Posted on 06 October 2008
Back in February, several political lifetimes ago, I was on the radio with Laura Ingraham, and she played Stevie Wonder's campaign song for Barack Obama, whose lyric, in its entirety, runs: "Ba-rack O-ba-ma Ba-a-rack O-ba-a-ma Ba-ra-ack Obama-a ..." (Repeat until coronation.) Continue Reading...
Surly Beaver | Are the Tories tanking? Don't bet on it. -- Andrew Coyne appears to be wetting himself over polls suggesting that Tory support is sliding. [...more]
National Post | Barbara Kay: The Islamist elephant in the room -- I had the privilege of spending a few hours today, October 2, amongst the bravest people in Canada. One, Marc Lebuis, is a name you won't recognize, because up to now he's kept a low profile as the one-man show running www.pointdebasculecanada.ca. This is an anti-Islamist site that brings francophone Quebecers the news and frank opinions on the relentless push of the soft jihadists in our midst to Islamicize society, opinions that the mainstream media are too politically correct to publish. Marc and some close associates organized today's press conference on the subject, "Political Islam - A Threat to Our Freedoms." [...more]
BBC | Europe worries dent stock markets -- European and Asian stock markets have fallen sharply with investors worrying over the growing level of financial turmoil in Europe. [...more]
National Post | Tories say Liberals 'fear-mongering' -- OTTAWA - The Conservatives yesterday accused the Liberals of "fear-mongering" over the economy and the Bloc Quebecois accused Stephen Harper of lacking "morality." [...more]
Pornography baron Larry Flynt has filmed an adult movie about Sarah Palin, with a look-alike standing in for the Republican vice-presidential nominee. The Hustler founder has made an X-rated movie using an adult-film actress who resembles the governor of Alaska. [...more]
Ted Briggs, who has died aged 85, was one of only three men out of a crew of 1,421 to survive when the battle cruiser Hood was sunk by the German warship Bismarck in the North Atlantic in May 1941. As an 18-year-old Flag-Lieutenant's messenger, Briggs was on Hood's compass platform when a shell from Bismarck hit the ship between centre and stern, penetrated the deck, exploded and touched off the ammunition in the four-inch and 15-inch magazines. According to one witness, the column of flame generated was “four times the height of the mainmast". [...more]
Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate and leading light of the struggle against apartheid, has said he will not vote for the ruling African National Congress. The Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town was expressing his deep disappointment with the divisions that have opened up in the party since the sacking of its former leader Thabo Mbeki. [...more]
The bear is back. That's what all too many Russia-watchers have been saying since Russian troops steamrolled Georgia in August, warning that the country's strongman, Vladimir Putin, was clawing his way back toward superpower status. The new Russia's resurgence has been fueled -- quite literally -- by windfall profits from gas and oil, a big jump in defense spending and the cocky attitude on such display during the mauling of Georgia, its U.S.-backed neighbor to the south. Many now believe that the powerful Russian bear of the Cold War years is coming out of hibernation. [...more]
Toronto, Sep 29 (IANS) Canadian opposition leader Jack Layton has promised support for a new visa office in Mumbai and official status for the Punjabi language in Canada if he becomes prime minister after the Oct 14 polls.Jack, whose New Democratic Party (NDP) has fielded a record 14 Indian Canadian candidates to woo the million-strong community, said his party will also roll back a newly passed immigration bill that the community finds discriminatory. [...more]
MAMMOTH LAKES, California (AP) -- California officials say recovery efforts around the site of adventurer Steve Fossett's downed plane may not resume until summer. Snowfall ended the search in the Sierra Nevada on Friday. Madera County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Erica Stuart says she does not expect weather conditions to improve enough for crews to return to the site this year. [...more]
