SARAH PALIN WAS ON CHARLIE GIBSON -- I was busy with PJTV, but Hot Air has coverage. Gibson apparently made the mistake of relying on the AP, always risky . . . .
UPDATE: More here and here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Still more. Also here.
Plus, much more from Tom Maguire. "I'll score one for Palin's briefers and smite the ABC News prep team. Geez, maybe Palin is ready to be Vice President and maybe she's not, but is ABC qualified to interview Vice Presidents?" Plus, looking back on Lincoln and God: "John Edwards actually nailed the Lincoln connection. So there you go - on this topic anyway, Sarah Palin is at least as prepared for the Vice-Presidency as John Edwards." Not sure you're helping her there, Tom, but point taken.
MORE: POLITICO: Final score: McCain wins the day. "Sarah Palin confronted a major obstacle in her interview with Charlie Gibson - her first one-on-one as a vice presidential candidate - and appears to have held her own."
STILL MORE: TalkLeft: "Indeed, her eventual answer to the question is extremely sensible (unlike Bush and McCain's actual policies) and smart politics. She did not accept the premise of Gibson's question and then gave a sensible answer to the question." Also, a suggestion that fellow lefty blogs aren't helping the side by engaging in over-the-top responses, a piece of excellent advice that is sure to be ignored.
Plus, McCain's blog guy, Patrick Hynes, comments on the press coverage. "Later, many conservative blogs called out Charlie Gibson for demanding Gov. Palin answer for something she did not say regarding the War in Iraq being a task from God. However, I was struck by the number of journalists who, despite the Googles at their fingertips, framed her remark as a change in her position, even though it was Gibson who had his facts wrong." They're really running with this rapid-response thing. They'll probably have a YouTube response by the time I get up tomorrow.
Plus, more bad reviews for Gibson. I guess he was underprepared.
And Jim Treacher offers a sneak peek at Part 2.
FINALLY: Reminding Josh Marshall of Obama's position. "Hmm, speaking of policies learned in the past week - in March of this year Obama supported NATO membership for Georgia and the Ukraine. And did he back down during the scuffling in Georgia this August? He did not . . . Too funny. I think we can count on Dr.M to simply move on (what, you expect a correction or clarification?) but the real fun will be in seeing how many other Attack Drones follow his lead. . . . Time does not permit me to wallow in Marshall's embarrassment or to see how many sheep have followed him out to pasture. But do enjoy the barrel-fishing." Marshall has really embarrassed himself these past two weeks. But there's safety in numbers there since, as noted at TalkLeft, he's not alone.
And if it's Obama's position, it must be progressive!
Also, did ABC edit out its mistakes for the West Coast?
Taylor Marsh: "But what she's saying is that honoring our responsibility as a NATO ally we would be obliged to come to the aid of any country under serious threat, as would others in NATO. Can anyone prove she's wrong? ... .. I didn't think so. Right, we don't have the troops, which Putin knows all too well. However, that's not the issue in this interview. Sounds to me like we're at the water's edge on this one. Review? Lowered expectations going in. Quick study. Holds her own. Point to Palin. Deadly outcome for Democrats. Palin just might be the gift that keeps on giving... to the Republicans."
And reader C.J. Burch writes: "When talk left is giving a Republican candidate a fair run on the Bush doctrine that's news. Maybe we should all spend less time lsitening to reporters and more time listening to people, hunh?"
The Panic Spreads...
...to Capitol Hill:
Democratic jitters about the US presidential race have spread to Capitol Hill, where some members of Congress are worried that Barack Obama’s faltering campaign could hurt their chances of re-election. ... “There is a growing sense of doom among Democrats I have spoken to . . . People are going crazy, telling the campaign ‘you’ve got to do something’.”
The generic Congressional ballot is, indeed, getting closer. Likewise, the gap in party identification is narrowing. In general, the tide is flowing in the Republicans' direction. Of course, the Republicans are starting from a very bad point. Still, it appears that by November the Republican Party will be in better shape, broadly speaking, than has been the case for the last few years.
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September 12th, 2008
[This is a reprise of an article we posted back on May 11th, 2008.]
