Please sign this petition on behalf of Mikhail Khordorkovsky. His continued imprisonment is an egregious human rights violation. Today should be the half way point where he would be paroled under Russian law if Putin hadn't trumped up new charges.

http://www.mbktrial.com/

Is 21st century Western Civilization more prudish than the 18th century? Oh yeah:

"We are very moralistic about history," he said. "We divide eras into categories, and the Victorians always play the terrible repressed people from whose inadequacies we escaped.

"The 18th century is the opposite and there was a big revival in this literature in the 1960s, when people looked back and thought, we might be liberated in that way'. Frankly, we are not at all. It is one of the founding fantasies of our culture that we are more laid back about things than people were historically."

http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1775307.0.18th_century_was_more_laid_back_than_now.php

strange days indeed

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2007/10/24/prime.news.legal.headlines.cnn

the part that CBCpravda and the MSM conveniently omit

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/cat_beheading.php

California fires are Bush's fault.
http://action.foe.org/content.jsp?content_KEY=3406

There's nothing more left wing than an early retired baby boomer Canadian Brigadier General with teenagers:

"Just as corporal punishment is not an acceptable way of disciplining children, violence and physical aggression are not an acceptable way of resolving disputes between nations."

Easy to say when you're drawing a fat pension based on decades of promising to kill on behalf of your country and cashing in on the speaking circuit.

www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20071025/COMARTIN25/Headlines/headdex/headdexComment/2/2/7/

The Santa Ana winds are similar to the chinooks of Alberta which occur during the winter. Fast moving air compressed and warmed when it crosses the mountains.

paying scientists for the obvious.

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/10/22/brain-sleep.html?ref=rss

"corporal punishment is not an acceptable way of disciplining children".....I knew someone who subscribed to that "There's no such word as No" theory and two episodes come to mind about her 5 year old daughter. One day they came over to visit my late wife who was in her last months,battling Ovarian Cancer. My wife was given a hand made stuffed elephant(as she loved them) by a famous artist. Said child asked to play with it then decided to tear it apart. Nothing was said. Few weeks later the child figured it would be fun to throw my Westies toys at the poor dog. Dog was not amused. Child then tries to kick my dog. Dog bites child. Parents get pissed at me. I told them to get the f*ck out of my house and never come back.
True,you don't have to beat your kids but for gods sake,show them what's right and wrong.

"The Santa Ana winds are similar to the chinooks of Alberta which occur during the winter. Fast moving air compressed and warmed when it crosses the mountains.

when air DESCENDS from the mountains. But it is the phenomenon as chinooks, just flowing from a cold, high pressure land mass towards a differentially cooling ocean based warm water are generating lower pressures. Same same as daily onshore/offshore lows driven by differential daily warming.

For bonus points look up "adiabatic lapse rates"

Another good explaination of Santa ana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_ana_winds

Note

"The air heats up due to adiabatic heating while being compressed during its descent. While the air has already been dried by orographic lift prior to reaching the Great Basin, the relative humidity of the air declines rapidly as it descends and warms in its final stages as it passes over the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges."

its back in the cobwebs of my mind , but I remember doing the calculation and an Alberta chinook had more BTUs than the world production of petroleum oil and gas on any day.

"Extra-judicial": Exactly describes the modus operandi of the human rights courts/tribunals/police in Canada and elsewhere. The Cheka lives in Canada.

"Extra-judicial reprisals were being carried out by the secret police, renamed the [Soviet communist] Cheka, combining arrest, interrogation, prosecution, verdict, and execution all within their own ranks and in secrecy."*
...-

Repeal our phony human rights laws
Karen Selick, National Post

In our ongoing series, National Post writers are being asked a simple question: If you had the power to change a single thing about Canada, what would it be? In today's instalment, Karen Selick argues that Canadian human rights laws are deceitful.
---
It's funny -- when Canadians use the phrase "human rights" in connection with countries like China or Iran, we're usually referring to such things as the right not to be killed by one's own government for political or religious reasons, or the right to speak freely at demonstrations or in the press.

