Welcome home, Kate!

Here's a tip. Be careful on those round the clock road treks. We need you here.

I drove from Kamloops to northern Ontario non stop once
Ill never do that again
I was hallucinating by the time i got there.
2260 k in 26 hours.

This came up late in another thread; I think y'all may find it interesting.

Defamatory Libel
Excerpts from the Criminal Code of Canada:
sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2008/01/defamatory-libel.html

Virtruvius, I don't think the criminal code is relevant in the context of the subject matter.

I said interesting, not relevant. Yet I do think
§301 is relevant in at least the broader context.

Dave Dudley: Six Days on the Road

Hey! Multiculturalism is working! Ties between US and Canada never stronger!

"While growers' motives and affiliations vary, selling Canadian pot is controlled by organized crime, including Vietnamese gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs such as the Hells Angels, French-Canadian syndicates, the Montreal-based Mafia and American Indian groups, Cote said."
A long fight over 'hydro'

A day in the life of a first lady and her first liability; and what one of their drive-by victims may be learning about them.

"Where's the outrage?"-Bob Dole; 1996.

Venezuelan socialism works its magic in Florida:

According to census data, the Venezuelan community in the United States has grown more than 94 percent this decade, from 91,507 in 2000, the year after Mr. Chávez took office, to 177,866 in 2006. Much of that rise has occurred in South Florida, making the Venezuelan community one of the fastest growing Latino subpopulations in the region this decade. In many ways, the Venezuelan influx is reminiscent of the Cuban migration spurred by Fidel Castro’s overthrow of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and his imposition of a socialist state.

Hands up anyone who's surprised.

I have driven this road -- in the winter. This was a Vancouver B.C. to Cranbrook trek that is about 14 hours. It is actually faster to go south to Seattle, then east to Spokane, then north to Cranbrook, than it is to take hwy 3 across the south of B.C. Anyway, I was pulled over by the police in Spokane for going the wrong way down a one way street at 3ish in the morning. My rather dufus black lab decided she was going to jump out and greet the nice officers, who promptly pulled their guns and told me to get my dog back in the vehicle RIGHT NOW or they were going to open fire. Oh yeah, the dog was back in the truck pretty quick, and I had hands on the hood and spread eagled and was doing my best yes sir,no sir act. When they saw the plates, and realized I was fairly sane and sober, the helped me back to the hwy north and "apologized" for interupting my journey. One of the many reasons I love America and Americans.

Glad you're back and hope that the sore back from packing all those tropies is getting better.

Welcome home!!

Pat

I would have guessed the Hope Princeton highway near Princeton had you not mentioned Cranbrook.

Some of the most friendly Americans live in Minnesota, Texas and Ventura Ca. = TG

My father always told me, that when driving always pull over when you start seeing weird animals beside the road. Animals like elephants, giraffes or lions.
I have seen these animals late at night while driving in Alberta. I did pull over.

home from NASA

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080122.html

Ezra Levent was on Glenn Back last night. I knew once Beck heard about the story he could not let it pass.

Pretty good segment and of course they picked the "it's my bloody right to do so" clip for an on air example.

ESPN Anchor Blurts Christianophobic Hate

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/01/espn-anchor-blurts-christianophobic.html

Someone call the ACLU! (Oh, wait; the ACLU hates Jesus, too...)

If she had said instead, "F... Mohammed", we KNOW she'd be fired, and potentially worse.

Ezra Levant on his blog today has a link to Iowahawk who has managed to get "a copy of the notes taken by Shirlene McGovern, the "human rights officer" who interrogated me."

Absolutely priceless.

Active volcano under ice

Although it has not erupted for more than 2000 years, heat from the geologically active Hudson Mountains Subglacial Volcano helps explain why nearby Pine Island Glacier shrinks by more than a kilometre every year, British scientists claim.

The discovery follows reports last week that Antarctica's ice cap is melting faster than previously believed.

