It’s not too often I have a long rant like I do below (or two or three), but current events have caught my eye again and pissed me off. Who elects these clowns? Oh yeah. We did. Crap.
- Before getting to the rants, let’s have some good news: In last night’s game in Fargo, Saints Take Series Lead With 4-1 Win.
- I noticed Walking The Walls, a weblog set up to watch the sunset of the Assault Weapons Ban next Monday. I’ll be keeping an eye on it this week and calling my Congress-critters as needed. This is an important one, and both Bush and Kerry are for renewing the ban. Boy, I’d sure like a better choice. [claire]
- The latest twist in Gilmore v. Ashcroft is that the Government wants ID arguments secret, saying that making the proceedings public
would be detrimental to the security of transportation,
since the very regulations he’s challenging are secret. Meanwhile, Ron Paul is calling on people to Reject the National ID Card, which may get passed as law before Congress is done making our lives worse this year. Yeah, aSoviet-style internal passport system
will definitely make me feel safer. [slashdot and claire] - For a guy who says he’s Speechless over the recent attack on the Russian school, Kim sure has a lot to say. But it’s not the lefties who are being Chechen apologists, as Kim says, rather it’s the current administration. There’s good reason for Russia [being] irate over US asylum for Chechen rebel, when the DHS could have refused asylum for the accused terrorist, and the administration says Russia should find a political solution (scroll to the end of the page). Here’s more background. And if you read this interview, you’ll see that for Russia to negotiate with the Chechens, they’d be abandoning millions of people to the Islamic extremists who are waging the terror campaign, since they want to create a
caliphate in the Caucasus from sea to sea
. Cosh points out some of the connections and hopes someone will dig up more of the story in his Bored dilettante nerd assignment desk. Personally, I think we need to be damned clear that when the President saysFrom this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime
and then his administration harbors Ilyas Khamzatovich Akhmadov, there’s some serious doublethink going on. But hey, the Russians were only told to dig Six Hundred Graves. That’s nothing like twenty-seven-hundred, right? To wrap up, PapaScott has the story of Diana from Beslan, who’s currently living in Hamburg. [kim, mitch, and colby cosh] - Update: Meanwhile, Froggy Ruminations: Beslan, USA suggests that the solution is to turn SWAT teams into military units, while Dave Kopel in NRO says the answer is to arm teachers. I lean more towards the latter. [instapundit]