Face it HRC . . .

IAN'S EDITORIAL: If you DON'T like Obama... Then WATCH this...

If you agree that short sound "bites", and everything compressed to fit a 2 minute TV news slot is unfair to a politician... then here is a chance to get to know the REAL Barack Obama. No interruptions.

23 Minutes. That's all I ask for. Watch this, and remember, he will probably (God willing) be the next President of the United States of America. Take the time to get to know him better. You're gonna hear a LOT more about him! So, kiss and make up... Love your enemy, and all that stuff. You will ONLY see this on the web. Too long for television.

Please comment on how you feel after viewing the ENTIRE 23 minute interview? Do you feel a little more comfortable now, knowing this gentleman will probably * be in the drivers seat, instead of Bush and his crooked cronies??

I think the world will be in better hands. Canada will soon be dealing with a GENTLEMAN for a change. Imagine that! I applaud our American cousins. Now everyone is starting to go in the CORRECT direction. This will help the environment too.

NO CHEATING! 23 minutes Only when you have time... and an open mind.

NBC's Brian Williams interviews him. Full length. No interruptions.



A full screen version is available HERE

Saturday Night Live (justly) nails Hillary

Amy Poehler goes for the jugular. She scores a direct hit in the opening to this weeks show.

Arianna Huffington on the Right and the Mainstream (US) Media

Update here: "Tim Russert Takes Offense, Bans Arianna Huffington From NBC News" - Crooks and Liars

Can the Canadian media be next? Are we susceptible as well?

"Candy" - Feb 1993 - April 28, 2008

Candy will be greatly missed by my three nieces; Cassandra, Victoria, and Alycia. They grew up with Candy from a very early age. My condolences to all. As you can see, she was very sweet. Candy was in her 16th year.

This is sick. Bush military propoganda ILLEGALY 'fed' to news media by retired military personnel

New York Times broke the story.

Democracy in the US hits a new low. Many of those retired generals etc you see on TV were nothing more than a conduit for lies for the Bush administration. Not one of the US television networks would appear on this PBS program... I wonder why? Not one of the US networks is covering this at all.

This practice is illegal for G-ds sake. The US justice system is obviously a sham if they get away with this. The lies and deception by the White House and the Pentagon continue unfettered and unchallenged. This should make most Americans sick. Will this be allowed to continue? Sigh...

Thank goodness for PBS and the NYTimes.

Watch the backgrounder here...


Watch the interview here...


Full NYTimes Editorial Article HERE "Tarnished Brass"
(free registration may be required)

"Clinton too obsessed to call it quits" - Richard Gwyn

April 25, 2008 Richard Gwyn - Toronto Star

After her victory in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton has made it clear she's going to continue fighting until the cycle of primaries ends early in June.

Assuming that at that point Barack Obama still holds his lead in elected delegates and in votes cast in the Democratic primaries, Clinton will then have to make up her mind whether to quit right away or to hang on until the August presidential nominating convention. Her one hope would be that a clear majority of the remaining uncommitted "superdelegates" comes off the fence onto her side.

Much more probably, these superdelegates, who range from former vice-president Al Gore to party officials barely known inside their own state, will decide that they should vote as ordinary party members have already done in all the primaries. At that moment, it will be all over for Clinton.

Or so all the political experts take for granted. Most probably, they are right. But they've overlooked one alternative possibility. One way does exist for Clinton to continue to run even after losing the Democratic nomination. She could run as an independent.

Not likely, of course. But not impossible.

This thought first occurred to me while watching a clip of Clinton being interviewed on TV the morning after her Pennsylvania victory.

She was, I realized, totally consumed and utterly obsessed by the contest she's now engaged in.

Political contests do of course send an addictive surge of adrenaline through almost all of those engaged in them. But fighting to become president has become Clinton's entire life, her very reason for existing.

A day later I came upon a blog by an American political commentator, Andrew Sullivan, that eloquently expressed my own thoughts.

