It must be pretty tough these days to be an American.
Americans now need to decide for themselves (uh oh) what is more important. Either the right to life or the right to know.
The New York Times has recently published some very top secret stuff regarding the "War on Terrorism" thus making it no longer a potential tool in the fight.
Kind of like sitting down to a poker game and showing your 4 aces before betting.
Now Joe Average must decide if the Times should face some sort of retribution for exercising their right, or let them write anything and let people continue to die because terrorist actually exercise common sense and do not tell everybody what they are about to do.
I bet Terrorists read Reject the Kool Aid and nobody at the Times does.
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OK, as the senior blogger here, I have to intervene.
I really hate it when Canadians diss Americans by saying stuff like they “need to decide for themselves (uh oh).”
Give me a break. Americans are not dumber or less capable of deciding for themselves than Canadians. Putdowns like that just make Canadians look insecure.
In fact there was a very relevant passage about this phenomenon in the opening of Ulysses, which I rreead last night to prepare for the upcoming Ulysses blogging on RTK.
Buck Mulligan gratuitously insults the English to make his Irish self feel better. I believe the footnotes refer to this as an example of his provincialism.
Proud Canadians and Irish, just rejoice in yourselves and stop worrying about the Yanks and the Brits.
Now, I have to go to another comments section and take care of AnonymASS, who is trash talking Quebecers. Sacre bleu!
i love canada and am proud to be a canadian but the one and only thing i do not like about canadians -- or certain canadians -- is the knee-jerk anti-americanism. you know, the kind of sentiment that has otherwise intelligent people rooting for any team but the u.s. in the world cup.
why are we like that?
all the americans i know are intelligent, kind people who voted for john kerry and are horrified by what's gone on under george w. and to that end, yes, the new york times should uncover every sleazy bit of business on that front.
I am guessing that not a lot of people deal with the working class American.
I have for the past 20 years and I can assure you they need help when it comes to thinking. Unions are strong in the US because they relieve the pressure of having to think for one self and this has carried over to daily life.
Don't get me wrong, Canadian working class is the same, it is that we are not so in your face as to refer to speaking English as speaking American.
Jacy: John Kerry isn't he part of the team that thought Osama bin Laden was not that much of a threat after Ollie North said he was pure evil?
he might have been. but i am thinking he wouldn't have lied to get the u.s. into a war that's killed thousands of innocent people and then said "brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" as people were still drowning in their attics in new orleans.
oh my, it's getting too serious in here. let's get back to dr. oetker!
For more on Dr. Oetker
http://www.oetker.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/oetker.woa/wa/page?destination=page_27
Ok, so now that I gave you the Dr. Oetker link, it's back to the Yanks.
I don't buy this line that good/nice Americans voted for Kerry.
Last winter we went down south and met a Canadian couple, who'd lived in the States for 30 years and were being taken on their vacation as a present, by their gay son and his partner. They had voted for Bush and so did lots of other thinking people.
I'm also not fond of this "Bush lied" meme. Lots of very qualified people said Iraq had WMDs. To my mind, it's more like Bush really fucked up.
And finally, I think it's also really wrong to imply that the American or Canadian working classes are dumb and the people can't think for themselves. I work with academics and the chattering classes and I see plenty of very dumb behaviour and plenty of people who can't think for themselves despite all their very impressive scholarly credentials.
There, is that serious enough?
Democracy rocks even when you don't agree with the results!
p.s. Haven't followed this NYT thing but it sounds like a classic civil liberties vs. security discussion
It's a first amendment vs security discussion and it happens all the time in the states.
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