Rain (and Mark Steyn)

While I was writing the following, the short bus pulled up in front of the house - I'm just now getting back to it. Mondays are like that:

Didn't expect rain when I finally crawled out of bed this morning! Mutha Naycha finally doing her job and washing the pollen off my BroncoII - I'd decided while driving yesterday that I'd take care of that today if the weather cooperated. Didn't ASK the Mutha to do it for me, but sure am glad she did. Of course, I have laundry on the clothesline...which will just wait there for me, till it's dry, dammit...with luck, tomorrow or Wednesday. It's not important laundry, like Hubby's work clothes or my favorite jeans, after all.

I'm still not adjusted to the time change - using an alarm to make sure I wake up before 7. If this was REAL time, I have no trouble, but. . .well, you know. Stupid government wants to run everything and by golly, lots of people really like that.

UPDATE! As I was writing THAT, the short bus showed up again, and we had to spend some time watching the new Mickey Mouse with Grandpa. He had to leave before the Hot Dog Song, which is the most fun of the whole show...but only slightly ahead of "Oh, Toodles!"

Mark Steyn is, as usual, well worth reading this morning. From JewishWorldReview.com:

To his credit, the hopeychanger-in-chief has had some difficulty doing the outrage kabuki with a straight face. In the middle of his press conference the other day, he got a tickle in his throat and departed from his telepromptered script to joke: "Excuse me, I'm choked up with anger here." How the assembled hacks laughed! Why, it was almost as funny as his gag on "The Tonight Show." Referring to his 129 score at the White House bowling alley, the president cracked that "it was like the Special Olympics." Ha-ha! What a card that Obama is when he unplugs the prompter and kicks loose a little. Maybe next time he can toss in that the Dow Jones has got "Down" syndrome — geddit? Oh, come on! Don't be so uptight and politically correct!!! And besides, anyone who says the president shouldn't be doing crip jokes is a racist.

I can't imagine what would be said about George W if he'd made these same tasteless remarks...oh what am I thinking, of COURSE I can imagine the derisive comments, the slams of W's character, intelligence and wit, even calls for his resignation for being so stupid and insensitive. Ain't gonna find that here, among the well-educated journo-elitists who run the "information systems" in our world.

Steyn continues:
Any sentient being dumb enough to fall for this AIG huffin' an' a-puffin' from Barry, Barney, Doddy and the gang is a fool who deserves the vaporization of his assets that the national political class is lining up for him. As Charles Krauthammer pointed out, the $165 million in bonuses is less than 1/18,500th of the $3.1 trillion budget. The massive expansion of government the president is planning is forever, and will ensure you that end your days in what Peggy Noonan calls "post-prosperity America." More immediately, what message do you send to the world when legal contracts can be abrogated by retrospective confiscatory bills of attainder? You think that's going to get anyone investing in America again?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the kind of move used by Benevolent Dictators such as Fidel and Chavez to solidify their power?

Here's a surprise - Steyn answers my question in his very next paragraph:

The investor class invests in jurisdictions where the rules are clear and stable. Right now, Washington is telling the planet: In our America, there are no rules. Got a legally binding contract? We'll tear it up. Refuse to surrender the dough? We'll pass a law targeted at you, yes, you, Mr. Beau Nuss, of 27 Plutocrat Gardens, Fatcatville. If you want a banana republic on steroids, this is great news. So cheer on thuggish grandstanding by incompetent legislators-for-life like Barney Frank if you wish. But, in any battle between the political class and the business class, you're only fooling yourself if you think it's in your interest for the latter to lose.

He's smart, funny...and so RIGHT! SteynOnline!