Rants of a Fuzzy Curmudgeon

So now Abu Sayyaf are getting into the “if you don’t leave us alone we’ll come after you” business so well executed by al-Qaeda since September 11.
Hope they do as well at it.

The Abu Sayyaf terrorist group called on God to help it punish the United States for working with the Philippines government in its drive to wipe out the Al Qaeda linked organization.

Somehow the example of Afghanistan tends to suggest that God isn’t on their side.

“Sooner or later, may Allah will it that you will get his punishments through us so that you may be tilted into your senses,” Abu Sayyaf spokesman Abu Sulaiman said Thursday in a statement addressed to the U.S. government.

Yeah, “tilt” us into our senses. Which in a just world would mean dropping thermonuclear weapons on your sorry ass. Those islands you hang out on are pretty small.

“The very things you hold dear in this world, your lives and your properties, are not safe from us.

Bring it on, Bubba. The Japanese made the same mistake in 1941. I’ll bet you think the US is just Hawaii and California, too.

For what is dear to you, we gladly dedicate for the sake of our creator so that there may be true peace and justice in real sense in this world,” said the statement, delivered in English on RMN radio.

Not very good English. What does that last sentence really mean?

Now this is pretty funny. I’m sure the judges don’t think so, but then, we are talking about the Ninth Circuit.
And the one judge has the temerity to say that the upcoming elections are involved in Congress’s censure of their decision. Duh. If I’m not mistaken an awful lot of Congresscritters come from the red states. Congress knows on which side its bread is buttered.

And this guy needs to be staked out in the desert and left there.
Anyone who would do this kind of thing to a little girl doesn’t deserve the compassion of society or the benefits of civilization. Make him bleed and suffer.

DEA: Saudi Prince Smuggled Drugs Under Diplomatic Immunity
Disgusting ragheads. Diplomatic immunity? Send the CIA after him. Or Special Forces. Just make sure there isn’t much left of him but a blot on the pavement.

The jerkoff who tried to get “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance is now trying to get prayer banned at Presidential inaugurations. He’s filed an appeal with the 9th Circuit of the dismissal in May of his suit in that matter.

What makes you think it will be different this time?
Saddam is mouthing off again.
(Via PejmanPundit.)

And what the fuck is this about?
Everybody involved here needs to step back and take a big breath. One square mile of rocky island is not worth a war.

It is thought to be one of the mythological “Pillars of Hercules,” along with the Rock of Gibraltar across the strait, and historians have connected the island with Ogigia, mentioned in Homer’s “The Odyssey.”

That and a buck will get you a cup of coffee. Sheesh.

Hmm, funny, I started to write that title and indeed, I am listening to Rush 🙂
Anyway, how interesting that he led off with this article, because that was what I was going to bring to the attention of my readers…(what readers?:)
I’ve figured John Corzine was a crook since the day I heard about him running for his Senate seat. Too much money. Way too much money.

Maybe you should think again, and read this article.
I’ll turn 65 in 2024. I don’t expect to collect a dime. The only reason I pay FICA without complaint is that it helps keeps my mother and my in-laws afloat. The system will be bankrupt (and/or hopefully changed over to a free-market alternative) before I get old enough to benefit.
I do not believe that it is the government’s business to ensure my retirement. Aesop had it correct in “The Ant and the Grasshopper”. Those who make provisions for lean times survive. Those who do not, end up on the streets or mooching off of their grown children. I have little patience for people who whine about being on fixed incomes when they had the ability to store a little up for years before they retired.
My father never got to retire. He died 15 days after he let his contractor licenses lapse (and lost a lot of SS income over the years between 65 and 77 because he chose to continue working). Someone out there is living on his dime for all the years he worked between 1941 and 2002. Thank God he and Mom had the forethought to put money away (and that Mom had a teacher’s pension from the state).

Meant to apologize for all of the Washington Times links today. Fox didn’t have a lot that rang my bell, and I spent a lot of time reading the Times instead 🙂