call to arms back at the home county (Milwaukee) over a board of supervisors’ 12-6 vote on running a referendum to raise the county sales tax from 0.5% to 1.5% (this on top of a 5.0% state sales tax, a 0.1% Miller Park tax shared with only 4 other counties, and a 0.25% food-and-soda tax for the white elephant known as the Midwest Airlines Center not levied in any other county. For the non-math geniuses, that’s just enough to override a Scott Walker veto (and yes, he will veto). Fortunately, they can’t raise the sales tax…yet.
• Eric runs through the alphabet for examples of successful first-initial people.
• Marshall Manson reviews the Newseum. Paging Ms. Favazza. Paging Katie Favazza. I do believe you owe us a review.
• Jib has this weekend’s presstitute folly. I’m the king of the run-on sentence, but what The Capital Times put up is beyond belief. I guess all the copy editors were fired when they went essentially web-only.
• Emperor Misha I shows what happens when there is no such thing as a Bill of Rights. I wonder if seeing the video will make American presstitutes not be in such a rush to become like their European counterparts…nah.
• JammieWearingFool found a disturbing new trend; people who are adopting “Hussein” as their middle name. Why? They want to be like Barack Hussein Obama. Bad decision.
• Owen discovered that the Jim Geraghty Maxim also applies to Obama’s words on taxes. Unfortunately, the curdling exposed an even more-liberal view. As I am fond of saying, the past is an indication of future performance.
• Janet Evans marvels at the 52 Chinese who refused to leave a plane after the flight was cancelled. And we gave Beijing (the city where the plane was sitting) the Olympics this year?
• Elliot (and commenters) explode the “War is not the answer” line of Bravo Sierra.
• Vivian Lee saw the best bumper sticker ever.
• Rich Horton has today’s European PC Death Watch episode. Kids no longer have control over who they invite to their birthday parties.
• Patrick dips into the history well for a few choice quotes from the Founding Fathers regarding the 2nd Amendment.

Time for some biscuits and gravy. Hopefully when I get home, the bunker won’t have blown away

I have to tip my cap to Don Smiley; the Summerfest lineup looks soooo good on paper…

Yes, it’s the weekend. Normally that would stop me in my tracks, but let’s roll on:

• Jim Hoft opens fire on Barack Obama. Remember what I said about past performance.
• Jim Geraghty jumps all over Obama’s failed privatization of low-income housing. The trouble actually was hiring a bunch of contributor slumlords like property-purchase-partner Tony Rezko, not the privatization (Cabrini Green rings a warning bell).
• Jed calls the food menu in Denver for the ‘Rat convention an “Epic FAIL!”
• Lawhawk catches Matt Drudge diving into the tank on gas prices. I will note that Drudge doesn’t take his own pictures, but choosing one that has only racing fuels on it is, at the least, misleading.
• E.M. Zanotti laughs at Michigan’s latest attempt to use government subsidies to try to bail itself out of a business crisis mostly of its own making; wood-chips-to-ethanol

The From the Frontlines webathon was a smashing success. They wanted $500,000; thanks to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin, and everybody who donated, they got $1,055,719 as they went off the air. Bravo Zulu! Just as a reminder, the donation window is open until July 2.

It’s fitting, yet sad that Rush is at Summerfest tonight; I’ve been looking for a good time to break this one out, and a trip out of Milwaukee is as good of time as any…

This is going to be a bit abbreviated because I’m actually putting it together just before midnight Central and putting it up now.

• Karl reminds us that another conservative victory came out of SCOTUS; the axing of the “Millionares’ Amendment”.
• The Vintage One caught Reuters projecting their hatred of hunting on Justice Antonin Scalia. Score another point in the book for the Italian.
• Curt found something disturbing in the Heller decision. Honestly, if the Lawgivers-In-Black ever get a solid majority on SCOTUS instead of relying on the coin flip that’s Anthony Kennedy, the presence or absence of that phrase won’t matter a bit; they just make it up anyway.
• Marshall Manson and the other two denziens of On Tap say that it was actually Roberts’ majority.
• Speaking of Jim Geraghty, he reports the NRA is going after Chicago’s handgun ban. Stay on target. Stay on target!
• Uncle Jimbo smacks down the L-I-B.
• Robert found a pic of the Justices that explains a lot.
• Teresa notes how far Obama has moved since 2000 on foreign policy. Of course, I don’t necessarily consider adopting the Algore/Joe Lieberman standard a sign of maturity, but retreat-and-defeat is still worse.
• Jessi has the Obamination cartoon of the day.
• William Teach has half a cheer for Obama on the UN-Fairness Doctrine. Just remember Geraghty’s Maxim - every Obama statement has an expiration date.
• Dad29 chalks up another cure for adult stem cells. Embryonic stem cells have yet to get on the board, but don’t expect the Culture of Death™ to stop trying killing.
• Fred Keller has the top 10 reasons to support ANWR development. Paging Mr. McCain. Paging Mr. Sensenbrenner. Please pick up the diamond-tipped drill.