But if you look at Canada's own human rights laws -- for instance, Saskatchewan's Human Rights Code or Alberta's Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act -- there's not a word in them prohibiting governments from killing citizens or quashing demonstrations. Canadians are already protected from murder by the Criminal Code, and we're guaranteed freedom of expression by the constitution.

So what exactly do Canada's human rights laws do? Well, when it comes to free speech, they do exactly the opposite of what we expect human rights laws to accomplish in foreign countries: they restrict speech, instead of enabling it. They tell Canadians what we cannot say --namely, anything that might, just possibly, offend someone belonging to a minority group. In most cases, they then go on, hypocritically, to deem themselves not to be restricting free speech.

To make things worse, the human rights laws also violate other important traditional Canadian rights: freedom of contract and private property rights.

If there were one single thing I could do to fix Canada, it would be to repeal these unnecessary, destructive, deceitful laws. ...-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=dd91469e-9d1b-414b-9478-2b7fffc64ed6

*Solzhenitsyn and the Creation of the Gulag
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Torture/Solzhenitsyn_TPOT.html

@Andrew:

Some of the 18th century's level-headed cynicism about politics crept into 1960s culture. One example, which has earworm status in my brain, is this excerpt from the Traffic song "Smiling Phases:"

"You don't need a lawyer
When you're in a fix
Someone gets the payoff
Your friends are full of tricks...
[the stanza continues for three more lines and then end with:]
"You're living with a lie."

Am I the only one who thinks that the sale of HW 407 should undergo forensic audit and a public inquiry should be conducted to determine if any laws have been broken?

Gerry Nicholls: "we don't really have a conservative party in this country"

"...it believes in a new philosophy or ideology, which former Conservative Party campaign manager Tom Flanagan outlines in his recent book, Harper’s Team. This new ideology is seemingly based on four points: Winability, Incrementalism, Moderation and Persistence. I prefer to summarize it by the acronym W.I.M.P.

"What do WIMP Conservatives believe in?

"Well they actually don’t believe in anything. They don’t believe in conservative principles or values or ideals. And they certainly don’t believe in any kind of conservative vision for Canada. WIMP Conservatives, in fact, regard ideals and principles as nothing but obstacles to winning elections. And that’s all that really matters to them — winning elections. If they have to act like Liberals or Greens or New Democrats to win elections, well that’s what they will do.

_______________

Full article: http://tinyurl.com/3b3jcp
Hat Tip: http://tinyurl.com/3a7dgo

Quote of the Day!

"I have never heard of it before," said C.E.S. Franks, a professor emeritus of political science at Queen's University, about a whipped abstention. "I think that it sets a precedent and it actually reflects the current state of the Liberal Party. They'll attend, but they'll sit on their hands."

http://tinyurl.com/2z3jyu

9/11 TRUTH HECKLERS CONFRONT BILL CLINTON

http://tinyurl.com/2glnbx

"When another heckler shouted that the attacks were an "inside job," Clinton took even greater umbrage.

"An inside job? How dare you. How dare you. It was not an inside job," Clinton said. "

AHHHH YES BILL, AND YOU DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN EITHER ;-)

I personally challenge any economist in Canada to a debate whether a 1% cut in the GST is a good or bad thing:

"Stupid, stupid, stupid. Those words were used repeatedly to describe the Tories' election pledge to cut the GST rather than personal and business income taxes. Almost every economist, opposition politician, editorialist and columnist in the land uttered their verdict: "Stupid economics.""

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071024.wcomment1025/BNStory/National/home

I could not have more contempt for the bought and paid for careerist public teat\expense account sucking "economists" in this country, nor the corporate fluffing emo glass wearing hermaphrodite reporters who churn out such aethetically unappealing propaganda.

From Steve Janke:

http://stevejanke.com/archives/244537.php

"Conservative Party serves libel notice on Liberals"

"From a trusted source who knows, news that just adds to Stephane Dion's troubles. The Conservatives have served notice that they intend to pursue a libel action against the Liberal Party."

Guess Question Period will shed some light.

Andrew....
"I could not have more contempt for the bought and paid for careerist public teat\expense account sucking "economists" in this country, nor the corporate fluffing emo glass wearing hermaphrodite reporters who churn out such aethetically unappealing propaganda....."

