Another brilliant episode of the West Wing tonight. On this one, the 15-year-old son of the Iranian Ayatollah sends his son to the U.S. for lifesaving surgery – and nearly sets off an international crisis by publicly denouncing it. The President refuses to get caught up in the game of using innocent people as political pawns, insisting that the boy be saved despite the potential political fallout.
Bartlet’s quote: “Maybe if their citizens didn’t spend so much time denouncing the damn infidels, they’d have time to build a medical school!”
Did I mention how much I LOVE this show?
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According to Jon, I am the greatest thing since chocolate-covered strawberries! Well, Jon, you’re the greatest thing since Labatt Blue. 🙂
As they say, there’s no accounting for taste . . .
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According to Margaret Wente in the Globe and Mail, the big emphasis shouldn’t be that Canada is on Osama Bin Laden’s terror list. In case we didn’t already know that, she claims, Bali should have been a wake up call. Rather than operate under the delusion that Canada is safe, we need to wake up and find the incredible disappearing Waldo – er – Osama.
The hypocrisy of our leaders is not an edifying sight. Every time Remembrance Day rolls around, they put on their poppies and pay exaggerated homage to the veterans who fought to keep us free. But it’s so much sanctimonious sheep manure. They’ll do everything to honour the warriors among us except treat the active ones decently. They pay lots of lip service to Nov. 11. But they’re still acting as if it’s Sept. 10.
You’re either for us or for the terrorists, George W. once said, and people mocked him for his simple-minded reduction of the world into us and them. But Osama’s simple-minded, too. And like it or not, he’s chosen our side for us.
Right on! Unfortunately, too many Canadians seem to be labouring under the delusion that nobody will attack us if we “be nice” and don’t piss them off. Riiiiiight.
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A tragedy like this shouldn’t be funny. But it is.
SIX MILE, Ala. (AP) – Two sisters were killed when their vehicles collided head-on on a rural highway as they travelled to visit each other, authorities said.
Authorities said the women were driving in opposite directions on Alabama 25 on Sunday when one of the vehicles crossed the centre line, colliding with the other.
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Does anyone really need further proof of the Palestinian terrorist organizations’ true aims? The following statement from Hamas was issued today in response to Labor’s election of dovish Haifa Mayor Amram Mitzna (who has stated that, if elected, he will jump start peace negotiations as well as unilaterally dismantle settlements in the territories) as its party leader:
“Our resistance will continue until we liberate our land and end this occupation. No matter who is inside the government of Israel, all of them are practicing brutal aggression against our people,” Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said.
Just more evidence that Hamas’s true aim isn’t peace, or the election of a dovish leader, or even statehood in the “occupied territories” of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. No, Hamas won’t stop until all the land it considers “occupied” (read: all of Israel) is destroyed and handed over to Muslim control.
Each Israel leader and Prime Minister is villainized, leading outsiders to believe that the root of the problem is Sharon, or Netanyahu, or Barak, or whoever . . . but the true root of the problem is Israel’s mere existence. And no appeasement will make the attacks stop. Not until the terrorists are stopped.
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Charlton Heston, former Moses and poster boy for the NRA, got his own statue.
The statue, unveiled Tuesday night, shows the actor holding a lariat in one hand and a rifle in the other. It was donated by members of the National Rifle Association, an organization headed by Heston.
“I’m enormously impressed,” he told a crowd at the museum gala. “Indeed, I’m overwhelmed.
Granted, I’m no fan of Michael Moore and his ultra-left wing idiot politics, but you kinda got to at least admire the way he exposes the gun nuts and the NRA for the idiots they really are. Mr. Heston, I sure hope you’re proud of this honour, now be a patriotic American and go out and shoot someone!
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Well, if your name is Ken Thomson, you might spend it all on a single painting. And then give it away – along with the rest of your art collection, valued at $300 million, to the Art Gallery of Ontario, whose staff are, I’m sure, dancing in the streets right now.
Thomson, who stepped down in May as chairman of Thomson Corp., stood at 13th place in a ranking by Forbes magazine earlier this year of the world’s wealthy. At the time, his family stake in Thomson Corp. was valued at more than C$24 billion.
But unlike most moguls, Thomson is legendary for his low profile and parsimonious ways, and is reputed to use store coupons and buy bread in bulk when it goes on sale.
Thomson is donating nearly 2,000 works, including paintings and a collection of rare European art objects dating from the middle ages to the mid-nineteenth century.
Now, granted, he’s got more money than most of us could even count, let alone spend. I guess it must have come from all that penny-pinching on milk purchases. That does it: that’s now officially my new savings strategy.
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