Random News & Views Roundup

- Okay, first of all, let me say this: there's a whole lot of fearmongering going on in the US about 'terrorist Canadians' since the weekend arrests with calls for tighter border security and the rest of the overblown rhetoric we've been hearing since the milennium bomber guy was captured. Look, you want to fearmonger about insecurity (Rep Pete King of NY)? Start at home with your flipping Republican president and congress slacking off for 5 bloody years since 9/11 on security issues. Then you can complain about Canada's policies. And, if you still conclude that we are a threat up here, I suggest that you seal America off in a bullet-proof, hermetically-sealed plastic bubble and keep everyone out. Then you'll all be safe and secure, right? Oh. I forgot. Your 9/11 hijackers were already in your country before they blew things up because your intelligence and immigration systems screwed up - as did your 'I'm just going to ignore this August, 2001 PDB telling me that Osama bin Laden is determined to strike inside the United States no good for nothing' president.

Yeah. You remember that the next time you open your mouth about scary terrorists invading from the Great White North.

And now, on the the rest of the day's news & views...

- Kidnapping is on the march in a very big way in Baghdad. Unbelievably, some 50+ people were rounded up and taken hostage in one day. How the hell does that happen?

- Some details of the incentive proposals offered to Iran have been leaked. Meanwhile, the US has plans to build 10 more nuclear power plants. It's ironic. I'm just sayin'...

- This New York Time's editorial writer is depressed:

President Bush devoted his Saturday radio speech to a cynical boost for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. It was depressing in the extreme to hear the chief executive trying to pretend, at this moment in American history, that this was a critical priority.

You know what's really depressing? That Bush is still president and that you, New York Times people, helped push his faux case for WMDs prior to the Iraq war. Yeah. That's depressing.

(I'm a tad cranky tonite. Can you tell?)

- The US refuses to compensate Vietnam's Agent Orange victims. Remember that the next time you hear Bushco talk about Saddam's chemical weapons victims.

- Tuesday is 6/6/06: June 6, 2006. Oooo...how apocalypse-like. Don your tin-foil hat or just stay inside your bunker for the day.