Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

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.

Jeff Jacoby on the failure of bilingualism.

This is a mistake. You’re going to lose, and look like whiney dicks in the process.
Why are you going to lose? Because this is essentially a state election, even though it is for a seat in the Federal legislature. There are no federal laws in play except as affect military absentee ballots (and realistically, how many of those folks are going to vote for the Torch?). There is no Electoral College involved. It’s a straight up/down popular vote.
As much as you and I agree that justice was a funny word for what was done in the NJ Supreme Court, I just don’t see the US Supremes overturning this one. After all, NJ didn’t try to change the election laws after the election was over. The election ain’t till next month.
And bottom line, if you think the Supremes are going to put up again with the kind of abuse they got over Bush in a case that wasn’t really anywhere near the same, I think you probably are smokin’ something funky and not sharing it with me.
Don’t get me wrong; it stinks to high heaven; it would stink on ice. But it probably isn’t worth the trouble and bad press a USSC appeal is going to entail. Far easier to drape the Torch around Lautenberg’s neck and fight it that way.
(FWIW — a couple of days ago I was enthusiastic that a USSC appeal might fly and win. The more I think about and read about this case, the less I agree with my alter ego of September 30. Thus my current pessimism.)

…I suggest that Doug Forrester completely ignore the NJ Supreme Court ruling and the Lautenberg substitution…AND KEEP RUNNING AGAINST TORRICELLI.
I came to this epiphany after reading Ann Coulter’s Frontpage Magazine column a few moments ago. La Coulter writes:

Torricelli’s Republican opponent, Douglas R. Forrester, has designed an entire campaign — polls, advertisements, issues — on the assumption that he was running against a specific candidate. As soon as his campaign against that candidate began to work and he pulled ahead, Democrats switched the candidate.

But they can only switch the issues if Forrester plays along. Forrester should keep hammering on his legitimate opponent, Torricelli, with a clear subtext that you can’t change political horses in midstream in the name of “giving the voters a clear choice”. It seems to me that the clear choice is to repudiate this sort of political chicanery by electing Forrester to the Senate.
Not that I expect NJ voters to do the right thing.
UPDATE: Via the Professor, Howard Kurtz takes this a bit farther — “[Torricelli]’s an albatross that conservatives want to hang around the neck of every breathing Democrat.” Woo-hoo.
The title of Kurtz’s column? “Torching the Whole Party”. Time to get out the kerosene.

John Fund has some excellent thoughts on election by litigation, and what it bodes for the Nation. Hint: It don’t bode well.
The solution, of course, is for Republicans to come out in force on November 5 and pull that Republican lever. Don’t waste your time picking and choosing this Democrat or that Democrat because you know him or because she makes more sense than the Republican. And for crying out loud, don’t waste your vote on Libertarian or other soi-disant third-party “candidates”. Ross Perot should have taught us something about that.

Virginia Postrel is posting again (yay) and today compares NJ politics to Calvin Ball. “There is no election law. They run politics like Calvin Ball. A person could become cynical.”
Apt, that.