Ninth Stage

Leaving for London EARLY tomorrow - I’ll be back soon!

Via E-Mail:
The old American gentleman arrived in Paris by plane and at French Customs and fumbled for his passport.
“You have been to France before monsieur?” the customs officer asked sarcastically.
The old gent admitted that he had been to France before.
“Then you should know enough to have your passport ready for inspection,” snapped the irate [...]

I couldn’t leave ’till I got my weekly fix.
Appropriately at the end of this year Alphecca’s famous Jeff Soyer gives us a history of his weekly feature the Weekly Report on the Bias. It’s a weekly report on Yahoo’s “Gun Control Debate Page” and the direction it’s leaning (yeah it’s leaning left, it’s not [...]

Jeff Soyer links to a GORGEOUS photo showing us what most of us want from this, the Holiday time of year.
New England, heh and instead I’m going to Old England (Olde?).

My Wife and I have two different ideas about the meaning of “traveling light”.
It seems that traveling light means jettisoning most of my stuff in favor of Her’s unless something of mine can serve as dunnage.

Projects: Completed, Packing: Started.
Packing for myself is a breeze - packing for a trip with my wife adds at least two extra dimensions. Trying to co-ordinate what to pack, when and where to pack an item is a lengthy process sometimes requiring negotiations - usually civil (learning when to give in is a fine [...]

Back from the in-laws and trying to catch up.
I have to finish up a few projects before my Wife and I leave town for our trip to London - leaving A.M early on Tuesday.
Hey! Do you know what careful planning gets you?
It gets you a trip to the U.K. where gun crime is soaring under [...]

Been home but been busy and now I’m preparing for the drive to the in-laws tomorrow.
Back in a few days.

Really It’s Ravenwood’s idea but this is succinct:
The Earned Income Gun Credit
Every year, you get $500 dollars back for every gun you own.

I’m Rich!, I’m Rich!

Belmont Club links to an NRO article by Victor Davis Hanson summarizing some conversations Hanson had with europeans.
… I was going to excerpt and comment but you really should read it all. I’ll leave it at this one quote:
Europeans: … But we worry that the Americans are not really aware of the depth [...]

Heh - Festivus Indeed.
The NYT saying that Bush is right and at this time of year must mean that Festivus is the celebration of Hell Freezing Over.

Aaron has moved his Rant Blog to http://la4israel.org/wordpress/
I don’t agree with google bombs in general but this (at Aaron’s old blogspot address) is too funny.

I got a new digital camera and a hosting service so I thought I’d see if I could post a photo.

This is a shot of some of my shooting trophies in my home office.

I understand that Internationalists don’t want the death penalty for Saddam Hussein.
My sentencing suggestion would be to lower Hussein half way into a plastic shredder and imprison his upper half for the remainder of his natural life.
And I’m now home in TN.

How do other media feel about Saddam’s capture?
Glenn Reynolds points us to a BBC reporters’ group blog. Here are some excerpts:
Poor humiliated Arabs
Seeing him [Hussein] dishevelled and unkempt is in some ways a humiliating experience for Arabs.
What? What ways? Which Arabs are Humiliated by Husseins appearance at his capture. Oh I get [...]

I’m listening to Harry Shearer’s “Le Show” program on the local LA public radio station just after NPR’s coverage of Bush’s speech about the Capture of Saddam Hussein. Now I know how the Bush haters are going to spin this. Harry keeps saying (paraphrased) “we’ve captured Osama Bin…oops! I mean Saddam Hussein” (he’s [...]

BTW - Say Uncle’s advice below didn’t seem to make much difference.
Update 12/20: I was wrong, now it’s working.

Updated some links and cruised about a bit.
I’m taking Say Uncle’s advice:
Old Navy shizzle�s gone fazizzle.
{snip}
Old Navy that look is off the hook
I - like Say Uncle - am doing this to deflect “Paris Hilton Sex Tape” hits.
Yeah I’m still in CA and I will be for a while yet - Ciao.
Update: snip

Ha ha ha, I couldn’t help myself I just started laughing.
eglamkowski informed me today that the french diplomatic corps went on strike for 24 hours. It was almost like someone telling me that I was looking at an invisible object with no mass

An unwise choice of enemies indeed.
(file the link under “Coal to Newcastle”).