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!

Sometimes I despair

...over the direction this country has taken.



Shut up.

Canada is like a beat up dog the perks up and wags its tail the second master says something not cruel or not condescending. We had some pride before, sometime way back, I seem to remember...



Geez, that's a blinding glimpse of the obvious, isn't it? I like the way "Albertans" has been tossed in there along with the other two pariahs of "Canadian Values"...

The thing about John Kerry, my fellow Canadians, is that he won't be OUR friend and savior: all his railing about the "outsourcing of America" - who do you think he's referring to? And do you REALLY think that we'll escape the protectionist wrath if Kerry is the next president?

Hate Bush all you like- we don't get to choose the American president up here. But take your blinders off when it comes to John Forbes Kennedy.

Super Villain

I asked Rue what I'd be like as a "Super-Villain"

I guess it was watching X-men 2 one too many times.

Instead of answering she took out her note pad and went away for a few minutes. When she returned she flipped open the pad and presented me with:



I quite like it.

All I have to do is determine what super power I will make the world tremble with...

I'm thinking death beams from the pointy top of the helmet, and mind-control, of course.

Any other suggestions?

Exam

If someone had told me when I graduated high school that almost twenty years later I would still be writing exams, I would've shot him...if I had a gun that is.

Last Thursday I wrote what is hopefully my last exam for my accounting designation. What was weird was that the thing that gave me the most difficulty was writing for four hours straight. My arm just about gave out as in my day-to-day work I spend most of my time at the computer. Who the hell writes anything anymore?

In four to six weeks I'll know the results and if I'll have to write the damn thing again. If When I pass it'll be another two years of case studies and group projects - I hate group projects...

Red Ensign Standard #7

is up at myrick this week.

Much bloggy goodness ensues!

Hey, TiVo! Suggest this!

THIS BLOG HAS JUST BEEN POCUSED!*

Muhuhuhuhahahaha....

Nachos

My bad. I should have given a little more detail. This is a Futurama reference. Bender discovers how different he would be if he were human in the Season 4 episode Anthology of Interest II

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.

So I'm the Bad Guy

See, here's the thing...

Many people blog for many different reasons. I do it to vent, let off steam, say things online that need to be said without starting arguments with people I know - KNOW! will never ever change their positions.

When people I knew in the real world learned about this site I had mixed feelings: hey I want this stuff to be read - why else would I put it on the net? However, a lot of the stuff I write is personal and I don't want to have to explain my site content every time I have a drink with somebody I know, or have someone start griping if I didn't report their words exactly the way they thought that they had said them. Everyone will always interpret an event based on their point of view and usually remember things to their advantage - that's human nature.

And that's why I don't sign my last name to every post, the way many bloggers do. A little bit of privacy (and my last name is quite distinctive) can go a long way in helping me attempt to write. And it also helps me to try and seperate me online from me offline, if there is any true seperation.

So a month ago I vented, as I felt I had been sucker-punched in public about my personal finances, a topic I consider more private than sex, politics and religion put together.

I knew the person mentioned would see it.

I knew the person mentioned would probably not like it.

But hey, at least it's better than causing a scene at his house in front of his other friends, and honestly, this space is mine and mine alone to vent. I pay the bills, this isn't public property.

I don't have to be fair.

I don't have to be balanced.

I don't have to give equal time to opposing viewpoints (though it's fun to do so.)

My friend decided that he objected to my post. And has decided that I'm not worth talking to. In a response to one of my emails wanting to go for a drink, he asked if my motivation was to "get more fodder for your blog" and talked about how "busy" he was. I haven't heard from him since. So much for 12 years of friendship. And in his mind he thinks I'm the bad guy for calling him on his nosy bullshit.

So be it.

Message received and right back at ya, pal.

You crossed the line first. I'll not censor myself just because you're pissed off that you come off in a non-flattering light. Maybe if you'd keep your nose out of other people's business, it wouldn't get chopped off.

As for you being fodder for this blog, sorry pal, but you're just not that interesting after this post.

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.