Political Insanity

The Drudge Report highlights a MyWay News story headlined “Gore to Endorse Howard Dean for White House”:

Former Vice President Al Gore will endorse Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean on Tuesday, political sources said, handing Dean a crucial political prize and solidifying his position at the front of the 2004 pack.

Gore, who won the popular vote in 2000 but lost the White House to President Bush after a bitter 36-day recount battle in Florida, will appear with the former Vermont governor at a morning event in Harlem in New York City, the sources said.

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Saddam Hussein appears to have killed more than 60,000 Baghdadis, and buried them in mass graves.

I guess, as far as the UN is concerned, this is not a big enough number.

So, at what point does this “mass slaughter” technically become a genocide? And should the US have waited even a second longer?

I think Kofi Annan should put his immense bureaucracy to good use: they should locate the thousands of Iraqis who WOULD have been killed had Hussein been left in power (how hard can this be? Find every Kurd and anybody who didn’t have 4 pictures of Saddam in his living room), and put them in a UN Containment Camp. Then, after another vote of the Security Council about whether it would be appropriate to remove Hussein, these people could either be killed or released. Depends on what the Security Council thinks the USA should have done back in the Spring.

Following the crushing votes in favour of merging the PCs and the Alliance into some sort of politically credible beast-with-two-backs, my favorite Tories have jumped out of the plane without their parachutes.

Joe Clark, a man famously described as one who “never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity”, thinks this merger is about the worst thing ever:

Clark called the union an act of “political suicide” in an emotional appeal before votes were cast. He urged Tories not to turn their backs on the poor, on gays and lesbians, on visible minorities and social moderates who have largely shunned the Alliance.

“This proposal (to merge) is to turn away from those very Canadians who elect governments in Canada,” Clark said at a meeting in Calgary.

I have found a new right-wing maniac to recommend to my billions of faithful readers: Australia’s (formerly New Zealand’s?) Silent Running.

The motto of the site is worth the price of admission (ummmm… which happens to be free…):

If you are offended by strong right wing views and bad language, you should probably fuck off now and go hug a tree.

hee hee

I am so immature

Instapundit links to an ABC news story about a Chicago rally in which participants turned on organizer Jesse Jackson, accusing him of using their joblessness for his own political ambitions.

Jackson, that paragon of humble virtue, knew just how to respond:

“They lashed out at Dr. King, they lashed out at Nelson Mandela, they lashed out at Jesus, so all of those who fight for change become the object of frustration,” said Rev. Jesse Jackson

Hmmm…. here I think I see Jackson’s heirarchy of virtue. King… then Mandela… then Jesus… and then… um, help me here…

Found this today at Eject! Eject! Eject!:

Here’s a math quiz for you:

During the 30-odd years he was in power, Saddam Hussein murdered at least 300,000 of his own people. These are the ones we are finding in mass graves in Iraq. Another 300,000 – at least – were killed in his war with Iran and his two conflicts with the US. Those are bare-bones, undeniable, non-speculative, minimums.

That darling arithmetic works out to no less than 20,000 people a year killed by that lunatic, or about 1,700 people a month.

So how many innocent people have not died as a result of the Iraq war?

I get about 13,000 so far.

Breaking News from the National Post: it’s not only the UN that thinks Canada’s star is fading.

Seems a suspected terrorist, upon his release from Guantanamo, was offered the chance to return to his Home And Native Land… or instead hang out in some place really fancy like Afghanistan.

Guess what?

A Toronto man released by the U.S. military after being detained at Guantanamo Bay has no desire to return to Canada and has not approached any Canadian embassies for help, government officials said yesterday.

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Instead, Mr. Khadr chose to go to Afghanistan, [Foreign Affairs spokesman] Mr. Doiron said….

Intelligence officials also claim to possess confidential evidence indicating that Mr. Khadr does not want to return to Canada.

The new Republican campaign ad rocks.

And if the Dems don’t want to be accused of trying to weaken America’s defenses against terrorists, maybe they shouldn’t… you know… propose weakening America’s defenses against terrorists. Or do they think putting France in charge of American foreign policy would actually HELP America?

The Canadian Medical Association has its own website, CMA.com, which publishes the online version of the Canadian Medical Association Journal as well as some health information and general medical gum-flappage.

Unfortunately, the website and the CMAJ both seem more committed to politics than medicine–and, no surprise, their politics are Red Liberal, Torontocentric fluff. A recent lead article on the website betrays the CMAJ’s usual lack of concern for medical practice (nasty work, you know, patients and all that) and instead gives the CMAJ’s editors another chance to play Student Council President.

Turns out I’m Dick Cheney.


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for Capitalism, especially when the check is
payable to you!

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