tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63673342011-04-21T23:55:45.338-04:00Conservative Punk CanuckLet's face the music and dance.somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comBlogger911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1087263581717616242004-06-14T21:37:00.000-04:002004-06-14T21:39:41.716-04:00Conservative Punk Canuck has officially moved to its new location and been christened under its new name, A Chick Named Marzi. Please update your bookmarks and if you link to me, would it kill ya to change the blog's name and url in your links section?
Please?
Hope to see you in the new digs! Not much furniture there yet but there *is* a Pepsi machine. Man, if that doesn't lure you over there, somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1087084806261838002004-06-12T19:45:00.000-04:002004-06-12T20:00:06.260-04:00Iran wants to be recognized as a nuclear nation. Yeah, well, I want to be recognized as Jennifer Connelly but that's not going to happen any time soon, either.
From the CNN article:
Iran has rejected any further restrictions on its nuclear program and demanded that it be recognized as a nuclear nation with the right to pursue "the peaceful use of atomic energy."
Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazisomechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086993521201866742004-06-11T18:37:00.000-04:002004-06-11T18:38:41.200-04:00I'm not sure if it's my brain or Blogger's server but my site is loading as slow as molasses today and no matter what I do, I can't speed it up. This seems as good a time as any to tell you that I hope to have everything uploaded to a new server with my own domain name by the middle of next week.
*crickets chirping*
Well, *I* find it exciting, anyway.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086993358078120092004-06-11T18:30:00.000-04:002004-06-11T18:35:58.076-04:00Don't check CNN for this story. In fact, CNN will probably claim they couldn't report about it because they were too busy covering the Reagan funeral.
From the Herald Sun (among other sources):
UN weapons experts have found 20 engines used in Iraq's banned Al Samoud 2 missiles in a Jordanian scrap yard, along with other equipment that could be used to produce weapons of mass destruction.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086921154187159052004-06-10T22:22:00.000-04:002004-06-10T22:32:34.186-04:00From Newsmax today comes a wholly unsurprising story on Dan Rather, who reneged on his promise not to diss the recently-departed Ronald Reagan. Just a while ago, Rather implied it was disrespectful to offer up negative commentary on someone so recently lost to the world.
"When a twice-elected, two-full-term president dies, it's not the time for a seminar on his strengths and weaknesses, in my somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086834170884248902004-06-09T22:17:00.000-04:002004-06-09T22:24:47.883-04:00Having "obtained" it just recently, it is with a happy heart that I say that YES, the new Division of Laura Lee album, Das Not Compute, is worth your hard-earned cash!
(By the way, remind me to do a long and conspiratorial post about what Swedes may be putting in their water to have cranked out so many great bands of late. Division of Laura Lee, The Hives, International Noise Conspiracy, Abba. Isomechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086820977288398112004-06-09T18:33:00.000-04:002004-06-09T18:42:57.290-04:00Now that Stephen Harper came out and officially said he would *NOT* pass any abortion legislation, can we lay it to rest? Paul Martin is starting to sound like a broken record on this one, trying to appeal, I guess, to women who haven't decided yet who they're going to vote for.
From The Toronto Star:
Stephen Harper, trying to douse a stubborn campaign fire that's making things hot for the somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086786726752732412004-06-09T08:48:00.000-04:002004-06-09T09:16:18.436-04:00Is it just me, or is Paul Martin starting to sound increasingly desperate?
From an article in this morning's Toronto Star:
The gulf between the policies of the Liberal party and the Conservatives has widened so much that voters now have a clear choice, Prime Minister Paul Martin says.
Martin talked to reporters before arriving here for the G-8 summit, and homed in on what he says are somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086785212233861732004-06-09T08:45:00.000-04:002004-06-09T08:46:52.233-04:00According to the Montreal Gazette, I'm leaving just in time!
If enough people die of it, will the Rolling Stones perform *here* with Justin Timberlake. Because if ever there was a bill I wanted to see ...
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086752088173926252004-06-08T23:33:00.000-04:002004-06-08T23:34:48.173-04:00I enabled the comments again. It seems that, true to form, people don't *use* Haloscan to actually post comments but dammit, they want it there just .. in .. case!
Who am I to quibble?
