Surfing Yahoo on a 5 minute break causes my head to interact aggressively with my desk
Published by punkass marc March 1st, 2008 in Punkass!, Zinczenko'dYes, I am working on a Saturday once again, and soon I will be able to reveal to the world why I’ve been racking up 80 hour weeks in 2008. Maybe I should work 80 hours and 5 minutes, though, so I don’t take a moment to catch up on the news. And by news I mean the Associated Press coverage of national and international gooberness.
Future president John McCain would like those dagblasted kids to get off his NAFTA lawn before they scare away all those jumpy little Canadian tanks:
Republican John McCain said the desire by Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement would jeopardize crucial military support from Canada.
What sort of nonsense is this? Canada, white people everywhere have been holding you up as the paragon of peacenik decency. Have you secretly been knocking combat boots with the Halliburton crowd?
Canada has 2,500 troops serving in Afghanistan along with 29,000 U.S. soldiers.
Whoa! That’s practically a battalion. Or something. Anyway, add another checkmark by New Zealand as the sexier destination for wealthy crackers who enjoy throwing the deuce.
Meanwhile, when is it okay for a government to kill civilians? When it’s self-defense, of course!
Israeli troops turned heavy firepower on rocket squads bombarding southern Israel Saturday, killing 54 Palestinians in the deadliest day in Gaza since the current round of fighting erupted in 2000.
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In Washington, National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe expressed regret for loss of civilian life on both sides but put most of the blame on the Palestinians.
“There is a clear distinction between terrorist rocket attacks that target civilians and action in self-defense,” he said in a statement.
Maybe things are better over in the world of google news…
I’m really alarmed by how dumb John McCain is. Like he’s not just Bush-level dumb, but more to a degree that I have to wonder if his mental faculties are slipping.
“Canada has 2,500 troops serving in Afghanistan along with 29,000 U.S. soldiers. Whoa! That’s practically a battalion. Or something.”
“I’m really alarmed by how dumb John McCain is.”
A few ways to look at these numbers and how “dumb” they are:
1. The US has about 10 times the population as Canada, so their troop commitment per capita is similar to our own.
2. If the Canadians decide to withdraw their troops, then that’s 2,500 more troops that someone else has to send. There are few other countries volunteering.
Obama has admitted as much that he’s just posturing on NAFTA to placate the hard left primary voters. Considering this is just posturing, then it is pretty irresponsible to jerk around an alley whose support you need.
“…then it is pretty irresponsible to jerk around an alley whose support you need.”
…or even an Ally…
Which might be a great point if Cheney/Bush hadn’t spent the whole 7-years pissing off just about everybody in the world. But IOKIYAR…
If this country was an actual person, the other countries would have come together and staged an intervention a long time ago…