2/3rds of the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans believe the US army is overextended.

UN: 100,000 displaced by Afghan fighting

The United Nations refugee agency says close to 100,000 people have been forced from their homes in Afghanistan by heavy fighting between Taliban and NATO forces.

Afghanistan Arrests 17 Would-be Bombers

Security agents have arrested 17 people allegedly trained in Pakistan who they believe planned to launch suicide attacks in three Afghan provinces, Afghanistan’s intelligence agency said on Wednesday.

Taliban fighters continue to target Canadian troops in Afghanistan

Canadian troops came under attack for the third straight day Wednesday in an area NATO pronounced clear of Taliban fighters just last month.

Over 2,000 rebels take Afghan amnesty offer

More than 2,000 Taliban rebels and other Islamic fighters have taken up an Afghan government amnesty offer since its launch in 2004, a government official said on Wednesday.

Warren Kinsella is upset about this today.

The Liberal Party is looking into statements by a Manitoba native chief who says he offered $20 to any member of his reserve who voted in the Liberal leadership race.

Chief Terry Nelson of the Roseau River First Nation said it is band policy to offer gas money to encourage the largely unemployed reserve population to take part in the democratic process.

Now it could be argued that $20 is a little too much for gas money depending of course on how far these voters had to travel to cast their ballots. But I have to ask how is this any different than the practice of having party volunteers drive voters to the polls? Isn’t that in effect paying people to vote by providing them with a free taxi service?

So it looks like PMS wants to protect his bigoted base from having to soil themselves by interacting with gay people.

The Conservative government is planning measures, including a Defence of Religions Act, to allow public officials, such as Justices of the Peace, to refuse to perform same-sex marriages.

The measures are also intended to protect the free-speech rights of religious leaders and others who criticize homosexual behaviour or refuse to do business with gay-rights organizations, The Globe and Mail has learned.

I don’t have much to add to this other than to say that if a person is hired to do a job then they damned well better do that job or start preparing their resume.

More on this from;

Buckdog
Le Revue Gauche
Accidental Deliberations
Creekside
Progressive Bloggers: Walks With Coffee
Vues d’ici
Pample the Moose
Canadian Cynic
The Next Agenda
Stageleft
TDH Strategies
Behind The Headlines
Black Wolfs Blog
Life As I Know It
JJ Stautt
Scott Feschuk
Rambling Socialist
Uproot
A BCer In Toronto
The Galloping Beaver
Liberal For Life
Liberal Catnip
IndieScribe
Evil Scientist
Mike and Dean’s Cross-Border Tagteam

I don’t know how this news has been overlooked by nearly all of the blogosphere.

Shortly before Canadians received the news that two more of our soldiers had died, word began trickling out that the man who killed Daniel Pearl was actually a British MI6 agent.

That’s right folks. Apparently Omar Sheikh is a British Agent.

Update: Le Revue Gauche has lots more on this.