Busy Friday Chat

Hitting the road today to have lunch with Gary in Ithaca and do some Christmas shopping. SO i have to make this quick.

First, there is a bloggers bash in Toronto tonight. I am not going but these people have no idea what I look like so if you are in Toronto go the party and say you are me. Frankly, you people are what make GX40 tick. So I will be really embarrassed if fewer than, say, 30 phony "Big Als From GX40" don't show up. Here are the details of the meet up. I understand that it is a Flea approved event and you may see spats.

The lake effect snow look like it has backed off a bit. That is good. Earlier in the week Parish, NY got 16.5 inches of snow in three hours.

It's been a big week in human rights in Canada what with the final defeat of same-sex marriage denial and the aboriginal right to trees being acknowledged (not granted, acknowledged.) What next? What change that is not yet on the radar do you want to see.

And it has been a week of change in the States with everyone ganging up on good old Rummy with even the President now saying things are bad in Iraq. What should have been done? I am still pointlessly smug in that I was and am a Powellista. But what could have been done better and when?

Start there. Add your own topics. Tell us how you will dress up to be more me tonight in Toronto.

Comments

gr - December 8, 2006 9:24 AM

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cm, you HAVE to go and claim you're Alan. Alan is actually a petite woman in little cowboy boots.....

-The weather, AHEM, is not exactly perfect here. Drive carefully. Supposed to clear up a bit. It is forking COLD AND WINDY AND SNOWY.
-OK, off to clean the litter box and sweep the floors so my guest is not too appalled at my housekeeping....

cm - December 8, 2006 9:39 AM

I wasn't sure about going tonight but now I'm definitely going. What would Big Al wear, I wonder? ("petite" - hee)

Paul in Kingston - December 8, 2006 10:00 AM

So Harper and his patsy Mackay are conceding that the same sex marriage issue is now officially dead in Canada - thank you, thank you, thank you. Things are good - let's move on to other pressing issues (read not Quebec).

Sscott - December 8, 2006 1:31 PM

Great to see both rulings were in favour of group and individuals rights. I think the case was mainly fought on the grounds that a "truckhouse" clause of the treaties of 1760-61 was not being upheld. The treaty was signed which gave the Mik'maq entitlement to logging and fishing rights [mainly eel] on Crown land. However, they were to go through these so-called "truckhouses" when doing any type of trading so as to guarantee that European goods would be traded.