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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Friday, November 9
Harper's Mulroney gambit
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DavidAkin
on Fri 09 Nov 2007 07:42 PM EST
Here’s the opening statement from Prime Minister Harper later this afternoon, as delivered in the National Press Theatre:
Liberal reaction to Harper's Mulroney gambit
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DavidAkin
on Fri 09 Nov 2007 07:40 PM EST
Just out from the Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition:
Canadians are terrible on their own history
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 09 Nov 2007 02:42 PM EST
The press release from Ispos Reid about their latest poll tries to emphasize the positive news — Canadians have an increasing awareness of some historical facts about our country’s military past — but the overall news is embarrassingly awful: Canadians know squat about some of the most basic facts ... more »
Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Naipaul
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DavidAkin
on Fri 09 Nov 2007 07:14 AM EST
There is only one kind of narrative fiction that Naipual understands to be properly modern; a sort of late Victorian, realist, slightly constipated fiction with a thoroughly old-fashioned narrative, an economic use of words, plenty of natural description (countryside, gardens, townscapes) and so on. The nonsense of post-Joyce, post-Svevo, post-Musil narriative, the 'literature of exhaustion' once celebrated by John Barth, can and should be flushed down the latrine. ; - Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Where Does He Come From?", in The London Review of Books, Nov. more »
Lockheed pushes the J on Washington
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DavidAkin
on Fri 09 Nov 2007 07:05 AM EST
From The Hill story: In an effort to avert having to shut down its Georgia production line in three years, Lockheed Martin is lobbying the Air Force to buy an additional 120 C-130J aircraft under an offered multi-year contract worth more than $6 billion .... Meanwhile, a writer at Defense Industry Daily picks up on this news and adds a little more context to the story: The USAF has about 20% of its C-130E/H Hercules fleet on the ground or under significant flight restrictions right now, and has been pleading to be able to retire them instead of spending time and maintenance dollars on aircraft that will probably never fly again. more »
The stupid filter
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DavidAkin
on Fri 09 Nov 2007 06:22 AM EST
No, really, they're serious: The solution we're creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English.... Eventually, once the research is completed, we plan to release core engine source code for incorporation into content management systems, blogs, wikis and the like. more »
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