Liberty and Justice for All!

Methinks Jindal doth protest too much. There was no “explicit talk” at the ranch over Jindal for V-P. Of course, that doesn’t mean that topics of conversation that are relevant to the choice of V-P where avoided. Jindal may “have the job [he] want[s]“, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t open to looking for an even better one.

Like it or not, his name continues to be one of the names that is being touted for McCain’s vice president. The endorsement of Jindal for V-P by the Washington Times does little to silence the hype over “the next Ronald Reagan” (or Dan Quayle). You can read my response to the W-T on their site or on Oysters.

Clancy doesn’t believe Jindal will make the cut. Yellowblog, Adrastos, and Oyster agree. Jindal may very well be using this hype to gain himself a keynote speech at the GOP convention which he could then use to propel himself to the national scene after 4-8 years as Governor. The Jindal hype may also be a smokescreen that allows McCain to look at other candidates without scrutiny.

I cannot say that Jindal ran for Governor just so he would be picked as a V-P choice (like he ran for Congress in 2006 just so he could turn around and run for Governor). However, the scent of power has been released and Jindal will grasp for it sooner than later. Why? Because Jindal cannot afford for too much time to pass by. The more time he spends as Governor, the more people see that he is all talk and no action. Better for him to act now while the majority of the people are still fooled.

For fun, you can play the MSNBC “veepstakes” home game.

One weird thing did strike me as odd from the meeting. Former EBay CEO Meg Whitman, champion of allowing fraud to occur on Ebay, was also at the weekend meeting. Interesting lot McCain hangs out with. Mike Brunker of MSNBC has a great series of articleson the fraud that occurred at EBay under Meg’s watch.

Apparently, the toy that is sold as “Aqua Dots” in the United Stated will metabolize as GHB (a date rape drug) if injested. Child Predators must be going crazy trying to find these toys. These toys will be pulled off the shelf by Toys R Us (and other retailers) however you can still find them on Ebay. I wonder how long Ebay will allow that auction to continue. Though, I don’t have much faith in Ebay and their protection of consumers. I am going to report this to Ebay and see if they take action.

And what is wrong with China? Why can’t they make safe toys?

 UPDATE #1: I have reported the problem to Ebay. However, the reporting feature only allowed me to list it as someone selling a recalled item and it did not allow me to explain the problem further. I have no faith in the ability of Ebay to determine what the actual problem is, so I doubt they will be able to figure this out.

Update #2: The listing ended with the “Buy it Now” feature. I guess somebody needed some kiddie roofies asap.

Update #3: I’m impressed! Ebay has pulled all of the aquadots listings.