Clinton can't win the Democratic nomination, he wrote, "But she won't leave. She will never leave."

Sullivan then gave an analysis of why Clinton won't leave, which went far beyond the standard commentary about her toughness, her determination, her take-no-prisoners style of campaigning.

"Ceding to someone younger is unthinkable to her. It would be a form of death to her," he wrote.

That's rough. But Sullivan has spotted something essential about Clinton. There's something quite out of the ordinary about the magnitude of Clinton's ego, about the scale of her sense of entitlement, about her conviction that the presidency is her birthright.

The chances that Clinton would run as an independent really are remote. She'd be turning her back on the party to which she and Bill have given their lives. Raising funds would be all but impossible.

All Clinton could hope to achieve would be to make certain that Obama lost and that Republican John McCain won.

Except that this is exactly what she's – mostly – now done. Her relentless, ruthless, "kitchen sink" attack on her rival has already significantly damaged Obama.

She has made him look too nicey-nice to be president. As damaging, she's made him look less like a new kind of politician. Any time Obama counterattacks, as he does occasionally and reluctantly, he sounds like an old-style politician, like Clinton herself.

Although Obama may figure out a way to be true to himself while dodging the rocks Clinton keeps hurling at him, she has already to a considerable degree achieved what running as an independent could do for her.

She has ensured that "someone younger," in Sullivan's insightful observation, will not become president in her place. The remote chance that she might still win the Democratic nomination has become an excuse for her to continue fighting – against the kind of hopeful young politician she once was.

As a politician, Clinton is decidedly conventional, except for her professionalism, her competence, her resilience, her ruthlessness.

But as a personality, she's the most interesting character in American public life in ages.

http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/418175

Why Hillary STILL can't win . . . No matter what . . .

Here... in just a few minutes, you can find out why it is impossible for Hillary to win the nomination... even though she won Pennsylvania. Skeptical? Watch, and you do the math...

Another sign of global warming

Humourous, but message is dead serious...

Bill Maher's best "New Rules" segment to date !

One Minute of a warm spring evening - Toronto, dusk

"That's politics being played out there by Hillary Clinton". . . "And she says "I'M" out of touch!" . . .

Oh really Hillary??? The knives sharpen...

Newly minted Millionaire Butcher gives away 40,000 pounds of chicken !

Toronto butcher Jose Lima, who won $14.6 million in the 6/49 lottery, made good on his promise to give away free chicken to hundreds. He did this to celebrate the memory of his father, who passed away five years ago to the day. (April 3)

Toronto Star video

I dislike lotteries, but here is one of the good guys spreading his good fortune to others more needy. Way to go Jose!

Is this "The Smoking Gun" that finally nails Bush??

"Keith [Olbermann] discusses the recently declassified torture memo featured in Vanity Fair with Jonathon Turley and on how this memo again proves that the Bush administration is guilty of impeachable crimes" (MSNBC)

Fascinating BBC report on the migration of Penguins

Fascinating look at Penguins and their newest ability never recorded until now.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7320000/newsid_7324100/7324112.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1
Note: Best seen in a larger format. When you get to player, click on "Launch in stand-alone player" and resize to larger.

CBC-TV drops Royal Canadian Air Farce

Watch interview with Don Ferguson about the announcement HERE.

Watch last Friday's Air Farce News HERE.

CBC-TV drops 'Royal Canadian Air Farce' after more than 15 years on air

TORONTO - CBC-TV's long-running comedy show "Royal Canadian Air Farce" is reaching the end of the road after 15 years on the air.

The producers of "Air Farce" have informed the cast and crew that there will be a truncated, 10-episode farewell season starting in the fall. The final show of the sketch comedy series will air on New Year's Eve.

Don Ferguson, one of the stars of "Air Farce," speculated that the new regime of programming executives at the CBC likely felt the show had passed its prime, but said he was happy to move onto new things.

But he acknowledged others on the show, including Luba Goy, were upset that the show was ending its run.

