Conservatives promise money, but don't actually hand it over

78% of Building Canada Fund projects in Conservative ridings: Kennedy | Jerad Gallinger < read full story

In the first year following the launch of the $8.8-billion Building Canada Fund, the Conservative government flowed zero funding to infrastructure projects. Worse, last week officials at Infrastructure Canada admitted that of the $1.5 billion announced in its first two years of budgeted spending, only $80 million has flowed for municipal infrastructure projects across the country.

Conservatives will welcome Gitmo prisoners, just not the CANADIAN one.

A BCer in Toronto: Conservatives will welcome Gitmo prisoners, just not the Canadian one <full post

How messed up is this!...

But while he's looking at helping Gitmo prisoners bypass the immigration process and settle in Canada, perhaps Kenney might heed the pleas of folks like Bob Rae and groups like Amnesty International and see what he can do for the CANADIAN CITIZEN, Omar Khadr, who is also stuck in Gitmo and whom the government has shown little interest in helping. Bring him home and let the Canadian justice system deal with the charges against him.

"Death to Arabs" group and Peter Kent, Conservative MP

Dawg's Blawg: Peter Kent's Facebook friend <full post

As noted in an earlier post,
our new junior foreign minister Peter Kent was in the news again
recently, shrilly demanding that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez do
something, pronto, about a vicious attack on a Caracas synagogue.

Just who is Peter Kent, again? I have noted before that he's got some rather questionable associations.
And now a Jewish peace activist informs me b/c that Kent has been
palling around with at least one other known extremist. He's got the
screenshots to prove it, too.

Meet Meir Weinstein, aka Meir Halevi, the Canadian Director of the Jewish Defense League. The JDL was founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane.

Weinstein and our junior foreign minister are Facebook friends.

Olivia Chow's response to our "let them stay" letters

we move to canada: olivia chow's response to our "let them stay" letters <full post

* The Committee recommends that the government immediately implement a program to allow conscientious objectors and their immediate family members (partners and dependents), who have refused or left military service related to a war not sanctioned by the United Nations and do not have a criminal record, to apply for permanent resident status and remain in Canada; and that the government should immediately cease any removal or deportation actions that may have already commenced against such individuals.

More Dollhouse Trailers

Dollhouse: Dollhouse Manages To Make Brain Electrocution Sexy AND Creepy < watch them

Thor Rolls a Joint

Superheroes On Drugs: Thor Rolls A Joint <read/view

Cannibals in Russia

Prosecutors: Russian girl's killers ate body parts - Yahoo! News

Warning: gruesome.

"The arrestees said they ate the girl's body parts because they were
hungry," Kapitonov said. They told investigators they baked some body
parts with potatoes, he said.

Titanboa

Largest prehistoric snake on record discovered in Colombia (Video)

Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis by its discoverers, the size of
the snake's vertebrae suggest it weighed 1140 kg (2,500 pounds) and
measured 13 metres (42.7 feet) nose to tail tip. A report describing
the find appears in this week's Nature.

Bacon Man!!!

Bacon Man is the King of Kitchen

Green comet approaches Earth

NASA - Green Comet Approaches Earth

Oldest animal fossils discovered

Oldest Animal Fossils Discovered | Wired Science from Wired.com

The story behind the Christian Bale video

globeandmail.com: Batman goes Bale-istic <full story

Christian Bale can be heard in newly surfaced audio delivering a
long, profanity-laced verbal thrashing to a cinematographer and anyone
who tried to calm him down on the set of the upcoming
Terminator Salvation.

The three-minute clip was posted Monday Feb. 2 on the website TMZ.com.

In it, the actor who portrayed Batman in
The Dark Knight
rails against cinematographer Shane Hurlbut for apparently walking
behind co-star Bryce Dallas Howard and through Bale's line of sight,
considered a film-set foul.

Link to news story video

Link to the full rant on TMZ.com

Facebook Depression

New Illness: Facebook Depression? - ReadWriteWeb

This may sound like a joke, but it's not: researchers at Stony Brook University
in New York have found that too much Facebook usage can leave you more
prone to anxiety and depression...that is, if you're a teenage girl. In
a study, a group of 13-year old girls were evaluated by psychology
professor Dr. Joanne Davila and her colleague, Lisa Starr. A year
later, the researchers followed up with the girls, testing them for
depressive symptoms.

Canwest (inc. Global, and the National Post) coming to an end?

Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Is The End coming near for Global? < read whole post.

Canwest is in big financial trouble. Stocks just dropped 40 cents this morning.

Doom doom doom! - The Recession and the Flames of Change

Montreal Simon: The Recession and the Flames of Change < read the full post.

