LGF reports a story so pathetic that it’s hard to believe it’s true.
The Europeans, he said, were staying away as the evidence might be used eventually to put Saddam Hussein to death.
Monthly Archives: October 2004
Surplus a bad thing?
The only thing wrong with with a big surplus is it means that taxpayers are over-taxed, but paying the debt down still makes sense to me – and is a non-issue.
Opposition parties are shocked and hurt that the federal government has paid down $60 billion of what used to be one of the world’s most cumbersome public debts. Whatever. A few thoughts:
No blood on his hand
David Warren comments on the latest bombing and beheading news cycle, including this important paragraph:
But a friend, who watches TV, notes some expostulation by a CNN correspondent, who said that with the death of Mr. Bigley, the British prime minister, Tony Blair, “has blood on his hands”. This, my friend adds, is the moral and intellectual equivalent of asserting that Winston Churchill started the Holocaust. It is a judgement on events so utterly upside down as to constitute, in itself, a real evil.
May Allah Bless them
Not everyone in the middle east hates Americans, reports David Frum.
Also unusual is the strong sentiment for the foreign troops protecting Kabul – especially the Americans. “Someday we want the Americans to leave – but not
now. They are friendly, they are kind and they have given us peace, May Allah bless them,” said one guy after voting. This view overlaps on the the Canadian troops and the Norweigans, German, and French too.
Strange, but the successful elections haven’t made much press in the liberal media.
This is how an Italian dies!
More required reading from the great one for all those confused about what to think about the latest beheading and its consequences.
And, if you don’t want to wind up in that situation, you need to pack heat and be prepared to resist at the point of abduction. I didn’t give much thought to decapitation when I was mooching round the Sunni Triangle last year, but my one rule was that I was determined not to get into a car with any of the locals and I was willing to shoot anyone who tried to force me. If you’re not, you shouldn’t be there.
Amazing that The Spec refused to publish the article (more proof the terrorists are winning in England).
Nuclear solution?
An interesting solution to our current oil dependent first world.
One thing about $53 oil – it makes people think – and innovate. Let’s just hope government doesn’t try to do anything too drastic.
Andrew Oswald, an economist at the University of Warwick, and his brother Jim, claim that to switch to hydrogen power for vehicles would require either covering half of California with with turbines or building 1,000 nuclear reactors.
Whither marriage
Depressing comment on today’s (English) society, found here.
Interesting, as I am writing this in between church ceremony and reception of two twenty-somethings. I suppose it helps they come from traditional families.
via Family Scholars
Consistently inconsistent
Buchanan writes that Kerry is all over the map with his views – they seem to change by the minute.
Letting his face betray his feelings was a Bush blunder. But his sentiments are understandable, for he is frustrated almost to incoherence by the endless contradictions of John Kerry.
What the war is about
The media wants to simplify the reasons for being in Iraq to a purified WMD pablum. If you listen long enough you might start to believe it. David Warren reminds us of what the war is really about and why Bush must win.
It sure wasn’t about WMD hidden in Iraq—one of several public arguments for removing Saddam Hussein which, because it didn’t work out, has been hailed by our media (which once bought into the argument but has since cashed out) as the only reason.
“Sea Kings of the sea” take one
When are we going to give our military tools to actually do their jobs with – and survive with?
What property rights?
Michael wonders who owns his house anyway, him or the state?
Owning a house makes one fully experience the looting nature of statism. As a homeowner in Toronto, I do not enjoy many rights. The government, at gunpoint, every year collects thousands of dollars in property taxes from me.
Bad Juju
Fred says that today’s “educated” student isn’t really.
What would distinguish him from the graduate of today’s high schools or, latterly, the universities? Only that the bushman would have sense enough to be astonished. I do not see why being complacently ignorant is preferable to being honestly amazed.
via Trudeaupia
Thar she blows
Check out the volcanocam.
Steyn on the debate
No surprise, but Steyn says that Bush won the debate.
Those of us who’ve been sweet on George W. Bush a long time have gotten used to these moments.
Momentum heading west?
Seems like the smart money is on Calgary right now.
Phil Gillin, a vice-president at Sun Life Financial and a spokesman for the Toronto Office Coalition—21 landlords who own 55-million square feet of office space—sings the praises of Calgary: “Calgary is a great town for young families and people who are very outdoor-oriented,” he says. “Clean air, good schools, good environment, and the cost of housing is less than it is here.”
Calgary is the one city we almost moved to but didn’t. The main thing it has going for it is Alberta, ie. no 8% PST. For the average family, that must mean an extra 5-10,000 a year for them to keep.