Saw It Coming a Mile Away..

Robinson hints at political comeback



What "demons"? Realizing that he'd eventually get caught because of all the security cameras?



Yes, yes, I'm a better person for committing grand larceny in the name of love...

I am so sick and tired of the "personal demon" excuse every time some high profile loser screws up in public. Yes quite a hardship, Mr. Convicted Felon, with a lovely parachute in the form of a slack BCGEU job waiting for him the second he resigned "in disgrace." Where's the suffering? Where's the rehabilitation of his image? Has he done anything to redeem himself in anyone's eyes?

Or is he just going to come back the same old Svend, except this time NEW! IMPROVED! now with Criminal Record^TM to help him socialistically relate to the "commoners" better.

Idiot.

Admit it. We all knew that he was going to try the comeback.

Dogs and Cats Living Together

Now that the genie's been uncorked on same sex marriage some people want to stuff the damn genie back into the bottle and heave the bottle into the sea, never to be heard from again.



I'll bet he does. In the harsh private light of the polling booth most people won't have to be the pc posers that they have to be in public, and the gay marriage vote would fail, which is why this is going through the courts instead...

Blah blah blah. I'm struggling to determine if I care. The main problem I see is the whole freedom of religion issue. If a clergyman decides that because of religious grounds that can't marry two men or two women what's going to happen then? Will the happy young couple accept this and move on to a church that will marry them? Or will the activists swoop down on the Lord's house like Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction? Oh, of course as Canadians, we'll be seen to be settling our disputes reasonably, like bankrupting the churches by taking away their tax-exempt status if they refuse to "abide by the law."

Think it won't happen?



Yes, but I'm fear-mongering, aren't I?



And CTV made a movie of the week portraying the epic struggle involved in going to a school dance.

So some rights are more important than others. If we are to take the Marc Hall incident as an example, gay rights now trump freedom of religion in Canada. Is that progressive? Is that what was in mind when Canada is praised as some kind of progressive utopia? I don't know, but I've always believed that someone's freedom stops when it starts to infringe on another's.

Or as someone once said to me: "Your right to throw a punch ends at the tip of my nose."

There are going to be a lot of bloody noses coming up while the country is distracted from the current governments corruption, arrogance and incompetence.

The BEST sign...

Heh.

Bias, what bias?

I took a radio in to work today. Everyone at my new job has some sort of radio / computer speakers at their desks - I didn't want to be left out.

Much to my chagrin, the only station I could get was CBC radio. Maybe it was the building interfering with the signals, but that was the only station that could reach my desk.

I was subjected to a whole bunch of blathering by the supposedly informed callers about the evils of George Bush and how "everyone" wants him out. It was almost overwhelming, as the CBC could not seem to find one person who had voted for Bush. If you were to believe the coverage, John Kerry was going to win in a blowout of massive proportions.

After 30 minutes of this I decided to turn off the radio. The blatant, save the U.S. from bushitler attitude of the callers had me slightly unnerved. For quite awhile this afternoon I actually contemplated what a Kerry victory might mean for the U.S., and the world.

I have to say again to my fellow Canadians: a Kerry victory is not good for us. We are among the outsourcers Kerry complained about. A Kerry-led U.S. would punish us for daring to compete for American jobs. And deep down we know it, don't we?

Hopefully a decisive victory is acheived soon so everyone can shut up for four more years. And the blogosphere can find something else to talk about.

Arafat

From this week's Bleat at Lileks:



There's nothing I can add to that...

via Just Between Us Girls.

With Friends like these

I think that the next election won't have so many celebrity endorsers. I mean you just can't count on the effects that spoiled rich pampered superstars will have on your campaign:



Woops. Name me a recent Springsteen hit. I find that the more involved in partisan politics an artist becomes, the more their career is likely to implode under their increasing pomposity. Does anyone care about Janeane Garofalo anymore? I used to think she was good and funny. I don't really miss her now that she's isolated herself on Air America, preaching to the converted moonbats about how evil everyone who doesn't agree with the left is.

She did herself in.



I wonder if knowing that Bin Laden's favourite movie is Fahrenheit 911 struck at any Grinch-like remnant of decency in Michael Moore's heart...I wouldn't put money on it, but in all fairness it has to disturb you to be the favourite movie-maker of mass-murdering terrorists everywhere...

