Fri, Nov 6th - 11:58AM

Durant's Rousseau and Revolution, p. 606
240.2 miles
still windy

Sadly, maybe yesterday's blood pressure was an anomaly. It's high/high borderline today. Rats.

95 recordings of 43 types.

Rasmussen: -11 approval index, 48/52 ratio.

We hadn't seen Gareth for two weeks, so it was obviously time for a visit! He's beginning to babble and sometimes it's recognizable words. Since he has shown he can use the glider to escape his confines, the glider is gone.  Therefore, Rich was sitting on the coffee table.  He held Gareth, who suddenly realized there were wonderful things on the mantel, like speakers and the TV!  When he was put down, he figured out how to climb onto the coffee table.  Then, on his own, he started to stand but decided that was too scary.  So when he'd gotten down again, they moved the coffee table away from the fireplace.   It's interesting watching him work out elaborate schemes.  His follow-through, fortunately, is that of a 17-month old, easily distractable.

Dems to Lieberman, You Lie.

Victor Davis Hanson, Guantanamo Laureate . 0bama lobbied lots of stones, and now lives in a glass house.

"Personally, if I were a terrorist suspect, I’d rather be picked up by a Special Forces team in the Hindu Kush, be shipped to Cuba, have my case reviewed by military lawyers, be allowed a Middle Eastern diet, and be provided with a Koran and arrows pointing to Mecca than simply wait to have my head exploded without warning by a Hellfire missile, while sitting inside my mud-brick hideout in Waziristan alongside my soon-to-be-incinerated family.

..."Even the charismatic Barack Obama cannot convince his liberal base for long that it is horribly wrong to waterboard Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the planner of the mass-murdering on 9/11, but perfectly fine to incinerate an al-Qaeda suspect along with noncombatants in his general vicinity."

Phone calls in 0bamacare.

Uncle Sam Wants Queue.

Dennis Miller refers to Pelosi as an "overly botoxed, room-temperature IQ, harpy."

Sarkozy Fights the Islamisation of France.

James Taranto:

Even more risible, though, is the claim that the administration "is going to speak truth to power." Hello, Valerie? Your boss is the president of the United States! No one is more powerful. As we suggested Friday, it really seems as if Obama and his men do not understand what it means to be president. Because their power is constrained--thank you, Founding Fathers!--they labor under the delusion that they are powerless.
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The job of those in power is not to "speak truth to power," though it would be nice if they spoke the truth once in a while. It is to exercise power responsibly. The effort to bully Fox News Channel would be an abuse of power were it not so pathetically inept.

Barack 0bama is Doing My Job: Why America Needs Him to do His. Huffington Post, of all places.