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086749739764662842004-06-08T22:48:00.000-04:002004-06-08T23:26:39.560-04:00How on *earth* could I have missed this fantastic commentary by Anthony at the Meatriarchy? Single best and most satisfying paragraph I've read today?
Consider this: most punkers (who were almost universally extreme left wingers) felt that Reagan was about to launch a nuclear war ANY MINUTE. It was an article of faith for them. If you challenged them on you would be met with the most somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-108674861732605542004-06-08T22:35:00.000-04:002004-06-08T22:36:57.326-04:00By the way, I'm assuming that in this picture ...
... Arafat is professing his love for Little FooFoo Bunny since those can't *possibly* be peace signs he's making with his fingers. Right?
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086748462463460312004-06-08T22:22:00.000-04:002004-06-08T22:38:13.006-04:00Good news and bad news coming from Palestine today.
First the bad news. Or rather, the-totally-unsurprising-and-yet-still-extremely-infuriating news:
The Palestinian Authority continued its promotion of children as combatants with a long interview on national television feting the "martyrdom" of three boys killed in an attack on Israel.
The interview yesterday featured the mother of a 15-somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086747686263123992004-06-08T22:19:00.000-04:002004-06-08T22:21:26.263-04:00Hey! Read this article and then sleep well, okay?
The Martyrs of the Resurrection of the Islamic World???
I've said it before, I'll say it again: I couldn't make this stuff up if I *tried*!
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086746887353015342004-06-08T21:53:00.000-04:002004-06-08T22:12:53.556-04:00From InsightMag comes this heartbreaking story about little girls and young women being bought and sold as prostitutes in Iran. What really infuriated and saddened me was reading that what's contributing to the increase in prostitution and sex slavery is,
... the number of teen girls who are running away from home. The girls are rebelling against fundamentalist-imposed restrictions on their somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086660330447930552004-06-07T21:45:00.000-04:002004-06-07T22:11:51.060-04:00I didn't think I'd have any reaction at all to the passing of Ronald Reagan. I have to be honest here: in the 1980s, I was far more interested in when the Replacements were going to put out their next album than I was in anything political.
I disliked Reagan when he was President, but in hindsight, I realize that I didn't actually have anything against the man. I was far too eager and ignorant somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086658988631627752004-06-07T21:41:00.000-04:002004-06-07T21:43:08.630-04:00Indomitable vision ...
Inconsolable grief ...
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086538869247498662004-06-06T12:16:00.000-04:002004-06-09T08:30:09.726-04:00I read a funny piece this morning -- well, inadvertently funny -- over at Canada Free Press News:
Democrats Abroad Canada (DAC) are taking their Get Rid of Bush Campaign to the palace of comedy. Their Bush Bash fundraiser will be held at Yuk Yuks, downtown Toronto’s home of the stand-up comedian, on June 10.
As editor Judi McLeod points out, "How anyone could think that a handful of stand-up somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086532223670217012004-06-06T10:27:00.000-04:002004-06-06T10:32:53.530-04:00All I can say is, "Wow!" I usually only put up excerpts of news stories and editorials, but this letter, by Stephan Hachemi, whose mother was murdered in Iran, was so brutally honest and heartbreaking that I quote it here in full:
To former prime minister Jean Chretien:
Like many Canadians, I recently learned of your coming visit to Iran as a representative of a Calgary-based oil company. It issomechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086526603563285102004-06-06T08:54:00.000-04:002004-06-06T08:56:43.563-04:00Despite very impressive growth in the U.S. economy -- and this, during war time, no less! -- the Democrats are still whining that the U.S. economy is in the toilet. Which begs the question, yet again: how can anyone *stand* to live inside that pessemistic, paranoid liberal bubble?
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086526309450281642004-06-06T08:50:00.000-04:002004-06-06T08:51:49.450-04:00If you're interested -- and you should be! -- here is an interesting article on how Saddam laundered his money. Nope, no ties to terrorists or terrorism there!
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086526081534041932004-06-06T08:46:00.000-04:002004-06-06T08:49:20.060-04:00Since there is already so much commentary on the passing of former President Ronald Reagan, I'll refrain from saying anything but "Rest in peace."
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086437538846302462004-06-05T07:30:00.000-04:002004-06-05T08:15:00.100-04:00You know, you gotta love John Kerry.
