MORE NATURAL GAS, less CO2. So why are the Democrats so intent on passing Cap ‘n Tax Trade?

MICHELLE OBAMA’S OBESITY REPORT: Tax pop and candy, subsidize fruits and veggies.

Uh, right. Subsidize those who can afford to buy the “good stuff;” tax those who can’t. Makes perfect (liberal) sense.

ANOTHER PLEDGE THROWN UNDER THE BUS. Orszag : The president never “pledged” no new taxes; he “preferred.” That bus must have monster tires.

Follow both links.

GET WITH THE PROGRAM, AMERICA: ”You say that the President is out of touch with the people. You are mistaken. Get with the program! The truth is that the people are out of touch with the President; the correct solution to this problem is for the President to put the people out of office.”

The link is here [9th comment].

ANOTHER DAY, another bizarre UC Berkeley tantrum.

Where are the parents of these twits?

MAY IS BICYCLE SAFETY MONTH. So says the sign along the highway I drive to work. Does that mean that it’s open season on bicyclists for the other 11 months?

Seriously, this is just another example of galloping nanny-statism. Surely there’s a better way to waste my taxpayer money.

MALICIOUS ATTACK on Michele Bachmann website.

Bachmann for Congress discovered an attack on its website, which resulted in users in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome to receive virus alerts and some to download viruses. After a search with web developers, the offending code was found and removed from the website.

"This malicious attack caused unsuspecting supporters and Internet users to inadvertently download viruses to their computers, and it is disturbing there are people who spend their time and energy on causing havoc to innocent volunteers," Campaign Manager Gina Countryman said. "We take the security of our website and our volunteers very seriously. We took swift action with our developers to find and remove damaging codes and protect our supporters. We have no reason to believe any data was removed, and no contributor lists are housed on our website."

Any supporters who were affected by the attack should run a basic anti-virus program on their computer, and seek help if they need to have any viruses removed. While the offending code has been removed, some security software programs are being notified of the correction and may still have the website flagged.

Democrats must be feeling very, very threatened. Rightly so.

THE U.S. NAVY fights back.

Link from Don Surber.

BP OIL SPILL: Taxpayers could pay billions in damages.

What? But, but, ... Obama promised that BP would pay all the damages ....

Link from Instapundit.

NEWSWEEK: technology is rotting our brains.

We have more information than ever before. We're never away from it. The air around us fairly hums with it... And yet I can't shake the sense that we are all becoming stupider and stupider—and that we are, on average, less well informed today than we were a generation ago.

Translation: You boobs out there aren’t reading Newsweak ... er, Newsweek.

We're not thinking. We're processing.... We're digitally dithering, clicking on links and swimming through a torrent of useless garbage being thrown at us by idiots and self-promoters, pundits and PR flacks and marketing people.

Translation: gratuitous insult alert.

[I]n the midst of all this, Glenn Beck has become an influential television commentator, and Sarah Palin is a credible candidate for president in 2012. You think this is a coincidence?

Gratuitous insult arrival. Funny you should bring that up ... remember your snide comment about “swimming through a torrent of useless garbage”? It’s name is Newsweek.

No way. What's happening is this ... we've become a nation of Internet-powered imbeciles....

Speak for yourself.

Sadly, I don't see that changing any time soon. If anything, I imagine it will get worse.

For you, yes. And remember to ask me if I want fries with my hamburger.

THE ATTACK HAS BEEN FAILED. Discussing the federal response to the attempted Times Square bombing, President Obama had to make a mid-course correction:

This incident is another sobering reminder of the times in which we live. Around the world and here at home, there are those who would attack our citizens and who would slaughter innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of their murderous agenda. They will stop at nothing to kill and disrupt our way of life. But once again, an attempted attack has been — failed.

Amateur ... can’t even take credit for failing.

THE S WORD: Time for scientists to go into politics? Frankly, I’d say that the climate scientists (and medical doctors, with ObamaCare) have pretty well made a hash of that proposal.

I’d like to see more politicians with scientific – and engineering - backgrounds. But I damned sure don’t want to see any more “political” scientists.