Hmmmmm... who to vote for??

Like the American primaries, the Canadian federal election now has websites that will rank you candidate choices based on a the responses to a number of views. Mine turned out like this:

Jack Layton (NDP) 100
Gilles Duceppe (BQ) 76
Paul Martin (Liberal) 48
Stephen Harper (Conservative) 10

In the race itself, Stephen Harper apparently needs to take a remedial course in Canadian Government after stating that if Parliament passes a bill upholding the definition of marriage, the Supreme Court would not challenge it. It makes me wonder what he thinks the court is there to do, especially after three prior decisions declaring the law unconstitutional.

Despite being a serious dark horse candidate this time around, Ralph Nader continues to campaign for President with a small army of hard core supporters. Director of the CIA, George Tenant, has resigned due to 'personal reasons' (which might have included screwing up the most important intelligence operations in the last 6 years) according to President Bush, who also recently in a feat of historical revisionism compared the the war on terror to World War II. Bush has decided it would be prudent to retain a lawyer over the case of the White House staff leaking the name of a CIA undercover officer as political retribution. Kos notes how this act, which could actually be treasonous, isn't getting all that much play from Ms. Treason herself Ann Coulter. But then again, how can this act be as bad as not cutting taxes? Kos also illustrates how the President seems to 'forget' his associations with people once they're embroiled in a scandal -- first "Kenny Boy" Kenneth Lay, now apparently Chalabi. Bush is also looking increasingly towards conservative Christian congregations to aid in his reelection campaign, although he might want to sure up support closer to home though, since the mayor of his hometown in Crawfordsville has declared his support for Kerry.

Also:
- OPEC has reiterated the claim that it will increase oil production to ease prices.
- The Washington Post looks at what drives supporters of Moqtada Sadr.
- Poor Canadians are more healthy than their US counterparts.
- Las Vegas offers opportunities for immigrants to directly enter the middle class.
- The GOP now has Kerryopoly, a 'game' that's designed to show how much money, and therefore how out of touch, John Kerry is. Isn't this a big case of the pot calling the kettle black though?
- Tapes of former Enron employees joking about how they were screwing over customers have emerged.
- You can now watch the trailer for Michael Moore's new film, Fahrenheit 9/11, online!
- Apparently the most beautiful woman of all time is Audrey Hepburn.