Barack Obama’s Trinity Church remembered the five year anniversary of 9/11 with this poem in the September 17, 2006 edition of their newsletter, The Trumpet (pdf file):
Sept 11 — A Moment of Silence… for all those others
by Emmanuel Ortiz
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Before I start this poem,
I’d like to ask you to join me in
a moment of silence
in honour of those who died
in the World Trade Centre
and the Pentagon
last September 11th. I would also like to ask you
a moment of silence
for all of those who have been
harassed, imprisoned, disappeared,
tortured, raped, or killed
in retaliation for those strikes,
for the victims in both
Afghanistan and the U.S. And if I could just add one more thing…
A full day of silence
for the tens of thousands of Palestinians
who have died at the hands of
U.S.-backed Israeli forces
over decades of occupation. Six months of silence
for the million and-a-half Iraqi people,
mostly children, who have died of
malnourishment or starvation
as a result of an 11-year U.S. embargo
against the country. Before I begin this poem:
two months of silence
for the Blacks under Apartheid
in South Africa,
where homeland security
made them aliens
in their own country.Nine months of silence for the dead in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, where death rained
down and peeled back
every layer of concrete, steel, earth and skin
and the survivors went on as if alive. A year of silence
for the millions of dead
in Vietnam–a people, not a warfor
those who know a thing or two
about the scent of burning fuel,
their relatives’ bones buried in it,
their babies born of it. A year of silence
for the dead in Cambodia and Laos,
victims of a secret war … ssssshhhhh ….
Say nothing .. we don’t want them to
learn that they are dead. Two months of silence
for the decades of dead
in Colombia, whose names,
like the corpses they once represented,
have piled up and slipped off
our tongues. Before I begin this poem,
An hour of silence
for El Salvador …
An afternoon of silence
for Nicaragua …
Two days of silence
for the Guatemaltecos …
None of whom ever knew
a moment of peace 45 seconds of silence
for the 45 dead
at Acteal, Chiapas
25 years of silence
for the hundred million Africans
who found their graves
far deeper in the ocean
than any building could
poke into the sky.
There will be no DNA testing
or dental records
to identify their remains.
And for those who were
strung and swung
from the heights of
sycamore trees
in the south, the north,
the east, and the west… 100 years of silence…
For the hundreds of millions of
indigenous peoples
from this half of right here,
Whose land and lives were stolen,
In postcard-perfect plots
like Pine Ridge,
Wounded Knee,
Sand Creek, Fallen Timbers,
or the Trail of Tears. Names now reduced
to innocuous magnetic poetry
on the refrigerator
of our consciousness …
So you want a moment of silence? |
Because this is not a 9-1-1 poem
This is a 9/10 poem,
It is a 9/9 poem,
A 9/8 poem,
A 9/7 poem
This is a 1492 poem.
This is a poem about
what causes poems like this
to be written And if this is a 9/11 poem, then
This is a September 11th poem
for Chile, 1971
This is a September 12th poem
for Steven Biko in South Africa, 1977 This is a September 13th poem
for the brothers at Attica Prison,
New York, 1971.
This is a September 14th poem
for Somalia, 1992.This is a poem
for every date that falls
to the ground in ashes
This is a poem for the 110 stories
that were never told
The 110 stories that history
chose not to write in textbooks
The 110 stories that CNN, BBC,
The New York Times,
and Newsweek ignored This is a poem
for interrupting this program.
And still you want
a moment of silence
for your dead?
We could give you
lifetimes of empty: The unmarked graves
The lost languages
The uprooted trees and histories
The dead stares on the faces
of nameless children
Before I start this poem
We could be silent forever
Or just long enough to hunger,
For the dust to bury us
And you would still ask us
For more of our silence. If you want a moment of silence
Then stop the oil pumps
Turn off the engines and the televisions
Sink the cruise ships
Crash the stock markets
Unplug the marquee lights,
Delete the instant messages,
Derail the trains, the light rail transit If you want a moment of silence,
put a brick through
the window of Taco Bell,
And pay the workers for wages lost
Tear down the liquor stores,
The townhouses, the White Houses,
the jailhouses, the Penthouses and
the Playboys. If you want a moment of silence,
Then take it
On Super Bowl Sunday,
The Fourth of July
During Dayton’s 13 hour sale
Or the next time white guilt
fills the room where my beautiful
people have gathered You want a moment of silence
Then take it
Now,
Before this poem begins. Here, in the echo of my voice,
In the pause between goosesteps of the
second hand
In the space
between bodies in embrace, Here is your silence.
