Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

[uncontrolled laughter]
Excuse me. [snicker] I have to quote this in full:

And Your Point Is . . .?
The Los Angeles Times reports that the State Department plans to fingerprint visitors from 26 countries. “The names of the 26 countries are classified, but they are widely believed to be mainly Muslim nations,” the paper reports. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute doesn’t like the plan: “It’s going to contribute to the perception that it’s Muslims we’re after.”

Some people are just born comedians. You don’t even have to work to get quotes like this out of them.
(Unfortunate annoying registration required to read the LA Times story linked by BOTW)

And Joel Mowbray is confirming exactly what I thought two nights ago watching O’Reilly browbeat his guest.
However, to give O’Reilly his due, I’m not 100% convinced that these two women, after so many years in Saudi starting in early childhood, haven’t in fact gone native to the extent of not wanting to go back to their mother. One is married with a baby, for heaven’s sake, even discounting the hostage value there.
At any rate you don’t find this out with a representative of the Saudi government sitting there taking notes on what the women say, and in that, I agree with Mowbray that O’Reilly was flat out wrong to ignore this aspect of the case.

From R. Emmett the Terrible his own bad self.

To be a prime minister or a president or a chancellor in any of the European countries, especially any of the western European countries, is even better than being a tourist on a thousand-dollar-a-day budget. The Europols live the good life day and night: wine with lunch, champagne with dinner, and posh pageants in between. Europe’s capitals are the most relaxing places on earth, and the Europols have been relaxing there for years, while Washington supplies the military security.

It gets better.

Isn’t Cynthia McKinney’s father’s runoff election today, down in the great state of Georgia?
UPDATE: No, it’s September 10th (next Tuesday). For some reason I had it in my head that it was this Thursday.

Perhaps the real story of the Jackie Mason/Ray Hanania squabble is coming to light.

Read Lileks. What more can I say…

Via the Professor, Andrea Harris Fisks the Times of London.
Interesting to note that the Kitty Hawk is the American warship with the longest total period of active service afloat today. As such, since 1998, and before the May directive regarding the First Navy Jack which I blogged about below, she was the only ship in the Navy entitled to fly the First Navy Jack.

NEVER FORGET.

The flag at the top of the main index is the First Navy Jack, which the Secretary of the Navy has ordered to be flown from all U.S. warships for the duration of the War on Terrorism. You can read a copy of the official announcement at FoundingFathers.Info.
Link via Best of the Web.

I missed this yesterday — Charles Krauthammer’s “Year One: We Didn’t Change At All”
Great piece.