North/South/East/West
Boxed Compass
Young Fox is back with mixed print/image collages that are truly chilling and not for the faint of heart. One point that he makes that we in Canuckistan must not forget - Our Paul is helping to legitimize the illegitimate and the indefensible 'election' in Iraq - and that includes our donation of paper (ie. not so traceable, traceable ballots).
Following the sage advice of Neil Young, Matthew Good appears to have decided it's better to burn out than to fade away. Mr. Good burned very hard and very bright for a short time and he was very good. We hope the creative juices and the outrage bring him back to the fray when he's ready.
Never, ever forget the man who uses words like Inigo Montoya uses his sword, Not-So-Jersey James Wolcott.
More locally, sometime reader Rob Broughton has decided to run for the Green Party in the upcoming provincial election. Check out his site; while we don't agree with everything he has to say, most of his positions make a lot of sense (and we're looking forward to the coming of his blog, especially if, like Andrea Reimer, he writes it himself).
We've noticed something interesting about the way Sean Holman runs his blog - he actually pays attention to his posters, and follows up on stuff they have to say. We like that - makes for an interesting dynamic amongst the crazys and it seems to draw out the real life pols and the wonks on both sides of the aisle.
While his constant format changes, server troubles, and snobber-snidely approach to his not-quite chosen profession tend to drive us crazy, we do like to read what the I-Ching King has to say. We especially liked this recent quip: "I may be a whore, but I’m an honest whore." (and while nobody has ever accused us of whoring honestly we are not afraid to stoop to outright idea-thievery when we see a good one on somebody else's shelf that we like - see Ian's 'Links Round-Up' feature for similarities to this drivel).
Unlike so many others, we hate the updated CBC website because they seem to have jettisoned much of their archived material which forces us to utilize the hated google-cached jumble pages for pull quotes.
While we still frequent the tried and true clearinghouse/opinion sites like Common Dreams and Truth Out, we are really digging the relatively new Daou Report. Granted, it's a bit of a left vs. right Point/Counterpoint kind of deal but we still like it because it's blog-o-centric, the capsule summaries are informative, to the point and up to date, and, best of all, it forces you to pay attention to what the other side is up to.
Finally, due a flurry of Broad St. Bullies Trivia on the threads, we were forced to look up the playing history of the Philosopher King himself, Reggie Leach, which reminded us of the most exotic junior hockey team we could ever imagine when we were kids - the Flin Flon Bombers.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Monday, January 24, 2005
Bully Boy Bashes Us Behind Our Backs
Washington, District of Columbia
38°53' North; 77°02 West
Why did we, and our homegrown media, have to learn about this from the WaPo?
" When President Bush flew to Canada in his first international trip following his reelection, the White House portrayed it as the beginning of a fence-mending tour to bring allies back into the fold after a tense first term. But after Bush left, the Canadians were more furious than before.
38°53' North; 77°02 West
Why did we, and our homegrown media, have to learn about this from the WaPo?
"
Thanks tons to ASZ poster extraordinare Eric who gave us an 18 hr heads up that would have allowed us to bang the entire Canadian Media Machine like a gong if we had taken him up on it late Sunday night. Unfortunately, we missed our main chance because, well, unlike Mike Duffy et al., we actually have to get up on Monday mornings and go to work for a living.
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Ministry of Screwheads
Washington, District of Columbia
38°53' North; 77°02 West
Sometime during his first term Richard Nixon instructed hatchet man Charles 'Tex' Colson to develop a list of enemies to be, in his best Tricksonian vernacular, "screwed". The list quickly grew to upwards of 600 evildoers. You might think that it was filled to bursting with foreign dictators, commies, thugs, and killers.
Not so.
For example, Paul Newman has said that his inclusion on the list is one of his greatest accomplishments.
Apparently Daniel Schorr is also pretty proud of having been number 17, as is made clear by this modern day reminscence:
"(recently) I was able to see, for the first time, the single most electrifying moment in my career. It was a videotape of me as a CBS News correspondent reporting from the Senate Watergate Committee hearings. Having been handed the first list of 20 White House "enemies," I read the names live on camera without having even scanned them beforehand. At No. 17, I came to "Schorr, Daniel, Columbia Broadcasting System, Washington, A real media enemy."
I remember that day (or at least the videotape) in which Schorr ran out onto the Capitol steps and read out a bit of fascism so venal that no one, not even a 14 year old kid in the wilds of not-quite-yet Canuckistan, could ever again doubt that Nixon's administration was rotten to the core.
I also remember the reaction of many, many, many people that weren't on the list.
They were outraged.
