If you’ve got ’em, share ’em. Trackbacks to this post are also most welcome. I’ll be gone for the rest of the day as my wife has given me a choice between divorce or laying lino and then installing a new toilet in the guest bathroom (what an exciting life I lead…).

I’m going to be busy the rest of the day and I can’t say if Occam or James will put in an appearance, so blogging may be light as a result. Please share any good items you’ve found in the comments or via a trackback.
I’ll be putting up a summary post for all the Small Dead Blog Award nominations tomorrow. If you haven’t nominated someone yet, here’s your chance.
In other news, I have 70 Gmail invites left for anybody who still wants one. All who have asked so far have been invited (if you didn’t receive it, plz let me know). Send an e-mail to digiteyesed [a+] gmail [dot] com if you want a Gmail account.
Also worth noting, I bumped AWM up to being published three times a week and there’s a new strip up this morning.
That’s it for now.

Here are some interesting links I ran across this morning…
First off, James Bow is about to become a dad. Please take a moment and shoot some congratulations his way, even if you disagree with him politically.
Jay Currie has a good post up on the current kerfuffle between Austria and the rest of the EU over whether or not Turkey should be admitted.
Andrew over at BBB takes a look at blog etiquette.
Angry tracks an interesting use of softwood lumber funds.
James Koole takes a look at the recent release of Judith Miller from the point of view of an up and coming journalist.
Kathy is thinking that taking the vote back from women might actually be a good idea. I, of course, am absolutely dismayed that Kathy would say such a thing! (Note to my wife who will be reading this later: See hon? I was being good. Don’t hit me.) Update: I just re-read the post and discovered that Kathy was highlighting a post at Spleenville, so my apologies to her for putting words in her mouth (keyboard?).
Please drop any good reading you’ve found in the comments, or trackback to any posts on your own blogs that you feel deserve some exposure.

You all know the drill. Put any good news tips into the comments or just trackback to this post from your own blog. 🙂

Please post any good news tips or topic suggestions you’ve got as a comment or as a trackback to this item. I’ll update it several times throughout the day.

Links so far…

• Heart of Darkness
• Marching against War–and Jews
• Belief in a Creator is bad for you?
• Lost Budgie has some new posts up.
• Are CBC employees biased?
• And what about Mansbridge?
• Poverty and shiftlessness

Another busy day ahead, so reader tips it is.
I’ll start things off with a few items spotted in passing;
Further to an item posted here a couple of days ago, (Martin Operative Running For Vancouver Mayor?), Peter Rempel has this update;

Tonight, Councillor Sam Sullivan beat former deputy-premier Christie Clarke for the NPA mayoral nomination in Vancouver. Sullivan will now face the COPE-Vision alliance candidate Jim Green in the upcoming mayoral race.
The news could not be more welcome: Sullivan is an admirable candidate in every sense of the term. Sullivan, a quadriplegic, is a member of the Order of Canada for his work with non-profit agencies which assist Canadians with disabilities. And, in an example of B.C.-style bilingualism, he is fluent in Cantonese.

Greg Staples has been poll tracking in a post titled More of “Nothing’s Changed”. He has charts!

I mentioned “urban refugee” Sean’s photography to a friend today – it seems like a good idea to introduce him to new SDA readers.

Go check out the portfolio.
Dear CTV News,
This evening I was awakened from a nap when your 11 pm newscast came on. Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to recall your coverage of a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza strip just a couple of weeks ago, along with the celebratory gunfire and looting of the arriving “Palestinians”. Said freed peoples have now begun to fire rockets at their neighbors.
So, here’s what has I’m confused. In this item that aired this evening – complete with this clever little Freudian slip of a file name “israel_offensive_050925/20050925” – the following is written;

The Israeli army stepped up its response to rocket strikes from the Gaza Strip with a series of attacks against Islamic militants on Sunday. As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised to use “all means” against the militants, Islamic Jihad commander Mohammed Khalil was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

Who are they “militating” against, precisely?
Notice: this is a thread for tips only. Also, a general request. Please refrain from using the comments section here for meaningless, off-topic chatter. On-topic debate, even on tangentially related issues is welcome, but the “chat room” format that some seem intent on creating is not. And keep it clean.

