Da Vinci Code

This is so cool and cleverly thought out, Indian version of the Simpsons, yes The Singhsons.

Featuring Bartinder, Omar, Mar Ji, Mugglie and Lisajit.

And Just For the Hell of it A Simpson Tribute

HOMER IS PERFECT! (HANNAH MONTANA PARODY!)

Homer Simpson Doh song

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Google Maps is cooooooool.

This is one view of Boston, MA.

Here’s a screenshot:

If you squint, you can see a baseball diamond near the top of the picture, at about the 1 o’clock position.

Fenway.

Right near the bottom, at about the 7 o’clock position, is a rectangle of green that seems to be pointing up and across towards Fenway. At the bottom of this rectangle is a white building casting a shadow up and to the right.

Harvard Medical School.

Boston is what Toronto wishes it were.

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You are NOT going to believe this, but it looks like the Liberal Party may have been accepting kickbacks! You know, sleazy backdoor payouts of huge sums of tax money, paid out to ad firms in Quebec! True story!

It’s even in the news today. Interestingly enough, it looks like the Liberal kickback-hose sprayed around so incontinently, even the separatists took some of the wad right on the chin.

For me, I’m shocked. I mean, who knew there was this huge kickback scheme operating? Bizarre. Still, now that it’s been published by a Major News Source (okay, so it’s Sun Media, but still!), I guess we can be allowed to think about it.

Huh.

Bizarre.

Matt Fenwick can polish Andrew Coyne’s apple as much as he wants, but I’d give them both an “Incomplete” for their report card on the CPC policy platform.

Surely they know that political platforms must always be graded on the curve? Sad but true. It’s all very well for Coyne to give the Tories 3 “B+”s, 3 “B”s, 5 “C+”s, 6 “C”s, 2 “C-”s, 1 “D”, and 3 “F”s (average grade: C)… but how did the rest of the class do? I’d be particularly interested in the performance of the Plurality Canadian Voter. I’d bet on P. Voter getting a C-, at best. And that’s allowing him to write the supplemental exam, based on his near fail result in 2004.

…although I understand why several fellow Canadian bloggers seem to want to skate close to the line.

I am not a lawyer, nor do I have any special interest in or expertise in publication bans. However, if blogging is a type of journalism, and I believe it is, then bloggers are probably legally bound by the same restrictions that apply to CTV and Global. I would be interested in a legal opinion on this issue: if it’s against the law to say “Mr. X said such-and-such on the stand yesterday”, is it legal to say “go to this website or that magazine, where you will find details on Mr. X’s testimony which I am not free to report myself”? Maybe I already have my legal opinion, because lawyer Damian Penny has already gone the second route in his blog.

Too busy to blog the last couple of weeks, for which please accept my apologies. I do feel something of an obligation to write every day, and each day that I don’t have the time I feel a bit disappointed.

I found this, from Christie Blatchford, via NealeNews.

If this doesn’t make you feel more than a bit nervous about The Best Health Care System In The World^TM, then I would be worried about how much oxygen is getting to your brain.

As for me, I’m not nervous. I’m pissed off and scared. How about you?

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Thanks to Brenda at Tipperography, the latest edition of the Red Ensign Standard is published with innovative style.

Tipper also announces that she and her family are moving back to Canada from the US; I hope I am not being presumptuous in welcoming her back to a nation that will surely benefit from her return.

On a side note, has anyone else noticed it’s way easier to promiscuously insert comments into other people’s blogs, rather than gestating a whole post on your own? I think I mixed a metaphor there…

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Monte Solberg writes an extraordinary piece today, addressing the three words which have always justified every single terrible thing done by any government, anywhere:

He means well.

Monte writes humourously about Ken Dryden’s hockey career, and Stephan Dion’s tilting at environmental windmills, but his message is deeply serious. Every violation of an individual’s rights by The State, and indeed every flawed “liberal” argument, is justified by those frightening words. Try to dispute any “liberal” policy, from the Gun Registry to Medicare to Equalization Payments to Peacekeeping, and you will be attacked for lacking in good intentions.

So I went a little bit Mr Freaky-Boots on Friday, and followed that up with Hello Logorrhea! on Saturday.

Upon calm and, regrettably, sober reflection, it seems like the membership and their delegates did something approaching The Right Thing at the CPC convention. They have settled on what seems to be a potentially winning platform. It now remains for the Tory leadership to take this steel and forge it into a sword with which to smite mine enemies!

Responding in part to Jay Jardine’s impassioned defense of his right to property, a right which the ongoing debate over Joe Wood had ignored, Matt Fenwick writes:

I will take Jay’s advice, though, and check my premises. Here they are:
1) We have laws that require us to pay income tax
2) I want these laws to be as equitable as possible across all income brackets