Giant linkspam!

[theweaselking]

Three Iraqis (Coach and two players in Tennis from the Olympic team) shot and killed for wearing shorts.

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New Electric Vacuum Marinator! No, really!

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All the "Brokeback Mounties" jokes have been made, you can stop now.

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Sex Offender Too Short for Prison, Judge Rules

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"A good sign that Tom DeLay doesn’t have the facts on his side: the top source for his latest defense against his critics is Stephen Colbert."

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If you're going to see X-Men 3? Stay until after the credits. There's another scene.

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I was being nice to the IT ninjas at work today and not surfing for weird shit. This is just off my Friends page for today after I got home.

I love my Friends page.

Comments

Electric Vacuum Marinator

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Fantastic, now I know what to get Mr. Darcy once I've bought him a rice cooker.

Don't know where we'll put it, mind you.

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

How about fashion police jokes?

Also, seen this yet?
Harper calls for fixed election dates every four years

For some reason, it really irks me because I prefer the current situation rather than the type of thing you see in the US, but since I haven't been home for the last two, I've no idea what the general sentiment towards elections currently is. It won't stop a minority government being defeated and a surprise election, anyway, so what's the point?

What's the feeling there?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

My immediate thought is "fuck no, being LESS like Americans with elections is better than more".

Put that through my rationality filter, and, well, no, I still like the variable election times. It prevents American-style two-year buildups to the next campaign. It won't stop a minority from getting defeated. It may get a majority out in less than 5, but the simple fact of naming an election date will prompt campaigning towards that date. The short election campaigns are a blessing, not a curse - they mean that Canadian politicians spend more time working on their jobs and save the desperation moves to *keep* their jobs to a short time every half decade.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Oh, c'mon. You know you want the same situations we've had three times in our history, where the guy who gets the least number of votes gets to be pres!

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

The short election campaigns are a blessing, not a curse - they mean that Canadian politicians spend more time working on their jobs and save the desperation moves to *keep* their jobs to a short time every half decade.

Yeah, I wish Norway had a system like yours. As it is, we've got a permanent election campaign, with continuous opinion polls. Only one opinion poll every four years actually counts.

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that more-or-less sums up my feelings as well, glad I'm not the only one.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

Dude, vaccuum marinators have been around since the early 90's. Also, they are noisy as all-get-out.