Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

…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.)

…muses Victor Davis Hanson over on NRO.

Ben Stein on the conspiracy to ban SUVs (among other things) and how using Jesus and God arguments against them is, well, somewhat pharisaical.
Ben doesn’t write nearly enough to make me happy. (And he’s a fellow fan of the beautiful and apparently pregnant Linda Vester, so he has good taste as well as great intellect.)

…how the world’s Jews don’t descend on Saudi Arabia and stuff the Holy Kaaba up King Fahd’s butt sideways after reading shit like this.
Fatwa this, you boy-buggering walking tea towels.

I’m really getting sick and tired of people who bitch and moan about two things, usually at the same time:

1. Homeland Security is a clear and present danger to our precious civil rights; and
2. Homeland Security is woefully inept at just about anything it tries to do. How will we ever protect ourselves from terrorist activities?

The Professor, whom I normally think is a fairly smart cookie, links today to Brock Yates, who talks about how confiscating nail files and cuticle scissors from airline travellers doesn’t protect us from people crossing our undefended borders (well, that’s simplistic, but read Yates’s piece and you’ll see that he really doesn’t have a whole lot else to say).
Think about this for just a moment: How does a country with a tradition of liberal democratic civil rights, fairly open borders, and ease of access, overturn all that in just over a year to a system that is so tightly-regulated that nobody gets in or out? How do we build a Berlin Wall across 2000 miles of undefended and unsecured Canadian border? We can’t even build a six-foot-high fence along the Mexican border, or station troops along it to guard it, for crying out loud, because our wimpy libs and the Mexicans cry boo-hoo every time we talk about it.
What really makes you think that “the gummint” is going to turn the United States into the People’s Republic of North America? Have you read the Patriot Act and realized that it isn’t the fascist, jackbooted Hitlerian/Soviet manifesto people said it was when it was going through Congress? Do you have any idea how much information swampage is going to be involved in TIA? (Those people are going to be lucky to see the forest for the trees if they plan to use that database to try to predict terrorist activity.)
God damn it, people. Wake up and smell the fucking coffee. Our civil liberties are only in danger from the people who hate us and would do us ill. And I think our president, legislators, and courts are smart enough to realize that (well, maybe not the 9th Circuit, but the exception usually proves the rule).