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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Dogs and Cats Living Together Saturday and Sunday Edition Posted: 07 Aug 2011 03:10 AM PDT What is this? A two-day Clearing the Browser Tabs post?Have I gone mad with power? Well, yes, except for the mad with power bit. See, the news has moved so quickly the past couple of days that I spent more time reading than I did writing, which is generally seen as a bad idea for a writer. I’m going to try to make up for that with a big post today, with plenty of links that should give you reading material not only for tonight but for tomorrow, too. The big news is that Standard and Poor’s pulled the downgrade trigger on us and knocked us down to an AA+ credit rating. You can get a good summary of what that means from this Cato Institute video and this blog post by Dan Mitchell. I can’t begin to predict what the consequences of S&P’s actions will be, but I’m sure there will be some and they won’t be good for us. What infuriates me is that we could have avoided the first credit downgrade in our nation’s history if Congress had passed a real debt ceiling bill and not the mushy ball of compromise and can-kicking that ultimately won through. Mark Steyn, whose new book will be out very soon, has the right idea for what our timetable to fix the problem should be (via memeorandum). The real story is that this downgrade is entirely due to the fecklessness of a President who can not stay on a simple economic course for more than two weeks without wandering into the Keynesian weeds. His indecision, as this business owner points out as well as anyone I’ve ever seen, has caused nearly the entire business community to hunker down until he makes up his mind. At some point, the small government crusaders in the Tea Parties and the GOP are going to have to seize the initiative because we really can’t wait until the 2012 elections to set our economy on the right course. I’ve no doubt the Tea Parties are eager to begin and we have a significant part of the nation, entirely ignored by the MSM and actively opposed by the Democrats, with us. I have serious doubts about the Republican Party. Oh, and one last thing. Christina Romer needs to shut the heck up and slink away into well-deserved obscurity surrounded by her utter failure.. And now, links! The United States Navy suffered one of the greatest losses in its history as a helicopter carrying 17 SEALs and a number of support troops crashed in Afghanistan. We have few details about the incident, but the Navy did say that most of the SEALs were part of the now-famous SEAL Team 6, which were responsible for killing Osama bin Laden. Stacy McCain is still filing reports from the campaign trail in Iowa, or “streets and avenues” if you like. He’s also making dreams come true. Matt Damon, bless his heart, gave us proof that passion is no replacement for knowledge. I find it ironic that a blog named “At the Point of a Gun” found Chuck Schumer using violent rhetoric against his fellow Americans. And by “ironic”, I mean “Chuck Schumer is a disgrace and should be ridiculed for his greasy ignorance at every opportunity”. It’s a good day when mild-mannered Ed Morrissey breaks out the whooping stick on some left-wing blowhard “intellectual” So let me get this straight. The original “Beavis and Butthead” ran on a television network that was, essentially, one long commercial for the record industry but that same record industry won’t allow a revival of that same show to use music videos because they won’t easily license the music. How does that make good business sense at all? Mark Steyn is one of my favorite people in the world. You can see a few reasons why in this hour-long interview on The Source with Ezra Levant. You probably don’t have an answer to this question either, but it’s worth asking: why has the Obama administration allowed the Russian government to bully and slander our diplomats? There really is no such thing as a free lunch, even in school. August 6 was the anniversary of our bombing of Hiroshima and the 9th is the anniversary of our bombing of Nagasaki. I wouldn’t be sad if we held a week of celebration and remembrance for the brave Americans who did what they had to do to break the will of the Japanese war machine. In vino veritas (also, give Chris whatever help you can!) The more we look, the more we find: Scientists discover 96 heretofore unseen star clusters behind the dust of the Milky Way. Five months ago, Marizela Perez went missing in Seattle, near the University of Washington campus. The search for her continues, so if you know of any way you can help, please do so.

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