good grief, this is an embarassment:

"The Canadian people through their elected representatives have spoken," said Peter Van Loan, the government House leader. "They want the Tackling Violent Crime Act passed and they want it passed now."

How is it that the government thinks they can get away with this?
How can we be assured adequate review of the bill if they pressure it through Senate?
Isn't the senate supposed to act as a check/balance for our government?
Isn't that why they're a separate body?
Shouldn't they, therefore, have adequate time to properly review an act/bill before it is passed into law?
What right does the government have to do this?


And while the Liberals walking out is understandable, how much longer do we have to deal with a bully-led government? Because that's what this is, bullying. They keep saying "If you don't like this, then get rid of us" and they're trying their darndest to push us into an election... an election no one wants. I wish the Reds would just stand their ground and say "no way, this is stupid, get over yourselves NOW." How is everything a non-confidence issue?

or how about the House singing "Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye." as the Liberals left?

well, sorry Albert, I thought you were having pluralization problems. I just figured more than just atheists deserved to celebrate Darwin Day.

On a related note, staunch supporter of Darwin, Thomas Huxley, looks like Chris Kattan:





And yeah, that's Aldous' grandfather.

I knew that Darwin was religious, the atheist bit was for Beck. Notice I said atheist, Beck introduced me to Darwin day, Beck is a atheist, the post is for him mainly.

Albert, did you know that Darwin was a deeply religious man? If he somehow managed to reconcile his beliefs with the scientific theories he'd developed, why can't others? Besides which, I doubt all atheists agree with Darwin.

Darwin, Newton, Gallileo... and many others - the very scientists who threw religion on its head - were all very very religious people, and found their own ways of reconciling their religion with the science they conducted.

Okay you crazy atheist!

Happy Darwin Day!

was I not paying attention? Did Percy join us for boxing day shopping? or did he go to future shop on his own?

he must still be alive... right? has anyone heard from him lately?

Bad Movie Night fodder?

The weekend's worst punchline, however, is reserved for Paris Hilton's The Hottie & the Nottie (Regent Releasing). The final count will show that the critically reviled comedy featuring the seemingly talentless Hilton has sold a meager $25,500 in tickets at 111 locations over the weekend. That's only $230 per screen for theaters that were convinced to book this disaster. That means that, based on an $8 average ticket price, 29 paying customers showed up at each location over the 3-day. In a country that seems fascinated with Paris Hilton, only 3,219 unlucky Americans will have been suckered into seeing Hottie by Monday morning.

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