End of the Month Randomness! Everything Must Go!

To wit-

Is this Iraq? Wow! What an oasis! It's too bad Saudi-funded terrorists (militia-men if you're Michael "I'm Too Sexy for My Fat" Moore) are killing its citizens. Arabs stand by Arabs, I guess- so they can kill them better.

Iraq is a war that is fought by the media, not by bombs or guns which studies indicate are supremely beneficial for such things. What I'm trying to say is: guns don't kill people; believers of an Arab pedophile do.

I'd like to apologise for using the word "sexy" in conjunction with "Michael Moore". Nothing about that opportunistic, lying slob is in any way appealing and I apologise without reservation (something Shinzo Abe can't do- hiyoooooo!). It will never happen again.

Speaking of sexy, this might be old news if you actually still watch the should-be-defunct TV series, ER, but Goran Visnjic is leaving. Why didn't he leave before they wrote his character into the ground? All those wasted seasons! He could have appeared on a TV series as a sexy lawyer working in a sexy law firm trying sexy cases.

Okay, I'll stop saying sexy.

But one thing I won't stop doing is rocking!

Speaking of that, a good friend had the grandest generosity to send me a Patty Griffin CD. If you haven't had your Patty Griffin fix, get it.

By request, a comment on the pet poisonings. I am not wholly familiar with the cases but reports have it that food made from contaminated grain from China sickened or killed family pets. China has apologised for something it claims it is not responsible for. What? This is too much! Like China hasn't done something to maim or otherwise screw with the rest of the world (SARS, Tibet, its own people, Falun Gong, North Korea). Why have anything to do with China at all?

Why hasn't this and this incurred the wrath of PETA? Oh yeah- special interest groups, lawsuits and all that. A rock, a hard place and completely screwed.

If you haven't bought a copy of Mark Steyn's America Alone, do so. I ordered it because I knew I wouldn't get it at Indigo's or Chapter's. Apparently, this best-seller is just not popular, which is why it is a best seller. Anyway, I started reading it and I'm already in the middle.

And now for a surprise.

Weekly Randomness

Yes, it's time for more weekly randomness.

The Estonian government plans to move a statue dedicated to Soviet war dead to a park outside of the capital Talinn. This quote from Polish think-tank crystalises, at least for me, the horrid victim culture Russia has immersed itself in order to never acknowledge and ultimately make amends for its many, many wrong-doings of the past:

Russia has never come to terms with its history. Russians continue to see
themselves only as victims of World War II, he said, and ignore the dictatorial
systems they imposed on the countries they liberated from the Germans.

Yes, Russia, the perennial victim. Pogroms, the gulags, the Ukrainian famine, the Katyn forest massacre, the Second World War, Dieppe (this poorly thought out and executed plan was brought on by the former Soviet Union's threats to make peace with the Germans), the Korean War, the Hungarian revolution, Prague Spring, the attempted assassination of John Paul II (it wasn't enough that they took over Poland; they had to squash its liberator, too), Alexander Litivenko, the recent protests against the authoritarian Putin. Yes, Russia is quite the victim- a victim of its own making. The West has put up with its denial and deflection even the Russian people and their erstwhile victims are tired of it.

Is the EU going to allow this and this from a prospective member? I should hope not.

Pope Benedict has revised the teaching on Limbo. Limbo was the place where unbaptised babies waited before going to Heaven. I've never felt it was a punishment but something that confirmed baptism as the thing that we needed for salvation. I never felt anyone was being punished but without that necessary step they could not advance until it was time. Just me.

Earth Day- crock or something that just happens to fall on my mum's birthday? YOU be the judge.

Mark Steyn is the hammer to society's nail.

Aw, damn.

And, finally, no one ever says Italy.

Spring in Korea

It has been spring for a while with some lovely results. See here.

My particular favourites are the magnolias.

What Else...?

Do we need any more reasons why North Korea and its backer, China, are evil?

There should be no quarter given to China or Russia, the very countries that have conspired to keep Korea separate since its liberation. Hold them responsible for allowing everything that has gone on up until this point. I'm sure the survivors of the North Korean regime will take care of Kim Il-Sung's fat progeny themselves (Satan has a good grasp of Il-Sung's love handles as we speak).
As for the South Koreans' morally lazy government, well... can one teach empathy?

No Freaking Kidding

The average Canadian family spends more on taxes for subpar services we lord over the Americans than anything else.

That's the land of socialist bliss for you.

