Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

The Professor writes:

SO THE HOMELAND SECURITY BILL HAS BALLOONED FROM 35 TO 484 PAGES: And the addition appears to be largely pork. That’s no real surprise, I guess, but while it may not be a surprise it is an illustration.

It isn’t my habit to quote the Confederate Constitution, but it contained a provision that “each law must deal with only one subject, announced in its title, and the President had the right to veto separate items in appropriation bills” (Foote, Shelby; The Civil War, A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville, 42. New York; Random House, Inc., 1958, 11th printing).
That would solve the problem, wouldn’t it?
UPDATE: The Confederate Constitution is reproduced (among other places) here. Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 20: “Every law, or resolution having the force of law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.” Article I, Section 7, Paragraph 2: “…The President may approve any appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill. In such case he shall, in signing the bill, designate the appropriations disapproved; and shall return a copy of such appropriations, with his objections, to the House in which the bill shall have originated; and the same proceedings shall then be had as in case of other bills disapproved by the President.”

And I think we’re winning. We’re certainly giving the Iraqis food for thought.
(Via the Professor.)

For over two days my router’s been logged into the wrong network.
I’ve gotten absolutely zero help from SBC’s tier 1 support in getting it fixed (first call: A trouble ticket. Second call: Routed back into voice mail hell).
And you know what the problem was?
They changed the login protocol for static IP logins and didn’t bother to tell anyone. Yes. All I had to do was log the router out and log it back in from a slightly different email address.
Fucktards. It’s a damn good thing I’m not shopping for T3 service here in Indy like I was a year and a half ago for my employer. SBC would not even be on my long list, let alone my short list.
The upsetting thing is that this is the first serious problem I’ve had with them in a year, and they failed the customer support test big time. And since I won’t do business with Bombast, er, Comcast, I’m sort of stuck with SBC DSL.

Nice. If you can read this, it means SBC have gotten around to putting me back on the CORRECT FUCKING SUBNET.
Until they do, I’m screwed.

James Lileks ought to switch to Dish Network.
(I also like what he has to say about the second coming of bin Asshole.)

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I’m beginning to think Michael Ledeen is right. We should assist the revolution in Iran first. There’s nothing like striking while the iron is hot.
Maybe that would distract Saddam’s attention.

Melana Zyla Vickers writes about lefty reaction to the new National Security Strategy over on Fox.
Some of these old lefties just don’t get it:

“If the American military appears able to win victories at low cost, war might become a preferred instrument of diplomacy rather than an instrument of last resort. This situation would lead to an unhealthy militarization of American foreign policy,” warns Clinton-era NSC director for defense policy and arms control Hans Binnendijk, in the preface to a book he has edited on military transformation.

Or maybe, you incredible pissant, if the American military is able to win victories at low cost, OTHER COUNTRIES WILL THINK TWICE BEFORE THEY FUCK WITH US.
Read the whole thing.

Weapons of mass destruction? Us? No habla inglais, Senor.

…on why Augusta National membership should remain a male-only enclave.
Go, Hootie.