Tropical Storm Ernesto update

(Yes, I managed to get the type of storm right this time )
Here’s what things are looking like in North Carolina right now:

The coast and the Raleigh area are getting slammed with rain. It’s overcast here where I am, drizzling some, and it’s a bit windier than normal but otherwise nothing major. [...]

Moonbats swarm MSNBC poll about Bush comparing this war to WWII

I’m close to some serious make-a-sailor-blush cursing over this one. Here’s the question (asked alongside this article):
Do you agree with President Bush when he likens the struggle against Islamic fundamentalism with the fight against Nazis and communists? * 94533 responses
Note the number of responses above. Now, here are the results [...]

(almost) Hurricane again – Carolina coasts under hurricane watch">Ernesto strengthens back into a (almost) Hurricane again – Carolina coasts under hurricane watch

(UPDATE: SIGH. When I first blogged about this, I said Ernesto was a hurricane again. Judging by the story I posted, and other stories, he is not yet a hurricane again but could be soon. My bad. It’s been one of those days!)
He dumped a lot of rain but not much [...]

Rumsfeld got it right

And that’s why his critics, like Olbermann and certain Democratic Senators, are flaming mad.
Here’s the LA Times write up on Rummy’s blistering Tuesday speech.
Here’s the transcript of Rummy’s speech (my comments on it will follow). Highlights:
That year — 1919 — turned out to be one of the pivotal junctures in modern history with the [...]

Evening moonbat roundup

Tonight’s episode is sponsored by the City of Nutroots tourism department.

Ok, where shall I start?
— Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, at today’s anti-Bush rally:
“No more God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense,” Anderson said at the rally, absorbing waves of cheers and applause from the thousands of protesters as he called Bush a “dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights violating president.”
— [...]

Tide turning for Congressional GOP?

Donald Lambro points to some poll numbers from Gallup that look encouraging for GOP Congressional members up for re-election this fall:
WASHINGTON — Republicans have moved closer to the Democrats in a congressional voter-preference poll just as the election campaigns near the official Labor Day starting gate.
The surprising findings in a little-noticed Gallup Poll that were [...]

Republican Senator Ted Stevens was the one who put the ’secret hold’ on the Obama/Coburn federal budget open database bill

Rebecca Carr explains the who, what, when, where, and why here.
I’ll say one thing about all this: for the first time in, oh, forever, the blogosphere actually united together on an issue. Take a picture, because it’s a Kodak moment that is sure not to last.
Good call, Mary Katharine.
Wed PM Update: I’m hearing [...]

Weds/Thurs open thread

Let’s get it started off right, with Tina Turner and Bryan Adams

(Note: I can’t actually view the video now – no Flash on the compu at the 8-5 – so I hope the quality of the vid is ok)

Fallout from O’Connor USSC retirement: Gasp! Not as many women clerks for the justices

Why won’t those neanderthal justices on the USSC hire me?
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 — Everyone knows that with the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the number of female Supreme Court justices fell by half. The talk of the court this summer, with the arrival of the new crop of law clerks, is that the number [...]

Because it’s what Marines do

In fact, it’s what all our brave men and women in uniform do.
This story is a week old, but in terms of sentimental value, it’s timeless:
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An ex-Marine identified five years after risking his life to save two police officers at the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 attacks says [...]