Now, I have no doubt that the current group running the Screwhead Ministry has generated vast multitudes of Enemies Lists that stretch farther and wider than anything described in Woody Guthrie's 'This Land is Your Land' (and probably stretches back into the graves of long gone folk singers that scribbled 'this machine kills fascists' on their guitars).
And clearly, one of the tragedies of our age is the fact that so many politicos and journos are doing their very best to not end up on one of the intertwined multitudes lest it roughen their oh so smoothened lives.
And until recently I was convinced Daniel Schorr had turned his back on truth and had become one of those chronic list avoiders.
After all, these days Schorr's highest profile gig is his Saturday morning to and fro with Scott Simon on NPR. Almost without fail it's a bland, banal excercise in political tightrope walking in which both participants occasionally stick out a hand or a leg but never, ever take a real chance at stepping out into the abyss.
All of which I find extremely disappointing because I've admired the work of both Simon and Schorr in the past.
But this week Schorr surprised a lot of people when he pulled a Helen Thomas in the pages of the CS Monitor.
"Washington these days feels a little like Moscow in Soviet times when the government routinely dispensed information to the public and the public routinely didn't believe it. The two main newspapers were the Communist Party organ, Pravda, (Truth) and the Soviet government organ, Izvestiya (News). People used to say, "There is no Izvestiya in Pravda and no Pravda in Izvestiya."
Schorr then really takes it to the Screwheads and focusses on three specific examples of Willful Truthlessness: fairytale WMDs as a pretext for war; fake journalists bamboozling the public about anti-public programs; and the buying of supposedly not fake journalists to bamboozle the public about anti-public programs.
All of which, in our minds at least, is a devastating indictment of America's so-called free press. But we're not so sure that Schorr has cleared out all that muck from his eyes, or that fear from his heart, quite yet.
Because at the end he asks:
To which we, and we're pretty sure Jon Stewart too, would answer - isn't it obvious?
____
Update: Lawrence, over at The Orchid, has an excellent real time analysis of the situation.
Double Secret Probation Update: The Revolution may not be televised but it sure as heck is being blogged.... from the Bradblog pointed out to us by sukabi at ASZ and Michael H at Spontanteous Arising, here are the pictures of nuttin' much happenin' according to the media trusts .
Ultra Super Duper Secret Update: Kate Storm has even more sinister reasons to believe that if you're in Washington you just might be Back in the USSR.
38°53' North; 77°02 West
Sometime during his first term Richard Nixon instructed hatchet man Charles 'Tex' Colson to develop a list of enemies to be, in his best Tricksonian vernacular, "screwed". The list quickly grew to upwards of 600 evildoers. You might think that it was filled to bursting with foreign dictators, commies, thugs, and killers.
Not so.
For example, Paul Newman has said that his inclusion on the list is one of his greatest accomplishments.
Apparently Daniel Schorr is also pretty proud of having been number 17, as is made clear by this modern day reminscence:
"(recently) I was able to see, for the first time, the single most electrifying moment in my career. It was a videotape of me as a CBS News correspondent reporting from the Senate Watergate Committee hearings. Having been handed the first list of 20 White House "enemies," I read the names live on camera without having even scanned them beforehand. At No. 17, I came to "Schorr, Daniel, Columbia Broadcasting System, Washington, A real media enemy."
I remember that day (or at least the videotape) in which Schorr ran out onto the Capitol steps and read out a bit of fascism so venal that no one, not even a 14 year old kid in the wilds of not-quite-yet Canuckistan, could ever again doubt that Nixon's administration was rotten to the core.
I also remember the reaction of many, many, many people that weren't on the list.
They were outraged.
Now, I have no doubt that the current group running the Screwhead Ministry has generated vast multitudes of Enemies Lists that stretch farther and wider than anything described in Woody Guthrie's 'This Land is Your Land' (and probably stretches back into the graves of long gone folk singers that scribbled 'this machine kills fascists' on their guitars).
And clearly, one of the tragedies of our age is the fact that so many politicos and journos are doing their very best to not end up on one of the intertwined multitudes lest it roughen their oh so smoothened lives.
And until recently I was convinced Daniel Schorr had turned his back on truth and had become one of those chronic list avoiders.
After all, these days Schorr's highest profile gig is his Saturday morning to and fro with Scott Simon on NPR. Almost without fail it's a bland, banal excercise in political tightrope walking in which both participants occasionally stick out a hand or a leg but never, ever take a real chance at stepping out into the abyss.
All of which I find extremely disappointing because I've admired the work of both Simon and Schorr in the past.
But this week Schorr surprised a lot of people when he pulled a Helen Thomas in the pages of the CS Monitor.
