Paul Weinberg at NOW Magazine ( "No perfect victims" ) touches briefly on the reasons why some people are supporting Toronto's Omar Khadr despite his family's decided dodginess. Torontoist's latest...the safe" ) taking apart the claims that Toronto's exceptionally dangerous among big cities or that Toronto has grown increasingly dangerous over time. Today is John Simcoe Day! (More on that later.)

"Because when government is the enemy of marriage, then the people who are actually creating successful marriages have no choice but to change governments, by whatever means is made possible or necessary." Am I self-hating if I still like the author's Pastwatch ?

First, from The Toronto Star , confirmation that two people were shot, one a woman who was hit in the ankle by a bullet, the other a man who seems to have been shot in the chest. Police are still...by a French magazine and publicized by a Swedish journalist. Finally, Martin Wisse reinforced from a recent annafdd comment elsewhere on the extreme subjectivity of the "race" used in "racism."

Listening to CBC Toronto 's 3 o'clock hourly news program, I was surprised to hear excerpts from a February 2003 interrogation of Canadian Security Intelligence Service of Omar Khadr , a Canadian citizen...that aside, Khadr has been abandoned to the wolves. The Canadian government is not going to try to retrieve him. Here's to hoping that the military tribunals transcend their reputations, I suppose

I first became familiar with Robert Zubrin through the Mars Direct plan, advanced in his 1992 The Case for Mars , which would see a highly economical spacecraft travel to Mars where crew members... Really. All I was looking for in Energy Victory was a mildly provocative book-length treatise on energy futures directed towards a popular audience. This kind of stuff really is everywhere

Now causing seething anger & outrage in British Islamic communities: Daily Mail: Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat A postcard featuring a cute...for it and stop sacrificing it at the fraudulous altar of multiculturalism (but I'm not gonna hold my breath). Kudos to anyone who guesses the movie the quote in the subject header is from

News of the continuing saga of the 2006 Toronto terrorism case , now at trial, has gotten a considerable amount of attention. See Isabel Teotonio's article in The Toronto Star , "Court hears plan to...the discussion occurred amid laughter. "What happens at the Parliament," one suspect said. "We go and kill everybody," said the alleged ringleader. "And then what?" "... And we get victory."

News of the continuing saga of the 2006 Toronto terrorism case , now at trial, has gotten a considerable amount of attention. See Isabel Teotonio's article in The Toronto Star , "Court hears plan to...the discussion occurred amid laughter. "What happens at the Parliament," one suspect said. "We go and kill everybody," said the alleged ringleader. "And then what?" "... And we get victory."

So then the weekend after I got back from the UK I went to visit Kris on Texel , got there on the Friday evening and had a pretty quiet evening, bit of TV and table-tennis. The next day it was a bit...planned and Euro 2008 about to start there should be plenty going on... just like the skies here, the humidity about to break with a big thunderstorm by the looks of the flashes in the distance...

Peter Akinola , primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria with its 18 million communicants, has gained some setting up an alternative Anglican Church in the United States in response to the Episcopal... Wear your bedroom slippers. Be poor. But Christians are beginning to wake up to the fact that money isn’t evil, the love of money is, and it isn’t wrong to have some of it. Neither is politics."