Long-Overdue-Update
Well. It's only been several weeks.
Blame it on the LSUC bar admission process. It's been occupying most of my study/thought/work time over the past month or so.
But I'll be back soon - the barrister exam is tomorrow, and that'll be the end of the process. Then I start work on the 17th.
Since I'm sure regular readers are interested in knowing my thoughts on my Canucks, I can say this:
Thank goodness Bertuzzi is gone. I can once again cheer for my favourite team with a clear conscience.
Some other thoughts:
This is a nice gesture...but I don't really think it is the long-term solution, and it just makes everyone look bad. Appoint security, and get it done with. Oh, and
these dudes should just come forward sooner rather than later.
Random Liberal cheap shot of the day:
Here.
Random CPC cheap shot of the day: Steve, you've done a lot of decent things so far...but this is
just a weird picture.
Once I get into a regular schedule (IE - a non-studying-for-7-hour-exam schedule), blogging will increase back to my usual 5-6 post a week rates. Stay tuned.
WC: Day 4
Australia 2, Japan 2
USA 2, Czech Rep. 1
Italy 2, Ghana 0
Current Daily Record: 5-3
Technical Difficulties
So...I tried to delete some of my useless sidebar stuff (such as "London Gas Prices") and outdated links, and somehow I managed to delete the entire sidebar of the blog, which threw off all the other settings. Over the next couple of days, I'll be reworking the sidebar to include the links, trackers, Blogging Tories blogroll, etc. - so hold tight until then.
World Cup: Day 3
Netherlands 2, S-M 1
Iran 2, Mexico 0
Portugal 1, Angola 0
Current Daily Record: 3-2
WC: Day 2
June 10th games:
England 2, Paraguay 1
Sweden 3, Trinidad/Tobago 0
Argentina 1, Cote D'Ivoire 1
Current Daily Record: 2-0
World Cup 2006 Predictions
I've been trying to decide whether or not to do a game by game prediction, or simply the finalists.
So I'll do both.
Check back for daily predictions for every game.
Or look at how I think they'll play out right now:
Group Stage Winners:Group A: Germany, Ecuador
Group B: England, Sweden
Group C: Netherlands, Argentina
Group D: Portugal, Iran
Group E: USA, Italy
Group F: Brazil, Croatia
Group G: Switzerland, France
Group H: Spain, Saudi Arabia
Round of 16:Germany over Sweden
Netherlands over Iran
England over Ecuador
Portugal over Argentina
USA over Croatia
Switzerland over Saudi Arabia
Brazil over Italy
Spain over France
Quarterfinals:Netherlands over Germany
USA over Switzerland
England over Portugal
Brazil over Spain
Semifinals:Netherlands over USA
Brazil over England
Final:Netherlands over Brazil
June 9th Games:Germany 3, Croatia 2
Ecuador 2, Poland 1
Kyoto: Who Really Understands?
...Not Canadians,
apparently.
I do wonder though, if a similar poll was done regarding the people who talk more about Kyoto than anyone else - the media. Have any of them read the accord, or are they just parroting what gets thrown around?
And is the Liberal party support borne out of an honest belief that it will actually work, or simply an attempt to save face? Afterall, didn't Martin basically say that Canada would sign the accord with the full knowledge that we could never implement it?
Hrmm.
Horrifying
Regardless of where you sit on the Iraq war,
this is somewhere between awful and disgusting.
The most pertinent tidbit:
In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"
Mr Galloway replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did."
One of the most ridiculous examples of "two wrongs somehow make a right" logic that I've ever heard.
Humiliating.