A few items sent in over days past, and grabbed while surfing.
A quote from President Mahmood “Give Me Nukes Or Give Me You Death” Ahmadinejad;

In the first such statement by an Iranian president in nearly 20 years, Mahmood Ahmadinejad said his election would mark what he termed a new Islamic revolution. Ahmadinejad said such a revolution would spread throughout the world.
“Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world,” Ahmadinejad was quoted by the official Iranian news agency as saying. “The era of oppression, hegemonic regimes, tyranny and injustice has reached its end.”

Good analysis at Daily Cuz on Iran’s tactics in procuring them.
For the first time ever, poll results swing on the bus vote.
One Free Korea:

We are now four months from the next Great North Korean Famine, and rather than making the urgent and public appeals that could stop it, the United Nations is issuing a permit. Just one month after the World Food Program issued an urgent appeal stating that 6.5 million North Koreans depend on its food aid for their survival, it has capitulated to North Korea’s demand to cease delivering food aid in favor of “development aid” that will be neither distributed nor monitored by anyone outside the North Korean government itself. Do past events leave any doubt about how Pyongyang will allocate the blank check it demands for this “development aid?” The result will be that Kim Jong Il will continue the political cleansing of North Korea’s hostile classes

Phil Donahue tells Bill O’Reilly he doesn’t know what he’s talking about in the Iraq war. Oops.
Dave, who plays for “Graham Brown & the Prairiedogs” wrote to ask that I plug their website. All things considered, one would think he’d choose his words more carefully!
Add your own in the comments, or send a trackback.

Things are ramping up here with work, and combined with getting ready for a major road trip, my time for blogging is limited.
For the giddy in the mainstream media seemingly suffering from Clinton Affected Memory Disorder, Tom McGuire offers a cure. Meanwhile, John Kerry (who still trails Bush in post-election approval rating pollings) is busy raising Katrina Kash!
Want to know how your Saskatchewan tax burden compares with that of Montana? It’s all here. (Short form Sask – 50.58%, Montana – 27.25%) Data for several provinces and northern states, all in one handy table.
Don Martin in the Calgary Herald on the political realities of Brian Mulroney’s “sick city”;

The problem now is we’re trapped by the scenario Prime Minister Paul Martin identified when paying his respects to former Global National bureau chief David Vienneau, who died last year. The parliamentary precinct, he said, is like a “small village” where everybody knows each other.
This much was confirmed while golfing with a respected journalist (is that an oxymoron?) last week. As our floundering game became too depressing to discuss, talk turned to the state of the profession. And that’s when this veteran correspondent made a profound, albeit alarming, observation.
“The longer you stay in Ottawa, the harder it is to write anything,” he lamented. “The list of topics you can tackle which doesn’t burn your contacts or hurt your friends gets shorter and shorter.”
That’s the bottled essence of Mulroney’s rage. If the capital is a village, reporters were the village idiots during his reign. Everybody was friends with everybody else. Except him. He was the outsider. And so they set out to get him. Surely Conservative Leader Stephen Harper can empathize.

Drop your tips in the comments, or send a trackback to your own witty and insightful posts.

Busy day here, so I’ll just pass along a few items that have dropped in my inbox over the past few hours.
Reader Peter Benyk emails on a topic I haven’t followed, because I don’t care about satellite radio. Others do, so;

The two Canadian companies have finally been granted approval for broadcasting satellite radio from the Federal cabinet. Although they were approved earlier by the CRTC for licenses heavy lobbying from Quebec insisted there be and even number of French and English stations and now there will be four of each. The licensees relented to this bit of blackmail and as a result the federal cabinet approved both licenses. How ludicrous that this government insist on this provision as if the population of this country was split with approximately half communicating in French and the other half communicating in English. We know at best the figures would be 4 to 1 English over French. These radio stations are to carry a prescribed amount of Canadian talent so where is the equity in developing the English talent if their outlets are minimized so they are equal to the number of French outlets. This is just another example in my book where Quebec is dictating the Federal Liberal policies of Canada and if you wondered if there was truth to a common complaint that French is being shoved down the throat (and ears) of Canadians here you have it in living color. English speaking Canadians are being forced to split the number of English stations 50/50 as if this reflected the French -English population and talent pool of this country. Since 90% of the people who communicate in French are located in the Quebec area it is reasonable to assume that they will be able to get along with fewer stations but why limit and handcuff the English speaking population, by only giving them an equal number of stations, who are servicing a much broader cross section of people in Canada and are highly involved in providing English services in every province and who are in fact servicing a much larger pool of Canadian talent albeit English speaking.

