The Night Was Dark and Sultry

Really.


Forget the cliched beginning. It's thirty degrees Celsius with the Humidex.


There are many things we shouldn't forget and one of them is that Chretien is, was and always shall be a filthy liar and a self-serving thief, just like Trudeau before him:

The 76-year-old retiree now enjoying a lucrative law career returned to Parliament Hill yesterday for his final parliamentary function — to unveil his Centre Block portrait and bask in salutes from dignitaries...

No, I haven't forgotten Ad-Scam or the snarling way in which he would bark at people.


As I was saying...

The United States will conduct anti-submarine and other naval exercises with Seoul in the "near future," it announced yesterday, as South Korea halted trade with the North in retaliation for the sinking of one of its warships.

The announcements came after an international investigation last week concluded that a North Korean submarine fired a heavy torpedo at the Cheonan on March 26, sinking the South Korean vessel and killing 46 sailors.

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak also banned the North's merchant ships from South Korean waters and said Seoul would refer the attack to the United Nations Security Council for punishment.

In a nationally televised address, Mr. Lee vowed an immediate military response to any future aggression, saying South Korea had in the past repeatedly tolerated the North's "brutality."

In Tokyo, Japan said it supported Seoul's push for Security Council punishment and was also studying more sanctions of its own against Pyongyang.

France said it would work at the UN Security Council to ensure that North Korea "doesn't go unpunished" for the sinking, characterising it as "criminal aggression."

In short, nothing. North Korea still gets to make a good won out of South Korea:

North Korea allowed South Korean workers on Wednesday to enter a joint industrial park that is a lucrative source of income for the Pyongyang government, despite having said a day earlier it was cutting all ties with the South.

The move to let in workers suggested that behind its latest furious rhetoric, which follows the South accusing it of sinking one of its warships, the isolated North is being careful not to take steps that will cause it real material damage.

Seoul's financial markets, battered the previous day partly on rising tensions on the divided peninsula, looked stable in early trading, although both shares and the won were down a little after initial gains.

Analysts say both Koreas, who have never repeated the open conflict of the 1950-53 Korean War, were unlikely to let their current hostility turn to war.

Tiger, my @$$.


Just so we remember, BP gave Obama a significant contribution. Sarah Palin pointed it out (hat tip: ABC). Where is the ravenous popular press? I realise it isn't Mrs. Palin mowing her lawn or talking about Alaska but surely the connection of a president to Big Oil is news. Right?



Oooh, scorch!