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10:03 AM
Suggestion for Guy Carbonneau

I have a new recommended strategy for the Habs: Always play short-handed. Whether or not you have a penalty.

Hell, we're playing better a man down than we are at even-strength. We're ranked in among the top 3 in the NHL right now on the penalty kill. And after the two shorthanded goals that contributed to last night's 4-0 blanking of the defending Cup champs, this is a surefire strategy for success!

Okay, maybe not.

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11:21 PM
North Korea: excuses, excuses

A Reuters article, perhaps accidentally, stumbles on the true crux of the matter when it comes to North Korea:

North Korea has committed "crimes against humanity" against its own people according to an independent report published on Monday that made a long-shot appeal for the U.N. Security Council to deal with the issue.

Released after North Korea's October 9 nuclear test, the report describes Pyongyang's brutal treatment of its citizens, from the beatings of pregnant women to force miscarriages to the abduction, torture and execution of political prisoners.

Commissioned by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, former Czech president Vaclav Havel and former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, the paper seeks to spotlight rights abuses that have been previously reported but are often overshadowed by concern about North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

(Emphasis mine).

And that, after all, is the point. North Korea has been committing horrific crimes against humanity that beg the question of why, more than sixty years after swearing "never again", the world sits back and allows them to happen.

The answer to that question can presumably be found in two little words: nuclear weapons. The theory is that, while in the midst of dealing with the nuclear crisis, there's little that the world can do about anything else North Korea is doing.

So what's our excuse, then, when it comes to (nuclear-less) Sudan?

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