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1. From Wired‘s “What Websites Do to Turn On Teens:”
   “If you’re designing a website aimed at teenagers, you’d better not make the text too small. That’s not because teens have bad eyes, but because teenagers tend to lean back in their chairs when they’re at their computers.”
   Wonderful. I’m thirty-eight, and I’ve just found out that one of my computer-using habits is shared by the typical teenager.

2. Any society with you in it, Kate, is worth fighting for.

3. Canadian Environmental groups suing Gov’t of Canada…just on CTV.Aitken gloating..wonder if lawsuit includes the Chretien/Martin/Dion Libs.for not implementing Kyoto???

4. Vast Nazi [National Socialism] archives finally made public
   […]
   Among its files, seen by The Associated Press during repeated visits to Bad Arolsen in the last year, are the list of deportees from the Netherlands to Auschwitz on which Anne Frank’s name appears, the list of employees of Oskar Schindler’s factory who were sheltered from death, medical records showing the number of lice on the heads of prisoners, the list of inmates evacuated by the Nazis from the Neuengamme labor camp who later died on prisoner boats mistakenly bombed by the British air force.
   Defying its orderly appearance, the archive is a labyrinth of paper that has never been organized by a historian or even by a professionally trained archivist. Its main database comprises 50 million entries of names, often duplicated in different spellings, referring to 17.5 million victims of Nazi persecutions. …-
   http://tinyurl.com/2u6rqa (canoe news)

5. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/11/28/qc-kyoto1128.html
   This must be what Dion means when he talks about making money from Kyoto. He’s referring to Quebec. They want to extort billions more from Alberta through carbon trading. They’ll probably flood a few million more acres of Indian land to build more dams and electrical generating capacity. They make money from the hydro and money from carbon trading. They’ll shut down oil or gas power plants, convert home heating to electrical, etc. then “sell” Alberta the surplus carbon credits so we can continue to extract oil and gas under tough new environmental laws.

6. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070111/quebec_dam_070111?s_name=&no_ads=

7. Multiculturalism in Toronto as shown by the Toronto School board.
   A demographic profile of students in 2006 shows in high school only 33% are white and in public schools only 31% are white. Does this now mean that as the whites are less than a third of the school population they can claim minority discrimination to get all the special priviledges and benefits of the former minority groups?

8. David Hand, what a novel idea. I can’t imagine the Toronto District School Board going for it though.
   Could you provide a link for those statistics?

9. “Olmert called Harper shortly after lunch to discuss this week’s U.S.-hosted peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland.”
   Harper speaks with Israeli president, offers assistance to peace talks
   http://tinyurl.com/2b6gt5
   Liberal Citoyen Dion told CBC:
   “Dion blasts Harper’s foreign policy ‘blunders’
   Stéphane Dion is blasting the Conservative government’s foreign policy as mediocre, rigid, simplistic, amateurish, ineffective and incompetent.” (cbc)
   …-

10. Update:
    The German ogre has just landed at Ottawa.
    Asks Liberals-NDP to “gather my wind”.
    Developing … jawohl.
    …-
    Schreiber arrives
    […]
    “‘I would have preferred to have a few moments to gather my wind before I embark on open-field questions’,”” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/yvvjvk

11. Journalism: Black art of; Presstitutes; Al-Archetype’s name is Al-Kawwaz, Muslim. …-
    Family blasts Iraqi newsman over claims they were killed
    The angry family of an Iraqi journalist went on local television on Wednesday to blast him for claiming they had been massacred three days ago by Shiite militiamen in Baghdad.
    “We are still alive. Thank God!” the sister of the journalist said, before bursting into tears.
    The journalist, Dia al-Kawwaz, had said she was among the 11 family members slaughtered by militamen on Sunday in his home in Baghdad’s northern Al-Shaab neighbourhood.
    Al-Hurrah television paraded the relatives of Kawwaz, clearly alive — and clearly angry.
    “No one attacked us … militias or special forces. Nobody stormed our home. He even organised a condolence meeting to mourn our deaths. But we are alive. We are ashamed that he is our brother,” said the sister, wearing a green dress and headscarf.
    State television also spoke to Kawwaz’s mother who said she was in Kut, south of Baghdad.
    “I disown him. I consider that I do not have a son. He is a liar,” the agitated woman said on the channel which did not show her picture. […]
    After the broadcast, Kawwaz confirmed to AFP by telephone from Amman that those shown on Al-Hurrah were indeed his family members.
    “She is my sister. They (government) forced her to appear on TV. They have been threatened with death and their passports have been confiscated by the interior ministry,” Kawwaz said.
    When probed further for details he suddenly hung up the phone saying: “Leave me alone.” …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931937/posts

12. maz2 — I thought the “Nuanced” foreign policy piece was good, neither critical nor supportive, just analytical — increasingly rare in the field of journalism. A person could come away agreeing or disagreeing with the Harper foreign policy, but Ivison made it seem logical, coherant, and arguably effective: http://tinyurl.com/2n74mb

13. I guess I shouldn’t gloat about it being all of +16c here this evening. Global climate change indeed. In my military days wandering across this great land I’ve experienced a lot. If I had a dollar for every time I was told by the locals that “it isn’t normally this cold, hot, wet, dry, or fill in the blank” I’d have more money than my pension gives me. Best weather forecasting tool is still the Farmer’s Almanac. Entertaining and a good read if it isn’t quite as accurate (?)as Environment Canader.

14. Belisaurus: I have to agree, and would add this to your comment. Reading an interview of Micheal Jean, in an edition of Readers Digest. She was asked about a trip to Alberta, to speak to some MLA’s and business leaders. Her comment to them was “Alberta shoould share more of it’s wealth with the rest of Canada”. More than the 12+ Billion she already donates to the ROC ? F-off ! Albertans already pay twice the national average into the socialist experiment called Canada.