What a week – a blur. I swear I was 27 when it started and now I have kids
and a mortgage. Thing I learned? Buying gifts for a kids party was easier when
they were two. You can buy an old shoe and stick some red masking tape on it and
a two-year old would be happy. Now they have taste and ideas. I am doomed.
- Rummy Update: You know I am a Powellista so find these things Rummy says funny in a really sad and depressing funny kinda way:
“Many of the terrorists who have not been killed or captured are on the run. They have lost their sanctuary in Afghanistan. And they have lost a supporter in Iraq, which paid $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers…”
The observation I would make is that the actions the Canadian Forces have made in Afghanistan in the last few weeks to clear an area of the Taliban happened “about 15 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city” and so far “about 65 per cent of the contested area, measuring perhaps four kilometres by five kilometres, has been formally cleared of insurgents.” I am a big booster of what our Canadian Forces are doing there but characterizing what has happening so far after almost five years of continuing warfare as a “loss of sanctuary” in a country of 652,225 square kilometres is not quite an accurate statement.
- I came across a blog by an English Magistrate, including this
post complaining that not enough prosecutions are being brought before
her/him for short-pouring beer. That is my kinda judge. - Everytime I read articles like this about Alberta’s
oil windfall I get the giggles over the twit that argued the difference
between Alberta and the rest of Canada was not the largest oil deposit in the
universe but the prevalence of socialism elsewhere. - I just finished Pete Brown’s book Three Sheets to the Wind. I have to
do a proper review over at A Good Beer Blog after fellow beer blogger Knut of Norway and I pose the author some
questions. I reviewed his last book here. This one
is even better – a romp around the world to figure out how each culture includes
beer. -
Was yesterday the day that lame duck
began in the US presidency?Democrats are rapt spectators, however, shielded by
the stern opposition to the president being expressed by three Republicans with
impeccable credentials on military matters: Senators John McCain of Arizona,
John W. Warner of Virginia and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. The three were
joined on Thursday by Colin L. Powell, formerly the secretary of state and the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in challenging the administration’s
approach.It is one of those rare Congressional moments when the policy is as
monumental as the politics.When you look ahead, the road to
January 2009 could be a very long and weird path. That being said, Democrat Eliot Spitzer, the next Governor of
NY, has really good TV ads. The public good as a matter of responsibility – who
knew? If I were in the southern sector of Easlakia, I could see myself getting
involved. - Say
it ain’t so, Dog. - How to identify when you have a Jr. B pope on your
hands. And get in line, Islamic world. He was giving
us the gears last week. Time again for the Avenging Lumberjacks of the
Reformation, Canada’s moderate protestant underground based in the Yukon, to
come out of the shadows of the forest to take a stand.
Well, that is
enough for now. What to look forward to this weekend? Syracuse at Illinois
Saturday at noon if you have the 37 billion channel universe. Sox and Yankees if
you like human sacrifice.