I'm baffled ..... who's this Hermaphrodite of whom you speak??

On another note ... In yesterday's post about Weather etc.... Kate Asks in the comments:
"And how many tons of combustable fuel is buried each year in landfills? ... All carefully wrapped in millions of plastic bags..."

About garbage and energy:
Indeed.... I've been participating with a technology group that has been studying this.

You can In Fact dig up a typical landfill like you would a coal mine/pit and process the fuel through a gasifier. The resulting gaseous fuel is similar to propane with about 50% of the energy potential.
The waste is 99.9 percent inert ash.

There is more pollution from the natural decomposition that occurs ( including un-restrained GHGs ).

Now ask me how much cooperation is being offered from any of the various levels of government from Federal to local/municipal! No don't bother.... that sad fact is that in spite of the obvious benefits there is NOT ONE pilot project in place or being given serious consideration in Canada.
The culprits are for the most part various regulators and bureaucrats who are plainly more interested in figuring out how the REGULATE such a venture than in seeing it proceed.

If you want to see a contrast .... look at the State of Michigan where they went shopping to Europe for the same thing and are going ahead ... with less than 1 year wasted in dithering.

Canada is being screwed by the civil service mentality of ass covering and mindless regulation.
While politicians talk and take no action the bureaucrats are actively squashing a great deal of innovation and squandering opportunities.

Our happy socialist paradise......
Posted by: OMMAG at October 25, 2007 1:14 PM

Andrew:

Even the federal Minister of Finance thinks, or at least before it was going to help the Cons get elected thought, that a GST cut was stupid.

From Hansard back when Flaherty was provincial Minister of Finance:

"Hon Mr Flaherty: The member opposite again raises the question of reducing the sales tax. I must say that with respect to tax cuts, I agree with Paul Martin. With respect to reducing the GST federally and the RST provincially, I also agree with the federal minister, and we’ve talked about this. All you get is a short-term hit, quite frankly. You accelerate spending. You pull it ahead by a month or two. It has no long-term positive gain for the economy.

On this side of the House -- and I say this with respect to the member opposite -- we're interested in long-term, sustainable economic growth and the creation of permanent jobs in Ontario. That's what grows the economy. That's what helps people. That's what helps retailers in Ontario, not short-term, knee-jerk actions."

This is why conservatives like Gerry Nichols are fed up with Harper and the Conservative Party: http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/007281.html#c205920. Suddenly, when what's good for the economy conflicts with what's good for the Cons electoral chances, you know perfectly well what Harper is going to decide.

The hounds from the blog world treed Beauchamp like a coon.
...-

Beauchamp and the Rule of Second Chances: Pass it Along [Michael Yon]

The story of General Petraeus getting accidentally shot in the chest is a case in point. One of his own soldiers had pulled the trigger. Normally, something very bad would have happened to that soldier and his commander. Instead Petraeus sent that soldier to Ranger School, and his Captain (Fred Johnson) was promoted early. In June, I witnessed LTC Fred Johnson helping to restore security and rebuild Baqubah. Fred Johnson is a believer in second chances.

Some months ago, a soldier in Baghdad wrote a piece on the way war can degrade the morals and affect the judgment of combat soldiers. His story was published at face-value in The New Republic magazine. In it the soldier wrote terrible things about his unit, making the article sensational.

I was in Iraq when it first hit the stands and someone asked me about the plausibility of the events described in the article. I skimmed the story but it did not even pass a simple sniff-test. With a shooting war going on, there is no time for trivial pursuits, so my only comment was something like, “It sounds like a bunch of garbage.” Turned out it was.

The soldier’s name was Beauchamp. He’d tried to hide his identity, but poor Beauchamp had no idea that the blog world would get on his trail and tree him like a coon. Beauchamp crawled up to the top of that tree, looked down into the snarling spotlight, and suddenly knew he was caught. His simple mask was no more effective than a coon’s, and that in itself might provide a little insight into how deeply Beauchamp had thought this all through. In any case, he was up in that tree, surrounded by hounds who’d done this plenty of times, yet always found this...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916282/posts

I needed to brighten up my day so I went over to Jason's blog. BREAKING NEWS!!!(sorry if it's not).

