SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

OUT THERE – From London's Daily Mail:  "Aliens are real - not little green men visiting Earth as depicted in movies, but rather microbial life in our own solar system and intelligent life beyond.  That’s according to two leading Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) researchers, who yesterday took part in a hearing at the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in Washington DC.  During the talk dubbed ‘Astrobiology and the Search for Life in the Universe’, the scientists laid out the evidence and reasoning for believing we are not alone."  And you may be sure Obama will include the aliens under the Affordable Care Act, and will allow them to keep their spaceship if they want to.

CUTIE PIE – From London's Daily Mail:  "President Barack Obama made a rare visit to his hometown yesterday.  The President jaunted over to Chicago, Illinois, last night for a pair of Democratic Party fundraisers after a trip to Cooperstown, New York, to visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame.  At the fundraisers, Obama noted how nice it was to finally see his friends. 'All of you look the same and I look like Morgan Freeman,' the president told attendees of a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee event, according to the White House pool report.  'So the job has been wearing me down a little bit, I admit, gray hair and all that. But Michelle still thinks I'm cute. She’s not ready to trade me in yet.'"  Unlike most of the country, according to the polls.

HE'S PROBABLY RIGHT – From AP:  "WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's former president and Nobel Peace laureate, Lech Walesa, said Friday he plans to urge President Barack Obama to take a more active world leadership role when he visits Poland in June.  Speaking to The Associated Press, Walesa said 'the world is disorganized and the superpower is not taking the lead. I am displeased.'  The former Solidarity leader said that when he meets Obama in Warsaw, he wants to tell him that the U.S. should inspire and encourage the world into positive action.  'The point is not in having the States fix problems for us or fight somewhere, no,' Walesa said. 'The States should organize us, encourage us and offer programs, while we, the world, should do the rest. This kind of leadership is needed.'"  It is amazing how quickly we have slipped downhill in the eyes of the world's freedom fighters.  I'm sure the Muslim Brotherhood thinks Obama is just swell.

APPALLING – From the Washington Times:  "President Obama is taking a swipe at the Founding Fathers, blaming his inability to move his agenda on the 'disadvantage' of having each state represented equally in the Senate.  At a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night, Mr. Obama told a small group of wealthy supporters that there are several hurdles to keeping Democrats in control of the Senate and recapturing the House. One of those problems, he said, is the apportionment of two Senate seats to each state regardless of population."  I guess successful presidents didn't have these problems.  We must have had a different Constitution somewhere along the way.  The president might note that the name of the country is The United States of America.  It's not the People's Republic of America.

May 23, 2014