lower the flag, prime minister.

oh yeah, i was gonna bitch about this yesterday, but got sidetracked.

and i couldn't do it as well as rick mercer anyway.

i have a good idea why the conservatives don't want to fly the flag on half-mast for dead soldiers. they're worried that the changed scope of the mission in afghanistan will result in more deaths and that the citizenry will turn against that policy more quickly since flags flying at half-mast have extra impact. and they are worried it would remind us of how many hundreds more would be dieing if the conservatives had been in power when bush started the iraq war. this is all in tune with barring the media from covering the arrival ceremonies for fallen soldiers here in canada. if this were solely done for privacy reasons, it would be easy enough to devise restrictions forbidding the media from approaching relatives at the ceremony -- of which i would be completely supportive; i just don't buy it.

fuckers. i knew it wouldn't be long before i want to spit in harper's face.