Blogging By BlackBerry

My week of lo-fi entertainment in Ottawa in three thoughts:

1. The "variety" offered on the flight's personal onboard entertainment
system under the category of Television, Drama, is limited, to say the
least. Your choices are between; six episodes of Mad Men, one CSI:NY, and
one CSI. Damn.

2. Seriously!? What is up with the hit songs? I keep seeing a Brad
Paisley ad on TV where he sings this lyric;

"I'd like to check you,
for ticks."

Are you kidding me??

3. Apollo is British?? There are these ads for Law & Order UK where Jamie
Bamber is a British cop! What the frak?!

Blogging By Blackberry

After trekking the Rideau Canal, the River Walk along the Ottawa River, and
the sheer cliff stairs back up to Parliament Hill, I am now enjoying a
pleasant lay upon grass in front of the West, Centre, and East Blocks of
The Hill. Disgustingly, right now the weather is much more enjoyable here
than at home.

Blogging By BlackBerry

Post-meeting in Ottawa, I am enjoying this glorious afternoon along the
Rideau Canal before I head up to Parliament Hill to lay on the grass...or
Majors Hill Park. Such tough decisions!

As You Wish

I love this story. A large forest fire in BC is threatening to destroy a swath of homes and an evacuation order has been given in the area. In wicked matter-of-fact Canadian fashion, those who are refusing to evacuate have been asked to provide "tombstone" data on themselves "which includes, date of birth, next of kin to be notified in case of death and the name of their dentist".

"B.C. RCMP have asked seven residents in the path of a growing central B.C. forest fire for their dental records after they refused to leave the area earlier this week.


RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said Friday the move was not a scare tactic.


"It's just the fact of the matter. We use dental records to identify charred remains," he said. "This is done all the time.""

Maybe it's wrong to laugh, but I find it hilarious! If you don't want to leave, that's fine, but you're going to die so please provide us with the information necessary to identify your body.

I know that many people have stayed through previous fire-related evacuation orders and have been safe, however I think that it is better to be safe than sorry. If people paid any attention to history, even very recent history, they might think differently. Do you recall the people of New Orleans who decided to stay in their homes in defiance of the evacuation order because they had stayed through plenty of storms before without issue? I remember lots of them dying horrible deaths when the levees broke.

No Surprises Here

The CBC has refused to air Conservative attack ads on the grounds that airing political ads during non-election periods is a violation of their "strict guidelines".

Regardless of your opinion on the CBC's rules, they exist, they've been recently reviewed, and the corporation is following them.

"One Conservative source, speaking on background, said the party thought it was odd CBC would turn down its advertising dollars at a time when the network was struggling under financial pressures."

It is no surprise that the Conservatives don't respect principles - and are apparently confused by them.

Clearly.

News Fit To Tweet

Two Twittered links to share today from those I follow:

MissySuicide posted this link about David Carradine's apparent suicide.

From panphil (Philip Pan of the Washington Post), this link to "A new photo of the iconic moment of the Tiananmen crackdown 20 years ago" and the story of how it came to be.

Commenting Idiots

Okay, this article is irrelevant "news" but I'm posting it anyway because the current first comment is hilarious. Here is the article about a man who helped his wife deliver their baby alone even though they were in a hospital. The original comment is just plain stupid even we ignore what the re-poster points out. Check it:

Obi John Kenobi wrote:
Posted 2009/06/03
at 5:47 PM

ETHughGRection wrote:
Women have been giving birth without doctors for hundreds of years... its not rocket appliances!

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rocket appliances???