One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 20 May 2005

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Reboot These Error Messages

If Microsoft had any brains, it would completely overhaul Windows's error messages.
[Via NYT > Pogue's Posts]

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FBI calls UK animal activists terrorists

Environmental extremists and animal rights activists pose one of the most serious terrorism threats to the US, says the FBI.
[Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest]

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US double standards claim

Luis Posada, a militant wanted in Venezuela and Cuba, is charged with illegally entering the US in a case that has led to claims of hypocrisy by Washington in the war on terror.
[Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest]

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Ipperwash Barrel Suckers

Here in Ontario the Ipperwash inquiry into the police shooting death of Anthony George continues, moving slowly towards the critical moment when former Premier Mike Harris, the man in charge at the time, testifies about how it was he sees it. Mr. George, according to the news reports, was the first aboriginal protester killed by Canadian police in a century.

The inquiry has just heard tapes made of conversations among police officers hours before the shooting. In them, the then Conservative government are described, according to the CBC news report, as “gun-loving rednecks who couldn’t care less about aboriginals.” The CBC quotes one police officer as saying:

They just are in love with guns. There’s no question. They don’t give a shit less about Indians.

The Globe and Mail, less worried about the kiddies, perhaps, gives a fuller quote, which contains the ‘f’ word and also introduces a term I’d never heard before, a term that perfectly describes a certain kind of insecure person:

They are fuckin’ barrel suckers, they are just in love with guns … they couldn’t give a shit less about Indians.

“Barrel suckers”: that just about says it all — homoeroticism, infantile oral fixation, impotence… These are the gun lovers. How the cops must despise them.

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BBC News | World | UK Edition

The US could improve its image among Muslims if it showed more respect and emphasised its aid programmes, a report says.

I doubt it. All you have to do is listen to the rhetoric espoused by the mullahs of the region. They want any and all infidels (that's you and me) gone, killed, removed. These radicals are inflaming a minority into horrific acts of violence. Just remember the beheading of Nick Berg.

If someone tells me it's only a small minority, my response is the majority isn't making any efforts to denounce them. Until this happens true peace will not be achievable.

Sorry but this strikes me as a hilariously naive view.