Top secret Canadian commandos of Joint Task Force 2 were awarded the coveted U.S. Presidential Unit Citation by George W. Bush yesterday in California. It's for their work helping U.S. forces oust the despotic Taliban regime of Aghanistan, which gave aid and cover to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda. Link to today's Toronto Sun report via Canadian blogger Kate, at Small Dead Animals. Kate hopes the awardees aren't given the cold shoulder by their countrymen, as happened recently to some Canadian recipients of the U.S. military's Bronze Star.
Bonnie, at the always arresting blog "What Kind of Sick Weirdo Are You?," links to the Jewsweek 2004 holiday gift guide. Pretty funny stuff, and some good gift ideas for the Jews in your life (what, there aren't any?).
My favorites are the Aish HaTorah membership including an iPod loaded with Torah lessons; and then, for interfaith couples, Labradoodles. Gotta say, tho, I don't really think much of the "Santa Hates Jewish Kids" t-shirt.
Even jokey-jokey-like, that kinda victim stuff chafes; the same way it's possible for Jews like me to grow tired of the ceaseless Holocaust Remembrance meme. Yes...it happened, yes it was despicable, and yes there are plenty of morons who want to deny it, and obviously hate Jews.....but we're not going to change their minds.....so MOVE ON! And if some of them happen to be Islamofascist terorrists bent on killing Jews, Americans and sundry other Westerners, well we're already taking these bastards on for reasons far beyond the mere preservation of Jewdom.
The political, the cultural and the everyday are always much on Seattle-ite Ambra Nykol's mind at her highly-regarded blog, Nykola. Here a few of Ambra's observations on a recent trip to the mall:
There is a running competition among 15-year-old girls to see who can wear the least amount of clothing in the lowest degree weather. It's currently a tie.Salespeople should be required by law to wait at least 3 nanoseconds before abruptly asking, "Are you looking for something special today?" Why yes I am Suzie. I'm looking for you to ease back just a smidge, thanks.
Kimberly Swygert, the famous blond psychometrician (hey, she's OK with the term - see the comment string in this post) is a fine education blogger as well. Kimberly writes today that griping aside, the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act are really taking root on a state-by-state basis. That's a good thing.
Now, rather than continue contemplating a lowered "pass" threshhold on NCLB-mandated WASL tests in Washington state, our education movers and shakers should consider adding 11th and 12th-grade WASLs, and their successful completion, as a high school graduation requirement. The final 10th-grade WASL is insufficient to measure whether graduating 12th-graders have the necessary skills to succeed in college or anywhere else. That would seem obvious and perhaps it is, but apparently self-esteem is more important than preparation.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at December 8, 2004 12:11 PM
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If my back wasn't up against the wall on a couple of deadlines, I'd let loose with a 10K word rant at the Canucks. Doubly so when their Ontarian "conservative" party used the schism to wave the stars & stripes AFTER they bullied an opposition leader (like Sandra Pupatello, America's #1 friend this side of 10 Downing Street who you can Google at my blog for more info and was the ONLY MPP during the post-11 Sept. debate to support military retaliation [in all due fairness, her colleague Dwight Duncan issued a press release supporting such action]), they decided to announce their budget outside of the legislature at a place called Magna and they allowed and boasted about allowing an al Qaeda cell to slip through their grasp (just Google: "al Qaeda" AND Ontario AND Runciman).
I'm not anti-Canadian, but I think that although the majority of Canadians I know of and about (like Stephanie Nadalin, Mark Tyler and Aaron Lazarus of Sandra "Lady Churchill" Pupatello's office and of course THE Pupatello herself for starters) are dye-in-the-wool friends of America, love freedom, are idealistic, are sweet and certainly smart people, and certainly want a better relationship with America - we need to re-examine our relationship with that country. This post only fuels my position. If Canadians cannot be brought to support their troops in the War on Terror and brag about allowing al Qaeda to leak out of their province - then we need to put our boot down.
So yeah, this doesn't surprise me. But it saddens me.
Posted by: Josef at December 8, 2004 03:23 PMOh and I forgot to add: They get awfully worked up over missile defense. Frankly, it's in THEIR interest...
Posted by: Josef at December 8, 2004 03:37 PMAs a Gentile who has actually spent time contemplating "If I was Jewish right this instant, how would I feel about world affairs, etc." I find it quite comforting to hear someone who IS Jewish saying the same things I came up with in my hypothetical.
I wish the mainstream media would pay more attention to how united we Westerners are, regardless of religious faith, and especially so in a time of crisis.
Posted by: Jeff at December 9, 2004 12:05 PM