Rants of a Fuzzy Curmudgeon

I don’t always pay attention to comments after about a week (well, face it, after the posting slides off the front page I pretty much forget about it), but I see some folks have been piling on the French in the comments of my “Fuck France” posting back on 19 February…
So far it looks like 6 to 1 telling the French where to get off.
Just FYI, new policy here (with the advent of MT 2.62) is going to be that posts more than a week old will be comment-blocked (to save my sanity, bandwidth, and disk space). Except for the FUCK FRANCE post 🙂

Just happened to be listening to Greg Garrison’s radio show on WIBC on the way back from the airport, and he was talking about this article.
I may have comments later, I’m only home to take my pills that I forgot to take before I went out to the airport 🙂

How evil are you?
“He don’t know me vewwy well…do he?”

is what White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez has done in re the Estrada confirmation hearings…
His summation:

As I have said before, I appreciate and respect the Senate’s constitutional role in the confirmation process. You have expressed concern that you do not know enough about Mr. Estrada’s views, but you have not submitted any follow-up questions to him. We respectfully submit that the Senate has ample information and has had more than enough time to consider questions about the qualifications and suitability of a nominee submitted more than 21 months ago. Most important, we believe that a majority of Senators have now concluded that they possess sufficient information on Mr. Estrada and would vote to confirm him. We believe it is past time for the Senate to vote on this nominee, and we urge your support.

And that isn’t even the half of it. Damn, I think I heard that *smack* from 600 miles away…

Saddam wants to debate Dubya.
In other words, he wants to use the tools of democracy to justify his dictatorship.
Smart cookie, that guy. Too smart for his own good. Let’s fire a smart bomb or six at him.

Seriously sad that we can’t do the same kind of thing here. But I’m sure it would raise a 1st Amendment howl you could hear to Jupiter.
And he’s a fagin as well:

Prosecutors said el-Faisal addressed young, impressionable Muslims “from a position of authority” and was a “fanatic and extremist.” Perry said he encouraged British Muslims to attend terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.

Geez.

Snow on roof blocking satellite dish line of sight to 119W…no Fox News…more snow falling…aieeee….
This could be serious. I may have to climb on the roof with the leaf blower. Or raise the dish 8 inches.

Peggy Noonan makes a lot of good points here.

and lift a cold one to his memory. Colonel Michael Singleton would have done the same for you.
(Assuming of course that you were worthy…which apparently was not a given.)

Unusually for a magistrate, he rolled his own cigars and brewed a potent beer. His funeral eulogy reported long-standing rumours that Singleton was also familiar with the workings, and product, of a “not entirely licensed still”.

I wish I’d known him…
Via the Corner.

John Edwards thinks he can play with the big boys:

“In two short years, George W. Bush has taught us what the W stands for: Wrong. Wrong for our children, wrong for families, wrong for our values, wrong for America.”

And J.E. stands for JACKASS EEEEEEDIOT!
Like we’d ever vote for a trial lawyer for president.