"Washington these days feels a little like Moscow in Soviet times when the government routinely dispensed information to the public and the public routinely didn't believe it. The two main newspapers were the Communist Party organ, Pravda, (Truth) and the Soviet government organ, Izvestiya (News). People used to say, "There is no Izvestiya in Pravda and no Pravda in Izvestiya."
Schorr then really takes it to the Screwheads and focusses on three specific examples of Willful Truthlessness: fairytale WMDs as a pretext for war; fake journalists bamboozling the public about anti-public programs; and the buying of supposedly not fake journalists to bamboozle the public about anti-public programs.
All of which, in our minds at least, is a devastating indictment of America's so-called free press. But we're not so sure that Schorr has cleared out all that muck from his eyes, or that fear from his heart, quite yet.
Because at the end he asks:
"How did we ever get to this point?"
To which we, and we're pretty sure Jon Stewart too, would answer - isn't it obvious?
____
Update: Lawrence, over at The Orchid, has an excellent real time analysis of the situation.
Double Secret Probation Update: The Revolution may not be televised but it sure as heck is being blogged.... from the Bradblog pointed out to us by sukabi at ASZ and Michael H at Spontanteous Arising, here are the pictures of nuttin' much happenin' according to the media trusts .
Ultra Super Duper Secret Update: Kate Storm has even more sinister reasons to believe that if you're in Washington you just might be Back in the USSR.
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Death vs Fever
Baghdhad, Iraq
33°21' North; 44°25' West
Latest Riverbend:
"It's the third day of Eid. Eid is the Islamic holiday and usually it’s a time for families to get together, eat, drink and celebrate. Not this Eid. This Eid is unbearable.......There hasn’t been a drop of water in the faucets for six days. six days.......Water is like peace- you never really know just how valuable it is until someone takes it away..... .At first, I thought it was just our area but I’ve been asking around and apparently, almost all of the areas (if not all) are suffering this drought.
I’m sure people outside of the country are shaking their heads at the words ‘collective punishment’. “No, Riverbend,” they are saying, “That’s impossible.” But anything is possible these days. People in many areas are being told that if they don’t vote- Sunnis and Shia alike- the food and supply rations we are supposed to get monthly will be cut off. We’ve been getting these rations since the beginning of the nineties and for many families, it’s their main source of sustenance. What sort of democracy is it when you FORCE people to go vote for someone or another they don’t want?"
This is important, because if true (and at this point we are much more willing to believe River and the likes of Dahr Jamail than the entire legion of GreenZone-ensconsed gutless Western Press) it means that these so-called Democratic Elections are anything but. And worse, if they go off smoothly it will only embolden the Neandercons and their Minions to push over the next domino in the slaughter-a-thon.
Regardless, we must never forget what's happening to innocent people, on the ground. Here's River's closing:
"It's amazing how as things get worse, you begin to require less and less. We have a saying for that in Iraq, "Ili yishoof il mawt, yirdha bil iskhooneh." Which means, "If you see death, you settle for a fever." We've given up on democracy, security and even electricity. Just bring back the water."
Live Free or Die, indeed....perhaps the Neandercons should consider moving Iraq's entire population to New Hampshire.
33°21' North; 44°25' West
Latest Riverbend:
"It's the third day of Eid. Eid is the Islamic holiday and usually it’s a time for families to get together, eat, drink and celebrate. Not this Eid. This Eid is unbearable.......There hasn’t been a drop of water in the faucets for six days. six days.......Water is like peace- you never really know just how valuable it is until someone takes it away..... .At first, I thought it was just our area but I’ve been asking around and apparently, almost all of the areas (if not all) are suffering this drought.
I’m sure people outside of the country are shaking their heads at the words ‘collective punishment’. “No, Riverbend,” they are saying, “That’s impossible.” But anything is possible these days. People in many areas are being told that if they don’t vote- Sunnis and Shia alike- the food and supply rations we are supposed to get monthly will be cut off. We’ve been getting these rations since the beginning of the nineties and for many families, it’s their main source of sustenance. What sort of democracy is it when you FORCE people to go vote for someone or another they don’t want?"
This is important, because if true (and at this point we are much more willing to believe River and the likes of Dahr Jamail than the entire legion of GreenZone-ensconsed gutless Western Press) it means that these so-called Democratic Elections are anything but. And worse, if they go off smoothly it will only embolden the Neandercons and their Minions to push over the next domino in the slaughter-a-thon.
