Broadcast Consortium offers Elizabeth May alternate spot in “Never Won A Seat And Never Will Leaders Debate”
The First American Prime Minister Is Surprised
Michael Ignatieff on Lawn Sign Volunteergate;
“A Conservative party operative stands accused of fooling around with something that is very important to Canadian democracy, which is the citizens’ right of access to information.”
None of this can be compared at all to the non-controversy known as Pablo “failing to blow” Rodriguez. He’s a Liberal candidate, and thereby immune from media interest.
h/t Orville.
Why Michael Ignatieff Won’t Form A Coalition
“This Accord will expire on June 30, 2011 unless renewed.”
Legal analysis, via email;
I have reviewed The December 1 2008 Accord with the Liberals and NDP;
Here is my legal interpretation
1. It is a “Live ” document and is binding on the parties.
2. Termination – No termination by any party– Termination only occurs on June 30th 2011
3. Document BINDS the NDP and Liberals ( the Liberals cannot unilaterally back out of deal)– the NDP can force compliance.
4. Given that Michael Ignatieff signed the document– he can not argue bad faith, or had no knowledge and as such is bound to the Agreement
(bumped for Charles Adler listeners)
The Dwain Lingenfelter Workout Video
Feel the beat. Feel the burn. Feel the back of your retinas peel.
CTV Sports: Inert Bag Of Sand defeats Dwain Lingenfelter by a unanimous decision.
Reader Request
I noticed yesterday how quickly CTV Newsnet cleansed their news loop of a video segment juxtaposing Iggy crowing that “Liberals love elections” against Harper’s “We should be at our desks working”.
But it’s probably still buried somewhere on their website. If anyone out there can find and capture it to video, please pass it on.
Luckily, This Could Never Happen Here
THE inventor Sir James Dyson has warned that Chinese students are infiltrating British universities to steal technological and scientific secrets and even planting software bugs to relay the information to China.
Dyson, best known for inventing the bagless vacuum cleaner, said he had evidence that the bugs were left by postgraduates to ensure the thefts continued after they had returned home.
He said the extent to which foreign students dominated many science, technology and engineering research posts, often paid for by the British taxpayer, was “madness”.
[…]
“I’ve seen frightening examples. Bugs are even left in computers so that the information continues to be transmitted after the researchers have returned home.”
A number of such cases have been uncovered at British universities, with leading research institutions the most heavily targeted.
Or in the US. China ‘to overtake US on science’ in two years
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Riverboats would be encouraged as one of the main alternatives to petrol cars
h/t Larry
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Get our pilots out of there.
It gets better!
…that’s why building this international coalition has been so important because it means that the United States is not bearing all the cost. It means that we have confidence that we are not going in alone, and it is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions that are important not only to us, but are important internationally.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s tips music, dyspeptic Scot Ivor Cutler performs a jolly rendition of How Are You? Shut Up!.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
The Tolerant Left
Up until Walker’s showdown with the Democratic state senators, Koch had never seen a photograph of the governor. He didn’t know him at all. But now the protesters occupying the Wisconsin state capitol were calling Walker a “Koch Whore.”
“Tammy … come in off that ledge.”
(Just testing out consolation emails for May.)
Michael Coren on Count Iggy
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
Looting a Yemeni ammo factory – what could possibly go wrong?
Yemeni state media blamed the disaster on al-Qaida, saying terrorists who raided the factory had lured civilians into a “trap.” Residents said someone may have dropped a cigarette in the building Monday, triggering the explosions and resulting fire.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
You cannot hope to twist or bribe
The US monodaily scribe.
He’s so cooperative, I posit,
He’ll let us lock him in the closet.
Is Harper’s “War On Liberals” A Recruiting Tool For Extremists?
“The Liberal Party organization in St. Boniface has long been considered to possess one of the best and most efficiently organized teams in the country and, in recent years, it has almost doubled the number of its militants.“
h/t Jethro
It’s Probably Nothing
Election 2011: Today’s Assignment
Find Your Liberal Candidate. Then phone the campaign office, and request a “Coalition” lawn sign.
Be polite, as you may be recording.
Update! This assignment may be more difficult than I thought…
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music, from an episode of The Wilburn Brothers Show, a syndicated variety series that ran for 12 years starting in 1963, Loretta Lynn joins those Wilburn Brothers in a performance of Oh Come, Angel Band.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Scratch a Leftist
Find an anti-Semite.
The Norwegian socialist party announced that they will vote to bomb Israel at their convention.
Secret Tweets Of The CBC
Related thoughts: Twitter does serve one useful purpose. It separates the politically obsessed and chronically underemployed from the real people who have lives. Accordingly, an observation for politicians: Do you know how many of my real-life regular folk voting friends are on Twitter? ZERO.