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Tuesday March 11,
2008
Imagine our shock!
Politicians in bed with the prostitution racket; Canada
putting trade ahead of human rights; war commanders with split
personalities; Big Baird's lips flapping aimlessly ... you name it;
it's all been done before - by smarter people - and it's disgustingly
predictable.
IHT:
Transition in the works for Spitzer's departure
With a reputation for personal probity and independence, he pledged to
bring higher ethical standards to the statehouse.
YYC: I've never been able to understand how anyone can throw
away
a career and a reputation (justified or not), and risk humiliating and
alienating one's family, just to scratch an itch.
Did you see
how his wife looked
when she was dragged in front of the cameras for his vague
"apology"?
Not exactly holding his hand as she has been earlier seen to do.
Here's something that might make you chuckle: TimesOnline:
Mr Spitzer had to sneak past his state police bodyguards for his tryst
with Kristen.
Let's see, they're bodyguards but they lost sight of the person they
were paid to protect. I doubt that. They were police who turned a
blind eye, knowing that prostitution is illegal. That's assuming that
they didn't set up the tryst in the first place.
AP:
The man poised to succeed Gov. Eliot Spitzer would not only become the
first black governor of New York. He would also be the state's first
legally blind governor and its first disabled governor since Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
CBC:
Lawyer for jailed Ont. woman worried about her safety
Helena Guergis, secretary of state for foreign
affairs, said the government is doing all it can by pleading the case
diplomatically with key officials, but cannot intervene in another
country's court process.
YYC: First of all: Helena Guergis should stick to throwing
BBQ's for
Steve.
Harper and his whole crew are way in over their heads in foreign
affairs. Secondly and most importantly: this is a clear
indication
that the SPP is more about the security of trade than absolutely
anything else. The so-called partnership has no advantage for the
average Canadian.
 CTV:
Baird unveils tough rules for industrial polluters
YYC: Tough measures, says Baird, looking his toughest. Weak
measures,
says Dion weakly. Actually, they're bogus measures since
polluters can
buy their way out of having to comply.
And what's with waiting till 2012 to stop building new coal
plants? Looks like Baird didn't want to ruin somebody's plans.
In John's own words: "Talk
is cheap"
CP:
Flaherty serves notice of motion to kill Liberal RESP bill
The
Liberal-sponsored bill - which has passed the House and is now before
the Senate - would allow parents to contribute up to $5,000 a year for
each child to an RESP and deduct the amount from their income taxes.
Flaherty says
that would drive the country into deficit given the razor-thin
surpluses projected for this year and next year.
The Liberals
have already said they will not bring down the minority Conservative
government over the budget.
That puts them in the awkward position of having to ensure Flaherty's
motion succeeds in killing the RESP bill.
YYC:
This is shaping up to be one of those rare times when the Senate's
rubber stamp goes missing. It's the useless war on Afghanistan
that
will drive this country into deficit!
VOA: US Middle
East Commander to Retire
He said there is no policy difference, only the perception of a
difference.
YYC: More face saving gibberish on the party of the US admin.
This case is exact opposite of the Picture of
Dorian Grey. Fallon wears a mean face in the war room, but the
Esquire article paints him too pretty. Turns out it
wasn't impossible to make him "nervous in the service" after all.
Or... or ... he knows too much, and he's made a deal with the devil to
get a good severance package.
AP:
Early Mississipi Exit Polls
YYC: If people who like Clinton and Obama also think
McCain's okay, then Americans see no difference between the Dems and
Repugs and are voting for personality - or else they are just as
confused as Canadians.
yayacanada
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