Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

One more tonight.
Link via LGF.
Warning — it’s a 7MB slide show so unless you have broadband…

Found on The Corner:

SUGGESTION FOR BUSH’S UN SPEECH [Jonah Goldberg]
Here’s how Bush should begin his speech to the UN on Thursday…
“Let me explain why we bombed Iraq yesterday….”

The upcoming election MUST be about the war.
The Democrats won’t prosectute it; they’ll mealy-mouth around until a nuke goes off in New York, or Chicago, or (hmm) Bezerkley.
Only the Republicans currently have the moral clarity to wage the war that needs waging. The Democrats are morally bankrupt and don’t have a clue.

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.