HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN ONE MAN PISS OFF?
Jack Layton is no longer the Bonehead of the Day, as hard as that is for me to say. I'm not saying that he is no longer a bonehead but just that we have a new contender in the mix. And, for that matter, he isn't even a new contender. There have only ever been two BOTD's (Bonehead of the Days) and if Jack Layton is one of the then that means the other one is... that's right, you guessed it... Pope Benedict XVI. I feel much more confident in labelling him a bonehead now because he is making it too difficult not too.
After the events of last week when he was coming down on Canada for being too progressive allowing things like same-sex marriage and abortion he decided to piss off a whole new group of people the other day. Let's say, oh just for the hell of it, EVERY MUSLIM IN THE WORLD!!! First he offends the 30+ million people in Canada but that wasn't enough for him so he chose a bigger target of about 21% of the entire world! How, you may ask, did he offend over one billion people? Simple. All he had to do was insult the founder of the Islamic faith by saying that the Prophet Muhammad's teaching were, "evil and inhuman, such as his commandto spread by the sword the faith he preached."
Not quite sure what he was thinking here, if even was at all. His remarks, besides being named Bonehead of the Day for the second time in a week, have also put him in trouble with many Muslim countries as their leaders are furious and demand an apology which the Pope gave yesterday. Some have accepted it and others have not and it has led to many acts of violence around the world as many have reacted to the comments in violent ways.
In other non-BOTD news there was a Liberal leadership debate yesterday between Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae, and Stephane Dion which ended up with Dion and Rae taking every advantage they could to attack Ignatieff. The main point of concentration was on our troops in Afghanistan and the American war in Iraq. Ignatieff supports the war in Iraq and Canadians in Afghanistan and the other two candidates were quick to point this out. I am going to add at this point that of the nine people vying for the top political position in the Liberal party I would like to see Ignatieff come out on top. That being said, I think he handled the bombardment by Rae and Dion horribly. Instead of defending his position he semi-flipped over and began to say that he did not support George Bush's policies. I still think he should win the race but I just wish he would grow a backbone.
- DM
Jack Layton is no longer the Bonehead of the Day, as hard as that is for me to say. I'm not saying that he is no longer a bonehead but just that we have a new contender in the mix. And, for that matter, he isn't even a new contender. There have only ever been two BOTD's (Bonehead of the Days) and if Jack Layton is one of the then that means the other one is... that's right, you guessed it... Pope Benedict XVI. I feel much more confident in labelling him a bonehead now because he is making it too difficult not too.
After the events of last week when he was coming down on Canada for being too progressive allowing things like same-sex marriage and abortion he decided to piss off a whole new group of people the other day. Let's say, oh just for the hell of it, EVERY MUSLIM IN THE WORLD!!! First he offends the 30+ million people in Canada but that wasn't enough for him so he chose a bigger target of about 21% of the entire world! How, you may ask, did he offend over one billion people? Simple. All he had to do was insult the founder of the Islamic faith by saying that the Prophet Muhammad's teaching were, "evil and inhuman, such as his commandto spread by the sword the faith he preached."
Not quite sure what he was thinking here, if even was at all. His remarks, besides being named Bonehead of the Day for the second time in a week, have also put him in trouble with many Muslim countries as their leaders are furious and demand an apology which the Pope gave yesterday. Some have accepted it and others have not and it has led to many acts of violence around the world as many have reacted to the comments in violent ways.
In other non-BOTD news there was a Liberal leadership debate yesterday between Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae, and Stephane Dion which ended up with Dion and Rae taking every advantage they could to attack Ignatieff. The main point of concentration was on our troops in Afghanistan and the American war in Iraq. Ignatieff supports the war in Iraq and Canadians in Afghanistan and the other two candidates were quick to point this out. I am going to add at this point that of the nine people vying for the top political position in the Liberal party I would like to see Ignatieff come out on top. That being said, I think he handled the bombardment by Rae and Dion horribly. Instead of defending his position he semi-flipped over and began to say that he did not support George Bush's policies. I still think he should win the race but I just wish he would grow a backbone.
- DM
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