More concerned about newspaper wars than civil wars, the Edmonton Journal’s Stuart Thomson this morning tweeted that my call for Western military intervention in Syria was “glib.”  I’ll leave it to others to decide whether the rising body count – and last week’s shocking murder of dozens of children in Houla – merits the sort of chronic misanthropic indifference assholes like Thomson traffic in, daily.

After his tweet came this one.  Me, I think there’s a reason why some journalists are stars, and why some are pathetic nobodies, and will end their careers as pathetic nobodies.  Cynicism.

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Here. It’s perfect.

You’re welcome.

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Dippers will bleat about Wildrose in response, but it’s a fair point nonetheless: the federal NDP leader is a hypocrite.

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I just wanted to observe that Susan Delacourt does a great job covering federal Liberal stuff, as here.  If it wasn’t for her ongoing interest, we’d only be written about by historians!

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Oh, look! One of Canada’s leading white supremacist bloggers is accepting advertising from unexpected quarters! How very multicultural of Mr. Shaidle!

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Live from the lake road this morning! Better than spotting a groundhog!

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The photograph, posted by a famous journalist, isn’t just horrible. It is beyond words.

CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour tweeted it to her 325,000 Twitter followers. The photograph shows three dead children arrayed for burial. Two of the children appear to be young enough to still be in diapers. They’re babies. There’s blood on their tiny faces.

All three were murdered by militia loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad last weekend. Forty-nine children were killed in Houla, in central Syria; in all, more than 100 civilians were butchered. The world’s response? Just more talk, but no action.

In Canada, the federal government’s response was equally a joke — many months after the Syrian genocide began, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird finally decided to merely expel some Syrian diplomats. That’s all. When I suggested online that the federal government’s reaction to the worsening Syrian tragedy was pathetic, no less than Maher Arar concurred.

“Too little too late,” agreed Arar, who was wrongly imprisoned and tortured in Syria in 2002-03, with the complicity of the RCMP. “This is no more than a face-saving tactic on the part of Canada.”

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Right here on wk.com!

Lotsa stories pinging around the MSM and blogosweird, in the past few weeks, here and here and here and here and here.

Anyone got baseless speculation and scurrilous innuendo they want to pass along?  It’s Friday, it’s rainy, and it’s fun!

Who’s in, who’s out, and who cares? Comment away!  Anonymity guaranteed!

 

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Roxy (Canada’s Best-Loved Political Dog) and Daisy. Daisy’s the smart one.

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