Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

Den Beste has some interesting musings (much more interesting than anything on Fox News at the moment) on the possibility of Iraqi debt repudiation following regime change, and why Russia, France, and likely Germany are probably going to bear the brunt of it.

“All Sniper All The Time” doesn’t seem to be letting up any.

Some Congresscritter from Georgia thinks it would be a good idea to strip US citizenship from turncoats like John Walker Lindh.
I agree. But I think it should be stripped from them by lethal injection, or gas chamber, or electrocution, or hanging, or being shot in the back of the head with a large-calibre pistol. Not by some obscure law that will probably be honored more in the breach than in the observance (like the Logan Act).
The penalty for betraying your fellow citizens should be DEATH. What part of this do our representatives, senators, Presidents, and judges not understand?

Seriously busy at work. Tonight is also a mess. Probably no major bloggage till tomorrow (I barely even have time to read my daily list…).

…it’s interesting to hear that he’s probably not al-Qaeda. This boy sounds like a home-grown moron, even if he’s not the disaffected white trash I figured he probably was, and even if he is a Muslim.

If I hadn’t seen this on Fox this afternoon, I wouldn’t have even known about it. Fox has nothing on their website about it at all.
Apparently an Aeroflot 767 landed today at JFK at around 2PM EDT, and was met by FBI, Customs, and Port Authority police who boarded the plane looking for radioactive material.
Google News found articles here, here, and here. Nothing in US media at all, apparently. Wait, here’s one from WABC in New York. Searches at Fox, CNN, and PMSNBC came up negative.
Who’s trying to cover this up?

on the continuing media blackout of news from Iran.
He’s right. Faster, damn it.

This is a great read for anyone who has been suffering through national news coverage for the last couple of weeks (apropos of my rants yesterday). Further, Collins makes a trenchant point about relativity that I did not think to make:

The shrieking headlines on paper and screen tell another story, one of relativity. In the span of time in which the sniper has killed 10 people, what detectives call “traditional homicides” have killed 21 in the same metropolitan district. It is what the Washington Post calls “everyday violence”: car-jackings, knifings, drive-by shootings. Backpage stuff, even the robbery-killing of a man whose mother was killed in the crash of the American Airlines plane into the Pentagon. But “traditional homicides” are old hat. There’ve been 203 in the District of Columbia so far this year. No Chief Moose to decry their deaths. No interest in the caliber or the degree of difficulty of the shot.

Good stuff.

…hopefully with satellite tracking devices implanted in their butts, but maybe that idea’s too subtle for our intelligence people. Anyway, story over at Fox.

…that the Bondsmen didn’t have what it takes. Much as I grieve to root for an AL team, my money’s on the Angels.