Members of Parliament are getting a pay raise. A memo Commons Speaker Peter Milliken sent to all MPs outlines the automatic pay hike of 3.1 per cent on April 1st. The minimum salary for all 308 MPs will jump to $155,400. More than half of Federal MPs receive salary top-ups for additional house and caucus duties.

Movie Directed by: Stephen Harper
Produced by: CPC Morality Police
Written by: John Q Public
Edited by: Stockwell Day
Movie made possible by the generous funding and intense scrutiny of the Ministry of We Know What’s Best for You.

Is the government deciding what is artistically offensive.

It’s been too crazy to post (which is one of the pleasures of having a blogmate as perpetually outraged as Stageleft). But I can never resist a good meme, and since we’ve been triple tagged, the onus is upon us.

The results of the survey, released Tuesday, demonstrate that a significant proportion of American teenagers live in “stunning ignorance” of history and literature, according to the group that commissioned it.

When people willingly and knowingly commit violent, or other, human rights atrocities they should not look for either sympathy or understanding from society at large - they are the authors of their own misfortune and hold ultimate responsibility for the demons that come to haunt them.

“There are four or five generals and admirals we know of who would resign if Bush ordered an attack on Iran,” The Sunday Times quoted Monday a source with close ties to British intelligence .

“There is simply no stomach for it in the Pentagon, and a lot of people question whether such an attack would be effective or even possible,” the source added.

It’s not often that we come across a brutally honest post in the blogosphere.

About 8,000 more US troops will be on the ground in Iraq when the US troop buildup ends in July than there were when it began in January 2007, a senior general said Monday.

– doesn’t Israel want Palestine recognized as a state?

They exposed their backsides and sexual organs to Palestinians, pressed an electric heater to the face of a young boy, beat young boys senseless, recorded everything on their mobile phones and sent it to their friends. One of their “mischievous acts” was to test how long a Palestinian who was being choked could survive without breathing. When he passed out, the experiment was stopped. The soldiers described activities to “break the routine” that consisted entirely of abuse. It was enough for a boy “to look at us the wrong way” for him to be beaten.

Stephen Harper actually announced he wants to increase military presence in our cities.
Canadian cities. Soldiers with guns. In our cities. In Canada.

The Captain is shutting down his quarters - does this mean the Blogging Tories will have a blogroll one site lighter? Or will he simply be replaced by Michelle Malkin and Hot Air?

And this year’s Franklin W. Dixon Award for the most horrifically fractured metaphor goes to…the envelope please…

For decades, Inuit have been governed by bureaucrats - mostly white - in power centres far from the Inuit homeland. Land Claims agreements set targets for the hiring of Inuit within governments created to govern largely Inuit populations.

Is that racism?