"New comments policy.
As I wrote last week, I'm not sure how much longer this blog will be around. However, as long as it is it will be my board to advertise my ideas. I will allow comments that disagree with me, but only if they disagree in a reasonable way.

For example, I will no longer allow comments that say things like "but the Liberals only want power" or "Stephen Harper is a leader and Stéphane Dion is not". I also will not allow comments that I find personally insulting to either me or other commenters; that includes progressive commenters who want to insult conservative commenters.

In short, while the discussion will continue, it will be a productive discussion devoid of people who are either trying to sell Conservative propaganda or unable to communicate without it."

Ted, show me where Gerry Nichols advocates against lowering the GST.

I don't know if Nichols has said anything or not about the GST, Yukon. Flaherty has and so have many economists and professional financial advisors - virtually all of them agree that the GST cut doesn't make economic sense, especially when they had to increase income taxes to pay for it.

The point Nichols is making is that Harper and the "Conservative" Party have been so eager to abandon principles and conservative policies in favour of political expediency - Winability Incrementalism Moderation and P Persistence "conservativism" - that they now only believe in winning elections and are no different than the Liberals. I put up the GST cut as a prime and early example because of Flaherty's obvious flip flop.

Ted, the 1% GST cut will be used by Dalton McGuinty and David Miller to raise Ontario/Toronto taxes.

In the "promised land" of Alberta, we get the full benefit of a GST cut.

I see it everywhere;
utility bills
gasoline
packaged snack food
appliances
electronics
CD's
building materials
clothing

ya just gotta look at it over a 12 month period.

Yukon:

Just for your benefit, I did a quick search on this. Here's what Nichols has said in the way of Harper and taxes:

"I think a lot of small-c conservative Canadians are disappointed with this government's economic policies," said Gerry Nicholls of the Democracy Institute. "They haven't done a lot in terms of reducing the size of government or cutting back spending and they've offered very little in terms of meaningful tax relief." [October 17, 2007]

AJ:

As Jim Flaherty said: that's all just short term thinking. Within a few months, you are still getting a 1% reduction on the sale price, but the sale price is higher so no economic benefit.

Ted, 39% of female tax filers in Canada don't pay any income tax. How does a tax cut on zero dollars equal anything other than zero? Meaning that any income tax cut you name won't help those women a whit.

A GST cut, on the other hand, benefits everyone, a broad strata of society if you will.

Why do you hate women, Ted? Why do you, as a man, want a male-oriented tax cut instead of one that benefits a diverse diversity of our diverse population?

Ted, nice selective cutting-and-pasting. I'm not accusing you of distorting... actually, yes I am. Stop distorting the truth.

"The Conservative Party plan to reduce the GST is brilliant politics.

By taking an anti-GST stand the Tories are essentially forcing the Liberals to defend one of the most hated taxes in the country – a tax they themselves vowed to scrap back in 1993.

And the more, the Liberals defend the GST the more they will remind people of past broken promises.

Mind you, some economic eggheads say cutting the GST is bad fiscal policy.

Well, I’m no economist, but one thing I do know is that lower taxes are better than higher taxes."

And,

"Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper argues cutting the GST is a good idea.

Prime Minister Paul Martin says he wants to cut personal income taxes.

I say they are both right!"

Both from Gerry Nichols.

ted, you are cherry picking, both in your outline of 'picking someone to be against Harper' and in our acronym of Conservative policies.

I could do the same with you - and make an acronym of your name as DET, or dead-end tank. Irrelevant, isn't it? Stick to the facts.

The ten points of Flanagan are pragmatic points. 'Winnability' isn't one of them, but after all, it's a valid point, because a policy that enables winnability is rooted in the people.

Now - the points are Unity, Moderation, Inclusion, incrementalism, understandable policy, self-discipline, toughness, grassroots, use of technology and persistence. Got problems with any of these quite sensible suggestions?

Moderation acknowledges that the Canadian population is, by virtue of its dependent economy (the USA) is neither highly individualistic and innovative, nor passive and weak. Most Canadians are 'middle class'. So?

Incrementalism is yet another valid govt approach. No population can operate within a mood of constant upheaval, change, doubt, uncertainty. The concept of 'bricolage' or step by step changes is wise.

