Blogging is tough in the summer, there’s just so darned much to do. In about 60 minutes (maybe less) I’m pointing the bike west for the week-end and will only be online for very brief periods during that time - back some time on Monday… until then, play nice :-)

– no answers of course, but at least some the questions are getting better.

Stephen Harper before the election: Canadian Cabinet Ministers and their staff will be covered by Canada’s access to information law… we’re all about accountability dammit

Stephen Harper after the election: Good luck on that one buddy, well see ya in court.

Three minutes after the polls closed, and with 0% of the polls in West Virginia reporting, CNN has declared Hillery Clinton the winner “by a wide margin”… we now return you to the Simpsons.

A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin.

The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Carter said Wednesday.

“I don’t think it. I know it,” Carter told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

She’s not really a hate mongering, bigot… she just plays one on the Internet.

In the appropriate circumstance the military option may not only be the best option, but the only reasonable course of action to save a people from its’ government… it is time, in my opinion, to exercise that option in Myanmar/Burma.

Join young people across the country on Protest the Pill Day ‘08: The Pill Kills Babies on June 7 and witness outside of clinics that distribute this killing poison.

The “While We’re At It, Let’s Redefine Something Else” edition.

– you can make the numbers say anything you want….. can the first “hate crime” trial for criticizing Israeli policy be far behind?

The following is the text of Ms. Nicole Demers (Laval, BQ) statement in the House yesterday regarding her opinion of the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, and the demonstrations that were taking place as she made it…. plus (of course) my opinion.

Subtitled: My apparent “links” to organized crime

I could care f*cking less if Bernier’s ex-girlfriend knew a guy who knew a guy who was in a bike gang - you’re starting to sound like Americans. If you have nothing better for Question Period please contact me for assistance, I’ll give you some real questions that the government can provide partisan non-answers to.

Updated: Who knew I was so well connected?

With those sorts of skillz OMMAG probably shouldn’t be looking for a colour commentator job with the CFL, and I certainly wouldn’t want him mucking about with national economics, but CPoC Election Finance HQ might want him.

The City Council of Nanaimo BC is exploring the option of Internet voting in the next municipal elections. I wonder if they’re willing to expand that to allowing residents to vote via the Internet on actual municipal issues, as opposed to just choosing who decides on the issues on their behalf?