... The International Labour Organisation predicts that another 50 million or so will join the jobless queues around the world, out of a world workforce of around 3 billion. The wildcat strikes at refineries and power stations across the UK, and anti-government protests from Latvia and France to China and Mexico, may be just the beginning of much more radical, violent backlash against globalisation.
...

Dead Space coming out for Wii

Wii: Dead Space Wii Announced

Due out later this year.

The Sour Dough Bacon Cheeseburger

The George Foreman Sour Dough Bacon Cheeseburger : Regretful Morning

Mmm-mmm bacony goodness!

The Christian Bale Remix video

Facebook | Bale Out - RevoLucian's Christian Bale Remix! <watch da video!
Okay, everyone has posted the crap out of this, but, here it is, just because.

WARNING: not for children or polite adults.

Your partner's health can affect yours

Psychology Today: In Sickness and In Health < read full post

Before you say, "I do," scrutinize your lover's drinking habits. Or eating patterns. Your choice of romantic partner helps determine how healthy—or how sick—you'll be.

Orion map

SGU_RGE-objects-Orion-070315-20-50mmf5p6-STL-H37x10m-LRVB6x10m-VRG1LL-LM-cp8.jpg (JPEG Image, 1598x2400 pixels) - Scaled (34%)

Moss Mat - I want one!

Mat made of moss stays alive with the help of bath water - Telegraph

Americans don't want Obama's surge

Stopwar.ca: Americans don't want Obama's surge <read full post

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan 23 - Most Americans feel very positively about President Obama, but that does not mean they support everything he says he plans to do. A new Financial Times/Harris Poll finds that they support his positions on some foreign policy issues but not on others...

Genocide supporter Netanyahu, is keen on adding Iran to Israel's targets

Press TV < read full story

Israeli
election frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu says his first mission if
elected prime minister would be to 'thwart the Iranian threat'.



In an interview with Israel's Channel 2 TV late Saturday, Netanyahu
said he fully intends to sabotage Tehran's nuclear efforts once and for
all.


"[Iran] will not be armed with a nuclear weapon… It includes
everything that is necessary to make this statement come true," said
Israel's leading candidate for prime minister.


Israel, the sole nuclear power in the Middle East, accuses Tehran
of seeking nuclear weaponry while the UN nuclear watchdog, in its Sept.
15 report on Iran, declared that it could not find any "components of a
nuclear weapon" or "related nuclear physics studies" in the country.

Netanyahu, who is currently facing war crime charges in Gaza,
claimed the Islamic Republic's uranium enrichment is the greatest
danger to Israel and humanity.

After weeks of denying that it used illegal weapons in the
densely-populated Gaza Strip, the Israeli military finally admitted
Friday that it had pounded the Palestinian coast with at least twenty
white phosphorus bombs.


The 1980 third Convention on Conventional Weapons has banned the
use of white phosphorus as a weapon, even against military targets
situated within population centers.


International attorneys have filed war crime charges against 15
Israeli political and military officials, including Ehud Olmert, Tzipi
Livni and Ehud Barak.

Destruction of all means of life in Gaza

as we were saying: 'Destruction of all means of life' <read full post!

Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland

The Guardian:
Officials warn of 'destruction of all means of life' after the
three-week conflict leaves agriculture in the region in ruins. Gaza's
1.5 million people are facing a food crisis as a result of the
destruction of great areas of farmland during the Israeli invasion...
Between 35% and 60% of the agriculture industry has been wrecked by the
three-week Israeli attack, which followed two years of economic siege...

Iran bans trade with Israel

Press TV - Iran sets ban, fine on trade with Israel

Iran has moved to issue an executive order to clamp sweeping sanctions on all investment activities and trade with Israeli entities.

Following the heavy death toll from the 23-day Israeli assault on Gaza and with international pressure mounting on Tel Aviv, Iran made a decision on Saturday to introduce a bill banning business transactions with Israeli companies -- entities and persons.

The meaning of life - starts with a "b"

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9-month old at play

Time-lapse of a 9-month-old at play - Boing Boing <watch me!

York U. admin plays the system against the students and teachers

The ONDP step up when no one else will | rabble.ca <read full story

But a back-to-work legislation is just not the solution to a 12-week long labour dispute that has gone nowhere after much bargaining on CUPE 3903’s part and no budge on York’s part. The university has foully engineered the entire collective bargaining process by riding it out until Premier Dalton McGuinty force the workers back to work.

What does the Federa Budget 2009 mean? Initial Report Card and analysis

Budget | CUPE

Federal Budget 2009: Initial Report Card

January 29, 2009 02:49 PM
How well did the budget deliver on these three key areas of concern?

1. stimulating the economy,
2. protecting the vulnerable, and
3. saving and creating jobs by rebuilding the economy

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Movies this year, 2009

2009 Movie Preview: 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year