Party Party Party! Liberal leadership race on this weekend.
Remember to guzzle a rye & ginger whenever you hear the word Trudeau. (and remember that you-know-who-from-somewhere-else-with-that-nuanced-view-on-torture bears no resemblance to he that was cool, but still may invoke the name.)
I want to see the country governed by fabulous dead people.
Ok, he's the one I really love.
Nuanced! ha ha
Yup, that torture question has always been more of a yes or no thing to me, with Fuck No Not Ever! being the right answer.
From stopiggy.com
Iggy spends a lot of time in ‘The Lesser Evil” describing how various forms of torture are not really torture at all, including, “forms of sleep deprivation that do not result in lasting harm to mental or physical health, together with disinformation and disorientation (like keeping prisoners in hoods) that would produce stress.” This is all an unpleasant but necessary part of “the war on terror” for Iggy, and he goes on at great length about concepts such as “torture warrants” that would allow U.S. agents to legally torture suspected terrorists. In another article, “Evil Under Interrogation: Is Torture Ever Permissible?” Iggy expands his list of permissible torture to include “permanent light or permanent darkness, disorienting noise and isolation.” For Iggy, what international law calls “torture” becomes “permissible forms of duress”.
Vote instead
for someone who's dead!
I would like to see the evidence of 'no harm to mental health', but as far as physical health is concerned, you can do a lot of very very nastiy things to a human body that have no lasting physical effectsx, guess they aren't torture.
Whipping, caning, hell even burns heal. Maybe we need a definition of what torture is, not what it isn't? I think most human beings know what are wrong things to do to someone else.
And now we dance!
What a difference a day makes.
(Now the Harper government can fall and I get another election)
(and I love elections. I do, I do, I do.)
YAY. Now let's find out about this Dion character. He seems very nice.
He's a lovely French Canadian nerd ball.
It also looks like the days of back room Liberal power brokers cynically shoving a candidate or even a Prime Minister down our throats is over for the time being.
One of the important things to know about Stéphane Dion is that he wrote the Clarity Act for the Chrétien government shortly after the failed 1995 Quebec referendum. It was seen as unwelcome and ill timed at that point, but it was an aggressive response to the rumour that the Quebec separatists would have taken that vote for the negotiation of separation and immediately severed ties with Canada. This is one of the big reasons that insiders are concerned that he won't bring a lot of votes from Quebec.
The other side of the coin was Harper's absolutely confusing, constitutionally meaningless and utterly patronizing declaration of Quebec's nationhood.
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Party Party Party! Liberal leadership race on this weekend.
Remember to guzzle a rye & ginger whenever you hear the word Trudeau. (and remember that you-know-who-from-somewhere-else-with-that-nuanced-view-on-torture bears no resemblance to he that was cool, but still may invoke the name.)
I want to see the country governed by fabulous dead people.
- L.M. 12-02-2006 12:09 am
- sally mckay 12-02-2006 1:35 am
- L.M. 12-02-2006 2:37 am
- L.M. 12-02-2006 2:40 am
- L.M. 12-02-2006 3:02 am
- L.M. 12-02-2006 3:10 am
- L.M. 12-02-2006 3:12 am
Ok, he's the one I really love.
- L.M. 12-02-2006 3:24 am
Nuanced! ha ha
- M.Jean 12-02-2006 5:19 am
Yup, that torture question has always been more of a yes or no thing to me, with Fuck No Not Ever! being the right answer.
- L.M. 12-02-2006 6:13 am
From stopiggy.com
Vote instead
for someone who's dead!
- L.M. 12-02-2006 6:31 am
I would like to see the evidence of 'no harm to mental health', but as far as physical health is concerned, you can do a lot of very very nastiy things to a human body that have no lasting physical effectsx, guess they aren't torture.
Whipping, caning, hell even burns heal. Maybe we need a definition of what torture is, not what it isn't? I think most human beings know what are wrong things to do to someone else.
- galenagalaxian 12-02-2006 9:28 am
And now we dance!
What a difference a day makes.
(Now the Harper government can fall and I get another election)
(and I love elections. I do, I do, I do.)
- L.M. 12-03-2006 2:02 am
YAY. Now let's find out about this Dion character. He seems very nice.
- sally mckay 12-03-2006 2:18 am
He's a lovely French Canadian nerd ball.
It also looks like the days of back room Liberal power brokers cynically shoving a candidate or even a Prime Minister down our throats is over for the time being.
- L.M. 12-03-2006 2:25 am
One of the important things to know about Stéphane Dion is that he wrote the Clarity Act for the Chrétien government shortly after the failed 1995 Quebec referendum. It was seen as unwelcome and ill timed at that point, but it was an aggressive response to the rumour that the Quebec separatists would have taken that vote for the negotiation of separation and immediately severed ties with Canada. This is one of the big reasons that insiders are concerned that he won't bring a lot of votes from Quebec.
The other side of the coin was Harper's absolutely confusing, constitutionally meaningless and utterly patronizing declaration of Quebec's nationhood.
- L.M. 12-03-2006 2:54 am