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11:39 PM
Random thoughts

• It's Wednesday, aka humpday. (Which could have multiple meanings depending on who you ask.)
  
  
• Fajita Wednesday at 3 Amigos is the perfect midweek pick-me-up. Especially with those really good frozen strawberry pina coladas. Mmmmmm.
  
  
• It's too early to be this cold and mid-winter-like! I'm in total denial. I'm still insisting on wearing my fall jacket, and I've yet to change my tires.
  
  
• There's nothing like spending time with someone who has just returned home after a decade-long absence and is completely enthralled by the snow and cold to make you appreciate it laugh at them.
  
  
• Do sheep shrink when it rains?

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7:25 PM
Habs tracker

Painful 5-1 loss last night... to the Capitals! Ugh.

On the bright side, the Als are going to the Grey Cup. I may have to switch sports.

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6:53 PM
Sharon parts ways with Likud

The media is calling it a "political earthquake", but those who have been watching Israeli politics have seen this coming for a while: Ariel Sharon has left the Likud party to form his own new centrist party. Most likely, the Knesset will be dissolved and elections will be called within 90 days.

Sharon has been fighting the hardline faction in his own party for quite some time, ever since he moved ahead with the bitterly contested Gaza withdrawal. It's been clear for a while that Sharon has more support among the general Israeli public than within his own party. And with the Labour party moving further to the left with the election of new leader Amir Peretz, there is room in Israel for a broad-based centrist party.

For those who are thinking that Sharon has just committed political suicide, remember that he's the proverbial cat with nine lives in Israel, and he's only used up about three or four of them. He enjoys massive personal popularity and those who underestimate him tend to end up picking up the pieces of ruined careers. I wouldn't count him out just yet.

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