OK, there you have it — on a nomination that closed less than 2 weeks after he took office, President 0 has his first Nobel. They didn’t even try to say that he had done anything, just that he might someday.

So. Who has one now? Al Gore. Jimmy Carter. And my favorite, Yasser Arafat.

But I’ll leave the ‘good company he’s in’ jokes for the comments. What I really want to get to is this: I realized this morning that our President will be the first person to repeat the award. Really, and you heard it here first - He will get it again next year, unless there’s a rule against that. Frankly, if there is, they will change it for him.

When you get one for just showing up, which he literally did, who can come onto the world stage while he’s here who can lay claim to it next time?

It’s his, for as long as he’s here. The thing that amazes me most is that I didn’t see it coming.

Am I the only one for whom Redstate now takes 3+ minutes to load? I went to the bathroom, came back, and it wasn’t done yet.

C’mon, you guys. Most of us here are Conservatives; We’re busy people, with jobs to go to. Can we get this fixed?

I was trying to think of a way to express the proper sentiment on this day on which GWB stops being the President, replaced by one who will be considerably less concerned with our freedom and much more concerned with how much money he can get out of us in taxes.

The answer came quickly: a new stainless steel finish clip-loaded Semi-Auto by US maker Remington in the house.

Remington, founded in 1816, isn’t quite old enough to have had their products used in our first revolution, but I don’t doubt that they will be well represented in the next one.

Have a nice day.

Well. There it is.

As I have been saying for months, if he was who I thought he was, he would not lose. Such a being would not run for POTUS, and lose. And he didn’t.

I couldn’t even pray against it. I couldn’t bring myself to think the REAL Messiah would change a plan that was at least 2500 years old on MY say-so.

Since I’m not surprised, I can’t say I’m shocked. I wanted desperately to believe I was wrong, but I didn’t. So be it. He didn’t get my vote, and that will matter.

There is much talk about how “we” (meaning conservatives, or Republicans, or whatever) can come back in 2010, and then in 2012. I don’t disagree. It probably will be us spearheading it, and the comeback will certainly be much more complete than most think. But it probably won’t look like you’re picturing. A great many of us won’t be here.

42 months. He will be thrown from power in 42 months. And just as nothing could stop him getting in, nothing will stop that. It will be a very different world, and (if you’ll pardon the expression) a hell of a ride getting there. But just as there is no road back for his supporters, neither can we go back to before it happened. The battle is to us. It will be successful.

For those of you laughing, enjoy it. I take no pleasure in this. I wish you were right instead of me. But if I’m right, it will be within a very short time that it becomes obvious to everyone. As soon as he’s safely sworn in, I say he gets right down to business.

Batten down.

Well, Feddie beat me to it, but I had to add my piece on the commercial I just saw.

This is indeed an unusual election. Now, politics ain’t beanbag, as everyone and his brother says; there have been curves, sliders, and all manner of screwballs in this race, and that’s nothing new. Sometimes it’s interesting, sometimes maddening, and sometimes it’s just darn gripping theater. But I can honestly say I never saw this one coming. A beautiful dark-haired woman, who survived an abortion 31 years ago, is the latest one to add her voice to the debate.

I say again: A commercial has been made, against the Democrat candidate, by an abortion victim.

I was speechless for over an hour.

I can’t shake the feeling that what the Lord said, so long ago, has started to happen. We’ve been silent too long - The stones themselves have started to cry out.