Mumbai, etc.

I was off the grid for a few days in western Ohio. It was kind of nice--between the Dayton Daily News and the local NBC news, I was kept completely ignorant of anything going on in the world except retail shopping and Bishop Alter HS winning the Div IV football championship. That was fine while I was there, as it freed me up for more important things, but now I'm going to have to spend my day (minus the Colts game) trawling the internet for actual information. (The Daily News did find a local immigrant from Mumbai who denounced the attacks and expressed sympathy for the victims and their families, and a local rabbi who knew Rabbi Holtzberg; I guess that's all local papers can do about international news in the internet age).

A Tim Hortons just opened up in Richmond, Indiana--I spent a half an hour looking for it yesterday so I could read Mark Steyn while munching on Timbits (I should learn to read his writing in the original Canadian...):

So Bush is history, and we have a new president who promises to heal the planet, and yet the jihadists don’t seem to have got the Obama message that there are no enemies, just friends we haven’t yet held talks without preconditions with. This isn’t about repudiating the Bush years, or withdrawing from Iraq, or even liquidating Israel. It’s bigger than that.

I've been wondering what Obama thinks (my money is on "Oh, shit."). So, George Bush really wasn't making up scary stories. Didn't see that coming...

Tea with Il Nano

I have no idea why I found this so funny.

A: I'm really saying I want all unbelievers to burn! Why are you trying to read something bad into it?

Shhh! I'm on the phone with Jaber al-Banna!

Feingold fights for your right to plot with known terrorists. The article also contains an entertaining quote from Dick Durbin where he claims to believe the Constitution grants rights. C'mon, comedy has to be plausible...

I marvel at the narcissm of people who seriously believe their phone calls are so completely fascinating the Bush administration--if not the Chimpy himself!!--wants to listen in. Like he doesn't have better things to care about the sawbuck you're putting on the F-Pats or the contents of your baby's diapers or that you're ordering the lo mein instead of your usual General Tso. And the conversations you're having with the Izzadeen al-Qassam Brigades about that ammunition? Those are private, dammit. I'm glad I can count on Mr. Feingold to make sure no one finds out.

Anyway. Who's running against this clown in 2010? I'll be happy to volunteer. It will be futile, but it might be therapeutic.

(Who's Jaber al-Banna, you say?)