Take it.
But take it all
Don’t cut in line.
Let your silence begin
at the beginning of crime.
But we,
Tonight we will keep right on singing
For our dead. |
Emmanuel Ortiz works with the Minnesota Alliance for the Indigenous Zapatistas (MAIZ) and Estación Libre. He is a staff member of the Resource Centre of the Americas, the non-profit publisher of americas.org
Granted this (poem?) is not by Mr. Obama’s “spiritual mentor” Jeremiah Wright. But it does appear in Trinity’s newsletter on the “Pastor’s Page,” presumably with his blessing.
In fact, this randomly punctuated list of imagined grievances was actually “circulated on the internet” back in September 2002, on the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
(Hilariously, the obviously self-scribed entry for Emmanuel Ortiz at Wikipedia informs us that he is a “Chicano/Puerto Rican/Irish-American activist” and “spoken-word poet.”)
In any case, this piece appears to have made quite an impression on the learned Reverend Doctor Wright.
But of course it would, as these are surely some of the self-same chickens that the America-hating Mr. Wright imagines came home to roost on 9/11.
And this is exactly the kind of twisted American history and world view Mr. Wright teaches his unfortunate parishioners.
Can’t you just feel that Christian love?
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...author is a literature professor at Florida State University...She’s a commentator for NPR. I’m sure her comments are always fair and balanced.
That Obama tax to fight world poverty, to be administered by our pals at the UN, would cost each and every American, man, woman, and child, $2500 per annum. Out of his mind. Americans already give more charity and aid to the third world than the rest of the world combined.
Palin would go to war with Russia if they "attacked another country"-DEBUNKED
Palin did not know the "Bush Doctrine"-DEBUNKED
You can't see Russia from Alaska-DEBUNKED
Why doesn’t Mr. Obama articulate in detail what he plans on doing for this country (aside from the robbing from the rich to pander to folks)? All temper-tantrum boy has is attacks these days. Gobama away!
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"Here's ultimately what we expect," Mathew Staver, founder of
Liberty Counsel and dean of the Liberty University School of Law, told WND today. "The hate crimes plan is to be offered as an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2009 Department of Defense reauthorization bill. That's what the word is, that it's going to be offered as an amendment."
Struck Down by Twenty “Youths”
by Baron Bodissey
This is
breaking news from Sweden. The headline reads “She was struck down — by 20 guys”. It’s the story of a young girl who was set upon by twenty “youths” in a pedestrian tunnel in Södertälje.
I haven’t received an English translation yet, but I ran the Swedish version by Fjordman, and here’s what he had to say about the article:
I don’t have time to translate everything now, but I can give you a summary: This girl in the Swedish town of Södertälje was, along with her friend, brutally assaulted and beaten unconscious (they apparently continued beating her even after she was unconscious) by a group of more than twenty armed young men dressed in black. The attackers were of immigrant background (which the newspaper article actually states; they usually don’t mention this if it’s you-know-who) and screamed “f***ing Swedish whore!” while they beat the girl and her friend and kicked her while she was lying down.
The good part of the story is that another group of six young men (presumably native Swedes) intervened. That took real courage since they were badly outnumbered. They got badly beaten up, but probably saved the girl’s life.
This is all a part of the increasingly extreme sexual and physical violence targeting native white Swedes by immigrant gangs. This is way beyond just “crime,” it can hardly be labeled anything other than ethnic warfare. Södertälje has been in the spotlight several times before:
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PM Reinfeldt stated that the original Swedish culture was merely barbarism. “It can sometimes be good to humbly remind of the fact that a great deal of what constitutes Sweden has been created in [a process of] evolution, exactly because we have been open to accept other people and experiences.”
Reinfeldt said this following a visit to an area called Ronna in Södertälje, near Stockholm. One year ago a police station in Södertälje was hit by shots from an automatic weapon following a major confrontation between immigrant youths and police. Apart from police staff, two civilian women were in the police station. They were being questioned about a reported harassment earlier in the day. Three young men who had been identified by the women were suspected of making illegal threats. The three men were released in the evening, but the arrests provoked strong reactions. A group of immigrants advanced on the police and attacked them with stones.
