TC the Terrible

Quick thoughts on a Friday morning.

• For all you kiddies out there that think you’re too cool with all the crap you post to your MySpace, adults are watching you. Post about shooting your teachers and the police will arrest you.

• Nationals Pound Phillies. Sounds dirty until you remember that it’s two baseball teams.

• If the Post is talking about a teenage trend, you know it’s two weeks from being so last month.

• Sometimes, you have to put your money where your mouth is, no matter how big your mouth is.

• At least the Mexican priests are into girls, not young boys that has to be a good thing. Killing them because the priest knocked them up is still a very bad thing.

• The Chicago Trib makes a good point about fighting the bad guys and not each other. Not that it’s going to happen before November gets here.

• Charles Krauthammer shows some level headedness that is rare for the Post, and I hope that is the first sign that they are tired of beating on the military.

That’s it for now. I’ve got copies to make. Enjoy yourselves.

Housing is fucking expensive in and around the Nation’s Capitol. That is the easiest and most truthful way of saying it. When a family of way the hell too many can rent cheaper than buy, there is something seriously ate up about the situation. I wish the bubble would go ahead and pop out here so we could actually buy something that we could live in. But who the hell can figure out if it’s going to pop or keep climbing? Maybe we should move to West Virginia. I hear the commute is not too bad from there.

I guess the Post’s vendetta against Our Fearless Leader is starting to pay off. Between Rove stepping down and Scott McClellan’s being shown the door the White House is going to be drastically different in the last years of this Administration. And I’d venture that it is a good thing. After all, the bulk of the staff has been on board since Day One and the burnout at that level has to be mind numbing. I know how exhausting it is to simply live in DC. Being on the inside of the power ring must crank it up geometrically.

Now give this old geezer some credit for trying a new approach. You’d have to be pretty damn dumb to believe that a doctor would go door to door giving out breast exams, but then we are talking about people who live in a hurricane magnet. So you can’t expect too much in the way of intelligent thinking from them. And you have to wonder how many times he did it and didn’t get reported. My real question is if a gross looking female opens the door did he extend her the same offer, or just give her a business card and keep moving?

Later.

Jesus H. Christ on a stick.

I know that the undeclared (at least officially) goal of the Washington Post is to bring this President to his knees. But can we at least leave his goddamn kids out of this? When Slick Willie was in office his daughter was declared off limits by all major media. Hell even Rush Limbaugh refused to take shots at the First Child. The Post needs to extend the same courtesy to the Bush girls.

Fire away at Rummy. He’s a public official and fair game. The Big Donald knew what the hell he was getting into when he signed on for this job. After all, being the SEC DEF is not the first time he’s rode a bull in this town’s rodeo.

A valid public debate about the way he has performed and his merits is a good thing. But the question I’ve got for William Arkin is who do you suggest for Rumsfeld’s replacement, David Ignatius? Or maybe Broder?

Shit, you guys need to give it a break. Six retired generals have an ax to grind and are going about it in a very un-military way. Officers are expected to be professionals even when they retire. These guys must have forgotten that. Besides, has anyone stopped to ask if they might have some hidden personal agenda? Maybe like trying to deflect some of the blame away from themselves and the mistakes they made?

Are there problems in Iraq now? The answer is yes. Does all the blame fall on one man? Hell no.

I’m out for the night.

TC