To be fair and balanced, I am compelled to report that Obama is up by a healthy margin

In the West Virginia Democratic primary, that is.  With 93 percent of the polls reporting, he has over 59% percent of the vote as compared to only 40% for his challenger.  His challenger is Keith Judd.  Such a strong showing is a little surprising against a sitting President.  It is also surprising since Mr. Judd is currently residing in Texas and not West Virginia.  The Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas to be exact.  He goes by Inmate No. 11593-051 as well as his given name.

Irony is a bitch, Ms. Warren

Even the voice of People's Republic of Massachusetts, the Boston Globe, has been having a bit of fun at Elizabeth Warren's expense.  For those of you who have not been following closely, Ms. Warren, Harvard Law professor and member of the Obama administration, is the chosen one to unseat that up-start Scott Brown who dared to take 'Ted Kennedy's seat' back for the people of Massachusetts.  She listed herself for years in law school directories and elsewhere as a "minority" claiming a Native American ancestry.  Harvard in turn listed her as evidence of how forward and correct thinking they were in showing the great diversity of their faculty.  The blond and blue eyed Warren claimed the evidence of her ancestry was family lore and the fact that her grandfather had high cheek bones like Indians do.  (You can't make this stuff up.)  She stepped in it a little deeper when she said that it was not for the advancement of her career that she claimed minority status, but rather to go out to lunch with other similarly situated Native Americans.  Of course, it turns out that she never actually went out to lunch with them or even once attended Harvard's own "pow wow" for Native American members of its academic community.  Needless to say, not only did her political opponents take exception to her false claims, but so did real members of that minority community who were bothered by the fact that she took away opportunities for REAL American Indians.  In a mad attempt to back fill, her camp came up with O.C. Sarah Crawford, Warren's great great great grandmother who according to a supposed application for marriage, but not the official marriage license nor the United States Census, was part Cherokee Indian.  That claim has since been debunked.  Worse still, when she threw the Crawford lineage against the wall, people started to look at it.  Turns out that Ms. Crawford's husband, Warren's great great great grandfather was member of the Tennessee Militia in Ross's Landing, now Chattanooga, Tennessee.  The Tennessee Militia, following the Indian Removal Act of 1830, rounded up the Cherokee (and other) Indians from their homes, interred them and then force marched them to western frontier, leaving the dead and dying along the way.  The infamous Trail of Tears was perhaps the worst government sanctioned atrocity in our history as a nation.  And Jonathan Crawford, Elizabeth Warren's great great great grandfather, was a member of the militia that rode from settlement to settlement and took people whose only sin was to ACTUALLY HAVE Cherokee blood in their veins and incarcerate them for horrific death march so white settlers could take their lands without opposition.  Yes Ms. Warren, you can certainly claim a direct and historic link to the Cherokee people.

Crime in America has really gotten out of hand

A tractor trailer full of Corona beer was stolen, just in time for Cinco de Mayo, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  I mean, I can only take so much about the downward spiral of the moral fabric in our society.  Of course, all they need to do to catch the culprits is to keep watch for the next heist, this time of a thousand pounds of limes.

You know the Whitehouse is in trouble when . . .

The toadies in the Main Stream Media are laughing out loud at the Press Secretary's answers.  I am at heart a libertarian in that I do not want you to tell me what to do and I will not tell you what to do.  However, when it comes to gay marriage, please spare me with the equating it to civil rights.  If you and a consenting person are having fun, then great.  Just don't try to tell me that you need the same constitutional protection as someone whose race is readily apparent by their skin color.  It may be a behavioral choice you want to make, but I am not going to march into Selma demanding that the rest of the world has to recognize that choice.  Having said that, I could not really give a hoot if some States want to sanction certain unions or not.  I do think it is funny that Perpetual Foot In Mouth Biden stirred up a hornets nests with his comments about how he could learn to live with gay marriage.  Which of course made everyone look back at Obama's position on the issue.  He isn't for it.  Nor is he against it.  In fact, his position is "evolving" as we speak.  And as the Washington Post points out, the more his Spokesman tried to explain that one, the more the press had fun with him:

Carney tried to parry the same-sex-marriage questions, gamely at first and then testily as reporters began to laugh at his answers. He grew uncharacteristically flustered. When an unrelated question came about whether Obama would support the reelection of scandal-plagued Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), Carney answered: “I mean — well, yes, sure. I just don’t — I haven’t — I haven’t been asked it before so I. . . . The president — I’ll have to — I’ll have to get back to you.”

Can you say Jimmy Carter?

Don't look now, but the Rasmussen daily tracking poll has Romney up by 5 points over the Great One.  As a reminder, this is a daily tracking poll that averages three nights worth of data.  And since the same poll yesterday showed a one point Romney advantage, that must mean that trend has been far more than five points in Romney's favor.  One more thing to keep in mind, unlike almost all of the individual State polls, the national ones are of likely voters and not just registered voters.

Update: The only other daily tracking to come out today is Gallup which now has Romney up by 3 points over Obama.

Eaglets

By the way, as you may remember, I posted a while back about a webcam on an eagle's nest on the Maine coast.  Well, they mated, laid eggs and the eaglets have now hatched:



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Doing the little things to make sure Obama is not re-elected

For example, do you have a pen and a post-it note?