h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

He's doing it again:

'Prime Minister Stephen Harper will move to prorogue Parliament for two months until after the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the Prime Minister's Office announced Wednesday.'

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2009/12/30/parliament-prorogation-harper.html#socialcomments-submit

So much for democratic reform.

The gamem is afoot, then! Send Downey Holmes out to solve the mystery of the missing Parliament.

Most politicians are arrogant, Harper is simply extreme.

Once more I'm disappointed with the GG


Too bad the le won't wake up

Surely (and I know you don't mind being called Shirley) the public won't let this one go. They've already started the leaks to documents that prove the government is responsible for detainees being transferred to torturing Afghans. The government's weak response seems to be *The previous government might have done it too so it can't have been wrong.*

I sincerely hope that the Olympics won't add it's distraction for their accountability to the long list of faults it has already achieved. Oh wait, it specialises in distraction in regard to accountability...

Not *for*- *FROM*.

Distraction was one of the four arithmetical operations in "Alice in Wonderland." Uglification was another one.

I'm surprised no one on this thread made much of the Canadian Supreme Court's decision a few weeks ago to dismiss claims by Canadian 'Olympic class' skiers that the Canadian Charter of Rights is being violated by the International Olympic Committee's refusal to include a women's downhill category in the upcoming the Winter Games.

But it might explain other downward trends.


~jwf~

Entropy.

It's where the universe is going.

Look for it in your neighborhood soon.

Uphill sledding is harder than downhill.

Wait a minute. The GG hasn't actually said 'okay' yet, has she? I've been out for a few hours . . .

to look at the news

Oh. Crap.


You know, I don't have a problem with him using constitutional procedures, except for the fact that he maligned and misrepresented the perfectly constitutional possibility of a coalition a year ago.

This is crappy.

but wait! she hasn't officially said '' yet. Perhaps there is hope.

'Five Canadians were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday — four soldiers and a Calgary reporter.

Brig.-Gen. Daniel Ménard said one Canadian civilian was also wounded in the attack.

The journalist was identified as Michelle Lang, who worked for the Calgary Herald.'

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/12/30/kandahar-soldiers.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/12/30/kandahar-soldiers.html

Eight of those are for at least eight American civilians killed in another incident I just heard of as I had started typing.

Relative simulpost...

Yes, I saw the eight as well. Perhaps I didn't put in the eight roses because I'm badly influenced by Faux News -- their eight didn't seem very important to them on their web-page.

But here they are:



I hate to wish my life away, but I wish it were 2011.






(although, if Mr. Harper continues his ways, he may flip that resolution as well.)

Here's what comes ahead of the eight Americans killed in Afghanistan on the Fox News page at this moment:



TRACKING YOUR TAXES: Obama goes against promise to veto pork-barrel bills — signing $636 billion defense behemoth that carries $4.2 billion of pork.
Terror Plot Smoking Gun?
• YOU DECIDE: Should Obama Officials Be Fired?
• Dutch to Use Body Scans on U.S.-Bound Flights
• Clashes as Yemeni Forces Storm Al Qaeda Hide-Out
• Delta Offers Vouchers to Flight 253 Passengers
• LIVESHOTS: Would-Be Plane Bomber's Upscale 'Hood
• American Airlines Pilots Union Blames Feds for Failure
New Round of Cheney vs. Obama
White House Rejects Calls to Rethink Gitmo Closure
Air Force: Don't Blame GPS [for seniors getting lost]
* Staggered Homicide Blasts Kill 23 in Iraq
- British Hostage Held More Than 2 Years in Iraq Freed
* 13 Republican AGs Threaten Lawsuit Over Health Care
* Mom, Baby Revived in Christmas Eve Miracle | VIDEO
* Strong Quake Rocks Mexico Near California Border
* Survey Finds 133 Journalists Killed Worldwide in 2009
* 7 Women Reach South Pole After 562-Mile Ski Trek
* Police Investigate Wisconsin Mother's Disappearance
* Explosion Reported at Tennessee Power Plant



http://www.foxnews.com/

perhaps that's why I didn't see the importance.

plus the kid is having another sick spell.

IAs to that last bit!

My reasoning(for including U.S. citizens)was simple, Michelle the reporter was a civilian as were the Americans. None of them Needed to put themselves in harms way.

'IAs'? Where did That come from?

with the number of 'contractors' the Americans use, I would hesitate before further information is forthcoming to put the American civilians into the same group as Ms. Lang. They may well be, but they also may well be what the rest of the world calls 'mercenaries'.

the sick kid comment concerns the present level of distraction in my household: when the puke and shite starts to fly, I sometimes make typing errors or worse.

I just read the updated CBC story. Ms. Lang was riding with the soldiers when they hit an IED. It makes me think of Christie Blatchford doing exactly the same thing and 'Fifteen Days' (GG award winner) coming out of the experience. What might we have lost of Michelle Lang's experiences.