I think I’ve earned a brief holiday from blogging, so I’ll just throw up some links I’ve had forwarded or spotted on my own that are relevant to recent events;
I may be taking a break, but Newsbeat1 isn’t. There’s a ton of stuff there this morning. (Take the time to add this site to your blogroll. )
The apple is climbing back into the tree.
Further to the tender sensibilities of those offended by the use of the word “Jap”, (I presume you’ll rise in similar indignation next time you hear “Yank”), a few sentimental wartime postcards.
Greg and others think the Conservatives should release their platform now. Just in time for summer vacation. I don’t.
Someone asks privately about a detail of the RCMP murders that I wrote about at the time – oddly no photographs of the weapon seem to have been published in the mainstream press. Perhaps a photo of a HECKLER & KOCH, HK91 is “inconsistant” with the more important message that the “smoking gun registry” keeps “banned weapons from the hands of criminals”.
At Bound By Gravity, More historical photos, these ones of bombing damage at Saint-L�, France in the wake of D-Day.
Yes, a Blogger’s strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will…”
Zimbabwe police arrest more than 9,600
Posted by Clive
On 05/23/2005 8:30:09 AM PDT � 6 replies � 188+ views
Sun Media (Canada) ^ | 2005-05-23 | Michael Hartnack
HARARE, Zimbabwe (A) – Paramilitary units armed with batons, riot shields and tear gas patrolled main roads in Harare Monday as police warned they would not tolerate protests against their crackdown on street trading – the only livelihood for thousands of poor township dwellers. Police Chief Superintendent Oliver Mandipaka said 9,653 people were arrested in the five-day blitz on street vendors, flea market stalls and other informal businesses. He said people were preparing to demonstrate but that police were ready and commuter minibuses were prevented from entering the city centre. Angry demonstrators clashed with police over the weekend in the…
The Dark Side Holds Zimbabwe’s People Captive.
The Dark Side Holds Canada’s People Captive.
Ask http://www.andrewcoyne.com for his opinion.
Ask http://www.paulmartintime for his opinion.
Just saw AC’s post. I think you guys are taking him to literally. I read it as a deadpan send-up; rather Wellsian, to be honest.
I know AC doesn’t usually right for laughs, but “eminently admirable Tim Murphy” was a dead give-away.
That would be like me turing the phrase: “ever respectful Hu Jintao” (for those who don’t see the dark humor behind that, see the Hanyuan County Massacre: http://www.geocities.com/china_e_lobby/01December2004.html)
Ack! That should read “write for laughs.”
George Orwell, perhaps?
1984
“… imagine a boot stamping on a human face– for ever.”
andrewcoyne.com
paulmartintime.ca
The boot on the bloggers.
Who is next?
Last commenter on the HK91 post was:
Red-Green!
That is not funny. (Big Bird)
MAZ2:
I guess we know which country Pauly will go to next. You know, get Mugabe to give him a few tips on keeping the rabble in check.
Wouldn’t want the little people to get in the way of disastrous policies and grand larceny would we?
Interesting little factoid. Canada is pulling its troops out of the Golan Heights. With them gone we are going to have 63 troops doing UN peacekeeping. 63. Canada has had more troops fight in Iraq than we have doing UN peacekeeping.
” Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
-Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria.
a footnote: Last nite while instantmessaging my wife in Russia, I mentioned the fireworks going off outside,( to celebrate Victoria Day), and I mentioned that certain ‘immigrants’ like the fireworks- because they mask the sounds of gunshots! And virtually as I wrote that, some thugs were shooting at a police car, right around the corner from where I live! Close enough for me to hear those shots- that sounded like fireworks! Two arrests, two more being looked for, no description of the shooters, but the abandoned car is implicated in a previous ‘drive-by’. ‘Public Safety’ and ‘Public Security’ my ass!