SUBPRIME SIX UPDATE (CONT'D): Here's another piece on Chris Dodd and Countrywide from the Hartford Courant.

HEH: "It is weird how so many who claim to like Obama hope he is lying." It's all about the difference between glamour and charisma.

CANADA AND TERRORISM: We're so polite that we can't see a danger hiding in plain sight:

You know what is the really sobering thing about that ongoing terror trial in Brampton?

Clue: It's not that there was a plot to attack Canadian targets. And of course there was; the court has heard evidence up the ying-yang that there was just such an enterprise afoot. Was it the finest plot ever? Oh hardly. Were its members variously bumblers, what those who hang around courts call “yutes” or raving hotheads? Absolutely. But there was a plot.

It's not even the hate, chiefly for Jews and Americans, that one of the group leaders preached at the drop of a hat and the top of his lungs with almost magnificently ungrammatical, near-illiterate, Koran-ignorant hysteria.

It's that he felt so free to preach it.

It's that he felt comfortable enough to hand out jihadist CDs outside at least one Toronto mosque and to occasionally turn up in combat fatigues at another. It's that he giddily talked to one of his alleged co-conspirators about the obligation to kill Jews whenever one finds them. It's that the leadership of the group regularly met at a half-dozen mosques in the GTA, usually on Fridays, the day of communal prayer. It's that within minutes of meeting Mubin Shaikh, a fellow Muslim-turned-CSIS informant-turned-paid-RCMP agent, he was openly verbally indulging his bloodlust and “recruiting” Mr. Shaikh: Their shared religion was enough.

But Canada's "human rights" kangaroo courts will make sure to silence the Mark Steyns who point out that this sort of thing is going on. So that's something.

FRED THOMPSON on Obama and Boumediene.

Plus, Stephen Bainbridge debates Richard Epstein.

MARC DANZIGER GOES SOLAR, with Elon Musk's Solar City. I called them a while back and they said they were California-only for at least the coming year, though they did have plans to expand out my way. Haven't heard any more, but I'd certainly consider them. Nice that I've got Marc as a guinea pig.

SPEAKING OF BEING IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA, Howard Kurtz looks at the campaign finance flipflop and observes:

And all these liberal commentators who have always supported campaign finance reform, getting big money out of politics, many of them are defending Obama. And I have to think the press is cutting him a break here.

Gee, do you think?

SOME VERY COOL spacewalk pictures.

SUBPRIME SIX UPDATE: More on Chris Dodd in the Hartford Courant.

UPDATE: Reader John Marcoux emails: "The Fox News Watch panel were pretty much in agreement that if the Countrywide offenders were Republicans, the MSM would be all over the story. As it is, best coverage is local like your Hartford Courant link."

I agree.

INFRASTRUCTURE: "What happens when you don't build more power plants? Get ready for spiking electricity rates, brownouts and even blackouts as demand soars."

That's what happens when NIMBYism, etc., block new investment. The graph showing declining excess capacity in electrical generation is very worrisome. I guarantee, however, that those who have been blocking new power plants won't take responsibility for the problems they've created. Instead, they'll blame evil corporations.

JUST IN TIME FOR THE BEACH! The MANGROOMER Do-It-Yourself Electric Back Hair Shaver. I guess once you start, though, you're committed. The stubble must be something fierce . . . .

AMERICAN JUDAISM FACES A SHORTAGE OF MEN: "Contemporary liberal American Judaism, although supposedly egalitarian, is visibly and substantially feminized."

GEORGE WILL: "Listening to political talk requires a third ear that hears what is not said. Today's near silence about crime probably is evidence of social improvement."

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