Tuesday digest

- Here's another look at Not-So-Slick Willie's temper tantrum from the weekend. Perhaps he's a little hot under the collar since Booty-Call Belinda hooked up with thuggish Tie Domi. It can't be easy to pull tail like you used to when you're 60 and have been out of office going on seven years.

I love the part about how his former National Security Advisor got caught sneaking classified material out of the White House in his pants.

From Richard Clarke, no less.

Former Clinton associate Dick Morris comments here. Now, I'm not certain that Dick Morris is the most credible man on the planet when it comes to talking about Clinton, but one question remains: is it too much to ask for a little humility, please?

- So the Conservative government in Canada has cut one half of one percent of all federal spending and the talking heads at the state broadcaster go nuts.

How utterly, pathetically predictable.

CBC reporter Julie Van Dusen's sob story tonight led off with scenes from a rally held in Ottawa nearly 10 years ago to save the French-only Montfort hospital, located in the east end of our nation's capital. She then suggested that without the Court Challenges Program, whereby the federal government pays minority groups to take the federal government to court, franco-Ontarians would have been left to twist in the wind, as if there aren't any affluent Franco-Ontarians around to fund such a challenge without relying on taxpayer's dollars (not to mention the "bilingual" - we all know that in Ottawa, what that word really means is French - Ottawa General Hospital, which is about 10 minutes away and the vastly disproportionate make-up of the federal civil service, after which years of preferential hiring based on language has allowed many Franco-Ontarians to have extremely successful and financially lucrative careers built on the back of the Pequiste threat from Quebec).

Then, it was implied that another minority group - gays - would not be allowed to get married in Canada today if not for this program. Show me a gay person living paycheque to paycheque and maxing out their credit cards to make rent. There aren't very many, are there? Again, there is more than enough affluence in that community to justify asking them to pay for their own legal fees. Besides, I don't see anyone rushing out to help, say, divorced fathers looking for a fair shake from the courts, do you?

Finally, they implied cancer victims are now going to suffer because of cuts to medical marijuana research. Obviously, there is money to be made and jobs to be created in this field through cutting-edge, innovative work being undertaken by entrepreneurship, so why does the government have to get in the business of competing with the private sector?

And from the other side, they showed a 8-second clip of John Baird mumbling something about a cost-benefit analysis. How can that compete with gay, French-speaking Ottawans in need of care who show up at the hospital for some spliff, only to be told, in English no less, "No pot for you!"

It pulls at the heartstrings.

Those damn Conservatives.

Good thing we have the CBC to remind us what proper Canadian values are all about.

I'll never fit in (what with my life's goal being the achievement of a Constitutional amendment to limit all government spending to no more than 20% of GDP. That's one dollar of every five to all you New Democrats out there).

Oh well.

- Funny, someone forgot to remind the misunderstood, oppressed, disposessed young men who planned on storming Parliament and beheading the Prime Minister in June that Canada isn't in Iraq.