THIS AND THAT

Lots of fun little stuff this weekend:

The European Union’s top military general said this weekend that the EU could and should take care of their own defense. At first blush, this sounds like an encouraging development; maybe Europe will stop leaning on the United States for their defense and we can withdraw some of our forces home or to areas that need it. This comes almost a years after Donald Rumsfeld hinted that we will start to ignore “old Europe” and concentrate on our real allies, like Poland.

But, when you get into the details, it’s the same old prissy stuff from the people who brought us Cirque de Soleil. In “major crises outside their regions”, Europe envisions this:

“U.S. forces would handle high-intensity operations involving terrorism and weapons of mass destruction while Europeans would concentrate on sustained low-intensity crisis management such as conflict prevention…”

Oh. So when real fighting needs to be done, it will be US troops doing the dying and the Europeans will be handling the cooking.

Thanks.

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Another Catholic Bishop developed a backbone. Bishop Hughes of New Orleans published a letter saying those Catholic legislators who support abortion, cloning, euthanasia, etc. can no longer receive communion. Again, the money quote:

“What, then, is the responsibility of Catholic public officials to translate their moral convictions on the life issues into public policy? Let us first address those issues that admit of no exceptions: abortion, physician-assisted suicide, homicide, the destruction of human embryos in artificial fertilization, stem cell research and cloning. In each of these, the issues are clear-cut. We cannot do what is wrong even for good purposes.”

Doesn’t leave much wiggle room, does it? That’s because THERE IS NO WIGGLE ROOM!!!

I love it.

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Judy Steinberg showed up for husband Ho-Ho in Iowa today. Any odds on her appearance having anything to do the Mel’s Diner? OK, so those odds are off the charts. Anyone figure it’s because people are starting to wonder where this “uninterested party” is? Or why she is so uninterested?

Yeah.

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Surprised by President Bush’s call for space exploration? That’s because he’s lying to you. He wants to get into space for one reason and one reason alone – defense. But, he can’t say that. If he did, Big Media would wet their shorts and be out to destroy him. So, he has to tell a little multi-billion dollar white lie.

And we should be backing him up.