Now that the Cambridge Police Department, along with its unions for supervisory personnel as well as the rank and file, have made it abundantly clear that Crowley’s arrest of Gates was not because of race but because of belligerence, the opportunity presents itself to ask why citizens are required to be complacent and cooperative with police rousting them in their own homes?  Certainly the path of least resistance, but when did we give up the right to get angry with a police officer?

Also:

The Treasury has an agreement in principle with the United Automobile Workers union, whose members’ pensions and retiree health care benefits would be protected as a condition of the bankruptcy filing, said these people, who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.

Guess all the ex-Enron employees should have gotten the government involved before they lost their pensions.

FDIC does not have enough deposit insurance to close BankUnited which should have been closed down in January, having violated the capital requirements in the Consent Order, this is the investigative story of the year the fact that the FDIC can’t shut down large troubled banks until the deposit insurance is raised which is the next bailout, in the interim they are relegated to shutting down tiny banks to conserve deposit insurance. Amazing no one has reported this.

Scary if true, but perhaps not surprising.  Unfortunately, I think we’re going to need to see many more bank failures before we see a recovery.

Next, the conservative effort—which has lasted more than 20 years - to return the Supreme Court to its constitutional moorings has been defeated.  Under an Obama administration, young, left-wing judges will be nominated to replace Justice Stevens, Justice Ginsberg, Justice Souter, and perhaps Justice Breyer.  Justice Kennedy is likely to “evolve” ever more rapidly into a liberal jurist.  While Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Thomas, and Justice Alito are likely to form a “loyal opposition” for many years to come, how long will Justice Scalia (who is 72) remain on the bench?  Conservatives came very close to remaking the Court, but they needed one more presidential administration to accomplish that goal.  They didn’t get it.

This is the best part of the Obama victory and an outright loss to conservatism.

We’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren’t aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole’ Miss. We get 85 percent of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama . We get two-thirds of the tax revenue; you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we’re going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they’re apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their children’s caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we’re not willing to spend our resources in Bush’s Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the country’s fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95% of America’s quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90% of all cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, most of the U. S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92% of all U. S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we’re discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11, and 61% of you crazy b*****ds believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.
By the way, we’re taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Peace,

Blue States

This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.

This Rolling Stone Article subtitled “A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty ” has been getting a lot of attention today.

The article has a number of people close to McCain making less than complimentary statements about McCain as a person.  It’s a bit long, but made for interesting reading.

Palin, though, is a train wreck. She can’t answer simple questions, like, “What newspapers do you read?” She’s barely conversant on even the big talking points associated with her ticket, much less an in-depth conversation about complex issues affecting the country. It’s been reported that she had a thirty minute attention span during Alaska Gubernatorial debate prep. I think, perhaps, she can’t be bothered to pull facts out of her head, or maybe she has such an intense lack of interest in global issues that it all just flies right out the window. 

I agree with this author that when choosing a vice president, I want someone with intellectual curiousity and interest in the issues he or she is asked to manage.  Palin doesn’t seem to have it.

Sen. John McCain said he will “suspend” his presidential campaign on Thursday and will return to Washington to focus on the unfolding economic crisis. In the meantime, he called for a delay in the presidential debate scheduled for Friday night in Mississippi.