Canada, Australia concerned by reports Iran to tag non-Muslims
OTTAWA (AFP) - The Canadian and Australian prime ministers expressed concern at unconfirmed reports that said
Iran may force non-Muslims to wear colored badges in public so they can be identified.

Funny how there reports are coming from Canada and Australia. Two countries you usually don't think of as war-mongering.

You may remember that Australia's John Howard almost lost re-election last go-round because of his support for the Iraq War. Canada's Stephen Harper? he's the new Conservative Prime Minister who also supports the Iraq war.

A couple of doves these guys are not.

Apparently he's released a new underground tape today that makes Bin Laden appear to be remarkably well tuned in to our most famous grievances with Bush.

My message to you is about the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan and how to end them. I did not intend to speak to you about this because this issue has already been decided. Only metal breaks metal, and our situation, thank God, is only getting better and better, while your situation is the opposite of that.

But I plan to speak about the repeated errors your
President Bush has committed in comments on the results of your polls that show an overwhelming majority of you want the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. But he (Bush) has opposed this wish and said that withdrawing troops sends the wrong message to opponents, that it is better to fight them (bin Laden's followers) on their land than their fighting us (Americans) on our land.

Full transcript inside the box.

Show opens on Archie and Edith at the piano singing the following song: Those Were the Days. Boy the way Sinatra crooned Songs that actually had a tune Gee our old Seville had room Those were the days. And you knew who you were then. Men could never marry men... Mister we could use a man like Ronald Reagan again. Didn't take no crap from France Garth Brooks taught us how to dance... We sold Saddam poison gas Those were the days.

For the full transcript of the show, click on down below

Listen, I hope I'm not interrupting but I thought I might request a moment of your time so I can tell you why I think that George Bush's policies are right for this country. I mean why they are not right for this country.

Take Iraq for example. On second thought....scratch that.
You see, I kind of voted to go to war in Iraq. You see, at the time Bush's numbers were in the 90's. Tom Delay really did have a hammer back then. ...That's not a metaphor. He actually had this big-ass red-handled ball-peen hammer that he would carry in his briefcase.

I don't think he ever actually hit anyone with it, but I wound not put it past the man. Anyway...why don't we just talk about something else.

Today I was struck with one of those ideas.

If the next Democratic candidate for the President of the United states were to use this idea, I think I could virtually guarantee a landslide victory.

I share this with you now, in the vain hope that by some miracle, these words may possibly be read by someone, someone who knows of someone who knows someone.
Hey, you never know. I hear alot of politicos hang out here.

And perhaps this well connected individual could get word of this to Kevin Bacon, who could then get word of this brilliant, yet simple idea to this Presidential Wannabe.

If so, 2008 is in the bag.

I know that's promising a lot, but just bear with me and tell me if you don't think this would work.
Of course it will help if this candidate has a good platform, but even that will become of secondary importance to this one swift, brilliant stroke.

This Presidential hopeful need only make one simple declarative statement:

For history changing statement, look inside this box!!

So while i was thinking of doing some in-depth research and maybe taking some time to actually think about what I'm going to write, I really don't want to spend time actually writing something extremely well thought out and full of clever phrases and all that only to finally post it only to have my first posted response be: Already diaried, Please Delete n/t by some mindless dork of a  Kossack (If you refer to yourself as a Kossack..guess what? You're a dork) who is still pissed off about getting passed over for hall monitor in the third grade.

No it's just not worth it. So if you think this diary sucks, don't blame me. I've got an original thought and time on my hands to do a nice piece, but I just can't risk somebody else getting to it first.

I didn't make the rules.

I'm not being sarcastic, I believe I've had a revelation about this.

This is not an open forum where 1st ammendment rules apply and everyone should be given the right to say what ever they like and the rest of us should defend to the death your right to say it.

It's a club. It's a club for progressives who are interested in forwarding the progressive cause.

In any club there are rules.

I wasn't following them.

