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How could you not vote for this man?! Look at those strawberries!

Categories: Food

Telegraph - Australia could drop Queen as head of state

The Queen could be dropped as Australia’s head of state within three years under plans drawn up by the man tipped to be the country’s next prime minister. Labour Party leader Kevin Rudd is surging ahead in the polls and is [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times - Brown offers summit a lifeline: I’ll go – but only if Mugabe stays away

Gordon Brown will go to an EU Africa summit this year as long as Zimbabwe is represented by someone other than Robert Mugabe, Downing Street made clear yesterday.

Hmmm.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Uh…

Western Standard - Shotgun Blog - Seeking more allies for the mission

Canadian and Dutch governments are asking other NATO members to step up to the plate and increase their activities in the volatile southern Afghanistan: “Canada and the Netherlands are urging other members of the NATO [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Telegraph - Boy’s drowning sparks demand to scrap PCSOs

Police Community Support Officers are a “failed experiment” and should be scrapped, according to a senior member of the Police Federation. He was speaking after it emerged that two PCSOs did not intervene to stop a 10-year-old boy from drowning because they [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

“Tecktonik”:

At least there’s choreography at work. Speaking of choreography, I prefer this:

Which is the dance craze sweeping Filipino prisons:

What can I say. I travels well. Of course, then there’s this, “Algorithm March! With Ninjas!”:

Which is also popular with that same Filipino prison:

No ninjas in that one though. And, uh, presumably they [...]

Categories: Entertainment

WSJ - Donors Stir ‘Bundling’ Questions

BRISTOW, Va. — When Hillary Rodham Clinton held an intimate fund-raising event at her Washington home in late March, Pamela Layton donated $4,600, the maximum allowed by law, to Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign. But the 37-year-old Ms. Layton says she and her husband were reimbursed [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times - How to cure seven-year itch? Limit marriage to seven years

Her idea would apply only to civil marriages. Vows sworn on the altar, “till death us do part”, would not be amended. Civil marriages would be regarded as a limited seven-year contract. “After that initial period each partner would have to [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Opinion Journal - French Revolution Sarkozy takes on the welfare state.

Unveiling his domestic reform agenda in Paris Tuesday, Nicolas Sarkozy called for “a new social contract” for France. His proposed revision of French socialist tradition going back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau is nothing short of revolutionary. … True to character, Mr. Sarkozy [...]

Categories: Politics

Bloomberg - Canadian Dollar Trades Equal to U.S. for First Time Since 1976

“Hey, ninme, you haven’t been on holiday in a while. Think you’ll go someplace soon?”

“Yeah, we were totally thinking of taking a week off and going some place in just a couple of weeks!”

“Hey, cool! Where are you gonna go?”

“Oh, Canada.”

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Chinese army, it’s just a little thing. Or, as Phib might say, that’s a lot of Walmart gym socks.

Categories: War and Peace

Categories: War and Peace

The Telegraph - Rudy Giuliani, US presidency hopeful, in UK

…he received an honorary knighthood and today remains arguably the most popular American politician in this country. That esteem explains why Mr Giuliani was in London yesterday as part of the run-up to the first two electoral hurdles in the presidential [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Telegraph - End of Belgium should be a warning to Gordon. By Boris Johnson

Once again the bad news comes from abroad, and no, I am not talking about American mortgages, or the terrifying prospect of a Bush-led bombing raid on Iran. It is a sign of this column’s complete indifference [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

CTV - Stronach went to U.S. for cancer treatment: report

Liberal MP Belinda Stronach, who is battling breast cancer, travelled to California last June for an operation that was recommended as part of her treatment, says a report.

That would be “Liberal MP since she lost the Conservative leadership race even thought she’s rich and [...]

Categories: Politics