Saddam Dead?

So no doubt by now you’ve heard or seen of Saddam’s hanging this morning. If not you can read about it here, here and here.
But i just heard somethign no Al Jazeera Internationa, somethign quite surprising, and frankly a bit mindblowing. On Al Jazeera they showed the actual footage which was on the Iraqi State [...]

Ahmadinejad’s Open Lettre to the American People

Here is the text of the open lettre from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the American People.
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O, Almighty God, bestow upon humanity the perfect human being promised to all by You, and make us among his followers.
Noble Americans,
Were we not faced with [...]

Michael Richards loses his mind

La Vache!  Michaeil Richards, famous for playing "kramer " on seinfeld really loses it a comedy club, and becomes disgustingly racist. I had not heard anything about this, until i read today that he apologized for it on Letterman, but the guys are demanding a face to face apology.  Then it was onto Youtube and [...]

Bush’s Lesson in Vietnam

Another great commentary by Keith Olbermann (thanks to The Democratic Daily)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/itC-QDPQu4A[/video]
[tags]bush, vietnam, olbermann, special comment, [/tags]

Death of Habeus Corpus

Thanks to Duncan for this very inspiring piece.  Good to see that true journalism still exists somehwere, even if it is rare.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/sAjVHtSO_As[/video] 
 And the american elections are off and running, and what a surprise! There are already glitches in the electronic voting!!!
[tags]habeus corpus, military act, bush, msnbc, US elections, midterm, electronic voting[/tags] 

Taste of Iraq’s freedom

I remember, it was February 2003.  The weekend before we'd been out in the streets, in -35 degree temperature, going through toronto in front of american and iraqi embassies, protesting that America should not attack Iraq.  That monday, i was skipping a class and was with Mike, a friend from physics who was also member [...]

George Galloway on SKY News

Here is finally a man who stands up and points to the giant elephant in the middle of the room that everyone is ignoring.  Shows SKY new for what it is.  Of course you'd never see something like this on CNN or FOX.  I wish there were more people like this out there:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/249JaIaubVw[/video] 

Officially tired of it all (and myself)

I haven't been able to write anything on teh blog for the past few days.  It is not that i don't have anythign to write.  If anything it is because I have too much to write.  But it is stuff, that is too emotionally involving.  Namely the current situation in the Middle east.  And the [...]

An American Perspective

I found this on the web, i'm sure it has made the email rounds, but it's always fun to read.
An American perspective
Q: Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq? A: Because they had weapons of mass destruction honey. Q: But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction. [...]

Iran-Croatia highlights

Well, here is a short video of the highlights of the match yesterday between Iran and Croatia.
And yes, i AM going to rant about it.  I didn’t watch the match at the time, but i’ve seen the highlights and i have to say i find that it was a debacle.  Yes, yes, i know it’s [...]