Segacs’s World I Know

Lenny Kravitz recorded a song to express his anti-war views. And Damian Penny has the lyrics – or a version thereof. Hysterical!

Looks like Concordia students are heeding the call to get out and vote.

No Belgian chocolates? I’m sad now.

What are the hottest names for Palestinian babies these days? A Jerusalem Post report says that hundreds of parents are naming their new babies after Saddam Hussein:

According to the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Quds al-Arabi, the favorite name for Palestinian families in the city these days is Saddam. The paper said male infants born in local hospitals in the last few days have been named Saddam in honor of the Iraqi president.

“Many Palestinians are proud of this name,” the paper’s correspondent, Ala Badarneh, reports from Nablus. “Many families are also keen on keeping posters of Saddam Hussein in their homes. Usually you would find pictures of Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat together at previous meetings between the two. Many people are buying these pictures in the market and keeping them at home.”

Nearly as disturbing was the big picture in today’s Gazette (sorry, no link) of a Palestinian mom holding her newborn daughter, named “Rachel Corrie”. I guess her mom has great hopes for her future, that she’ll run in front of a bulldozer like her namesake.

It’s about time someone did this: Jay Currie has started a website entitled Canadian Friends of America. Notice the banner link on the lefthand side of the page.

To our friends south of the border, we’re not all the flag-burning, hockey-game-booing people depicted by our media. Plenty of us are grateful to you and supportive of you, and we want to extend our hands in friendship.

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later: Canada was chewed out by the American ambassador to Canada for our refusal to participate in the war against Iraq, and for our anti-Americanism:

Cellucci told an audience of business executives in Toronto that had Canada found itself under threat, Washington would have come to its aid immediately.

“There is no security threat to Canada that the United States would not be ready, willing and able to help with. There would be no debate, there would be no hesitation. We would be there for Canada — part of our family,” he thundered.

“And that is why so many in the United States are so disappointed and upset that Canada is not fully supporting us now,” he said. In the speech, and in comments to reporters afterward, he mentioned U.S. disappointment 12 times.

How long before they start pouring Molson down the drain like French wine?

Concordia’s CSU elections are being held tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Those of you who have been following my blog know all about the problems that the CSU has been causing at Concordia these past few years. I can only hope that this year is the one where enough students turn out to toss the professional shit-disturbers out on their butts where they belong, and elect some real leadership.

The two main slates in contention are Evolution, supported by a broad base of students opposed to the current CSU, and the ironically-named Clean Slate, made up entirely of buddies of the current and past few CSUs. A few other slates, Renaissance Concordia and New Vision among them, are also on the ballot, which may threaten to split the opposition, thus handing yet another victory to Clean Slate.

Will enough students turn out to vote in order to overcome the Left’s committed support from the pro-Palestinian and anti-capitalism crowd? Or will this same group get right back into power? Right now, it’s up to the undergraduate students at Concordia. So if you’re reading this, and you’re a Concordia student, make sure to vote!

Thanks to Tom for sending me the link to his article in the London Times about Iraq’s national football team (that’s soccer to us North Americans). Tom interviewed Sharar Haydar, who played professional football for Iraq’s national teams for 12 years, and says he was tortured by Uday Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein’s son:

“He didn’t just torture us when we lost,” Haydar said when we met last Wednesday in a London coffee shop. “Even when we won. He started by shaving hair — I know in Britain it’s a fashion now but in Iraq it’s a big embarrassment. After that he started to put players in prison. He used to come to watch us, sometimes we won three or four-nil but still he (ordered his guards to) take three or four players, put them in prison and torture them because he didn’t like their form. Then he started to beat the coach, referees . . . ”

Food for thought the next time a high school basketball coach gets chewed out for making his team run laps.

Apparently, the rantings of first-class idiotarian Michael Moore were too much even for the anti-war Hollywood crowd:

“We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president,” Moore said. “We live in a time where we have a man who’s sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it’s the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts.

Applause gave way to some boos, as the orchestra began playing to cue the filmmaker to leave the stage.

“We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you,” Moore shouted.

At least some had the courage to boo. I wonder about those who applauded and gave Moore a standing ovation, though. “Fictitious” code orange? “Fictitious” duct tape? I wonder if he thinks September 11th was fictitious too. I wonder what the families and friends of those who died on September 11th would think about that?