Eco-millionaire Al Gore seems to be exempt from Obama's promised/threatened cap on success.  The Nobel Laureate has taken out his check book again to the tune of nine million dollars. Seems being green pays for this lucky chap. How come the media hasn't reported this? Looks like when he reached into his pocket to get his check book MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC and plenty others fell out.

Now is his new house run by discarded coconuts and pedal bike power? And the glare of that California sun off of those solar panels is almost blinding.

Take heart tonight knowing that when you're sorting your plastics from your tin cans, Mr. Gore will be doing the same. Well, kinda.

The left wing euphoria was palpable in the blogosphere when rampant speculation of the identity of the Times Square Bomber was heating up. Was he a right wing militia? Maybe he's a Tea Partier out for revenge? The air was let out of their tires when authorities captured Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen with strong ties to his homeland. Say it isn't so Joe! MSNBC's Contessa Brewer summed it up best "I get frustrated...there was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic Country." [Audio available here.]

Here is a Daily Kos Poll taken before the identity was the attacker was discovered. Note that with all the terrorism in the world, the out of tune Daily Kos readers feel that there was only a 4% chance that an Al Qaeda terrorist could possibly be involved.

A teapartier ---32%

A militia wackjob  ---30%

A religious wackjob ---9%

An American sympathetic to al Qaeda ---5%

An al Qaeda terrorist  ---4%