Iceland is pulling its troop out of Iraq. That’s right, Iceland, which has long been counted by President Bush as one of the original 36 members of the “Coalition of the Willing,” is bringing home its single “Icelandic Crisis Response Unit” member… a press aide who has been working in Baghdad for the past two years. Iceland has no standing army.
I guess that’s another victory for the terrorists.
Are the Greenlanders holding firm? (Or are they still Danish?)
Down to 35 countries, and counting …
I had a Danish this morning. It was firm. Stale, in fact…
Roger @ 2
I think the number is down to 20 already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M....._coalition
Probably. The war is stale, too….
@4…RP…
Shouldn’t you be out doorbelling?
YLB and others will be furious if you lose the election due to spending time posting on HA instead of campaigning. Priorities, priorities, priorities…
Who is or is not in the Coalition of the Willing isn’t an issue the KCC will address nor is it one 6th District voters consider significant as a county-wide matter.
The Piper
Pooper @ 6
You’re sounding a little desperate. Richard is free to run his campaign any way he sees fit.
He has my support over the lying, foul-mouthed, drunk driving menace who is the incumbent.
Go Richard!
@7…YLB…
He’s free to waste his time at HA rather than get out there and try to conince voters to support his candidacy; it’s a free country (I do say that a lot).
But when he LOSES the election, how will you feel knowing that instead of campainging – instead of pay attention to business – he was playing on his computer?
The Piper
@9
I submit that he’s had a salubrious effect on the system already, even if he finishes third; to wit:the Democratic establishment may be less cavalier in the future. Don’t discount the effects of a little shock therapy. That’s more than justification for giving my money to Richard.
Some of my fellow democrats are getting too complacent because of the dog-and-pony show in DC. That’s a prelude to disaster.
All politics are local.
And, I’d like to see Richard win, because his cleverness and persistence are worth something, especially contrasted with the behaviour of the incumbent, and I’m generally for the underdog anyway.
8 – Well it will be unfortunate if voters of the 6th district decide to send the lying, foul-mouthed, abusive to peace officers, drunk driving menace of an incumbent back to the council to represent them.
Disappointment is a part of life. I don’t like it but I accept it.
My support for the challenger and the service he has provided to the community by exposing the unethical practices of the incumbent and the KCGOP remains unwavering.
@9…Chadt…
Finishing third in a two-candidate race…Love it!
Underdog? So you support Steve Beren over Jim McDermott in the 7th Congressional District race?
The Piper
“Underdog? So you support Steve Beren over Jim McDermott in the 7th Congressional District race?”
There is a difference between ‘underdog’ and ‘road kill’.
I’ve been off on vacation for the last week, but I’m wondering….did all the Hague campaign signs in the corner of Bellevue where I work sprout those cute little “Firefighter Endorsed” add-on banners before or after the IAFF pulled its endorsement?
Here, apropos of nothing else on this thread, is my post-CraigGate pre-RushGate note to the little lefty liberal who looks like the Mutt half of Mutt & Jeff:
Mr. Ross:
Thank you for permitting Mr. Fitton to state his case against Seattle ‘s subsidy of illegal activity. You listened respectfully. You didn’t, and couldn’t, rebut his premise. You didn’t attempt an NPR trick of morphing illegal aliens into immigrants. You diverted a deluded caller, who imputed racism to Fitton and Judicial Watch, from sliding into slander. You kept your Mercer Island myopia in check until Fitton was off the line.
You also failed to tell Mr. Fitton and your audience where Casa Latina’s at. It’s three blocks from the Millionair Club, which, since about 1930, has been hooking up willing low-wage workers with willing low-pay employers. Unlike Casa, the Club does not discriminate: its clients are red and yellow, black and white. And brown.
Unlike Casa, the Club works with documented workers, and it checks their documents. After a bad incident several years ago, the Club has worked hard to determine that its workers aren’t cons and sex criminals.
Although the Club may lose a few cents for every dollar Seattle diverts to Casa Latina, the true losers here are the direct competitors of Casa’s clientele. Every job given to Casa by a clueless old woman (who assuages her liberal guilt with liberal greed; who uses her old man’s bad back as a pretext for getting the cheap frisson of civil disobedience by working an illegal worker for dimes on the dollar) is a job taken from a Millionair at the Club. In law-geek speak, Club workers are an oppressed class directly harmed by Casa workers three blocks away who have the competitive advantage of being even more exploitable than lawful, legally documented workers at the Club.
As long as Seattle and other cities can shelter under the sanctuary umbrella their flouting of federal law, Judicial Watch is using the wrong hammer or bludgeon. Rich old women, rich contractors, and rich Mercer Island elitists don’t care if federal law is being broken if it’s broken with impunity at $9/hour. But maybe you’ll get a clue (and Mr. Fitten will get a stronger case) if you put a face on it: the face is probably black, since Millionair Club workers are disproportionately black.
Some of my best friends are illegal aliens. Some of the best workers I’ve worked with are illegal aliens. Their Mexican work ethic beats my lapsed Protestant work ethic a dozen different ways. But my friends at the Millionair Club play by the rules, do the I-9 dance, then don’t get to do the jobs (that other Americans can’t get their teenagers to do) at $10 because a Casa worker will do the job for $9.
Never mind gas-bag discussions of minimum wages, affirmative actions, and the unionization of $23/hour weed pullers. Just follow the money. See who loses money because of Seattle ‘s pro-illegal idealism. Then call the Urban League. Maybe they can hook up in unlikely alliance with Judicial Watch to frame this problem in a way that even you, an Ithaca liberal, can understand as a problem. Even Cornell, up on its Olympian hill, got roughed up by racial reality many years ago. Even a Cornellian can get a clue.
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Any mako lawyers out there want to get in a little class action?