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Keep On Keepin' On, Governor Scott

The desperate attempt to knee-cap our Governor in his first year in office continues unabated. The St. Pete Times has a story up and just take a look at these two paragraphs:

As a defendant in at least seven lawsuits since he took office in January, [Governor Rick] Scott could be the most sued governor in Florida history. And [Charles] Trippe [Governor Scott's general counsel] now finds himself deep in cases relating to election law, drug testing of state employees, redistricting and prison privatization.

Some speculate the avalanche of lawsuits involving Scott has more to do with dislike of the governor than his actions related to the legislation or policies in question.

Yeah, I'm sure some Democrats do speculate on *their* dislike of the Governor. Other Floridians may see through the opaque machinations of political partisans, however, and transparently recognize the shaping hand of a media hell-bent on hammering home an unflattering image of this Governor. Those "other" Floridians will not likely obsess on the Governor's supposed status as a disliked Chief Executive but will take note that (boy, oh boy!) the media sure does hate him . . . and given that fact, they are likely to conclude that he can't be all bad.

He's being sued because he's shaking the tree, making some bold decisions, and upsetting some very special interests.

As I said previously, given those facts, he can't be all bad.

UAV Crop Copter

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at U.F. has developed an interesting new unmanned aerial vehicle tool that may have serious implications for American agriculture. I pulled the explanatory video from the Orlando Sentinel on the remarkable invention of Dr. Reza Ehsani (apparently a native of Iran with a Ph.D. from Cal-Davis):

A miniature UAV Crop Copter, huh? Well done, Dr. Ehsani.

Preach, Gerard, Preach

I need to read Gerard Van der Leun more often, I really do. He's telling us, yesterday over at American Digest, to give up the ghost and go ahead -- go ahead! -- let Obama be Obama, dammit !!!

Of late there’s been no end of criticism of the president for leaving his desk and his oval office to campaign. In so doing, it is said, he leaves a lot of the “important and pressing” business of the nation unaccomplished. Such criticism is, to my mind, not only unwarranted but counterproductive at best and disastrous at worst.

Wise Americans of all persuasions want to keep this president as far away from the “important and pressing” business of the nation as possible, for as long as possible. Every second, every minute, every hour, and every day Obama is kept out of his office is a net positive for the nation as a whole. Every moment he’s out there on a smile and shoeshine selling his next four years of nostrums to whatever liberal and progressive suckers he can cornhole is one less moment he can spend actively cornholing the nation at large.

Ouch !

Obama the cornholer; that's gonna sho' nuff hurt. 

Check Out Cobb, Y'all

Cobb, always worthy of a serious read, has (as usual) been pumping out some interesting material. Check him out at cobb.typepad.com -- we need to get this man a bigger platform.

Words to the Stars and Stripes Forever???

Never in my life do I recall being aware that there are words -- words! -- to the Stars and Stripes Forever; now, thanks to Wretchard, that particular ignorance has been obliterated.

Hooray for the flag of the free,

may it wave as our standard forever

That was fascinating and I can only hope at least one of you will be as intrigued with it as I was. The lyrics are included in this Wikipedia entry.