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March 14th.

Events:1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul ( Read more... )

Well, today was the big transfer of power: Libs are out, Cons are in, and they've already managed to piss me off. I'd go into one of my long, red-faced rants, but I really don't have the energy for it. Now that the Liberals are gone, I really thought I wouldn't have to rant at least for a while... Suffice to say, David Emerson is a greedy douchebag ( Read more... )

Lately, in lieu of not having any actual interesting musical projects on the go, I've been messing around with the instrument samples from Xenogears again. I'm kind of bored of tracking things from Xenogears, so I decided to see if I could get a decent-sounding version of Schala's Theme out of them. Here's what I came up with:

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After what seemed like an eternity, this marathon of an election campaign is finally over. The final standings ( Read more... )

So, with the Conservatives surging in the polls, and the wheels continuing to come off their so-called campaign, the Liberals predictably released a new batch of attack ads aimed squarely at Stephen Harper. I can't give direct links to them, but they can all be viewed hereBasically, they mimic the ads that the Liberals ran in the last election, ( Read more... )

http://www.sesresearch.com/election/SES%20CPAC%20January%203%202006E.pdf

XDAfter the last election, the validity of these polls may be rather questionable, but it's awfully hard not to get my hopes up after seeing this. It looks as though the ( Read more... )

And so, after a mere 17 months, our not-so-mighty Liberal Minority Government was finally put out of its misery today. The NDP, realizing that they wouldn't be able to blackmail the Liberals in order to push their socialist agenda on us again this time, sided with the peculiar Bloc/Conservative alliance in a vote of non-confidence. Unfortunately, ( Read more... )

Courtesy redwaltz.

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Politics was really the last thing on my mind today, but the release of part one of the Gomery Report gives me a chance to vent some steam at the expense of our wonderful government ( Read more... )

But who am I to resist?

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