Regardless, we must never forget what's happening to innocent people, on the ground. Here's River's closing:
"It's amazing how as things get worse, you begin to require less and less. We have a saying for that in Iraq, "Ili yishoof il mawt, yirdha bil iskhooneh." Which means, "If you see death, you settle for a fever." We've given up on democracy, security and even electricity. Just bring back the water."
Live Free or Die, indeed....perhaps the Neandercons should consider moving Iraq's entire population to New Hampshire.
Friday, January 21, 2005
The Empire of Wank
Dover, Pennsylvania
40°01' North; 76°60' West
So, does Focus on the Family's uber-boss James Dobson figure that Sponge Bob Square Pants was created by Intelligent Design?
Because, according to the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center, an Astroturf Institute if ever there was one, "intelligent design" is a concept that is "a scientific theory" that maintains that "life is not the result of purely natural processes, but that it was in some way designed by an 'intelligence.'"
You got that. It's science, not religion.
The American Civil Liberties Union does not agree, and it is challenging ID's inclusion in the Pennsylvania school science curriculum on the following grounds:
"Teaching students about religion’s role in world history and culture is proper, but disguising a particular religious belief as science is not," said ACLU of Pennsylvania Legal Director Witold Walczak. "Intelligent design is a Trojan Horse for bringing religious creationism back into public school science classes."
It is a stand that makes Bill O'Lielly's outburst on the matter all the more puzzling:
"....(The ACLU) won't even tell you in the statement what intelligent design entails. They won't mention a creator, a deity, a God. You know why? Because the ACLU then can haul them into court and cost them $100,000 to defend themselves. Fascism, fascism, fascism. Okay? Ah, drive me nuts! Hitler would be a card-carrying ACLU member. So would Stalin. Castro probably is. And so would Mao Zedong."
Meanwhile, while the SCLM gives the Circle of Jerks all the attention they demand, people continue to die for no good reason at all.
40°01' North; 76°60' West
So, does Focus on the Family's uber-boss James Dobson figure that Sponge Bob Square Pants was created by Intelligent Design?
Because, according to the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center, an Astroturf Institute if ever there was one, "intelligent design" is a concept that is "a scientific theory" that maintains that "life is not the result of purely natural processes, but that it was in some way designed by an 'intelligence.'"
You got that. It's science, not religion.
The American Civil Liberties Union does not agree, and it is challenging ID's inclusion in the Pennsylvania school science curriculum on the following grounds:
"Teaching students about religion’s role in world history and culture is proper, but disguising a particular religious belief as science is not," said ACLU of Pennsylvania Legal Director Witold Walczak. "Intelligent design is a Trojan Horse for bringing religious creationism back into public school science classes."
It is a stand that makes Bill O'Lielly's outburst on the matter all the more puzzling:
"....(The ACLU) won't even tell you in the statement what intelligent design entails. They won't mention a creator, a deity, a God. You know why? Because the ACLU then can haul them into court and cost them $100,000 to defend themselves. Fascism, fascism, fascism. Okay? Ah, drive me nuts! Hitler would be a card-carrying ACLU member. So would Stalin. Castro probably is. And so would Mao Zedong."
Meanwhile, while the SCLM gives the Circle of Jerks all the attention they demand, people continue to die for no good reason at all.
The N Word
Prince George, British Columbia
53°53' North; 122°40' West
The red meaters on the bridge of the SS Gordo are in a tizzy because the guy that said the following is back, nipping at their heels:
"...My principal concern however, is not with Accenture's integrity or competence but with the transfer of control over BC Hydro's operations to a private firm, accountable only to the government, under an agreement whose terms are confidential. I had surmised that the government understood the overt privatization of BC Hydro to be unpalatable to the public so that it could not at this time be mandated by legislation.......Proceeding in the face of such public opposition, betrays an extraordinary arrogance on the part of the government....."
That was Paul Nettleton in 2002.
And because of that defense of the public interest Mr. Nettleton, MLA from Prince George - Omenica, was (self?) ejected from the Liberal caucus.
Nettleton was back in the (cbc) news today saying that not only would he run again, but that this time around he would switch ridings, move across town, and challenge Minister of Something or Other, Shirley Bond, for her seat.
Rumor has it that, after she had finished going white as a sheet, Ms. Bond was heard to exclaim, "It won't change the way I run my campaign one bit."
Here's hopin'.
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Update: Paul Willcocks take can be found on the issue can be found at the bottom of this post.
53°53' North; 122°40' West
The red meaters on the bridge of the SS Gordo are in a tizzy because the guy that said the following is back, nipping at their heels:
"...My principal concern however, is not with Accenture's integrity or competence but with the transfer of control over BC Hydro's operations to a private firm, accountable only to the government, under an agreement whose terms are confidential. I had surmised that the government understood the overt privatization of BC Hydro to be unpalatable to the public so that it could not at this time be mandated by legislation.......Proceeding in the face of such public opposition, betrays an extraordinary arrogance on the part of the government....."