Sounds about right. A few years ago I heard that it had been calculated that the CBC French language television in Saskatchewan had a viewership of around seven households.
Lots at China E-Lobby today.

Communist leader Hu Jintao came to his hotel in Toronto “via the underground parking garage” (Epoch Times) rather than face the Falun Gong and Tibetan protestors who jostled for position with the usual group of bribed welcomers.

In the 1970’s the US Congress approved a massive barrier system for New Orleans. An environmental lawsuit took care of that!
A pastor in Alberta is facing a human rights tribunal over a letter to the editor in a Red Deer newspaper criticizing homosexuality. If he loses, he could be forced to pay $7,000 in fines – including $2,000 to the homosexual-rights group EGALE Canada.
$2,000 just for being offended? Time to register REDNECK Canada as a non-profit, methinks.
(Add your own in the comments, or send a trackback to this post.)

A few items passed along recently.
An interview with Bill Vander Zalm.
Katrina’s fury exceeded only by her windbags.
Speaking of “windbags”, Canadians who have been critical of the US response to Katrina might do well to “stifle” and pay a little more attention to our own 10 billion dollar state of unreadiness.

As retired Canadian general Lew MacKenzie told the Sun’s Bill Rodgers yesterday, Canada couldn’t even muster half the 40,000 soldiers the U.S. government (albeit belatedly) has poured into New Orleans to restore law and order, assist in relief efforts and help rebuild shattered levees.

Via Newsbeat1. (Question – I seem to recall that the US military helped move Canadian Armed forces to the Manitoba flood in the 1990’s, but may be mistaken. Can anyone verify or discount that?)
Yahoo has been assisting the police. The secret police. In China.
This post on being poor has generated a lot of buzz. This reply, on staying poor, is the one that deserves it. (Kathy Shaidle is right – this is a very good smackdown – speaking as someone who still wears “supermarket shoes”.)
Add your own in the comments, or send a trackback.

I’ll be out much of the day. Here’s an invitation to send a trackback to your own stuff, or post links to breaking news items in the comments.
Later.
Update – I see you folks outdid yourselves. There are some very good items in the comments.
Also, this via Nealenews;
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien interviewing New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin this morning (Sept.5);

Nagin>> I got promises too.� I can’t stand any more promises. I don’t want to hear any more promises. I want to see stuff done. That’s why I’m so happy the president came down here because I think they were feeding him a line of bull also. They were telling him things weren’t as bad as it was, he came down and saw it and he put a general on the field. His name is general Honore. When he hit the field, we started to see action. What the state was doing, I don’t friggin’ know but I tell you, I am pissed. It wasn’t adequate. The president and the governor sat down. Air force one, I said, Mr. President, Madam governor, you two have to get in sync. If you don’t get in sync, more people are going to die.
O’Brien>> What date was this?
N>> I don’t know.
O>> When did you say that?
N>> Whenever air force one was here.
O>> Okay.
N>> And this is after I called him on the telephone two days earlier. And I said, Mr. President, madam governor, you two need to get together on the same page because the lack of coordination people are dying in my city.
That’s two days ago? Easement I don’t know the exact date. They both shook their head, said yeah. I said great. I said everybody in this room is getting ready to leave. There was senators and his cabinet people, you name it, they were there. Generals. I said everybody right now, we’re leaving. These two people need to sit in a room together and make a doggone decision right now.
O>> Was that done?
N>> The president looked at me. I think he was a little surprised. He said, no, you guys stay here. We’re going to another section of the plane and we’re going to make a decision. He called me in that office after that and he said, Mr. Mayor, I offered two options to the governor. I said — I don’t remember exactly what — two options. I was ready to move today. The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision.
O>> You told me the president told you the governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision?
N>> Yes.
O>> Regarding what? Bringing troops?
N>> Whatever they had discussed. As far as what the — I was advocating a clear chain of command. So that we could get resources flowing in the right places.
O>> The governor said no?
N>> She said she needed 24 hours to make a decision. It would have been great if we could of left air force one, walked outside, and told the world that we had this all worked out. It didn’t happen. And more people died.

It was an early morning and a long day, so I’m going to take it easy this evening. See you tomrrow.

