Two Hats?

It just occurs to me that Condi doesn’t necessarily have to give up her White House job when she takes over Foggy Bottom. Henry Kissinger was simultaneously National Security Advisor and Secretary of State for two years. I haven’t heard about potential replacements for her current position. I wonder if the White House is thinking what I’m thinking, or if they just haven’t gotten around to announcing her replacement yet.

The Continuing Iraq Quagmire

If you’re one of the Islamofascists, that is:

Allawi identified the group as Jaish Muhammad, Arabic for Muhammad’s Army. The group “has been arrested … We arrested their leader,” Allawi said, identifying him as Moayad Ahmed Yasseen, also known as Abu Ahmed.

Muhammad’s Army was known to have cooperated with Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al-Qaida and Saddam loyalists and was responsible for killing and beheading a number of Iraqis, Arabs and foreigners in Iraq (news – web sites), Allawi said.

“They were planning to destroy Fallujah…by blowing up important positions,” he said. “They have extensions abroad that I cannot talk about now.” Allawi did not say how many members of the group were captured or what kidnappings the group has been involved in.

Apparently, when the US bombed some of the tunnels in Fallujah, there were secondary explosions for forty-five minutes. As someone commented over at Free Republic, “Teacher says every time there’s a secondary explosion in the tunnels, a dozen Islamonazis get their wings…”

Unfortunately, there was a grisly discovery as well:

On the streets of Fallujah, Marines recovered the disemboweled body of an unidentified Western woman wrapped in a blood-soaked blanket.

It is not known if the body was of Margaret Hassan, the 59-year-old director of CARE international who was one of two Western women abducted last month. Polish-born Teresa Borcz Khalifa, 54, another longtime resident of Iraq, has also been missing since last month.

They neglect to mention the other reports that her limbs were hacked off, and her face disfigured. No report on whether these atrocities occurred prior to or after her demise. This is what they’d love to be able to do to all of us who don’t share their vile world view. These are not people with whom we can, or should, negotiate. In fact, it’s getting more and more difficult to think of them as people at all.

Can Anyone Tell Me?

…why my network is so flaky? Sometimes the computers see each other from Windows, sometimes they don’t. They can all ping each other, but when I try to access files through Windows (loading a remote document into Word, or simply trying to view them with Windows Explorer) I sometimes, but not always, get “Network path not found.” My desktop hasn’t seen my laptop in weeks. After a reboot this morning, the desktop can no longer access my Redhat server running Samba, to which I saved a document from the desktop just last night.

What’s going on here?

[Update a few minutes later]

And no, I’ve shut down Zone Alarm, and it didn’t help, so don’t ask about that…

Would It Sell?

I’m looking at Scott Ott with envy at the (deserved) overnight success of his new book.

Does anyone think that if I stitched together a book out of the best of Transterrestrial Musings (focus on the satires and jabs at the press) with additional commentary, that it would sell?

Can You Say “Overrated”?

The Spartans are cleaning the (#4) Badgers’ clock in the fourth quarter, 35-14. If Michigan beats (The) Ohio State University next week, everything will be coming up roses for them. Except that they may actually make it into a BCS game and let Wisconsin go to Pasadena, since Auburn is also beating Georgia.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Oops. Make that 42-14…

Can You Say “Overrated”?

The Spartans are cleaning the (#4) Badgers’ clock in the fourth quarter, 35-14. If Michigan beats (The) Ohio State University next week, everything will be coming up roses for them. Except that they may actually make it into a BCS game and let Wisconsin go to Pasadena, since Auburn is also beating Georgia.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Oops. Make that 42-14…

Can You Say “Overrated”?

The Spartans are cleaning the (#4) Badgers’ clock in the fourth quarter, 35-14. If Michigan beats (The) Ohio State University next week, everything will be coming up roses for them. Except that they may actually make it into a BCS game and let Wisconsin go to Pasadena, since Auburn is also beating Georgia.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Oops. Make that 42-14…

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