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We have celebrated D-Day here on BP in the past, with a 65 year rememberance post just last year. Presidents have celebrated year-in and year out, with one of the most famous appearances being Ronald Reagan's 40th anniversary speech at Pointe de Hoc in Normandy in 1984. Every President has marked this day in some fashion until 2010, even Obama last year.

....that we share the acronym of British Petroleum? For a fleeting instant, I saw BP on the top post at NRO's The Campaign Spot and almost was thinking we had gotten a mention. Then I realized it was about a drilling method and not a movie review...

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I stumbled upon Castle last weekend, when ABC re-aired an episode after they re-aired the LOST pilot on Saturday. It has Nathan Fillion (Captain Hammer in Dr. Horrible's Sing along Blog, and Captain Reynolds from Firefly) as the title character novelist Rick Castle, opposite Stana Katic, who plays NYPD Homicide Detective Kate Beckett. 

The pilot brings them together, when a murder is staged to look like it was out of one of Castle's novels. Beckett brings Castle in for questioning, and the overarching sexual tension and banter between the two begin. What begins as initial apprehension (on Kate's part) on working together, Beckett and Castle become an inseparable team. Suddenly, Castle has inspiration for a new series of novels based on a certain hard-nosed female NYPD detective. Nikki Heat was born - Heat Wave and Naked Heat are the first two titles in the series - set up to tell the story of the series - as Castle sets in as "research observer" beginning with Episode 2.

President Obama's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan marks the first time in forty years that a non-jurist has been appointed to the Supreme Court.

Put aside the obvious far-left bent that Kagan possesses - is this really the time to put an inexperienced non-jurist on the High Court? Could they not find anyone out there, even in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, who had experience and shared the same views?

One of the better lines: "Hey, wait a minute Sam. We ain't getting nowheres, we're right back where we started."

The radio this AM, in their playing some Newt Gingrinch comments from last night on FNC, led to the question of whether we were at the bottom, or whether things will get worse. Newt was predicting major election results in 2010 and 2012, but he was also thinking it could get worse before it gets better.

Tonight, the United States Constitution lies in tatters, at the hands of a tyranical Congress, and a President ready to sign such tyranny into law, in the late hours of a Sunday night as the House passed the Senate bill 219-212. The Stupakers think they got their fix, from a pledge from President Obama to issue an executive order re abortion funding, and thinking the Senate will act on a fix bill after the fact. Sheer truth is, for the Senate to act on the fix, the President must sign the bill first. Once Obama has done that, there is NO incentive for the Senate to then do anything.

We received our Census forms from the US Census Bureau yesterday. One of the first things that stuck out was the effective date of the census for 2010 is April 1st. In 2000, it was January 1st. And historically, it was June 1st (1880-1900-1910).

This in and of itself, doesn't mean much, other than that the forms were delivered on March 17, 2010, with the instruction to return immediately. How does one return immediately yet also assure that they have their info as current on April 1st?

The Democrats are pushing, threatening that they will go the route of reconciliation, which is a Senate procedure on budget items that requires only 51 votes - since the prior-passed budget would have already passed the 60 vote hurdle.