Remember the uber-embarrassing claim he made several weeks ago about those elusive foreign leaders who fell to their knees when they met him and pleaded with him to defeat George Bush? Okay, maybe they didn't fall to their knees and beg, but Kerry's hyperbole certainly suggested that theirs were urgent, empassioned pleas:
I've met with foreign leaders who somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086353431171144402004-06-04T08:46:00.000-04:002004-06-04T08:50:31.170-04:00If you're thinking of voting Liberal because you like their plans for a national child-care initiative, you may want to check out an editorial in today's Ottawa Citizen:
The last time the Liberals promised a national day-care program in 1993, it placed a number of conditions that almost guaranteed failure.
They said they would be prepared to spend $720 million over three years to create 150,000somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086352923773117772004-06-04T08:39:00.000-04:002004-06-04T08:42:03.773-04:00Go Flames!!
Hey, when there's a Canadian team in the Stanley Cup finals, I become embarrassingly patriotic ;)
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086294558558872492004-06-03T16:14:00.000-04:002004-06-03T16:30:35.710-04:00Speaking of people who should shut the hell up ...
Billionaire George Soros, who has so far donated about $16 million to various Democratic causes to defeat George Bush, needs to shut his big fat yapper. Or at the very least, listen to his peeps when they tell him he sounds like a hyperbolic, raving nutcase. Read his comments to a group that calls itself Campaign for America's Future and tell mesomechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086264467298522362004-06-03T08:03:00.000-04:002004-06-03T08:08:16.020-04:00You know the Canadian elections are heating up when the abortion issue comes up. Paul Martin is demanding that Stephen Harper make his position on abortion clear.
In "File it under same old, same old," Martin attacked the Conservatives by appealing to the uber-paranoid Quebecois vote:
Whether it is the war in Iraq, which Quebec was against, or Kyoto which Quebec was for, or questions of somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086263623365289562004-06-03T07:51:00.000-04:002004-06-03T07:53:43.366-04:00An interesting little story in the Montreal Gazette this morning:
A woman who witnesses say was a well-known Quebec singer, fled from the scene of an accident early Thursday morning in downtown Montreal.
According to witnesses, the woman appeared drunk as she exited a restaurant on St-Laurent Blvd. at about 1:30 a.m. The driver of a blue Ford Explorer hit a car that was trying to exit from a somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086230755954511332004-06-02T22:33:00.000-04:002004-06-02T22:46:31.966-04:00Incidentally, to the Torontonians reading this right now, I cannot urge you all *ENOUGH* to go see Mellowdrone, probably one of my favorite all-time bands and a little-known gem that I've been pimping for well over a year now to anyone who'll listen. According to the band's tour schedule, they're playing the Mod Club on June 5th and then again at Horseshoe Tavern on June 8th. Go to their website somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086229954768768242004-06-02T22:28:00.000-04:002004-06-02T22:33:36.060-04:00Don't you *hate* it when you Google the lyrics of a song and keep coming up with nothing? A friend of mine sent me a song that I've been playing repeatedly but whose title neither of us seems to remember.
While you re-wire the gears ... dah dah dah
You have much more to lose than you have to gain ... dah dah dah
It's not about what you want ... yada yada yada
The fistfights turn to gunfights somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086204095099815852004-06-02T15:19:00.000-04:002004-06-02T15:21:35.100-04:00Via Instapundit, I came across a video clip of the Rolling Thunder rally the other day. I point it out only because I was utterly charmed by the sight of all of these rugged bikers endorsing George W Bush.
In other news, John Kerry is still a weenie >:)
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086203882292768042004-06-02T15:14:00.000-04:002004-06-02T15:18:02.293-04:00There's a great editorial in The Washington Times about the links between Iraq and Al Qaeda, and liberal hypocrisy regarding those links. Maybe they're too busy reminding us that John Kerry went to Vietnam and that Nerf balls were thrown at the inmates at Abu Ghraib.
I mention those two things here in case you're, you know, DEAD!
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086189849253455582004-06-02T11:22:00.000-04:002004-06-02T11:24:42.163-04:00I see that Prime Minister Paul Martin is trying a new approach by taking responsibility for the sponsorship scandal:
I think that Canadians essentially want to know where the buck stops, and as far as I'm concerned, the buck stops with the prime minister or the leader, and that's me.
