Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

Over at Oxblog, Josh Chafetz thinks that the Constitutional provision requiring that only native-born Americans can be President is discriminatory, stupid, and in need of amendment.
I disagree.
Consider the history of the Western World up to the time of the Founders. How many countries in Europe were ruled by non-natives, including not just countries that might have been conquered, but countries whose rulers had been invited to take the throne (William and Mary of Orange who were invited by the English Parliament to come from the Netherlands to be King and Queen, vice the papist James II, come to mind). Certainly their late nemesis George III was almost more German than he was English.
This provision was put in the Constitution to protect us from ourselves and force us to rely on no other nation to provide our Chief Executive and Commander in Chief. It has nothing at all to do with people who immigrated here when they were two and have lived here as naturalized citizens ever since. It has everything to do with keeping adult foreigners from taking (or being given) citizenship and assuming the Oval Office.

…I’m sometimes intrigued by the Google hits that lead to my site. Here is a sampling from my last 50 hits.

http://www.google.com/search?q=What is the paycheck of a treacher&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=o

Hmm, should that have been “Preacher” maybe? (I don’t think I’ve ever knowingly blogged about Jim Treacher’s paycheck.)

http://www.google.com/search?q=bonior american spectator&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N

Well, I do write nasty thoughts about useful fools from time to time. And I love the American Spectator. Especially now that it’s back under new old management.

http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=fuzzy curmudgeon&hc=0&hs=0&ac=

Someone at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis is looking for me online. Wonder who? And more importantly, why? I don’t take any Lilly drugs currently. [Editor note: Yes, that was obfuscated for privacy reasons.]

http://google/search?q=is valery giscard d’estaing a freemason?&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google Search

Interestingly enough I am the ONLY hit returned from that search…and the reason I got hit is because the words “valery giscard d’estaing” and “freemason” occur on my website. Not in any proximity, though.

http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=”The Logan Act”&ac=&b=21

Yeah, I did blog about the Logan Act the other day.

Lots of direct hits from neverwinter.preferred.com, from 194.9.9.5 (which from what I gather from Geektools is an IP in Ireland), and from user2.norton.mec.edu (via Rachel Lucas’s blog).

And the other week I had a gazillion hits from Google searches related to the Maniac Mom from Mishawaka, whose name I refuse to repeat again or I’ll probably start getting whacked again by Google 🙂

Just interesting, is all.

The President will address the nation in a major address Monday night.
Now isn’t THAT interesting.

…actually proves that W. ain’t no dummy, regardless of his pronunciations. Read Podhoretz.
(I just want to know, when is the board game coming out?)

Well, not really, unless Dems get wind of it. According to an article linked by my buddy Jeff Naylor, Babs had money in Halliburton (!gasp!) and another little concern that you might find interesting. So go read Jeff.

Look at the kind of candidate it fields.
Haven’t you ever heard of heavy metal poisoning? What the fuck were you thinking? (Oh, wait, he’s a Libertarian candidate…what was I thinking?)
The worst part was that he was apparently too cheap to buy it ready-made, he tried to make it himself by electrolysis. I can’t believe, though, the sheer number of sites that sell colloidal silver and tout it as “nature’s antibiotic”. If this shit were for-real, my doctor would probably have prescribed it by now (I end up on antibiotics about three times a year for bronchitis and other ailments). I know what the tony people say about alternative medicine and how “real doctors” pooh-pooh it, but look folks: maybe there’s a reason for that. At least I don’t have blue skin from taking real antibiotics.
MORE: I just found a site that sells a colloidal silver generator. Here’s their disclaimer:

NOTICE: No claims are made nor implied, with regard to the use of colloidal silver / silver mineral water for medical conditions. Colloidal silver is regulated by the FDA and is not approved as an OTC (over the counter) drug by the FDA.. There is no RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) established, nor is the need, role or safety regarding nutritional use established. Therefore; we are not implying nor recommending that anyone self diagnose and treat their own illness using silver or other minerals dispersed into water using the Colloid Master or by any other means. For more information about these issues click the “Research” link at the top of this page.

No, I’m not providing the link to the page, just in case a weak-minded Democrat drops by. But doesn’t this tell you something? Even the company selling the stupid machine says they don’t guarantee any results.

…Fisks the living you-know-what out of Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Outer Space) in his latest Screed. And the Bleat today ain’t bad, either.

I was thinking about bumper stickers again this morning (see a couple of posts down where I’m ranting about guns and Maryland), and I think I’ve come up with the all-purpose conservative bumper sticker slogan:

IT’S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPID.
Just let me know if someone starts making them. I need one for my car and a case so I can cover my wife’s family’s vehicles with them 😉

Read this article by Paul Johnson. (I did last night but I get the dead tree edition of NR.)

Because legally I wouldn’t be able to take my arsenal with me. It’s not a gun-friendly state. Anyway, Reid Collins has some thoughts on this over at the American Prowler.
Isn’t it amazing that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws seem to have guns? Someone ought to make up some bumper stickers. Yeah.