Rants of a Fuzzy Curmudgeon

Nice. If you can read this, it means SBC have gotten around to putting me back on the CORRECT FUCKING SUBNET.
Until they do, I’m screwed.

James Lileks ought to switch to Dish Network.
(I also like what he has to say about the second coming of bin Asshole.)

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I’m beginning to think Michael Ledeen is right. We should assist the revolution in Iran first. There’s nothing like striking while the iron is hot.
Maybe that would distract Saddam’s attention.

Melana Zyla Vickers writes about lefty reaction to the new National Security Strategy over on Fox.
Some of these old lefties just don’t get it:

“If the American military appears able to win victories at low cost, war might become a preferred instrument of diplomacy rather than an instrument of last resort. This situation would lead to an unhealthy militarization of American foreign policy,” warns Clinton-era NSC director for defense policy and arms control Hans Binnendijk, in the preface to a book he has edited on military transformation.

Or maybe, you incredible pissant, if the American military is able to win victories at low cost, OTHER COUNTRIES WILL THINK TWICE BEFORE THEY FUCK WITH US.
Read the whole thing.

Weapons of mass destruction? Us? No habla inglais, Senor.

…on why Augusta National membership should remain a male-only enclave.
Go, Hootie.

Here is a construction that is getting very old:

If there’s a recession in 2004, it won’t be Bill Clinton’s fault.

Maybe not. But it won’t be W’s fault, either. Economies don’t make bootleg U-turns. I would be inclined to say that if the economy is still in the tank in 2004, there will still be lingering effects of two years of Dem “leadership” in the Senate involved.
I’m just sick and tired of hearing this shit. Nobody knows what anything is going to look like in two years. So just shut the fuck up about it, Mr. Bartley, OK? Concrete proposals are a lot more productive than this Cassandra wail.

Fox reports that al-Jazeera is airing a tape of “a voice said to be Usama bin Laden”.
Please. Video of bin Asshole with the front page of the New York Times from sometime in the past two weeks is required before disbelief can be suspended.
That boy is bloody ooze in a collapsed cave in Tora Bora and ain’t much going to change my mind about it. Especially nothing that shows up on al-Jazeera.
Al-Qaeda are getting desperate if this is the best they can do.

Just when you thought the Homeland Security bill had a chance to pass:

Only one sticking point remains and that is whether Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., will stymie the legislation by filibustering it. A filibuster could be overcome by a 60-vote move to cut off debate. Byrd has long opposed the homeland security bill, saying it gives too much power to the president.

It’s long past time for WV to diselect this disgusting old man.