The trouble in Ronna started after a Swedish girl had been called a “whore” and she reacted to this. Ethnologist Maria Bäckman, in her study “Whiteness and gender,” has followed a group of Swedish girls in the suburb of Rinkeby outside Stockholm, where native Swedes have been turned into a tiny minority of the inhabitants due to rapid immigration. The subjects “may encounter prejudices such as the idea that Swedish girls act and dress in a sexually provocative way or that blonde girls are easy.” Bäckman relates that several of the Swedish girls she interviewed stated that they had dyed their hair to avoid sexual harassment. They experienced that being blonde involves old men staring at you, cars honking their horns and boys calling you “whore.” The number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in a generation, with men from Muslim countries clearly overrepresented in the statistics.
If I get a full translation of the Aftonbladet article, I’ll post it.
Hat tip: Ted Eckeroth.
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"You'll note that the modern version of Muslim "warrior" is a snivelling cowardly sort who either bombs innocents or hunts in packs and attacks isolated individuals, taking no risk of fighting an equal number of men."
"Well done to those men. Any man that will not stand up for a woman is not a man."
MORE ON IKE FROM
BRENDAN LOY, including this: "Ike will probably remain Cat. 2 — but storm surge will be huge." His advice: "Get the Hell out. . .
Don’t underestimate the storm surge from this hurricane. Tampa is several hundred miles from Ike but we’ve had a 3-5’ storm surge for a few days now. It’s matching the storm surge prediction chart which also calls for a 20’ surge when Ike makes landfall. When Ike comes up against the coastline it’ll probably be just what they say, a 15 - 20’ surge and there’s not much to stop it. I believe the media is downplaying the threat in the hopes of a Katrina political redux.
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RASMUSSEN: "The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows John McCain with 49% of the vote while Barack Obama attracts support from 46%. That is unchanged from yesterday and a complete reversal over the past week."
UPDATE: Florida, Pennsylvania breaking for McCain?
ANOTHER UPDATE: Panic.
JIM WOOTEN: Panic sets in for Obama, Democrats. "Barack Obama knows it. The election he had in the bag is slipping away." He could still win it, but the fact that he's acting panicky, with wild swings, isn't helping him. Plus, it suggests that he can't handle pressure, which has been a rap on him from the beginning.
Those molestation claims from Randi Rhodes aren't helping, either. Jeez. Plus this report: "Barack Obama and his senior advisers are under fire for ignoring the advice of Democratic senators and governors who are concerned that they do not know how to beat John McCain. . . . A senior Democratic strategist, who has played a prominent role in two presidential campaigns, told The Sunday Telegraph: 'These guys are on the verge of blowing the greatest gimme in the history of American politics. They're the most arrogant bunch Ive ever seen. They won't accept that they are losing and they won't listen.'" Yes, as I said earlier, hubris coupled with poor execution is not a recipe for success. Nice to see that the Democratic leadership agrees with my analysis.
UPDATE: Barry Dauphin thinks it's psychological: "One thing I have noticed. No matter who McCain is up against (be it Republicans or Democrats), he has an uncanny ability to get under the skin of his opponents. Most of his opponents become virtually apoplectic at some point. They make mistakes. And he simply smiles."
TOM SMITH: The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse:
All this, taken together, goes far beyond Maureen Dowd's searing revelation that Sarah Palin wears shoes that are really intended for much younger women. Now we know that far from a pit bull with lipstick, Governor Palin is a merely human politician who rewards friends, punishes enemies and plays "hardball" just like one of the guys. Who does she think she is? And, she's ambitious. She confided to a friend that she wants to be president someday. Should such a person be allowed inside the White House?
But, seriously now, if the NY Times wants to bring down their favorite hockey mom, they are going to have to do a lot better than this. Forget about sending anybody to Chicago to go through Sen. Obama's record with a similarly fine toothed comb. Or more like a manure fork. I know that's not going to happen. Politics in Alaska is a lot like everywhere else, with friends, enemies, grudges, favors made and repaid, and those who get ahead often have sharp elbows. If Palin does become VP she will need every bit of those skills she may have.
What? They won't investigate Obama as carefully?