That was Paul Nettleton in 2002.
And because of that defense of the public interest Mr. Nettleton, MLA from Prince George - Omenica, was (self?) ejected from the Liberal caucus.
Nettleton was back in the (cbc) news today saying that not only would he run again, but that this time around he would switch ridings, move across town, and challenge Minister of Something or Other, Shirley Bond, for her seat.
Rumor has it that, after she had finished going white as a sheet, Ms. Bond was heard to exclaim, "It won't change the way I run my campaign one bit."
Here's hopin'.
___
Update: Paul Willcocks take can be found on the issue can be found at the bottom of this post.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
West of Hades
Bismarck, North Dakota
46° 49' North; 100° 47' West
Climbed back in the Cigar Tube to come home from Toronto yesterday afternoon....vibe on AC161 was much better than on the trip out.....at least at the beginning......seatmate was human....plane was only half-full and the trip was wide open - no mountain of work, no worries, looking forward to making it home in time to read my kids the latest Dave and Morley saga at bedtime....so was settling in and truly enjoying something I rarely have time to do these days...reading the NYTimes, slowly, cover to cover....all was well until we got somewhere over North Dakota and I flipped to page A9....what I saw made me physically ill.....began to hyperventilate....had to get up and head down the aisle towards the bathroom..... shaking.... with rage.....with shame....with utter hopelessness.
Now I, as much as anyone who has been paying attention to the situation in Iraq, have railed against the spinelessness of the NYT (ie. NewPravda) since the invasion.....but there can be no denying that that single image hit me harder than 1000 Op-Ed pieces from Joseph Wilson and Scott Ritter ever could....it's a picture of a little Iraqi girl...she is blood-spattered....her parents are dead....they've just been assasinated by American soldiers for the crime of driving their car.
We must work to stop this.... all of us.
If we do not, I really truly fear for all of our souls.
____
Advance warning....this is the real thing, no sugar coating....You can see the image here; get Gilliard's take here; and another of Billmon's maximal comparisons here.
Update: From Sir Richard of Cranium over at the ASZ, here is the entire series of images.
Updatee: Lawrence over at the Orchid points out the implications of such images being seen in the Middle East.
46° 49' North; 100° 47' West
Climbed back in the Cigar Tube to come home from Toronto yesterday afternoon....vibe on AC161 was much better than on the trip out.....at least at the beginning......seatmate was human....plane was only half-full and the trip was wide open - no mountain of work, no worries, looking forward to making it home in time to read my kids the latest Dave and Morley saga at bedtime....so was settling in and truly enjoying something I rarely have time to do these days...reading the NYTimes, slowly, cover to cover....all was well until we got somewhere over North Dakota and I flipped to page A9....what I saw made me physically ill.....began to hyperventilate....had to get up and head down the aisle towards the bathroom..... shaking.... with rage.....with shame....with utter hopelessness.
Now I, as much as anyone who has been paying attention to the situation in Iraq, have railed against the spinelessness of the NYT (ie. NewPravda) since the invasion.....but there can be no denying that that single image hit me harder than 1000 Op-Ed pieces from Joseph Wilson and Scott Ritter ever could....it's a picture of a little Iraqi girl...she is blood-spattered....her parents are dead....they've just been assasinated by American soldiers for the crime of driving their car.
We must work to stop this.... all of us.
If we do not, I really truly fear for all of our souls.
____
Advance warning....this is the real thing, no sugar coating....You can see the image here; get Gilliard's take here; and another of Billmon's maximal comparisons here.
Update: From Sir Richard of Cranium over at the ASZ, here is the entire series of images.
Updatee: Lawrence over at the Orchid points out the implications of such images being seen in the Middle East.
Being There
Victoria, British Columbia
48° 39' North; 123° 26' West
Sean Holman over at Public Eye wonders if el Gordo's decision to have his minions attend a reception in honour of the National Caucus of the Conservative Party of Canada will:
Our answer to that question is a resounding No!
After all, to steal a line from Joseph Conrad and project it onto an old Peter Sellers film, "Mr. Gardiner, he dead".
In other words, it's the present tense we take issue with because the SS Gordon Campbell was taken over by the Redmeaters a long, long time ago.
48° 39' North; 123° 26' West
Sean Holman over at Public Eye wonders if el Gordo's decision to have his minions attend a reception in honour of the National Caucus of the Conservative Party of Canada will:
"....raise the issue of whether the Campbell administration is being taken over by
social conservatives?"
social conservatives?"