It’s Summerfest time, so I’ll be dipping into that lineup the next 11 days (I’ll probably throw something together for the weekends, which ought to be fun this weekend since I’ll be at the Meeting of the Morons)…

• Don’t forget; the From the Frontlines webathon begins at 3 pm today over on Ustream, Michelle Malkin’s place and Hot Air. Michelle wants the MM.com/HA.com regulars to (collectively) match Sean Hannity’s $15,000 donation. Since I’m one, I chose the “Goodies From Home Squad Pack”.
• I’m trying not to do too much Obamination today. However, there’s a couple of items I do have to note. Jim Geraghty found yet another Barack Obama statement with an expiration date, this time on the constitutionality of DC’s gun ban.
• Emperor Misha I and Mrs. M-ITT, Imperial Sniper present another Obamination Express Photoshop. I know, Jim told me that it could get overused, but this one is sooooo good.
• Wordsmith provides the photographic evidence of past character of Obama and John McCain. I’ve always been a believer in the past being an indication of future perforance.
• Remember that approval of the Indiana BP refinery from yesterday’s Scramble? Ace notes Obama doesn’t want the Canadian oil. Of course, Obama also would like higher gas prices…as long as government gets the additional money, so it fits.
• Plebian presents the McCain Cabinet.
• William Teach points out Nancy Pelosi LOVES the UN-Fairness Doctrine (the pic that’s part of the post may or may not be safe for work, but I like it).
• The Vintage One says, “Buy Mopar; they’re offering mobile wireless internet.” Don’t let me catch you surfing here while driving (if you can prove you’re a passenger, it’s all good, though).
• Russ delivers the Top Ten Probable Findings In The Heller Decision.
• Moron Pundit has a SCOTUS Haiku contest. I must stress that this one is NSFW, so click at your own discretion.
• Back to oil; Jim Hoft tells what a willingness to produce and sell oil will do for a country.
• I knew I forgot somebody. The Focusing Brad V has an idea on what to sell grain to OPEC for.

In honor of ex-Milwaukee alderman Michael McGee/Jackson Jr, freshly convicted of 9 federal felonies, I present some more AC/DC (hopefully the alderthug doesn’t get any ideas of a jailbreak; they tend to end badly)… R&E (9:55 am CDT 6/25/2008) - D'OH!  I grabbed the wrong song.

I have to thank Kevin Fischer for picking today’s song…

• Slublog and his wife just had a daughter. Congratulations.
• Ace notes even most of Californians support more off-shore drilling. I wonder if the bipartisan Party-In-Government in DC is listening.
• McQ explains why there are “inactive” oil leases.
• Uncle Jimbo summarized the letter that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wrote to Dingy Harry Reid.
• Trail-Mix asks a pertinent question; “Is America willing to pay an additional $3,333 for every man, woman and child in the country for Barack Obama’s spending?” I can sum up my personal answer in two letters - NO!
• Bill Quick asks, “Who is in charge of the Obamination Campaign, Obama or Keith Ellison, the first openly-Islamic Congresscritter?”
• Jim Lynch is running a Obamination Seal caption contest. Do drive him over 100,000 visitors today.
• Headless Blogger found an apt comparison between Obama and a Groucho Marx character. Hello, Rufus T. Obama.
• Plebian takes a cartoonish look at an Obamination Cabinet. I do say that it’s probably more truthful than any analysis the presstitutes would offer.
• William Teach is shocked, SHOCKED that the liberals who profess to love direct democracy so much feel so strongly about denying the will of the people, they’re headed to court to preserve California’s court-ordered homosex marriages against a constitutional amendment proposition.
• Ed Morrissey found a no-talent hack whose sole qualification for editorial cartoonist is that he is a moonbat in full moonbat flight.
• Sean M. provides today’s example of why The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ doesn’t want to be quoted. Well, somebody has to be the copy editor, and with all the cutbacks at crAP and elsewhere, we bloggers are willing to do it. Of course, we’ll probably be sarcastic about it, but that’s our style.
• Second dose of Ed; he eviscerates the Useless Nitwit…er, United Nations over their failure to do anything substantive regarding Zimbabwe. Those of you who remember yesterday’s Scramble remember lawhawk noted that the UN failed the opposition after said opposition put their faith in them.
• Speaking of lawhawk, he notes it didn’t take long for Hamas to break its hudna.
• Deebow was part of an op that snagged a Taliban honcho (#11 on the most-wanted list, to be exact). Bravo Zulu, and thank you.
• Jim Hoft notes that Iraq will take control of two more provinces on Saturday, including Anbar. Still think we’re losing, Rats?
• Scott found confirmation that a pre-war Al Qaeda camp in Iraq had biological weapons courtesy the government of Iraq (i.e. Saddam Hussein).
• In the bad news department, Zip says the fallout from Boumediene is beginning with an Appeals Court demand that a Chinese Muslim guest of Club Gitmo be released or transfered. I say, return him to Red China.
• JammieWearingFool found the Malay Muslims aren’t as “moderate” as they claim. They want no lipstick or high heels for the women.
• Owen questions another no-bid flood-related contract, this one to repair Lake Delton.
• Josh Schroeder has another reason to drive stick; it’s harder to steal. I wonder if he noticed the vast majority of those I asked about their stick-driving skills a while back claimed they could.
• James Wigderson issued an Air Quality Index alert for dangerously-high levels of mosquitoes.