IN RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER THOUGHTS ON TAKING A CAMERA TO THE INTERVIEW, reader John Barnes writes:
Glenn: Bravo for your column on the need for politicians to make their own record of interviews. I am a corporate communications consultant and I routinely advise my clients not to agree to taped interviews. If a taped interview is unavoidable, I tell them that when the news crew arrives and starts setting up its cameras and microphones, the interview subject should set up his own cameras and microphones. A few have taken my advice, but many do not, thinking it will tick off the media even more. I tell them the media is not your friend under any circumstances and you are foolish to trust it.
I must say, though, on the few occasions when my advice was heeded, I wished I had a camera of my own to record the priceless expressions on the reporters' faces as we set up our own cameras. "What are those for?" one asked nervously. "Oh, we just have a policy of making our own record," I said nonchalantly. He seemed a bit perturbed, but went ahead with the interview, which turned out tough, but reasonably fair. I can't help but think that having our own record made at least some difference.
It couldn't hurt. Meanwhile, more questions about ABC's editing. And it's not just politicians who should take this precaution.
UPDATE: Related thoughts here.
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this.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
Inigo Montoya to Vizzini in The Princess Bride
That line from the movie is so apropos of many of the things in the Media. Take, for example “Swiftboating.” To the Media it means to tell lies about a candidate for public office. To people who actually read the Swiftboat Vets books and saw their ads it refers to Kerry's fellow Swift Boat vets telling the truth about John Kerry’s actions in Viet Nam and his activities to smear his fellow vets when he got back.
So now we have what appears to be a controversy about the “Bush Doctrine.” Let’s be clear about this: George Bush did not say in either a speech or in written form anything with the title “Bush Doctrine.” The reference to the existence of a Bush Doctrine was a literary invention of Charles Krauthammer; at the very least he claims to be the first to have used the term. So anyone who wished to define the term Bush Doctrine should show some deference to Krauthammer’s opinion of what Bush Doctrine means.
John Neish writes;
I'm stuck here in the States for the time being, and my usual rounds of errands take me through several towns in the area. One to the north and another to the east are those kinds of towns where one would go to hunt lefties, were there ever a government enlightened enough to add them to the 'varmint' category. The towns are insanely wealthy -- Doctors, lawyers, professionals of all stripes -- and both towns have a very solidly-entrenched population of 'country-club Liberals'. In the last Presidential election both towns fairly bristled with Kerry placards, but this time around. I've been looking for, but so far I have not seen a single Obama poster in either town. There are posters for other Democratic candidates -- no shortage of those -- but none for Obama: not a single one. Prior to the Primaries, Hillary was considered by many to be one of the most-disliked woman in the US. Negative polls -- those that ask you 'who do you *dislike* the most' (as opposed to 'who do you *like* the most') -- had her in the upper numbers. Even so, Obama had to really work hard to beat her. Now, of course, she's a figure of pity because of the shabby way that the little twerp has treated her. He even announced his choice of Biden in a text message sent out at three in the morning: anyone who doesn't think that that was a dig at her for her 'phone call at three a.m.' advert deserves to be sold the Brooklyn Bridge (or maybe even the 'Bridge to Nowhere').
So, you heard it here first: being barely able to beat a person who at that time was not very regarded, and now being absent from the thickets of Democrat placards in these upscale towns with a well-establish Democrat presence, I predict that he's going to get whomped in a big way come election day.
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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Randi Rhodes suggests Governor Palin gets her freak on with teenaged boys
– Which, to be fair to Ms Rhodes, them lonely days and nights in a winterproofed doublewide can be really trying on oversexed reindeer groomers and ice fishing aficionados. At least, that’s what her friends in Manhattan say. Besides, Alaska is barely even a part of the US. Like Mississippi or West Virginia or places like that. Hillbilly outre, as it were.
In fact, it’s total anarchy up there, is what I hear. So strange. So full of Otherness (which, sure, typically that’s the kind of exotic demographic championed by leftists, but in this case, it appears these strange creatures actually believe in guns and Jesus and individual rights — and almost none of them own the complete box set of “Sex in the City”. So really: can duelling banjos and inbreeding be far behind?).
Hell, I’m not even sure these “citizens” can get DirecTV. Or have ever once heard Jose Feliciano play an acoustic set in a small Greenwich Village cafe.
I mean, Jesus! Who are these…people…?
Read It all:
...have you had a chance to read some of the full transcript of Sarah Palin’s interview with Charlie Gibson? Go read the stuff they edited out. Clearly, she was smarter than they wanted her to appear. Our modern professional journalists. The “gatekeepers” and “mediating intelligences,” who seem increasingly dependent upon memory holes. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?.