It’s the first day of school in Saskatoon. Police are reminding drivers to watch for youngsters crossing streets and parents to double check that their kids aren’t inadvertantly wearing gang colours.
Community outrage is growing over the release of three teenage girls accused of having kicked and beaten a 60 year old Florence Frenchman to death in her North Battleford home. In the words of their defence lawyer Ron Piche (who succeeded in getting a publication ban, so of course, no one is allowed to know who, or where they are.)

“If there is a trial, it could take a year or more before it begins, Piche noted. “I don’t see (their release) as undermining confidence in the justice system,” he said. “Are you going to keep an accused in custody that long?” Piche said.

Uh. Yes?
Or, if that isn’t possible, may I propose a compromise? Let’s share this societal responsibility for youth crime – place one out of every three or so of these anonymous young offenders charged with violent offenses in the guardianship of the judge who has done the releasing. That is, they must live in their home. Board a few with the Justice Minister, too.
Oh, and defense lawyers. Don’t let them off the hook for arguing for their release.
Of course, Saskatchewan isn’t the only place with these problems – in Toronto they’ve begun to crack down hard on their Jamaican gang gun violence, with plans to slap them with Victim Impact Statements.
Speaking of gangs and street violence – the good Reverand and civil rights leader Al Sharpton was last seen fleeing the scene of Cindy Sheehan’s vigil near Crawford, TX.
In a hurry to get to New Orleans, no doubt.

Sometimes one gets the sense that in Saskatchewan, the SaskParty sets policy, and the NDP enact it.
A post here on SDA about Marc Emery’s inappropriate comments about Irwin Cotler get a nod from the Ottawa Citizen. Thanks for that! Too often, the mainstream media simply rips off material as their own, or makes inadequate and vague references to “weblogs”. It’s not enough, people. Credit your sources. (Good article, too. They did some digging and Emery comes off the worse for wear.)
The Black Rod has an exclusive with Bruce Vallance of Winnipeg, and more of his thoughts on the 1970 FLQ terror bombing that injured him and killed a co-worker.
Newsbeat1 on the Jamaican gang “gun” violence in Toronto;

When this city had too much snow, we called in the army. When we had a disease outbreak, we put thousands of people into quarantine. When we had a blackout, we shut down business across the province.
It’s time our leaders admitted this is a crisis, too. How many more people have to be sprayed with bullets before they cut the bafflegab and show us some action? “

Perhaps it’s because snow doesn’t shoot at you.
Still no arrest in the Saskatoon murder of Jason Stroat, though there are persistant rumours (both reported on local radio and privately) that it was gang related, commited by a young offender and may have been an initiation. Meanwhile, the Saskatoon Police Service is still in a stalling pattern on their contract … well, you can’t call them “talks” exactly. The upshot – the police union refuses to allow the city to assign more officers to high crime periods because police don’t like to work those shifts. Want more cops on the street on Friday night? The union demands a corresponding manpower increase for Tuesday morning. That means several new officers have to be hired to direct traffic around morning fender benders for every one they require to police the inner city at night.
The police union will, although, allow officers to volunteer for those higher risk time periods. I kid you not.
And before you head out to enjoy what looks to be a beautiful Saturday morning – if you haven’t already (one vote per person, we’re not Liberals, after all) – go strike a blow against Trudeaupia and vote for Joe Clark. (Take out “he got a Nobel Peace prize just like Yasser Arafat” Pearson, too)
UPDATE: Well, what else can you say than it’s a “Liberal” poll?
With voting closed, and Clark and Borden coming out on top in their respective match-ups, what’s a good “Liberal pollster” to do? Why, give everyone a second vote!
If you think this “best combined” re-vote would have happened had Trudeau and Pearson prevailed, put your hand up.
Then whack yourself upside the head with it.
Maybe I’m being too harsh – maybe these new after-the-fact electoral rule changes are just “Calgary Grit’s” self-deprecating wink at Liberal Party corruption. Whatever the case, at this rate Joe Clark may end up with more votes than he got in 1979.
vote here.

Spent the day standing on concrete, and don’t have much energy left for blogging – much less sifting through the 30 or so “tips” that arrived in my inbox while I was out.
So, use the comments for this evening if you have something so urgent everyone must know about. But, eh… if it’s already been on Nealenews or already raging about the Toryshere, I’d guess most people have seen it.
Tomorrow.

