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Echoes Of Rwanda

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Toronto Star;

“It makes me sick,” Dallaire said yesterday in an interview. “It burns inside and the sentiments or the feelings that I had of abandonment in Rwanda are exactly the same that I feel today in regards to the Sudan.”

Of course they are.

“I am just disgusted with the lame and obtuse responses coming from Canada and the Western world..”

Same actors, same play.

Kerry: Contrast In Classlessness

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John Kerry, for reasons unknown, chose to try to follow Bush’s acceptance speech with a live response, carried on MSNBC. Kevin Aylward live blogged it from the convention.

John Kerry (and Edwards) decided to make a completely classless move and start a speech just minutes after Bush was finished speaking. He is cratering.

“And now that the President is Finally finished his speech, I have 5 words for America, ‘This is your wake up call.'”

Ain’t that six words?
[…]
“HOLY CRAP: He just went Michael Moore”.

MSNBC cut the feed part way through.

Here, A Nation Rose

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James Joyner has a comprehensive roundup of blogosphere commentary about President Bush’s acceptance speech. I didn’t see it, but skimming through different sites, the reaction seems to be positive towards both the content and the delivery.
I would suggest that Canadian readers who missed it, read the transcript – particularly the final third or so. Exerpts;

America has done this kind of work before and there have always been doubters. In 1946, 18 months after the fall of Berlin to allied forces, a journalist wrote in the New York Times, “Germany is a land in an acute stage of economic, political and moral crisis. [European] capitals are frightened. In every [military] headquarters, one meets alarmed officials doing their utmost to deal with the consequences of the occupation policy that they admit has failed.” End quote. Maybe that same person’s still around, writing editorials.
Fortunately, we had a resolute president named Truman, who with the American people persevered, knowing that a new democracy at the center of Europe would lead to stability and peace. And because that generation of Americans held firm in the cause of liberty, we live in a better and safer world today.
[…]
The world saw that spirit three miles from here, when the people of this city faced peril together, and lifted a flag over the ruins, and defied the enemy with their courage. My fellow Americans, for as long as our country stands, people will look to the resurrection of New York City and they will say: Here buildings fell, and here a nation rose.

(Wizbang has a Transcript. )

RNC Links

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MSNBC has the transcript up of the Miller bitch slapping of Chris Matthews interview on Hardball that’s getting so much attention on the blogosphere today.

MATTHEWS:� Senator, Senator, can I speak softly to you?� I would really like you to…
MILLER:� What?� No, no, no, because you won’t give me a chance to answer.� You ask these questions and then you just talk over what I am trying to answer, just like you did that woman the other day.�
MATTHEWS:� Well, Senator…
MILLER:� I don�t know why I even came on this program.�
MATTHEWS:� Well, I am glad you did.�
MATTHEWS:� Let me ask you this about John Kerry’s war record.�
MILLER:� Well, are you going to shut up after you ask me?�
MILLER:� Or are you going to give me a chance to answer it?�
MATTHEWS:� Yes, sir.�

And Wizbang has so much good, and original stuff blogging the RNC, you should just go pay the homepage a visit and read it all.
*sigh*
I’ll admit it.
I have Republican envy.

Winner’s Weiner

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NBC5.com reporting from the Nevada State Fair:


“The dachshund 50-foot sprint is an annual event. This year, there were so many entries that sponsors held a trial heat before the finals. Once they separated the dogs from the puppies, the real racing began.”

They’re off!

“The winner got $250 and a trip for two — which includes the wiener — to San Diego to compete in the national finals.”

I’d add something here, but sometimes, you just can’t improve on the original.

Dumb Luck Hypothesis

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Colby Cosh

The Dumb Luck Hypothesis, as it applies to Alberta, is terribly popular with people in Saskatchewan. They love to tell me, personally, how lucky Alberta has been to find itself sitting on top of all that oil. (They are generally unfazed when I explain that my parents and an army of kinfolk took the trouble to move here from Saskatchewan, many years ago, precisely because hardworking people were needed to help locate and extract all that oil.) Now I can simply point out that those who stayed behind have suddenly been revealed to be, almost literally, sitting on an assload of gems that has been left unprobed for decades. Luck ain’t something you get: it’s something you make.

Required reading for those in this province who think the difference between Aberta’s prosperity and Saskatchewan’s stagnation is oil.
Sometimes I do wonder how much better off this province would be today, had someone had the good sense to shoot Tommy Douglas.

“Uh, I Have No Idea”.

