We're moving on up!  Moving on up!  Here on the East Side!  To a deluxe tax status in the sky!  Cause we are Number Four!  The Terps may not make the Final Four this year, but we did!  We are in the top ten percent of the class!  Aren't you excited?

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Everyone stand up and applaud Paul J. Wiedefeld, the Maryland Mass Transit Administration head.  He has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that people rise to the leve of their incompetence.  For the third time in 2008, we have serious issue with MTA vehicles that puts a substantial part of their fleet at risk.

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Readers of my missives would not be surprised to know that I am no great fan of Senator John McCain.  And as we get closer to the election, my lackluster feelings for the author of McCain-Feingold only grow.  Quite frankly, if I have to listen to another "my friends" again, I might be forced to turn it into a drinking game.

Oh Wait.  Someone's already done that.

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Baltimore County Grupenfuhrer Executive Jim Smith is a dog with a bone.  He has decided that he wants to take the case of the LNG terminal at the old Beth Steel shipyard to the US Supreme Court.  According to his lapdogs at the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter, Smith claims that "It's for the country and the sake of the county that we'll be pursuing this."

Uh, no.  It's what is best for his political ambitions.

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The Maryland Public Service Commission is notorious for its fundamental inability to effectively regulate the energy business in Maryland.  And O'Guvnah O'Malley's inability to move beyond Progressive/Fascist mandates -- like compulsory subsidies for the sales of compact fluorescent bulbs -- is legion.

Government is lousy at picking winners and losers.  And the insistence that we all throw our incandescent bulbs in favor of mercury-laden CFLs is just another perfect example.  Why?  Because private industry is working hard to create another alternative:  LED-based light bulbs.

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As I watched the meltdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last week, I was reminded of the old adage that worst words you can hear in America are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".

Why?  Because government is largely inept, incompetent, and unable.  Government could not plan a fart after lunch at Taco Bell .  And when government gets into areas that would be best left to the private sector, it's one disaster after another.

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As the summer rolls on, I keep looking -- desperately -- for a reason to cast a vote for John McCain.  I abhor the notion of voting for Barack Obama.  Not because he is black, but because I think he is not that bright.

But everytime I about ready to come around to the notion that John McCain would not be that bad, I am stopped dead in my tracks.  I become, once again, convinced that he is a dunderhead.

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As every day goes by, I become more convinced that some old maxims need to be changed.  Starting with that old classic, "Those who can do, those who can't, teach."

I think it should be "Those who can do, those who can't, run for office."

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Barack Hussein Obama is embarrassed by the fact that the vast majority of Americans speak only a single language, while many Europeans speak several languages. His latest outbursts on this matter only go to prove the old adage of the United Negro College Fund:  "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."

Like all left-wing elitists, BHO has this belief that speaking multiple languages is a sign of intelligence or superiority.  He's wrong.

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I despise public corruption.  And while I am not a big fan of the death penalty, I do think that public officials -- elected and otherwise -- should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on rail when found guilty of public malfeasance.

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