Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

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Something is rotten in the Department of State

Consular officials liken visa critics to neo-Nazis
Son, what we have here is a failure to communicate.
How many more al-Qaeda terrorists do we need to admit to the country before the cookie pushers admit that maybe our visa policy is too lenient?

Mr. Burton, Indiana Republican and chairman of the Government Reform Committee, “slanders [ousted Consular Affairs chief] Mary Ryan, the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Civil and Foreign Service employees of the State in Washington and overseas through a litany of half-truths and outright canards that would have done [McCarthy lawyer] Roy Cohn proud,” Mr. Keil wrote.

I’d like to see Mr. Keil make that slander charge stand up in court.

Mr. Boucher, while critical of the e-mails, said there was within the consular service “a level of frustration and anger at press stories” accusing staff of lax policies in granting visas.

I’d be mad, too, if I wasn’t doing my job and got caught at it.

The senior State Department official said that before the use of new technologies, staff might have gotten away with sharing such sentiments. “People who spouted off on the phone now do it on e-mail,” the official said.

And I guess that made it right in those days. Right?
The big heads at the Department of State need some deflation, methinks.

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Another big man, er, mouth

So now Abu Sayyaf are getting into the “if you don’t leave us alone we’ll come after you” business so well executed by al-Qaeda since September 11.
Hope they do as well at it.

The Abu Sayyaf terrorist group called on God to help it punish the United States for working with the Philippines government in its drive to wipe out the Al Qaeda linked organization.

Somehow the example of Afghanistan tends to suggest that God isn’t on their side.

“Sooner or later, may Allah will it that you will get his punishments through us so that you may be tilted into your senses,” Abu Sayyaf spokesman Abu Sulaiman said Thursday in a statement addressed to the U.S. government.

Yeah, “tilt” us into our senses. Which in a just world would mean dropping thermonuclear weapons on your sorry ass. Those islands you hang out on are pretty small.

“The very things you hold dear in this world, your lives and your properties, are not safe from us.

Bring it on, Bubba. The Japanese made the same mistake in 1941. I’ll bet you think the US is just Hawaii and California, too.

For what is dear to you, we gladly dedicate for the sake of our creator so that there may be true peace and justice in real sense in this world,” said the statement, delivered in English on RMN radio.

Not very good English. What does that last sentence really mean?

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Stalking the judges…

Now this is pretty funny. I’m sure the judges don’t think so, but then, we are talking about the Ninth Circuit.
And the one judge has the temerity to say that the upcoming elections are involved in Congress’s censure of their decision. Duh. If I’m not mistaken an awful lot of Congresscritters come from the red states. Congress knows on which side its bread is buttered.