Our answer to that question is a resounding No!
After all, to steal a line from Joseph Conrad and project it onto an old Peter Sellers film, "Mr. Gardiner, he dead".
In other words, it's the present tense we take issue with because the SS Gordon Campbell was taken over by the Redmeaters a long, long time ago.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
East of Eden
Toronto, Ontario
43° 40' North; 79° 24' West
Climbed into the cigar tube, heading east, again.....bad vibe on AC148.....weird uptight businessman in seat beside me who ignored sadistic Kim Basinger kidnapping movie and very first Cheers episode, and that idiot Dave Chalk and instead spent the entire flight, except for 1min 30sec wolfing of pasta (I had chicken), poring over organic hydroponic magazines.....$48.00 cab ride to hotel near no longer Maple Leaf Gardens on Carleton....Hotel might have been nice when Davey Keon was a rookie...not the Empire, although 15 min later was sitting in the lounge°..... next day maids are mean.....concierge is meaner....and desk clerks are just plain creepy.... reminds me of that place in Milwaukee run by the storm troopers that HST went on and on and on and on about during the early days of the heady, but doomed, McGovern Primaries in 1972.....went looking for Finkleman at Sam the Record Man on Yonge St.....couldn't find him, but did buy an old vinyl copy of Court and Spark.
Supposed to dip down to windchill-assisted -30°C in the Center of the Universe tonight....Finkleman has probably already been reclining on wrong'em boyo Laz-Y-Boy for hours....me, it's back to the science geeks.
____
°ECostello's refrain 'I don't want to go to Chelsea' would also be appropo.
43° 40' North; 79° 24' West
Climbed into the cigar tube, heading east, again.....bad vibe on AC148.....weird uptight businessman in seat beside me who ignored sadistic Kim Basinger kidnapping movie and very first Cheers episode, and that idiot Dave Chalk and instead spent the entire flight, except for 1min 30sec wolfing of pasta (I had chicken), poring over organic hydroponic magazines.....$48.00 cab ride to hotel near no longer Maple Leaf Gardens on Carleton....Hotel might have been nice when Davey Keon was a rookie...not the Empire, although 15 min later was sitting in the lounge°..... next day maids are mean.....concierge is meaner....and desk clerks are just plain creepy.... reminds me of that place in Milwaukee run by the storm troopers that HST went on and on and on and on about during the early days of the heady, but doomed, McGovern Primaries in 1972.....went looking for Finkleman at Sam the Record Man on Yonge St.....couldn't find him, but did buy an old vinyl copy of Court and Spark.
Supposed to dip down to windchill-assisted -30°C in the Center of the Universe tonight....Finkleman has probably already been reclining on wrong'em boyo Laz-Y-Boy for hours....me, it's back to the science geeks.
____
°ECostello's refrain 'I don't want to go to Chelsea' would also be appropo.
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Maximal Comparisons
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
39° 57' North; 75° 10' West
Billmon is back at it, going hard - purely with pull quotes.
Today, it's a direct comparison of the PropTech of today's Maximum Leader and yesterday's Maximum Fascist.
While we already know who today's Maximum G-Man of the proptech is, when all is said and done and the history books are written, we've gotta wonder - will the Man from Metamucil come to be known as this team's Field General vonRumskull?
39° 57' North; 75° 10' West
Billmon is back at it, going hard - purely with pull quotes.
Today, it's a direct comparison of the PropTech of today's Maximum Leader and yesterday's Maximum Fascist.
While we already know who today's Maximum G-Man of the proptech is, when all is said and done and the history books are written, we've gotta wonder - will the Man from Metamucil come to be known as this team's Field General vonRumskull?
Friday, January 14, 2005
Stop Making (non)Sense!
Victoria, British Columbia
48° 39' North; 123° 26' West
The Media Trusts are confused, very confused indeed......
"Less than a year ago, few were forecasting that the B.C. New Democrats would be running slightly ahead of Gordon Campbell's ruling Liberal Party in the polls."
How could this be they wonder, when things are going so very, very well?
"It raises the prospect that a province that is leading Canada in economic growth could soon be run by New Democrats, with a policy platform that remains virtually unknown."
Again, how can this possibly be if the SS Gordo has saved us all from a Pinko-Commie Debt worse than Death?
Well, apparently UVIC political (non)scientist Norman Ruff, has the answer:
"It suggests that strong economic growth has backfired on the Liberal government, creating the perception that B.C. can afford the NDP's traditional tax-and-spend policies, he (Ruff) said."
Are these people insane?
