Rants of a Fuzzy Curmudgeon

I thought the news was fairly boring this morning…plus I’m not feeling all that well.

Apparently the Indiana House couldn’t keep their hands out of the cookie jar when they passed the tax and budget bill. Why am I not surprised?
Although one good thing the bill apparently does is restore $2 million cut from the Indiana schools for the blind and deaf.
Oh…and it makes it legal to possess antique slot machines. Apparently that’s a felony right now…
Folks, it’s time for the Republicans to take this state back.
Oh, and get this: The governor requested state workers to take a day off once a month without pay. Yesterday the Star had an editorial here suggesting that the governor ought to be the first to take the plunge. Good idea. And governor…sell the damn airplane while you’re at it. Maybe Jim Irsay would be interested in buying it…

The judge in the Richard Reid shoe-bombing case threw out one of the nine charges. The charge thrown out was “attempting to wreck a mass transportation vehicle”. The judge said that an airplane does not meet the Congressional definition of “vehicle”. OK, but the judge does not meet my definition of “intelligent”, either. What is an airplane if not a “mass transportation vehicle”?
Got this from the Fox News scroll a few minutes ago.
Update: Apparently Congress made another mistake in the USA Patriot legislation. This is from the Fox News story online:

The charge — attempting to wreck a mass transportation vehicle — was filed under the USA Patriot Act, which was passed by Congress after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. U.S. District Judge William Young said that although an airplane was engaged in mass transportation it is not a vehicle as defined by the new law.

I still don’t see how a judge can’t interpret the law to include an airplane as a “mass transportation vehicle”. This guy must be a Clinton appointee.

How did it get to be…Wednesday?
I must have been really busy yesterday.

still seems to be hosed.

Too busy sorting fools at work. Just managed to get Rush turned on, haven’t seen a newspaper or a news website yet…

someone pointed this out.

I make changes to the template, I upload them, Blogger says uploaded successfully…and nothing changes! Something must be wrong in Blogville. InstaPundit noted earlier that BlogSpot was down so maybe that has something to do with it…

on the speech the newsies missed.

The Lilly Foundation says it will double your donation to participating Indiana universities and colleges — my guess is because of budget shortfalls. How about a similar program for school districts all over the state that are getting screwed by the O’Bannon budget crisis?