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I kind of just want to record these comments, here, for myself as much as anything.

The context of the following quotes is America’s latest useless, brainless, hysterical hissyfit, that over the Cordoba center. The Cordoba center will be more familiar to most people, unfortunately, by its condensed and intentionally-charged, as well as critically-misleading name, “the Ground Zero mosque.” As usual, thanks to our “liberal media” for sacrificing both accuracy and objectivity in favor of attention-getting and, not coincidentally, inflammatory phrasing.

I should offer a gold star to The Economist, however, for not only its reasoned and mature perspective on the matter, but for absolutely piling on. A praiseworthy effort.

Sadly, many of America’s so-called “leaders,” have unfortunately been lacking any similar commitment to those national ideals (not to mention the plain, old-fashioned concept of “standing up for what’s right”) which are apparently inconvenient just now.

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Today begins the Fourth-of-July weekend. Five years ago, I marked Independence Day with an attempt at a political post which actually focused almost entirely on positive ideas. It makes interesting reading, I think, from the perspective of its nickel anniversary; I’m definitely still proud of it.

For this year, figuring that I wasn’t going come up with any kind of adequate positive statement, I had the following queued up instead. But I’ve had a better idea, which will appear on Sunday. In the meantime, being as vain as a summer day is long and therefore loathe to waste any of my precious brilliance (or a good profanity exercise; must keep in practice), I’m posting this bit today. Wherein I offer up a little reply to all those people out there tooling around, proudly sporting the message “please don’t put my flag on your foreign car” on their vehicle’s bumper. So:

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this sounds about right.

The federal judge who overturned Barack Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium reported owning stock in numerous companies involved in the offshore oil industry — including Transocean, which leased the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to BP prior to its April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico — according to 2008 financial disclosure reports.