Glenn Reynolds says you gotta bring your own camera, Sarah!: Do you know, Archbishop Chaput, of Denver always records his interviews, now, because something he said in an interview was misrepresented a while back, and he learned his lesson...Ace wonders why the press, so enamored of NUANCE in both Kerry and now Obama, seems so reluctant to allow Palin to exhibit her own nuance. It’s only pretending to wonder, you understand.
Sierra Faith tracked back with Well, Well, Well — Look What is on ABC Cutting Room Floor...
Democrats have spent weeks accusing Gov. Sarah Palin of lying about her pregnancy and accusing her daughter of lying about her pregnancy and attacking Sarah as a bad mother and comparing her to Pontius Pilate, Islamic radicals, a whip-wielding dominatrix and to "lipstick" on a pig. Now, Democrats say, they're ready to take the gloves off...
We've rounded up The Usual Suspects from week 1 of "Get Sarah Palin!".
Quite a few familiar faces that defended Democrat power to the last blot of ink during the impeachment wars.
I realized while I was working on this that unlike during the impeachment wars, there are a LOT fewer journalists out there these days.
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ERIC S. RAYMOND:
Timing the Entitlements Crash. "The fundamental problem is that income-transfer programs (and the interest service on the debt purchased to keep them running) are spending wealth in higher volumes than the economy can actually generate, and demand for that spending is rising faster than the economy is growing. Thus, raising tax rates is no longer a way out, if it ever was." Remember, if something can't go on forever, then it won't.
I really did love that “I’ve been banned at LGF - have you ?” bumper sticker.
I said this after the PURGE 1 & 2 Cheerleading AtS and it is still True ---
-- “GUESS WHAT THEY’LL BE SAYING ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU’RE GONE”
...all he has left. An echo chamber full of sycophants...
JESSE WALKER: "There's a popular stereotype, fed by films and other media, that says that natural disasters are almost invariably followed by looting. But in the real U.S., theft and violence are extremely rare in such situations. In Texas right now, as Hurricane Ike moves northwards, you'll find reports of people fretting about looters as they refuse to leave their homes. Yet when you look at how neighbors in the storm's path are actually behaving, you see cooperation instead."
Yes, and as I've written before, that kind of response is common. More here.
RAND SIMBERG ON ECONOMIC ILLITERACY AND TALK OF "PRICE GOUGING:" "Every time we have a natural disaster like this, this idiotic topic comes up, and we once again have to explain Econ 101 to the products of our public school system, probably in futility. This time, it's Rich Hailey's turn." Yeah, if only big TV networks with high-paid staffs could do the kind of reporting and analysis that we see from lone amateur bloggers. UPDATE: More thoughts from Shannon Love: "I’ll say it one more time for those who can’t be bothered to actually ask someone who owns a gas station. Gas stations set prices for the gas they sell today based on the wholesale price of the gas they will have to buy to replace it. Get it? The price you pay for a gallon today is the cost of the gallon the station will have buy to replace the one you just bought. Gas stations sell gas at or near cost, so if they did not use replacement pricing any sudden spike in gas prices would shut them down and you couldn’t get any gas. I simply do not know why our public and private talking heads cannot understand and communicate this simple fact." ANOTHER UPDATE: More here:
Watch the refineries. Melissa spells it out: “We have many friends and contacts within the oil industry and they feed me information every so often. I think people need to understand how profoundly the refining being down is going to affect the nation. Even if the refineries could get back going the minute the storm passes, it will take at least a week to get going again. And, it should be noted, the refineries will not get going the minute the storm passes. America needs to build more.”
Update: More than 1.3 million are now without power.
“POLITICAL PORNOGRAPHY:” Gerard van der Leun, himself a magazine editor of note, comments: “To say Ms. Greenberg’s use of this material in this way is ‘unprofessional’ and does the subject (John McCain) and the client (The Atlantic Monthly) a disservice is to vastly understate the case. Not only has Ms. Greenberg exposed The Atlantic to charges of bias it may well have not intended, it turns out she was engaged in dealing with Senator McCain falsely as well. She has, indeed, bragged about it to PDNPulse, a professional photographers’ journal.”
