I haven’t had an opportunity to even read the news yet today other than the Salvation Army story, I hit the floor running, and I’m beat.
So…in lieu of anything rational:
Blessed are the cracked, for it is they that let in the light

Earlier this month The Canadian Salvation Army revealed it had been the victim of massive internal fraud.
Now The Globe and Mail has some details. As of yet a 25 year old accountant who had worked for the Salvation Army head office in Toronto has not been charged with a crime. (see update below)
Mr. Wa was approached [...]

It’s -4C out which must sound very cold to my friends to the south. With wind gusts of 60+kph the wind chill is -14C. That must sound very cold. But it actually isn’t. Brisk yes, but above seasonal.
It’s the snow. Already there are drifts around 3 feet or more and it’s been coming down since [...]

Bill Dunphy is well known to readers of Hamilton Ontario’s newspaper The Spectator.
In 2001 and 2002 he interviewed convicted drug dealer Paul Gravelle. Gravelle’s younger brother is accused of participating in the 1998 murder of lawyer Lynn Gilbank and her husband Fred.
Under a provision introduced into the criminal code on in September 2004, a journalist [...]

James Blake Miller is 21.
On November 9, 2004 a photo by Luis Sinco of the Los Angeles Times taken in Fallujah made Miller a Marine icon.
He joined up in  November 2002 and was assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division.
He’s back in Kentucky now, battling the war within.

Mike Holgren will have millions of eyes on him when he takes his place in the Superbowl in Detroit next week with his team, The Seattle Seahawks.
His wife Kathy and his daughter Calla won’t. They are working in the Congo where 4 million people have died since 1998, and where the medical teams they are assisting are [...]

They were kidnapped in Iraq November 26th. Two deadlines passed and no one knew their fate. An Iraqi negotiator was kidnapped when he went to the country to try to secure their release.
Canadians Harmeet Sooden, 32, James Loney, 41, Briton Norman Kember, 74, and American Tom Fox, 54, of the Iraq Christian Peacemakers Team were seen on tape released to [...]

“The people of Canada have become so liberal and hedonistic that the public ethic in the country immediately could not be reversed,” Weyrich says in an email analysis to allies.
“It will take time. But with leadership it well may be possible to change the public ethic.”
Paul Weyrich is a political operative in the US who [...]