Political Insanity

Here it is. Thanks to Dean Esmay for the link.

Democrat spin-meisters are playing fantasy football, trying to argue that Schwarzenegger’s win is bad for Bush.

It is certainly possible that, as some have suggested, it would have been better for Bush to go into the 2004 election with a hated Democrat in charge of California. Perhaps it would have turned CA voters against the Dems, and enough of them might have voted Bush to push the state into his column. Or maybe, as Howard Dean and others have argued, it was a generic “anti-incumbent” vote, which will turn against Bush in 2004. The converse of both of these arguments is at least as plausible, however: maybe having a competent Republican at the helm will turn CA voters into GOP supporters… or maybe the anti-Davis vote wasn’t so much anti-incumbent as anti-Democrat or anti-sleazebag.

Depose Saddam Hussein?

No, thanks.

Genocide in Rwanda?

Gee, sorry, we’re busy.

Palestinian terrorist suicide bombers?

Not a problem.

Spanking your kids is still LEGAL in Canada???

Kofi Annan to the rescue!!!!!

For as the Vancouver Sun explains on their front page yesterday,

Parents who spank their children came under fire on Tuesday as the United Nations told Ottawa to ban all forms of corporal punishment of youngsters — from a light slap to a good shake.

[...]

The UN ruling was issued after Ottawa sent a large delegation of experts and government officials to Geneva to be grilled on Canada’s child-care record by the world body’s Committee on Rights of the Child.

In a report, the committee says Canada should “adopt legislation to remove the existing authorization of the use of ‘reasonable force’ in disciplining children and explicitly prohibit all forms of violence against children, however light, within the family, in schools and in other institutions where children might be placed.”

The Drudge Report came up with this gem tonight, from the Washington Post online:

Oliver Stone a Hit at Marrakech Fest

Reuters

Tuesday, October 7, 2003; 1:21 AM

By Charles Masters

MARRAKECH, Morocco (Hollywood Reporter) – Oliver Stone and Colin Farrell provoked a media scrum Monday night as they arrived at the Marrakech International Film Festival to talk up the Alexander the Great epic, which Stone is shooting just outside the city.

Stone was in an expansive mood at a packed media conference on both his current film and his recent documentary about Cuban leader Fidel Castro, “Commandante.”

[...]

Stone received a tribute from the festival Monday evening, followed by a screening of “Commandante” in the sublime setting of a ruined palace within the city’s medieval walls.

HBO co-produced the 90-minute film, but the cable channel pulled the documentary in May after Castro had three hijackers executed and imprisoned some 70 dissidents. Stone was asked to return to Cuba to reinterview the longstanding Cuban president.

“It was probably one of the lowest points of my life to be censored in America,” Stone said. “That is a rare document, and I don’t know why it can’t be seen by the American people.”

I can’t believe I care about baseball, but there you have it. Okay, so it would be a better game if there was a goalie who could smash runners in the mouth when they tried to cross the plate… but failing that I’ll just have to cheer for the BoSox, who just

KICKED OAKLAND’S BUTT

in a bottom-of-the-ninth squeaker.

Reverse The Curse!

Apparently I am an ESTJ.

ESTJ – “Administrator”. Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 13% of the total population.

Take Free Myers-Briggs Personality Test

Who knows if this stuff is of any validity. At least it didn’t say I was an introverted vegan with spiritualist tendencies.

Another Islamofascist murders 19 innocents, including 3 children.

The official Palestinian response, after calling the attack “ugly”, is to try to pressure the “international community” to oppose any removal of Yasser Arafat by Israeli security forces.

The actual Israeli response?

(1) They blew up an empty building.

(2) They point out that they are “losing patience.”

Of course, I am looking forward to Kofi Annan’s response to this mass killing of Israelis. I’ll bet you a dollar he urges restraint on all sides.

Really. I have a rash. It’s itchy.

Some guy phones up a couple nights ago on TalkBack or whatever their “listener response” line is called, and starts burbling about Afghanistan. He says (paraphrasing here):

“America is just dealing with a mess of their own creation here. It’s their fault, they started it, and now they’ve got to deal with the fallout.”

HellOOOOO! These guys can’t even get their “I Hate Amerika” stories straight. Listen, chappy. The handbook clearly states:

Re: IRAQ – Amerika started it, it’s their fault, it’s a quagmire, it’s Vietnam, baby!

Re: AFGHANISTAN – How many civilians have to die! It’s a humanitarian crisis! The brutal Afghan winter is setting in!

I suppose there are two schools of thought on the advisability of a Tory-Alliance merger. The “ideological” one, to which I generally subscribe, argues against a merger on the grounds that the Tories are really just dimbulb Liberals (see “Never the twain…” below). But the non-ideological one may have some merit: let’s call this the “Anybody but the Liberals, Sweet Jesus!” school.

To the “Anybody But” crowd, the Liberals are so corrupt, so disgusting, that just about any political maneuver would be worth it if it would get rid of them, even for just a few years. This argument is strengthened by the daily discoveries of the litany of Liberal misrule. Examples abound:

• the very existence of Adrienne Clarkson as Governor-General
• privacy Commisioner George Radwanski and his creative ideas about Taxpayers’ dollars
• Canada’s pathetic “soft-power” foreign policy
• nepotism that would have made even Mulroney blush
• the firearms registry

etc. etc.

… and here he is.

(Found via RedSugar Muse)