NASA has decided to outsource its manned space missions.  So from now on, countdowns will run “10…9…8…your mission is important to us, please stay on the line…7…6…”

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GOP lawmakers are trying several tactics to make sure Gitmo detainees can’t come to the U.S.  Among them are bills that ban the transfer of detainees, block funding for closing the facility, and have them all adopted by Elian Gonzales’ father.

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Apple is reportedly in talks to buy Twitter for $700,000,000.  The holdup seems to be that Twitter will only accept $140 at a time.

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The owners of a New York-area day care are accused of hoarding an arsenal of weapons in the facility’s basement.  Their lawyer says they were just trying to get the kids ready for public school.

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President Obama’s tax plan marks citizens who use tax havens as tax evaders.  Or, as they’re sometimes called, “cabinet members.”

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As I posted a couple days ago, “empathy” has nothing to do with it. In fact, it’s the opposite of what you want, as Charles Krauthammer explains: It’s true that whoever Obama appoints is not going to make any change in the balance of the court because Souter was a liberal, as liberal as you come. But I thought what Obama said today was really remarkable when he said I want someone on the court who understands that justice isn’t about abstract legal theory. It’s about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives. Now that is not only wrong, it’s deeply corrupting. The idea that you ought to be thinking about how the law affects the reality of someone’s life is something that you do when you are passing a law or create a law. That’s what you do if you are a member of Congress who represents people and their needs. But once the law is passed, the only job a judge has is to interpret the law without consideration of a person’s standing in life. Otherwise you could never have, say, a bank foreclosing on a home, because who, after all, is more affected, a bank that might lose a few dollars, or a family that’s going to lose its home and future livelihood, et cetera? The whole idea blinds a justice and the statutes that we have outside our courthouses of a blindfold over justice is that you do not look at a person’s station in life, their needs in life, requirements in life. It’s entirely about the law. And for Obama to state the exact opposite openly as a way that will guide him in his appointments is quite radical.

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A cougar escaped into the woods in Central Florida while being transferred into a cage.  Ashton hopes she returns home soon.

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Sad to read of passing of Jack Kemp. He cared about his country but more than that he cared about the people who live here. He believed they should have freedom and opportunity based on their own choices, and as such he was an exemplary moral role model and a exemplary conservative. RIP.

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Here’s the sort of jackassery that passes for thinking by our President and his lemmings. Nell Scovell swoons as she quotes back Obama’s cited qualifications for service on the Supreme Court, chief among which is “empathy.” For the record, the job of a judge is to interpret the law as strictly as possible, not to use his good office to serve sympathetic petitioners. Obama’s answer is nonsense on stilts, and it could be dismantled by a clever 8th grader fresh off a civics test. Obama the fabled Constitutional law professor fails the most basic test. Maybe he can make up some new laws of physics, too!

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Janet Napolitano wants Americans to refer to “swine flu” as “H1N1 flu.”  If only she’d been this worried about what she called veterans.

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Every once in a while I skim through Andrew Sullivan’s blog, just to pump up my blood pressure, I guess. There is no one else out there more inconsistent in his arguments, more self-righteous about his positions, and more libelous of everybody else’s motivations. The problem with politics these days is the utter lack of open minds–the inability to consider for even an instant that the other guy wants something good for his country and his family, and that he’s not abject evil with arms and legs. Consider Sullivan on the matter of torture. As on so many issues, he’s not only certain he’s right, he’s screaming for the blood of those who had to make hard decisions about protecting America in the wake of 9/11. Heaven have mercy on Sullivan if he had been responsible in those days for the lives of Americans. Would he have clung to his precious academic posturings, or would he have acted to protect his fellow countrymen to the best of his abilty, knowing that the ingrateful among them could and would come along and second-guess his best efforts years down the road? If America had suffered subsequent attacks after 9/11 and President Bush hadn’t taken the actions he did, it is reasonable to believe that Sullivan would have been at the head of the line to say Bush was negligent for not doing everything he could have, and that the terror debate was over mere semantics compared that can’t compare to the lives lost.
Maybe Sullivan is right about “enhanced interrogation techniques.” I don’t think he is, but I’m willing to consider that he’s right and I’m wrong. And that’s the difference between Andrew Sullivan and me.

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Since the election, I’ve rarely posted here. Somewhat burned out from the hate directed at anyone who doesn’t endorse Obama as King for Life. But this torture prosecution business brings me back to make a point:

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President Obama says former Vice-President Cheney’s request that memos showing the success of “harsh interrogation” be released doesn’t tell the full story.  But you know what DOES tell the whole story?  A Gitmo detainee when he hears the water start running.

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President Obama’s top intelligence advisor says information obtained from harsh interrogations resulted in a “deeper understanding” of al Qaeda…and electricity.

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The Iraqi government says a sudden spike in the number of weddings is due to a relatively long period of calm.  Because nothing gets a guy prepared for marriage like long stretches of inactivity.

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A California man has been arrested for decapitating a horse.  In a related story, Johnny Fontaine will star in that new war picture.

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President Obama says reaching out to our enemies makes sure the U.S. is a leader on democracy and not just a lecturer.  In a related story, Timothy Geithner will not be giving any speeches about paying your taxes.

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Pakistan’s Ambassador to the U.S. says strings attached to an American aid package would make his country seem “submissive” to the U.S.  He’s asked the U.S. to submit a new proposal…and this time to include a “safe word.

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The wife of Captain Phillips says the wondering was the hardest part during her husband’s captivity.  That, and having to throw away all her Johnny Depp movies.

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Toby Keith is angry with Ethan Hawke about an article the actor wrote for Rolling Stone.  His main complaint?  Too many 3-syllable words.

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Give Us This Day Our Daily Jest (April 7, 2009)

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