EIA - USA Total Imports of Petroleum (top 8 countries) - Nov 2008

Energy Information Administration (second table, truncated to the top eight countries)
(This link is to the current summary data page)

	Total Imports of Petroleum (Top 15 Countries) (Thousand Barrels per Day)
	Country	Nov-08	Oct-08	YTD 2008	Nov-07	YTD 2007
	CANADA	2,528	2,587	2,446	2,404	2,462
	SAUDI ARABIA	1,488	1,487	1,535	1,620	1,466
	MEXICO	1,405	1,433	1,306	1,581	1,552
	VENEZUELA	1,227	1,162	1,193	1,381	1,358
	NIGERIA	827	979	994	1,306	1,121
	ALGERIA	677	555	553	447	677
	IRAQ	452	577	634	508	494
	RUSSIA	450	394	470	470	424

A beautiful collection of photos of President Bush

Photographing the President

Thank you, Mr Bush, for being an admirable president.

Alinsky and Obama

The Agitator
Barack Obama's unlikely political education
Ryan Lizza, The New Republic | Monday, March 19, 2007

Democrats’ Platform for Revolution
By John Perazzo, FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, May 05, 2008

The Industrial Areas Foundation, founded by Saul Alinsky

Comments on Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals,
including a list of the rules:

Rules for Power Tactics:
1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Whenever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

President Obama live on CPAC/C-SPAN

I'm watching President Obama and his wife along with VP Biden and his wife leave their car and take a stroll to the delirious applause of the crowds. The joy is contagious. Americans sure know how to put on a party!

I hope for the sake of both our countries (and many others as well) that the US under President Obama returns soon to economic prosperity and continues to lead the Free World.

UPDATE: I should point out I only saw about a half hour of the inauguration broadcasts and I don't have any vivid memories of previous ones, so I have no context to judge the character of this inauguration. I do like parades though. ;-)