How much would I have *loved* to hear those words come out of the mouth of Jean "Status Quo" Chretien? In my somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086017756917792192004-06-02T11:13:00.000-04:002004-06-02T11:20:07.226-04:00It never ceases to amaze me when liberals say that Kerry will win in November because of the war veteran vote. The common belief is that since Kerry went to Vietnam, he *must* be enormously popular with the men who also fought int hat war. However, the liberals who espouse this theory leave a big part of the Kerry-Vietnam equation out of the picture: Kerry immediately began to denounce the war somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086186761595930082004-06-02T10:29:00.000-04:002004-06-02T10:33:48.190-04:00Does this:
have anything to do with THIS?
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086093086723648462004-06-01T07:51:00.000-04:002004-06-01T08:32:12.010-04:00The only thing I love more than politics is pop culture, and it's for that reason that I bring up a secret shame of mine: I've become addicted to that wretched excuse for a show, The WB's Superstar USA.
In case you're not familiar with it, the show is the anti-American Idol: where AI strives to find the best in American talent, the WB's Superstar strives to find the worst; where AI brings the (somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086089447446538082004-06-01T07:26:00.000-04:002004-06-01T07:39:28.983-04:00To the Canucks reading this: is NDP Leader Jack Layton starting to annoy the crap out of anyone else? The guy just irks me. More and more every day >:(
Maybe it's because every time I look at Layton, I see Ted Turner:
Maybe it's because every time I hear Layton speak, I hear Ted Turner.
Maybe I actually *like* Layton but just don't like Ted Turner.
Maybe I don't like Layton *and* Ted Turnersomechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086056945462241012004-05-31T22:25:00.000-04:002004-05-31T22:29:05.463-04:00Remember when some Canucks complained about Conan O'Brien's broadcasts from Canada, when Conan regular Triumph The Insult Comic Dog mocked french-speaking Quebecois?
(Note to self: send another thank you card to Conan!)
Well, where's the uproar over *this* latest atrocity?
*crickets chirping*
I thought so!
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086044282581265062004-05-31T18:55:00.000-04:002004-05-31T18:58:02.580-04:00And here's a rather sad story about a Christian Arab who lied about his faith in order to save his life:
One then asked if I was a Christian or a Muslim. I told him we were Muslims and showed him my colleague's Koran as proof. I told him we supported them and that we were against America and Europe. I had to say that.
*sigh*
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086041851477213692004-05-31T18:14:00.000-04:002004-05-31T18:18:16.800-04:00Shouldn't we be backing these Palestinians?
Recently, a growing number of Palestinian Arabs have spoken out against corruption, anarchy and lawlessness within the Palestinian Authority. While it is a less publicized phenomenon, some observers say it represents a significant development within Palestinian society.
Imagine how much the face of the Middle East would change if the world en masse somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086013450055842892004-05-31T10:20:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:43:33.516-04:00A great editorial in the Telegraph that's worth reading. I'll quote one paragraph only because it puts certain things into perspective:
It is already worth it for Iraq. There are more than 8,000 towns and villages in the country. If the much predicted civil war had erupted in any of 'em, you'd see it. Not from the Western press corps holed up with its Ba'ath Party translators at the Palestine somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086012944080305272004-05-31T10:11:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:24:45.823-04:00Okay, Nancy Pelosi can shut up, too.
From Newsmax, this morning, which reports that Pelosi thinks it took "great courage" for her to slag Bush. Again. Here's today's bit of hypocrisy:
I made the statement that I did - and I think with great courage, if I might say about myself - because I am worried about the troops on the ground in Iraq.
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy. If you cared about or were worriedsomechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1086012605478298052004-05-31T10:07:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:10:40.396-04:00Well, I'm a happy puppy! KRLA Radio is back online. That means I can once again listen to my beloved Laura Ingraham in the morning as I dick around work :)
If you haven't listened to Ingraham's radio show, you really should. She's clever, intelligent and damned funny, too! :)
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085929184239933912004-05-30T10:59:00.000-04:002004-05-30T10:59:44.240-04:00Dammit!
And I had such a large Iranian audience, too!
