Monday, February 11, 2002
Cheese eating surrender monkeys is only funny caus its true. But is it really advisable for Jaques Chirac to be governing like Marhsal Petain? France delende est!
But really why should the US support these people when they're just incipient nazis? Perhaps we should Nato's mission to keeping the French, rather than the Germans, down. But then again, Germany has been good about keeping the French down in the past, and they've been behaving much better than the French recently. Perhaps we should just return France to the Germans?
Tuesday, February 05, 2002
Axis of evil.. just a bunch of bull.. Damn Bush doesnt know what he's talking about. Can't those Americans just play nice?
Answer: HELL NO! Here's 10,000 reasons why the US needs to invade Iraq and Iran now!
Saud Delenda Est!
Iraq Delenda Est!
Iran Delenda Est!
Lovely Globe and Mail Editorial! I almost choked at the intense loathing of Israel. I guess that the "respectable" Canadian opinion is that Israel is a "shitty little country"?
But the best thing about this article is that it lays out exactly why Israel won't deal with Arafat :
"...Switch off the violence -- all the violence -- and maybe we can talk again.
This demand would be more credible if Mr. Arafat's plight were less dire and Palestinian tensions less complex. There is no doubt that, besieged in Ramallah or not, he retains immense influence. When he called for a ceasefire in mid-December, most Palestinians heeded him..."
Isn't that the reason why Arafat can't be trusted? Even with tanks parked at his doorstep, he's still writing congratulatory letters for suicide bombers and advertising for Al Quaeda fighters in Arabic while penning crocodile tears for the New York Times. Despite their attempt to agree with Israel's positiojn, the Globe still spends most of the Editorial whinging about Sharon's strategy.
I wonder whether the Globe would even right an article questioning Arafat's strategy of slitting the last Jewish throat in Galilee as his armies finished their goal of Palestine from river to the sea? These are the boys from Brazil, they just have dark tans.. apparently something went wrong with the cloning process. They are doing Goebbels, Himler, and Adolph proud though!
Saud et Palestine Delenda Est!
Monday, February 04, 2002
Really sad article in OpinionJournal on the persistence of anti-Semitisim. One of the most disgusting things I see in "elite" opinion is the wholesale adoption of the arabist viewpoint that wishes Israel would just go away so the West could deal nicely with the Islamic world.
This is similar to those who wish that Taiwan would diappear and we could have an amicable relationship with China. Charles Lindbergh call your office! Same for the Duke of Windsor and Clement Attlee! This is nothing but appeasement of the vilest kind.
I do agree that Israel's current borders are illegitimate. How they were created and shaped through war is digusting. For such a great and nice country to have such a small territory in such a bad neighbourhood is just beyond the pale. The US should help establish a more easily defendable set of borders. That would include Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, with the Jordanians being given that nice rich stretch of land that borders on the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, and Iran (the Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia and Iraq has such a nice ring to it!). Saud Delenda Est!
What to do with the people who are currently in that territory? Offer them jobs in the Hashemite oil fields and in building modern infrastructure in the Kingdom. The northern provinces have just not been kept up with times recently, and they've been having very destructive visitors! Lots of work to be done and money to be made, although certain, ahem, construction companies should perhaps be excluded from consideration. Could it be the SATAN group (uh close... there's apparently interesting regional variations in spelling...)
So Mr. Halkin, there's at least one gentile here that's definitely in the Zionist camp!
Excellent column by David Warren reflecting on the relationship between envy and feelings toward America. It's disappointing that so many good and principled people can't admit that other people have been doing better than them and that those people had better ideas.
Maybe its just been my extremely humbling experience studying engineering, but I have little problem admitting when I or my country is wrong. Hell, I even get disgusted with the US for screwing up. This might also be due to my fairly pragamatic (I think) approach to life.
It would just be nice if the very many critics of the US (especially those on the right) would just act like intellectually mature adults. But given the past behaviour of those critics, it is defintely too much to ask!
Thursday, January 31, 2002
It was too bad that Ann Coulter went unhinged against Jonah Golberg in September. This piece in Frontpage is awesome! Yeah I kinda think Horowitz is nuts and over the line sometimes, but then Derbyshire can be just fucked up beyond words yet I still love National Review.
I personally believe that people engaging in a riot should be shot. Especially in Canada or Britain where the Riot Act is still on the books and provides full legal justification for these actions. So I have exactly zero sympathy for the scum in Gitmo. The only reason that they should be tried is that we need info and some of them may not be Al Quaeda (I love when it doesn't matter how I spell something!).
I don't like executing people that didn't want to be there (Taliban were notorious for press gangs) so executing some poor schmuck just cause he got conscripted ain't nice. People at anti-freedom riots (Rome, Seattle, etc) are there by choice (the union protesters, while idiots, are smart enough to bug out when shit gets fucked up), so I have no problem with shooting the lot of them.
This editorial in The Globe and Mail, yeah I was surprised too, has helped me to change the slogan and title of this place... Saud Delenda Est!
