Rainbow over Francis Peak

Rainbow over Francis Peak after a brief shower. The domed structures are FAA radars.

Wall Lake in the Uintas

Reid's Peak and Bald Mountain

The "Wall" at Wall Lake

View of Wall Lake with Notch Mountain in the background.

The Scarlet "T" of Inexperience

Splengler, whoever he/she is, succinctly sums up the McCain selection of Palin:

The young Alaskan governor, to be sure, hasn't any business running for vice president of the United States with her thin resume. McCain and his people know this perfectly well, and that is precisely why they put her on the ticket. If Palin is unqualified to be vice president, all the less so is Obama qualified to be president.

McCain’s pick couldn’t have highlighted Obama’s inexperience more than if he branded a scarlet "I" on the Chosen one’s forehead.

Ironically, picking a far more experienced executive for VP, such as Mitt Romney, wouldn't have had the same effect to highlight Obama's inadequacy. This is because the media had so far refused to make that living room elephant an issue; they were smart enough to not say anything when the differences were obvious. But then John McCain put out that juicy Palin bait and the liberals and their media compatriots couldn't help themselves. Seeing red meat they were drawn out and trapped long before they knew what happened. Now Mr Obama is forced to tout running a campaign as experience to be president. By that standard Ralph Nadar has more experience than Obama.

"I am a gullible dork"

The left may have hit rock bottom with the "Sarah Palin faked baby birth bit" but don't worry, they're breaking out the pick axes and continuing to dig. Curt at Flopping Aces links to a farcical video purporting to be a 34 year old Todd Palin having a manhood crisis about his wife's election as mayor of Wasilla, AK. Curt also links to a nutroot Rogers Cadenhead, an Alan Colmes source, who swallowed this hook, line, and sinker before he followed-up on his second thoughts and came to the conclusion he was a gullible dork.

The left is so spooked they are literally grasping anything that gives them hope to derail the impact of Sarah Pallin as the Republican VP nominee. The only thing leaving the tracks, however, is any semblence of rational thought the left may have had. McCain's VP choice appears politically shrewd on several levels, but no one could have anticipated the utter unraveling we are witnessing on the left.

The Reverend Made Me Do It

Maybe former DNC Chairman Don Fowler really is sorry for making gleeful comments about a potential devasting hurricane, but his apology makes a case he was sorrier for being caught:

One doesn't anticipate that one's private conversation will be surreptitiously taped by some right-wing nutcase

One does hate to always be guarded, but Fowler also is willing to reveal character flaws when he knows the tapes are running. In private we found he delights in the misfortune of innocents if it furthers his cause. In public, however, we've learned he is a buck passer when he blames a dead man as the genesis for his comments:

Fowler sought to contrast his religious views with those expressed by the late Rev. Falwell before his death.

"I believe in a benevolent God," said Fowler. "I'm a religious person. It was a facetious statement, some might even say satirical, play off of what Falwell said."