Political Insanity

Vacation plus a busybusy week at work meant no time for this digital navel-gazing.

Who knew that stamping out disease and pestilence could fully occupy my days!

This is a very cool site.

I will try to use as many of these as I can the next time I have a philosophical argument with my brother…

From Yahoo News:

Vancouver facing worst outbreak of syphilis in the developed world

Wed Dec 24, 2:53 AM ET

VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) – Vancouver is facing the worst outbreak of syphilis per capita in the developed world, with city health officials fearful of a looming epidemic of the sexually transmitted disease once thought almost wiped out in North America.

Some 254 new cases have been diagnosed locally this year authorities said early this week — more than the total for North America in two decades, with more expected, said Dr. Michael Rekart of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.

We’re Number 1! We’re Number 1!

First we get the Olympics. Then we’re world leaders in syphilis. All my dreams are coming true!

The BBC looks like it’s trying to give the CBC a competitor in the “most virulently biased and quasi-anti-semitic garbage channel in the western world” category.

Check out this, from the BBC online presence:

Egypt minister attacked at mosque

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher was taken to hospital after an incident at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque.

Mr Maher became unwell after being jostled by angry Muslims as he came to pray at the holy site on Monday.

Bodyguards surrounded the minister and whisked him out of the compound to an Israeli hospital.

Mr Maher was in Israel for talks with Israeli leaders about resuming peace talks with the Palestinians, his first visit to the country for two years.

Don’t forget to shake the snow globe.

Plus it can capture megalomaniacal genocidal darlings of the Left.

Thank God the truth has finally come out!

(thanks to Colby Cosh for the link)

According to SelectSmart.com, my “ideal” presidential candidates in the 2004 election would be:

1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%)

2. Libertarian Candidate (75%)

3. Bush, President George W. – Republican (59%)

4. Edwards, Senator John, NC – Democrat (39%)

5. Sharpton, Reverend Al – Democrat (39%)

6. Dean, Gov. Howard, VT – Democrat (39%)

7. Lieberman, Senator Joe, CT – Democrat (37%)

8. Gephardt, Rep. Dick, MO – Democrat (35%)

9. Phillips, Howard – Constitution (34%)

10. Kerry, Senator John, MA – Democrat (33%)

11. Kucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH – Democrat (30%)

12. Clark, Retired General Wesley K., AR – Democrat (28%)

13. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. – Democrat (23%)

14. Socialist Candidate (21%)

15. Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol, IL – Democrat (18%)

For anyone under 40, that’s Preston Manning. But for the oldsters, the boomers, the geezers, and the Vietnam hippies, it’s Robert Stanfield, who led the Progressive Conservative Party (R.I.P.) to 3 consecutive defeats in the 1960s and 70s.

He lost to Canada’s Worst Prime Minister Ever, Pierre Trudeau.

Three times in a row.

But he was polite about it, and didn’t rock the boat much, and (by all accounts) the policy differences between him and Trudeau were of the “let’s raise taxes 11%! No, 12%!” variety. Meaning that he was a typical Red Tory: i.e. a socialist Liberal who wasn’t cool enough in university to get into the Liberal Club and had to settle for being Treasurer and V.P. (Internal) for the Campus Tories.

Many others have pointed out the delicious cherry-on-the-top detail from the Saddam capture: that the U.S. Army’s “Red Dawn” (and “Wolverine”) references come directly from the 1984 patriotic movie about the response of a bunch of teenagers to a Soviet invasion of America.

This is one of the most fun reminiscences of the movie I have come across.

(with thanks to “The Right Coast“, one of my new favorite blogs)

Now that we’ve all had a few days to get used to the idea, it’s worth taking a step back to just think grateful thoughts for a minute.

Thank you, President Bush, for having the integrity and the will to see this through.

Thank you, U.S. Army, for putting yourselves in harm’s way, and for risking your wives being widowed and your children orphaned, so that I and mine can live in peace.

Thank you, Great Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy, Poland, and all the Coalition of the Willing, for risking your young men’s lives–and your politicians’ careers–to support this noble task.