Persistence - what's wrong with that? Or do you prefer your Liberal Party's flip flops?

Think about 'Toughness', ted. That means 'no whining' (it's hard to set priorities!). Think about the focus on the grassroots, on understandable policies, on inclusion of people rather than a party operating solely out of the Ottawa-Montreal corridor.

As for the GST tax cuts - what puzzles me about the argument here, is the Either-Or framework. The Conservatives have never, ever, set it up as Either-Or. Yet the argument here is just that. It goes along with other tax cuts, personal and corporate. Why aren't you acknowledging that?

Yukon:

Like I said, I didn't know what Gerry had said specifically or not about the Conservative flip flop on GST tax cuts vs income tax cuts.

What I do know he has said is that the Conservative Party is conservative in name only and is only interested in policies that will get it elected, not principles that will improve Canada or advance conservativism. He calls it Winability Incrementalism Moderation and P Persistence conservativism - or WIMP consonservativism for short.

More people piling on the Kyoto is dead bandwagon.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7165/full/449973a.html

The money quotes:
"But as an instrument for achieving emissions reductions, it has failed."

"As Kyoto became a litmus test of political correctness, those who were concerned about climate change, but sceptical of the top-down approach adopted by the protocol were sternly admonished that "Kyoto is the only game in town". We are anxious that the same mistake is not repeated in the current round of negotiations."

They go on to say carbon taxes won't work, cap and trade systems won't work. All in all, a great day.

An other money quote from the article:

"Already, in the post-Kyoto discussions, we are witnessing that well-documented human response to failure, especially where political or emotional capital is involved, which is to insist on more of what is not working: in this case more stringent targets and timetables, involving more countries. The next round of negotiations needs to open up new approaches, not to close them down as Kyoto did."

Looks like DMB has been hacked again:
http://dustmybroom.com/

Notice of Intent Confirmed by Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has confirmed that a legal action has been initiated by people in the Conservative Party against Liberal Party staffers....-
http://stevejanke.com/archives/244582.php

Wasn't it last fall that Conservatives supporters here thought a politician suing for libel - i.e. Gerard Kennedy suing the National Post, and Denis Coderre re Doan - were whiny whimps who should get thicker skins if they want to be politicians?

Wasn't it only 2 years or so ago that Stephen Harper The Brave accused Martin and the Liberals of gaining benefits from the mob and had close ties to the mob, but he refused to make the same comments "out of the House"?

This is all just political play. The Conservatives won the last election because of Adscam, not their own platform or people's preference for them, and they made accountability their thing. To have that card taken away is huge and they will do anything to counter that.

They will not ever file a lawsuit about this. Guaranteed. Once they file the notice of claim, they've got I think 2 years to file a claim. All they want in the next election (which will be before then) is to say that they will be fighting the Liberal accusations in the court and so they don't need to address it any further until then. Weasils.

Warren: Confrontational

This is “Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week” in the USA. To Canadian ears that will sound a little confrontational — we’ve always been better at walking the walk, than talking the talk. But let me assure my reader, that even if our media are not much reporting it, the thing is happening. On more than 100 university campuses across the United States, from U.C. Berkeley to George Washington in D.C., a large roster of speakers are directly confronting crowds of very loud and angry campus Leftists and Islamists, to make politically incorrect points about radical Islam, backed by a range of panel discussions, book stalls, and supporting exhibits.

The organizers — all the usual suspects from a Left or Islamist point of view — are doing these things on the argument that students in American universities need to know about, and need to be able to discuss openly, matters that cannot be raised in Women’s Studies programmes, or in Saudi-subsidized Middle Eastern Studies departments. Ditto, the public at large.

According to the organizers: “By the end of the week millions of people will have heard our message that we will no longer turn a blind eye to the violence directed against women, gays, and ‘infidels’ in Islamo-Fascist regimes. This homicidal intolerance, and the conspiracy of silence that protects it on America’s campuses, will no longer be accepted.” ...-
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?id=799

Right Ted the Conservatives will anything just for votes.
Like standing up to the elite press gallery.
Like income trusts.
Like supporting the war in Afghanistan.
Like supporting Israel instead of the Hezbollah.
Like being against homosexual marriage.
Those all sound like the winnabley theory is right on the money.

