Jeff,

Just one small nitpick: Rice is replacing Powell as Secretary of State, rather than Attorney General Ashcroft (who is being replaced by Alberto Gonzalez).

Thanks, Aubrey, I should have known that but I was temporarily insane. I've corrected the reference in the post.

Hi Jeff. Hope you don't mind a little link-whoring. I'd like to add my fisking of a gun-control advocate who's cloaked himself in the attire of a 2A supporter.

To me, this is the worst kind of bias.

Hi, Jeff== As usual, great reading...One, my visceral reaction to Ashcroft and Rice has to do with the fact that both are totally devoted to the Bush Republican intent to deprive all of us of our rights. Watch out for the big picture-- don't be distracted by carrots. All of us fighters against tyranny need to join together...Did you note that the Macon story comes very close to recommending licensing for gun users as well as basic education in gun safety, as I do?...Finally the vanity plate might rather be an appropiate registation measure. As a vanity plate it still doesn't guaranty me that the owner is a safe user and not someone who is going to shoot at anything that moves...Take care!

Jed: Link away! I'm the biggest "link whore" around. I want this (and all my other posts) to be open to commentary and linkage and that's why I allow html in the comments. One caveat: Comments close automatically after two weeks on any given post in order to try to contain the massive "spamming" going on.

Pat: I love you. But I am absolutely against registration of guns and licensing of gun owners. This is one topic we just will have to agree to disagree about.

When the topic of Ashcroft is brought up regarding the loss of rights, I always ask: Okay, what rights have you lost in the last four years? You, personally (whoever is reading this...) and invariabley I hear something about suspected terrorists not being given their rights. I, frankly, don't care about the rights of suspected terrorists. Tell me something that YOU, a born-here American citizen have lost as a right under Ashcroft. And other than long lines at the airport, nobody really can and nobody ever does.

Bloody hell.

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I thought I had this licked by using tinyurl to redirect to my blog URL.

Jeff, I know the comment spam is painful. Well, it's your blog, do what you must. Sigh.

I love you, Condi. See you in the Oval Office in 2009.