VT

I didn't want to post something here because I don't want to milk a hot story (because, really, that's all it is until there is another shooting or something to do with Anna Nicole Smith). I will make a few points.

Gun control wouldn't have stopped this, prevented this, or made it less of a tragedy. People who want to kill will find a way and not everyone who owns a gun is a psychopath.

Candlelight vigils don't ever help and are complete waste of wax.

South Korea, no one will look at you if you don't draw attention to yourselves. Stop being so self-conscious.

Fare

Good.

I think I've said what I need to say on this subject.

Randomness in Space!

It's like "Pigs in Space" but with more stuff.

First thing on the agenda: stupidity.

Hijab-gate. We've had the Herouxville debacle, Daddy's little soccer pawn, a woman so desperate to be shanked that she would fight to keep her hijab in a prisoner's reach, "reveal yourself or not vote" (sidebar to this article: it's always about THEM. Poor, little victims. Or poor, little attention-getters. Or people trying to deflect public anger at their stupidity and selfishness) and now a taekwondo team unable to spar because the hijab is more important than displaying martial arts prowess. The special interest groups are right. This shouldn't be an issue. In Canada, one is either a Canadian and willing to conform to its laws and customs or someone with an airplane ticket en route out of Canada. Safety is another concern, especially where the workplace has dangerous and resourceful offenders. The employers and team coaches should have brought up the issues of rules and safety instead of being cowards afraid of losing their jobs or being tarred by the likes of CAIR or some other terrorist- I mean- special interest group. I personally think the girls and ladies should be glad they are in a country where they are allowed to be educated, have jobs and drive themselves to work. Perhaps they would like to go to Saudi Arabia?

Hi, Don Imus. Bye, Don Imus.

To be fair, though, if he gets fired, take out rappers, too. I don't see why their gutter-speak is better than Imus'.

If you want a reason why you shouldn't support the Green Party (other than they are not a real party) look no further than this. I realise there is an element of this kind of thing in Canada and those people will ultimately be ashamed as soon as it is revealed that they are craven cowards with no sense of self and the world around them. That, and the friends and relatives will probably give them such a beating. (For the legal purposes, I am not advocating anything.)

I don't trust these people to be brought on by principle. They probably didn't read this book and now are too embarrassed to go back on it, hence, "the stand". That's why we always read the books before let our students read them. I mean, they could have been celebrating Christmas in that book!

An "Oh my God" moment.

Second thing on the agenda, North Korea. They have, again, failed to comply with orders preventing them from destroying the Korean Peninsula.

If this is true then what does it say when the Japanese, once enemies of the Koreans, care more for the plight of the North Koreans than their cousins to the south do? This is not to denigrate the efforts of some South Korean interest groups who face uphill slogs in their efforts to help the North Koreans but their government sure sucks.

Somebody had better remember the Holocaust because the Iranians won't. (Well, maybe not all of them).

I'm not sure this is entirely true but considering who they are, it probably is.

Does Hollywood disgust you yet?

I close with a sight so shocking, so horrifying, it will make you shudder- a dog begging for his breakfast.

Easter Eggs

These are some rather nice Easter eggs I saw somewhere. I do like the imagery- the deer, the fish, even the swirls and dots. There is a purpose behind the act of decorating eggs, traditionally a symbol of Easter. The eggs themselves become canvasses for some kind of expression.

Easter Post

To one and all, a happy Easter.

I had a rather nice time on Sunday. I had breakfast with some friends. We chatted, reminded ourselves why The Simpsons (earlier episodes) were funny and ate some really nice pancakes and omelets (mmm....omelets...)

And let's not forget the candy.....

Spring has sprung here in Korea. I do like it when the magnolias come into bloom. They are very beautiful flowers and very fragrant (just like the camelias in Jeju). The weather here is getting warmer but it is still quite cool. It must be enjoyed now because come June and July the heat will be oppressive. Have you ever had to peel clothes off of you before you put them on? Come here and experience that for yourself.

Speaking of Korea, the North Koreans will let inspectors in to see their Russo-Iranian-made reactors when the funds are released.

I don't think so.

Angelina Jolie has added another orphan to her United Colors of Benneton gaggle.

See the skyline in Washington, DC.

Until something annoys or strikes me, Peace of Christ and peace-out.

Calvary

...all the world is hungry and cannot be filled...

Hear, hear!

This columnist has it right.

People will mock what they don't understand and count on those never to hold it against them. Their courage is incredibly lacking when they should take a stand against something everyone should abhor.

Turn the other cheek indeed.