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It's Saturday November the 12 around 8:22AM and

Vacouver Hates McDonalds, Wal-Mart & Ahmed Chalabi?

There is certainly no shortage of political opinion in this city. Especially when you can hit the trifecta of Wal-Mart, McDonalds, and Ahmed Chalabi while spreading hysteria over our own civic election. That is so sweet! Trifecta we say.

*Over at Beyond Robson, the gang is promoting - well that's probably too strong a word, pointing out really - a website (a very lame looking one at that) calling for a boycott of McDonald's to get Canada's money back from the U.S. for the softwood lumber dispute. "Cute. But boycotting Mick Dicks while the government of Canada continues to integrate with the US in the name of international security is a token gesture. Nevertheless I hope it gets the message out there that Canadians are sick and tired of being bullied."

Well that's just so cute. They also mention the Wal Mart is evil (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price) movie premiere happening this Sunday, so it's only fair to tell you that I buy all my socks and underwear at Wal Mart. Shock. But seriously that film and it's counterpart "Why Walmart Works: And Why That Makes Some People Crazy" will both be available from Amazon November 15. PS: Council of Canadians babe Maude Barlow thinks Wal Mart is interfering in Vancouver's election too. Gosh, if only Maude. If only this election were that sexy. That would be so awesome. And it's not like COPE screening a politically charged movie before election day is it?

We tend to agree with Glenn Reynolds that the main problem with Wal-Mart is aesthetic not being Mr. Burns evil. He adds, "I think there's a class issue: Wal-Mart is unavoidable evidence that the American working classes don't think, or live, the way the American thinking classes want to imagine. For this sin, Wal-Mart can never be forgiven." Maude?

*And over at rocker Matthew Good's blog, he's writing quite a lot about American Foreign Policy and the War in Iraq. On Ahmed Chalabi he writes: "Were I an American, and in the DC area, I would be out front of the Ritz in Georgetown with a massive sign emblazoned with the slogan - 'hey jackass, we want our money back!'"

That's cool too. Chalabi does need a good smack. I'm curious what Mr. Good will think of those calling George Bush's speach yesterday "Bush's Gettysburg." Let the games begin.

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Posted by: sean orr

November 12, 2005 10:33 AM

Yesterday Bush said "there are many detractors who say our presence in Iraq is feeding the fundamentalists, well I say to them, we weren't in Iraq on 9/11"

Um...Yes you were Mr. Bush. Also, Iraq didn't do 9/11, Saudi Arabia did. and you were there too.