According to those findings, the greatest loss was from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Peninsula. Together, they lost nearly 200billion tonnes of ice in 2006 alone. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/33s6kn (theaustralian)

"the Liberal Party at prayer" = Canadian Jewish Congress.
Ezra Levant.
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"Three generations ago, the CJC's purpose was to help assimilate Jewish immigrants to Canada, and to help recruit Jews to join the Canadian army during the Second World War. I'd call that "conservative". A quick read of their website today shows that they're basically the Liberal Party at prayer -- feting Justin Trudeau when they're not calling for the construction of government housing projects. At least they dropped their environmental and Aboriginal policies, which kept them busy ten year ago.

Offensive and anti-Semitic free speech didn't kill the Jews during the Holocaust. Murderous men did, and they only did when real rights and freedoms were destroyed -- the right to property; the right to life; the right to equality before the law; mobility rights; freedom of religion; freedom of association. Violent acts killed the Jews, not "feelings" of "contempt". How revolting that the official Jews now propose limiting real rights and freedoms in the vain hope that will stop people from feeling "hatred" for them. I'm no anti-Semite, but if I'm anything to go by, the CJC, and the other supporters of these unconstitutional laws are the ones engendering feelings of contempt." ...-
http://ezralevant.com/

Kate, you old road dog, take it easy on the marathon miles and leave the long hauling to truckers, astronuts and people wearing Depends. There are people that actually want you back in one piece on SDA. Remember, there are some white tails out there with a score to settle with you.

Or, I guess if you taught the dogs to drive...

Welcome home, Kate. Except for the blue sky you'd think it was a black and white pic. Mountain driving in winter is always an adventure. Congrats on the awards. You'll soon need a bigger trophy case.

THE STORY WE AVOID DEALING WITH

This week is the market melt downs in NY, UK, EU due to US junk debt impacting the dollar:

http://tinyurl.com/27tulq

"Banks slash rates as markets crash
John Morrissy, CanWest News Service
Published: Tuesday, January 22, 2008

OTTAWA - With world stock markets reeling at the prospect of a sharp downturn in the U.S. economy spreading around the globe, the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Federal Reserve both slashed interest rates on Tuesday.

Before markets opened, the Fed announced an emergency rate cut of 75 basis points to 3.5 per cent. It also lowered the discount rate it charges on direct loans to banks by 75 basis points to four per cent.

Meanwhile, the Bank of Canada reduced its key lending rate 25 basis points to four per cent.
An Indian broker reacts while trading at a stock brokerage firm in Mumbai, January 22, 2008. Shares from Sydney to London sank for a second day on Tuesday, dragging commodity prices with them and promising similar falls for Wall Street as investors abandoned assets exposed to the risk of a global economic slowdown.
An Indian broker reacts while trading at a stock brokerage firm in Mumbai, January 22, 2008. Shares from Sydney to London sank for a second day on Tuesday, dragging commodity prices with them and promising similar falls for Wall Street as investors abandoned assets exposed to the risk of a global economic slowdown.

News of the Fed rate cut failed to stave off sharp declines in U.S. stock markets, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 302.80 points, or 2.47 per cent to 11801.54, by 9:51 a.m. ""

If there is market chos after large interst cuts, the panic is on...Look at how you are personally leveraged people pay down your debt fast and get your investments out of anything that invests in derivatives or payouts in US dollars..there is a shit-load of junk Debt in the markets...we will see a rough ride for the next 18 months

A good part of the reason why the E.Levant/HRC issue(s) is aired on the U.S. Glen Beck's Show (Tues) yet is covered little by the local Calgary paper - The Calgary Herald.

See Calgary Herald - Editorial - Wed/22nd - A Strong Case for Compromise

All about the kirpan-in-the-courthouse issue and how the "rule" (not the law) needs to be changed. You see, this is what we do here - it's about "graceful compromise". Right.

