Like the Big Dig......Just A Whoooole Lot Bigger

So Barack Obama has apparently taken this FDR talk seriously enough to reveal his "21st Century New Deal", and suddenly I'm reminded of that quote...
...how does it go?...
...a "second class mind but a first class temperament"

“[W]e will launch a massive effort to make public buildings more energy-efficient. Our government now pays the highest energy bill in the world. We need to change that. We need to upgrade our federal buildings by replacing old heating systems and installing efficient light bulbs. That won’t just save you, the American taxpayer, billions of dollars each year. It will put people back to work.”

OK, OK I know it was TR not FDR but lets not ruin a good meme...

Were They Watching The Same Election As Me

So, the reason John McCain lost the election wasn't because of Obama's 600 million dollar war chest, it wasn't his youth or the fact that he was a far better communicator. It wasn't because after eight years of a Republican administration the public wanted a change, or the fact that the ever tongue-tied George Bush's approval ratings are at an all time low. It wasn't because of the long unpopular war, or the fact that the media that did so much to make the war unpopular is so deeply in the pockets of the Democratic party that most of the pundits should register as paid lobbyists.
Oh yes, and that global finncial crisis had only a little to with it.
No the real problem with the Republican campaign was the overt religiosity of some of McCain's supporters....

....except of course McCain wasn't their first or even second choice in the primaries, and no, conservative social issues were'nt even particulary brought up during the election (except for opposition to gay marriage which actually succeeded wherever it was brought up) and the most famous minister in the country now is the race-baiting preacher of the Democratic candidates church.

SO you see, it all makes perfect sense.

Q: What Did You Do During The War Daddy A: Why, I Drank Egg Nog, Son

While on one side of the Indian Ocean modern day pirates run amok, driving even "super powers" to distraction (since their Twenty First Century mores find it hard to deal with eighteenth Century threats) on the other side of the ocean the Australian Navy gets a Christmas holiday.
For two months.

Sliding Into First

Let's see... 1,342 points since Obama was declared the winner.... comes out to 167 points a day... which means by the time he actually takes the office the Dow will be somewhere around...hmmm...-2521.

Rise of the Pinkshirts

Taking a cue from another famous gay activist (I refuse to capitalize gay) sore losers are spreading their curious brand of tolerance and diversity...

On Sunday, November 9, a band of about 30 homosexuals stormed a church in Lansing, Michigan. Some were well dressed and were stationed inside Mount Hope Church, where they pretended to be normal Sunday worshippers; others were outside dressed in pink and black.
The group of self-described homosexual anarchists, Bash Back!, claims the evangelical church is guilty of “transphobia and homophobia.” The group says that it fights for "liberation," opposes "all forms of state power," and urges members not to condemn certain methods of promoting their cause "on the grounds that the State deems it to be illegal."

During the service the protesters outside the church were beating on buckets, shouting “Jesus was a homo” on a megaphone and carrying an upside-down pink cross. They distributed fliers to passersby.

And it's apparently spreading...

Another church building belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been vandalized. This incident in Sandy is the seventh in a string of vandalisms targeting the Church's chapels.

Churches in Weber and Davis counties were also hit by vandals over the weekend, raising concerns about a possible hate crime. In those incidents, vandals shattered doors and windows.

Sort of their own little Crystalnacht.