Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

This is from Best of the Web today (scroll down, it’s the last item):

‘My Public Spirit Stops at My Daughter’
In a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, one April Falcon Doss explains why she chose to send her daughter to a private school:

For a card-carrying liberal, I was surprisingly unapologetic about our decision. Why should I sacrifice our daughter’s future to an abstract principle? I wasn’t up to battling the school system about class size, curriculum and extracurricular activities. And by the time any changes could be made, our daughter would have already missed out on a vibrant education

Here in a nutshell is the definition of an American liberal: one who is willing to sacrifice the future of other people’s children to an abstract principle.

Amen.

…on US. Well, not really. But this posting on USS Clueless is den Beste at his, well, best 🙂 while, in his inimitable way, taking down another idiotarian in our midst.

Now we’re talking.

Vice President Richard B. Cheney said yesterday that Saddam Hussein is “actively and aggressively” trying to build a nuclear bomb, and two key senators disclosed that U.S. officials have warned the Iraqi dictator that he and his country face “annihilation” if he deploys a weapon of mass destruction.

The countdown has begun, Saddam. And when it gets down to zero, you’re going to be in a world of hurt.

Or would you rather fight than switch? Michael Long over at NRO seems to think you’ll switch anyway if the GOP takes back the Senate. Why drag this silliness out?

However, his article “A view from the patriotic Left” over at FrontPage Magazine is pretty good.

What a guy. Go read.
(Link via InstaPundit)

Today would have been my father’s 77th birthday.
His adult life was bounded (more or less) on one end by Pearl Harbor in his 16th year, and by 9/11 two days after his 76th birthday.
He joined the Army in 1943, and was PFC and squad leader of an 81mm mortar squad that reached Europe just after the Battle of the Bulge. He was a member of the 66th Infantry Division (“Black Panthers”) and missed being torpedoed on the Leopoldville because he and a buddy decided to stay with their jeep on another transport.
He was awarded the Bronze Star medal — one of 120 such awards in the 66th — for repairing a telephone line to an advanced observation post while under enemy fire.
In his post-army life, he was variously a chemical and mechanical engineer, a mechanical contractor, and a loving husband and father.
He passed away on 15 January 2002, survived by his wife of 50 years and his son, daughter, and grandson. He is sorely missed.
Friends, we are losing the WWII generation, a thousand or more every day. If you know a WWII veteran, honor him or her while there is yet time.

This is from PunditWatch, today:

Advice from Jim Lehrer
The News Hour host was asked on Capital Gang about the debate over Iraq:
Well, I think everybody should always remember that wars are fought by real people, eyeball to eyeball, and that they bleed and they scream and they die, and as long as everybody who’s making the decisions remembers that, then we’re going to be always OK.

Hey Jim…commanders of the Army of the Potomac being frightened of casualties is what kept the Army of Northern Virginia in the field for the better part of the Civil War. Lincoln called this an unwillingness to face “the arithmetic”, viz., the fact that casualties between North and South could rarely be considered 1 to 1. Every Confederate casualty was equivalent to two Union casualties, and sometimes more, right from the start, because the South didn’t have anywhere near the male population of the North to draw replacements from (especially since they wouldn’t consider arming slaves). While I’m sure Grant was no more happy about casualties per se than any of his predecessors, he understood that they were necessary in order to bleed the Confederates down to the point where they would have to surrender. And he still got elected President (which was McClellan’s failed ambition). If Grant had been in command of the Army of the Potomac from the start, First Manassas might have happened, but I sincerely doubt Second Manassas would have.
And now I must go pick my wife up at the airport. Ciao!

We need to add Scott Ritter to the fellow traveller list.
What the fuck is this guy doing in Baghdad? Surely he of all people knows better than the crap he’s spewing. He was the guy who briefed Congress about Saddam’s WMDs, for Chrissake.
Looks like another neck needs fittin’ for a rope when this is all over. Either that or it’s rope-a-dope squared and cubed and this is all an act. Which is the only other way I’d be able to explain it.

Read these links, from LGF, in order:
Above the Impact Zone
Palestinians Party on September 11
Bear Witness
If this doesn’t make you ready to shoulder arms and drop into Baghdad for a little regime-change necktie party for Saddam and his cronies, you are not an American and I don’t want to know you. Saddam may not have dirtied his hands on the actual events, but the likelihood is that if you follow the money, and the strings, they lead right back to his ugly mug. It’s time to lay a little sturm und drang on the Middle East that they won’t soon forget.
Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Arabs would do well to be afraid.
Damn it, why didn’t this happen 10 years ago so I could have joined up?