Rants of a Fuzzy Curmudgeon

I’m in DC this week on business and probably won’t have time to blog or even to read the newspapers. All day tech meetings…arghh.

When the going gets tough, the tough fall back to previously-prepared positions.*
*For those of you in Rio Linda — sorry Rush — that means “retreat”.

Let’s review the bidding. First, she said she discovered the fire. Then, she said she accidentally set the fire. Now, apparently the bitch started the damn fire on purpose. I’d keep her locked up, too. If they don’t I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts she doesn’t survive to stand trial.

…but this is pretty funny. What’s even funnier is that someone will end up paying more than I make in two or three years to buy it.

if they don’t let us have what we want, f*ck ’em. We’ll bring our peacekeepers home.

What on earth does Fox expect to gain from running uninterrupted coverage of a car chase in Los Angeles? Don’t those happen every other day anyway?
What really is the bloody point here? Must be a slow news day. Just 19 people killed by homicide bombers in Jerusalem, C-130 crashes fighting fires in Colorado, Ridge presents new Homeland Security bill to Congress…Nope, nothing much going on, I guess.

this woman. Tell it like it is, Dawn!
In particular this is exactly what I was thinking when I read the paper this morning and saw who’d confessed to starting that fire in Colorado. Except I used language a bit more profane.

I was sick Friday afternoon…spent all day doing volunteer work Saturday…took Mom to visit Dad at the cemetery for Father’s Day. So no blogging. Oh well.

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…