I think the next Democratic candidate should choose their celebrities more carefully.

Of course, I'm speaking as if Kerry's already lost...which hasn't happened...yet.



UPDATE OCT 31: Reader, friend, sometimes sparring partner Greg writes in the comments:



From the transcript on Drudge (I'm not sure how long the link will last):



From this we can infer that:

1. Bin Laden saw the movie.
2. Bin Laden will use context from the movie to attack his enemies.
3. Michael Moore has provided OBL with ideas to incorporate in his own speeches, furthering OBL's ability to influence.
4. OBL views the movie as reinforcing his position.

I fatuously referred to it as his "favourite movie" when more carefully I should have referred to him finding it useful in his cause. I'm pretty sure that Bin Laden didn't hate it but I have no special personal knowledge of what's in Bin Laden's "Creepy Cave Video Hits."

Thanks for pointing this out Greg! It so changes the weight of my argument!

I tried

I tried to keep my posting out of the election for awhile, as I was courting blogger burnout. Meanwhile Ghost of a Flea keeps churning out delicious links like this one.



It's funny. Looking back at what I've written over the last couple of months I've decided that I've not so much pro-Bush as I am anti-Kerry, which is the exact polar opposite of the average Democratic voter, who is not so much pro-Kerry (hold your nose and vote), but rabidly anti-Bush.

Too bad I'm Canadian and don't get to vote.

Oh and the quoted part above is not the best zinger in the article - this is:



Ouch, baby, ouch.

Stifling dissent

Whining Chretienite puppet master Warren Kinsella's been threatening bloggers with lawsuits.

Guess it helps to be a lawyer with lotsa time on his hands. I'd link to his blog, but then I don't want to have to lawyer up.

Parliamentary High Theatre

Andrew Coyne's back from a prolonged absence from Blogland. (So long was his absence that I've deleted him from my blogroll. Gotta rectify that.)

His latest take on the government shell game leads me to believe that the "Harper is evil" conceit of the media is at it again. The government was at no point in any danger, but of course those nasty Conservatives are again being portrayed as troublemakers who want to take us to the polls yet again.



So why the big play in the media, when we have death and damage to our "new" submarine HMCS Chicoutimi? I sense the Liberal-friendly media at work, yet again, after months of post-election boredom - and Martin doing some savvy press manipulation.



And this crap pushed the Chicoutimi off the front page.

Men Who Would Be King

Something occured to me while watching the second debate between Bush and Kerry.

Kerry is the guy that I wanted to be growing up: smooth, uber-rich, popular, with a seeming entitlement to the crown, and a way with words that makes you think that he knows what he's talking about. It's almost hypnotic, until you actually realize that he's an empty suit.

Bush was the guy I didn't want to be: incoherent, uber-rich, popular, an old boy's network get out of jail free card, and an advanced case of frat-boy gladhanding and down-home platitudes. In the election of 2000, before 9-11, I thought that this guy was definitely the wrong choice.

I was wrong.

I've read a lot of the left-leaning blogs claim that Kerry again won last night: they're wrong.

Darling wife Rue noted while we watched: "It's like sombody put his batteries in, or something. He's a different guy this time."

Again the style versus substance argument comes up. Like most of those guys I envied in high school, Kerry's hit a plateau. He's about to join the the ghosts of Democratic failure: McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis. He'll be trotted out with them for the 10 minutes of shame when Hillary accepts the '08 nomination. Why? Because Democrats thought all they needed was someone who looked good and spoke well. What substantively different will Kerry do? Two debates and we still don't know because I don't think his party or his handlers even thought of the question. Their only goal appears to be "Beat Bush." And they'll again be wringing their hands, beating their heads against the wall screeching "why, why, WHY!?" again when November 3rd roles around.

An energized, almost coherent Bush, with tons of actual real substantive policy behind him will kill slick Mr. Flip-Flop in the polls. Because Mr. Flip-Flop really doesn't stand for anything, other than the acquisition of his own personal power.

And it's hard to believe someone who'll tell you ANYTHING you want to hear in order to get it.