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5:34 PM
Happy Holidays!

Yep, I'm officially ON VACATION and I'm heading out early tomorrow for a few days of fun and relaxation in the sun.

So to my readers, take care, enjoy, and I'll be back soon. Do try to behave while I'm gone; I wouldn't want to have to resort to banning anyone.

For those of you who celebrate Christmas, enjoy your presents, fruitcake, and annoying aunt with the moustache. For the rest of you, enjoy the day off.

Le'hitraot, au revoir.

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11:51 PM
I want my HBO!

Rachel Marsden has a good idea for the united Conservative Party's campaign slogan for the next Federal election: "Vote Conservative, get HBO".

Works for me.

Frankly, I think that would attract a LOT of votes. Here in big-brother-land, where the CRTC promotes endless "Canadian content" (read: crap) and allows licensing for Punjabi and Tamil stations and entertains applications from the likes of Al Jazeera, it is illegal to get the latest episodes of the Sopranos or Six Feet Under. As well as a host of other programming, denied the right to air because of the horrible crime of being American.

I for one find it insulting that the government presumes to decide what's "best" for us by denying us some of the most innovative, entertaining television to be created in recent history, but giving us all the Red Green we can watch. Whoopee.

News flash to the CRTC: We're grownups. We don't need you to set viewing guidelines for us. If we want our latest fix of Sex and the City, I don't want to be told that it will rot my brain and that I should content myself with the latest Rita MacNeil special on CBC instead! That's nightmare-inducing.

If you agree that the government should butt out and let us watch the programming we choose, then add your name to this online petition. Of course, it will accomplish absolutely nothing, but you'll feel better. I know I did.

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