Thanks to Mark Steyn over at The Corner on National Review, the Huffington Post has once again been exposed as a group of brainless boobs who lack the ability to put a coherent thought into a real blog post. 

If you have never been to the Huffington Post, you should reall visit.  It's like having a site of 100 Joe Albero's all the posting the same inane garbage in one place.

The target of my ire this sultry August morning is Martin Lewis, who suggests that General Peter Pace-- the outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should relieve President Bush of his role as commander in chief.  Martin Lewis is obviously just plain stupid, and does not realize how the law actually works -- as opposed to how he wishes it did work in the land where marijuna grows on roadsides like black-eyed susans.

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Guvnah O'Malley's plan to raise the gasoline tax from its current level of 23.5 cents per gallon to 35.5 cents a gallon is a VERY bad idea, and will hurt the state more than help it.

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I am adding a poll question to the site.  Should we add a message board to the Gunpowder Chronicle?

Now, if I do decide to add a message board, I would most certainly require registration to post on it, and posts would probably be moderated.

If you have ideas on what forums we should have, post them as comments here. I am interested to hear what my readers have to say.

If there is interest, I'll do it.

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Rich Lowery over at National Review Online has a fantastic commentary piece on the Inspector General report about the failure of the CIA to accurately predict and deal with the threat of terrorism on US soil.

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Baltimore's FOX 45 is reporting on their website that the city is slowing down-- maybe even stopping their efforts to sell the large number of residential and commercial properties currently on city books.

If true, this represents a poor, pathetic vision on the part of City leadership and a continuation of the rampant stupidity that has plagued the City since the administration of Kurt Schmoke.

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Charles Krauthammer has joined the growing chorus of nay sayers against Iraqi PM Nouri al Maliki (like Senators Clinton, Reid, and Levin) in calling for his removal.

Just something we might want to keep in mind:  the last time the United States President ordered/authorized a coup de tat against an the sitting head of allied state, that President was dead two months later from an assassin's bullet.

President Kennedy authorized the coup de tat that resulted in the murder of Ngo Dinh Diem on November 2, 1963.

Now, before the Oliver Stones of the blogosphere start going nutso over this bit of trivia, I am not trying to establish a conspiratorial cause to the Kennedy assassination.

I am just pointing out that George W. Bush doesn't have much incentive to tease a repeat of history.

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Just so everyone knows, posting will be a little lite this week.  I have to travel to Florida on business to visit the company Mothership, so I will only be able to post late at night, if at all.

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From the blog CARPE DIEM, between 2002 and 2007 -- the greatest period of "globalizing economics" the world has ever seen, stock market capitalizations have increased $35 trillion dollars.  That is a doubling in value in just five years.

It took us almost 2000 years to reach the original $35 trillion dollars.

This success is the result of ever-increasing integration of the global economy, which fuels growth and prosperity for all people, given the chance.  But if the so-called Progressives in the Democrat party get their way, no one will be given the chance.

Question is:  when will we be able to get Africa into the game?

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Imagine my surprise this last Thursday evening when all of sudden, my little old farm house up here on York Road was lit up like a carnival ride from the lights of the Baltimore County Police department. 

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The President really lit a tinderbox in his speech to the VFW this week when he invoked the aftermath of the Vietnam War as a lesson for us in Iraq.

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