I got banned. End of story.

Read on if you don't mind yet one more meta diary

Probably back then, you never felt the need to thank anybody for all of these comforts. To a healthy, well-fed child life just has a rythym to it. Life is experienced as it was meant to be. It's called normalcy.

In reality, all of these things were provided to you by your parent(s). While you were in school learning, your parents were out there working. Day after day they went out and gave of themselves so they would have the ability to give to you the level of normalcy you simply expected. This is life as it is meant to be. It's normalcy.

P.S As Morpheus did for Keanu, I now offer you a choice, take the red pill (stop reading), and go on beleiving what you know. Take the blue pill (read on) and risk learning  the truth, unpleasant as it may be.

It's kind of funny how We keep deluding ourselves that we still have some semblance of control left,  That we still believe we live in a democracy. That we still believe there is  justice and the rule of law. It's really kind of cute.

We knew how high the stakes were in November 2004. We knew how important it was to win that. We didn't. We lost. Game over.

No matter how right we may be, or how wrong they may be, they are the winners, and we are the losers.

Jesus, whose record sales have suffered following his unfortunate remark was quoted as saying:
"I wasn't trying to compare myself to the Beatles or anything like that. I was just saying that what with "The Passion of the Christ", Terri Schaivo, Tom Delay's bullshit and The Pope dying and all, that the hype has just gotten so blown out of control that, like- It's like the whole Beatles phenomenon man, where people are screaming and no ones even listening to the music anymore, dig? I mean, there are people thinking that pee stains in underpasses are graven images of my mother, for my sake!. If I offended anyone, then I sincerely apologize. The Beatles are the greatest band that ever existed and I would never try and compare my musical style with theirs. We're on completely different trips man."

                They Love Bush 10/08/04

My mother-in-law, a hopeless republican from suburbia if ever you saw one, recently sent my wife one of those annoying emails you often get from relatives.

You know, the kind. They mainly consist of apocryphal anectdotes to warn us about bands of roaming theives who want to steal our kidneys, or they contain some "cute" list of reasons explaining "why beer is better than a wife" or some shit like that.

These are the people who are voting for Bush. People who send emails like these to their friends and family as a means to "keep in touch" during these modern times.

The images they share with us, tend to revolve around religion, 9/11, the troops, and first responders. You
know the type.

Yes, yes, I now know that it would be easier to sell Stevie Wonder* a Hustler subscription than to get a republican to consider an alternate viewpoint, but hey, I gave it a shot.

The thing is, I used to think that this stubborn behavior pattern, this tendency to cling to a viewpoint like it was wrapped around a main artery, was a trait indiginous to the dittoheads and Hannitites.

That was before the election.

Yes, yes, I now know that it would be easier to sell Stevie Wonder a Hustler subscription than to get a republican to consider an alternate viewpoint, but hey, I gave it a shot.

The thing is, I used to think that this stubborn behavior pattern, this tendency to cling to a viewpoint like it was wrapped around a main artery, was a trait indiginous to the dittoheads and Hannitites.

That was before the election.

One of the things I've noticed here on Kos is how effective people can be when they join in here together to accomplish some goal. Here on Kos you can be transformed from a solitary pissed off person into an important component of a finely tuned, well-oiled, society fighting machine.

The way life is structured these days, it's hard for people to find the time to do something about the numerous injustices that face us today. This got me to thinking, "If Jane Fonda can provide us with a good abdominal workout in eight minutes, why not use the same principle to try and change the world?"

One of the things I've noticed here on Kos is how effective people can be when they join in here together to accomplish some goal. Here on Kos you can be transformed from a solitary pissed off person into an important component of a finely tuned, well-oiled, society fighting machine.

The way life is structured these days, it's hard for people to find the time to do something about the numerous injustices that face us today. This got me to thinking, "If Jane Fonda can provide us with a good abdominal workout in eight minutes, why not use the same principle to try and change the world?"