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085928066102614802004-05-30T10:39:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:25:24.856-04:00Better late than never: some good news for Canadian conservatives from the Toronto Star:
A full 71 per cent of the people who voted Progressive Conservative in the last election have flocked to the Conservative party in this campaign, the poll shows. The Alliance contingent is there in greater proportion, with 92 per cent of its supporters in 2000 ready to vote Conservative in the June 28 somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085852805612430692004-05-29T23:06:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:40:25.586-04:00Geez, I hate John Kerry.
Who the hell is *he* to say anything about the war in Iraq *or* the U.S.'s global reputation? Where does he get off commenting at *all* on the very war that he has spent the past few months trying to undermine?
I have to hand it to him: the guy has some massive cajones on him! And his sheep supporters must have some small brains to not see how Kerry is using the war somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085860938396395032004-05-29T15:38:00.000-04:002004-05-29T16:03:30.726-04:00Love this article in the Montreal Gazette re: the Bloc Quebecois, who are targeting young voters by hitting the bars.
Francois Rebello, 33, has surrounded himself with young advisers in his campaign in Montreal-area Outremont riding, where he's squaring off against Jean Lapierre, Prime Minister Paul Martin's Quebec lieutenant.
He said the Bloc has an edge in attracting younger voters because somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-108585228975008642004-05-29T13:32:00.000-04:002004-05-29T13:39:23.366-04:00This piece of videotape is shocking.
I posted about the UN ambulance story the other day and linked to a picture of Palestinian gunmen speeding away in a UN ambulance but the videotape is just so much more real.
I'm hoping the link works.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085850810835951782004-05-29T13:07:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:39:39.066-04:00Did you know that Muammar Gaddafi has his own official website? Did you know, stranger still, that it's hosted by Geocities?
Okay, I made that last part up.
It's actually a pretty interesting site. It's always nice when a fascist dictator gets the crap scared out of him (thanks, America!) and then uses the Internet to spread his newfound message of peace and love.
That said, I had to chuckle somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-108584863489209472004-05-29T12:34:00.000-04:002004-05-29T12:53:58.906-04:00Another article about Michael Moore this morning. Seems some conservatives with money are planning ads to discredit the lying, self-obsessed little moron:
Washington-based Citizens United is working on an anti-Moore ad. The group is headed by David Bossie, writer of the anti-Bill Clinton books "Slick Willie" and "Intelligence Failure." Bossie claims Moore is being targeted because he is a "Bush somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085923744761837162004-05-29T09:12:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:38:43.440-04:00An editorial in the Toronto Star about the Sharia tribunals in Canada. On the one hand, kudos to the Star for pointing out the inherent dangers of applying Sharia law in disputes here in Canada:
Alia Hogben doesn't want to be waging a public battle with her fellow Muslims. But she and other women such as her are speaking out these days because they fear Muslim women's rights will be threatened somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085792793333846602004-05-28T21:04:00.000-04:002004-05-28T21:06:33.333-04:00BTW, great news just posted at Moore Watch regarding the documentary Michael Moore Hates America.
Great news for Mike Wilson, the man behind the documentary. Don't forget to mark August 27th on your calendars -- (a) because it's my daughter's birthday and (b) because that's the target release date for the documentary :)
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085792367743623862004-05-28T20:53:00.000-04:002004-05-28T20:59:27.743-04:00Either *I* have too much time on my hands or *they* have too much time on their hands. Either way, we all have university degrees and we're all allegedly adults and yet we're all still wasting brain energy thinking about Tootsie Rolls.
He ...
... would be proud.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085774684162307252004-05-28T16:04:00.000-04:002004-05-28T16:05:16.996-04:00To prove that I can be extraordinarily childish, I offer the following for your consideration:
Coincidence?
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085761944256881862004-05-28T12:23:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:37:34.586-04:00So now Canada is supposed to grant refugee status to U.S. soldiers who don't want to fight?
From the article:
The War Resisters Support Campaign said Ottawa should provide refuge for two U.S. soldiers who fled to Canada rather than participate in the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, which has resulted in the deaths of more than 700 U.S. soldiers and thousands of Iraqis since it began in 2003.
So,somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085759675360241652004-05-28T11:53:00.000-04:002004-05-29T13:52:40.350-04:00Anything that underlines Kerry's flip-flops on Iraq is fine by me. How many positions can a politician take if a politician could take a position?
