I’m on vacation…

…and I don’t have to go back to work till 13 January…
MAYBE I’ll have time to get some things done around the house.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good afternoon. Blogging will probably resume on Thursday unless I get home from a big ol’ Christmas dinner at my aunt’s and still have enough wit left to write.

Merry Christmas Eve

to all my readers of the Christian persuasion.
And after reading Fallaci and Hanson over the last few days: Death to Radical Islam. I think that would be a nice Christmas present.
Fallaci sees Islam as a fifth column already among us. I think there’s truth to that in Europe, but in the US where it may be pushing it to accept CAIR’s claim that there are 6-7 million Muslims, based on other things I’ve read I’d be willing to bet that there aren’t nearly that many; and against 280 million Americans, I don’t see the kind of threat here that Fallaci warns about in, say, Italy.
For one thing, an awful lot of real Americans are armed. And we’ll fight back.

Sorry…

Too many Christmas parties. And not nearly enough of them with decent booze 🙁
From noon Tuesday, I’m on vacation for three weeks. I’ll most likely still be hacking (in the good sense of the word) and blogging 🙂 since I don’t really know how to take a vacation. Sally isn’t taking one at the same time so she won’t be able to force me to turn off the computer…

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

A little Fox News trifecta.
Good: Pearl Suspect May Have Died
Bad: U.S. Still Too Vulnerable to Terrorists
Ugly: Man Gets 12 Years in Prison for Throwing Dog 23 Floors
(Geez, what is it about dogs lately? I don’t care for them personally but I’d never mess with them the way al-Qaeda, the Peruvian Army, and apparently this butthead have. In this case 12 years was too lenient; he should have been thrown off the same balcony.)