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Sorry for not blogging yesterday. I was making my way to Southern Soxblog Manor and once I arrived, I had to “open the house.” Most Northerners with a place in Florida talk about “opening the house” as if it’s comparable to the labors of Hercules. I believe I set a south Florida record yesterday by having the house officially opened within two hours of my arrival. The patio furniture is out, the drapes are open, the servants yelled at, and the refrigerator stocked as I anxiously await my Thanksgiving guests.
Because of yesterday’s hectic nature, I spent virtually the entire day away from the internet. I’ve returned to find little has changed. The Powerline guys are running an amusing contest to find the nation’s worst newspaper. Out of parochial pride for my winter-time home, I nominate the Palm Beach Post not because it gets under my skin like the Boston Globe does but because it so perfectly represents the mundane and boring stinkage that has come to symbolize the dead tree dailies. The op-ed page is particularly hilarious. The paper’s own writers peddle leftist rubbish so old and fossilized, the term “shopworn” simply doesn’t do justice to their hackneyed liberal sentiments.
Elsewhere, Andrew Sullivan is continuing his increasingly tedious jihad against Hugh. Hugh is threatening to join the belly slap and gay marriage as Andrew’s ranking obsessions. I’m sure Hugh agrees that the honor is a dubious one.
IN THE DOG BITES MAN CATEGORY, we have the Democrats lining up to use the military as a Petri dish for some of the social experimentation ideas they’ve been mulling. Worked wonders for Clinton in 1993. Glad to see they’re reprising such a successful strategy.
Charlie Rangel made big headlines on Sunday when he announced that he wants to reinstitute the draft. What’s unique about Rangel’s call to arms is that he doesn’t dispute the fact that one of the reasons he so pines for the draft is because it will reduce the effectiveness and combat readiness of our armed forces. One can only stare agape at the perversity of a congressional leader who is hatching ideas to weaken the military during a time of war.
Naturally the Massachusetts delegation has been eager to claim its share of the fun. Representatives Marty Meehan and Barney Frank are attempting to deep-six the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and allow homosexuals to openly serve in the military.
Some people wonder where we’ll get the 20,000 additional troops necessary to even begin thinking of pacifying Baghdad. Frank, Meehan and Rangel provide an obvious answer – gay draftees! Who ever said the Democrats weren’t serious about national security?
Of course the generals don’t much care for either the Rangel plan or the Frank/Meehan move. It is odd that after four years of hearing how “we must listen to the generals” from the Democrats, now that they’re in the majority they have grown oddly indifferent to the generals’ suggestions and wishes.
Speaking of which, Barack Obama who two years ago was a state senator in Illinois, has offered his grand military strategy for the Middle East. Once again, the generals’ opinion seems to have been of no interest.
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