Ask the Tootsie Roll owl ;)
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085759460949831502004-05-28T11:48:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:36:54.623-04:00I choose to believe the Toronto Star only when it suits my agenda. I choose to believe them today:
The Liberals have 38% support among decided voterse - a three percentage point drop since last month - while the Conservatives and New Democrats are climbing, climbing, especially in Ontario.
*fingers crossed*
Oh please oh please oh please ..
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085706670876671942004-05-27T20:59:00.000-04:002004-05-27T21:13:53.726-04:00Today was a day of firsts in our home.
I, for the first time, heard some of Bill O'Reilly's radio show. Now, when the uber-liberals I know accuse me of getting all of my information from O'Reilly, Limbaugh or Ann Coulter, I really *WILL* be lying if I say I've never even heard the guy speak before!
And my husband, for the first time, tuned in to Air America, the left's flailing answer to somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085705954777632792004-05-27T20:55:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:36:18.860-04:00Al Gore. Yet another person who can shut up now.
From a May 26th speech he gave:
How dare the incompetent and willful members of this Bush/Cheney administration humiliate our nation and our people in the eyes of the world and in the conscience of our own people! How dare they subject us to such dishonor and disgrace. How dare they drag the good name of the United States of America through the somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085677120990538292004-05-27T12:51:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:35:41.306-04:00Should Canadians be worried about the recent terrorist threats against the United States?
Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan says no:
We have no reason to believe that there is a Canadian cell, and again, I want to reassure Canadians around their safety and security and the fact that there is no specific threat in relation to Canadians.
And Prime Minister Paul Martin seems to agree with her:
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085673784774466442004-05-27T11:53:00.000-04:002004-05-27T12:03:04.776-04:00Reason #1945 to hate the U.N.:
From the IDF website by way of Little Green Footballs.
By the way, found this logo ...
... at a website called Metalheads Against Humanism, which evolved into Metalheads Against Racism. I'm just mentioning it because I thought it was interesting ;)
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085666429824344822004-05-27T09:32:00.000-04:002004-05-27T10:03:38.963-04:00More proof that the right wing controls the U.S. media: Filmmaker Don North's documentary, Remembering Saddam, isn't being aired anywhere in the U.S. Apparently no cable or broadcast network is choosing to air the documentary, which follows the story of several Iraqi merchants who, after a year in Abu Ghraib prison, had their right hands crudely amputated by "surgeons." In Saddam's world, these somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085664537209312732004-05-27T09:24:00.000-04:002004-05-27T09:28:57.210-04:00Okay, so maybe Ted Kennedy can talk a little bit. But just a little ...
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085664252136917162004-05-27T09:17:00.000-04:002004-05-27T09:24:12.136-04:00As if North Korea wasn't already freaky enough, it's now being reported that they're building a 400km fence to stop people from defecting.
Incidentally, here's a really good blog with all kinds of information on North Korea.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085663157800637572004-05-27T09:04:00.000-04:002004-05-27T09:05:57.800-04:00I'm not pleased that KRLA's live feed of the Laura Ingraham Show is still down. There are alternatives to KRLA but the sound sucks everywhere else. How am I supposed to get any work done without her??
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085607755139211652004-05-26T17:27:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:34:49.186-04:00Speaking of terrorism ...
CNSNews has an article that I found both frightening and perversely amusing. Here's the frightening:
If Al Qaeda wants to kill a lot of people to ratchet up our level of terror, New York remains a prime target and there are recent reports of empty suitcases showing up in its subways and other locations as a possible test run on the delivery of a WMD.
But this made somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085603696288096152004-05-26T16:31:00.000-04:002004-05-26T17:26:55.546-04:00I promised myself I would get some work done before I blogged anything today so now that I have some time on my hands ...
*cracking knuckles*
I have plenty to rant about today but I'll begin with the warning that U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft sent out today regarding potential terrorist attacks in the U.S.
Without being overly specific, Ashcroft pointed to "a number of upcoming events that somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085539294657617762004-05-25T22:40:00.000-04:002004-05-25T22:41:34.656-04:00Done being pissy for today. Wake me up when The Calgary Flames win the Stanley Cup ;)
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085531000628371522004-05-25T20:06:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:33:48.180-04:00I made the mistake today of getting into a discussion about Bill Cosby's recent comments at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., on the 50th anniversary of Brown Vs Board of Education.
