Okay, so I haven’t been around the blogosphere much. I had various neck and back ailments that made it relatively uncomfortable to sit at a computer and do any serious blogging.

Anyway, I’m back now, and man did I miss a lot!

Harriet Miers:
Wasn’t qualified anyway. It’s nice that Bush wanted to appoint a friend, but I’d much rather have a judge with a judicial track record than someone who was so timid she wouldn’t even go through the hearings. Let’s be honest… They would’ve been a cakewalk. The Democrats loved her (yet another reason for any right-thinking conservative to hate her). And ultimately, all she had to do, if she didn’t want to break White House privilege, was to just sit in the Senate and tell the Senators to F off and that constitutionally, they have no right to ask certain questions. A class in constitutionality would’ve made her detractors look like fools and she would have come out smelling like roses. Instead, she cowers and withdraws. If you ask me, that proves she just doesn’t have the chops for the job, plain and simple.

Scooter Libby:
The man who admitted to leaking the name of super-top-secret-vanity-fair-centerfold Valerie Plame was indicted for doing so. Not that this really matters… If it ain’t Rove or Cheney, the libs are never going to be happy. They don’t want the man who did it convicted, they want the man they convicted already to have done it.

2,000th Death in Iraq
Big shock that one came, huh? Leading up to that 2,000th death, we were informed again and again how any of the planned protests around the event would be respectful and somber. What they were, in fact, was a cocktail party for the radical left with very little actual respect shown for any of the soldiers who died. No shock there, and zombietime was there for one of these mixers. Look at all the forlorn and contemplative faces. Saddened, aren’t they? Moveon.org jumped right on the media saying it didn’t cover the 2,000th death sufficiently. It ran as the top story in every single New York paper and the lead story on every newscast that night. What the hell are these idiots even talking about?

George Galloway Knocked
As the left circle-jerked around Galloway’s testimony in front of the Senate, he probably had his fingers crossed behind him the whole time. Michnews has a neat little summary of the dimpled-darling of the anti-war zealots:

Leftist “anti-war” activists make their way into the report in the person of George Galloway, the British MP who was booted out of the Labor Party for a number of reasons, one of which is that Labor found that he incited Arabs to fight against British troops. What are the allegations against this vitriolic grandstander who prefers the USSR, Iraq, and Syria to “rogue states” such as the U.S and Great Britain?

They are these: (1) Some of the proceeds from allocations of 18 million barrels of oil given “either directly in the name of George Galloway . . . or in the name of one of his associates, Fawaz Zureikat” were deposited into the account of the Mariam Appeal, an organization dedicated to providing health care for Iraqis and to work “against sanctions in Iraq” and with which Mr. Galloway was associated as an officer. (2) Deposits of illicit oil money were made to “the bank account of Amineh Naji Daoud Zayyad, Mr. Galloway’s wife” and “officer for the Mariam Appeal.”

It should be noted also that this hero of the American Left may face perjury charges as a result of his testimony regarding his involvement in the Oil-for-Food scandal before the U.S. Senate.

Nice guy. I can’t help but recall the breathless orgasmic description of Galloway’s “testimony” in front of the US Senate from the likes of Stageleft:

I saw a bit of George Galloway and the US Senate committee while on the gym treadmill yesterday evening and I gotta tell ya, the urge to clap and cheer was heavy upon me…. if I hadn’t been quite so winded from the workout itself I might have, for verily I say unto you, from what I saw he did well and truly kick their asses.

Oh yeah… I guess when you’re lyin’, it’s easy to kick ass because you don’t have little barricades like the truth to impede you. Stageleft chose to title his piece, “It Was Grand.” I tend to think the look on Galloway’s face as the report was delivered by Volker was probably a hell of a lot more grand.

Of course, that’s if he found it on the news at all…

Another interesting angle of the report is that France and Russia were the biggest violators of the Oil For Food program, which I’m sure is a complete coincidence and has nothing to do with their anti-war lobbying in the UN.

World Series a Ratings Flop
Who outside of Houston and Chicago cared about either team, anyway?

Printer Snitchin’
The EFF has found that a large number of newer color laser printers contain identifying information that can be traced back to their respective printers. Isn’t that nice? Big Brother is checking out your printouts whether you know it or not. Isn’t it great how readily the printer companies cooperated with law enforcement despite an actual law? Doesn’t it just warm your wee heart?

DUI’s want Source Code for Breathalyzer
Guess getting caught driving drunk isn’t as slam dunk as it used to be. I love the assumption that if a machine determines your guilt you have a right to know its intricate inner workings. Of course, Boing Boing thinks that everyone should have access to all information (note the framing of the machine versus your constitutional rights). Sure. Let’s open the floodgates and turn every DUI into a technical dispute.

Safran Apologizes in Advance
Steve Safran, of Lost Remote, is one of my least favorite people in the blogosphere. A mostly self-important jerk, he consistently toes whatever left-wing line the media spits out and does so while constantly claiming his impartiality. Well, this time, in an article about an FCC / Radio Station debacle, he apologizes in advance for doing what he does every time he writes something; editorializing. Not that there’s a problem with that, but his tripe is rarely presented as an editorial. Anyway, some of his more eagle-eyed readers lay into him for his lack of impartiality and he defends himself, albeit not very well. Lots of kicking, screaming, and crying for mommy ensue. Makes ya wonder… If the station involved wasn’t a religious one, would the great one even care about it?

Boing Boing finds belief God created man scary
Boing Boing, anti-religious zealots in many ways, found this to be utterly terrifying:

Fifty-one percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while humans evolved, God guided the process. Just 15 percent say humans evolved, and that God was not involved.

These views are similar to what they were in November 2004 shortly after the presidential election…

Americans most likely to believe in only evolution are liberals (36 percent), those who rarely or never attend religious services (25 percent), and those with a college degree or higher (24 percent).

White evangelicals (77 percent), weekly churchgoers (74 percent) and conservatives (64 percent), are mostly likely to say God created humans in their present form.

The bastards! They believe God did all this! That’s terrifying! Of course, the 51% is wrong. Not the other 49%. I find it more scary that millions of people believe that man started as a drop in a puddle of primordial ooze and so many unbelievable coincidences happened to cause man to be born.

But that’s me.

And that’s what caught my eye while I wasn’t blogging. I have some more stuff, but I’d rather write about it in depth a bit later. See ya in the ’sphere!