COAST GUARD shuts down oil-skimming barges due to ...


... lack of life vests onboard.

Thanks to Chris Muir for the appropriate visual response.

CAPTAIN KICKASS AND COMMANDER PASSBUCK knew the Deepwater Horizon story.

WORSHIPING BP? The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, on learning that some (horrors!) Republican called the Gulf oil spill an “act of God”, immediately declared that Republicans must think that “BP is ... God” and called for divine retribution from the Obama administration – which, by analogy, would make it the Democrats’ God.

Quoting Bugs Bunny, the most eloquent social commentor on the state of the liberal mind, “What a maroon.”

MORE: Milbank gets his comeuppance for another moronic editorial.

Via Instapundit.

SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
- Anonymous

I prefer magic.

DEMOCRATS’ LAME DUCK STRATEGY? This is worrisome. The voters may well throw the Democrats out of office in November, but they'll still have time to do real damage before they go.

OBAMA THREATENS to follow in FDR's economic missteps. Democrats never learn.

A LESSON IN COMMON SENSE: Thoughts about immigration, ‘racism,’ and political correctness.

THE ROAD TO SERFDOM IS A LONG ONE, but I fear that we are well on our way.

AND NOW THERE ARE THREE: Earlier I posted an Instapundit interview with J. Christian Adams, the former Department of Justice Civil Rights Division lawyer who resigned to protest the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case.

There’s much, much more – including statements by former DOJ lawyers backing Adams.

ANOTHER REASON not to trust the major media.

NEW BLACK PANTHER CHAIRMAN Malik Shabazz praises Osama bin Laden.

EXCELLENT HEALTHCARE “is by definition redistributional." So said Dr. Donald Berwick, Obama’s recess appointment to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

You can see why President Obama couldn't allow senators, Democrats as well as Republicans, to ask Dr. Berwick what he meant by such a ditzy remark. "Excellent health care," as everyone else understands it, is health care that makes a patient well, or at least better. A quack understands that much.

Obama wants to control healthcare, not improve it.

MORE on Dr. Berwick. Watch the video clip.

INSTAPUNDIT ASKS: “What would Earth look like if it stopped spinning?”

More likely, Washington, D.C., and its environs would float off into outer space because of all the hot air. That could be good.

MALLARD FILLMORE on cats.


Trust me. When dinnertime approaches, you’ll know they’re there.

HMM. Satellite photos support testimony that Iraqi WMD went to Syria.

This one still bothers me. There was near-unanimity in the world’s intelligence agencies prior to the onset of the war that Iraq had, at least, a WMD research program and yet nothing was ever found.

OBAMACARE WORKS! “In fact, it works so well that it works ex post facto! Either that, or our health care system was delivering excellent outcomes and effective preventive care without requiring a government intervention to do so.”

I suspect the latter.