1 CANADA WILL SPEND 16 BILLION ON HIGH-TECH FIGHTER PLANES WE DON’T NEED Because Conservatives have small penises and they’re compensating. (Globe And Mail).
2 TORY PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTER BEHIND G20 DEBACLE DOESN’T DECLARE PENSION AS REQUIRED BY THE LAW HE SIGNED Read all about it. This by the way is a family-values guy who is all judgemental about who other people have sex with yet got his mistress pregnant. (Winnipeg Free Press, Canada.com)
3 THE CONSERVATIVES CHANGED THE CENSUS WHEN I WASN’T LOOKING. THE CHANGES ARE VERY, VERY BAD. Read here. (CBC) Executive summary: In 2011, filling out the long form census will be voluntary, not mandatory. This will reduce the statistical facts available to government and the public. Without facts you can’t make fact-based decisions in the name of the public good. And when bastard politicians pull their public policy out of their asses you can’t argue with th–aha. Of course.
4 THIS IS YESTERDAY’S NEWS BUT WE NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT IT Because my small army of dedicated volunteer bloggers have, you know, lives and stuff. Right, anyway: yesterday the Catholic Church tacitly equated ordaining women priests with child abuse (The Guardian). As some of the greatest minds of western civilization have said for millenia: the Roman Catholic Church is sure fucked sometimes.
5 CONRAD BLACK SUED FOR BACK TAXES The incarcerated media mogul has problems, boo fucking hoo. (Toronto Star)
6 LET’S END THIS WEEK ON ON A GOOD NOTE For the moment, no oil is gushing into the Gulf Of Mexico (BBC).
how long has that SCN poll been there for?
too long! Much too long! We should change it to one of that Jeff guy’s polls.
UPDATE: A new poll will finally be up soon. Either tonight or tomorrow.