Why is it that the second you stray outside the confines of extreme political correctness and agree with someone's much-needed wake-up call, you're immediately dismissed as either racist, sexist, xenophobic or somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085529823213485192004-05-25T20:02:00.000-04:002004-05-25T20:03:43.213-04:00Daniel Pipes wrote a great piece entitled Female Desire and Islamic Trauma that is *so* worth reading. I'll let the article speak for itself.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085517215920027072004-05-25T16:28:00.000-04:002004-05-25T16:33:35.920-04:00I'm currently listening to Michael Medved showing his usual preternatural patience with an idiotic leftist guest -- in this case, Kathy Eder, author of a silly piece of leftist fluff called No George No.
I wish I could quote from the interview but I'm sure you know the drill by now: evading the question, non-answers, misinterpreting and misquoting statements. Yada yada yada.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085516851288389792004-05-25T16:23:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:32:00.020-04:00I wish this surprised me more, but it doesn't:
United Nations peacekeeping troops are sexually exploiting teenage rape victims fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an investigation by the The Independent newspaper of London.
Many of the girls, as young as 13, are mothers who give up their bodies to the U.N. soldiers in exchange for food to feed their hungry children.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085505861347170162004-05-25T13:20:00.000-04:002004-05-25T13:24:45.726-04:00Better late than never.
I'm officially recommending Modest Mouse's latest album, Good News For People Who Like Bad News.
You were so true to yourself
You were true to no one and that's why I should put you in the ground
I've got the time, I got the hours
I got the days, I got the weeks
I could say to myself I've got the words but I can't speak ...
Quirky but damn if you're going to be able to somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085505602048532342004-05-25T13:08:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:31:18.353-04:00*sigh*
This is exactly why I hate Canadian politics.
Talk about Medicare and appease the Quebecois:
"You have my word: A government led by Stephen Harper will always consider French in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada a national priority," he declared.
Anyone else itching for the day that the Canadian election *doesn't* revolve around those two issues? Fine, you're going to keep taxing us to somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085504338859250852004-05-25T12:55:00.000-04:002004-05-25T13:04:58.233-04:00Is this supposed to make me feel better?
Prime Minister Paul Martin has vowed to make Medicare his number one priority, according the Toronto Star.
He's offering cash for Medicare enhancements and yet, according to the article, will not raise taxes or impose a health premium to pay for his plan.
Status quo, anyone?
Doesn't anybody else want to see Canada shake the cobwebs off of itself?
And somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085503921721566832004-05-25T12:43:00.000-04:002004-05-25T12:53:48.610-04:00Would you trust this man to speak for your country?
Would you trust this man to speak for your country if you know he had *this* liver?
Just say "NO!" to bloated, alcoholic has-beens!
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085503378271083802004-05-25T12:37:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:30:22.740-04:00Did I forget to mention that Ted Kennedy should shut up, too?
I'm pleased to see that Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe took the time to spell it out so clearly:
Kennedy's vile calumny should have triggered outrage. Here was the most prominent liberal politician in America accusing his own government of the very savagery it said it had gone to war to uproot. It was the worst kind of anti-Americansomechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085452502207931172004-05-24T22:32:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:29:50.026-04:00An interesting article on John Kerry's "Let America Be America Again" election theme over at Men's News Daily.
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
And let America *be* that America by raising taxes and oscillating from opinion to opinion on every concievable somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085452259789238422004-05-24T22:29:00.000-04:002004-05-24T22:30:59.790-04:00I said yesterday that Bill Clinton needs to keep his mouth shut (though in harsher terms than that). Let me add his wife, Hilary, to the list.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085451174255133712004-05-24T22:06:00.000-04:002004-05-24T22:15:24.546-04:00Stefan Sharkansky at Oh That Liberal Media has a great piece called An Unwillingness to Mention Certain Uncomfortable Facts that's a must-read.
When I heard about Nick Berg's execution, I posted about it on a message board and was basically told that I posted the news *only* because it cast Arabs in a bad light. It astounded me that the uber-liberals on that message board barely condemned the somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085447018233769782004-05-24T20:27:00.000-04:002004-05-24T21:10:07.696-04:00With the Canadian federal elections around the corner, I find myself making the decision to cast my vote for the Conservative Party of Canada.