Or is it really about rolling over and incrementally selling out our social fabric in the name of Official Multiculturalism,led my those within the MSM.

one the MSM missed

http://betbender.blogspot.com/

Bret Stephens, American Honor

By an apt coincidence, the revival of John McCain's political fortunes takes place close to the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, when some 100,000 North Vietnamese troops and Vietcong irregulars launched a coordinated attack on the South that took the U.S. by surprise and permanently altered the political landscape of the war. That event, far more so than Sept. 11, is what Mr. McCain's candidacy is all about. In many ways it's what this year's election is all about, too...

Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed.

Man bitten by croc is shot by rescuer

To have your arm crushed between the powerful jaws of one of nature’s most ferocious reptiles is one thing: then to be shot at the same time really is a bad day at the office.

But shots from a quick-thinking colleague probably saved the life of an Australian crocodile farm worker who was attacked by an angry female protecting her nest...

"Hating Ron Paul: Nazis Join the Anti-Paul Popular Front."

According to The New Republic, and the Reason/Cato crowd, Ron Paul is a racist whose makes explicit appeals to white supremacist and anti-Semitic audiences through the use of “code words,” and, if he isn’t a racist neo-Nazi himself, he most certainly is representing that slice of the electorate. According to the real Nazis, though, ”Ron Paul is a Jew Puppet.”...

They should know. Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard were both Jews. (In fact, von Mises was an ennobled Jew when the Habsburgs were still sovereign over Austria-Hungary. He was actually born a noble - the designated heir to the von Mises equerryship.)

(Via Israpundit) The Caliphate vs Multiculturalism

The cult of multiculturalism has been the biggest failure of liberal Western governments in the previous century. It might have survived its many failures however to slowly strangle its host societies had it not been for the emergence of a competing vision against which it is helpless, that of the Caliphate.

In any showdown between a multicultural society against the caliphate, the caliphate will always win among Muslims, simply because a multicultural society is incapable of defending its own existence and must tolerate the proponents of the caliphate...

ya can see all the snowy mountain roads of BC here . .

http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/bchighwaycam/index.aspx#region3

"Husband cut off wife’s ears, nose on Eid "The Feast of sacrifices" day - The graphic Koran"

There are things that leave the mind numb, in shock and incapable of any civilized comments. So I will leave the comments to you.

Honor killing is not the only Islamic gift to women. The best thing to compliment Geert Wilders Koran's movie would be the Koran in pictures for dummies.

The "very holy" Koran 4:34, "As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them, refuse to share their beds and beat them".

"I was second wife of Mumtaz. The first wife was already killed by him," she added with a flow of tears from her eyes.

sonsofapesandpigs.org (warning graphic)

Herzliya Conference: Ambassador John Bolton's comments on Syria, North Korea, and the Iranian nuclear threat.

Glad ya back Kate, nice pic , down here in N. Louisiana we never see stuff like that. Is that a real road you were on ?
,

Elizabeth May:

"The Manley Report fails to consider that the recommendation of more ISAF forces from a Christian/Crusdader heritage will continue to fuel an insurgency that has been framed as a 'Jihad.'"

Hmm. Presumably, male police officers should not respond to violent incidences at women's shelters either.

www.greenparty.ca/en/releases/22.01.2008

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.Rhimullah Samandar, the head of the Kabul-based National Journalists Union of Afghanistan, said Kambaksh had been sentenced to death under Article 130 of the Afghan constitution. That article says that if no law exists regarding an issue than a court's decision should be in accord with Hanafi jurisprudence.

A student prints a paper off the internet written by another muslim (in Iran) goes to discuss it with his teacher and now is going to get his head lopped off.

Meanwhile, the treacherous HRC is supporting shariah in Canada. Fortunately for Ezra, it's not fully instituted here. Yet.

Presumably, male police officers should not respond to violent incidences at women's shelters either.

A few years ago, Toronto police were fined $500k by an HRC board for using male police officers to check for liquor violations at some sort of lesbian shindig.