O Come All Ye Faithful! It's Conversion Time.
Recycled Brown Envelopes For All.

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP loses a comrade to the Socialist-Liberals of Citoyen Dion.
One socialist party, two socialist parties; same difference.
...-

OTTAWA - Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton says the former NDP candidate in Fredericton who has left his party to join the Liberals picked the wrong party "if she wants to stand up to Stephen Harper." ...-
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/actualities/article/108152#

I am pretty happy that under conservatives we finally saw muslim terrorists deported. I'll vote for them again (unlike John Tory)

...."The impending United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Bali in December...."
Bali? in December? Why not Tuktoyaktuk???

AP/MSM is now using words such as "gang members" to describe the criminals in Iraq. It's criminal gang warfare, viz., gang warfare in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver.
Words formerly used were: insurgents, militants, etc.
This is a shift in the MSM's reporting from Iraq. It is a tacit acknowledgement that the surge/counter insurgency is a winner for President Bush.
Long live free Iraq.
...-

Teacher Killed in Gruesome Iraq Shooting

BAGHDAD (AP) - A Sunni schoolteacher [...]
"Iraqi police blamed Shiite gang members [criminals] for the killing" ...-

http://jacksnewswatch.com/2007/10/25/teacher-killed-in-gruesome-iraq-shooting/

Re: Iraq and MSM usage of criminal(s).

More use of the word "criminals", i.e. foreign criminals from "Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran".
...-

IRAQ: Basra police detain 267 foreign 'criminals'
Yahoo - AFP

BASRA, Iraq (AFP) - Police in Basra have detained 267 foreign "criminals" as Iraq's second city witnessed clashes between Shiite militiamen and security forces, officials said on Thursday. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916462/posts

This news item doesn't seem to have been gotten here yet:

"Alberta increases royalties charged to energy companies." Its intro:

"Energy companies will be charged 20 per cent more for the right to develop Alberta's oil and gas resources, Premier Ed Stelmach revealed Thursday, a move immediately slammed by the industry.

"Introducing what he called 'a framework for a new century,' Stelmach said oil and gas companies will be paying $1.4 billion more a year in royalties starting in 2009..."

Kate ...
This is a "fisked"(?) blog item of Hillary Clinton's interview in Essence magazine (a US magazine for black women). The fisking is done by a US Marine officer's wife. My favourite is ...
On her marriage: “But I never doubted that it was a marriage worth investing in even in the midst of those challenges,”
{Read: “No trailor tramp is going to flush my marriage assunder until that hound-dogging bastard has to call me Madame President.” }
You Go AWAY Girl!: The ESSENCE of Hillary Clinton - http://www.thekidalog.com/seejanemom/

what scientists's say

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/10/25/science-climate-kyoto.html

it must have almost killed the CBCpravda boys to print this.

Daniel M Ryan ---the Alberta Royalty thread is under Stelmach Address off the main page.

What's happened at Dust My Broom?

OMMAG -- Fascinating stuff. I heard that Larry O'Brien, mayor of Ottawa, was interested in experimenting with this type of thing. Have not heard anything about it lately, though.

Thanks, cal2.

This is unbelievable (From Greg Weston quoting figs. from the latest public accounts):

Governor General spent $25,000 on "management consulting," apparently to no avail. Michaelle Jean's junket to Africa set taxpayers back a whopping $1.5 million, mainly to cover the mountain of chits generated by an entourage just slightly smaller than the average country she visited. Overall, the trip was almost $300,000 more than the price of sending the prime minister and his army of baggage handlers and other admirers to Russia, London and Paris for the G8 summit.

Whatever did the trip to Africa accomplish that is important for Canadians? Who exactly went? I think this is truly shocking and I am ready to dump the office of the GG.

...What's happened at Dust My Broom?...

I'm guessing that someone might have complained about the photo of two gay men having sex that was posted accompanying a story about this couple:

http://tinyurl.com/327hko

A couple of posters seemed a tad upset.

Charles Darwin at work in Lousiana?
They're voting Republican now.

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10024699