Monday digest
- Congratulations to Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove for winning the Loony Left Play of the Day award twice in one week. Yesterday, Hargrove threatened to throw his entire membership out of work if General Motors doesn't do what he wants them to with its investment.
I'll put this one in the "with friends like that" file.
- A close second for this coveted prize comes to us in the form of our own so-called conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who, in a speech yesterday prior to the G8 meetings in Munich, said that "climate change is perhaps the biggest threat to confront the future of humanity today".
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse.
- Then, we have the incoming chair of the Arkansas Republican party, who recently stated that the American public would be more appreciative of President Bush and the US Armed Forces if only a few more 9/11-type attacks would take place. See here and scroll down to the third-last paragraph.
What a disgrace.
- According to this article, Iraqis employed by American private interests in Iraq are begging their supervisors to take them to the US should the troops pull out.
- Take a look at what this Cuban-American has to say about health care on that island paradise.
- A very well-considered editorial here on the plot to blow up JFK Airport in New York City.
- Finally, here's an interesting piece from Gallup on US public opinion as it relates to moral issues.
posted by Road Hammer @ 1:21 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Speaking of cherry picking facts, maybe captain Cuba wasn't aware of the fact that there is a major scarcity of goods, including aspirin, due to the asinine and horribly outdated trade embargo with Cuba.
(typo - obviously meant the US embargo).
Leaving aside that outside of cigars, Cuba has pretty much zilch that American consumers would want to buy, the comment above sounds suspiciously like an endorsement of free trade.
Could it be?
If the US and the Dominican Republic can do over $9 billion a year in trade (State Dept. #'s), I'm sure Cuba and the US could work a few things out - tourism being one of them...
Rum
Ball players
Bands with old decrepit dudes
Cuba has actually become a player in pharmacuetical manufacturing and has a developed oil industry.
But yes, ballplayers and mojitos are more important to me as well.
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