Looks like more North American Wahhabi madrassas, University chairs in Islamist studies, terrorist front organisations like CAIR, CIC, MSA. Oh, that and more Muslim immigration:

'Enough Money to Buy Google': Arab States on a Buying Spree
Dubai-NASDAQ Tie-up Is Part of a Trend in the Global Oil Game

By DANIEL ARNALL
ABC NEWS Business Unit
Sept. 21, 2007 —

With oil in the mid-$80 a barrel range, there is a river of cash flowing into the Middle East.

And now the sultans, princes and emirs of the super-rich Gulf states are diverting that flow of cash into high-profile businesses and companies around the globe, hoping to leverage the high prices into power that extends beyond the petroleum economy that has made them rich.

"The oil producers are drowning in dollars," said Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategy Institute. "So it's natural that they would want to invest them."

Just today, the American-based stock exchange NASDAQ announced a deal in which it will sell 20 percent of its shares to Borse Dubai, a one-month-old stock exchange that is owned by the government.

It's just the latest deal in a high-profile buying spree that has put the Gulf states at the forefront of global dealmakers. And with more than a $1 billion a day in oil revenues flowing into their coffers, they have plenty of money to spread around.

"Many countries that are not democratic are suddenly popping up with huge amounts of money, and they're beginning to invest it and you can imagine, for example, that there are some countries that have enough money to buy Google," said Prestowitz. "You might not be too concerned if the Brits bought Google, but the Brits aren't going to buy Google. But I could imagine other countries that you might be more concerned about owning Google."

While a deal for Google isn't in the works, the Gulf states have been gobbling up big-name companies all over the globe.

Qatar started a process for buying J. Sainsbury, a major British supermarket chain, this week. They've purchased a 20 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange, too.

The government of Dubai has entered into a bidding war for American luxury retailer Barneys, purchased a stake in the MGM Mirage and has become one of the biggest owners of container ports through major acquisitions.

Their neighbors in Abu Dhabi just snatched up a huge stake in the American private equity firm Carlyle Group, which owns, in part, Dunkin' Donuts, Hertz Rent-a-Car and AMC Theaters.

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So what's the common citizen supposed to do?

Boycott 'til bankrupt.

"Presumably, male police officers should not respond to violent incidences at women's shelters either."

Was there not an incident at the Womwen's Prison in Kingston where they dared to use male riot squad to quell a riot and in the process got their 'peepee' slapped?

Just which law in Canada makes the fines/punishment of HRCs legal?

Some interesting stuff on Ezra Levant's website. It seems his lawyer has received a couple of phone calls from the Alberta Human Right Commission. One of the calls was from Shirlene McGovern, the commission's inquisitor. She is upset with the negative publicity she is receiving. Another case of "hurt feelings". Sounds like this is another case for the AHRC to hear.

Then Ezra's lawyer got another call from the AHRC complaining about his website. Ezra wants them to write a "letter to the editor" and send it to his blog. He has yet to receive it.

So, with all the stuff going on and the hurt feelings at the AHRC, what are Ezra's chances of beating this bum wrap? Not good, methinks.

Louise Arbour is offended; will consider calling in a complaint to Muamar and Castro and Yasser and Jimmah Carter and Ban Moon and R. Warman.
Agreed. Get out of this gong show. BTW, no spin here from CanPress. Imagine that.
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[Canadian] Gov't official calls anti-racism conference a 'gong show'
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA - The government is announcing Wednesday that Canada has abandoned a UN anti-racism conference slated to take place in South Africa next year.

A government official has told The Canadian Press the so-called Durban II conference has turned into a "gong show" with Libya elected to chair the gathering, Cuba appointed vice-chair and rapporteur, and anti-Israel rhetoric building. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/27d4j6

Russian scientist says Earth could soon face new Ice Age

ST. PETERSBURG, January 22 (RIA Novosti) - Temperatures on Earth have stabilized in the past decade, and the planet should brace itself for a new Ice Age rather than global warming, a Russian scientist said in an interview with RIA Novosti Tuesday.

