Post-Vaca Wrap-Up

Down in Qatar, I had a heckuvatime, Brownie.

Ned Lamont, opposing candidate of Sen. Joe Lieberman, is gaining some serious margin-of-error running ground. The Connecticut businessman now has official support from The New York Times and a four percent lead over incumbant Lieberman. I liken Lamont to John Kerry. He's running on the opposition to the war and (most importantly) Ned Lamont is not George W. Bush (or the man who supports his foreign policy, Joe Lieberman). Like Kerry, Ned is a very rich man. His house has an estimated worth of 30 million dollars and his inhereted net worth is somewhere between 90 and 300 million dollars. (500 dollar haircuts, anyone?) I recall Democrats in a huff about Mayor Bloomberg using personal funds to "buy his way into office," but for some odd reason, they're silent when it comes to Lamont. I also wonder if Lamont favors campaign finance reform and a death tax the way his fellow Dems do...

Israel is letting me down. Their bite doesn't quite match their bark. It's been close to three weeks and they have yet to follow through on their promise to assassinate the Palestinian Prime Minister in response to kidnapping two Israeli soldiers. They have also neglected to utilize their top-of-the-line Mossad intelligence agency nor their Matsada special operations detatchment inside of Lebanon. (If they have, it has either been ineffective or not publicized.) Perhaps my expectations were too high. Considering the precision of their previous missions, I would have believed a brute show of force and special operations soldiers would have put to rest much of the Hezbollah leadership without the civilian casualties caused from artillery and ariel assaults.

A woman has died following a homemade liposuction gone terribly wrong. Had she the availability of publicly-funded healthcare, she wouldn't have to resort to back-alley liposuctions. Sen. Ted Kennedy plans to fight for women to have the right to free liposuctions because it is within their rights to alter their bodies as they please.

Global Warming refuses to release its grip on the Middle East. Friday's high in Baghdad is 117 degrees cooling to a low of 90 in the evening. Damn you, combustible engine!

I think I feel a little bad for the attacks on Mel Gibson. I neither positively nor negatively favor his acting or personality, but Hollywood seems to be going a bit far over a few remarks said after too many brews. I can recall some of the irresponsible things I've said and done on nights out with the guys. We all have our moments of drunken rages. Why lash out at Mel? It's not like he called for Israel to be wiped off the map.

Mitt Romney has apologized for using the term "tar baby" when comparing it to the Big Dig construction project in Massachusettes. Robert Sheer (flamboyant hater of the Bush Administration), on the podcast Left, Right, & Center commented that Bush was eager to hand off the Iraqi "tar baby" to the next president, be it Democrat or Republican. Is it too much to ask that Jack Cafferty be a little more niggardly in his disgust over such petty comments?