Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader sees that the MuNuvians are still without their blogs for a little while. As a friend to many MuNuvians your Maximum Leader is a little upset that he doesn’t have their blogs to read today…

But on the other hand, that might mean more people will come to Naked Villainy for bloggy gooness! Woo hoo! (Ahem…)

Actually, if you are a MuNuvian and you have a backup blog your ought to go and leave a trackback at this post up on Basil’s Blog. Your Maximum Leader figures he’ll help get the word out.

Of course, your Maximum Leader would like to blog a lot today; but fate is conspiring against him. He’s got lots of stuff to do today that will keep him away from blogging. But even worse! His computer is having BIOS problems and is getting the blue screen of death and doing physical memory dumps when he logs on. He has never had a BIOS problem before with any computer he’s owned so he is operating a little in the dark here. If you know about BIOS thingies drop your Maximum Leader a line. He’ll reward you greatly. (If it helps the blue screen of death says the error is: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Your Maximum Leader hasn’t looked that up yet to gain any insight about it. Again, if you know about these things, let your Maximum Leader know.)

Anyho…

Your Maximum Leader sees that Jeff is back. After a few weeks of reading about Girdles for Gitmo we now have a new update! Huzzah! Who knew Col. Gaddafi had a daughter? Who knew she was a lawyer? Who knew she has long blond tresses?

Go over to Cranky’s site and read over a long serious exchange that Cranky had with Loyal Achates on a subject that can breezily be classified as “Why they hate us.”

Read Skippy’s thoughts on the Iraqi Constitution and the future of Iraq. Your Maximum Leader thinks that Skippy’s concerns are well-founded. He also can see how Skippy arrives at his projections for future trouble in the region. Your Maximum Leader isn’t completely sure that he agrees with Skippy. One thing he will say is that the Iraqi Draft Constitution is rife with problems. He will also say that the Bush Administration is contributing to those problems by pushing the work forward. The situation in Iraq is bad. It is bad but reasonably stable in non-Sunni areas. By rushing the Constitutional process forward the chances of creating an unstable Iraq in all regions (Sunni, Shia, and Kurd) is greatly increased. While your Maximum Leader certainly doesn’t want to spend more time in Iraq than required, he doesn’t think we should rush a process through to completion. The peaceful, sucessful future of Iraq and the region depends on Iraqis “getting it right.” They can’t do so if they rush and don’t start building the foundation needed for discussion, deliberation, and compromise. It will not happen overnight, and it will not happen when you have 3 days to “wrap it up.”

Read about how to catch a 24-Hour Randian Flu.

Did you read The Colossus’ Dr. No Reviews? No. Do so. They are great. Here for Pt 1. Here for Pt 2.

PS - Looks like the LlamaButchers are hanging out over on The Colossus’ site.

That is about it for now. Indeed, that may be all for today unless one of the various Minister’s chooses to post.

Remember, if you know BIOS stuff let your Maximum Leader know!

Carry on.