A few links I’ve collected over the past few days;
A blog by a Canadian reservist (just home) from Afghanistan.
I guess there will always be those who don’t really want to see what is really going on around them.� When I went to the orphanage this morning and dropped off $600 US for the director to purchase a washing machine, some carpets, a couple of fans and a couple of hundred dollars worth of food, I really didn’t feel that I was “bombing the children.”� After lunch, when I went to the 6 room school house that we have built with money raised by and from the soldiers of Camp Julien and their families, I didn’t really feel like I had “bombed the schools.”� And in a couple of days, when I drop off at a needy mosque the brand new generator that was donated by a thoughtful citizen back in Canada, I probably won’t feel as if I have “bombed the holy places.”� When I see the Engineers risk their lives to go out and collect up hundreds of kilograms of mines, RPG 7 rounds, and various other lethal munitions and blow them up, I don’t feel as if we are holding this country back.� When the MP’s here on the camp go to the local police stations and provide training on proper search and arrest procedures, I don’t see that as contributing to the problems here.� When the Health Services people here go out and provide cross training to the medical staff at the medical facilities near the camp…again I fail to see how we’re the problem.
Peaktalk on the lax TBS-clinics in Holland and the escape of Todd Cameron Smith he who can no longer be named.
They come in peace.
Someone tipped me off to John The Mad, with a note about how good a blog it is. Agreed.
A Jawa Report survey comparing military service in the “left” and “right” blogosphere.
The mayor of Toronto wants law-abiding residents to store their guns in a central armoury[1] so that, apparently, drug dealers and gang members can have a free field of fire with the illegal ones. But set that aside for the time being – nothing flushes away the stench of warm blood on hot streets more effectively than noticing that the shooters are black!
[1] That didn’t take long. Now – aren’t you glad you forgot to register yours?
(Add your own in the comments.)
The black city councilor has it right : The police must be given the power to check out suspects in high crime areas without being labelled as racist by the political correctniks who seem to balk at any sensible idea of approaching these types of crimes. Thank goodness the councilor had the courage and common sense to state the obvious – qualities that all the wilting naysayers apparently lack.
For a good essay on racial issues in TO, See this:
http://thelastamazon.blogspot.com/2005/08/elephants-are-in-room-and-not-one-is.html
This is CANADA. Good luck with trying to fight crime here. We’ve gotten so politically ocrrect that we might offend the criminals.
Damn that reservist anyhow. He is obviously not following the agenda of the liberal left. The truth be known, with few exceptions (like Fox) most MSM tend to forget or ignore the good stories coming out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Building a school or making a plaza safe for people doesn’t tie in with the almost non-stop coverage of Cindy Sheehan and her ranting.
So if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, we cannot say it’s probably a duck in Toronto? Of course we all know that if all of identified airline bombers were young males of middle east persuasion we should pull that little old Ukranian-Canadian grandmother out of her wheelchair and do a cavity search. This will prevent airport security from being labeled as racial profilers.
Good lord, what ever became of common sense (or for those old navy types CDF)? Sometimes I wonder…
Check out CBC.ca (hold your nose) re. Winnipeg anti-fogging protester gets absolute discharge.
I couldn’t help but see the contrast in treatment between this “save the mosquitos” quack being complimented by the judge and someone breaking a similar court ordered ban from an abortuary. God help us!
“The mayor of Toronto wants law-abiding residents to store their guns in a central armoury[1] so that, apparently, drug dealers and gang members can have a free field of fire with the illegal ones. But set that aside for the time being – nothing flushes away the stench of warm blood on hot streets more effectively than noticing that the shooters are black!
[1] That didn’t take long. Now – aren’t you glad you forgot to register yours?”
Underground ammo sale on now!!!
In any parking lot in the country..
August 17, 2005
Television Goes to War
In May, we were invited by the Directors Guild of America to screen parts of “Gunner Palace” for a panel discussion called “Directors Under Fire”. Also screened were clips from Iraq themed episodes of “JAG” and “ER” and the first episode of Steven Bochco’s “Over There”. The conversation was moderated by Richard Schickel from Time who has a lifelong interest in war reportage and war cinema.
At risk of sounding like a TV critic, I can say that it was odd sitting in an airconditioned theatre watching fictional representations of a subject that is so close to me–knowing that in two weeks I’d be back in Baghdad. At the same time, I realized that in this war, like in any other, fiction will play an important role is shaping perceptions of the conflict. Will we get it right? Only time will tell. >>>>>
http://www.gunnerpalace.com/content/2005/08/television_goes.php
Reading [imnotParinoid.blogspot.com]s dream, reminded me of…
I had a similar dream, but it was Harper and the CPC who got many of these things done.
Most noteworthy was the installation of the Whistle-Blower bill C-11, now in place with real effectiveness to protect persons who take risks to report government wrongdoing that has cost us losses in the recent past of hundreds of millions of lost revenues.
Harper and the CPC also established the finely tuned Bill-205 that covers specific issues of reprisal, threat and harassment of whistle blowers.
This is a Grewal bill, by the way.
The Conservatives had just completed implementation of individual Account and Audit for every government department and ministry when I woke up.
Just the three measures that happened in that dream were enough to protect Canada’s future revenues for the foreseeable future, no matter who happened to form the government.
Can’t wait to see that dream come true. 73s TG Bendgovt.blog.ca
Thanks for the compliment Kate. It means a lot coming from you.
And don’t get me going on Mayor Miller’s idea of a central storage for legal guns. Grr.