With debate looming on Obama’s spending request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the official says Democrats will deny the Pentagon and Justice Department $80 million to relocate Guantanamo’s 241 detainees.
To Boldly Go Where No Consumer Demand Has Gone Before
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
President Barack Obama’s new fuel and emission standards for cars and trucks will save billions of barrels of oil but are expected to cost consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle by the time the plan is complete in 2016. Obama on Tuesday planned to announce the first-ever national emissions limits for vehicles, as well as require an overall or industry average fuel efficiency standard at 35.5 miles per gallon.
Because there’s no such thing as “too low” when you’re bringing the rest of America down to California standards.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Via Shaken, who writes “What’s that you say? Insuring your own debt with your own debt?“
The National League of Cities says it will ask the U.S. Treasury today for a $5 billion interest-free loan to capitalize a new municipal bond insurer it plans to create.
The Issuers Mutual Bond Assurance Co. would be the first publicly owned U.S. financial guarantor. The $5 billion capitalization would make it the biggest in the industry, eclipsing MBIA Inc.’s capital base of $3.8 billion and the $1.1 billion of current market leader Assured Guaranty Inc.
The scheme has received the Barney Frank Seal Of Approval. What could possibly go wrong?
Y2Kyoto: The Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hybrid
“Really, to get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer.”
h/t TimR
Next Stop
The World Needs More Canada
One frame in a slide show at WaPo: Great Right North
(And things are only looking up!)
h/t Paul
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Woody Herman & his Swingin’ Herd, with Paul Fontaine, Gerry Lamy, Bill Chase, Dave Gale, Billy Hunt, Phil Wilson, Henry Southall, Bob Rudolph, Sal Nistico, Jackie Stevens, Bobby Jones, Frank Hittner, Nat Pierce, Chuck Andrus, and Jake Hanna, performing Taste of Honey (1963, 3:24).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Killing A Story: How It’s Done
h/t
Genius Loves Company
A Sentence Never Before Uttered In The History Of The English Language
“Pausing only to wonder idly whether the expressions “38-year-old student of international law” and “the guys who stole my tires off the balcony” have ever been used in the same paragraph in the entire history of the English language…”
Heh.
h/t Maz2
Brass Balls Radio
Marks their 1st anniversary with guest host Mark Steyn.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performing Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Herbert Von Karajan conducting (35:50).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Because Experience Only Matters When You’re Vice President
Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.
According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president.
“I didn’t know any better”
“I thought the whole world lived in areas where the streets are filthy, aggressive street behavior is allowed because the perps are victims of capitalism…”
h/t Robert W.
One Man’s Terrorist Is Another Man’s Liberal Voting Bloc
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
May 11th – “Our Party has raised, and will continue to raise, the plight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka in the House of Commons. We will continue to demand action by the Canadian government to address the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka.”
May 16th – BREAKING NEWS – LTTE allies Sets Fire to Toronto Buddhist Vihara
h/t andycanuck via FFOF
Reader Tips
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here from Trains Unlimited is their most excellent Steam Trains, II, III & IV documentary. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the Union Pacific 3985, a four-cylinder simple articulated 4-6-6-4 Challenger type of steam locomotive owned by Union Pacific Railroad, shown in the image to the right, and which is shown in the videos, and there is a lovely twist at the end of the videos, involving the 4-8-4 UP 844. Interestingly, perhaps, the UP 3985 locomotive, which was built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, New York, is currently the largest operational steam locomotive in the world.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Y2Kyoto: “It remains closed”
It was supposed to be a shining example of the green movement — a completely independent solar-powered house with no gas or electrical hookups.
Seven months ago, officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the $900,000 house owned by the city of Troy that was to be used as an educational tool and meeting spot.
Bonus points if you stop to calculate the square footage cost to build this charming abode.
h/t Maz2
The First American Prime Minister In Waiting
Paul Wells revisits Ignatieff’s “pronoun problem”, saying in several paragraphs what I’ve been saying in a subject line over the past few months.
There’s been grumbling in Liberal ranks about what some call Ignatieff’s “pronoun problem” ever since he moved to Toronto in 2005. His pronoun problem is his tendency to use the first person plural — we, our — when discussing a country that isn’t Canada.
(Then again, I don’t get paid by the word).
Can you imagine somebody getting elected president of the United States whose 30-year stint outside the United States had ended less than three years earlier? Can you imagine a president of France who’d lived for 30 years in San Francisco or Seoul?
And even then, he pulls up just short of the finish line.
It’s not just that Ignatieff has lived more than 30 years out of Canada (though that alone should disqualify him), Mr. Wells. It’s that the only reason he’s back is to add another line to his resume. And therein lies Iggy’s real “pronoun problem”.
Canada – not worth living in unless they’ll make you Prime Minister.
Musings From The Oil Patch
Rigzone – “Energy industry executives seriously must consider the proposition unveiled in the Obama budget that the energy industry is to be a “piggy bank” to help fund the President’s grand social vision.”
Y2Kyoto: Dude, Where’s My Warming Country?
Near Yorkton, Sk yesterday.
This really isn’t funny anymore. You promised.
photo courtesy Larry Weber
He’s Just Softening Them Up For Guantanamo, Con’t
“Obama revives terror tribunals, dismaying liberals”