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Late night but I have a hot post coming for you tomorrow. With all the hype about the big 6-49 jackpot I did some odds on Maple. Nothing too surprising, but when was the last time someone did a complete treatise on lotto odds?

Probably today. But still, they’re MY odds. And they don’t quite agree with ALC (gasp!).

And hey, Miers is gone - Rob is 100% right. There will be no more middle of the roaders - only hardline right or left nominations after this mess.

Jacobsanford.com’s new roving field reporter Addison Von Finkledorf has recently gotten back from assignment in Washington DC.

He writes:

Addison :

I got my pic taken in front of the whitehouse, you can clearly see the snipers on the roof, and actually - that’s actually the back, you can’t get near the front. The secret service guys walking around have these baseball bats that apparently spray mace when they hit you - the cab driver told us about them.

If you look carefully, at the back you can see the dudes with the attack dogs under the trees at the back. There were also snipers on the roofs of all the surrounding buildings, and dumptrucks filled with rocks blocking off all the surrounding streets, you couldn’t drive near the place if you had to.

Jake :
Is that a mine field?

Addison :
Nah, it’s a “newly sodded soccer field”, surrounded by fences and secret service.

If you’d like to be a field reporter for js.com, let me know.

The Montreal Gazette (One of my favorite papers ) has an article on the recent developments in the Maher Arar saga.

Apparently the US offered to send Arar back to Canada ONLY if Canada would imprison him immediately upon arrival. Canada refused, claiming:

We have a Charter of Rights … we don’t have cause to arrest and press charges and put him in jail.

So the US sent him to Jordan and he was driven to Syria, his birthplace where he was imprisoned and tortured.

Bill Graham, the Foreign Affairs minister at the time has recently apologized about his conduct in the situation and indicated that things could have been “better handled”.

This is still one of the stories that I cannot believe happened. More to come.

Found this on ct05.net when doing my pre-bed news surf. Call me a leftie freak for reading it but I find they have a lot of decent content.

A state district judge in Texas ruled Thursday that the treasurer of Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee formed by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), violated election law by failing to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions. | DeLay’s violations are so egregious that he can’t even get away with it in Texas.

Now although Delay was not involved directly, this is the second thing concerning Tom Delay that I read today that made me smile. You go after those ‘extremist’ judges, Tom.