Prime Minister Harper takes plane to Cyprus to evacuate Canadians

What a publicity stunt. After days of inaction over Canadians stranded in Lebanon Prime Minister Harper took his military airbus to Cyprus to help bring back 100 Canadians today. Call me cynical but his spokes person said that most of his staff and all journalists were booted of the plane to make room for as many people as possible. Except one, there apparently was plenty of room to bring a long his staff photographer. It’s just very disappointing to hear things like this from someone who claimed that he would clean up our government. It’s shameful to use people fearing for their lives as propaganda. If the former Liberal government had shown such poor leadership Harper would have been all over them calling for resignations. It has been reported that the family killed over the weekend in the bombings tried all weekend to contact the Canadian embassy but it was closed. Where is the leadership? At least now we know what Harpers hidden agenda might be. If this is a “measured response” in his mind what is this man capable of?

Saw III - Shawnee Smith

If you didnt loose your lunch the first two times here's one more chance. Saw III is in production in Toronto as we speak. I have to admit that I really loved the first two, there's nothing like a good slasher flick, and the Saw franchise has a story to go with it. Shawnee Smith is back in the starring roll. Your probably asking who the hell is Shawnee Smith. I'm not sure if you can classify her as a character actor, but she's the type of actor that you most likely know her face, but not her name. Shawnee's been it quite a few movies and television shows that were quite good. A few of my favourites are The Island, Becker (tv), Armaggeddon, The Shining (tv mini), The Stand (tv mini), and Summer School.

Don't Hassel the Hoff

Now I see why he is uber famous all over Europe. I must give Joel credit for getting me Hooked on a feeling. I will admit the fur covered Eskimo, eating a fish, while surfing gives Kit the talking car a strong challenge for cheesiest moment in video history. I still think Jump in my car comes out the winner. What do you think?

Your Day In History

I stumbled across this idea on another web site and thinks its just great.

First go to Wikipedia and enter your birth month and day not the year in the search field.

Then record:

Any events that you felt were important

Any interesting births

Any interesting deaths

And finally a holiday

Events on my day:

1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test.




1969 - The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC-TV and would run for five years.




1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.




Births on my day, besides me:

1968 – Jim Caviezel, American actor




1964 - Nicki French, British singer



1956 - Linda Hamilton, American actress




1948 - Olivia Newton-John, British-born Australian singer and actress




Holidays

French Republican Calendar - Cheval (Horse) Day, fifth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
I have no idea what holiday this celebrates other than maybe horses.... but it doesnt sound to exciting to me.

Political Beliefs

I have always loved filling in these online questionnaires to tell me what I’m really like…. But this one got my attention. I identify myself as a Liberal and was surprised by the accuracy of the results. I am a social Liberal but also consider myself a fiscal conservative. I think this is a common belief with quite a few people that live in this country, and may explain why we have had two consecutive minority governments. I don’t think there is one political party in Canada, at the moment, that speaks for the social liberal/fiscal conservative.

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 30% Conservative, 70% Liberal

Social Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

Late 80's Pop Idol's

Now that I getting older its shocking whats happend to the groups I used to listen to as I was growing up. This is how I remember Whitney and George.








Where are they now? Some scary pictures from more recent times.....


These pictures of George where taken when a photographer knocked on his Range Rover window a few months ago.


Whitney what more really needs to be said about poor Whitney.

What a couple of days

Its funny, you think that things are starting to change around the world. I have been very lucky growing up and living in Canada. I thought, until recently, that gays and lesbians have been making tremendous strides towards acceptance. Its just sad to think that as a society we are no more inlighetend in the year 2006 than we were in 1906. On Tuesday Macy's Department store in Boston removed a window display showing two "gay" mannequins.
All this from pressure from a hate promoting group called MassResistance. What was so shocking? The fact that the "gay" mannequins had better pecks than most straight guys?
What can you expect when the President of the United States and the Prime Misister of Canada indorse hatred and bigotry in there countries.

Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind

I cant stand the woman and wouldn't pay for anything she's involved in, but I can't get the damn song out of my head. I need help, and I mean now.

Gay Rights vs. Harper/Bush

I think I should start by mention that I am not anti American. I appreciate all the benefits that come with having such friendly and powerful neighbors. There is a difference thought between the American People and the policies of the American President. When you look at his current approval rating hovering in the low thirty percent range you see it illustrated quite clearly. That said we have our own problems here in Canada currently and his name is Stephen Harper. On Friday Mr. Harper announced that sometime in the fall he would bring forth a motion on reopening the Gay Marriage debate. This was not a surprise as he campaigned on this promise to keep all the right wing fanatics in his party appeased. What was odd was the timing of the announcement. Why bring it up now, he didn't have a specific date in mind, just sometime in the fall. Things became much clearer on Saturday. That was the day that George Bush tried to shore up his own right wing fanatics, by announcing his own vote, on his proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Its hard to believe that this was a coincidence. The only positive side too these votes are that they both are likely to fail. I understand why Mr. Bush is bringing the issue forward as it has not really been debated extensively in the U.S., though a constitutional amendment seems to be quite extreme. Here in Canada though we had almost three years of public debate over the issue. Gay Marriage has been examined from every angle, what new arguments could possibly be brought forward. If any thing new on the argument could be said its that the fears of the right have been disproved. We are only days away from the one year anniversary of the historic vote in Parliament. In the last year what has happened to marriage in Canada? After thousands of weddings between loving men and women the institution of marriage has not collapsed. Straight couples are still rushing out and getting married ( and divorcing at astonishing rates ). Churches have not lost their charitable status for refusing to marry gays and lesbians. In short the sky has not fallen. I do see a benefit for liberal minded people in this country by Mr. Harper bring forward the debate again. As much as the liberal party was divided over the original vote so now is the Harper government. The republican party north needs more support if they hope(dream) to win a majority government. Many of these newly elected conservatives in Quebec have little to no hope of getting re-elected if they support removing this right of Canadians. The issue that seemed to be over could potentioally drive major rifts througth the consrvative party. This is not the first issue to divide there party, Mr. Harper has flip flopped on a lot of his pre election ideas. First there was the elected senate, and he turned around appointed his Quebec campaing manager (who couldn't be bothered to run for election ) to cabinet, then gave him a Senate appointment. Then there was Mr. Emerson, who ran and won as a liberal, then when the Liberal party failed to win, immediately discovered his inner conservative and changed sides for a cabinet seat. Sound familiar? Mr. Harper and his conservative party couldn't wait to get into line and call Belinda Stronarch everything up to and including a prostitute when she changed parties, but now he's Prime Minister its completely different. Then Emerson turned around and sold us out to the U.S. government. The softwood lumber deal requires Canadian provinces to check with the U.S. government before making any changes to the way they market there product. What I'm trying to get at is Lady's look out your probably next. Mr. Harper said that he would not bring forth legislation to change a woman's right to choose, but he wouldn't stop any one else in his party from doing so. He's been in power for less than six months and look how often he's changed his mind. How long until his views "evolve" on this issue too? Were probably about a year away from the next election, watch closely to what Harper is doing, and remember all the hypocritical things he has done before you mark you X. I feel better that I got that of my chest.

The G Quotient

This is an intersting opinion....The G Quotient.

The Huffington Post