Transterrestrial Musings

According to Sam Dealey, Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is literally a limousine liberal. In contravention of government ethics rules, each morning, she has one of her staffers pick her up in a limo at her Capitol Hill apartment, and drive her to her House office building–one and a half blocks away.

Boy, and they say people in LA don’t like to walk. This reminds me of the scene in LA Story, in which Steve Martin walks out of his front door, down the sidewalk to the street, gets into his car, starts it up, pulls it forward to the next house, gets out, and walks up and knocks on the door.

Of course, we have to consider that she’s not the sharpest tack in the box. This is a woman who, when the Sojourner landed on Mars, asked if it landed near the Apollo landing sites. And she serves on the Subcommittee of Space and Aeronautics.

I have no further comment.

I’m almost certainly not the only person to point it out, but we need to keep hammering on this point: the irony of the federal government investigating anyone else’s accounting practice is profound. If I kept my books like these guys, I’d have been locked up long ago.

Posts are a little slow today, not because I’m under attack, but because I decided that it was time to upgrade my 400 MHz K6-2 to a 1.2GHz Duron on my Windoze machine, AND I’VE BEEN SPENDING THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS TRYING TO GET THE THING WORKING.

I changed out the motherboard, and when I tried to boot, it couldn’t find my W2K drive. When I boot into W98, I can see the drive, but it still won’t boot into W2K. Scandisking the drive doesn’t help either.

This is being posted from one of my Linux boxes.

I hate Microsoft.

Hmmmmm…. maybe I am under attack–it’s just a little more subtle…

Will Warren has a wonderful new poem up in honor of a fatuously stupid commentary by FAIR, on how we can no longer handle immigration in this country because we’re running out of room.

We?ve all heard tell of Isadore the Cowboy,
Who drove them dogies all across the range;
For Jews, the urban places were a killjoy:
They all became proud members of the Grange.

What’s particularly ironic about this is that the Great Plains are actually emptying–states like Nebraska and the Dakotas are declining in population, and the average age is dramatically increasing as young people leave and head for the cities. After settling a frontier a century ago, we’re now abandoning it.

It might be a good place to move in libertarian-bent people to start up new communities, if we had a federal government that would follow the Constitution…

For those who, like Perry de Havilland, thought that my post about Blogdom attacks was an excuse for my not posting–sorry for the confusion. I was simply expressing general concern.

I myself don’t use blogger, and have had no technical difficulties at all. (I’m obviously not important enough to be attacked.)

I was simply busy over the weekend, and in addition, was undergoing a (temporary?) shortage of pith and wit.

According to Space.com, NASA is resurrecting its moribund nuclear reactor program.

It’s hard to imagine this happening when Al Gore was VP (or as President, if he had won). This is a critical technology if we are ever going to get serious about exploring or developing space. But expect the usual hysterical and ignorant suspects to raise a ruckus about it.

Well, they just took away one of the reasons to watch the winter Olympics. No more female limbs akimbo or crotch shots in the ice skating competition.

We’ve certainly come a long way from when the games used to be played in the nude. Of course, I wouldn’t have been particularly interested, since it was all guys then…

Yet another reason to be thankful that the Clinton Administration is no longer the administration. The oddly misnamed Madeleine Albright channels the Euroweenies.

“First of all they (Iran, Iraq and North Korea) are very different from each other,” said Albright, who was Secretary of State in the Clinton administration.

Of course they are, but their similarities are much greater than their differences, and those similarities are more than sufficient to justify Bush’s characterization of them.

In the case of Iraq, Albright said the United States had been trying to contain President Saddam Hussein since 1991 and strong action was necessary. However, the situation with Iran was more complicated and the United States needed Tehran’s help in dealing with Afghanistan.

You mean help, as in not undermining the new government? They don’t seem interested in offering that kind of help. Perhaps a new government in Tehran would be an improvement?

Looking at North Korea, Albright said it was a mistake to walk away from that communist state. The United States has attempted to hold talks with North Korea about its weapons program but that process has gone nowhere.

No kidding.

I wonder why. Could it be because the folks who run the place are duplicitous Stalinist monsters, with no interest except their own power, and are only marginally sane? Nawww.

“When we left office, we left the potential of a verifiable agreement to stop the export of missile technology abroad on the table. I think it’s a mistake to walk away from that. We know that North Korea is dangerous but lumping those three countries together is dangerous,” she said.

In what way, Maddie? Just because we lump them together rhetorically doesn’t mean that we have to follow exactly similar policies toward them. I know it’s hard for you to understand, but it’s actually possible to deal with them together rhetorically, while still handling them separately, in an appropriate time and manner for each.

Anyway, I’m not sure why anyone in the current administration should be interested in your opinions on this, or any other matter. They’re kind of busy right now, cleaning up the mess that you left them.

I had my biggest day ever yesterday for hits–over 3000 (twice the previous day’s total), thanks to the Instapundit. Half of them were on my post about the Euroweenies.

I’m trying to imagine what a thrill of power it must give Glenn to sit up there on Olympus, hurling down thunderbolt-like links–able to bring servers to their knees with a few flicks of his fingers…

I just hope he continues to use it for good, and not evil.