"Russian and foreign research data confirm that global temperatures in 2007 were practically similar to those in 2006, and, in general, identical to 1998-2006 temperatures, which, basically, means that the Earth passed the peak of global warming in 1998-2005," said Khabibullo Abdusamatov, head of a space research lab at the Pulkovo observatory in St. Petersburg.

According to the scientist, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has risen more than 4% in the past decade, but global warming has practically stopped. It confirms the theory of "solar" impact on changes in the Earth's climate, because the amount of solar energy reaching the planet has drastically decreased during the same period, the scientist said.

Had global temperatures directly responded to concentrations of "greenhouse" gases in the atmosphere, they would have risen by at least 0.1 Celsius in the past ten years, however, it never happened, he said.

"A year ago, many meteorologists predicted that higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would make the year 2007 the hottest in the last decade, but, fortunately, these predictions did not become reality," Abdusamatov said.

He also said that in 2008, global temperatures would drop slightly, rather than rise, due to unprecedentedly low solar radiation in the past 30 years, and would continue decreasing even if industrial emissions of carbon dioxide reach record levels.

By 2041, solar activity will reach its minimum according to a 200-year cycle, and a deep cooling period will hit the Earth approximately in 2055-2060. It will last for about 45-65 years, the scientist added. ...-
http://en.rian.ru/science/20080122/97519953-print.html

Here is the link to the interview by Glenn Beck of Ezra at CNN.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/01/22/beck.real.story.freedom.of.speech.cnn

Turn your back to Taliban May, an appeaser.
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"CONSERVATIVES CALL ON MAY TO RETRACT EXTREMIST REMARKS"

It’s also time for Stéphane Dion to terminate the Liberal/Green Party Coalition

OTTAWA – Today, Conservative Member of Parliament, Pierre Poilievre demanded that Stéphane Dion’s candidate in Central Nova, Elizabeth May to apologize for characterizing NATO and Canadian forces as “Christian Crusaders” (Green Party, Press Release, January 22, 2008) and called on Stéphane Dion to terminate his electoral cooperation agreement with a leader so out of the mainstream to smear the reputation of our soldiers, diplomats and aid workers.

“These comments by Stéphane Dion’s candidate in Central Nova not only demonstrate a lack of knowledge about foreign affairs but are grossly insulting to Canadian forces,” said Poilievre. “Our Canadian forces along with our NATO allies are working together with the support of the democratically elected Afghan government to bring peace and human rights to the people of Afghanistan and these comments continue to demonstrate that Liberal/Green coalition is not worth the risk.”

“Ms. May is trying to imply that our troops, diplomats and aid workers are forcibly occupying Afghanistan when in fact they are there at the invitation of the Afghan Government,” said Poilievre." http://www.conservative.ca/EN/1091/96644
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Ex-N.S. Green leader denounces Elizabeth May

HALIFAX -- The former head of Nova Scotia's Green party says people in the province should turn their backs on federal Leader Elizabeth May when she tries to win a seat here in the next election.

Ken McGowan is denouncing the federal Green leader because he claims she helped to thwart the provincial party's constitution. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2x3uoo (ctv)

Daniel Pipes, The Middle East's strange affliction

Why is the Middle East so at odds with modern life, laggard in everything from literacy to standard of living, from military prowess to political development? A profound new book by Philip Carl Salzman, professor at McGill University, with the deceptively plain title Culture and Conflict in the Middle East, offers a bold and original interpretation of Middle Eastern problems.

An anthropologist, Salzman begins by sketching out the two patterns of rule that historically have dominated the Middle East: tribal autonomy and tyrannical centralism. The former pattern, he argues, is distinctive to the region and key to understanding it. Tribal self-rule is based on what Salzman calls balanced opposition, a mechanism whereby those Middle Easterners living in deserts, mountains, and steppes protect life and limb by relying on their extended families...

Socialist nazis proclaimed their 1,000 year reich.
Socialist Trudeau boasted that his 1982 constitution would last 1,000 years*.