A few links I’ve collected over the past few days;
A blog by a Canadian reservist (just home) from Afghanistan.

I guess there will always be those who don’t really want to see what is really going on around them.� When I went to the orphanage this morning and dropped off $600 US for the director to purchase a washing machine, some carpets, a couple of fans and a couple of hundred dollars worth of food, I really didn’t feel that I was “bombing the children.”� After lunch, when I went to the 6 room school house that we have built with money raised by and from the soldiers of Camp Julien and their families, I didn’t really feel like I had “bombed the schools.”� And in a couple of days, when I drop off at a needy mosque the brand new generator that was donated by a thoughtful citizen back in Canada, I probably won’t feel as if I have “bombed the holy places.”� When I see the Engineers risk their lives to go out and collect up hundreds of kilograms of mines, RPG 7 rounds, and various other lethal munitions and blow them up, I don’t feel as if we are holding this country back.� When the MP’s here on the camp go to the local police stations and provide training on proper search and arrest procedures, I don’t see that as contributing to the problems here.� When the Health Services people here go out and provide cross training to the medical staff at the medical facilities near the camp…again I fail to see how we’re the problem.

Peaktalk on the lax TBS-clinics in Holland and the escape of Todd Cameron Smith he who can no longer be named.
They come in peace.
Someone tipped me off to John The Mad, with a note about how good a blog it is. Agreed.
A Jawa Report survey comparing military service in the “left” and “right” blogosphere.
The mayor of Toronto wants law-abiding residents to store their guns in a central armoury[1] so that, apparently, drug dealers and gang members can have a free field of fire with the illegal ones. But set that aside for the time being – nothing flushes away the stench of warm blood on hot streets more effectively than noticing that the shooters are black!
[1] That didn’t take long. Now – aren’t you glad you forgot to register yours?
(Add your own in the comments.)

Mark Steyn is to the United Nations what a can of Raid is to – well, the United Nations.
Ezra Levant picks up on something I wrote about last week.
Stephen Taylor discovers wildcat *.html files are joining the CBC lockout. Plus – is this sign of a takeover by Fox News?
James has a point. This probably calls for a charter flight.
Another installment of good news from Iraq, via Chrenkoff. From the cloistered universe of the MSM – a glimmer of recognition that “there’s a perception that we’re not telling the whole story”. You don’t say.
Add your own in the comments.

Did a Canadian blogger help solve a murder?
Sharia in the news;

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – The northern Nigerian city of Kano on Tuesday launched a fleet of single-sex public transport vehicles to allow Muslims to comply with Islamic Sharia law.
Thousands converged on the Pillars soccer stadium to see the vehicles, which include 100 ten-seater minibuses for women only, 100 motorcycle-taxis for men, and 500 three-wheeler microbuses that can carry only men or only women at any given time.
The motorcycles circled the pitch in a jubilant parade as thousands cheered and chanted “God is greater”.

This has so impressed former attorney general, Marion Boyd, that she thinks Sharia has possibilities for Ontario.
The Canadian Coalition For Democracies wants action from Paul Martin.
Dar Al-Arqam Islamic Centre says there’s nothing to fear but the neo-con controlled media.
Meanwhile, on the “Below The Media Radar Watch”; Cuba stirs.
Via Kathy Shaidle;

“During my time with the National Organization for Women one of the (many) things that disturbed me during national board meetings was the fact that many of the women seemed to be allergic to bathing, and especially frightened of the concept of ‘grooming.'”

Well, that isn’t a problem for Some Girls!
I have a fire truck to paint this morning and a lot of other work on my plate, so you can use this comments thread for your own links. Keep quoting brief and off-topic chatter to a minimum, please.

I’ve got a lot on my plate today, so I’ll direct you to some items you may not have seen. (Thanks again, to all those readers who send me tips – it’s impossible to use all but a few, but I do appreciate your effort).
A good clean piece by Charles Krauthammer, The Neoconservative Convergence;

The post-Cold War era has seen a remarkable ideological experiment: Over the past 15 years, each of the three major American schools of foreign policy–realism, liberal internationalism and neoconservatism– has taken its turn at running things. (A fourth school, isolationism, has a long pedigree, but has yet to recover from Pearl Harbor and probably never will; it remains a minor source of dissidence with no chance of becoming a governing ideology.) There is much to be learned from this unusual and unplanned experiment.