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Hugh Hewitt has posted a transcript of his interview with Terry McAuliffe, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Much hilarity ensues;

HEWITT: Sitting across from me Terry McAuliffe. Strike me dead. It’s so good to see you here Mr. Chairman. It’s good to have you at the Democratic National Convention and at the Republican National Convention
MCAULIFFE: Who would have thought that I’d be going around with a credential at the Republican Convention.
HEWITT: Can you stay for a couple of hours?
MCAULIFFE: Love to. Love it here. Everybody is being hospitable to me.
HEWITT: I want to start with some very easy questions.
MCAULIFFE: Yeah.
HEWITT: Do you believe that John Kerry took a CIA man into Cambodia and kept his hat?
MCAULIFFE: Uh, I have no idea.
[…]
HEWITT: When was the last time that he took questions on camera from journalists?
MCAULIFFE: I have no idea.
HEWITT: It was over a month.
MCAULIFFE: I will tell him that you are very concerned about this . . .
HEWITT: Does that tell you that the campaign is collapsing and he’s afraid to meet . . .
MCAULIFFE: Were you like this with Ronald Reagan when you could never get near him for years and he used to bring his car into the back door . .
HEWITT: [laugh] I was his lawyer. I couldn’t . . . I was in the White House Counsel’s office..
[…]
HEWITT: John Edwards yesterday said that he should sell the Iranians nuclear fuel. Do you agree with that, Terry McAuliffe?
MCAULIFFE: What did John Edwards say?

Read the whole thing.

“Don’t be economic girlie men!'”

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Arnold rocks. He just blew me away. I’m probably not alone in saying I’d never heard him speak before, outside a few clips (generally accompanied by snide tv reporter commentary) while he was running in the California recall election. And no hint of following a teleprompter, either. Oddly, his Austrian accent isn’t as distracting in a lengthy speech as it is in a short soundbite.
Full text here.
I thought the Bush twins were a little lame, but it didn’t bother me. They’re kids, venturing onto the national stage for the first time. Laura was very good.
I was working out of the house all day, and caught part of the convention coverage when at a friend’s for dinner. Looks like Glenn Reynolds has a good cross section of links, reaction and analysis. Kevin Aylward has been blogging up a storm on the convention floor. (Very cool. Kevin was one of the first established bloggers who gave SDA a “leg up” by inviting me to guest blog at Wizbang a few months ago.)
Al Franken got caught engaging in a little shoving match.
I’m typing this while listening to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show in the background. He’s sounding a little frantic in his delivery. Shrill, even.
Odd technique, for comedy.

France: Still On the Other Side

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The Belmont Club has been following the French diplomatic movements in seeking release of the journalists kidnapped in Iraq.

If the French are not seeking to pay monetary or some other type of ransom to obtain the release of the two Frenchmen kidnapped by Iraqi terrorists nothing in their actions of the past few days makes sense. The French Foreign Minister, Michel Barner, is on tour of Middle Eastern capitals to seek support for the release of the hostages.
[…]
But the descent of so many French diplomats on Middle Eastern capitals suggests it is trying to cut a political deal with the terrorists and their backers. Since France has ruled out rescinding the headscarf ban to preserve the appearance of amour propre, the obvious alterntive is to make someone else make concessions. That someone will probably be Iraq. This may have sparked off the exchange between Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and the Quai de Orsay. According to Xinhua:

… Allawi declared earlier Monday that the kidnapping of two French journalists showed that there was “no possible neutrality” in Iraq and that those who do not fight at the government level can not escape terrorism. “None of the civilized countries can escape,” he said, noting “there is no possible neutrality, as shows the kidnapping of the French journalists.” “The French deluded themselves if they would hope to stay outside,” he added.
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s declaration, which came after the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq and accused France’s position towards terrorism, was “unacceptable,” the French Foreign Ministry said Monday. “This declaration seems in fact to have cast doubt on France’s determination in the fight against terrorism … France is leading untiringly a resolute action against this scourge and it is always bringing its support and contribution to all the initiatives of the international community in this field,” said Cecile Pozzo di Borgo, spokeswoman of the French Foreign Ministry. The spokeswoman reiterated her country’s call for efforts to seek a “political solution” to the Iraqi crisis, adding that “the organization of free and democratic elections would permit to get together conditions of a real political and economic reconstruction of Iraq”. France has opposed the US-led Iraq war and has no troops in Iraq.

This suggests that the French diplomats are attempting to link the release of the French hostages to changes in the method and manner in which the Iraqi elections will be held.

Stay tuned.

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