| Forces kept Ottawa in the dark on halting detainee transfers
Todd, I agree with the first part of your statement I have quoted. Respect for human rights issues are fundamental to our national identity. I am not convinced that the military respects human rights and even less convinced the Harper government does. The decision on the detainees is ambiguous at best and there is a strong possibility that some members of the government have incited the commission of war crimes.
General Hillier is amongst them with his statement about 'scumbags' and his failure to implement the requirements of the Geneva Conventions Act in order to promote interoperability with American and Afghan forces rather than Canadian law. The position of the CF in the case launched by the BCCLU and Amnesty Internation was to strip detainees and CF members of extra-territorial application of the Charter in CF operations abroad - in the name of interoperability with American and coalition forces.
Baidu, Alibaba ranked among top ten search engines
BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Baidu.com and Alibaba.com, two of China's major Internet search engines, ranked the world's 10 most popular search engines last month by comScore, an Internet research firm. Nasdaq-listed Baidu ranked third, with 5.2 percent of worldwide searches, according to the survey of 66.2 billion search queries. Baidu is often referred to as China's version of Google due to the Chinese-language search engine's soaring popularity and profits. It made a net profit of 24.2 million U.S. dollars in the third quarter of 2007. Alibaba.com got 0.8 percent of global searches, worked its way to 10th place, its first appearance in the top ten, according to the survey. Hong Kong-listed Alibaba.com, the business-to-business unit of Alibaba Group, is one of China's fastest growing Internet companies.
Perfection, triple negatives ... and free tacos!
I don't know if it even makes any sense and I'm even less sure of which position he was advocating.
--Jeff, Ludlow, Mass. SG: I'm not so sure Dan Dierdorf isn't furious right now that you didn't mention him here! Come on, Dierdorf created the triple negative! I'm not so sure Dan Dierdorf isn't wondering whether he shouldn't sue Boomer Esiason right now! Q: Since you'll probably find a way to rationalize Tom Brady's "In & Out & In Again" routine during the Miami blowout, let me put the question to you this way: If you were playing "Madden" and a friend did something similar to you, how would you react? Would you laugh it off, pat your friend on the back and buy him a beer? Or would you slowly turn your head to look at him, fake laugh, then break his nose in seven places? Admit you just might storm out of the room/apartment/house and not talk to the guy for a few days.
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