http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com One Damn Thing Leads to Another Mon, 12 May 2008 17:11:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ezra now has a copy of the Department of Justice's brief against Marc Lemire's constitutional challenge mounted against s.13. Personally I was not terribly impressed with Lemire's challenge in the first place largely because it was drafted before the excesses and the illegalities of the CHRC's investigative techniques had come ... http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/settled-law/ click to see hyperbaric bomb http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/israelis-rumoured-to-be-hitting-beirutreuters-has-pix/ 18 minutes of your life. Malcolm Gladwell (who could have a career as a stand-up). Spaghetti sauce. via Bob Lefsetz who runs it about music. But it is a very much bigger point. http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/the-future/ Ezra has the latest idiocy from the divine Ms. Blight (the CHRC's most recent lawyer) with respect to disclosure in the Lemire case: The disclosure materials which were disclosed in a less-redacted form yesterday, were re-redacted taking into account the following principles: 1. Names of individuals employed by the Commission at an ... http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/chrc-csisyeah-right/ You will remember that the CHRT did not have a court reporter present during the proceeding in which the conduct of the CHRC investigators was under scrutiny. Which meant that the respondent and various commentators have been relying on hand transcribed versions of the hearing. Well, Ezra now has a ... http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/unbelievable/ Last night’s warning came as it emerged that 17 Britons, including ex-pats and backpackers, were still missing. Sources said 200,000 people were already dead or dying. But the figure could rise to HALF A MILLION through disease and hunger if the nation’s hardline army rulers continue to block aid for the devastated ... http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/burma-needs-help-now/ Go read this thread at Babble. Intelligent comments, support for the idea of free speech...yikes. http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/yikes-even-rabble-is-grabbing-a-clue/ "I offer to have sex with Neve Campbell." EBD on May 9, 2008 10:59 am in my comments on the Lying Jackal offering to debate Mark Steyn. My commentors are way funnier than I am. http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/come-hither/ To Steyn's credit, he may have offered the first olive branch when he said as I was closing the show, "would you guys like to go for dinner?" One of the lawyers immediately said, "No!" They may not have broken bread, but they did continue the dialogue. What became clear is ... http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/how-it-should-happen/ I've now heard from several sources that Chretien-era spin-doctor Warren Kinsella has been offering his services as the chap to write the 5,000-word "response" when the British Columbia "Human Rights" Tribunal orders Maclean's to run it. This will certainly be tough on Maclean's readers, but on the other hand it ... http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/has-been-looks-for-gig/