Let's go Cicero!!!! Thanks to Prof. Reynolds for inspiring the slogan.
Monday, January 21, 2002
Was just reading one of the interminable articles on Canadian healthcare. The one thing that really bothers me is that people in the debate never admit or seem oblivious to the fact that there is already a 3 tier system in this country.
Tier 1 is people in underserved communities/ those that move around alot and thus have no family doctor. This is especially prevalent in small towns in farming areas or in the North (this is Ontario specific, as I don't know all that much about healthcare in other provinces) where doctors are reluctant to locate as they have to work longer hours, have less to do, and make the same or less money as those who work in cities. Healthcare is not very good, and generally involves driving a long time to find a hospital thats open and waiting in the ER for 5 hours until someone will take care of your earache.
Tier 2 is the general suburban/urban experience where doctors are available and you can usually find a new one if you need to. People with doctors in outlying areas are also part of tier 2. This gives a decent level of care as long as you don't need a specialist or complicated surgery or diagnostic tests. Its not all that great, but you can generally get by and you get what you pay for.
These two tiers are understood to exist, even though they aren't recognised as persistent states. Rather these situations are viewed as temporary aberrations.... Just wait 10 years and tell me how "temporary" the aberration was ("temporary": for gov't definition see war-time income taxes, temporary)
Tier 3 is the unacknowledged elephant in the corner, and one that I have the good fortune of using thanks to the neighbourhood I grew up in and my parents taste in friends. In this tier you have the private cell numbers of 10-20 specialists (or at least your GP) and you can get in before hours, after hours, on weekends, or even meet someone at the hospital during a break in surgery. You go to the front of the line for everything and no-one even notices because you skip the posted office hours, get diagnosed at the cottage/ski hill/golf course and use myriad other techniques to have a Tiffany style health plan at public expense.
Now this is not to say that the people in Tier 3 don't pay their fair share (they pay everyone's fair share and then some). The problem is that universal entitlements create bloated bureaucracies that cost too much and don't serve the people who really help well or in a dignified manner. Just as for Univerity funding and pretty much every other part of government in Canada, the ideal of universality screws over those who need help at least twice. They get lower quality/ higher priced services and a slower economy that reduces their opportunities to improve their lives.
As to what's better? more to follow
Apologies to anyone who is actually reading this, but school, co-op job hunting, and life really impinges on my ability to read enough to give me interesting things to say, let alone write them down! Hopefully I will someday approach Prof Reynolds' productivity level... but it appears that that day is a long way off
Wednesday, January 16, 2002
Leftists have traditionally avoided the fact that their policies are generally opposed by large majorities of the public by blaming "false consciousness". Now this I usually see this as BS... but what else can explain the strange behaviour of Bill Gates' dad, and of Microsoft's media divisions? Bill is one of the guys who most needs libertarian economic policies but his mag and his online services endorse higher taxes and more restrictions on all economic activities or are biased towards thoe who do. WTF?
Tuesday, January 15, 2002
Yesterday was just an awesome day... turned on the tv during dinner and saw Brian Tobin resigning from politics... So no more "Captain Canada" pulling some statist "economics" on us and further screwing Canada over. While I haven't met Mr. Tobin, I do know his daughter and I assume that he is an honorable man... unfortunately he just does not have very good ideas for the future of Canada... So Heather, please don't get angry at me : )!
The thing that bothered me most about this man was his plan for bringing broadband to everyone in Canada at the cost of several billion dollars.... (or several thousand US...) This despite the fact that pretty much anyone who wants broadband in Canada can get it, and the only places it's hard to get are rural areas where the demographic make it extremely unlikely that many people would both want and be able to pay the $40 Canadian that Rogers charges... The internet has many problems, but lack of access in Canada is not one of them (although it's different in the states, slightly). The main issue is that most people still can't make money off of the Internet... Although some people I know are working on that...
Some basic info here.. got the motto from Reason but shortened it a bit and added a little Engineering "flair".. Ok so I'm a geek... but at least I know that I am, so that sort of diminishes the problem... right?
As for the geek stuff that will come out.. I'm an engineering student at the University of Waterloo, which is essentially the highest concentration of geeks in the world. Silicon Valley and Redmond definitely have more, but we've got the most highly concentrated solution... For a little bit more info on UW, check out Douglas Copeland's Microserfs... BTW we're also (or at least used to be) the school that produced the highest number of staff at the Best Software Company in the Universe (aka The Borg or The Beast)
Last thing, I don't plan on looking for any cash from this place, just a place to hopefully contribute to debate. So until further notice, there won't be any affiliate links here.
A la prochaine
Welcome to pardise... the land of cold drinks, warm nights, awesome wakeboarding, and some of the best cars on some of the worst roads in Ontario. Nothing like cottage country, especially for the most incongruous sights... including a relatively anti-establishment provocateur (hopefully.. though depends on how you define establishment).
I'll try to make this interesting wth some coverage of everything from school politics to world issues...
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