MY AMERICAN DEMOCRAT FRIENDS:
Congratulations on your midterm elections. You finally achieved what you wanted to achieve.
Like a dog that catches the car he’s been chasing for twelve years.
MY AMERICAN DEMOCRAT FRIENDS:
Congratulations on your midterm elections. You finally achieved what you wanted to achieve.
Like a dog that catches the car he’s been chasing for twelve years.
As you may recall, some time ago there was a young American businessman named Nick Berg, who was brutally decapitated by one Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Now, two years later, al-Zarqawi has been killed in a targeted airstrike.
CNN interviewed Michael Berg, Nick Berg’s father, to see what he had to say.
O’BRIEN: Mr. Berg, thank you for talking with us again. It’s nice to have an opportunity to talk to you. Of course, I’m curious to know your reaction, as it is now confirmed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the man who is widely credited and blamed for killing your son, Nicholas, is dead.
MICHAEL BERG: Well, my reaction is I’m sorry whenever any human being dies. Zarqawi is a human being. He has a family who are reacting just as my family reacted when Nick was killed, and I feel bad for that.
I feel doubly bad, though, because Zarqawi is also a political figure, and his death will re-ignite yet another wave of revenge, and revenge is something that I do not follow, that I do want ask for, that I do not wish for against anybody. And it can’t end the cycle. As long as people use violence to combat violence, we will always have violence.
Some fifteen year old white kid in FUBU gear at the mall today was talking about how he didn’t like Rage Against The Machine, because they were sell-outs.
It almost made me HULK OUT but being with a co-worker, I had to keep my Bruce Banner on.
Tom Morello’s daddy was a revolutionary, a Mau Mau guerilla who eventually became Kenya’s ambassador to the UN. His mother founded Parents For Rock And Rap, and his great uncle was Kenya’s first elected president.
What of our millionaire friend Zacarías Manuel de la Rocha? He’s in Mexico right now, fighting with the Zapatistas.
You can hate their music, their politics, or their actions, but they were the real thing.
Seriously, fuck that kid.
Canada’s annual seal hunt pales in comparison to the slaughter of innocent Iraqis at the hands of the U.S., according to a Liberal senator who defended the hunt to an American family.
I cannot believe how bad Harper’s cabinet is. And when I say ‘bad’, I don’t mean ‘bad for Harper’, I mean ‘bad for Canada’.
With that said, I know conservatives always ignore their election platforms, but don’t they usually at least wait until they’re sworn in?
As we prepare to sign our country over to the control of the Reptiloids for the next few years, I would like to take a moment to highlight a fine Canadian institution, and their coverage of this, the last free election before we are all sold to the Grays for breeding.
During the last minority government, Macleans ran the finest cover to ever grace a Canadian political magazine:

In addition to the fantastic headline, the art director at Macleans performed an impossible task; in the hearts and minds of many, Jack Layton was no longer a used car salesman. The image was too reminicent of something, someone else, someone someone more sinister…
But who?
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After over thirty years, the residents of the historic St. Agnes Place squat have been forcibly evicted from their homes.
Just when you think you’ve begun to make a difference: Bill C-60.
(PDF Link. Be warned, Enemies of Adobe! Also, here’s how to contact your MP.)
I just thought you should know:
While we’ve been spending our money on high-bandwidth internet access, bad EBM, fusion cuisine and fashionable ribbons with ‘proceeds that go to Tsunami charities’, two million people have become homeless in the Darfur genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Africans and Arabs are dead. That’s the entire population of the old City of Ottawa, gone. The entire population of the City of Toronto, walking the earth, looking for shelter.
And while we’ve all been enthralled and shocked by Michael Jackson’s pyjamas, Johnny Fairplay lying about his grandmother’s death on Survivor: Pearl Islands and a dozen dead people shot by a goth libertarian neonazi, four million people have been killed in civil war in the Congo, where over twenty different armed groups are fighting for dominance and survival. That’s every man, woman and child in the cities of Detroit, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and Dallas.
Just so you know what’s been happening while we were busy.
Dearest America:
You’re a very confusing neighbour. We’re not sure why you hate gay people, why you elected Tom “death-penalty-for-abortion-doctors” Coburn and Jim “single-mothers-and-homos-are-morally-unfit-to-teach” DeMint to the Senate, or what exactly you’re doing in Iraq, for that matter. But it seems very important to you, so we hope you accomplish whatever it is you’re trying to do.
We are, however, very much looking forward to taking weekend shopping trips to NYC after our dollar overtakes yours.
Love,
Canada.
restraint.org is a loose collection of writing, links, ravings, photos, news, fiction, and bad poetry by Jairus Khan. This website has been here (off and on) for ten years or so, and was around in various other forms for three or four years before that.
I spend most of my off-hours working (in Ottawa, Canada) to promote underground arts and media, and trying to keep independent music from being smothered by an anachronism popularly known as ‘the industry’. I DJ weekly, promote concerts/festivals regularly, make beep-beep noises in an industrial-metal band, and release CC-licensed albums for my industrial-slash-experimental-electronic project Ad·ver·sary, which sounds something like robots fucking to My Bloody Valentine.
When I’m not working with, promoting, listening to, or writing music, I design very angry websites, flyers, book jackets, and the sort for various arts projects. I supplement my music/design income (roughly enough to buy a pocketful of buttons a month) by developing counter-hacking courses and moonlighting as a web coordinator for the man.
I also bake very tasty cookies.
Can Nothing Stop Computo?! - Turns out, no.
What Happened When I Went Undercover at a Christian Gay-to-Straight Conversion Camp - What could be less gay than a bunch of men pressing tightly against each other and whispering in each other's ears?
Sampla tests your video game music knowledge, reflexes - 2260 on my first run through.
6 Logical Fallacies That Cost You Money Every Day - You are doomed to a future of terrible choices. Read this and despair.
The best fucking final boss theme in existence - A critical analysis of FFVI's 'Dancing Mad'.
Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World - Holy fuck math is creepy.
Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth - Sex difference research: 72 pt headlines and 12 pt retractions.





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