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Friday April 4,
2008
Who's sorry now, eh?
On the A's and B's of remorse, regal
racism, and gunfire at the Gaza corral
Take a look and
be honest. Don't you think Tom Lukiwski
looks a little bit - you know ... Did you notice it wasn't enough
for
him to just say "on behalf of my family", he made sure to let you know
he has fathered children? Do you think maybe he's a little
bit paranoid he might
be a little bit - you know ...?
Did you notice how he jumped in so quickly to interrupt the
interviewer, by saying "Old"? Do you think he was a little bit
afraid the guy was going to
say - "You are actually, how can I put this delicately ... you know ...
Okay, I'll come right out and say it - 'B'."
You gotta betcher buttons he wishes - now - that he hadn't said what he
said. But was he sorry an hour before the story broke?
This is the type of "Tory" (a misnomer that misleads the public about
the true nature of this new "Conservative" party) who has found a
good-paying home with the racist, homophobic, sexist Reformists in Tory
drag. There are many others like them working for Harper. I bet
there's a film on some dusty shelf in which they enthuse about offing
Afghani "ragheads" as well. And we already know, from news
reports
about Lukiwski and
from earlier
reports about Peter MacKay, that "slut" and "dog" are okay terms
with which to indicate women they don't like.
If Lukiwski seriously thinks this doesn't
"reflect" the person he is, then
he doesn't understand the meaning of the word "reflect". He
is certainly a
walking, blurting reflection of the Harper government.
But he's in ever so excellent company. Prince Philip is currently
making a bid for sympathy
by entering hospital with a chest cold (if it was pneumonia, the old
person's killer, they probably would have screeched so - but of course
if he lies around long enough it could become that) after Dodie
al-Fayed's father commented Philip is a nazi and a racist.
Racist for absolutely sure, and he would certainly look down on the
al-Fayeds. It used to be quite acceptable and in the finest
British
tradition to make comments such as dear Pip has made in the past:
He
told
British students in China: "If you stay here much longer, you'll be
slitty-eyed." He asked Aborigines in Australia if they still threw
spears at each other. While on a tour of a company near
Edinburgh,
Scotland, he saw a poorly wired fuse box. "It looks as though it was
put in by an Indian," he remarked.
People past
adolescence don't change as they age; circumstances merely alter some
people's behaviour.
I myself have been openly rebelling against controllers and hypocrites
since my mid teens (I kept quiet about it when I was younger than
that). And like attracts like. Antonia Zerbisias,
for instance, has placed me on her "Unruly Canadian Women" blogroll.
Antonia herself "has been telling people what she thinks ever since
she could open her mouth". She's blogging again (I knew she
couldn't stop entirely) and you
should see how she's managed to parlay a simple article on
eating sufficient protein into a treatise on sexism and the big pharm
trap.
Here's more from the Toronto Star:
Boys build stun
gun from how-to on Internet
What
in the world are the cops so worked up about? Didn't they assure
us these things are perfectly harmless?
Gunfire
at the Gaza Corral
From the BBC:
Gaza gunman shoots Israeli aide
All very vague - no names of shooter or groups, and no serious injury,
but it gave Israel the opportunity to yet again invade Gaza with tanks
and guns ablazing, and bulldozers amowing down homes.
From
Reuters:
Lots more detail (both Hamas and Fatah claiming responsibiity!)
but
only time will tell if it's contradicted. Wonder how Reuters was
selected by Hamas to receive the tape. Depending on how you look at it,
Avi Dichter is either a great asset to Israel in that finally, finally,
visitors have been able to see just how evil the Palestinians are, or
he has become a liability since people standing near him are in danger
of getting shot.
From
Yahoo: Dichter's aide took it in the
butt. How embarrassing. Yahoo gratuitously tosses
in that "An Ecuadorean worker was killed in January in a shooting
attack on another kibbutz near the border."
What does Hamas have against Ecuador? Need I state the obvious? -
in
an Israeli army "intelligence" effort to demonstrate the need for
Israel's "war on terror", the Ecuadorian would be considered expendable.
So might Harper,
Duceppe,
Day,
Layton, Dion,
Ignatieff, and all the other fine folks who feasted with Dichter at this
parlimentary dinner.
These guys are good at covering their butts, but only after the damage
has been done. They should seriously reconsider their habit of
consorting with wanted men.
From
Canwest:
Dichter doesn't want people to think the Palestinians knew in advance
of the visitors, but Hamas is quoted as saying they did know in
advance. Now how would that information find its way to Hamas?
As usual it all smells fishy, and only Israel and of course Canada's
position on Israel stand to benefit from this incident.
yayacanada
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