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Sunday, October 26, 2003
Some pictures today. Here is a shot of our cat, Psycho-Kitty. This one is a picture that was supposed to just be a shot of St Paul's University here in Ottawa, but it turned out to be more about a fast car. Enjoy. Friday, October 24, 2003
Steven Den Beste strikes to the heart of the matter on Canada et al. in Afghanistan. The fundamental truth is there: there is no strategic interest there for the Western powers. And our involvement there, however laudable, is a negative effort at its basic level. In other words, we put about a third of the combat power of the Canadian Army into a place we fundamentally don't care about. in order to have a plausible excuse not to help the US effort in Iraq. Where, it could be reasonably argued, we do have a strategic interest..... Smooth operators we got running things here. Thursday, October 23, 2003
Reuters strikes again! "...impoverished Atlantic province" Yeesh! Hey Reuters, ever been to like Africa or something? I hope Damian hasn't seen this. Sunday, October 19, 2003
One of those strange ironies of life: Ernest Hemingway's son dies in a Miami jail of heart failure, some years after having had a sex change operation and becoming Gloria Hemingway. Ay caramba! Spotted on this blog. Saturday, October 11, 2003
General Schoomaker, the US Army Chief of Staff paraphrases George Orwell, and inter alia the Silent Running motto: 'As I told our NCOs yesterday, “Americans sleep safely in their beds at night because American Soldiers stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm.”' Schoomaker's full speech is at Jen Martinez. Seen at Argghhh!!! Tuesday, October 07, 2003
The California recall is today. I've been wondering for some time why this election has fascinated people so. (including me) And it just occurred to me today...It is outside the normal way of things in US elections. Most American elections are pretty bland affairs, all things being equal. You have two parties, they run two safe conventional candidates and one or the other wins... The wide-open, almost wild quality of the recall has attracted attention. This is pure Democracy, people. Its been quite a ride. Whoever wins, democracy is the real winner. And so are the people of California. Check out the CalBlog for blogs on the vote. And the California Secretary of State has a live site with raw results here. |