Is Politics a Dirty business??? you decide:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061202/liberals_tories_061202/20061202?hub=TopStories

WOW

"One Tory operative described how a handful of government supporters proliferated at Liberal parties throughout Montreal on Friday evening and handed out anti-Rae buttons.

"Make Bob the first NDP prime minister,'' one button said.

Another button aimed at underlining Rae's tumultuous time in Ontario said: "Vote Bob. Who needs Ontario?''

The party made similar buttons for all the other candidates -- but it was mainly for show. Rae was their main target, said a government official.

"There were hundreds of Liberals wearing those (Rae) buttons when they went to vote today,'' he said.

"It was great to watch.''

One Conservative aide took pride in pointing out that his party fabricated an internal party memo suggesting their troops were most afraid of Michael Ignatieff -- and most anxious to face Rae.

The ersatz memo was leaked to a pair of English- and French-language newspapers and ran under headlines that cast it as a behind-the-scenes peek at Tory strategy.

The name of Tory campaign chair Doug Finley, the supposed author of the memo, was stamped on the document as an afterthought.

The Tories then made arrangements to get the memo leaked through a third party to English and French newspapers, Tory sources said."


There it is: your tax payer dollars at work

It reminds me of this:

http://www.leedberg.com/mad/spies/train.gif

or

http://www.leedberg.com/mad/spies/thinking.gif

I am not sure how but I wish I could post images files here!

NASA still crippled by Y2K bug!!

"Discovery is set for a nighttime launch on Dec. 7, the start of 12 days in space. It will be the first night launch in four years."

"If the launch doesn't get off Dec. 7, NASA can keep trying through Dec. 17. After that, the agency will likely call it quits until January. NASA wants Discovery back from its 12-day mission by New Year's Eve because shuttle computers aren't designed to make the change from the 365th day of the old year to the first day of the new year while in flight."

What the heck!!???

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-12-02-discovery_x.htm

Since no one reads my blog anyway it should not matter....

But today you might be interested to read Diane Francis' take on the income trust disaster:

http://dianefrancisblog.blogspot.com/

Here also:

Tory income trust policy is flawed
Taxing trusts will not lead to tax fairness

Diane Francis, Financial Post
Published: Saturday, December 02, 2006

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=ae9b0bbd-5de9-4cf1-bad2-c9c2fe56734f&k=72644