Hiatus for theCardinal

Ok I may not have died, but that really did suck. Wilma hit us pretty hard and we have no power at home - no one I know does. At work we have electricity but the few of us that showed up have so much work to do that I can't imagine posting for a couple of days. Thanks.

Shutting Down for Sure

After watching TV all friggin day with no friggin football I now understand that if this hurricane comes, rips my roof off, spawns a thousand tornadoes that all land on my Honda Civic and plucks me up and twists me into pretzel I will be lucky. It is obivious to all the tsk-tsking anchors and weatherpersons that WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!! Apparently I can tatoo my body with the American flag run stark naked through the streats of Sadr City screaming all sorts of nasty things about Muhammed and Ali and have a better chance of survival. Well I'm too stressed out so wish me luck and see you all soon.

Osama is Dead Again

It's been a couple of weeks since anyone said Osama was dead so it was bound to happen sooner or later.

Ungrateful Pri....

I would apologize for the profanity but I actually did not say anything. I am all for forward projection but I have long supported the withdrawal of our troops from the DMZ and S. Korea. The Koreans can defend themselves and we aren't winning any friends by being there. The latest incident indicating that (some) Koreans are ungrateful jerks is recounted by Peter Brookes from the Heritage Foundation:

For the last six months, activists have gathered around MacArthur's statue above Inchon harbor for anti-American/anti-alliance hate-fests, including violent attempts to topple the monument. The latest rally was on Sept. 11, a date plainly chosen to sting Americans. Just four days before the 55th anniversary of the Sept. 15, 1950 landing, 4,000 anti-U.S. activists, armed with bamboo poles and metal pipes, led assaults on the statue in Inchon's Freedom Park, calling MacArthur "a war criminal who massacred numerous [Korean] civilians.

Pro-American Koreans have spoken up, too. Indeed, 10,000 of them, including South Korean Marine vets, headed to Inchon on the 15th to guard the statue on the anniversary - at which point the protestors wimped out, pulling a no-show.How quickly the Korean anti-American crowd forgets the facts of "The Forgotten War" . . .

Wilma Ruins My Day

I probably won't post for the rest of the day. I have to finish putting up my hurricane shutters. Hopefully I'll be up and running soon...assuming I don't lose power.