That Good Night - World

Homo canadius

Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:02:43 -0800

I woke up this morning to the news that activist judges in Canada's high court ruled this morning that the country's constitution does not prohibit same-sex marriage, opening the door for Canadian lawmakers to pass legislation redefining marriage to include same-sex couples. A measure like this would be a joke in America, simply a gesture by Congress to flagrantly dismiss the gay community. "Hey guys, look at this! Nobody but Dennis Kucinich wants to let you get hitched! And he's an elf! Ha!"

In Canada, well:

One top Liberal predicted the legislation should pass easily after its introduction, likely early next year. It already has the support of the 38-member Liberal cabinet and virtually all the 54 Bloc Quebecois and 19 New Democrat MPs.

Kiss And Make Up

Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:12:27 -0800

49% of U.S. Americans say "sorry" to the world.

The world's response: "apology accepted"

So we got that goin' for us ... which is nice.

Bad Ass, No Draft

Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:21:28 -0700

This guy is a total badass.

In other news, a poll of Maine adults announced on the news last night had 20% in favor of reinstating the draft, 9% unsure and 70% opposed to it. In short, it's not a very popular idea.

Happy New Year, Now Get Out

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:22:09 -0700

Why is it that there are always people who believe in fighting fire with fire and evil with evil? You know what happens when you fight fire with fire? You just get a

bigger fire.

Dozens of right-wing Israeli leaders have announced the creation of a new political party which founders say will be dedicated to the expulsion of millions of Muslims and Christians from Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Yeah, that'll help.

According to Ben Elyaho, a co-founder of the new party, the expulsion of non-Jews from Israel would "resolve all of Israel's political, economic and social problems".

OK, either that or it will catalyze all-out war. Although, I have to grant that complete nuclear holocaust would solve all political, economic and social problems. It's hard to have those kinds of problems when you have no government, economy or society. It's kind of like how suicide is a remedy for pain.

The Olympics

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:26:14 -0700

I love the Olympics. I'm not loving the network coverage (don't have cable yet/any more), but I love the games. I made the following observations when watching the opening ceremonies and first day coverage:

South Korea/North Korea enter and march together for the second time -- promising.

Iranian withdraws to avoid being matched against an Israeli -- not so promising.

Palestine has an Olympic team -- promising

United States still gets very warm welcome despite being despised around the globe for our foreign policy -- shows that most of the world is wiser than most of the United States

Looking forward to more coverage and maybe getting cable to avoid the time delay.

News From "Islamic Web Site"

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:09:03 -0700

Yesterday on DailyKos I posted a question asking which web sites exactly the American news outlets are referring to when they cite information found on "an Islamic web site;" a phrase which we've heard often lately. Soj from Flogging the Simian posted the following response that I wanted to post here because I think it's important to understand all of the things that go on behind the scenes:

Let me explain the Al-Qaeda/Islamist website phenomenon.

There are two separate groups of Al-Q/I websites:

The first group, mostly used to host video messages, takes a legitimate website (usually a small company's website), hacks in and creates a directory. In essence, they use the company's server to host the video.