Or is it just that they don't know any sick people, or poor people, or homeless people, or handicapped people, or underemployed people, or students, or teachers, or hospital workers, or ferry workers, or ferry builders, or ferry takers or on and on and on and on........
Oh ya, forgot.
Media mavens and Globe and Mail business page columnists don't need to use the Ferries, because their rising corporate expense accounts are built for Harbour Air.
They really should get out more.
48° 39' North; 123° 26' West
The Media Trusts are confused, very confused indeed......
"Less than a year ago, few were forecasting that the B.C. New Democrats would be running slightly ahead of Gordon Campbell's ruling Liberal Party in the polls."
How could this be they wonder, when things are going so very, very well?
"It raises the prospect that a province that is leading Canada in economic growth could soon be run by New Democrats, with a policy platform that remains virtually unknown."
Again, how can this possibly be if the SS Gordo has saved us all from a Pinko-Commie Debt worse than Death?
Well, apparently UVIC political (non)scientist Norman Ruff, has the answer:
"It suggests that strong economic growth has backfired on the Liberal government, creating the perception that B.C. can afford the NDP's traditional tax-and-spend policies, he (Ruff) said."
Are these people insane?
Or is it just that they don't know any sick people, or poor people, or homeless people, or handicapped people, or underemployed people, or students, or teachers, or hospital workers, or ferry workers, or ferry builders, or ferry takers or on and on and on and on........
Oh ya, forgot.
Media mavens and Globe and Mail business page columnists don't need to use the Ferries, because their rising corporate expense accounts are built for Harbour Air.
They really should get out more.
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Is This Heaven's Gate?
Black Rock, Viacomville New York
40°47' North; 73°58' West
No.
This is Rathergate.
And Greg Palast has the inside scoop on the paragons of virtue (ie. the 'independent' review panel) that you won't see anywhere in the SCLM.
All you need is the lead:
"Independent" my ass.
CBS' cowardly purge of five journalists who exposed George Bush's dodging of the Vietnam War draft was done under cover of what the network laughably called an "Independent Review Panel."
The "panel" was just two guys as qualified for the job as they are for landing the space shuttle: Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi.
Remember Dickie Thornburgh? He was on the Bush 41 Administration's payroll. His grand accomplishment as Bush's Attorney General was to whitewash the investigation of the Exxon Valdez Oil spill, letting the oil giant off the hook on big damages. Thornburgh's fat pay as counsel to Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, the Washington law-and-lobbying outfit, is substantially due to his job as a Bush retainer. This is the kind of stinky conflict of interest that hardly suggests "independent." Why not just appoint Karl Rove as CBS' grand inquisitor and be done with it?
Then there's Boccardi, not exactly a prince of journalism. This is the gent who, as CEO of the Associated Press, spiked his own wire service's exposure of Oliver North and his traitorous dealings with the Ayatollah Khomeini. Legendary AP investigative reporters Robert Parry and Brian Barger found their stories outing the Iran-Contra scandal in 1986 stopped by their bosses. They did not know that Boccardi was on those very days deep in the midst of talks with North, participating in the conspiracy....."
Not many sounds of bells or angels getting their wings there is there.
No sir.
In fact, you might conclude that the folks 'Standing at the Gates of the West' are getting more and more sinister everyday.
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Update: Reader B.A.D. points out that Disco Dickie T. is also the guy who is doing his best to screw Canuckleheads everywhere with that apparently illegal softwood lumber countervail.
Double Secret Probation Update: That's Big Audible (not Audio) DynOmite, so there's no relation to Mick Jones, although there apparently is a passing resemblance to Jimmie 'JJ' Walker
40°47' North; 73°58' West
No.
This is Rathergate.
And Greg Palast has the inside scoop on the paragons of virtue (ie. the 'independent' review panel) that you won't see anywhere in the SCLM.
All you need is the lead:
"Independent" my ass.
CBS' cowardly purge of five journalists who exposed George Bush's dodging of the Vietnam War draft was done under cover of what the network laughably called an "Independent Review Panel."
The "panel" was just two guys as qualified for the job as they are for landing the space shuttle: Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi.
Remember Dickie Thornburgh? He was on the Bush 41 Administration's payroll. His grand accomplishment as Bush's Attorney General was to whitewash the investigation of the Exxon Valdez Oil spill, letting the oil giant off the hook on big damages. Thornburgh's fat pay as counsel to Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, the Washington law-and-lobbying outfit, is substantially due to his job as a Bush retainer. This is the kind of stinky conflict of interest that hardly suggests "independent." Why not just appoint Karl Rove as CBS' grand inquisitor and be done with it?
