HOW TO KNOW when green technologies are real.

FROM THE ELECTRICITY TREE, OF COURSE. Read to the bottom for the question.

WELFARE STATE: handouts make up 1/3 of U.S. wages. Dang! My welfare benefits (social security) make up less than 25% of my total income. Where do I protest to rectify this gross injustice?

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE BASKETBALL HOOPS. Something similar happened to me when I lived in (where else?) California. We lived in a cul-de-sac and had a basketball hoop set up on the sidewalk between adjacent driveways so the neighborhood kids could play basketball in the street. Then came the call from the police. Take it down, because the sidewalk can’t be blocked in case it needs to be used by the wheelchair-bound. Never mind that there were no wheelchair-bound people in the entire neighborhood, and never mind that that 5-foot segment of sidewalk had two adjacent driveways for easy-off/easy-on. A classic example of government of the morons, by the morons, for the morons.

EU TO BAN CARS FROM THE CITIES. Look for a growth spurt in the 'burbs. Linked from Hot Air.

SUPREME COURT to decide whether millions of female employees can sue Walmart. If the court grants class certification, get ready for plenty of "you hurt my feelings" class-action lawsuits. UPDATE: the Supremes appear to be skeptical.

THUMPER OBAMA: Steven Hayward takes note of an annoying Obama habit. Favorite comment: “Does anyone besides me get the distinct impression that the president believes we are all credulous boobs? Being continually mistaken for the village idiot by one's leader eventually has a numbing effect on one's enthusiasm supply.” Read it all - especially the comments.

FROM STUDENTS, a misplaced sense of entitlement. The proper response is "tough". The s-word can be added for emphasis. Linked from Instapundit, who notes it's not just students.

OUCH! “He’ll be the only one who’s not a prostitute.”

COMPETENCE is not a liberal strength.

CHUBBY should start with himself.

UNDER NEW FEDERAL RULES, most Americans disabled? I guess now we’ll all be able to park in the first row in every parking lot.

I BELIEVE the proper term is "obligarchy."

THREE THINGS I noticed about President Obama's speech on Libya tonight:

(1) It's still about "I" - not "we," "us," or the United States.

2) He hasn't given up strawmen (the 'false choice' paragraphs).

And

(3) He was very uncomfortable with patriotism. Even with the teleprompter, he stumbled nearly every time he spoke about anything that could even loosely be described in terms of American exceptionalism.

November 2012 can't come too soon.

MIRACLES HAPPEN. To say that Daisy and Shadow (front) dislike Diamond (rear) is understating things a bit. Usually, they won't even let her come up to the second floor, much less to "their" bedroom. Seeing them all on the same bed is nothing short of a miracle.

FEDERAL JUDGE TO SENIORS: take Medicare or lose Social Security. So I bought another pack of cigarettes. At least they’ll kill me with less pain than Obama’s Medicare.

Linked from Instapundit.

MEET THE NPR REPUBLICANS. Fortunately for him, my congresscritter isn't among them.

INSTEAD OF A SNAKE hissing "don't tread on me," these central planners would have the American people be a well-trained dog, ready to heel to a wise government master.... It's time for professional politicians - of all stripes - to be sent home.

TIME - the difference between a nightmare and a vision.

DOZENS OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS defected from their leadership last Tuesday and voted against another short-term spending measure that would keep the government operating for three more weeks.

With a little more courage, there won't be another short-term continuing resolution and we'll be able to get on with the real budget battle.