Hi all - yes, am looking at real estate in and around Vancouver Island, for some unbeknown reason LOL. Mmm, let's be rich and arty and live on the Gulf Islands LOL I wish. And making myself hungry by looking at the menu for a cafe bistro on Salt Spring Island - Calvin's yum - now I wanna go LOL.
Hmm, sorry to hear that there was a Snowbirds training crash in Saskatchewan - Snowbirds being the Canadian Air Force's aerobatic team. Good good pic of the dead pilot with the article - do they have the term All Canadian, like they do south of the border of All American? If they do, then Capt Miles Selby looks like he was one - had done combat runs over Kosovo before joining the aerobatics team...
Off to Iraq again - this time with David Ignatius of the Washington Post in Mosul. It was quiet here for a year after the invasion, but the last six months and the last month especially, the insurgents have extended their grip in the city. If Mosul is bad, god help the rest of the country...
It is so strange that the country most economically and culturally dynamic, with the most out and out violent and militaristic society (in the developed world) can have such a hang up about sex. Frank Rich in the NYT says that the film Kinsey is a useful hook to continue the culture war by the abstinence only, no sex outside marriage, oh no we saw a breast at the Superbowl and on Monday Night Football advertising brigade. Even says that one Family Values speaker on CNN's crossfire didn't put right the notion that masturbation leads to pregnancy - five times, according to the transcript...
Goodness, breaking news here, Dept of Homeland Security Director nominee Bernard Kerik has stepped out of the nominee role because a former nanny may have been an illegal immigrant. One down, but who will the White House get to replace him? And all the while, Rummy keeps his post LOL... only another forty seven months to go, grit your teeth Pauly :)
And further on all things Rummy, here's an article giving a few more details about the Guantanamo detainees, and how flimsy the Washington Post reporters and interviewees think some of the cases are. Feel especially bad about the Bosnian who got double jeopardy - released by the Bosnian justice system as not guilty, he is then immediately 'arrested' by the Americans and sent off to Gitmo...
Well, I was trying to see what the opposing world view was, to balance my liberal slant on this blog, but the Wall Street Journal wanted a credit card number before I could read ANY articles - even the other papers that charge usually let you read the top stories unmolested LOL.
Yay, David Coulthard may be back again in 2005 - he was axed by McLaren at the end of this season (Formula One we are talking here) after giving years of good service to them - if he hadn't let Hakkinen get past him a couple of years ago grrr - has always been my second fave driver, after Michael of course. If you have to ask Michael who, you have NO idea of F1 LOL.
And here shows that thirty years down the track, even Iraq might be a thriving self sufficient country. The first direct flight between the US and Vietnam since the Marines evacuated the 1975 Embassy, United Flight 869 will have landed in Ho Chi Minh City by now. Expecting a lot of Vietnamese expats to have holidays home and stuff...
Mmm, the real Sopranos - a quick insight into the workings of the Sicilian Mafia, from the most senior mafioso that has switched sides. Makes me want to do more google searches on the whole thing :) but getting tired here, need a break and some food...
Laters peeps
Pauly
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