This has to be one of the most interesting stories I've seen in a while. This fellow Alvin Greene wins the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate in South Carolina --without even running a campaign!

These quotes are great!

"As far as we know he has done no campaigning," state party spokesperson Keiana Page said. "We have no idea how he won."

Here are some more.

"Many of us don't believe that he is representative of the values of the Democratic Party in South Carolina," state Rep. Bakari Sellers told CNN.

Sellers said Greene "looked long and hard at how African Americans and South Carolinians will be portrayed" around the country, but said he would remain a candidate. The election results become official at 3 p.m. on Thursday.

Both Rutherford and Sellers said they wanted to meet Greene out of "genuine concern" for his well-being, after his out-of-nowhere victory over Vic Rawl in Tuesday's Democratic primary attracted a flood of national attention.

"I feel like he is being exploited, like there is a joke going and he doesn't get it," said Rutherford, who did not press Greene to drop his bid. "It is troublesome at best. I think his mental capacity may prohibit him from getting the joke."

He said Greene should undergo "some sort of mental evaluation" if he is to continue in the campaign. If it turns out he is mentally impaired, Rutherford said, "we are all in on this exploitation of someone that is vulnerable."

Still, Rutherford said he came away from the meeting that Greene does have, in part, a real political agenda. "He thinks that African Americans are being rated unjustly by the justice system, which is true, and he thinks our state can do better."

So people in the Democrat party say about Greene "Many of us don't believe that he is representative of the values of the Democratic Party in South Carolina." On the contrary I think that he is a shining example of the Democrat voting base. This is like that movie with Chris Rock Head of State. I think this is great, because is shows who the Democrat electorate is made of (at least in SC). To make matters more interesting; Greene didn't win by a small margin. He held nearly 60% of the vote.

This is everything you need to know about how Obama was elected. A bunch of people, who have no idea what is "really" going on, run out and vote. They don't vote because they are worried about their future, they don't vote because they have a strong grasp of the issues, they vote because they think they are supposed to. It's that simple. At least that's my take on it.

The strange thing is; in order to explain away this event the Democrat leadership is coming up with ideas much worse than mine. Consider what Democrat party leaders are saying. They claim that it was anti-incumbent sentiment. They claim that his name was first in line on the ballet. They claim that he was a Republican plant.

Let's go with the first one. If it is just anti-incumbent sentiment, Vic Rawl is NOT an incumbent U.S. Senator.

What if his name was first on the ballet? Does that mean that the people of SC are so simple that they just fill in the first box every time? People voted for Vic Rawl in the State house. What were the names of his opponents then? I would assume he would have been at the bottom of the list then.

What if he was a Republican plant? Well that is even worse, because it shows that they knew ahead of time that they could run someone on the Democrat side without a campaign and win. That would mean that the people of SC are extremely predictable, and they want to oust the current Democrat.

Also, don't forget, Alvin Greene ran for U.S. Senate NOT State Senate! This was not a "local" election --it was state-wide.

I think that Vic Rawl lost because his name sounds too much like a pro wrestler. Alvin Greene sounds more like someone from SC.

Anyway, I can't wait for all of the Democrat pundits to try and pass this off as "anti-incumbent sentiment." This vote was a whole sale rejection of Obama's policies. The Obama administration has, so far, gotten what it's wanted. Now that people are waking up to what exactly Obama's policy entails they're rejecting it! It's really "Anti What's Happening Now In Washington Sentiment". It's not about partisanship, arguing or anything else. Honest people know what happened here.

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Now I have the system running on my VM host once more. My migration is complete!

Now that there is an oil disaster looming, Obama struggles to stay on all sides of the issue.

Obama is a master at appearing as if he has authority. Obama is like the over paid manager that doesn't really do anything. People under his "authority" are scared that they might be chastised, but that is about it. When it comes to private industry Obama doesn't really have any authority, but he's going to try his darnedest to make it look like he does.

For the administration to appear to have control of the oil leak situation is becoming an increasingly damaging task. To begin with Obama said that he was going to send SWAT teams to the gulf in an effort to stop future oil disasters.

Obama:

Welcome to the Rose Garden. This is an extraordinary occasion, a beautiful day -- appropriately so. So I hate to intrude on it, but before we begin I do want to speak briefly to the American people about the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

I've been receiving frequent briefings from members of my Cabinet and White House staff, including an update last night on the additional breach and another update this morning. And while BP is ultimately responsible for funding the cost of response and cleanup operations, my administration will continue to use every single available resource at our disposal, including potentially the Department of Defense, to address the incident.

Earlier today, DHS Secretary Napolitano announced that this incident is of national significance and the Department of Interior has announced that they will be sending SWAT teams to the Gulf to inspect all platforms and rigs. And I have ordered the Secretaries of Interior and Homeland Security as well as Administrator Lisa Jackson of the Environmental Protection Agency to visit the site on Friday to ensure that BP and the entire U.S. government is doing everything possible, not just to respond to this incident, but also to determine its cause. And I've been in contact with all the governors of the states that may be affected by this accident.