The show debuted on CBC Radio in December 1973 and boasted more than 600 radio broadcasts over 24 years before making the leap to television in 1993. Its last radio broadcast was in 1997.

In 2007, it returned to a live format with "Air Farce Live."

Incident at White House Easter Egg Hunt . . .

Tangible proof that Spring is arriving . . . albeit slowly

Look closely at this snowbank, and you will see what I think is a miracle of nature.

In amongst the ice and snow are dozens of very hardy Snow Drops. I find it amazing that these little guys force their way through the ice even though the weather and temperatures have not been on their side.

It's my first tangible proof and I plan on enjoying their incredible optimism. ;)))

Click on each photo for a full size version...

"When you step back and think about it, she is amazing. She possesses the audacity of hopelessness. . ."

March 25, 2008

Op-Ed Columnist

The Long Defeat

By DAVID BROOKS

Hillary Clinton may not realize it yet, but she’s just endured one of the worst weeks of her campaign.

First, Barack Obama weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair without serious damage to his nomination prospects. Obama still holds a tiny lead among Democrats nationally in the Gallup tracking poll, just as he did before this whole affair blew up.

Second, Obama’s lawyers successfully prevented re-votes in Florida and Michigan. That means it would be virtually impossible for Clinton to take a lead in either elected delegates or total primary votes.

Third, as Noam Scheiber of The New Republic has reported, most superdelegates have accepted Nancy Pelosi’s judgment that the winner of the elected delegates should get the nomination. Instead of lining up behind Clinton, they’re drifting away. Her lead among them has shrunk by about 60 in the past month, according to Avi Zenilman of Politico.com.

In short, Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects continue to dim. The door is closing. Night is coming. The end, however, is not near.

Last week, an important Clinton adviser told Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (also of Politico) that Clinton had no more than a 10 percent chance of getting the nomination. Now, she’s probably down to a 5 percent chance.

Five percent......

Read the rest of the article here... New York Times

Green is HOT ! So Major in it !

Jeff Buttle wins gold for Canada at World Figureskating Championship !

GOTEBORG, Sweden - Jeff Buttle is golden.

"At the Scandinavium Arena this afternoon, the 25-year-old became Canada’s first male world figure skating champion since Elvis Stojko in 1997..."

Toronto Star article HERE

Jeff's winning free skate performance...

Two long time Republicans switch to Obama! ... Here's why . . .

Hardball, MSNBC - TV

March 20: Two long-time GOP supporters are publicly supporting Democratic frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama. Chris Matthews speaks with business consultant Susan Eisenhower and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee about their decision to switch.

Damn good reasons too!...



To see a full screen version, click on "more video" in window, and watch it from MSNBC's site.

Obama's full speech on race in America

Brilliant speech. Savor these words. They're historically significant.

"But I do want to say that this searing, nuanced, gut-wrenching, loyal, and deeply, deeply Christian speech is the most honest speech on race in America in my adult lifetime. It is a speech we have all been waiting for for a generation. Its ability to embrace both the legitimate fears and resentments of whites and the understandable anger and dashed hopes of many blacks was, in my view, unique in recent American history."

Andrew Sullivan, Atlantic.com (a self-described libertarian conservative)

'Hillary acts like a Republican' - How low can she go?

March 12: Keith Olbermann gives a special comment on the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y and the Geraldine Ferraro connection.

The Hillary campaign reaches a new low every day. Who wants a president that condones this sort of thing? Keith's Special Comment says what some of us are thinking... but don't dare put in words. Keith has some major balls doing this!

She had better take his advice or she's toast.

I am interested in hearing your comments. See below.

In the midst of all this . . . THIS . . .

Amazing... In the midst of this brutal snowstorm (March 8), my friend Harriet spotted a very "robust robin" while on a walk with her dog Molly. Now that is one determined bird! Either that or he is just plain daft. What's he gonna eat... freeze dried worms??

We're grateful for your presence though. We like your optimism and incredible determination!