I'm just coming up for air since my recent robbery. Four days and it's still a logistical mess. I won't be blogging for a few more days as I need to get back to my real job first.

My burglar alarm system is just about ready and yes, I got an insurance policy.

Two big questions now: Among other things, I have to replace my Sony laptop and my Macbook. The Macbook is not a problem, but the PC is. I can't figure out whether to get 64 bit or 32 bit, whether to get Visa Home Premium or Ultimate, and whether to get a 5400 or 7200 hard drive. I don't need business network capability but I want it to be fast for word processing and internet stuff and getting through dvd-roms of discovery, including audio and video files. Is it too soon to get a 64 bit machine because older programs won't work with it? Are there other considerations I've missed and does anyone have a new laptop they just love? The two I'm liking the best so far are the Sony SR series and the Dell XPS M1330.

I've yakked enough. Your turn.

This is an Open Thread.

Tell us what they are yakking about (Hillary at State). I'll be back this evening hopefully.

Oh by the way, how about them Gators?!

One last thing, here is Glenn Greenwald concern trolling again on John Brennan. (I am joking about the concern trollling. I was attacked last week by the Obama Bots for voicing the same concerns.)

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Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around

An open thread for you.

The New York Times is asking.

My answer - while "From Russia With Love" and "You Only Live Twice" are two of my favorites, "Goldfinger" is the greatest Bond movie ever - "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die":

Though of course, the failure to just shoot Bond in every movie is one of the Bond highlights.

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I drove up to pull into my garage this afternoon around 4pm and thought it was strange the garage door was open. As soon as I opened the door to the backyard, I saw glass all over, and the back door had been punched in. I walked inside, immediately saw my flat screen tv, dvd recorders and my Sony laptop and Macbook were gone, and called 911.

They told me to go outside and wait for the police in case the robbers were still in the house. The police arrived very quickly and were very nice. They had their guns out as they made their way through the house, backs against the wall, just like on tv. No one was in the house. [More...]

Today's political rumor is that Hillary Clinton is on the Obama team's short list for Secretary of State, along with Bill Richardson, John Kerry, and Tom Daschle. Some are wondering why rumors are flowing out of the formerly leak-proof Obama organization. Here's a space to talk about the Hillary Clinton rumor, the leakage, or anything else.

I'll be working the rest of the day. Here's an open thread for you. Please try to focus on news and policy.

A timely new ACS Issue Brief urges the federal government to ensure that records from the Bush administration and future administrations, including e-mails, are preserved for public examination, an issue that was in the news this week as a federal court ruled that a lawsuit on that issue could go forward.

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I am out for the rest of the day. So this will be an Open Thread.

Just for kicks, a trip down memory lane when the new Obama Bots attacked me in years past - on the New McCarthyism in 2005 and on Alito later that year. Ancient history of course. Maybe John Brennan can be discussed sometime soon.

One last thing, Greenwald on John Brennan: [More...]

Many thanks to Newsweek and the Media Bloggers' Association for including me and TalkLeft in its campaign blog, "The Ruckus." For months, every post we wrote on the election also appeared at The Ruckus. Now that the election is behind us, the Ruckus is disbanding. [More...]

I believe the key theme today on the Sunday Talk shows will be that, stop me if you have heard this, despite the fact that a "Socialist" won the election, and despite the fact that the "Socialist" party will hold massive majorities in the House and the Senate, America is a Center Right nation. Smell the contempt for democracy from America's Media elites.

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By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

I am going to be off line for the rest of the day. Some parting shots. Atrios writes:

Tom Friedman was much an Iraq war critic as I have been a Barack Obama critic . . .

This is true and was true of the entire Left blogs for the past year. They should not all be surprised now when they discover Obama actually agrees with me, not them, on issues like free trade, Clintonomics, the war on terror, etc. Obama was never with them. They chose to ignore that for the past year. I must admit I find their discomfiture funny as all hell. Relatedly, Kevin Drum writes:

To a large (though not complete) extent, the blogosphere doesn't really oppose the MSM anymore, it is the MSM — and vice versa. This was probably inevitable, but it's still kind of a shame. Surely this means that there's now a market for yet another new medium, this time dedicated to criticizing the blogosphere?

I am trying to find out Kevin. Gators travel to Nashville tonight to face Vandy in their drive for the SEC and college football national chanpionships. Go Gators!

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By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only