Darfur rally

It was a beautiful day in San Francisco, so I headed down to Crissy Field to see the rally for Darfur.



I was there a bit early, so the crowd was probably eventually much larger.

It was odd to see a rally in San Francisco without insano left-wing signs ranting against Bush or for communism or some other silly idea.





Genocide sucks, but the "international community" is never going to do anything about it as long as the international community is represented by an incompetent, corrupt, and toothless U.N. Remember what the U.N. did in Cambodia? And Rwanda? And Kosovo? And Kurdistan? Well, that's about what you can expect them to do in Darfur.

Want to end genocide? Throw cowards like France and corrupt self-dealers like Russia off of the U.N. Security Council.

Barbara Boxer: going the extra eighth of a mile

Washington Post:

Gas prices have gone above $3 a gallon again, and that means it's time for another round of congressional finger-pointing.

"Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president, gas prices have doubled!" charged Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), standing at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill where regular unleaded hit $3.10. "They are too cozy with the oil industry."

She then hopped in a waiting Chrysler LHS (18 mpg) -- even though her Senate office was only a block away.

Thanks to OpinionJournal's Best of the Web.

Bernanke: Inflation gone wild!

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday that rising energy prices jeopardize a currently strong economy and left the door open to the possibility of further interest rate increases to keep inflation in check.

How those bonds treating you now?

CIA mole's web of Democratic ties

Here's the graphic showing CIA mole Mary McCarthy's links to Democrats from headliners like Bill Clinton and John Kerry to dirty tricks guys like Lyin' Joe Wilson and Sandy Burglar.

Cop teaching gun safety to children shoots self in foot

You gotta watch the video. It's hilarious.

It's all over for the unknown speculator

Bill Fleckenstein on the bursting of the housing bubble:

A recent story in the Wall Street Journal, "Hot Homes Get Cold" offered lots of its useful vignettes that serve as a microcosm of manic markets -- starting with the bravado-cum-denial displayed by a medical-equipment salesman in Stuart, Fla.

Concerned about his real-estate investment apparently going sour, he can't afford to reduce the price to what homes now sell for in his neighborhood -- which is about $100,000 less than he's asking. Says the salesman: "If I got in a jam, I would have to drop the price, but I am not at that point." His game plan: Rent the house, so as not to "lose my shirt."

That's the mentality often seen in manic markets -- the belief that you can't possibly lose, and, when the price goes against you, you don't have to deal with it, because it will come back. This fellow (and millions more like him) is going to find out that his belief is a mistaken one, in the same way that folks did when the stock bubble burst.

We are a nation of burger-flippers turned condo-flippers. People are about to learn that they were better off doing the former.

On the other hand...

Remember how indignant the New York Times was over the Plame leak and Karl Rove?

Well, when a Democrat leaks classified national security information to damage a Republican administration, it's not really such a big deal. She's such a nice girl, always plays by the rules, must have been forced into this position, etc., etc., etc.