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I guess Tom “Puff” Daschle is living in a different world from the rest of us:

Calling recent comments by President Bush “outrageous,” Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle on Wednesday demanded that Bush apologize for implying that the Democratic-controlled Senate was compromising national security.

Umm…Tom…bubulah…truth hurts, doesn’t it?
Fact of the matter is, this man is probably the most incompetent boob in the Senate right now, unless maybe we factor in Hollings and Byrd.

Hmm. It looks like the wife and I still didn’t manage to get out of Isidore’s way 🙂 From that 10AM advisory today it looks like Indy will get sideswiped as it goes through Kentucky.
This looks like good news for the NE drought though, if it drags enough water up from the Gulf with it.

So saith the Times of London (linked via Fox here). And if he manages to get one and uses it, I’m reminded of a passage from an old H. Beam Piper novel (Uller Uprising for any Piper fans out there) that goes something like this:

“We should raze Keegark flat as a pancake and use Orzgild’s head to play football on it.”

This in response to the said alien’s getting and setting off a nuke that killed a number of Terrans, among other atrocities. And I think it has application to Saddam.
(If I can find the book, I’ll get the quote right. I suspect it’s packed in a box somewhere, unfortunately. But that was essentially the gist of it.)

All kinds of hits from Google, people looking for stuff on the Maniac Mom from Mishawaka. Not much here but my carping about her, folks 🙂

First, that resolution from the Bezerkley City Council I mentioned yesterday. I heard it referred to once on Fox and never saw it on their website, and I can’t find any reference to it anywhere else. Did anyone else hear it or am I dreaming?
Second, what happened at the end of that car chase in NC/VA last night? I assumed that the guy shot his estranged wife and then himself but we got tired of watching and went to dinner. Again, nothing on Fox Car Chase Channel’s website about it and I don’t see anything anywhere else…
Comments?

(Link via the Professor)
The Brits have released their assessment of Iraq and WMD. It’s available at the BBC in HTML, with a link to the 55-page PDF document as released by Her Majesty’s Government there.

Well, he’s been in Egypt. Maybe that explains it.
(Link via LGF)

Went fast at work though.
About all I’ve seen all day that was hideously ridiculous was a resolution of the Bezerkley City Council declaring the air space up to 60 miles above their city a nuclear-free zone. I don’t see it anywhere right now (it was mentioned on Fox, but it’s not on their news site). Maybe nobody thinks it’s worth actually printing 🙂
I guess they’re afraid someone’s going to throw a nuke at them. Wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Back in August, I complained mightily about the TSA PITA at BWI that I had to endure back in July.
I’m not so sure I still agree with what I said then.
For one thing, after I calmed down, I realized that

• I hate to fly…period.
• I hate to be lined up for anything

Both of these concerns were operative at the time (there were probably 300 people in line ahead of me at the Southwest counter). However,

• The line actually moved pretty fast
• Although I was picked for a luggage explosives search, it was done with a minimum of BS, although the young lady could have been a bit more friendly
• There was actually someone at the head of the security checkpoint line directing people to lines that were moving faster than others…and there were plenty of machines
• There was a minimum of BS at the gate
• The plane was only 15 minutes late taking off…because the crew had gotten a red light before they landed and were having whatever it was checked by maintenance
• Finally…we were actually about 10 minutes early getting in to our destination.

At Indianapolis, last Tuesday, there was a humongous line at the checkpoint; at least 200 people when we got there. I think we had just been federalized, because there was a lot of TSA training going on. But the line moved quickly, the folks at the checkpoint were pleasant and helpful, and they didn’t make my wife take her shoes off this time. (I wear sandals year-round, and apparently they never bother with sandals.)
In Ft. Myers (SW Florida International Airport), they were federalized THE DAY WE GOT THERE. I figured we were in for it coming back…but yesterday we practically breezed through what was nevertheless a very thorough security checkpoint, and again, the people were pleasant, joking, helpful, and watching everything very carefully.
But I wasn’t impressed that they pulled three elderly white folks out of the line at the gate for a secondary check. If TSA were allowed to profile, this would not happen. I see no reason to bother our elderly travellers when the people who are more likely than anyone else to try something funny in the air would be males of Middle Eastern descent between the ages of 20 and 40.
On the other hand, I suppose Norm Mineta thinks that the 80-year-old lady who got pulled out of line in Ft. Myers was likely to pull a knife on a stewardess. (That would assume, however, that Norm Mineta actually thinks.)
At any rate, overall I’m impressed with the TSA…so far.

Via InstaPundit, I give you women’s liberation…in Jordan.
Now that’s not boring…that’s entertainment.