This is a no-brainer for me, really. I refuse to cast a vote for the Liberal Party, even under the "new" leadership of Prime Minister Paul Martin. I'm not satisfied with Martin's excuses and justifications for the residual scandals left by his somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085444763593770432004-05-24T20:20:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:29:06.666-04:00File this under WTF?
According to World Net Daily, two Christian websites -- Repent America and Columbia Christians For Life -- are urging Christians to *not* vote for George W Bush come November. From Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life, comes this uber-confusing bit of rhetoric:
President Bush has repeatedly, and continues, to justify the wicked; from advancing the somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085366235441012702004-05-23T22:31:00.000-04:002004-05-23T22:37:50.183-04:00Better late than never?
I'm officially recommending The Icarus Line's new album, Penance Soiree. Visit their web site to listen to clips from the album.
On a somewhat milder note, check out Ambulance LTD's new album -- or visit their web site to download the video for "Primitive" and listen to clips from the album.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085355363796590402004-05-23T19:35:00.000-04:002004-05-23T22:42:28.126-04:00Happy Birthday to me!
Canada Votes On June 28th!
What a great way for me to celebrate my 39th birthday. I'm no fan of Prime Minister Paul Martin but I can't say I'm impressed with Steven Harper's new Conservative Party, either.
Canada desperately needs alternatives -- and I don't mean another ineffective, Kumbaya-singing socialist party, which seems to be what we do best worst. Let's put down somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085324431512987742004-05-23T10:55:00.000-04:002004-05-23T22:39:39.553-04:00I can't believe I used to *LIKE* Bill Clinton. I can't believe I used to *DEFEND* Bill Clinton. His pro-United Nations comments in the news today just make me realize more clearly than ever that the US's first Black President needs to shut the fuck up.
Yeah, Bill, you're right: the U.N. should *really* play a role in the new Iraq. After all, they're never let the Iraqi people down before, have somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085324013876880002004-05-23T10:52:00.000-04:002004-05-23T19:24:21.646-04:00Sometimes I wonder what the fuck is happening to my country.
Does a free, democratic country acknowledging the legitimacy of Sharia law make sense to anyone??
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085323808400239612004-05-23T10:45:00.000-04:002004-05-23T10:50:08.400-04:00Bush fell off his bike yesterday at his ranch. According to Drudge, Imbecile Extraordinaire John Kerry asked if the President's training wheels had fallen off.
No, John, that would be *you* who took a spill after his training wheels fell off.
And looked mighty dorky while doing it, I might add ..
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085320197755650292004-05-23T09:46:00.000-04:002004-05-23T19:29:10.960-04:00If you dislike Michael Moore as much as I do -- and believe me, I dislike him intensely -- you should check out, among others, Bowling For Truth, Moore Lies, Moore Exposed or my personal favorite, Moore Watch
If you want to see Moore pinned to the mat, check out Release The Movie.
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085319972638636902004-05-23T09:44:00.000-04:002004-05-23T19:30:41.493-04:00There was a not-too-subtle jab at Bush's intelligence in his comments, but Jean-Luc Godard at least pointed out what a loser Michael Moore is.
Go Jean-Luc! Whoever you are ...!
somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085278462866639082004-05-22T22:12:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:26:02.236-04:00Oh shit! Just what we needed!
"What have you done? I'm completely overwhelmed by this. Merci," Moore said after getting a standing ovation from the Cannes crowd.
Yeah, France -- what *have* you done?
As for you, Mikey: it's official! You're the new Jerry Lewis. Only dumber and infinitely more annoying.
For those who share my contempt for Moore, run over to Moore Watch. They despise the mansomechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367334.post-1085270307716032722004-05-22T19:50:00.000-04:002004-05-31T10:28:07.746-04:00Like most rational people, I can't fathom Michael Berg's latest comments regarding the execution of his son, Nick. When the audio and video of Nick's execution was made available online, my immediate thought was that this man's death would not be in vain, that his death would remind people of what Al Qaeda was capable of doing and how gleefully and maniacally they *would* do it.
Berg's father somechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03317460202225315309noreply@blogger.com