Many unusual things have kept me from blogging recently, though my home is not afflicted with a ROUS. My daughter was married in September, but we just had her wedding reception on Sunday. (Long story…) Yesterday I spent the morning taking two small children to the park. Now I’m on a quest (with a deadline and a tight budget) to build a potato gun. When completed, it will be used to launch Christmas Ornaments Of Unusual Size into my oak tree. Because we can.
I have been visiting all the usual blog suspects when I’ve had a spare moment. Physics Geek very kindly linked, thanks!
SEIU continues to be a menace. Every time I think I can’t despise unions more they up the ante. My husband has had dealings with the local electrical union and I haven’t the adjectives to describe my disgust for those lazy, overpaid, entitlement-minded thugs.
Leonard Pitts (who wrote that great article right after 9/11) is an idiot. The Nuremburg trials were a wonderful example of justice administered to war criminals, but military tribunals are eeeevil so we must try KSM in federal court? Huh? Why do liberals feel such an aversion to logic and facts? But then, that’s a lib for you. They talk tough:
When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in our force. When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice.
but when the rubber meets the road, actually waging war against our enemies is just… icky. Call in the lawyers! Likewise, Obama spent two years on the campaign trail explaining why!! we!! must!! WIN!! in Afghanistan, and now dithers and plans his exit (not victory) strategy. Spare me. Just bring in the helicopters, do the bug out, and leave Afghani schoolgirls to the tender mercies of their acid-throwing overlords. Because if we’re going to surrender anyway, we might as well do so sooner rather than later.
It’s come to this: having to SUE the federal government to receive such highly sensitive, secret information like temperature records. So just to recap: the New York Times can receive and print highly classified information about ongoing, very effective, and legal programs to track terrorists… but scientists cannot get at taxpayer-funded information about how hot it isn’t.
From the “If a Republican did it” Department: the politically motivated, unlawful firing of a government agency watchdog continues to go more or less unreported. Oh, sure, The Examiner’s got it, and other media outlets have given it a brief mention. But just think back to the page one, above the fold, daily bombardment of Abu Ghraib stories or the infamous (wrongly reported) Plame scandal.
QOTD, on making holiday travel more pleasant for everyone: It really does come down to this: Your right to bring your screaming child on a plane ends where the rest of our ears begin. h/t Instapundit and let me add to that: your personal space on the airplane ends where the arm rest begins. If you’re too large to fit in one seat, rent two!
Now, on to the fireswamp of Thanksgiving shopping. Especially the potato gun supplies.
