Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

Milton Friedman turns 90 today 🙂

Tony Blankley thinks so. (Link unlikely to be good for long, I’ll try to remember to repost the permanent link if and when I find it.)
I still don’t like it.

This is good too — also from Fednet (see link below):

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In just 18 months, this administration has unraveled the fiscal discipline it took us eight years to build.” — Sen. Joseph I. LIEBERMAN, D-Conn.

Fiscal discipline? Gesundheit, Senator. If there was any fiscal discipline in the Clinton years it was due to the Republican Congress and not due to anything you had your grubby mitts in.

I hate this man. He is low, mean, disgusting, decrepit, anything but the Southern gentleman he professes to be, and dedicated to one thing and one thing only: bringin’ the pork home to West Virginia. I just happened to look at FedNet a moment ago and…he’s clip of the day! Guess why? Because he can’t talk about funding the DHS without a swipe at Bush/Cheney!

“It is going to require the investment of real money. Your money. It cannot be done with the kind of creative accounting gimmicks that you might expect to find at Halliburton Company and Harken Energy Corporation.”
Senator Byrd (D-WV) speaking on the Senate floor regarding the establishment of a Department of Homeland Security.

How about the kind of creative accounting gimmicks used by Dick Gephardt and Terry McAuliffe? How about Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, etc.? No, you had to pick Harken and Halliburton, didn’t you, you wizened pile of crap?
Why can’t this man just die?

Clinton blames Bush for market mess
Bill Clinton is an unmitigated scumbag waste-of-space despoiler-of-maidenhood breathing-my-oxygen asshole. Get bent, Mr. Impeached Ex-President. Nobody gives a good God-damn about your opinion on anything anymore. And your ugly wife Bruno, too.

P.J. O’Rourke weighs in amongst the pages of The Weekly Standard:

In this period of gloom–with liberals seeking to make hay from capitalist foibles and our own capitalist foibles reduced in value to bales of ditto–it behooves us to look for a moment at the bright side of corporate corruption.
That is, assuming there’s any corruption. It may be semantics. When senators and representatives get together in Congress to fix prices on prescription drugs, they’re national heroes. When pharmaceutical company CEOs get together on the golf course to fix prices on prescription drugs, they’re indicted. . . .
One last cheering thought: Corporate corruption gives al Qaeda, Hezbollah, and other Muslim radicals second thoughts about messing with the United States. If we’ll screw our own grandmothers in the stock market, God knows what we’ll do to them.

Methinks we ought to spend a little more time working on that Congressional corruption angle, P.J. You’re slowing down since you got married and had kids. But this is a pretty good piece, if a bit short.

This worries me. Muslim-based home schooling is all well and good, but let’s hope the American History component doesn’t teach that this country is the Great Satan. I somehow suspect that this is just another way to subvert the American education system and brainwash little Muslim children who don’t know any better.

Who is leaking this shit to the NYT?
Someone needs to be marched out in front of the newly-repaired section of the Pentagon, put up against the wall, and shot as a reminder of what happened on 9/11. Loose lips sink ships, damn it!

NY Times this morning via RealClearPolitics.
Well, Mr Bush…much as I hate to say it…you’re full of shit. As Mr Podhoretz clearly indicates here.

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