The apostles of Gaia proclaim their 1,000 year reich.
Mao Stlong say: Gleat Reap Folwald.
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Human activity defines new epoch: scientists
Welcome to the 'Anthropocene' period of pollution, technology [...]

"But now, a distinguished group of British geologists has provocatively proposed that the Holocene is over and that we have entered a new geological era -- the Anthropocene -- in which humans have left such a distinctive footprint on the Earth's surface through carbon pollution, nuclear fallout, urbanization and other traces of our immense technological power that it should be officially recognized by international scientific bodies as "a formal epoch." ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2smk38 (canadacom)
...-

*Socialist PET's 1,000 year Canadian reich.
[...]
"... citing an article Trudeau wrote in 1987 in which the former prime minister suggested the constitution would last for 1,000 years.
Landry said Trudeau was inspired "by a historic quote from an odious historical figure that I don't need to name." http://tinyurl.com/2t7rtl (TO Red Star)

I don;t know what route you took .... I'd have made a couple stops to check out some ski areas though!

Hey Maz2, google 'why do people hate Jews?'

Surprising who's helping, eh?

Mexico seems to be similar to Afghanistan. .

edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/01/08/wian.mexico.drug.violence.cnn?iref=videosearch

= TG

Increzse Yer Word Powur: Punbits, discombobulatinf, mediuya, klueless, anal-ysts.
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If John Manley achieved nothing else with his report on Afghanistan, he did succeed in discombobulating the learned analysts of the Canadian media.

The pundits don’t have a clue what Manley said. Or rather they have lots of clues -- they just don’t agree with one another.

Our own John Ivison says Manley issued a clear message to Stéphane Dion to clear the wool out of his brain. ...
Don Martin, also our own, says it’s a message to Stephen Harper. The mission “is a mess,” ...
The Star’s Chantal Hebert says no, it’s really a challenge to both men: ...
No way, says the Star’s Rosie DiManno ...
The Globe’s Christie Blatchford, who almost shed tears over her copy, says ...
Get real says Thomas Walkom, back at the Star. ...
Warren Kinsella thinks Taylor {?) [Does Punkman mean War-man?] is nuts. ...
So you got that? ...-

Manley report spreads chaos in Punditland
by Kelly McParland
http://tinyurl.com/2kz6bq (npblogs)

If you have time, stop to check out the geology of the mountains as you get into the Cranbrook area. The peaks are a series of very cool-looking folded beds of sedimentary rock.

Good thing the Islamic terrorism apologist UN "Alliance of Civilizations" forum was held in Madrid Jan 15-16.

There's nothing like a terrorist attack to spoil those apologies....

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MADRID, Spain - A judge in Spain says a militant cell broken up over the weekend was planning a suicide attack targeting Barcelona's public transport network.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2008/01/19/4782350-ap.html

The natural end result of socialism = communism: state seizure of food, grain, etc. Next step: Shoot the Kulaks (farmers).
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""Anyone who is distributing food ... and is speculating, we must intervene and we must expropriate (the business) and put it in the hands of the state and the communities," Chavez said during the inauguration of a new state-run market in Caracas."

Venezuelan troops seize food

Venezuela's top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks as part of President Hugo Chavez's campaign to stem shortages.

The leftist Chavez this week created a state food distributor and loosened some price controls, seeking to end months of shortages for staples like milk and eggs that have caused long lines and upset his supporters in the OPEC nation. [...]
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1555965
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The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine
(Holodomor)
In order to force people to give up their land to the state, he [Stalin-lberia] ordered an army of Communist Party activists to seize grain and other food from Ukraine's ...
www.artukraine.com/famineart/sedlyar.htm

I wonder if we'll ever see this brave dude again:
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/296603
Edmonton businessman Je Yell Kim, who has poured money and years of hard work into providing dental care for impoverished North Koreans, was taken into custody Nov. 3 in a remote northeast corner of Communist North Korea.

In other news, Glorious Leader's glorious game review is finally in:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/22/video-kim-jong-il-reviews-call-of-duty-4/

Beautiful countryside. Absolutely stunning.