A must read, especially for those who have learned everything they know about “neo-conservativism” at the feet of Jon Stewart.
From Victor Davis Hanson, to those who think the west is “our own worst enemy”. You’re wrong – but we certainly are our own worst accomplice.

When the killer of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh confessed last week, he boasted, “I can assure you that one day, should I be set free, I would do exactly the same.”
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If many progressives in the Netherlands expected the Dutch-Moroccan Mohammed Bouyeri would cite past ill- treatment by Westerners, they were sorely disappointed.
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Instead, the psychopath icily advised the mother of the murdered van Gogh: “I have to admit I do not feel for you, I do not feel your pain” and “I cannot feel for you. … because I believe you are an infidel.”
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Thousands of innocent civilians such as van Gogh have been murdered by Islamic extremists — in Darfur, Gaza, India, Israel, Lebanon, London, Madrid, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States. The carnage gives credence to the adage that while the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists, the vast majority of global terrorists most certainly are Muslims.
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The killers always allege particular gripes — Australian troops in Iraq, Christian proselytizing, Hindu intolerance, occupation of the West Bank, theft of Arab petroleum, the Jews, attacks on the Taliban, the 15th-century reconquest of Spain, and, of course, the Crusades.
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But in most cases — from Mohamed Atta, who crashed into the World Trade Center, to Ahmed Sheik, the former London School of Economics student who planned the beheading of Daniel Pearl, to Magdy Mahmoud Mustafa el-Nashar, the suspected American-educated bomb-maker in London — the common bond is not poverty, a lack of education or legitimate grievance. Instead it is blind hatred instilled by militant Islam.

Switching gears, Publius extends stats posted yesterday on crime in Canada, by placing them in the context of First Nations population. (In a comment that jumps head first into parody, a self-described “Indian activist” chastizes him for not writing letters to the government and the CBC.)
What isn’t factored into his simple chart is the skewing of crime figures through the phenomenon of organized aboriginal youth gangs. Taking on names like “Crazy Cree” and “Indian Posse” – the clear message is that membership is race based, so those who wish to protest the characterization can take it up with them. I suspect much of the violent crime reported in Saskatoon and Regina is directly related to gang involvement in drugs and prostitution, turf warfare, initiation rites. (There are reportedly 13 or 14 such gangs in Saskatoon.)
Exacerbated by the absurdly lenient Youth Criminal Justice Act which recycles so-called “young offenders” back onto the streets faster than police can apprehend them, the situation is especially maddening at a time when so many First Nations kids are finally making their way into the work force through traditional entry level positions in the private sector.
Darcey has thoughts on this, too.
That’s all for a while. Discuss, if you wish, and feel free to add your own links. Sort of an open thread.

Reader Mark Collins writes “A good impression of how London is reacting to the bombings/attempted bombings can be had by listening live to listening live to LBC97.3 FM .

Frost Hits The Rhubarb has a series of items up, beginning with this;

Today was a good day to develop Islamophobia, if you have been holding back due to some warped sense of moral equivalence. A perusal of Saturday’s news pointed out why you should be afraid, very afraid, of the way Islam is being used to justify the worse atrocities you could conjure up in a nightmare. Attacks on the Buddhist Thais in Southern Thailand, another bombing of a Turkish resort, a fuel truck suicide mission against the Shi’ites in Iraq–all topped off by a running street battle between Hamas and Abbas’s Fateh. That isn’t the full account I’m sure, because the nitpicky individual murders by Islamic fanatics just get crowded out by the spectacular massacres. These attacks are all part and parcel of the daily carnage wrought by diseased religious fanatics, who remember how Islam got its converts in the good old days–by the sword.

At Newsbeat1;

It’s been 4 years since 9/11.
That’s more than plenty of time to have been prepared but obviously Canadians’ security was not a priority.Otherwise CSIS would have had 700 more staff members- the RCMP would have had 2500 more officers and CBSA would have had at least 1200 more people.That would only bring them up to the levels they were 12 years ago.

North Korea loses a friend at the UN. Maurice Strong has been canned.
USA Today on the potential impact of bloggers on the upcoming US Supreme Court nominations.
Do you have an interest in medicine and the greater health care debate south of the border? Check out the Doctor blogs.
Plato’s Stepchild recalls “a landscape of blood and horror” and the bravery of those who entered it with pure hearts.