Then there's Boccardi, not exactly a prince of journalism. This is the gent who, as CEO of the Associated Press, spiked his own wire service's exposure of Oliver North and his traitorous dealings with the Ayatollah Khomeini. Legendary AP investigative reporters Robert Parry and Brian Barger found their stories outing the Iran-Contra scandal in 1986 stopped by their bosses. They did not know that Boccardi was on those very days deep in the midst of talks with North, participating in the conspiracy....."
Not many sounds of bells or angels getting their wings there is there.
No sir.
In fact, you might conclude that the folks 'Standing at the Gates of the West' are getting more and more sinister everyday.
___
Update: Reader B.A.D. points out that Disco Dickie T. is also the guy who is doing his best to screw Canuckleheads everywhere with that apparently illegal softwood lumber countervail.
Double Secret Probation Update: That's Big Audible (not Audio) DynOmite, so there's no relation to Mick Jones, although there apparently is a passing resemblance to Jimmie 'JJ' Walker
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
The Gucci Man Slippeth
Ottawa, Ontario
45° 25' North; 75° 43' West
Paul 'Gucci' Cellucci, the outgoing BushCo Gaulieter to Canuckistan, let slip on some sort of quid pro quo MarchMissleMadness deal the other day.
The United States is optimistic Canada will sign on to President George W. Bush's missile-defence plan before the end of March, American Ambassador Paul Cellucci told The Canadian Press.
Of course, Our Paul was quick to deny everything.
" No such assurances were given,'' Martin told reporters outside parliament in Ottawa.....
Ya, sure.
But if the Martinis are not smiling we know somebody that just might be - Jack Layton.
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Original Link Source (and Layton happyface theory): Calgary Grit
45° 25' North; 75° 43' West
Paul 'Gucci' Cellucci, the outgoing BushCo Gaulieter to Canuckistan, let slip on some sort of quid pro quo MarchMissleMadness deal the other day.
The United States is optimistic Canada will sign on to President George W. Bush's missile-defence plan before the end of March, American Ambassador Paul Cellucci told The Canadian Press.
Mr. Cellucci, who is scheduled to leave his post this spring, said he expects the issue will be resolved before he departs.
"We've been told that it will be dealt with over the next couple of months," he said....Of course, Our Paul was quick to deny everything.
" No such assurances were given,'' Martin told reporters outside parliament in Ottawa.....
Ya, sure.
But if the Martinis are not smiling we know somebody that just might be - Jack Layton.
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Original Link Source (and Layton happyface theory): Calgary Grit
Working for the Man?
Hackensack, New Jersey
40°57' North; 74°04'
So, if Michael Chertoff is the latest Bush Administration nominee to run the Department of Homeland Security (aka 'The Colour Code Guy') just why was he working for someone who had rumored financial ties to a certain Saudi Terrorist before 9/11.
Seem far fetched?
You might think so.
Until you read Richard Cranium's excellent analysis over at the AllSpin Zone.
40°57' North; 74°04'
So, if Michael Chertoff is the latest Bush Administration nominee to run the Department of Homeland Security (aka 'The Colour Code Guy') just why was he working for someone who had rumored financial ties to a certain Saudi Terrorist before 9/11.
Seem far fetched?
You might think so.
Until you read Richard Cranium's excellent analysis over at the AllSpin Zone.
Mutiny on the Gordo, Part VI
Trail, British Columbia
49°06' North; 117°43' West
Commander Gordon Campbell's Minister of Resorts (no, we're not making that up), Sandy Santori, is gone.
Gone to do what?
Well, to manage a resort, of course.
Will the mutiny never cease?
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Thanks: to RickB of Queer Thoughts for the heads-up
Update: PWillcocks has the the wider implications and the domino effects of the story.
Double Update: (kind of like double-secret probation, but not quite) DShreck has now also taken to comparing the SS Gordo to a rusting ghost ship (kinda sorta, but not quite) and is suggesting that Geoff 'Sings like Robert' Plant might be next to walk the plank.
49°06' North; 117°43' West
Commander Gordon Campbell's Minister of Resorts (no, we're not making that up), Sandy Santori, is gone.
Gone to do what?
Well, to manage a resort, of course.
Will the mutiny never cease?
____
Thanks: to RickB of Queer Thoughts for the heads-up
Update: PWillcocks has the the wider implications and the domino effects of the story.
Double Update: (kind of like double-secret probation, but not quite) DShreck has now also taken to comparing the SS Gordo to a rusting ghost ship (kinda sorta, but not quite) and is suggesting that Geoff 'Sings like Robert' Plant might be next to walk the plank.
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