Paul Martin has said he will not be leading the Liberals in the next election. This of course means that there will be a Liberal convention to choose a new leader of the party.

Names like Brian Tobin have already come up, but I'm kind of hoping for Belinda Stronach.

Socially progressive and fiscally conservative, Stronach would have a good chance of leading the party to victory. And she's not hard to look at.

I mean come on Canada, wouldn't you want to be known as the country with the hottest leader in the free world?

andre

Ad words can be funny some times.

Saddam Hussein and Stephen Harper both showed up on my main page ad words today. Coincidence? Perhaps.

But, it does make you wonder what algorithm connected a) the content on my site to b) Saddam Hussein and c) Stephen Harper - and what made it think that people interested in b) would also be interested in c).

a) to c) I can understand. I recently blogged about how supporters of President Bush would love to see Stephen Harper be the next Prime Minister of Canada.

b) to c) I can maybe understand. Both Saddam Hussein and Stephen Harper are idiots.

But, a) to b) makes not sense at all. UNLESS - Since I've blogged about Stephen Harper - President Bush - and Tucker Carleson - Ad Sense connected the dots... if people are interested in these 3 idiots they must be intersted in a fourth.

andre

Tucker Carlson has taken to calling Canadians the retarded cousins of Americans "You know, he's nice but you don't take him seriously. That's Canada."

Carlson - Pro Bush - Anti Canada. Sounds like Stephen Harper ;-).

andre

Yup, its that time again.

No - not my period. (men don't actually get those).

Its the time of the month when I bitch about how stupid internet explorer is and how hopeless it is to design anything using stylesheets if IE is just not going to follow the rules.

Let me rephrase that. Its never hopeless to design using stylesheets - but it is hopeless to expect IE to render them correctly - especially not in 'strict' mode.

Thats all.

But... apparently there is an IE7beta coming out this summer. They had better hurry up. Its already august. Still, one of the microsoft bloggers has said "standards compliance is not as important as backwards compatibility." In other words - we'd rather try and render poorly authored websites so they look nearly fine - rather than render perfectly authored websites the way they should be.

So - here it is my monthy fuck you IE.

FUCK YOU IE

andre

Warren Kinsella is an interesting cat. I like cats, but I'm also deathly alergic to them.

Here you have a 70's punk rocker cum journalist cum lawyer cum political advisor cum journalist cum... I don't know what he is now... but anyone that's been involved in all the arenas this guy has can't help but be interesting. (How many people with his resume still take time out to review indie bands of past and present).

Well, just cause he's interesting doesn't mean that he's without flaws. He's an agressive, loud, in your face, take no prisoners kind of guy... and if you read what he has to say about himself I don't think he would deny any of that... and may, in fact, take pride in those charactistics.

Today he wrote:

# Canwest's Grant Robertson has a piece in the Post today detailing the Martinette's outrage that people are saying mean things about them: "Liberal staffers have assembled a list of what the government considers "slanderous allegations" and violations of parliamentary rules made by the opposition over the past three months. The list points a finger at 28 opposition MPs over the course of 17 days in the House -- including 19 Tories and nine Bloc members." What a load of crap. It's okay for them to slander people willy-nilly and violate Parliamentary privilege (cf. Ralph The Mouth Goodale calling Yours Truly "poison" in the House of Commons), but they shriek like banshees when someone does it to them. Sucky babies.