WTF Is It Now?!?

I can't believe it: the sun's out, for the first time in weeks. And I'm stuck at work.


You're on the Roadmap to Hell...
From "Riding Herd," in Israel Insider:
Question to the Crawford Cowdiddler from the reporter's pool aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003, from the White House official transcript:

"What's your role? What do you do? ... What's your obligation?"

Fraudulent f*ckup Buckeroo Bonehead: "I show up when they need me to call people to account, to praise, or to say, wait a minute - you told me in Jordan that you would do this, you haven't done it, why? How come? What is it? It's to keep the thing moving, keep the processes moving. They've got the man on the ground that is going to - he's just going to - I used the expression, ride herd. I don't know if anybody understood the meaning. It's a little informal in diplomatic terms. I said, we're going to put a guy on the ground to ride herd on the process. See them all scratching their heads."

A reporter then asked him how "riding herd" translated into Hebrew and Arabic, and the pResident changed the subject. But the question deserves an answer - in native Texan.

Mr. pResident, when you described your role in the Mideast diplomatic process as "riding herd," you expressed doubt as to whether the Arab leaders with whom you were speaking would understand your meaning.

Let me help you out: for all you sheiks and princes and emirs and presidents-for-life among our readers, "riding herd" is cowboy talk for keeping the cattle in line, more or less, moving in the right general direction -- that is, where the cowboys intend for them to move.

Mr. pResident, your road map is bull crap. You may mean well, Mr. Bush, but "riding herd" on us will do for your presidency what "read my lips" did for your daddy.

Not because, as your buddy Jim Baker once said in colorful Texan terms, the Jews won't vote for you. But because most Americans will not tolerate blatant appeasement of terrorists and a tricky sell-out of the region's only democracy.

- Reuven Koret.