Alberta Is Special

I picked it, I picked it - almost as soon as the Canadian Supreme Court said to Parliament that you ought to get some laws together because according to us, gay marriage is OK, I was saying to my ex (Canadian) that Alberta would pull out of the thing with the notwithstanding clause in the Constitution or Charter or whatever it is that holds Canada together LOL. And guess what, Premier Klein is on the net saying that there should be a national referendum on the issue and saying that in Alberta a majority would be against. All the fretting over whether Quebec will ever secede, I think Alberta is a likelier candidate LOL - just kidding, any Albertans reading this, I am sure you have a wonderful province - even though when I passed through, downtown Edmonton seemed closed on Sunday LOL.



Just listening to Pantera's 'Walk' for the first time in like years - oh mi god, what a great song, and what a greatttttt hook. Hmm, and going through that link, that's the first time I have seen the lyrics ever LOL - just a great hook, great chorus, great drinking song :)



Hmm, just reading the latest From Our Own Correspondent on the BBC - about the wonders of Afghan media :)

'Reporters in the provinces, where mobile phone coverage is still patchy, sometimes have to resort to rather more traditional methods of filing their stories: running into town, finding the next bus going to Kabul, pressing a piece of paper into the driver's hand, and urging him to deliver it. Apparently it works.

But my favourite memory is the darkroom, where the photographers develop their pictures by the light of a bulb hanging precariously inside a small red plastic bucket. There are two enlargers in there. One no longer winds up and down, but still does what it needs to do thanks to a block of wood propping it up. The other was made in Stuttgart in the mid-1930s, a couple of years before Hitler marched into Czechoslovakia.'

And they had a reasonably free and fair election, wow. Somehow I don't think the rebuilding of Iraq will be as easy though.

Oh, this is a good article here - about how the US Administration is buddying up to Musharraf, the Pakistani President, who, to remind everyone, took power in a coup and has nukes outside the NPT (Nuclear Proliferation Treaty), and had his top scientist selling nuclear material on the black market. And has pardoned his top scientist for this, and won't allow foreigners to interview or interrogate him. And this is Dubya's top South Asian ally, hmm, what with the fears of a nuclear 9/11 and all, and Pakistan was just selling it on the open market, hmmph.

FINALLY, getting my first listen of Band Aid take 20's version of Do They Know It's Xmas - hmm one year wonder methinks. Not a patch on the original, in my honest opinion... only took about a month to get around to hearing it LOL.

Okies enough for this morning methinks

Later taters

Pauly