After sleepwalking to 9/11 and the fiasco regarding weapons of mass destruction, you'd think that there would be a passionate desire to reform U.S. spy agencies. This now doesn't seem to be the case.
Yahoo! News - Spy Agency Reform Appears Dead: "A plan to overhaul U.S. spy agencies died on Saturday in the face of opposition from key Republicans just hours after congressional negotiators thought they had clinched a deal backed by the White House on the post-Sept. 11 reforms. "

"Compassionate Conservatism", perhaps just another oxymoron like "Military Intelligence." That which is stated doesn't in fact exist.
Article | What Is Compassionate Conservatism?: "Last week a trio of outraged Republican presidential contenders dismissed the idea of 'compassionate conservatism,' espoused by Texas Gov. George W. Bush, as hot air at best and, at worst, a slur on past Republican accomplishments. They are half right: Compassionate conservatism does represent a break with national Republican programs of the past. But far from being an empty slogan, it is a well-formed domestic policy agenda."

Take the "Canada Test" and see if you're actually one of them.
Never Be Bored.com - Jokes | Quotes | Games and more!: "Signs You May Be a Canadian "

Great stupid comments made by people in higher places. Have fun.
Quotez - Features: The Stupidest Things Ever Said: "[I want to] make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.
George Bush, during his first campaign for the presidency."

This was the big train derailment in Mississauga, Canada twenty five years ago. The tankers were full of toxic chemicals. 250,000 people were peacefully evacuated. I was one of them.
Mississauga News Online: "Twenty-five years later, my memories of that night are so vivid. I was actually in the shower of a brand new home we had just barely moved into on Stavebank Rd. (now known as Morrison Ave.) right below Dundas. The whole area was under construction at the time and we had very few neighbours. Ours was the first home closest to Dundas St. in the 'Pit' as we used to call it. "

Interesting review of the Polar Express. A trip into the outmost edges of reality.
Movie Review: The Polar Express: "Nowadays we are raising children who know too much too soon and put far too much stead in reason and logic. But as scientists have pointed out again and again, the universe is a mysterious place that goes far beyond our capacity to understand it. In fact, many of these rational men and women agree with the mystics in all religious traditions who honor the limits of our knowledge. As the Catholic theologian Leonardo Buff has put it: 'We never 'catch up with' reality itself. The real nature of mystery always evades our attempts to conceptualize it, and escapes the nets of our language and symbolism. Its depths are never plumbed. Mystery is always linked to passion, enthusiasm and all great emotions, in short, to life's deepest and greatest impulses.'"

In Flanders Field, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae: "By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. "