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Paid administrative leave, the heartless &#%$@& !! Will this type of draconian treatment of the working class never end?!?!? Mother of god what’s next, making the poor sod sit in the “The Comfy Chair”.

She should have gone and she should have told Bush exactly what was on her mind - no pulled punches, nothing but the straight goods….. helping G.W.B. isolate himself from reality isn’t going to help anything.

It wasn’t intended to mean anything to the Iraqi people, it was intended first and foremost as a photo op…..

The question is, given how far to the right the Alliance is, exactly how deep into the party this sort of thinking goes, and how it will affect their upcoming merger with the P.C.’s vote.

Mind you not everybody was happy as he might have wanted

That sounds legal doesn’t it? Well, at least legal in countries ruled by (shall we say) less than democratic officials and leaders.

Good on ‘em I say.. rigging or stealing elections are only a few things that Mugabe should be held accountable for - would that more international bodies shunned more national leaders who circumnavigate the democratic election process.

U.S. releases Canadian detained in Guantanamo

A suggestion to the New York Daily Times, either get yourselves a new editor, get yourselves a decent news reader, or read this blog.

The retraction doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere near as much press as the initial reports…. just another of those things that make ya go “hummmmm”.

Surely the American people are not so easily confused…. are they?

– repress the news

From the department of “never say die even when we look like idiots”

…. that the people in some states are in fact more intelligent than those running their governments.