Link Dump
1) A man testifying in front of the Senate argued that the best way to win the war of public opinion in Iran would be to convince Trey Parker and Matt Stone to make a "Team America"-style movie with top Iranian officials as the bad guys. See why this line of reasoning actually makes sense...
Parker’s and Stone’s special gift is to see the pompous, the absurd, and the self-important through the eyes of the young and to caricature these with Chaplinesque comic sensibility. The Middle East - where there is plenty of pomposity, absurdity, and self-importance - is a place where satire and ridicule can be particularly powerful weapons, especially with young people. We should not fight the spirit of rebelliousness of the region’s youth but go with it. It is now the case, and sometimes we even deserve it, that we are that spirit’s target, but we should do our best to help it focus heavily on the real and entrenched enemies of young people’s freedom: the Middle East’s pompous totalitarians.
2) MoveOn.org (a group which can't seem to move on...) claims to care for our troops and yet they can't tell the difference between US and British troops. Oops!
3) Ronald MacDonald charged with robbing a Wendy's in NH. Seriously.
4) The Liberal Party is Canada will soon be experiencing what the Democrats of the 1990s went through: the era of the Conservatives has come at last! (Or, at least, it should be arriving soon...)
By the way, just to get an idea of how "great" the Canadian health care system is that liberals and socialists (I know, I repeat myself) in America love to fawn over, read this:
Take Canada’s much vaunted health-care system. In a recent poll, more than 80 percent of Canadians rate the system “in crisis.” People wait for practically any diagnostic test, surgical procedure, or specialist consult. The doctors’ shortage is so severe that, in Norwood, Ont., winning the town lottery isn’t a ticket to material wealth. With just one family doctor to service the entire town, the physician takes only 50 new patients a year. As a result, the town holds an annual lottery with the 50 winners getting an appointment with him.
Yikes.
5) KJL decries the morphing of funerals to Democratic pep rallies.
Parker’s and Stone’s special gift is to see the pompous, the absurd, and the self-important through the eyes of the young and to caricature these with Chaplinesque comic sensibility. The Middle East - where there is plenty of pomposity, absurdity, and self-importance - is a place where satire and ridicule can be particularly powerful weapons, especially with young people. We should not fight the spirit of rebelliousness of the region’s youth but go with it. It is now the case, and sometimes we even deserve it, that we are that spirit’s target, but we should do our best to help it focus heavily on the real and entrenched enemies of young people’s freedom: the Middle East’s pompous totalitarians.
2) MoveOn.org (a group which can't seem to move on...) claims to care for our troops and yet they can't tell the difference between US and British troops. Oops!
3) Ronald MacDonald charged with robbing a Wendy's in NH. Seriously.
4) The Liberal Party is Canada will soon be experiencing what the Democrats of the 1990s went through: the era of the Conservatives has come at last! (Or, at least, it should be arriving soon...)
By the way, just to get an idea of how "great" the Canadian health care system is that liberals and socialists (I know, I repeat myself) in America love to fawn over, read this:
Take Canada’s much vaunted health-care system. In a recent poll, more than 80 percent of Canadians rate the system “in crisis.” People wait for practically any diagnostic test, surgical procedure, or specialist consult. The doctors’ shortage is so severe that, in Norwood, Ont., winning the town lottery isn’t a ticket to material wealth. With just one family doctor to service the entire town, the physician takes only 50 new patients a year. As a result, the town holds an annual lottery with the 50 winners getting an appointment with him.
Yikes.
5) KJL decries the morphing of funerals to Democratic pep rallies.