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29

Ferry Bomb Threat

July 29, 2007 | 3 Comments

Ferries bound for Swartz Bay and Duke Point left Tsawwassen late Saturday after a bomb threat shut down the ferry terminal for much of the afternoon and evening.
Earlier, travellers were re-routed to Horseshoe Bay after a “credible” bomb threat was phoned in to Delta police, forcing the shutdown of BC Ferries operations at Tsawwassen. The […]

Jul

29

CheatNeutral

July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

via SDA and Celestial Junk
CheatNeutral

Jul

28

Charm

July 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

via Andrew Sullivan
recipe for architectural charm
ingredients:
* grounding roof lines
* legible massing
* engaged relationship with landscape
* simple color palette and harmonious materials
* thoughtful details katie hutchison studio
Is that so hard? Click and learn.

Jul

27

Sarko !

July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Arch wobbly Andrew Sullivan celebrates Sarko’s pleasing predilection for the personal touch. And the tape of Sarko shitfaced after lunch with Putin is worth the visit.
Sullivan is wrong about a lot but he gets what’s fun and very silly. Part of conservatism is laughter…a fact too often forgotten.

Jul

27

You tube or die

July 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

One could not call the Dems brilliant on the You-Tube debate but they showed up.
The Republicans, apparently, are a little less up for it.
Romney and Rudy are wobbly….OK Fred, go for it.
What these folks may not be getting is just how fast the media landscape is shifting. If they have a chance of actually […]

Jul

24

Perfect

July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment

True North from Canada writes: Thieves. I had to pay this levy to reproduce my own music - I was making a CD of music composed and performed by myself as Christmas gifts to friends. When I asked the CPCC, quoted in this article and who who also collects this levy, if they […]

Jul

24

Profiles in Courage

July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Evon Reid, who is one credit short of a political science degree from the University of Toronto, applied for a position as a media analyst with the Ontario government and last week e-mailed the cabinet office to follow up. Aileen Siu, an office worker, replied: “This is the ghetto dude that I spoke to before.”
Ms. […]

Jul

22

Yo, Canadian Human Rights Commission…Over Here!

July 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I am not a huge fan of Free Dominion, they are a very different breed of cat from yours truly; however they are being called befor the Canadian Human Rights Commission for publishing the following comments
04/24/06 “I can’t figure out why the homosexuals I ran into are on the side of the Muslims.
After all, Muslims […]

Jul

21

President Cheney: The White House Hours

July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Minute 1: Nuke Baghdad
Minute 15: Eliminate the Department of Homeland Security and replace it with Jack Bauer
Minute 36: Tea with Karl Rove
Minute 51: Nuke North Korea Elocutio

Jul

19

EMG channels Chesterton on toy weapons

July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Well, quotes actually:
Chesterton bellows from the grave:
When this progress has gone on for a century or two, it might begin to dawn on people that there was something wrong with their moral principle. What is wrong with their moral principle is that it is immoral. Arms, like every other adventure of […]

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