Month: May 2004

As expected, the federal Liberals are trash-talking the Tories for campaigning on tax cuts in the coming election. Stephen Harper is proposing significant cuts that would benefit middle and low-income earners including reducing the personal income tax for those making between $35,000 and $70,000 from 22 to 16 per cent.

Liberals are crying foul questioning where the Tories will get the money to pay for these cuts and accusing them of drawing from social programs. Social Programs like the Liberal Gun Registry, the Liberal Ad Scandal, and any number of other Liberal-induced billion-dollar hemmorages, we hope.

With gas prices soaring in these recent weeks (I saw 93 cents per litre this morning), the federal treasury has seen a huge injection of cash in the form of GST being collected on the higher gas prices. The Liberals have taken exception to the Tory proposal to cut GST on gas priced higher than 85 cents per litre and have responded by vowing to spend the extra money on equipment for hospitals instead. Uh, yeah, right…

We think the Liberals could be in for a rude awakening this June and that the Conservative platform of tax cuts could be the death-knell for this scandal-plagued Liberal government. One could only hope.

And he’s keeping a weblog.

Pixar is at it again. This looks unbelievable.

It comes as no surprise that legislators are revisiting the question of the legality of filesharing in Canada, which until now has been sort-of vaguely considered legal, but this is ridiculous: “The Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has also called for changes to the Copyright Act to make Internet Service Providers (ISP) subject to liability for copyright infringements.”

Holding ISPs responsible for the actions of their users is like sending a subway operator to jail for theft commited by its riders. Should ISPs also be held responsible for the actions of Pedophiles? How about members of racist groups?

Yep, it’s the bananaphone. It’s no baloney, that’s for sure. And now that it’s annoyingly stuck in your head for the rest of the day, here’s what it’s going to do to you.

Mexico has an airforce?

“It’s midnight. I’m standing in the kitchen of my temporarily-rented apartment, clad in nothing but my underpants. I’m watching the Chicago DVD on my 17in Powerbook, and repeatedly lifting a kitchen chair above my head for exercise.

If you want, you can touch me; some of the glamour might rub off on you.”

“The singles below are real people with real issues. Some are overweight. Others are crippled by debt. Quite a few live with their parents. But they all have one thing in common: They are available. And they’ve put themselves out there with the hope of finding someone willing to accept them at face value. So, please, scan their profiles. You may not get exactly what you want, but at least you know exactly what you’re getting.”

Dana Robinson is the ex-girlfriend of one of my daily reads, Andre Torrez. She’s got a personal weblog where she posts the unedited version of her personal ad. It’s much funnier in her words.

This is just about the geekiest thing ever. And I love it. Even I could get into a game like this.

Yep, that’s Donald Rumsfeld shaking the hand of Saddam Hussein in this photo dated December 20, 1983. The National Security Archive at George Washington University has published a series of declassified documents detailing U.S. support for Saddam Hussein in the early 1980’s.

The documents show that during this period of renewed U.S. support for Saddam, he had invaded his neighbor (Iran), had long-range nuclear aspirations that would “probably” include “an eventual nuclear weapon capability,” harbored known terrorists in Baghdad, abused the human rights of his citizens, and possessed and used chemical weapons on Iranians and his own people.

The American response at that time? To renew diplomatic relations with Iraq that had been broken off since 1967, provide intelligence and aid to support Iraq in its war with Iran, and send presidential envoy Donald Rumsfeld for a personal visit with Saddam.