Now, earlier this week, Secretaries Napolitano and Salazar laid out the next steps for a thorough investigation into what precipitated this event. I am sure there may be a few science teachers here who have been following this issue closely with their classes, and if you guys have any suggestions, please let us know.

The president's response (referenced above) was on April, 29. The oil spill occurred on April 20. It takes some time to come up with a plan to make it appear as if you have control of a situation.

Some oil industry critics questioned whether the federal government is too reliant on oil companies to manage the response to major spills, leaving the government unable to evaluate if the response is robust enough.

“Here you have the company that is responsible for the accident leading the response to the crisis,” said Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program. “There is a problem here, and the consequence is clear.”

But it is still the government, in this case the Coast Guard, that has the final say. A law passed a year after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster makes "each responsible party for a vessel or a facility from which oil is discharged" liable for cleaning up a spill. But oversight of the cleanup is designated to the Coast Guard, with advice from other federal agencies.

Rear Adm. Robert C. North, retired, who was commander of the Coast Guard’s Eighth District from 1994 to 1996, said that decisions in these situations are made collectively, but that the buck essentially stops with the federal coordinator — in this case, Admiral Landry. “The federal on-scene coordinator is kind of the one individual to say, ‘I think we need to do more’ or ‘That’s adequate,’ ” he said.

If the government determines that the responsible party is not up to the job, it can federalize the spill, running the cleanup operations without the private company but billing it for the cost. This is a last resort, however.

In this case, Admiral North said, the oil companies have more technology and expertise than the government. “It doesn’t appear that federalizing it would bring in any more resources,” he said.

Obama and his administration are about to be caught in a lie they cannot escape. So far, BP is the only entity responding to the spill (in a meaningful way).

Here's the deal. BP releases a press statement explaining what they are doing to stop the leak, then you have the administration following saying, "We are making sure that BP does everything possible to stop the leak." The problem is that so far nothing has worked. When government officials are questioned about what the government might do to stop the leak there is no response. It is funny how the truth is the real enemy of this administration.

Nobody "really" knows how to stop the leak; there are only theories.

This is a perfect example of the failure of government. The government which is supposed to insure that this sort of thing doesn't happen failed. Then when private efforts to correct the problem (so far) have failed; the government offers no solution. My question is simple, what the hell is the government doing in the oil industry at all? Considering the amount of taxes the government imposes on the energy sector you would figure they would have something to show for it. The very same people who failed to prevent such a problem (through their own regulations) are attacking the only ones trying to correct the problem.

Years ago I used to work in an automotive shop. We used to have customers come in with their lawn tractor tires sometimes. We would do our best to help them, but most of the tires and wheels were too small for our equipment, so we had to wrestle them by hand.

One day there were three of us fighting with this tubed lawn tractor tire. The tire had lost enough air to spin on the rim and the valve stem was not aligned with the hole in the rim. We were all frustrated because it was just barley too small to work on the tire machine. We didn't have another tube so we didn't want to damage the one already there. After messing around with the thing for about 10 minutes; one of the older technicians says, "You guys are doing that wrong." Of course we ignore him, and continue working. 5 minutes later, "You guys are still doing it wrong." Finally after about 20 minutes we gave up. I said, "All right, come over here and show us how to do it." He responds with, "I don't know how to do it, I just know that you're doing it wrong."

That is exactly what the administration is doing to BP, the only difference is that there is a lot more at stake. That sort of smart-ass behavior is funny under the right circumstances; this is not one of those circumstances. Obama is the worlds largest Arm Chair Quarterback.

I'm tired of a president who makes me want to roll my eyes. Leaders don't criticize; they lead --criticism lags action! - Jeff Michaels

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That being said, I have been out of the loop for a while and there is a lot going on.

To sum up what I've missed:

- I found out that the Attorney General doesn't have to actually read laws to pass judgment on them. Is that not the example of prejudice?

- I found out that the Gulf of Mexico is getting down and dirty with an oil leak. Now we have politicians screaming that offshore drilling needs to stop. The problem is that there are companies from all over the world drilling in the same waters right off our coast and we can't stop them. Why should we sit back and watch everyone else extract oil in the gulf --only to sell it to us anyway? What if one of these foreign companies have an oil leak? Oh that's right they did! BP is NOT a U.S. company. As the name suggests BP is a British company.

- I found out that the news media is so ignorant that when there is a failed bomb attempt in New York; the media starts looking at 40 something white guys. Then, when they find out that the perp is an Islamic terrorist, they claim that the guy is a "lone-wolf." That's right, because there isn't an entire global movement determined to see the downfall of the U.S. I'm starting to think that the Twilight Zone is NOT just a television program, but a source of news!

- Finally, I have learned that the devaluing of U.S. currency is imminent. The question is whether or not the other world currencies will fall before ours do. The government can't produce Stimulus Packages endlessly. Each time the government redistributes wealth, they remove it from the private sector. When wealth is removed from the private sector the economy weakens. The economies ability to rebound is delayed. The private sector is the ONLY source of wealth... All in All it's pretty creepy.

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