Political Trades and Potpourri
December 8th, 2006Arianna Huffington says Hillary Clinton is too “weather vane” to be President. Consider the source: Huffington was Newt Gingrich’s best friend throughout the 1990s, married to a Republican Senatorial candidate (interesting story there: do search Wikipedia for Michael Huffington) and then switched parties in the 2000s. I’ve often said that Huffington simply likes to support the party in exile because she thinks it’s cool, and I stand by that, but I will address her comments about Clinton. Hillary is a strong candidate and an intelligent, savvy woman; however, she is a woman in an America that I don’t think is ready to elect a woman, and she reminds me of Richard Nixon sometimes. (Her secretive and vindicative nature is a staple in almost all biographies of her.)
I could support her easily because she ain’t bad in the slightest but she isn’t my first choice. Or second, third or fourth. Fifth, though, is hers.
Here in Illinois, a man was arrested for trying to buy grenades to blow up a shopping mall.
Investigators said Derrick Shareef, 22, an American citizen from Rockford, was acting alone and never actually obtained any grenades. He was arrested Wednesday when he met with an undercover agent in a parking lot to trade a set of stereo speakers for four hand grenades and a gun, authorities said. “He fixed on a day of December 22nd on Friday … because it was the Friday before Christmas and thought that would be the highest concentration of shoppers that he could kill and injure,” said Robert Grant, the agent in charge of the Chicago FBI office. Authorities said Shareef had been under investigation since September, when he told an acquaintance that “he wanted to commit acts of violent jihad against targets in the United States as well as commit other crimes.”
Can you really get grenades for stereo speakers? That’s worse than Milt Pappas for Frank Robinson! (And I’d like to extend the best wishes to Freddy Garcia who was dealt to Philadelphia by the White Sox. Philly is one of my favorite cities, and they’ll be getting some of my attention next year as I wish to watch Garcia who is an Ace.)
Over at This Century Sucks, one of my favorite sites and one that I contribute to, there’s news about a new documentary by a friend of TCS. Check it out.