Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

Here’s a bigger
FUCK YOU
over your asinine reaction to Trent Lott’s idiocy.
Like the Eagles said, “Get over it.”

Here’s a big
FUCK YOU
in regard to this story.

…probably not in our lifetimes. Money doesn’t appear to be the problem:

The reason for the current moribund state of Muslim higher education in America, according to Yvonne Haddad, a professor at Georgetown, is that as an immigrant group Muslims are still quite young and economically unstable. To form a college, she maintains, “you have to have surplus wealth, like the Rockefellers.” But others deny that money is the issue. Nader Hashemi, who is writing a doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto on secularism, democracy and Islam, remarks: “The money is there. There are a lot of affluent doctors and engineers in the community. They are willing to spend money on lavish weddings, or fund-raisers to fight discrimination. But to transfer resources to, and appreciate the value of a liberal education, that hasn’t sunk in.” He cites a university in Ottawa that, after deciding to establish a chair in Islamic studies, found that the area’s upper-middle-class Muslim community could not come up with the $1 million that was needed.

Right. Don’t tell me the community doesn’t have the money when it blows it on other things. The problem is that the community per se isn’t interested in higher education, except parasitically (“we’ll pay tuition, sure, but give money to higher ed? Don’t be ridiculous…I need to finance the imam’s latest fatwa against the university’s obvious bias — it lets Jews in.”).
It occurs to me that Jews and Christians spend a lot of moolah on things like weddings, too (ours cost my father-in-law nearly $15K, but he was relieved that his daughter was getting married to someone who got a real paycheck, owned a home and a car, and paid his taxes, even if I was a Republican), but this doesn’t even begin to equal the amount of money we lavish on higher learning. I can think of a couple of endowed chairs with Jewish names on them without even trying very hard. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an endowed chair with an Arabic-sounding name.
For a culture with a history of learning and great universities, Muslims sure have slid a long way since the Reconquest.

but I’m glad to see some American blacks starting to realize that Jesse Jackson is not the man they want for a spokesperson.

…Stupid comment. Move on.
The Dumbs have spent so much time for so many years saying so much dumber things (“It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”) and never been called to account for them that I guess I just don’t much give a shit anymore when a conservative says something stupid. At least Lott was never a Kleagle, like Robert Byrd is documented to have been.
That doesn’t mean I don’t agree that Lott ought to step down; I do. He had his time, it’s over, let’s find a new Majority Leader for the new century, preferably a Northern boy so I don’t have to listen to those damn good ol’ boy accents for a while (but not too northern…that way lies Daschle). But blowing his asinine remark about Strom Thurmond out of proportion is pretty low, even for some of the people who are doing it (mostly journalists from his own party, stabbing him in the back–typical).
[UPDATE: Damn. And I didn’t even read Emperor Misha’s take on this first.]

From 197.138.51.5 we get:
“http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=linda vester age”
Asking a lady’s age…tch, tch, tch. I think she’s 37 or 38. She got married two years ago and I think she was 35 or 36 at the time (she had made some comment about her age when doing a bridal segment that spring).
Amazing the things people search for. cdm-208-21-73-pflu.cox-internet.com (seconded by pool-68-160-55-27.bos.east.verizon.net) asks:
“http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=linda vester pregnant&btnG=Google Search”
Now I have to admit, until I got a good look at her about a week ago, I wasn’t 100% sure. They’ve done a pretty good job of hiding it until now, but she is very definitely in a family way.
For which I must add: Congratulations!

Can someone explain how this got on the front page over at Fox?
Must be a slow news day, just United declaring bankruptcy, Saddam lying about WMD, al-Qaeda continuing to threaten, Democrats endangering democracy…ho hum.

I just caught about 20 seconds of Tom Daschle hacking it up for the press on Fox, a few minutes ago. Ol’ Tom was saying something about how the administration needs a new plan (I assume economic) and needs to get that plan out there, et cetera.
Hopefully the Republicans won’t fall for this. It’s a classic bluff; Daschle wants to see the Republican plan because, well, ya know, the fact is,
THE DEMOCRATS DON’T HAVE A FUCKING PLAN!
In a democratic republic with a loyal (we’re postulating) opposition, it is normally the duty of the loyal (still postulating) opposition to point out the faults of the Government and suggest alternative approaches to government policies.
Our DemocRATS are very good at the former, and very cagey about the latter. If Daschle were serious about the economy, he’d be trotting out Democratic economists left and right with proposals. In this entire election cycle I haven’t seen the Democrats put anything concrete on the table; all they’ve done is whine about how tax cuts don’t help and Bush is leading us into the abyss. Daschle is, therefore, not serious about the economy; Q.E.D.
Well, I say, time to put up or shut up, DemocRATS. Either advance some serious economic proposals or SHUT THE FUCK UP. Not that you’ll be in any shape to contend in 2004, the rate you’re going. You’ve lost the momentum on the war, and you’ve lost the momentum on the economy. And I imagine your girl in Louisiana won the cemetery vote in New Orleans, so there.

I think Tivo users doth protest too much.
I knew when Tivo came out that I wouldn’t be buying one, mostly because you aren’t really “buying” one at all; you’re paying for a receiver that’s useless without the monthly fee.
A real “digital VCR” wouldn’t require a subscription. And until one comes out, I’ve still got my trusty tape deck. Not that much worth taping comes down the pipe from the satellite these days.

…even a Jew boy like me.
Joe Bob Briggs has a few things to say about Jesus and SUVs.
(Via the Professor.)