"There's no Logic, Captain"

I got this from The Doonesbury website:

"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."
-- Rep. Michelle Bachmann. In fact, Gerald Ford was president during the last outbreak of the virus.


First, what she says isn't true. Second, even if it was WHAT THE HELL WOULD THAT MEAN????

Again....

The Harper regime will not bailout the CBC in fact theyd kill it outright if they could, what with all nonsense that "real" canadians don't want or need (you know "arts" "science"...)

But they will contemplate bailing out private networks such as CBC or Canwest.....

From Today's Toronto Star:

http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/620477

RIght Thing for the Wrong Reason

Seems killing people just isn't cheap. Not in Iraq or in America.

Many states, including Bush's beloved "Dead or Alive" state of Texas are contemplating cutbacks or the outright suspension of death sentences after July 1st.

The old argument from the opposite view (from people who I would say have their poles reveresed), was that executions were good things because otherwise you have to house and feed inmates for the rest of their life. But, for decades, with the cost of a capital trial and the right to extensive appeals, has meant that a capital case was far more expensive than life imprisonment.


Even if the "it costs less" assertation were true, it would still not justify capital punishment...so the opposite argument is just as flimsy.....

..however...as my title suggests, right for the wrong reason...but let's take it.


TF

Odd

Headline today for CNN;

-- Ashton Kutcher is first to reach 1 million followers in Twitter contest with CNN.

Why is any part of that worth doing let alone "reporting"????????????

Let us eat cake

Wonderful attitude from our glorious leaders, from Today's Toronto Star.

The Prime Minister has obstinately refused to relax the requirements for EI. Indeed, his human resources minister, Diane Finley, has declared of the unemployed: "We do not want to make it lucrative for them to stay home and get paid for it."