DON’T TRUST THE MEDIA (CONT’D): “Controversial celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg, a self-professed ‘hard-core Dem,’ deliberately took a series of unflattering shots of Republican nominee John McCain for the current cover of The Atlantic - and then bragged about it on a blog.” The Atlantic has a brand that most magazines envy. But recent behavior is putting it at risk. I guess it’s gone from bring your own camera, to bring your own photographer. The Atlantic’s editor, James Bennet, — who I know somewhat and think is an honest guy — says they don’t vet photographers for their politics, and they shouldn’t. But this kind of pettiness and unprofessionalism is absolutely beyond the pale. Sadly, it’s marked much of the media this election cycle.
As Andrew Breitbart said on PJTV the other night, you can hardly overstate the extent to which Big Media and the Democratic Party are one and the same these days.
OFFSHORE DRILLING COMING TO A VOTE: “Congressional Democrats, balancing political reality against a policy they have long opposed, are on the cusp of approving legislation that would open the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to oil drilling as close as 50 miles offshore.” Seems like one thing we want to do is to avoid having too much of our drilling concentrated in the Gulf of Mexico, where one hurricane can disrupt a big fraction of the production. Also, 50 miles seems pretty far offshore to me.
THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO PRINT OUT, OR AT LEAST ABSORB, when you have power:
Survival Guide: Living Without Power.
Some Tips to Make Your Life Bearable After the Storm.
Here’s another blackout survival guide. And here’s some advice on home generator safety.
Hurricane Ike wreaks havoc; up to 4.5 million face power outages
By Michelle Malkin • September 12, 2008 11:35 PM
Scroll for updates and breaking news…
Map via Wunderground
Thoughts and prayers go out to the residents of Houston, Galveston, and other parts of Texas getting slammed by Hurricane Ike. The Weather Nerd is calling it the “Great Galveston Hurricane of 2008.” He’s also got a live Storm Surge page.
The adjective everyone is using: “Monstrous.”
The Houston Chronicle is liveblogging and reports power outages spreading.
Galveston Daily News is on the scene.
So is blogger Dr. Melissa Clouthier, who I met in Texas at the Americans For Prosperity summit. Stay safe, Melissa! Also in that pic is blogger Robbie Cooper, who has family in Houston, and blogger Rightwingsparkle, who is north of Houston and starting to feel winds. You take care, too, girl.
Blogger Jason Smith is also liveblogging as he rides out the storm.
And so is the staff of the Lone Star Times, with folks stationed all around the Houston area.
Troy Burwell has an excellent Flickr photostream.
Shelters are filling up in Tyler.
Another good resource: Stormlook.
And Glenn Reynolds has a huge link round-up.
PJTV is running a Disaster Watch initiative.
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This is not good:
GALVESTON — Despite a mandatory evacuation and ominous forecasts of a killer storm, police, firefighters and the Galveston Beach Patrol rescued dozens of residents Friday from the rising tides brought on by Hurricane Ike as it bears down on Galveston Island.
Many had stayed on the island through numerous other hurricanes and were surprised by the height of the tidal surge. Others were mentally impaired, homeless or decrepit.
Police used a boat to rescue Ken Rygaard, 65, and his wife Jesse, 52, after the tide flooded the second story of the house on 67th Street near Stewart Road.
Rygaard said he has ridden out every storm over the last 43 years. “During (1983 Hurricane) Alicia, we only had a little bit of water,” Rygaard said “but nothing up to the second level.”
The Rygaards and others were taken to Ball High School on 43rd Street, which became a shelter of last resort. The city warned residents that there would be no shelters because all residents were expected to leave the island.
But city officials estimated that as many as 40 percent of the island’s about 60,000 residents remained in their homes.
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Watch the refineries. Melissa spells it out: “We have many friends and contacts within the oil industry and they feed me information every so often. I think people need to understand how profoundly the refining being down is going to affect the nation. Even if the refineries could get back going the minute the storm passes, it will take at least a week to get going again. And, it should be noted, the refineries will not get going the minute the storm passes. America needs to build more.”
Update: More than 1.3 million are now without power.
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A Coast Guard HU-25 Falcon jet crew flew over Galveston Island near Bolivar Point.
Post # 1774 aerial views of Bolivar. Tragic.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/livenow?id=6384042
Pictures of Hurricane Ike’s Devastation in Houston - 09/14
