The ad below ran in Tennessee advocating the election of Republican not voting for the Democratic Candidate Ford. Watch the ad if you haven’t yet seen it.

A lot of Americans have problems with this ad because of ‘racist’ overtones. A lot of Canadians have a problem with this ad because it belittles our role in the international community. I have a problem with this ad because it belittles the role of our armed forces (and diplomatic forces) around the world. » Read the rest of the entry..

Today’s Globe and Mail article on the ouster of renegade MP Garth Turner got me a little PO’d. I don’t really care about Mr Turner’s ejection from the Conservative party (the official reason for his being fired from the current Government is that his personal website “violates caucus confidentiality”) — any party can do as they please.

What did cause me to ‘get to thinking’ was the actions of the Prime Ministers Office with respect to the media. According to the Globe and Mail, the Office of the Prime Minister refuses to talk to the media on Parliament Hill (where the federal Government sits in Canada) and orders elected representatives (MP’s) to not answer questions by the media or by constituents in their riding regarding certain specific topics. From the article, Toubles grip Tories (front page of the online edition) Thusday October 19, 2006: » Read the rest of the entry..

The idea that NASA let a 24-year-old journalism major, with no experience in science or technology, other than writing a few articles about video games, determine what scientists were able to communicate to the public was pretty bad.

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Stephen Harper

You can read more about him at Wikipedia
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Ripped off of MetaFilter (emphasis mine):

In July, Georgia federal judge William C. O’Kelley ordered Barrow County to remove a Ten Commandments plaque from its courthouse. The suit was filed by ACLU Georgia, which not only succeeded in getting the plaque removed, but also recovered $150,000 in attorneys’ fees and expenses. Ten Commandments-Georgia pledged to reimburse the county for its legal expenses. In order for the group to raise the last $52,000 it needs to meet that pledge, it has put the actual Ten Commandments plaque that was removed from the courthouse under the order of the court up for auction on eBay.

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People on the internets are funny. Take this guy who sums up the FOX news position on Canada (from Metafilter):

…from a Fox-conservative viewpoint Canada is something to bomb out of existence: They allow queer marriage. They allow medical dope smoking. The practically don’t bust people for drugs at all. Hell, you don’t even have to be 21 to drink a beer. A Canadian beer with more alcohol than patriotic American beer. And they use the metric system! They have ducks and hockey players on their money! And when GWB said people are with “us or against us”, Canada said no to getting into Operation Iraqi Clusterfuck.

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A stranger among you that says ‘eh’ | MetaFilter » Read the rest of the entry..

I don’t know who you are except by your moniker off of fark, where you go by “THE_WIZ“. But you wrote some funny stuff and I am sharing it. It came from this thread on fark: P░T   S░J░K   H░T░S   L░B░R░LS.   …

Its about how Pat Sajak rants about how bad liberals are. Really, who cares what Pat thinks? Thats why this is funny:

HE SHOULD TALK! Pat Sajak is worse than Hitler! He plays on the resentment of those who find themselves oppressed by vowel poverty to sell them vowels at extortionate prices, knowing that many of them will cruelly become bankrupt, just as Hitler whipped up the resentment of the German people against the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Just as with Hitler, it starts with something that looks positive, but it inevitably escalates to sending dyslexics to the gas chambers. Wheel of Fortune does not need more lebenstraum!. Can’t you fools see that the non-agression pact with Jeopardy is only a prelude to Wheel of Fortune’s forced annexation of the Price is Right! NO APPEASEMENT! NEVER AGAIN!

[sic] Under leadership of Vanna “Himmler” White, the SS continues to recruit new members for its Vokaltruppen units in preparation for its Endlosung der Vokalfrage — the Final Solution to the Vowel Problem.

WAKE UP PEOPLE! ISN’T IT OBVIOUS! WE MUST ACT AGAINST HERR SAJAK BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

I salute you for your satire.

I hope the guy at linkfilter doesn’t mind, but his post was so well written, I couldn’t do it better myself. So here it is quoted in its entirety: » Read the rest of the entry..