Friday, November 22, 2002

Their National Anthem is a Beer Commercial

More on the moron controversy. This from people who start weeping when they hear the following advertisement for Molson's beer:

Hey. I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader.
And I don't live in an igloo, or eat blubber, or own a dogsled.

And I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm certain they're really, really nice.

I have a Prime Minister, not a President.

I speak English and French, NOT American. and I pronounce it 'ABOUT', NOT 'A BOOT'.

I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack. I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing. DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation, AND THAT THE BEAVER IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.

A TOQUE IS A HAT, A CHESTERFIELD IS A COUCH, AND IT IS PRONOUCED 'ZED' NOT 'ZEE', 'ZED'!!!

CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS! THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY! AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!

MY NAME IS JOE!! AND I AM CANADIAN!

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Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Gore 2004

The Gore for President 2004 campaign soft launched last Friday, with the Baba Wawa interview and The Washington Post Sunday Magazine piece and has continued on (and on) this week. Today, columnist and Atlantic Monthly editor Michael Kelly, writing for The Washington Post op-ed page, launches on Gore. A column worth reading, as always.

Latest Fast Company Column

A look back at the year 2002. It was not a very good year.

Rush Rouses Rabble?

Yet more evidence that leading Democrats have lost their marbles can be found by clicking here. Soon-to-be ex-Majority Leader Thomas Daschle (D-SD) accuses Rush Limbaugh and "Limbaugh wannabes" of inciting the rabble to new levels of nasty and vicious behavior. Mr. Daschle provided no evidence to substantiate this claim. Daschle's remarks were the latest in a series of Democratic rants regarding the supposedly undo influence of conservative talk radio on American politics.



Monday, November 18, 2002

Openly Proclaimed

The following is from The Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web:

"Our country is headed for very deep trouble," Gore told Time. "I wish it were not so, but I believe that with all my heart. I think that our economic plan has zero chance of working. I think that it is wrong at its core. I think that our foreign policy, based on an openly proclaimed intention to dominate the world, is a recipe for getting our country in some of the worst trouble it's ever been in." Bush, Gore says, has compiled the worst economic record since Herbert Hoover. "For Democrats to lose the Senate and to lose ground in the House means that we have got to examine what we could have done more effectively as a party. I think it's the time now for us to be a loyal opposition, not just in name but in reality, and to present a clear alternative."

Did I miss one of the President's speeches? When did he or anyone in his Administration "openly proclaim" their "intention to dominate the world?" What in the world is Gore talking about? I "get" the Hoover boiler-plate. But the Dr. Evil stuff is just loony.