I’m just hanging on until Blog ‘N Grog tomorrow and the Meeting of the Morons this weekend…

• Happy 2nd Blogiversary, Trail-Mix.
• One more light thing before we go into the heavy stuff; TexasFred has the Alabama preacher joke of the day.
• Stephan Tawney says The Fred! is supposedly going to vet judicial nominees for John McCain. It’s a step in the right direction.
• Why? Just read Fred Thompson’s two-site smackdown of Boumediene.
• Of course, it isn’t all good news on the McCain Watch; James T. Harris is having a nightmare over McCain’s $300 million battery search.
• Jim Hoft notes the Iraqis are saying there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, specifically second-in-command Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
• John Adams wonders why the Jefferson Super WalMart is able to sell alcohol without marauding drunks and pillaging rumpbots. Simple; there’s no UW party school campus at Jefferson.
• Sean M. has the perfect accessories for the AoSHQ lifestyle, ones that they’re probably using in Jefferson to disguise the marauding and pillaging.
• Jim Hoft notes that we Morons have a LOT of catching up to do to match the Nutroots’ use of the late George Carlin’s 7 Words.
• Lawhawk mourns the penultimate act of Zimbabwe’s death-by-dictator (in the form of Robert Mugabe), the withdrawal from political life of the only major opposition after repeated violence by those loyal to Mugabe. Bonus; the UN failed the opposition.
• Wordsmith asks, “Can it git mo’ crazy than this?” As Stone Cold Steve Austin used to say, “If you think it can, give me a ‘Hell Yeah!’”
• Owen finds BadgerCare Plus $78 million in the hole. Even after it was raided to the tune of $60 million by Doyle and the Legislature, that’s still a large shortfall from the folks that would be running Healthy (and Depopulated) Wisconsin.
• No Wonder Why crAP Doesn’t Want to be Quoted, Part I - Gaius caught the news wire organization that shall not be quoted giving the nickname “Big Muddy” to the wrong river. The funny thing is, the lower Mississippi River becomes muddy only once Big Muddy (the Missouri River) runs into it.
• No Wonder Why crAP Doesn’t Want to be Quoted, Part II - Fausta caught the news wire organization that shall not be quoted providing the unattributed Marxist spin to Hugo Chavez’ nationalization of Venezuela’s mining industry.
• More Presstitute Follies - Allahpundit caught the New Sedition Slim…er, New York Times (or was I right the first time) revealing the name of KSM’s chief interrogator against the wishes of that person and the CIA. All the secrets fit to leak….
• JihadGene has today’s TV schedule; nothing but tributes to Tim Russert.
• JammieWearingFool found a ‘Rat who is having a bit of a problem donating back to the party.
• J. Gravelle runs the numbers on Rep. Gwen Moore’s salary.
• Robert notes the ‘Rat Congress delivered on every bad thing we on the right said they’d deliver on. By the way, that deliverance resulted in record low approval ratings for Congress.
• Finally, onto the Obamination portion of the Scramble. In today’s issue of Bus and Driver, Lawhawk notes Barack Obama has tossed the left under the bus twice. Speaking of B&D, I know a couple of you are good with Photoshop; lawhawk would appreciate it if someone could whip up a Photoshop with the latest seal on the cover.
• See-dubya is gleeful (well, not really) that Obama has wrapped up the clean sweep of dictator endorsements with Krazy Kim Jong-Il’s.
• Kate has not one, but two doses of Obamarama cartoons.
• Ed Morrissey notes Bill Clinton isn’t feeling the unity yet.
• Jim Geraghty notes Obama isn’t as good with the “get over it” line as Bill was.
• PJ-Comix delivers The Funny to the growing sense of doom and buyers’ remorse amongst the nutroots.
• The Liberty Brian found the same sense of doom and buyers’ remorse amonst the Europeans. Guess getting the clean sweep amongst dictators has consequences, especially since Iran is eyeing up Eurabia.
• Robert puts Obama in his own words.
• William Teach found Obama drinking the Corn-a-Hole Kool Aid.
• Todd Lohenry has the Obama joke of the day.