No, not me; not yet, anways. The much funnier Scott Ott is crawling in to the sewer of politics. Pray for him, and help him out.

Victor Davis Hanson counts the ways – this is the one I liked best:

Too Many Rug Rats

3) Smart women do not get pregnant when it is inconvenient, especially when it interferes with one’s cursus honorum. Palin foolishly had a baby as governor, and waddled around with it the entire time-with other snotty kids in tow (just like those trashy folk at the mall who pile out of the Tahoe, in the way just as you are parking your Volvo)! And worse, in the age of sonograms and abortion, she delivered a mentally-challenged child. And worse still, the mom of five encouraged her daughter to deliver an out-of-wedlock child. (Is it in Oklahoma or Arkansas where moms and daughters have children about the same time?) And which is worse, to have a kid at 17 or one after 40? And worse, worse yet, she does not support abortion! Here is Hell in Sarah Palin’s world: I am up for a promotion at CNN, foolishly become pregnant at 42, and discover “it” has chromosomal “issues”. Am I supposed to deliver this thing? I don’t think so (nor would my daughter, should she become pregnant by her boyfriend the summer before starting off at Vassar [all that SAT camp for nothing?]).

They hate her for what she is – which, by the way, is a woman. Sarah Palin is from top to bottom and all ’round the complete woman. And nothing ticks feminist “womyn” off more than a woman…especially one who actually does all the things feminists say that woman should do and does it with style. And nothing scares a metrosexual elitist more than a real woman, too. They know that Sarah Palin would be entirely unimpressed with whom they know, where they’ve been and what degrees they have…she’d want to know what they’ve done…actually done, as in make something happen or make something come in to being. Todd is more of a man than the top 100 MSM males…not because he’s smarter or better looking, but because he’s a man, plain and simple. Real women and real men get along together…and make the country work; and they are hated by the elites, because the elites are afraid of them.

Just imagine a President Palin – having a state barbecue on the 4th of July with the folks from Wasilla just crawling all over the place and not a drop of champagne or an ounce of unpronounceable food to be seen. Just imagine her being talked down to by some State Department pinhead, and then tell him, “well, that’s interesting, but we’re going to do the right thing, instead”. Just imagine her taking the budget apart right in front of the American people and like the practical wife and mother she is, showing what sorts of filth are hidden away. It’ll be wonderful – and it’ll be great if it is her, one day. But Palin or someone – as long as we can get a real man or a real woman in there.

We’ve had wall to wall coverage of the sad, pathetic Michael Jackson…but no coverage of someone far more important in the grand scheme of things:

“Mr. Jackson received days of wall-to-wall coverage in the media,” Martha Gillis wrote to the Washington Post. “Where was the coverage of my nephew or the other soldiers who died that week?”

Gillis’ nephew, Lt. Brian Bradshaw, 24, died in Kheyl, Afganistan, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Bradshaw, of Steilacoom, Wash., was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in Fort Richardson, Alaska. He was one of at least 13 U.S. soldiers to die in Afghanistan since Jackson’s death on June 25.

Bradshaw’s mother, Mary, said she agreed with Gillis, saying the nonstop coverage of Jackson’s death has become “totally ridiculous” and laughable.

“I can watch the news many nights and there’s no mention of what’s going on in Afghanistan or Iraq and there’s boys dying over there,” Bradshaw told FOXNews.com. “Oh God, I can’t talk.”

And why is our President so silent about this? These are the men he sent in to battle – they are carrying out his orders; dying to advance the cause of the United States. He can spare time for a bogus health care fairy tale on TV, how about some time for the best and bravest?

Geesh:

Al Gore invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill yesterday when he urged political leaders to follow the example of Britain’s wartime leader in the battle against climate change.

The former US Vice-President accused governments around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid taking difficult decisions.

Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.”

Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as that from Hitler.

Yeah, no kidding, Al. Perhaps because Hitler wasn’t a figment of your imagination? Perhaps because Hitler was a mass-murdering psychopath? Perhaps because a bit of ice melting, plus or minus, just isn’t as important as 6,000,000 Jews done to death?

Any way we can amend the US Constitution to declare that this incredible idiot never was a US Senator or Vice President? Do we have to admit for all time to come that we were stupid enough to be even partially taken in by this twit?

Ever wonder what “for whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it. (Mark 8:35)” means? Here’s a good answer:

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. – Malcolm Muggeridge

In Michigan, that is:

DETROIT, July 6 /Christian Newswire/ — Abortionist Alberto Hodari has been fined $10,000 by the State of Michigan for the 2003 abortion death of Regina Johnson. The consent order, which recently became public, was issued on March 4, 2009, over five years after Ms. Johnson’s death.

“Now we know what a woman’s life is worth in the State of Michigan once she walks into an abortion clinic,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “This paltry fine has reduced Ms. Johnson’s life to that of chattel. Animals are bought and sold for more than this.”

In exchange for the consent agreement, counts of negligence and incompetence against Hodari were dismissed, leaving only the charge that his conduct constituted a “lack of good moral character.”

Feminists? Liberals? Anything to say? Suppose this had been a conservative, GOP Ob/Gyn who had botched a procedure and caused the death of a woman?

That is Obama’s month-by-month approval rating, January through June. This is per Rasmussen, who polls most consistently. One can quibble with the specific numbers, but the clear trend is downwards – and polls are best at picking up trends.

Only a sudden and substantial turn around in the economy can help. Obama and his Democrats are banking on the stimulus doing just this. It won’t.

Did anyone really think this beast has changed over the years?

China’s Uighur problem boiled over on Sunday in a wave of violence that left at least 156 people dead and more than 800 people hurt in Xinjiang province’s capital of Urumqui.

State TV showed gruesome images of protesters attacking ethnic Chinese, kicking men and women on the ground and leaving them dazed and bloodied. Uighurs have accused the Chinese security forces of overreacting to peaceful demonstrations.

The Chinese authorities responded with a regionwide crackdown. On Monday in Xinjiang, police dispersed a group of 200 “rioters” gathered outside a mosque in Kashgar.

These are the people we wish to buy our bonds? These are the people we wish to have free trade with?

Not for me – certainly, not any longer. Embargo, break relations and have done with the monsters in Peking. Once the Chinese people free themselves, then we can talk.

With 7 American soldiers among the killed:

Bombs and bullets killed seven American troops on Monday, the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in nearly a year—and a sign that the war being fought in the Taliban heartland of the south and east could now be expanding north.

Separately, Taliban militants claimed on a militant Web site that they were holding an American soldier whom the U.S. military says insurgents might have captured last week. The Taliban statement, however, did not include any proof, such as a picture or the soldier’s name.

This is to be a long, bitter fight which will have many ups and downs – but as long as we remain stout hearted and our political leadership doesn’t panic, the magnificent men and women of our armed forces will carry the matter through. I urge President Obama to provide whatever support is necessary and, as well, to make frequent mention of the battle in order to continually remind Americans that our best are in harm’s way.

Hmmm…

British Airways reported a surge of bookings as soon as the memorial arrangements were announced. Virgin’s trans-Atlantic flights to San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles were all packed with fans and VIPs, said spokesman Paul Charles.

“I think this is America’s version of Princess Diana. People want to be in the vicinity. People from the UK and elsewhere want to share their emotions together,” Charles said.

In the sense of grotesque? Yes. Absurd? Yes. Inhuman? Yes. Shallow? Yes. Yep, I think we do, indeed, have our “Princess Di” moment for America…short may it last, swiftly may it be forgotten.